Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-09-27
News of the Day.

Rear Admiral Charles james Barclay,
U. s. N. (retlred), died yesterday In
Brookliue, Mass.
Rumors in official dispatches that the
revenue cutter Sors had been captured
By Moro pirates were proved unfounded.
Five white men and ten negroes, con-
victed on various charges Saturday 10
Wilmington, Del, we're whipped at the
workhouse before big crowd.
Bscsnse of the strong wind, the din.
grible sirship race from New York to
Albany, for a prize OSLO, 900, was post
poned until tomorrow morning, provid-
ing the wind is favorable then.
Hubert Latham electrified the great
crowd at the aviation meeting at iJohsn-
nisthal, Prussis, today by flying to the
ssrodrome from Tempelhof field, dis
lance of seven miles, in seven minnles.
Professor Penck, of the University Of
Berlin, said 10 an address at Salzburg
that be believed that neither DR.. Cook
nor Commander Peary could furnish
scientific proof Of having reached the
pole.
One woman was killed and two seEi-
ously injured when the ierryboat Hopat-
kong, of the Lsckswsnns Railway, WAS
rsmmed by the steamer Seneca 10 the
North river Saturday night of Grants
tomb.
Keeping their intention hidden from
friends, Walter r. Peterson, of Phila-
delphia, and his daugbter-in-lsw, Mrs.
h. w. Peterson, who has lived st the
same place, went to New York few
days sgo and were married.
Joseph Forrest, on trial at LeonardS-
town, Nd, fer the murder Of bis father
aud mother, was found gully of man.
slaughter, the jury reaching a verdict
late at night. Forrest was sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary. Insanity
was the defense.
The Peary srtIc ship Roosevelt ar
rived yesterday at Eagle Island, Com
mander Pesry's summer home, and
after landing some of his personal ef-
fects left for New York. Commander
Pesry said that il the boat reached New
York In time it would take part in the
Hudson Fulton celebration and that be
would be on the bridge.
Four French officers were killed by
the bursting of the dirigible Republique,
near Moulins, Saturday. A piece OF
broken propeller caused the accident
while the balloon WAS at height of FIVE
hundred feet. While all France mourDs
the terrible death of The military officers
in the balloon disaster, the Paris press
declares that no human sacrifice csn dis
courage the conquest OF the air.
This was more or less 40 off dsv 10
the HudsOn-Fnlton celebration at New
York 30 far as outdoor spectacles we're
concerned, so the hundreds OF thousands
of visitors who are 10 the city thronged
the streets and visited the various points
of interest. 1t was estimated that 49,
900 persons yesterday visited the war.
ships, which were open to the iuspec.
ton OF the public between 2 and p. %.
With the thermometer registering It's
marks fer below zero and a wild storm
sweeping over the arctic ice pack, Mrs.
n. r. Marsh and her five children nsr.
rowly escaped death In the burning
Presbyterian mission at Point Barrow,
Alaska, at 2 O'Clock on the morning of
April y. The cause OF the fire is not
definitely known, but those beat qualified
TO speak charge 1t to the csrelessness of
natives with fire.
As the result Of several long confer
encss with Chief Forester Clifford Pin.
chot in Salt Like City Saturday. PresI-
dent Taft that night caused a statement
to be issued in which be declares that
never at any time in the Ballinger. Pin
chot controversy has be intended TO re-
feet on Mr.. PiDchot. Ia this statement
Mr. Taft takes more advanced grounds
than ever 10 favor of the Roosevelt poll.
cies of conservation of natural resources.
Harry Whitney, of New Haven,
Conn.,, who was With DR.. Frederick A.
Cook at Aunstok, and to whom DR..
Cook is said to have given detailed &C.
count OF bis trip to the pole, has sent q
message from Iudisu Hsrbor, Labrador,
in answer to the question, ibid Cook
reach the pole?" saying: II have DO
rsason to doubt Cooks statement"
Harry Whitney, the friend of DR.. Cook,
In a telegram to the New York Times,
says Cook told him last April that he
had discovered the Pole, but asked him
not to tell Pesry.
Swinging from tree in front Of bis
shOeshop at Perry, Taylor county, Fla,
the dead body of Charles Anderson,
colOreC, was found early Yesterday morn
ing, a mob having lynched him for the
killing of Marshal HawkiDs, OF Perry,
Saturday night, The body wa' allowed
to hang until late yesterday, when it was
taken down. Anderson was wanted for
q Moor offeuse, and was 10 bis shoeshop
when Hawkins went to arrest him. He
met the officer and shot him dead. Az
derson fed, but he wss caught several
hours later. His csptors led him back
to his shoeshop and hanged him. Bull
lets were fired into his body.
Foundering of a Steamer.
Baltimore, Nd, Sept. 81 A report