Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-20
News OF the Day.

snd a famous blockade rumor dndipg
the civil war, died in BAIimofs last
night.
Unknown murderefs last night hacked
to death with 90 axe eight persons In
farmhouse 10 the villsgs OF BaguslR.
witscb, GermsDy. The victims we're
farmer pamsd WasielatBski, bis wife
and FIVE children aud bis IA her.iu-lss.
Joseph BidWell and his wife, against
whom be had fled sui; for divorce, met
st the home Of a relative ct Wabash,
Iod. Sac begged him to withdraw the
suit, and on his refusal she swallowed
csrbolc acid and threw herself into his
srms and died 10 a few moments.
Mrs Sidie Bow, aged fifty years,
vas burned to death OF her home In
Salisbury, N. o, last night. Sac Was
seated by an open fire and her dIess
iguited. The only member Of the
family present Was her Esther, sged
eighty ytan, blind and helpless.
SOappiDg e verlebTa much the same
way IS Cadet BJrDe, OF West Point, in
tie game with Harvard, Albert P. w.
Wiblrslske, the II yesr-old son Ct Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore WibiralSke, OF 81
Riggs place, West Orange, died in the
Orange, n. Y, Memorial Hospi'a',
last night, three and Ooe.qlarter hours
after be had been admitted to the insti.
tion.
Secretary OF the Ioterior Bahiuger
yesterday Issued statement containing
denial of al the charges sDd impl.
cations that have been made against
him in recent published reports. he
set forth bis side of the story Of the O1n-
ninghsm clsim cases, and denied that
his law finn ia Satle is known as IA
adviser for the S aldsrd Oil Company,
a1d that be is interested In the Aa:ks
Petroleum sud Goal Company,
Neighbors who broke into 6 burning
house at Iodian Harbor, I'D, yes.ef.
day, iOuod a baby gill in her crib dead
of suff1ca!ion by smoke, aod her 3 2
yIat-cld brother unconscious tied 10
door knob wilh rope, Ihe childrea's
mother, Mrs. John l.. Koran, bad gone
shoPp'u g. TO prevent the boy plsyiog
with matches, she Ted him 10 the door.
Fire broke out from stove.
Miss Viola TeieI was ruthlessly de-
pri9ed OF be- hair BY two negroes in the
sontbeasterD section Of E'kins, w. Vs.,
Thursday night, and, it Is believed, ei.
capped a worse fate when her cries ct.
lrsoed U9tOn Webley. While enc OF
The negtoss held her arms and gagged
| her toe other cut Cf her hsir. She
nsOsged to loosen The gsg and serfam.
The negrota, one Of whom Ras aitired
ia female gsfb, escsped through a near
b. swamp,
The application of Edward E. Bri!tou
aud Frederick a. Schroeder, former
president and vice president, respective
ly, OF the Eagle L9sn and Savings CON-
pAJy, Of Bro,klyu, for new trial, Was
denied yesterday By Justice StaplsIou,
and tho Two bankers will have IA 60 70
Sing S ng on Moadsy. The two men
we're convicted of missppropriating
S43, coo Of the funds Of the association
Of which they we're officers, BIitlon's
sentence Is not less than IA months nor
more than three years, aud Schroeder's
not less than one year nor more than
three years.
By a risirg vote The American Fede.
rslion of Labor in Toronto yesterday
, approved the report on the Presidents
sddresg. Thus is the federation pledged
to support 10 the last President Gjmp-
ers and bis fellow officers now under
sentence of court, fer the rspor! OF the
committee so advised. 1t suggested that
the executives of the federation be in
slrucled to take whatever steps they
might deem necessary to have the case
taken 10 the Supreme Court, and also to
raise funds for the possible legal pro.
ceedings. FJllo6iDg The adoption Of
this report came The decision to pay
Gompsrs, Morrison and Mitchell willie
10 jill, il they 30 there.
Fire early yesterday destroyed the
Lincoln county, W. Va, courthouse st
Hamlin with practically all of the rec.
ords. The fire started 10 the cupOla OF
he bulldog, which was tTo stories high
aud valued at $40 900. The burning Of
the courthouse and destruction Of records
is believed to be the outcome Of fight
which has been wsged among former
land owners and oil aud gas companies
operating in the Lincoln 6eld. More
than 0 score Of years ago some land COM
psnies set up clSim to the land, bat
compromised by taking the minaral
rights and giving the settlers the land.
When oil snd gas was struck the settlers
became aroused, and alleging that they
bad been sWindled, attempted 10 rtgiin
what they bad lost,
Consuelo, Dagger Duchess Of Man
chester, died 10 London ssFly this morn
ing OF heart disease, following an attack
of neuritis. The deceased wss the
daughter of Antonio Yzoaga del Vale,
of Bavecswood, La, aud Cubs. After
the civil war Mr.. Yzlsgs, having lost
most OF his fortune, mOYed nor.b, and
Cousuelo became prOmiuen. Egure 10
New York cIty'S social life. Her wed.
ding 10 Grace Church 10 May, 1875, TO
tue Viscount MandeVill was q brilliant
affair and one OF the first OF the alli-
ances OF American girls with foreigners
A son and twin daughters we're the re.
suit OF the union. Consuslo's son be.
came duke. He married Miss Helena
Zimmerman, ofOiucinnsti,i in 1900 O0n-
suelo' two Daughters died in young
Womauhood.
A serious riot occurred shortly after
Il d