Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
News of the Day.

Harry A. LapgdoJ, one oi the best
known survivors, OF the old-tIme schoo
of American actors, died yesterday at to
Actors Flu i'd home 10 NV York. Lsng
don was born 10 Phila ielphls 10 1927
VITA 5000 acres burned over, st
Msry's CT unity, Md, 10 lighting one o
the wont forest fres In its hist ry. Tn
loss Is fully $50. 900, snd will be NOR
unless rain falls quickly. Stale Foreste
B .sley, who srrived there today, organ
zsd a company of fire6gh'ers which wen
out yesterday and is still at work.
Four persons we're seriously ipju red Il
day 10 trolley crash st Fifth aud South
streets, Philadelphia, when FfsnkfoIC
car ttfu,k Fsirmourt Park csr. Th'
park car, struck in the middle, was burl
ed 10 the pavement and turned over
The collision YVES due TO caIelessness Oh
intxperIence OF the motormsn on tn,
Frsnkford car.
"All alive 2 r. N. November a."
This, the latest message from the fitaI
s.. Paul coal mine FIRE St Cherry, ILL.,,
was brought to light yesterday with the
recovery Of 81 bodies which bad been
eptombed since the disaster OF last No
vember 13. The bodies we're taken from
the lowest level, 500 feet below ground
The men bad retrett:d to space 20 feet
square and had constructed rude fan
Of boards to keep the air circulating.
Seventeen physicians of Los Angeles,
Oal., assisted at su operation Saturday
Tor the removal Of table knife niue
inches long from the stomach oil Mrs.
Sarah OsrlsoD, an insane woman. The
operation was successful aud Mr.. CARL.
son Is recovering. The knife had been
10 the stomach Of the woman for several
hours before the physicians could be In
duced to believe that the woman who
told of having swallowed II was not
joking s5Cu. the ma tr.
A cyclone, carrying with 1t msuy cot
tsges, trees and timber, swep. away the
southern suburbs Of Pine Bluf, Ark. =,
yesterday afternoon. Buildings we're
demolished, ISees uprooted, fences blown
away aud much other dsmsgs done to
prop r!y of telephone aud telegraph
companies. A woman was blown from
her home and carried i0to the air. She
was caught in telephone wires, and her
screams attso cd several men, who got
ladders snd let her down with q rope.
She was unipjured
10 the discovery of the body of Fred.
erick II. Smith under pile OF scot In
the bottom OF the l02-ioot .smokestack
Of a shop in AuSonis, Conn.,, the gu nor.
tiles believe, Is revealed probably the
most remarkable auicide In the history
Of the state. Both legs we're broken,
aud the police expressed the belief thai
Smith climbed to the top OF the stack
and jumped down Inside. He Wss Last
seen alive the week following Ohriaimss,
when he appeared one day abtu; two
o'clock 10 the boiler room and ssked to
be allowed to warm himself by the FIRE.
Alb the time tie Mississippi Sc late
r,sDm,d its probing into tie bribery
scandal at Jackson yesterday an uproar
was heard In the House eide Of tho Gap
i;ol Those who reached that side 6n
fouud Representative Frank Bnrkett and
director OF Archives aud History Dun
bar Rowland Engaged 10 a rongh.snd.
tumble fight. Bdrkelt, once q eaudI.
da,e fer vice president on the populIst
tickei, but now a democrat and very
large man, was being vigorously pumel-
led. H finally got tu. from uader his
smsller antagonist and bit him % the
head tt cane. The blow rendered
Rowland uuconscIous. The row Is cup
posed 10 have s'alt1i ovfr the bribery
investigation. Rowland Is not believed
10 be serlt u,ly bnlt.
DR.. W. r Miller and Mrs. J. B
Ssyltr we're found guilty in Watsska,
ILL.,, Of msnslaugbt,r for lbe Staying lasl
July OF ]. Bryan Siyler, a banker, of
Crescent City. John Crnndeu, 8 medi-
cine vender from Oslshon q, father Of
Mr. Siyler, wss acquitted. Punish.
meDt was fixed by the jury a. IL years
imprisonment for DR.. Miller and 8 years
for Mrs. ssyler. ]. B. ssJler wsS sbot
dead In the psrlor OF his home by DR.
Miller Friends of Sayler alleged that
there was pit between Mrs, Ssyler
and Dr.. Miller, who were great friends
to get rid OF Sayler. The defendants al
legged that Mr.. Ssyler, yielding a hat
Chef, attacked DR.. Miller without prov
oca!ion and tina. the doctor acted in
selfdefeDse.