Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-24
News Of the Day.

The American Trust and Savings
Bank and the Continental National
Bank, two of Ohicsgo's largest financial
institutions, will consolidate.
The family Of Charles DOdson, OF
Brown county, Texas, were prisoners In
a cyclone storm cellar two weeks, their
home having collapsed on them.
The second trial Of William F. Downs
on the charge of stealing the city's
money began in the Criminal Court, OF
Baltimore, yesterday, and progressed
rapidly.
As the result of the explosion of
gas in mine No. Of the Lacka'
wanna Goal aud Coke Company,
at Wehrum, Pa, shortly after z O'Clock
yesterday morning, II miners we're
killed and 16 injured.
The United States Steel Corporation
mas refused absolutely to even confer
with employees of the American Sheet
and Tinplate Company, who have been
notified that on and after July l they
will not be recognized as union men.
la lecture before the American In
stitute OF Homo opathy, at Detroit, yes
terdsy, DR.. Hills Cole, Of the New York
Department OF Health, advocated state
supervision OF consumptives and criti-
cised the feather buster az q potent
agent In spreading tubercle bacilli.
Count Alexander TorOk, attache OF
the AustrO-Hungarian embassy, in
Washington, was seriously, and prob
ably fatally injured last night when he
attempted to board a car of the Chevy
Chase line near the end OF Rock Creek
bridge, having been struck by trolley
pole.
A large rowbOat, carrying five Amer
lean and four English tourists and four
Irish boatmen, was swamped in gale
while crossing lower Killarney lake,
Ireland, yesterday afternoon. All the
tourists and two of the boatmen we're
drowned. None of the bodies was re-
covered.
Ga the eve OF his summer vacation,
Joseph Oollihower, seventeen years old,
WIS shot and almost instantly killed last
night by school chum, Robert Hesley,
nine years old in Washington. The
shooting was accidental. Mr.. Oauli-
flower was we'll and fsvorably known in
this city.
After an illness of typhoid, lasting
more than a month, Mrs. Horace Jayne,
of Philadelphia, died yesterday in the
presence of various members of the fam
ily, including her brother, DIR. William
Henry Furness, Sd, who mad given more
than q quart of his own blood, through
TRANSMISSION, in the vain effort to save her
life.
The War Department intends to save
1892, 500 in the next three years aud a
proportionate sum yearly thereafter by
changing the cloth of the fatigue uni
form, or working clothes, of the enlisted
men OF the army from brown khaki 10
blue denim. The reason for this change
ia that it has been found the blue denim
is in every way just as satisfactory as
the brown canvas and the cost is about
one fourth less.
The woman dead, and her husband
almost so, from mysterious illness, the
authorities late last night found Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas MscNamara In bath tut
at their home at Fairmont, w. Va. Be
lieying both we're dead, an Ambulance
was called, but The man revived on thu
way to the morgue. MscNsmara is tor
I sick to explain the case at preeent. Th'
couple were last seen on Sunday night
Their disappearance caused an investiga
lion, and the police found them seated
in the bath tub. The woman had beer
dead at least &c hours.
The Senate yesterday adopted tht
finance committees amendments to the
lumber schedules, increasing the rate IL
the House bill to 81 so a thousand on
rough lumber and making similar sd
vances on the finished product. Tht
duty on coal was fixed at 60 cents a ton
The duty on pineApples was increased
from 81 thousand, which was recon-
mended by the Senate finance commit
tee, to So, the House rate. The fight
was mainly between the senators from
Florida, where pinespples are produced,
aud The senators from MARY land, where
many pineapple canning establishments
are located.
From eating a quantity OF tOadstool'
which were sold to them as mushrooms
an entire family WAS taken to the Emer
geDcy Hospital, Washington, last nigh
sniT 4rIng the effects of poisoning. Tit
condition Of each member ia serious. Tit
fungi we're eaten Tuesday night. ia
cinto Jergie, an Italian, 35 years old
his wife, Maria, 80 years old, and theil
two children, boys, 3 and 8 years old
are the victims. The tosdstoOls wert
purchased by Mrs. Jervie Tuesday morn
log. Mrs. Jervie, who is native o.
Italy, regarded herself as connoisseuI
in selecting mushrooms, and had The
grocer place several OF the largest speci'
mems ia her market basket. These wert
sent to her home, and Tuesday nigh
they were served to the family.
| HUSBANDS DESPERATE DEED
After shooting his step-dsughter
Lille May Cole, Syears old, through
the right eye and putting bullet
through the mouth of his second wife,
Mrs. Ada Cole Rock, aged 4S years, Geo