Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-06
News of the Day.

army sud navy club.
Twenty thousand soldiers and sailors
marched IN military pageant In Phila-
delphia yesterday 10 honor Of Founders
| Week.
The Department of Justice will remove
from the District of Columbia Jail 100
prisoners aud transport them to an In
dian prison at Fort Smith, Ark.
Admiral Togo last night entertained
ct dinner the wives Of the American
naval officers who are at Toxic awsiting
the arrival Of the Atlantic baitleship
feet.
Charles B. Roberts, it,, of Baltimore,
who was shot recently at Atlantic CITY,
now goes out on the boardwalk every
day in q rolling chair, and looks the
picture of perfect health.
Governor Conner of Alsbams yester-
day conferred with President Roosevelt
and Attorney General Bonaparte rela-
tive to the prosecution of southern rail-
ways under the Sherman antitrust Law.
10 an tempt to.ebase some boys from
the yard of Mr.. Edward A. Griffith, at
Fifth avenue, near Park Heights avenue,
Baltimore, William Anderson, an sged
colorsd man, fell down and broke his
neck yesterday. 49,.
10 starting fire With oil 10 cooking
stove at her home at Wifliansport, Md,
yesterday evening, Miss Annie Kelser
was painfully buroed. Her little sister
went to her aid and hslped to exliDguish
the flames. n.
The trial coat 10 New York county OF
the prosecution Of Harry K. Thaw, for
the shooting Of stanford Whits, has been
$54, 1877, according to papers submitted
oT District Attorney Jerome to Justice
Mills at Newburgh yesterday.
Ri. Rev. Michael Tisrney, bishop Of
the Catholic Diocese Of Hartford, Oonn.,
Who was stricken with paralysis on Sat.
urdsy, died yesterday evening. He was
born in county TipPerary, Ireland, Sep
TENDER 20, 1889. -
| 10 an open letter addressed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt Gov. o. N Haskell ssks
the president to explain certain trans
actions in connection with the granting
of a lease on $4,000 scress Of Ossge
Iodian lands to the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company in July, 1905.
Rssurnipg to Chicago to take dirsttlon
OF the democratic campaign In the west,
Chairman Mack yesterday declared that
the tide Was strong fer Bryan In the east
and that II the democrats could hold
their advantage there Bryan surely would
be elected. a.. .5 -
The submarine Emeraude arrived ct
Oherbourg, yesterday, after run of 81
hours, in which sbe covered distance
OF 693 miles under water. The vessel
m aintained regular speed Of 9 knots an
hour. The crew, although mnch fatigu-
ed bore the severe trial admirably.
Thomas Morrison, prominent In rail-
road and business eirclesin Cincinnati,
dropped dead 10 the Office of the Spring
Grove Cemetery Association yesterday
afternoon, jest IS meeting Of the ceme-
terry trustees was about to be called TO
order. %iii
Mrs. William Bsles. who was wounded
Sunday, after he bad killed bis brother at6Rel
in-law, J. M. Bsyless, and broken Mrs.
BaylesS'srn with a, axe, died yesterday.
Her tody and that Of her suicide husband
will be buried In the same grave at En-
breyville, Tenn, today.
The big rail mill at 5psrrows Point,
Nd, resumed operations yesterday, after
having besn closed down for two weeks.
Work has just started on the three gov.
eminent colliers. Only 500 men are
now employed on this contract, but the
former employees in the marine depart
ment will be taken back gradually.
The old car barn of the Capital Trsc-
ton Company, on the west side of Four
teenth street, Washington, just south Of
Park road, Is to be turned Into az smuse-
ment hall. The price paid for the build.
Ing, which has frontage of 100 feet on
Fourteenth street and depth Of 800
feet, was $50, 900.
Bsracoa, on the northeast coast of
Cuba, suffered severely on Saturday and
Sunday from a heavy storm. The Gus
tom house, which was in the course Of
construction, aud many other buildings
we're destroyed. An American schooner
was wrecked, but the crew was saved by
soldiers Many banana patches and
fruit groves were badly damaged.
Heavy rains fell at Hamilton, Der.
munds, throughout Sunday, and about
midnight q whirIwind of much force
struck Somerset Island, damaging many
buildings.
Five more Ohio counties voted dry at |
locsl-option elections held in seven Ohio
counties yesterday. The exception was
Defsnce county, which went vet by 6
msjority at Bill. Those voting dry are:
Logan, Piqus, Union, Champaign, and |
Madison. In all counties the drys held
big celebrations last night. In Madison
county the vets carried but one rsciDct,
the drys gaining q msjority Of LIT. J
There are twenty-five saloons In the
county a t',-4-
Alfred Guirand, a native OF Germany.
sged So years, for the past nine years
by DR.. J,G. Hanks at Breeze
wood, near Everett, Pa, committed
suicide yesterday. After shaving him
self he dressed in his best clothes aDd,
tightly closing the windows 10 bis room,
he then laid down on the bed, put
folded cloth across his face, over which