Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-19
News Of the Day.


informed OF his nomination st Chicago.
yesterday.
Emmett Billmire, the 12-year-ol1 son
of Mr.. George Billmire, OF Baltimore,
was crowned Monday at Oonueant Lake,
Pa, where be was spending bis vacation.
Mike Holks was hanged at franklin,
Pa, st 1890 O'Clock, yesterday morn
ing for the murder of Police Captain
Ed yard Meehan last November
While working on the new concerts
storage compartment OF No. elevator,
at Patapsco Park, yesterday afternoon,
Henry Moore, of Baltimore, fell to the
ground and was killed iustsn tly.
Charged with sprinkliDg arsenic in
food for his wife's breakfast, James Our
tin, who lives near the Athens rosd, two
miles Nor b of Oatskill, N. Y. was arrested
yesterday and lodged in the county Jail.
The interstate Commerce Commission
at Washington has refused an extension
of time to railroads In the southeastern
territory fer their answer to complaints
fled against them on the rate matter.
Everything was comparatively quiet & t
Springfield lsst night There were
several hot skirmishes shortly after mid
night, but the rioters vera quickly dis
pered.
By the retirement Of Rear Admiral
Robley d. Evans, yesterday, Osspsr
Frederick Goodrich. commandment OF the
Brooklyn navy yard, becomes the senior
rear admiral Of the United States navy.
A fierce fight yesterday between the
lion Baltimore and valuable Russian
bear 10 the BOstock animal Enclosure al
Oouey Island ended in the death of the
bear.
George Melvin Osgoodby, who 10 bis
80 yesrs OF law practice 10 New York,
had been one of the counsel for Jay
Gould and general counsel fer the Erie
Railroad, died recently at Asbury Park,
IN. J.
The steamer Kaistr Wilhelm De.
Crosse which arrived at Quarantine, n.
Y, yesterday from Bremen, Southhamp-
TN and Cherbourg came over the shorl
course OF 8, 047 miles, making the pas
sage In days 16 hours and 81 MINUTES.
The explosion Of a gasoline tauk in
the shops Of the Western Maryland Rail-
way Company at Hanover, Pa, yester'
day cost the life of Harry :. Wildasiu,
a., SO years old, foreman of motive power.
jacob Bixler and William stsub, were
seriously burned.
| Robert 81. Partridge, one time presi-
dent and later fret vice-president and
general maDsger of the National Lumber
Company of Baltimore, was yesterday
indicted by the grand jury on two
counts, one charging false pretense and
the other embezzlement.
| DR.. Joseph Eichberg, OF Cincinnati,
was drowned yesterday in Big Tuppel
Lake, N. Y. A party including Dr.
Eichberg, bis brother-in-law, Mr.. Kuhn,
end John Ohsmpney, guide, was fab
ing. 10 trying to land large pickere
the boat WAS cspsizsd. DR.. Eichberg
could not swim and sank Immediately
Three sharp earthquake shocks, which
knocked down more than hundred
chimneys, shattered about forty plate
glass windows 10 the business portion o.
| Eureka, Gal, broke much crockery in thu
houses and sent many people scurryine
from their beds into the streets, occurred
early yester lsy.
The American gifts OF "Petsr's pence, y
received at the Vatican within the las
fortnight, amount to 1904, 700. Thu
pope expressed bis qualification at thu
liberality Of the church 10 America. i
is probable that the sum will reach $500,
900 by the time the last Of the American
contributions are received.
| The United States will not interfere IL
any way with the Dutch demonstration
against Venezuela, provided the Neither
lands does not attempt permanently t
hold any Venezuelan territory. Thu
was the gist OF communication made
public yesterday to the Dutch govern
meut by the American Minister, Arthur
Beupre.
Grief over the death Of her sweetheart
| in the York, Pa, Rolling Mill disaster
about q week ago, caused Miss Lilly La
to attempt suicide yesterday by swallow
ing quantity OF l,udanum. After drink
ing the poison, she reclined on q sofa II
the front room of her home, and r.
quested one of the members OF the house
hold to start the phonograph.
Ninetsen sentences OF death wer
signed in various parts of the RussiaI
Empire yesterday, one st Kharkov
three at Kiey, five at Warsaw and ten a
LODI. The last MENTIONED are peasant
who some months ago we're condemned
10 death for revolutionary activities, bu
who were ganted a re-trial by the Su
preme Military Court.
During the year 1907 81 steamship
flying the American flag entered the por
of Msrscaito. These vessels ply be
tween New York, Porto Rico, Curaco
and Puerto Cabello and Msracaibo. Flo
the special service of Maracaibo the com
paDy runs three fine steamships, equippe'
for passenger and cargo services, and
is seldom any of these boats have bert
uuoccupied.
Mrs. Matilda Diehl, Of Baltimore, an
IA others were injured in trolley &C
cident on the Wsnesboro-Pon-Msr rail
way yesterday. A motorman lost con
troll Of trolley car, containing Is pas
+ sepgers, which dashed down th
mountain and left the track at shsr
curve, and after running 60 feet through
field overturned near BONNEVILLE, q
, iha foof of The maintain