Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-08
News OF the Day.


Grown Prince Constantine Of Greece had
besn assassinsted is discredited.
Efforts to pull the cruiser Yankee of
the rocks are ttill fruitless, The cost
to the government has so far been
800, 900.
Mrs. ]. Clayton Erb was arrested yes
terday evening On charge of killing
her husband nesr Philsdelphis, which
crime Mrs. Catherine DIESEL had coz
fessed.
Barte!s, Thelen & Co., shoe manu-
factUr5rs, OF Boston and Chelsea, made
general assignment yesterday for the
benefit OF credit rs. The liabilities sr'
estimated at between $500, 900 and hall
a million.
A Massachusetts, boy, Nathan Samp-
SOD, has found a venerable turtle which
bears markings made by his grandfather,
now 81 years old, which we're put on IN
1910, and by his grest-grsndfather, who
marked the same turtle in 1915.
One fireman was killed and eight were
injured 10 the collapse of the burning
walls OF small grain elevator st Buffalo,
N. Y, last night. The elevator and 3
-four and feed mill, owned by A. NoWak
q Son, were destroyed, causing loss OF
about 800, 900.
Another thousnd car order hes been
placed with the Standard Stsel Oar Com
pany, Of Pittsburg, by the OhicSgo and
Alton Railroad. 1t Is a duplication OF
az orier placed few weeks ago by the
same road. The cars will, 1t is said, be
made at the Hammond Qnd. shops.
Lost in the Sierra Madre mouutiins,
near Ell PssO, Tex, for nearly two days,
J. M. Brown, of st. Louis, and his sister
finally found shelter and aid when they
we're famished and almost in state Of
mental collapse. News of their predics-
ment was received at ct. Louis, Mo-, last
night by telegraph.
IL am going to shoot" said MSrtip
Dougherty, aged eleven, and he raised
uble-bsrrelsd shotgun and fred both
barrels into the body of William Lemon,
aged thirteen. The two boys had quar-
relied and young DOugherty, thlrsIiug
for revenge, secured the shotgun and
opened FIRE.
10 attempting to stsrt the machinery
OF his fathers cider press, which had be-
come clogged, Wilhelm Ruch, q years
old, son of George Ruch, prominent
farmer of Flocks Corner, New Freedom,
Md, was crushed and seriously injured
yesterday by being caught 10 the shaft
ing.
Returns show that Joseph NJ. Brown
has carried the State Of Georgia for gov
erOor by plurality Of between 10000
and so, 900. Mr.. Browns only oppo.
nent WAS Ysucey Garter, who ran on
the independence party ticket. Brown
ran as a democrat.
District Attorney Jerome at White
Plains, N. Y. yesterday, in a fl of
anger because Judge Mills refused to
transfer the Thsw case from Westchester
county to New York, withdrew from the
case, seized his hat and valise and buried
out OF court.
Charging that a monopoly exists
among certain coal-carrying railroads
and coal companies in violation Of the
sherman antitrust act, the suit Of the
United States for the dissolution OF the
alleged coal trust was resumed before
Special Examiner Charles II. Guilbert,
OF Philadelphia yesterday.
II is not improbable that before many
weeks have passed, John r. Early, the
leper of Washington, now isolated on
The Z islern Branch, will be living With
his wife and baby. Nothing d. finite is
known of The plsOs Of the health Office
physicians, but 1t is understood from
Trustworthy source that Drs. Woodward
and Fowler are going to reunite the
blighted family.
Night riders have made their appear
ance in eastern North Carolina. Monday
night, 10 Nash County, they posted no.
tice on cotton gin, notifying the owner
that If he ginned another bale until the
price advanced the barn would be re-
duced to ashes. Tuesday night, in Mar in
county, over a radius Of miles, notices
were tackled en- different barus 10 the
same effect. 10 every instance the notices
we're signed "Night Riders" with the
iueVitsbls bloody hand after the sigma
tare.