Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-10
News of the Day.

resort.
A woman st Asbury Park, n. J 4,
Yesterday saved herself and four-yesr-old
son from death by leapiDg from In front
of an on rushiOg express.
Harry Alperstien, Of Baltimore, was
6oed $5 and costs by justice LOden,
Yesterday mornipg on the charge OF de-
livering ice with wagon on Sunday.
A suit for breach of promise has been
STATED at sbsmokin. Pa, by Rebeccs
Metz. who says William Meisberger
wooed her for &c years, often promising
to marry her.
A policeman at Brooklyn, New York,
found family of five living under the
prandstand of the baseball park, all OF
the members being 10 a starving condi-
| ton.
The city of Chicago has passed sn or
dinauce obIiging sill milk TO be pasteur-
| lied that ia drawn from cattle that have
not heen submitted to the tuberculosis
test.
The Shah of Persia is practically 8
prisoner in the hands of wild tribesmen,
who threaten to destroy his palace and
pillage Teheran If he does net grant
mir continuous demands for money.
John Walsh, motorman, was in-
stantly killed and Mrs. John Oouliu, oil
Hartford, Conn, received broken leg
and other injories in hesd-on trolley
collision on the Pennington Street Kali
wsy yesterday.
Elmer Dover has resigned as secretary
OF the national republican committee,
and is made secretary OF the advisory
committee. William Hayward, OF Ne
braska, succeeds Dover on the national
committee.
The American baitleship feet come
to anchor in Waitemati bay, in front
of Auckland, ct $40 Sunday morning,
thus completing another leg of its world $
tour. New ZEALAND gave formal official
greeting to the feet yesterday,
Samuel Benst, of Lawrence township,
Olearfeld county, PS.. has made the
high record for several years past OF rat
tIespskes killed in one dsy. While
ringing the barrens for huckleberries
Saturday, he killed nine rattlers in elk
hours.
Hugh L McKeever, while digging a
. we'll at Wardensville, w. Va, unesrihed
freq II feet under the ground imbedded
| in hard and solid clay. The frog was
lat and thin and the color OF the clay,
but after being out few hours was as
lively rs any other frog.
Typhoid fever Is still on the increase
in Baltimore. The report of the Health
Department for the week ending yester-
day shows that 20 cases were reported
daring the past seven days from all Sec
tons of the city, thu, making the in
crease for the same p'riod Last year In
typhoid cases nearly 100 per cent.
About 400 former employees of the
COVE rnmeut printing Office binderg who
were dismi SD by former Public Printer
StilliDgs, cannot re-entsr the service OF
the big biDdtry without submitting t.
another examination, such as is required
of apprentices ABOUT to go into the eel
vice.
| Foul play is suspected by the local
police authorities, In the death of David
| McCloskey, 90 years old of York, Pr.
Young McClcskey's lifeless body wss
found at an early hour yesterday by
his mother, lying face upward on the
ground 10 the ysId of her home. 1t iS
believed that he was drugged and robbed
OF his money.
While swimming in Elk river nesr
his home, at Locust Point, Nd, Theo-
dore OF stuck his foot against some
sharp instrument aud, diving beneath
the water 10 find out what 1t might be,
was more than surprised when he brought
up a pair of spectacles which he lost
overheard about three years ago. The
spectscles are as bright as when he lost
them.
When an automobile plunged over q
steep embankment on the road nesr
Toledo, Ohio, yesterday, Charles w.
Pohlmsnr, a Cleveland merchant tailor,
Father George Vahey, pastor Of Oolumb-
kills parish, Cleveland, were instantly
killed beneath the car. Mrs. Charles
W. Pohlmsnn, her daughter Florence,
lad F. @. Dietzel, a Cleveland dentist,
we're in the csr, but we're saved ftom
injury by the high back Of eth tonneau.
To elect bishop of Washington, the
convention of the local Episcopal diocese
will meet October / at ST. Thomas Epis-
copal Church. Tnis announcement was
made Saturday by Rev. DR.. Randolph
II. McKim, president Of the convention.
This will be the third session Of the con-
yention called to elect a successor to
Bishop Fl. Y. Satttrlee. Bishop Charles
Henry Brent of the Philippines vas
twice chosen at the other sessions.
| With view to bringing about bttt r
social, sanitary and economic conditions
on American farms President Roosevelt
has requested four experts on country
| life to make an investigation into the
whole mst II and to report to him with
recommendation for improvements.
The report and recommendations, with
any additional recommendations which
the president himselfmay desire to make,
will be incorporated in message which
the president will send to Congress prob
ably early next year.
Ten thousand persons leaving board
walk amusement pl c's, just before dark,
at Atlantic City, Saturday, we're thrown
into a panic by an attempt made by
Tombler Vangsndsllum, 3 giant Hir dn,
To mnr1er Lnisa A. Fort. an oct room