Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-07
News Of the Day.

Statistics complied by the Journal OF
the American Medical Association show
that 1928 persons we're hurt or killed
In celebration Of the last Fourth OF July.
John L. Moors and John Coggan,
prominent merchants of Galveston, Tex,
we're drowned last night when the skin
in which they we're riding 10 the bay,
near Galveston, wss capsized.
Albert HsrrisoD, the young man who
last Wednesday sit:rnoon created
panic on the London Stock Exchange
by firing three shots from a revolver, has
been committed to an asylum.
So general is the practice of selling
mOonshine whisky In some parts oil the
Kentucky mountains that many young
girls sell it along the public road on
their WY to school.
Although Imprisonment for debt has
been nominslly abolished, In England,
9, 2S5 people we're sent to jail last year
for not paying when ordered 10 do 80 BY
the Judge. All these prisoners we're
supposed to have means to pay, and to
have refused to satisfy their creditors
after an order Of the court had been
made.
The police OF Baltimore city and Anne
Arundel county, Nd, are endeavOring
to locste Thomas Gsugston, colored,
who is wanted on the chsrge of causing
the destl Of Mary Wright, colored, aged
"a years, ofMaynsrds, who died on Sat
uriay afternoon. Both of them we're
EMPLOYED ON the farm If Mr.. George +.
jenkins, upon whose place the assault
IVES alleged to have taken place on last
Wednesday night.
Governor Fort won another victory
| over the Atlantic City liquor sellers yes
rday and the lock which he put down
on the lid last week held throughout the
day despite various individual attempts,
to Dry 1t up. Prophet r8 OF teVtrAl
downturn saloons of the smaller class
took chances 10 furnishing drinks ID their
regular aud we'll known customers
Special policemen watched half dozen
such places but could not obtiin admit
lance to secure evidence.
While the majority of the good cili'
zens of Baltimore rec t I'd from their labors
yesterday, the police we're at work max
| ing Sunday raids on saloons, and as tue
result arrests we're made in nearly every
one of the eight police districts OF the
ctr. One hotel was raided, and In
another inetance the officer had to resort
to strategy to gain an entrance to the
saloon by climbing upon the roof OF an
adjoining house. The usual quota OF
witnesses WAS secured, and a number OF
saloonkeepers were held for the seton Of
the grand jury on charges ofselling liquor
on Sunday.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, former cor
gresham and lawyer, and his wife are
reunited after separation of 81 years.
Since the separation Mrs. Sickles bad
lived in Madrid, Spain, her native city
Mrs. Sickles, accompanied by her only
stn. Stanton Sickles, arrived in Ne"
York on August 81, and the next day
1 the son brought the general and his wife
together. Whatever we're the difference:
that have kept the general and his wife
apart all these years they we're seeming
| " settled at their fret interview. Both
now insist that there never were any dit
ferences but it is said they will continue
to live splrt Ia Washington about
two yesrs before the civil war MIR. Sickle'
shot and killed Francis Barton Key,
writer, after trailing and watching his
victim pay covert attentions to his hrs
wife. Sickles' defense was emotions
iusauity and he was acquitted.