Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-31
TELEdRAPHIc BREYITIes.

President ,Truesdale. Of the Lacks'
wanna Railroad, has turned down the
request of the switchmen's grievance
committee, ct Scranton, Pa, for final
interview and strike seems inevitable.
Suffering from acute melsncbolis
caused bya nervous break down siuct
his elect on, Governor John s. Little,
OF Arkansas, Is in . ssnitarinm at st.
)sepb, Mo.
1t is reported that sou-iu-law Of Mr.,
Thomas st ne, OF Lee district, Fairfax
county, who was manager OF st sam
shovel somewher. in Ohio, was sccidentl'
ly killed on Saturday.
The village of Mehrp, Austria, has beer
destroyed by Landslide. Sixteen person'
are reported to have been killed. Work
men today recovered II bodies from
the ruins. Part of the village lies
buried under tons of earth.
An unknown woman leaped to her
death from the Central Suspension
fridge into the Ohio river today at
Cincinnati. She stood on the railing
aud laughed at q boy who was passing,
then reading verse, called Ambition"
she jumped IS she finished the verse.
Mrs. Robert O. Fink, wife of the for.
msr city treasurer of Omaha and a
prominent politician there, has filed suit
for divorce in PhilsdeIpbia, alleging
harbarious and cruel treatment. Mrs.
Fink is the daughter of Count Won
Plate, delegate to the Court of Interns'
tional Arbitration at The Hague.
Chairman Mack, OF the national DEM
ocrst C committee, will leave Buffalo fol
New York tonight to open branch Of
the national headquarters there. II II
said that strenuous efforts are t. be made
|. to line up Judge Alton B. Parker fol
the roll of advisor-in-chief TO the nation
al committeeman.
Twelve dead, ffty-seven stricken, II
the gruts1m record of the frat five
DAYS of the heat-horror week in Chicago
Since last Monday the sun has blszed
! down npon the baked, psrched, brown
city from a sky as hard and brizsn OF
beaten brass. Under the blisteriDg rays
of the sun the residents Of crowded tsne'
| ment districts have simply sbriveled.
Special agent' for the government in
Chicago are cole ting evidence to sub
stantiate proceedings for the disruption
Of the Hartman system of rlilroauds
1t i. understood that the evidence is de-
tired to use in connection with suit Il
be brought by the government which
will be similar to the Northern Securl'
hes case.
Leonard Hendricks, q brewery worker
today murdered his two little daughters
and took his own life with illuminating
gas at their home near Providence, K. j
Hendricks was insanely jealous of nj
wife aud when the latter left for Hart
ford on a visit, after he had objected Il
her going, he became respondent an'
planned the murders and suicide.
Following a quarrel Of long standing
said to have grown out of suit owe
the dividing line of their property il
Philadelphia, John Mole today shot Mrs
Susan Stevenson, his next door neigh
Dor, and then turned the weapon on
himself. Both are in the hospital where
| il is said they cannot live. The shoot
log occurred In front of their homes
despite the efforts OF two policemen whC
were attracted by the alteration.
The controversy over the PYthian en-
campment in Franklin Field, Boston,
has been settled on the eve of the ma
tional convention and the knights may
come to Boston next week assured o.
ample accommodation Judge Braley
in the supreme court not only denied
the petition of the Harvard Improve
ment Association for an injunction for
b dding the use of the city's parks fol
this purpose, but animated that he
would make a similar ruling on pos
sibIe application for writ of manda'
mus.
With the death of four workmen today
total of % lives have been lost 10 at
tempts to extinguish the oil well fire
which has been raging over a square
mile of territory st the center of the
Borislav petroleum district in Austrif
since July 4, when it was started BY
Il ghtping. The main well, the largest
in the word, spouts thousandG of barrels
of flaming raw oil daily, the fiery foun-
tain plunging from height of nearly
500 feet back into the oil lake which
surrounds it. Workmen are trying to
diminish the area of the burning food
by gradually narrowing circle OF dsms
IS feet high.
Hurled fifty feet and their bodies
ground to pieces by the wheels OF the
train Samuel B. ROop, clerk TO the su-
perlnteudent of police. of Philadelphia,
snd Charles Humphrey, chief clerk of
the police department, are dead today, as
result of q collision between their au-
tpmobile and Residing railway train.
The accident happened ct a crossing snd
it is understood thtt Roop and Hum
phrey could not hear the train. A watch
man, who saw the automobile coming,
tried to flag it, but the victims could M t
shut of speed in time and started across
the tracks in front of the express.
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