Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-18
News of the Day.

Senct3r Tillman declared In Bospon
on Saturday that if Tar is nominated
the democrats will win.
The Ford Lumber Company's plan
at Mansfield, Ohio, was destroyed by 6r'
last night. The loss will reach 800, 600
William d. Haywood, addressing th'
sociali.t convention 10 Chicago yesterday
denounced ccurs, judges, the presiden
and a number of other.
u. 6. Senator Burrows, oil Michigan
has been selected as temporary chairman
of the republican national convention
Mr.. Burrows is not Roosevelt man anc
the president does not like this selection
Glastonbury Park, the country seat o
the Earl of Essex, near London, lie to b
given over to real estite agent ant
speculative builder.
The Wright brothers, aeronauts, de-
cline to discuss the challenge Of Henry
Fsrmsu, the English aeronaut, fox {
contest in France : for q IS, 600 stake.
Attorney General BOnaparte will In
stilute suit In the Circuit Court Of Phil
adelphia against various railroads to teal
the constitOtiopality Of the commodities
clause OF the rats law.
A severe rain and Windstorm, thu
sixth in three weeks, swept through
southern Louisiana spd Mississippi
Saturday night and Yesterday morning
Four persons lost their lives.
King Manuel of Portugal Is said to
have upset plans to marry him to SOME
eligible princess by declaring that he
will wed his boyhood love, the daughter
of lady-in-wsiting, or not at all.
DR.. Charles II. 5teinmeIz, the we'll.
known professor of electrical engineering
at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y,
predicts that the present generation will
see the exhaustion Of our supply of an
| thracite.
Midshipman Arthur L. Lucas, oil
Cleveland, Ohio, a member OF the class
which will be graduated from the Naval
Academy on June 5, was accidentally
drowned by the cspsizing Of q canoe In
the Severn river yesterday afternoon.
Thomas M. Lsnahan, for many years
power behind the throne 10 Maryland
pol tics and the legal and political ad-
wiser Of the late Senator Arthur P.
German, died yesterday afternoon from
the iufrmities OF age. Mr.. Lsnahan
was eighty-one years old, and was born
in 1928 In Rockingham county, Virginia.
Representative James E. Watson, OF
Indiana, has resigned from membership
on the commiItse on ways and means
and Speaker Cannon announced the ap.
pointment of Mr.. Orumpacker. OF In
diana, as his successor. Mr.. Watson lie
a candidate for governor Of Indiana, and
not candidate for reelection 10 the
House.
The taking Of evidence in the habess
corpus proceedings instituted 10 free
Harry K. Thaw from confinement In the
Maltsawan State Hospital for Criminal
Insane ended at Poughkeepsie on Satur-
day night, after Thaw himself had been
questioned by District Attorney Jerome.
Justice Morchauser reserved decision.
Both sides rested and decision was re-
served. Thaw will remain in the jail at
Poughkeepsie until the case is decided.
Coroner Mack gave out statement
at Lsporte, Ind, last night showing that
the archmurderess, Mrs. Guinness, not
only killed because she evidently had an
uncomfortable mania for taking human
life, but that the lutt for money was an
other impelling motive for Turing VIC
{ ms u her chamber OF death. The
statement consists Of recspitalatlon OF
her victims and the money che obtained
from them. This tot,led, according 10
the statement, SAC, 900.
The discovery that 1925, 900 worth OF
bonds ere missing from the Allegheny,
Pa, National Bank caused the resrrest
on Saturday of Cashier William Mont
gomery, slre7dY under charges OF en-
bezzllng $3.50, 900 of the banks funds
and he was put In Jail. Just across the
corridor from the cell occupied by Mont
gomery are Henry Reiber and John
Young, whom the officials of the Farm
ers' Deposit National Bank admit stole
81, 1O5, 900. The Allegheny National
Bank will close today.
But for the timely discovery BY. Police
man Handy, forty pounds OF dynamite
would have been touched of under the
Salvation Army headquarters In Atlanta
at z o. o'clock yesterday morning. Police
man Handy saw three men acting sus-
piciously, who ran as he approached.
About forty pounds Of dynamite had
been placed ready TO explode. The men
were about 10 touch 1t of when the
policeman approached. The Salvation
Army runs hotel in connection with
its headquarters, and over 200 wire In
the building. Detectives yesterday ar
rested seven men.
The principal features Of Saturdays
session of, the Southern Baptist OOnven.
lion at Hot Springs, Ark, we're ad-
dresses by DR.. George W. Mcdaniel, Of
Richmond, Vs., and DR.. w. W. Land
rum, of Atlanta, Gs. The subject under
discussion was the enlargement and I'M
provement OF the Southern Baptist Theo'
logical Seminary at Louisville. The
convention voted TO hold its next snnosl
convention in Louisville May next.
Joshua lowering, Of Baltimore, who was
unanimously elected president Of the
convention, succeeds Edwin Stephens,
who is travelling in Palestine. A per-
maneut endowment of 5000, 600 for the
benefit of the Southern Baptist Theolog-
ical Seminary, Louisville, KY. was
pledged by the delegates TO the conven-
ton.