Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| 1ne united States mint Will proDaOlS
stop coming gold and issue certificate:
for bullion or gold coin.
David w. Gall, deputy supreme com
mander OF the Knights of the Macca,
bees, was run down by street car and
badly injured in Washington yesterday
John Randolph a negro, jumped from
the operating table in Washington yes
terday and ran away from the surgeons
who were. picking glass out OF his head.
Col. Benjamin j. Crawford, founder
and president until five years ago OF
the National Biscuit Company, died OF
hardning OF the arteries while playing
golf on the Westbrook Country Club
links at Mansfield, Ohio, yesterday
afternoon. He was CT years old.
Blanche Eckels, 16 years old, COM
mitted suicide last night At Maryville,
Mo-, by shooting herself because she
had not been invited to party. The
girls family recently moved to Mary
vile and she thought the young people
OF the town were sighting her.
Calvin O. Hoffman, young farmer
Of townsville district, Frederick county,
Nd, committed suicide at his home
Thursday by shooting himself through
the heart with a shotgun. Hoffman,
who was % years of age, and married,
is said once before to have attempted
suicide with rat poison.
A storm which ragged over several
mountain counties in Kentucky Thurs
day night has caused the loss OF at
least one life and many thousand dol
lars worth Of property which has been
swept away by floods.
Charged with the murder of her two
weeks old baby, Mrs. Elena Stemple,
of New Philadelphia, O., was lodged in
Jail yesterday. Mrs. Stemp!e confessed
that her husband left her five weeks
ago and that when he did not answer
her letters she grew discouraged and
gave the baby carbolic acid.
Thomas f. Watson was howlcd down
last night ut the Auditorium in Atlanta,
Ga, by an audience Of 5000 people
when he began an attack on form
Gov. Hoke Smith. Watson was so 4s"r-
come by the hos tile demonstrate, thai
he tainted, and was carried '4G
platform. After being t. "
air, he soon revived, and soe..t. ,~ra
the worse for his experience,
Spectators and witnesses s."
Judge Grosscup's court in CHI, e" yes
terday in attendance on the hcA' z !
the Western rate cases before Sp>
Examiners Brown and Hillycr, OF l.. 5,
Interstate Commerce Commission were
thrown into tumult and 4 fist fight was
barely avcrtcd yesterday when f. f.
Pierce, counsel for the Rock Island.
called Attorney Frank B. James n liar
during the croSs-examination Of Frank
Nay, comptroller OF the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific.
While on its way to succor n man
fatally injured in an automobile acct
dent. an ambulance dashed INTO crowd
awaiting cars at the rush hour in the
public square ut Cleveland, Ohio, last
night, killing one person, injuring
another, and causing panic This
occurred shortly after the driver had,
at great risk, stopped a runaway, saving
another crowd from certain injury
Juan Amer. editor Of the satirical
weekly Chantecler, Of Havana, Of which
the first issue appeared yesterday morn
ing, was shot and killed yesterday
evening by Jose Pennino, liberal cum
didatc for city councilman in Havana.
The cause Of the shooting was scar
.ilous article in the Chantecler concern
ing young woman prominent in society
to whom Pennino is attentive. Pennlno
was arrested.
Miss Maids Carroll, a 1G-years-old
girl, of Mddlctown, n. y, and David
Bolton of Hoboken, were drowned and
five others nearly lost their lives yes
terday afternoon, when motorboat
in which they were cruising on the
HackcnSack sank after the gasoline
tank had exploded. 1t is said that
the owner OF the boat was smoking 4
pipe while searching for the trouble in
the machinery.
Norman Fleeson, "a years old, was
shot and killed almost instantly while
out cunning for reed birds Yesterday
afternoon with two companions along
u creek near Philadelphia. Fleeson
was in boat with William Campbell
and Charles Schaefcr. Campbell fired
at flock OF birds, and Flecson, jump
ing suddenly to his feet. received the
charge in the back Of his head.
Lockout notices were posted at all
the federated shipyards in London at
noon yesterday, advising the members
OF the boilcrmakcrs society that their
services would be dispensed with. Fifty
thousand men are directly affected. The
trouble is due to 4 strike Thursday OF
the rivetcrs employed at the Walker
shipyard at NewcastIc-on-Tyne. The
employers hold that this constituted a
breach Of the agreement between the
owners and workmcn, land declare that
those locked out will not be allowed to
resume work until the boilcrmakers
society guarantees a fulfillment of the
terms of the national agreement for the
prevention OF strikes and lockouts.
During terrific electrical storm
Thursday night four men were struck
by lightning and instantly killed near
Lamourc, N. d. The men were mem