Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-30
News Of the Day.

ham County Mills, at Plainheld, Conn.,
were put on 10 per cent. reduction
today.
Eleven persons we're burt aud $780,
900 loss caused By fire which esiiY
today burned out two buildings OF The
Fort Hill district. Boston.
Two negroes we're arrested in Wash
ingtop, yesterday, charged With stealing
$500 worth OF jewelry from girl students
of Mount Vernon Seminary.
1t ia announced from Berlin that EN-
peror William has Withdrawn all express
sior of disapprovsl and will be pleased
to receive DR.. Hill as ambassador.
A dispatch from Hanna, Wyo., says
hope WAS finally abandoned today OF
saving the lives of any of the II men en-
tombed in the explosion-wrecked aud
still burning Hanna coal mine there.
But little progress was made in the
House on Saturday in considering the
agricultural appropriation bill. The dis
cussion dwelt mainly upon the proposed
establishment of federal standard OF
cotton grades and federal inspection Of
grains.
Rear Admiral Evans, commanding the
Atlantic baitlcship feet, is on his way
from Masdslena bay to San FIanclscU,
aboard the Connecticut. Arriving at
San Francisco he will proceed at once
to San Luis Obispo by rail, there to take
reatment at a mineral spring resort.
Martin r. Turner, whose wife, Fan;
ME G. Turner, on Thursday took a fatal
dose of carbolic acid, committed suicide
Friday night at his home in Marlius-
burg while the undertaken was prepar-
lug his wiie's body for burial. Mrs.
Turner'S suicide was reported to have
been due to her treatment by her bus
band.
With the positive statement Saturday
of doctors who examined her that To-
year-old Lillian Thiery, found Friday
in lot near Glendale, L. l., had been
not assaulted, the police declare the girl
was murdered for the 81 so she carried,
her weeks wages as factory employe.
They lay the crime to tramps, but have
no clue. Lillian was found By pass
ing train crew Friday 10 the lot with
her skull crushed.
William w. Trainor, thirty years old,
vaudeville actor, and Mrs. William
Pryor, an actress, twenty-five years old,
we're found shot 10 death in apartments
at the Clarendon Hotel in ST. Paul. Mimi.
Yesterday. 1t is believed that the ac-
tress wss reminding TrsiDor that he had
not lived up to promises he had made
her and that she VAS threatening TO leave
him This Supposed quarrel and lack
of money, the police believe, caused
Trsinor to shoot MIS- Pryor and himself.
Archbishop John Ireland, Of st. Paul,
has written letter to the clergy and
lsity of that archdiocese on the SUBJECT
Of marriage and divorce. The letter
was read in all the churches OF the arch
diocese yesterday. Its occasion is the
recent eucyclicsl on marriage issued by
Pope Plus X. The letter says, 10 part:
"Tbe cessation OF the contract, the re-
| marrisge to another OF husband or Of
wife, renders fatberless or mo'heTless
the children Of the first marriage, dis
sipates in their souls the sanctity of the
home. Divorce breaks up the home
which God had intended So the sanctu.
sry of love and safety for husband and
for wife, for s9n and for daughter"
The bodies of Angelo and Tony Sell
vestire ard Bernardo Dagannon were
fCuud Yesterday each with bullet in
his breast, at Miller's Station, in Jetfer-
son county, Ohio, scross the river from
Wheeling, w. Va, under circumstances
which disclose triple murder. The
Selvesiire brothers were found in
shanty in which they lived, and Da-
cannon in a field half a mile away,
where be had died rs be tried TO climb
fence. The men were section hands,
and together, with Hockey George lived
in the shsniy. The object OF The murder
was evidently robbery, as the men we're
known to have large amount Of money
in their pockets, which were torn out.
George has not been seen since the
bodies were found, aud officers have
started a search for him.
The lives of seventy-two men were
sacrificed Saturday, afternoon, when two
explosion of gas and dust in the No. |
Mine of the Union Pacific Coal Com
psny. near Hanna, Wyo., completely
wrecked the workings, shattered the
tippl.s and outside buildings, and rock
ed dwellings and business houses in
town. But for the fact that this was 40
idle day at the mines the loss of life
would have been something awful. The
men were buried deep in the bowels OF
the earth, and two we're burned to death
by the fire now raging in the workings,
if they were not killed outright by the
explosion. The first explosion, which
occurred at 3 o'clock. killed eighteen
miners, including superintendent Snd
three bosses. The second explosion, at
1890 Saturday night, suuard out the
lives of fifty or more rescuers, includ-
ing State Mine Iospector ID. M. Ellie.
Mystery surrounds the death of Joseph w.
Shannon, cashier Of the Northwestern Ma
tiona Bank Of PHILADELPHIA, at the Stewart
Hotel. San Francisco, during the Hght DIR.
Means, the attending physician, eported to
the coroner that in his opinion Shannon died
from an overdose Of morphine.
CUT HIS THROAT
William McFord, q former BOer scout,