Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-15
News Of the Day.

Gordon Macdonald, a member of the
New York banking firm Of Speyer q Co.,
is dead.
The skel,t)us Of an exploring party,
msssscred by Indians in 1875, have
been found nesr Winnipeg, Man.
The Chinese uprising in French Indo-
China, reported IS crushed several weeks
ego, has sgain sssum ed dangerous pro-
portions.
Mrs. NJ. A. Gibbons, of Washington,
gave reception at Saratoga, N. Y,
Yesterday, at which all the guests were
over 80 years old.
Surprise at the stir his utterance hiss
raised. Count Okums, of Jspan, de-
clsred that he had no desire or intention
to reflect on the honor or courage OF the
American navy.
An effort will be made to induce the
Department Of Justice to take steps
sgainst the recent combination formed
by ell the leading theatrical firms to pool
their interests.
An order has been issued by the inter
state commerce commission extending
from September to November |, the
date when the new bill of lsdipg shall 90
into efle t.
The first meeting of the creditors OF
Hsrry X Thsw has been postponed in
def 0itely, Ms no one entered an appear
ance yesterday for Thaw when his case
was called before referee.
Two men we're killed in q msnhole
explosion st Foriy-fi tn street and
Eighth avenue, New York, yesterday.
A dozen fremen and policemen were
overcome in attempting rescue.
Discouraged because he could not find
employment and without food fer 45
hours, Hsiman Rosenthsl, aged Is.
tried to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge
early yesterday and end his troubles
Ira d. SaDkey, the famous singing
evangelis', who had been living in
Brooklyn recently, died Thursday. he
was bora 10 Edinburg, Lawrence county,
Pa, August %, 1910 and had been
blind since 1898.
Proportions are being made By order
of the president to change the color OF
United States wsrships from white, the
emblem of peace, to pearly slate colcr
When The part 'culsr tint is agreed upon
it will be applied the next time thiP
nes ds new paint.
In a quarrel over a watch George
Bailey, aged Al years, a bartender,
was shot twice in the right hip and
thigh about IL o'clock last night al
l McGraw's Hotel, 10 Baltimore, by a
man named COnnors, first name III :
known.
Esrly yesterday morning, while her
husband was asleep in bed, Mrs. Lena
| McComas, AZ years old, the wife OF
Henry McComss, OF Baltimore, tried for
the second time in the last three months
to end her life by inhallpg illuminating
gas.
Having been discharged from two
places of employment in the past few
days and probably fearing he would be
unable to get another position, Claude
Harris, colored, twenty wo years OF
age, jumped overheard from the Aqueduct
bridge at Washington, Thursday night
about 1890 o'clock and was drowned.
Alter occupying position of trust
for more than seven years Robert Lee
Cochran, a clerk in the Office of Build
ing Inspector Preston at the City Hall,
Baltimore, is now being sought by head
quarters detectives on the charge OF
defrsudiDg the municipality Of 1865 by
means OF forged vouchers
Efor.s on the pant of friends of Will
liam Montgomery, charged with wreck
log the Allegheny National Bank Of
Pitt,burE, Pa, and lootiug 1t of ST.
$50, 900, to secure bail for him, have
been checked by National Bank Ex-
aminer William l.. Folds, who discover
I'd the condition Of the bank, caused the
arrest and is now preparing evidence for
the prosecution.