Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-12
News Of the Day.

The Protestant Alliance at the Eu-
charistic Congress at London is continu-
ing Its opposition to the appearance OF
the Host In the Sunday procession.
Commander Howard, Of the Maryland
fishery force, with FIVE Of bis men, ar
rived 10 Sinepuxent Bay yesterday and
boarded and examined six oysterboats,
but made 10 arrests. No resistance was
made By the oystermen.
Ths number Of unemployed in Lon
don was strikingly shown yesterday,
when 5000 men surrounded and at
tempted to make their way into a hos
pitsl which had advertised for porter
at a wsge OF $3.50 week and meals.
Harry Colbert, II years old, of Wash.
ingtou, yes terdsy, while riding bicycle,
ran into q wagon, and the rear wheels
passed over bis right leg, crushing the
bone. Edward Hawkins, driver of the
wagon, told the police be could not avoid
the accident.
Williamsport, Washington county, was
visited by fire yesterday afternoon that
at one time threatened the destruction OF
a large portion of the town, which is To-
Gated along the Potomac river, ak miles
south Of Hagerstown.
Mr.. Charles Mcdonald, ir., the we'll
known grain inspector, who had been
chief grain inspector Of the Baltimore
Chamber of Commerce for the last II
years, died yesterday at his home in
that city. He was Ga years old.
Frank Mowkosky, who accidentally
shot himself, not far from Pen Mar
Park, septsmber 2, died yesterday at
the Chsmbesburg, Pennsylvania, Hos
pitiI, his death being due to lock-
Jaw. The bullet had passed through his
lung and lodged In his chest.
Former City Collector Joseph 8. Msr-
tin, for many years Leading democratic
politician and adviser to the late Gov.
Altgeld, was arrested in Chicago Thurs
day after q desperate encounter with
Peter Mcleod, a contractor, In which
Mcleod was stabbed twice and Martin
was severely injured.
A decomposed body, supposed to oe
that of Albert Kelly, of Grafton, W.
Va, who recently escaped from the In
sane asylum at Weston for the third
time, has been found in the MuskiDgum
river, near Marietta, Ohio. The cloth
ing has been forwarded to the family at
Grafton, and they will attempt to ident-
ify 1t as that of Kelly.
David Mishler, aged seventg-eight,
was killed Thur day evening BY pas
senger train nesr Rock wood, Md, while
he was driving over 8 crossing. His
horse was also killed. 1t is said BY eye
witnesses That the engine did not whistle
until 1t was almost on the aged man.
The rig,was hurled nearly fifty feet. The
body was badly mutilsted.
Tie last action Of the democratic con-
vention, of Pueblo, Colo which adj
iourned at 8 O'Clock yesterday morning,
was to read former United States Senator
T. M. Patterson out of the party.
John A. Martin, of Pueblo, was nomi-
nsted for Congress fir ,m the second dis
trict, and Charles B. Wsri succeeds
Milt1u Smith as Stats chairman.
A theft of negotiable bonds to the face
value Of $50, became known In Bos-
ton yesterday, when A. B. Turner q
o., brokers, gave out list of the mics
ing securities. The bonds were obtain
ed by some person who, representing
himself as 8 prospective purchaser, pre-
sented In payment for the bonds a certi-
fed check, which is alleged TO be worth
less, and disappeared.
Very few persons refuse an increase Of
salary of $500 year, but Rev. Irving
q. Berg, pastor OF Ostskill, N. Y, Re-
formed Church, has that record. In
August Mr.. Berg's congregation gave
him a months vacation. During his
absence the church officers voted 10 In
crease his salary to ~, 500. He had
been receiving ~, 900 and the use Of the
parsonage. When Mr.. Berg returned
he was notified Of their action and I'M
mediateIy called meeting Of officers of
the church and asked them to rescind
the resolution increasing bis salary and
leave 1t at the old figure.
A young woman, who had been
bound, gagged and strangled to death
with red automobile veil--possibly
she had been stabbed, too--was found
yesterday afternoon In the dining-room
of the Cat where she had lived on the
fifth foor OF the tenement ct 3l5 east
Forty-fifth street New York. She wss
Mrs. Annie l.. Mauro, a bride Of two
months. The police have been asked
10 arrest her husband, Dave Msuro,
lately employed as ticket chopper on
the Third Avenue l. road. He had
not been seen since he left the house on
Monday night.
An act OF revenge on the part Of an
Italian labortr, because he considered
he had been dismissed without cause, has
cost the government Of Baden the sum
OF 1916, 900. The government has been
constructing a railroad tunnel through
the Black Forest mountains, at Heidel-
berg, working in from each end to meet in
the center. twas discovered yesterday
that the two halves, which should come
toge ther at the village Of Forbacb, miss
each other by &c feet. The reason is 6
mistake in the survey, which arose from
the purposefal misplacing ofs surveying
pin. This act was the work ofan Italian
who had a grudge against the government.
Collision In Fog.
Seattle, Wash, Sept. 12.-Seventy-
five passengers were rescued from the
steamer Sentinel after II had collided
With the steamer Cippega in a dense fog