Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-19
News OF tue Day.

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owners Of Ibdisnp, killed himself with a
pepkniie yesterday rather than 60 10
court to fsce trial for the murder of one
OF his employees last spring.
A Paban prisoner 10 the Montgomery
Central all 10 LshOrs, India, ran smuck
today sIsbbiUg and seriously woundiug
Usptsin L. E. Clements OF the British
garrison and a chief warden.
President Taft, accompanied by Mrs.
TAFT and a parry OF friends, sailed on the
yacht Msyaower At O'Clock yesterday
afternoon for Norfolk, where he will be
the guest Of honor at the convention Of
the Atlantic Deeper Waterways AssOeia-
ton. fs
The American B bic Society must
rai.e $685., 900 10 Elk weeks or forfeit the
$500, 600 eudoEment gift OF Mrs. Rus.
sell Sage. This became known yestoT-
dsy when the society announced that
but $26S, 600 OF the $4,000 necessary
to receive the Ssge gift had been OBJ.
tanned.
Aversion to babies aud domestic life
is given 90 TIE cause for the suicide yes
terday OF Prof Wilired q Wheeler,
6rst assistant in chemistry In The engi-
, peeIiug experiment station of the Uni.
versity Of Illinois at Champaign. A baby
bad recently come into his household.
Ftlowing the action of Georgetown
University 10 bsuisbing football, the
board Of high school principals Yester-
dsy decided to csUcel the schedule OF
gsUss for the remainder Of the year, snd
10 abolish the sport entirely unless the
rules ere modified 80 IS to reduce the
danger 10 the participants.
A dispatch from Wilmington, N. O.,
says the four-mssted schooner Elesz;r
W. CLARK, which went ashore % Frying
Pan Shoal last night, ia, with her cargo,
total loss. The vessel, under command
of Capt. F. w, Wymsu, was bound from
New York to Savannah With load Of
asphalt blocks.
Tbs steamer Inperstor called today
from NV Orleans for GreytoWU, Mica
rsgus. She is said to be loaded with
arms and ammunition intended to reach
General Tolsdo, ZeIayGs leader at
Greytown. She will aitemp, 10 run the
blockade at Greytown and is ready to
fight II E3lrada's guDboats attempt to
stop her. The steamer carries two four
pound gums.
Richard Watson Glider, editOr-in-
chief Of the Century magazine, and
widely known as 90 author and lecturer,
died last night at the house OF bis sister,
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, 10 New
York, of angina pec.Oris, or rheumatism
of the heart. Richard Watson Glider
wss bonn a. BotdentoEn, n. j., on Feb.
ruary s, 1874 he was the soo OF the
Rev. W, H Glider, Methodist clergy
man.
A personal difficulty between Gen. A..
10 Oxford, OF B rmingham, Ala, aud
K. Cunningham, veteran, Of Tails
dega, threw the annual convention OF the
Alabama Division, United Confederate
Veterans, into an uprosr OF excitement
Wednesday. The fight resulted from
the election OF General Oxford as com.
msnder Of the Fourth brigade over j. @.
Smith. Cunning ham, partisan Of
Smith, was struck several times with q
cane before other veterans separated the
combRtsnts.
When the eslste of Mrs Suzanne
Moore In San Francisco was probstsd by
the Administrative yesterday it was dis
covered that Mrs. Moore, who wss sup.
posed to have died in poverty, posscssed
fortune Appropriated at $62, 900, Of
which S32, 900 vas In cash. Mrs. hoOra
lived IN howell aud for years vas a
charge Of the Catholic Benevolent As:o.
| citation. Since the FIRE OF 1906 she re-.
ctived aid from the Red Gross SJciety.
Two COUSINS 10 the east are heirs 10 the
estate.
Some assurance that Dol. John jacob
Astor's yacht NOurmshsl, which hss
been missing 10 West Indian Vaiers for
ten days, safely outrode the recent hur.
ricsue, va, brought TO New York yestsr-
day by Capt. J. Durie, of the fruit
steamship AUnets, from Jamaican ports.
Ospt Durie, learning on landing Of the
anxiety felt for the Astor party, reported
that on Sunday, November IA, be
sighted s boat which he believed to be
the Nourmshal riding st anchor in the
reef harbor OF Hawks Nest, San SALIVA
dor, the Island on which Columbus
landed 10 1892
The condition Of John G. Carlisle, former
secretary Of the Treasury was practically I'M
changed this morning At st. Vincent's hos
pital, New York, it was announced the he
was very weak.