Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A dispatch from New Orleans says 4
severe storm has caused some damage
along the gulf coast and appears to be
gaining in intensity.
ga man, supposed to be c. A. Innes,
wealthy Chicago business man, shot
and killed himself in his room in the
Hoffman House, New York, today.
He was apparently about 90 years old.
Forest fires are reported to have
broken out afresh on Bailey Greek,
lust outside OF the Yellowstone Park
and on the headwaters of the West
Gallatin river. No rain has fallen in
that region, which is surrounded by
heavy timber.
One OF the worst electrical storms in
recent years passed over Fedcrals-
burg, Md, yesterday afternoon. Rain
and hail fell in torrents, and it IS lear
ed that much damage has been done to
growing crops.
Attorney Lee O'Ncil Browne, OF Otta-
wa, H., democratic Legislative leader,
charged with bribery in connection with
the election OF William Lorimer, OF
Chicago, to the United States Senate,
was acquitted by a jury in Judge George
Kersten's division of the criminal court
in Chicago yesterday.
Resenting alleged aspersions upon
his wifc's character, l.. A. Currln, IN
Oxford N. c., yesterday hunted up
Lee Harris and fired five shots at him
with revolver, the last shot striking
him above the thigh. Harris in turn
gave Currin terrible beating about
the head and face with metal knucklcs
while Currin was firing wildly. Both
are in a serious condition.
William A. Gale. OF Flatbush, n
V, was bitten on the lip by 4 mos
quito a month ago. He died Thurs
day night in Seney Hospital, Brooklyn,
OF blood poisoning, resulting from the
wound. 1t is not known whether Mr..
Gales blood was infected by the mos
quito or by his finger nails when he
scratched the swelling caused by the bite,
Gale was 2S years old.
While taking a shower bath with
two white insane patients yesterday
ut the Philadelphia Municipal Hospital
George Hill, negro, also insane, was
set upon by the white men and given
u beating from which he died. Hill
said to one OF the men: Pm going
to stab you." The whites threw him
to the floor and with their feet bare in
hictcd fatal injuries.
Captain Ferguson, OF the Maine
Commission, arrived 1T Havana yes
terday. He and Colonel Black called
upon President Gomez, who offered to
render all kinds Of facilities for raising
the wreckrgc OF the battteship Maine,
work, on which is to begin on Monday.
The commission is first 10 ascertain the
quantity OF mud and weeds collected
around the hull before determining the
method they shall employ i'll the
raising.
The strike of Al 900 coal miners in
Illinois, which was settled Thursday, il
is estimated, cost The miners, So 900,
600 in wages. The loss to the opera
tors during the five months shutdown
is placed ut S15 100000 The annual
production OF coal in Illinois amounts
to $4,000, 900 tons and the shortage
this year due to the strike will be in
the neighborhood OF 20, 900. 900 tons.
The Trihuna of Rome yesterday de
clared that the operations Of the Black
Hand Society have reached such pro
portions that the communal authorities
have been forced TO treat with it in or
der to preserve lives and property. Tho
newspaper demands exemplary punish
ment for the murderers OF Policeman
RovoIino and his family, at PeIlaro
recently, saying that otherwise the
populacc will lose all its confidence ii
the administration OF justice.
Miss Marie NJ. Adams, the head Of
the Christian Science Church in Utica
and Il close friend OF Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, by whom she vas personally III
structed in the teachings Of the church
died ut her home in Yorkville, suburb
of Utica, Thursday night, after n long
illness. Miss Adams was born in
Kirkville, n. Y, and educated at Belle
Haven Institute, in Alexandria, Va.
and the Syracuse University.
Twenty-nine lives were lost yesterday,
when Pere Marquette car ferry No. is,
bound out from Ludington, Mrh., al
1870 Thursday night to Milwaukee,
went to the bottom OF Lake Michigan
hallway across the lake. Thirty-tive
we're rescued by Il sister ship which was
summoned by wireless. The dead IN,
clude Capt Peter Kitty, Of Ludington
S. F. Sczcpanek, of Chicago, purscr and
wireless operator, whose signals OF dis
tress brought assistance to the sinking
steamer, and two members OF the crew
Of car ferry, No. II, who lost their lives
in All effort to rescue the crew OF No.
Is.
Gath Shoemaker, II years old, senior
in the High School at Anderson, Ind,
a few days ago made the first practical
demonstration with an aeroplane eyer
seen in that portion Of Indiana. How
he came out OF it alive is a puzzle tc
his friends. Shoemaker started the
engine Of his homemade monoplane on
slight knoll the middle of a G0-acre
meadow. The engine and propeller
worked perfectly and the machine
slowly took the air to the height of 10
feet, when Shoemaker became confused
and the machine overturned, fell and
was wrecked. Shoemaker landed I'M