Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-10-19
News Of the Day.

brothers. ranch at Gregory, Texas.
Andrew L. Wilmer, of Washington,
D. O., surrendered to the New York
police today, saying that be was wsoted
10 Washington for passing worthless
checks.
Count de Lambert. using Wright
seroplsue, yesterday few from JuviSy to
Paris, circled above the E ffel Tower al
height OF l, 800 feet and returned 10
bis starting point.
James d. Farmer, convicted With his
vile, Mary D. Farmer, of the murder OF
Mrs. Sarah Brennsn near Brownsville,
was today given q new trial By the New
York Court of appeals.
Greeted down the bay when she ar
rived on the steamer Celtic yesterday by
q tug-boat bearing a committee Of lead.
ing advocates of equal suffrage, Lady
Cook, formerly Tennessee Osain, one
of highlands leading suhrsgettes, was
given 40 enthusiastic reception and es-
corted to her hotel in New York in tri-
umph.
Simultaneously with the disappear
auce OF Mark l.. Hsgle, treasurer OF
Oxford, Mich, and part owner OF three
banks, comes the announcement that be
is $26, 900 short in his accounts With
two of the banks and with the village.
1t Is alleged that Hsgle forged notes for
81, 900 in an effort TO cover up. his de-
fslcstions.
Seven employees were killed and three
other persops we're severly injured when
boiler ct the plant of the Griffin Saw
mill Company, near 81 Dorado, Ark,
exploded late yesterday. The steam
register, it Is declared, failed to indicate
the overpressure, and the explosion
which could be heard for several miles
wrecked large section of the plant.
Newton Phillips, negro night watch
man and six foreigners we're arrested to-
day Ia connection with the death of GAL
vim House, proprietor Of the House hotel
at Riches Landing, Pa. Phillips re-
ported today that he had found House
unconscious beside the railroad station.
Houses skull had been crushed. He
was known to have considerable cash on
his person.
With a wide-brImmed SLOUGH hat
pulled we'll down over bis eyes, his hands
showed deep into the side pockets of
long black overcoat, tall man, whose
identity is mystery, at 6:15 o'clock
last night walked to the edge of the
wharf at the foot of Twelfth and o
streets southeast, Washington, and
Jumped into the Eastern Branch. he
disappeared from view and did not again
come to the surface.
Flora SteimDesser, II years old, OF
New York, is 10 BsllevueHOspital, tenn
porarily blinded and dis6gured for life
by csrbolic acid, which the police think
was thro%n by q jealous suior. The
girl was sitting on bench in StuYvesant
Park Sunday night with George Albert,
who is said to be her finance. The sc
ssilsnt sueaked up behind them and
threw the acid 10 Miss 5teimnesssr's face
sad then made his escape.
All speed records for balloon flights
have been broken by A. B. Lambert
and s. L. Won Phul, in the balloon st.
Louis I'LL, Who reached Richmond
early Yesterday morning after a fight
from st. Louis TO Charleston, S. O. The
journey occupied little more thsu Is
oours aud covered about 800 miles.
The average speed a mile, therefore, is
close TO As miles. The previous record
was made by A. Holland Forbes, who
landed 10 Richmond last week. BE
Travelled SS miles an hour.
Mr. Henry A. Wroth, secretary oil
the Baltimore chamber Of commerce,
and one of the leading grain stadsticiani
of the country, while lying in bed at his
home, near Vsnbibber, Hartford county,
Nd, yesterday morning, shot himself
Just below the heart and died last might
as result of the wound. Mr.. Wroth il
known to have been involved In consid'
cradle personal financial trouble, incl
dent to which his beautiful country
home at Vsnbibber was recently sdyer
tised for sale under mortgage.
Charged with the larceny of $50, 00C
by means Of alleged forged notes OF the
town Of birmingham, Mass, Charles S
Cummings, treasurer Of the American
Banking Company, of Boston, and Ed
ward A. Mead, an agent of the SAME
concern, we're locked up last night.
The warrants on which the two men
we're brought to police headquarters 10
Boston from East Cambridge aud re-
manded to Jail in default of bail, cbarg'
ed them jointly with the larceny Of
$25, 900 from the town of Frsminghsm
aud $26, 900 from the Franklin Savings
Rank OF Boston, on November so, 1908
Mr. ROYALL is TURNED DOWN.
The Q. :. Supreme Court yesterday