Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-25
News OF the Day.

Miss Edna Mae Handy, after reading
200 epistles from an. old lover. shot her.
self to death ct Albany, N. T., yestsr-
day.
Commissioner Of Police Bingham, of
Ne~ York, says be could have made
5000, 900 by questionable methods dur
iug his fret year in Office.
Wireless kilograms were received
again today from the steamer Hamburg
on which ex. President Roosevelt is Cross
log The Atlantic. All was well.
Large liquor interests throughout the
United States have decided TO take
statewide prohibition and laws closing
distifleries before the United States So.
prtme Court.
The South AmericSn Steamship Com
pauy notified former President Castro
of Venezuela 10 Paris that he would be
allowed to take passage on the Gusde-
loupe only on condition that he lesve
he vessel before 1t reachesa Venezuelan
port.
George L. Ball welI-known Gsorg-
ian, recently released from an iuPane
asylum committed suicide todsy by cut
ting his throat while travelling on a
train near Tennille, Ga. Bells wife was
suing him for divorce, in which is be-
leved to lie the motive for bis act.
President Taft is said to have sp-
proved the verdict OF the courtmsrtial
recommending that Msjor Francis P.
Fremont be dismissed from the army for
the making Of an alleged false statement
concerning a fellow.officer. He Ia a son
of "The Pathfinder" and his former vile,
who Is DOW happily married to another,
made sD appeal in bis behalf.
1t Is said that If Henry L. 5timson,
who hes just resigned as U. S. district
attorney for the southern district OF New
York had not announced to bis friends
when be did that he wished to retire
from cfi,e and resume private
practice be would have undoubtedly
been selected for the post of solicitor
general thst has just been given to
Lloyd Bowers, of Chicago.
William Doll, a baker, sixty-three
gears old, committed suicide by gas yes
teFdSy 10 a furnished room on east
Seventy-6rst street, New York. Mrs.
Bertha Freud, the suicides laudlsdy,
said that be had been out Of work for
sometime, and that be told her one day
last week tbsthe was going the way OF bis
two wives aud bis two sons. The
bakers frat wife killed herself with
poison, and the second one took gas.
One Of his two sons blew out his brains,
and the other killed himself with gas.
Within sight Of several Of her teacher
friends and pupils on the way to school,
through q crowded street on the upper
East Side. New York, yesterday, Miss
Anna A. Mangsno, public school teach
er, was shot and killed by her father,
Philip Msngsno, court Interpreter.
After firing two shots al bis dsug liter,
MsngaDo liied to kill himself, bat Was
prevented BY Adolph chwsriz, a young
man, autographed With Mangano. Two
sOets were fred while the men struggled
but both went wild. A brothsr-in.laW
OF the woman told the police that she
was compelled tolssve her fathers house
last Jsnusrg because OF his cruel treat
ment of her, aud lived at working girls
home. he sad that Msugano probably
shot his daughter In spirit OF revenge
because she had left him.
Fourteen brigands, part Of a big band that
has terrnriEed the district FOR fifty miles
around the Spanish town Of Masnou, are I'M
der arrest, having been captured in pursuit
by the military authorities following des-
perate attack on train.
In answer 10 the report cabled TO Berlin
from the United States that Prince Eitel
Frederick, the second son Of the kaiser, is to
visit the United States this summer, the for.
6 gu Office issued Official denial.
John Kacsfa, aged "a. was nged at
Ebensburg, Pa. tolay, for the murder Of
Andrew Sesggsta, al Hastings on the night
of April II, 1907.
Fire t0day destroyed several manufacturing
institutions in the business heart Of Jackson
vile, Fla, causing loss Of S350,0o0.