Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-29
News Of the Day.

The first big bet with Chandler a IA
vorite over Hughes for the coming elec-
ton was made st the Waldorf Astoria
In New York yesterday.
Mr.. Bryan, who spent yesterday
cam psigning in South Dakota, said he
would soon answer the new points in
President Roosevell's letter.
Herman Bidder, the new democratic
national treasurer, announced that on
October Is he would publish the full
list Of contributors of the Bryan cam
paige.
OF the % rsiguiDg dynsslies that COM
pose the Federation OF States, forming
the Gtrmsn Empire, no fewer than IL
are threatened With extinction, the male
line of succession being spsrsely repre-
sented.
Joseph Wheelock, the veteran actor,
died of heart disease st Highlands Of
| Navesink, N. Y, yesterday rs he was
about to take train for New York. Mr..
Wheelock was about 65 years old.
The wind which accompanied The
heavy rain in Washington county, Md,
Yesterday destroyed orchards, uprOotsd
trees, blew down fences and 10 one in
stance carried away summer kitchen
from its foundation.
The forest fires that have been rsging
10 the foothills of the Adirondacks for
several weeks we're extipguished yester-
day by heavy rains. The rain beg
| falling al out noon and at O'Clock the
fighters were Withdrawn.
Augered because of his wife's refusal
to tell him where she had been, Richard
Reed, of 8 Huntoou place southwest,
Washington, lest night, it is alleged,
struck her on the head with a heavy
chair, iphicting severe scalp wound.
A city railway car got beyond control
on Mozart Hill, at Wheeling, w. Va. 4,
yesterday dashed down the heavy grade,
left the rail- at a sharp curve and
crashed into house and telegraph pole.
One person was killed and six others
injured.
Miss silvey speer, Is years old, pref
test and richest heiress in Atlanta,
eloped Yesterday With Russell Thomas,
her fathers chauffeur, and WAS married
by the Rev DR.. Atkinson, 10 the lalt3r's
study, only few blocks from the sPeer
home.
/ W. A. WiuburD, vice. president OF
the Central OF Georgia Railroad, at the
rate hearing before the Interstate Com
merce Commission st Atlanta, Ga,
said "We must get more revenue or
make material reduction in the wages Of
our employees.
A few minutes after the performance
of Robbins Circus at Woodstock Yester-
day severe wind and rainstorm blew
the tent dowO, doing considerable dsm-
age. No one was injured. The rain
broke a drought that has lasted for more
than q month.
Caleb Powers, who spent eight years 10
Kentucky penitentisry in connection
with the Goebel assassination case before
being psFdoned by Gov. Wilson, was
bspt zsd iut) the Baptist Church at Jel-
lico, Tenn, Sunday night. Five hundred
persons attended the service.
: In his address before the Tuber-
culosis Congress st the f rmsl opening
in Wsshineto yesterday, DR.. Robert
Koch, the famous German scientist
who startled the world when be discover
ed the tnbercle germ, declared that PIE.
venlive measures in his country have
made great iorosd on :he disease and
10 Prussia 1t, spread hes been checked.
Robert Knight, IL years old, by
coming in contact W tn the iron fence
surrounding the Mound street school
grounds at Columbus, o., yesterday just
before school time, wss killed and four
of his companions, including his brother,
Joseph Knight, wera injured. The death
aud injuries wers caused by high volt
age electric light wire, which had beer
blown down by the storm and lay across
the fence, charging it.
Intense excitement prevailed in and
near Arvonis yesterday over the wsylsy-
ing and shooting of II. M. Gregory by
unknown parties lste Saturday night.
Gregory was returning from al estate,
which he had just purchased, to bis
home, Seven Islands, in the James river.
Its the belief of Gregcry's friends thst
he was the victim of the noted Thomas
Zimmerman band of outlaws, and q
posse of from so to 100 men has been
organized to capture the desperadoes
dead or alive.
The German bark Brsma, tobacco and
lumber laden, from New Orleans to Brs-
men, recently disabled at sea and towed
into Hampton Roads by the British
s'eamship Lord Iveagh, was yesterday
libeled in The Federal Court st Norfolk
by the master of the Lord Ivesgh for
claim of $240, 900, 60 per cent. Of the
value of the vessel and her cargo. The
Brema is valued at 500, 900 and her car
go at $500, 900.
The British steamship Ursulee Bright,
from Santiago de Cuba for Philadelphia,
on September 10, iron ore laden, 10
command Of Captain Goods, aud The bark
Auburndale, which sailed from Turks
Island two months ago for Philadelphia,
have been given up for lost. The former
vessel, beyond a doubt, foundered on
September II, near the Bahamas.
Tweuty-eight men are missing. The
Auburndale had crew of IL. The later
vessel is thought to have been sunk BY q
collision.
BANKERS CONVENTION.