Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-12
News of the Day.

The South Mountain Iron CompSny's
stove manufacturing plant at Pine
Grove, Pa, was destroyed BY IRE yester-
day.
The federal building and number OF
other buildings at Osrrabelle, Fla, were
destroyed by FIRE Yesterday, the loss
being estimated at 500, 900.
The wireless telegraph station on
Russian Hill, San Francisco, yesterday
was 10 uninterrupted communication
with Honolulu, 2,2Oo miles distance.
Col. Dewitt. O. sprague, soldier, poet
and for years in the diplomatic and civil
service, died at his home 10 Washington
yesterday.
The Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing has completed designs suggested by
Postmaster General Meyer for new
Issue Of United States postage clamps.
The spinners and cardroon workers
In Manchester, England, have adjusted
their differences with the manufacturers,
agreeing, temporarily, to accept pei
cent reduction.
Fire OF unknown origin yesterday
destroyed the plant of the Greater New
York Metallic Bed COMPANY in the bust
ness section Of Philadelphia, entailing @
lost estimated at $50, 600.
Several shoWmen of Ferfsri's Wild
West Shows we're Injured yesterday
when the circus train collided with
another containing exhibits for the
Hsgerstown Fair, at Edgemon', Nd,
on The Western Maryland Railroad.
Three innocent negroes we're lynched
nesr Hickory, Miss, by mob search
ing Friday night for the assassin OF
Albert ]. Wall, planter, who was shot
sod killed Thursday morning by SheT
Jones, a negro, who is still at large.
With a record of 20 speeches deliver
ed during the day William J. Bryan
brought to close 10 ST. Joseph Ssiu'
day night bis latest tour The recep'
ton accorded him was fitting finale
to unprecedented demonstrations which
marked his progress through Missouri
A heavy southeasterly gtls and rough
sea 1T Buzzsrds Bay Saturday night die
still further damage to the United States
cruiser Yankee, ashore on Hen ant
Chickens shoals, and it is the opinion o
some prominent naval officials that TIE
vessel must soon be abandoned.
Mrs. Marshall Chapman, of La Plat
Md, has issued invitations to the mar.
rage of her daughter, Miss Mary, to
Mr. Henry Holland Hawkins. Thu
wedding will take place OF Christ Oburct
in La Plata at noon on Wednesday, DC
tober %.
Despite stories ID the contrary, 1t Il
learned on high authority that Distric
Attorney Winslow, of Westchesler coun
~, N. Y, will endeavcr to prove before
Justice Mills at todsy's hearing tina
Harry K. Thaw is a psrinoisc. III
will have two noted physicians present t.
testify.
Following his wife to church yester
dsy william Bennington, residing nes
Deltl, Pa, shot her through the hear
and then turned the weapon upon him
self and sent the contents into hi
stomach, causing inst'nt death. Th
double killing WAS inspired by Jealousy
A short time before it took place t1'
husband accused bis wife Of in6delity.
Registration for the first three days II
Greater New York, as shown by cor
racttd figures issued Saturday, reveals
marked falling of from that of four year
ago. For The three days the corrected
figures show for Greater New York (
registration this year of $40, 095, al
com pared with 573, 523 four years sgo-
a loss Of 33, 42S. Today Is the last day
of registration in that city.
Two dwellings in Philadelphia collaps
ed yesterday as the result of an ex
plosion which occurred several years sgC
One person was killed and several were
injured. Mrs. Mary Heffner, aged q
years, was The victim. She was caught
by falling beam while going to rescue
her six weeks-old baby, which lay il
its carriage. Her neck was broken,
The baby was buried under the falling
plaster and moitlr but wss net hurt.
Three policemen on duty on the Will
| lismsburg bridge, At New York, had 9
desperate fight with temporarily insane
Russian on the top Of the Brooklyn
tower, 1896 feet above the river, yesterday
afternoon. In the struggle Of the man
to leap from the structure he nearly
dragged the policemen over the brink
The man said he wanted to kill himself
because be had an sged mtther, who
was starving, and he could not get any
work.
10 the heart Of Spsrtanburg, 8. O.,
With lite 10000 population, mob Of
infurste1 ciliz ns, at times numbering
thousands or more, fought Saturday and
Saturday night with the military and
civil authorities for the possession Of
John Irby, a negro, who attempted to
ravish Miss Lille Dempsey. The young
woman was on her way there from Saxon
Mill Village, three miles away. -Four
persons we're wounded during the con-
aict. The Jail is still surrouned by
troops.
In a brawl early yesterday evening,
William Jones, 81 years old, living l mile
northeast OF the Catholic University
Washington, who came into prominence
some years ego by attempting to shoot
Charles Gniteau, the assassin OF Prssi-
dent Garfield, shot aud instantly killed
John A. Mcpherson, former member
of the United States marine corps. Nc
Pherson was shot with 12-gauge shot