Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-21
News Of the Day.

Major General Leousrd Wood says
that neither side has won the war game
in Massachusetts.
Anger over the failure Of the strike IN
Stockholm hiss caused the extreme So
calists TO threaten a revolution.
Twenty-one lives we're lost and timber
valued at $25, 500, 900 WAS destroyed by
forest fires in Canada the last year.
A dispatch from Mexico City sa'd
tina. government troops had surrounded
General Reyes in the mountains oil Nue.
70 Leon trouble Is feared in Monterey.
Mrs. Sutton, through Attorney Davis,
will probably petition the grand Jury al
Anr apolis to indict certain officers she
believes are responsible for the death OF
her SOD, Lieut.. sutton.
The military dirIgible, with crew OF
six men, fell 900 feet during an ascen-
sion yesterday at Rome, and landed 10
Lake Brscciano With a tremendous splash
The accident was caused By an escape
of gas, which could not be checked. The
crew we're rescued, but the sir-ship was
considerably damaged.
The hot wave in central Louisiana
closed yesterday with severe electric
storm in New Orleans and vicinity. AT
Alexaudrls, La, the temperature dropped
suddenly from 10 10 rs. Lightning
struck number oil houses and trees,
causing mnch damage. Joseph Lewis
and Herbert Holmes were killed by q
bolt, the lalter'S body being burned to q
crisp.
One woman died OF fright, a panic oc.
Cured in street car, which Was struck
by lightning, and a house roof was
ripped of during a violent electrical
storm 10 Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday. The
reyerberstions of thunder caused the
death Of Bridget Oonley, who fell dead
after particularly loud peal OF thunder,
A policeman was Injured Wben be al
tempted to lift live wire from car
tracks, where 1t had been blown by the
severe gale. The loss caused BY the
storm will, 1t is said, exceed half mil.
lion dollars.
Oils Giery and his wife, Of Clear
Lake, Ind, we're killed early yesterday
by a Lake Shore train while driving
over a crossing near Montgomery,
Mich, and their three-yesr old daugh-
ter, Goldie, who was in the buggy with
them, bad q miraculous escape from
serious Injury. Mrs. Giery was thrown
some distance from the track and in
stsntly killed. The child and her father
we're both picked up by the pilot OF the
engine. When the train was stopped
so rods from the crossing Giery was dy-
ing from his injuries aud close beside
him on the pilot lay the child unhurt,
except for few minor bruises.
With bis throat cut from ear to ear,
the body of William Leach, aged 20
years, of Duryes, near WilkesbaTe, Pa. F.,
was found on the track OF the Delaware,
LachaWanns and Western Railroad yes.
lerdsy morning. 1t Is thought that he
WAS murdered and robbed by thieves.
His pockets we're empty, and his clothes
indicated that there had been a severe
struggle. 1t was the apparent intention
of the murderers to have his body run
over by train 10 order to give an i'm
preston that he had been killed on the
railroad, but the body was discovered
before any train passed the spot.
Wsdug into water over his head,
Harry OornWell, 1l-yesrs-old, son Of
Detective Oornwell, of Washington,
sank beneath the surface of the Virginia
shore of the Potomac, near the highway
bridge, and was drowned yesterday at.
ternoon about four O'Clock. His body
was recovered two hours later. While
attempting to save his brother'c life
Fred Oornwell, yesrs.old, plunged
into The came deep water, although be
could swim but little, and had it not
been for the exertions OF James Duncan,
I2.yesrs-od, would have met with g
similar fate. James managed TO get the
elder brother to the shore and save biz
life.