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

A fight with rifles between American
fishermen and Canadian officials Is said
to have taken place on Lake Superior.
Burglars entered the home of Mrs.
Hecksher, sister.in-lsW OF Mayor Nc
ClellaD, of New York, Thursday night,
aud robbed it Of 81, 500 worth ofjeWelry.
Archbishop Farley reports that the
pope said the growth of the Catholic
Church 10 the United States seemed
marvellous.
Mr.. DAlzsll, congressman from tie
Piltsburg district, will be a candidate
for speaker OF the House of Representa-
tives, if the republicans win and Mr..
Cannon is defeated.
Reports from the provinces show that
the typhoon which prevailed at Manila,
last Sunday inflicted considerable dam
age. The new town OF Taft, on the
Island OF Samsr, is said TO have been
completely destroyed.
A special train left Washington yes
terday for Fort Smith, Ark, carrying
100 prisoners, transferred from the
United States jail to the Fort Smith
pepitenliary, because Of the crowded
condition in the Wsshinglonin stitulioD.
The Lakes to- the Gulf Deep Wst'rs-
ways Association yesterday passed a
resolution which says that when railroad
transportation is inadequate 1t devolves-
on the national government to give
adequate transportation % developing
the waterways, tfe
Michael F, Oonroy, lawyer, promi-
nent in the democratic organization on
the east side of New York has been
nominated for the congressional sest at
present held by w. Bourke Cochran, the
Twelfth New York, by the democratic
congressional convention Of that district.
Through the arrest Of Lottie Oarrol,
of Brooklyn, the police believe they
have secured the missing link OF evil
dence with may connect Theodore Whit
man as principal With the murder OF
his wife, Mrs Lena Whitman, in the
Lampback swamp, Harrison, N. j.,
last Christmas night.
One man was killed another received
probably fatal iDj aries, while score OF
others we're hut, none dangerously, 10
collision between two Boston and
NoIthera Electric cars on Main street
10 the Bradford district of Haverhill,
Mass yesterday.
Eiz4beth, aged four years. daughter
of James Lewis, of Consolidation Mines,
near Frostburg, Nd, was burned to death
while playing with companions who
we're burning leaves. The child attempt
ed to light q match and her clothing
caught FIRE. She lived but short time.
Rev. Israel Leander Townsend, VIII
vas chaplain OF the House OF Represent
alives in 1876, and for several years
rector of the Episcopal Church of the
IucsrnstiOn, Washington, d. O., died
on Thursday at his home, 2S9 Greene
avenue, Brooklyn, in his eighty-frst
year.
A police officer was badly beaten up
and half dozen students we're placed
10 Jail rs the result OF small sized riot
at the University Of West Virginia at
Morgantowp, w. Va, yesterday. Sew
ersI hundred students attending pei
formaDce at the 5wisher Thester pelied
the chorus girls with eggs and decayed
vegetables. While the girls were dane
ing the vegetables and eggs we're thrown
on the stsge, with the result that the
dancing ceased.
Because Walter @. Drury, the box
Office man at Chsse's Theater, Wash
ineton, refused to sell him two seats,
Robert @. Forester, who says he lives
in st. Paul, Mimi, last night pulled q
revolver from his pocket and showed it
into the mans face, You had better
hand over those tickets" he said, twirl-
ing the revolver. "Eyidenty you do
not know who / am" Forester pulled
back the lapel of bis cost and flashed q
small nickel-plstsd badge. ''This en-
title me to admission" he said.
Policemen Cats and GrimsleY, who
we're passing, rushed 10 and arrested
Forester. At the station house 1t was
found that the revolver was not loaded.
The prisoner said he was an employe Of
the Department Of Commerce and Labor
and that the badge he wore emitted him
to carry revolver. He is locked up
on a charge Of carrying a concealed
weapon.