Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-02
News of the Day.

Governor Brown, Of Georgia, has
sigued the bill which prohibits the use
Of trading stamps for barter or trade in'
dGcemenLs.
The opinion prevails in Rome that
Archbishop FalcOnio will not return to
Washington So apostolic delegate nor
will be made a cardinal.
Ten persons we're killed and at least
sixty were injured ia a beai-on eollls-
sion OF two electric cars on the Spokane
and Inland Railway late Saturday sf'
terDoon.
The meeting of The emperor of Russia
and President Fallieres, according to q
dispatch from Cherbourg, has strength
ened the Franco Russian alliance in the
direction of peace.
At Paterson, N. j., on Saturday, q
blind negro, snger:d By the bsrtender's
refusal 10 serve him more liquor, pulled
out two revolyers and emptied them 10 a
crowded saloon, killing two men and
seriously wounding third.
Orazad by the heat, Joseph Oasault,
at Lynn, Mass, on Saturday created q
panic among mothers and nursemaids on
Lynn common by grssping their babies
and hurting the screaming little ones
high in the air and catching them as
they came down.
The 6ual day of the visit of Emperor
Nicholas TO France Was attended with
beautiful weather. Crowds lined the
shores of the Cherbourg harbor to watch
the spectacle Of the Imperial yacht and
the various warships, and sgaiu last
night to witness the illuminated feet.
A child killed, four other persons
Injured, a score OF dwelling houses more
or less damaged, innumerable trees and
fences wrecked aud telephone aud cleo
trio light service demoEalizsd because Of
tangled wires, wss the result of an cleo
trical and wind storm which prevailed
at Memphis late on Saturday.
1t Is reported in official circles In
Dublin that the Earl OF Aberdeen will
shortly retire from his post az lord
lieutenant of Ireland, receiving as a
sola,ium the Kuighthood OF the Gar.
ter vacated by the death of the marquis
OF RipoD. The Earl OF Grsnsrd may
succeed the earl Of Aberdeen.
M. KorosloVetz. Russian minister ct
Psking, gave out Saturday statement
to the effect that Russia does not recog.
nizs the principle contained 10 the notes
of Great Britain, Germany, America and
Auslris, making objection to the Russo
Chinese preliminary and other agree
menti for the administration ofthe Man
churisn Railway zone. The minister de-
cIsres thai the treaty powers have been
ignored.
Nearly two and a half millions OF
trained, disciplined sharp.shooters we're
added to the defensive forces OF the
German empire last week by The i'm
perial chancellor, DR.. Bethmann- Holl-
veg. The chancellor has taken this
isr-resching step by giving permission
by decree to 2,402, Ga members Of q, =
GIG veterans societies to practice rifle
shooting on the military rife ranges
throughout the county with army rifles
at an annual charge Of 81 cents apiece.
Sam Sing, Say Ing and Sam Lee,
three Chinese laundrymen, who are
members OF the Methodist Episcopal
Sunday school, at franklin, Pa, we're
arrested Saturday for hsrbOring white
girls in their laundry. When they were
artsigned before justice Of the peace
their attorney made strong pies to dis
miss the more serious charge against
them ewing to the fact that it would
bring from ten to twelve girls into dis.
grace. The jostice acquiesced. They
were fined $40 aud costs each on a
charge of disordeFly conduct
Matrimonial troubles caused Mrs.
Emma Michel to slsy her children
Meta, Is years old, and Gustav, IL
years old-and herself in Chicago yes.
terday by mesus Of Illuminating gas.
The two children were found dead 10
bed with every gas jet in the house
open, and Mrs Michel was found seated
10 the kitchen also dead, with one end
of the rubber tube though which gas
was A)wing in her mouth. Mrs.
Michel and her husband, Louis, have
been separated for three months, and she
had begun suit for divorce. Pending a
decision her husband was to pay her
slimony, but be failed to do so.
Sim Anderson, Fort Valley, Ga,
negro, has been lynched for playing
"peePing Tom " he WAS seen peepiOg
into the bedroom of Miss Lena Blown,
a daughter OF a wealthy planter. The
girl screamed aud he ran. The sheriff
and his deputies pursued him and csught
him Saturday, night. AS the officers
we're taking him to jsil they were over
powered by a mob OF fifty meu. The mob
tied the officers 50 they could not inter.
fere aud then hanged the negro to tree
by the roadside. On the negro's resst
was pinned plscard bearing the in
scription: ''Let this be a warning to
all black peppers"
Because bis wife refused to return and
live with him, Harrison Cline, aged 81
years, shot at her three times Saturday
night, at the home OF Mrs. Oline's
father, w. F. G rdoD, in East Salem,
N. @. One of the bullets burned the
woman's fagers and another whlzzed
by her head. Mrs. CliDe's father
grsppled With his son .in.lag, seized the
pistol and drove Cline away. The
couple we're married last fall and seps-
rated in Msy. Cline escaped arrest aud
early yesterday morning his body was
found on the railroad tracks few miles
east OF the town. The coroner's jury
decided that Cline MSS killed by a train
and that it was a case of suicide.