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

News Ut the Day.
Nine persona were killed 10 one nsy
or smother in Bue6eld, W. Va, while
celebrating Christmas.
Cnno q. Rudolph is slated to succeed
Mr.. West as District of Columbia com
missioner.
William Jennings Bryan was enter.
tanned in !Haysns yesterday by Uniteo
States Minister Edwin V. Morgan.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie slipped on The
ice in Central Park, NeS York, yester'
day, irjuriug his knee painfully.
King Albert OF Belgium has accepted
the resignation OF Leopold's grand mai.
shsl of the court; thus indicating an en-,
tire change in bis encourage.
A rockslide yesterday at B,rcoval
deorras, Spain, In the province o.
Oreuse, crushed church and severs
houses, Twenty six persons were killed
Three mioutes sitter he had been mai.
ried to Mias Rose Lee Batter, and as be
Wss about 10 enter a carriage with bis
bride, Gabriel Len was shot to death 10
S!rick and, Ga, by Joseph Jackson,
who had been q suitor for the girps
hand. Jsckson fed and has not been
appreheuded though posHes are 10 pur-
suit.
The old Ouuarder Umbrla, which
caused the waterfront of New York to
marvel at her great speed when abe
came over in 1884, will arrive In New
York on Saturday on what probably will
be her last transatlantic voyage. She
has outiivsd her usefulness, and no
steamship line wants the old transat-
lantic flyer. 1t costs too much TO run
her.
Dr.. Harrison L. Wagner, known as
the "sternal li!igaut' Of Maryland,
made an unsuccessful attempt yesterday
morning at suicide in Washington. On
account oil his numerous fake suits, PSF.
ticularl5 in Frederick county against the
Adams Express Company, be has at
tracted considerable attention in Mary.
land and in Washington for more than
score OF yesrs.
Coral Hnpt, pretty lsyear.old girl,
was shot and killed, her father, Stephen
Hunt, was seriously wounded, aud her
mother wounded slightly q! their home
In Toledo, Ohio, last night by Joseph
Mackley, SO years old, a ssitohmsD,
who had been trying to pay attention to
the gil, though he 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 shoe!ors and rs years her
junior, Mrs. Lillian A. Ashley, 8 trained
nurse, of Olevelsnd, Ohio, committed
suicide st Pit:sburg, 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 as a witness.
Five trainmen were killed and two
we're fatally hurt yesterday In a bead.ou
freight collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio. SouthHeRtern Railroad near Fort
Ritner, Ind. The trains met On a sharp
curve, apparently because Of misunder.
standing of orderd, Locomotives aud
cars we're smashed and their wrecksge
vas piled high, The injured suffered
terribly in tbe cold before help reached
them.
Rev. William Ritter and his sged wife
we're found murdered 10 their home,
half mile east OF E!nora, Ind abou! 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The woman
was found upon the aoor of the sitting
room, her head toward the fireplace and
her hair disheveled. Che WAS in her
bare feet and had probably made ready
10 retire when the crime was committed
The body Of the aged minister vas found
In the cellar at the foot of the stairs,
For the irst time sincs 1t has reached
this section of the heavens Hslley's
comet VAS visible las! ght to the naked
eye in New York. Prof. Eastman, Of
Columbia University, who has been
studying the comet, sighted 1t about Z
o'clock, before he began to examine 1t
through his telescope. 1t was in the
northeast, 90 degrees in length, and it's
celestial latitude was about Is degrees.
In tive weeks 1t will bs plainly seen fer
several nights.
Charged With murder of her two little
boys and with having set FIRE to her
home to conceal the crimes, Mrs. Paul
Sonneoalt Eas arrested In Lovelaud,
Ohio, yesterday afternoon in an appar.
emily demented condition. The BODIES
of the boysl one sged 6 years, the other
8, we're found in their home after the
FIRE had been ex!inguished. ThsiE father
was absent from home OF the tine. mrP.
S2nnecalf vas found wslking up and
down in front of the burning house
WripgiDg her hands and calling hysteri-
calI7 for her boys The woman is uu-
able to give coherent account of the
tragedy.
Mystery surrounding the killing of
Agosta Dema, leader ia the large l al.
i'm colony at Sandusky, Ohio, was
ciesred up yesterday by Frank Bsuah,
Who said he bad committed the murder
tor $400, This sum be said, Vas paid
him by Jim Primer, another Italian,
who Bsnah explained, wanted to marry
the victims wife. Primer and Mrs.
Uema were placed under srres! imme
diately after announcement OF The con.
fession was made. Primer is 10 jill,