Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-12-28
News Of the Day.

Nine persons were killed 10 one Wsy
or smother in Bluefsld, W. Va, while
celebrating Christmas.
Onno q. Rudolph Is slated 10 succeed
Mr.. West as District Of Columbia com.
missioner.
William Jennings Brysn waE enter.
tsiDed 10 Havsns yesterday by United
Safes Minister Edwin V. Morgan.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie slipped on iht
Ice in Genital Park, New York, yester.
day, irjuring bis knae painfully.
King Albert oil Belgium has accepted
the resignation OF Leopod's grand maj
shsl Of the court, thus indicating an en-
tire change in his encourage.
A rocksIide yesterday at B,rcovsl
deorras, Spain, In the province o.
Oreuse, crushed church aud sewers
houses, Twenty six persons we're killed
Three mioutes after he had been mai.
ried to Miss Rose Lee Batter, ADD IS ht
was about TO enter q carriage With bill
bride, Gabriel Lsn was shot to death 10
Saiick and, Ca, by Joseph Jackson,
who had been sui,or for the girl:
hand. Jackson fed and hiss not been
apprehended though posses are 10 pur-
suit.
The old Ounarder Umbrla, which
caused the waterfront Of New York to
marvel at her great speed when she
csme over in 1884, will arrive 10 New
York on Saturday on what probably will
be her last transatlantic voyage. She
has outlived her usefulness, and nc
steamship line wants the old transit
lantic aver. 1t coats too much to run
her.
Dr.. Harrison L. Wagner, known Sc
the "siernal llhgaut" OF Maryland,
made an unsuccessiul attempt yesterday
morning at suicide In Washington. o.
account oil bis numerous fake suits, pr.
ticulariy 10 Frederick county against the
Adams Express Company, be has at.
tracted considerable attention In Mary.
land and in Washington for more than
q score OF yesrs.
Coral Hunt, a pretty Syesr-old girl,
was shot and killed, her father, Stephen
Hunt, was seriously wounded, aud her
mother wounded slightly q! their home
10 Toledo, Ohio, last night by Joseph
Mackley, SO years old, a sWitchman,
who had been trying to pay attention 10
the gil, though be had a wife and a
child at Mansfield, Ohio. The girl had
refused to marry him.
Because her youthful sweetheart was
paying attention to little girl with
dresses to her shoeiops and rs years her
junior, Mrs. Lillian A. Ashley, q trained
nurse, Of Olevelsnd, Ohio, committed
suicide at Pit!,burg, Pa, yesterday BY
shooting herself. Arthur Poole, the
youth with whom she ran away from
Cleveland some months sgo, and with
whom she had been living 10 Piltsburg,
has been placed In jail IS a witness.
Five trainmen we're killed and two
we're fatally hurt yesterday In a bead.ou
freight collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio South western Railroad near Fort
Ritner, Tod. The trains met On a sharp
curve, apparently because Of misuuder.
standing Of orders. Locomotives aud
cars we're smashed and their wreckfge
vas piled high. The injured suffered
terribly in Ibs cold before help reached
them.
Rev. William Bitter and bis sged wife
we're found murdered 10 their home,
half mile east Of EInora, Iud about 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The woman
was found upon The flor OF the sitting
room, her head toward the fireplace and
her hair disheveled. She was In her
bsre feet and had probably made ready
to retire when the crime was committed
The body Of the aged minister was found
In the cellar ct the foot Of the stairs,
For the first time since It has reached
this section Of the heavens Hslley's
comet Vas visible las! night to the naked
eye in New York. Prof. Eastman, Of
Columbia University, who has been
studying the comet, sighted 1t about 7
O'Clock, before be began to examine 1t
through bis telescope. 1t was In the
northeast, 20 degrees In length, and its
celestial latitude was about Is degrees.
In tive weeks 1t will be plainly seen for
several nights.
Charged with murder of her two little
boys and With having set FIRE to her
home 10 conceal the crimes, Mrs. Paul
SonneCali vas arrested In Lovtland,
Ohio, yesterday afternoon 10 an appsr.
emily demeDted condition. The BODIES
of the boysl one sged 6 years, the other
8, were found in their home after the
FIRE had been exlinguIshed. Their father
was absent from home ct the tine. Mr.
s9nnecalf vas found Wslking up and
down in front OF the burning house
wriugiDg her hands and calling bysteri.
cally for her boys The woman is IN.
able to give q coherent account Of the
tragedy.
Mystery surrounding the killing Of
Agosts Dsma, a leader 10 the large al.
Ian colony at Ssndusky, Ohio, va.
ciesred up Yesterday by Flank Beuab,
who ssid he bad committed the murder
for $500. This sum be said, Was paid
him by Jim Primer, another Ilslisu,
who Bsnah explained, wanted to marry
the victims wife. Primer and Mrs.
Dems we're placed under ares. imme'
diately after announcement OF The con.
fesslon was made. Primer is 10 jail,
but Mrs Dema, who Is Ill, Is gusrded al
her home. The Italian quarter seetbed
with threats Of lJnchiug IS soou as the
story Of the confession was circulated,
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