Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-17
News of the Day.

The Southern UalifCrnia orange crop
has been damaged to the extent OF ST.
600, 900 BY the heavy frost OF tie lsst 10
dayd.
August Wares, 8 farmer o. Blown
county, Wis, on Saturday shot his
daughter, killed bis lame wife and then
ended bis life.
1t is reported that majority inter-
est in The baltimore Sun, Owned BY the
Abel es'a'e, has been sold 10 Charles
II Gsasty, formerly OF the Baltimore
News.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
president, denies the report that che
took part In the meeting Of The striking
shirtwais! girls or that she would inter-
est her father In their behalf
Resolutions pedging tho sjgneIs 60
abstain from ea.irg NEST for at Least 80
days we're set 10 circulation among work
iugmen in large shops in C!evelsrd,
OHIO, yesterday, and will reach SO. 600
men.
A corporation capitalized at $780,.
900, 900 to control everything pertaining
to tae manufacture Of Tomsn's wearing
appsre, is under consideration ia New
York by The Associated Waist and Disas
Manufacturers.
P;u'ine Russell, tie animal tsaioer,
who was altscked by Leopard which
she vas trying to pa: through ia PAGES
st New Yok mussam week sgo,
disd TO-DAY in Bellevue h0spita; OF her
injuries. Sac WAS IS years old.
LsaTius po!e declaring his 1--we for
young womap, Rev. Harry Koence
yesterday swallowed poison and died In
the arms OF the womsn's father iE GEesH-
Vile, III. Tho pastor took the poison
at the gate of the yoGcg womaa'a home,
tarust toe note in a. the door, which had
been opened st bis sumnors, snd fall
dead.
The stolen silver from Barnes Gimp
TOMS houe, taken Ga the hight Of the
murder CT Sarah B7ymsr, the family gov"
erness, vas found yesterday afternoon IN
he under part of the tenant house occu-
pied by Frank Scaerne,hosp, in Pough-
kespsie, N. Y. In the wood sove dowa-
stairs In scherms:born's citing room
were found partly burusd slk stockings
from Mrs. Ooup.on's wardrobe, ~hich
we're taken at the sane time as The ell
verwsre, also battors from the burned
shirt waists, fragments OF jsseliy, ard 6.
pert Of Mrs. Comp!on's jewel caac.
William Kidd, agcd 81 years, wolf
known athlete, was shot sDd killed By
Carnine Russo, On Italian, =! Whining.
ton, DEL, yesterday afternoon. Several
bows had been auowbslli1g Rueso aod an
Italian ccmpanioD. The I;alian started
an alteration with David MItchsll, who
was standing on The corner with Kidd
and several others. Kidd tried to act
IS pcacemaker, aud was shot through
the heart. A large number IF the VIC
TINS friends procured rope and chased
the slayer to his home, a distance of
more than a mile. But fer the Arrival
OF posss OF police the man doubtless
would have been lyuchsd.
Residents in Evergreen avenue, just
north of the Ptqlot colony, Nsa Loudous
Conn.,, thought ar earthquake haG oVfr'
taken them at $3.50 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, when William Bennett. de-
lberately placed stick Of dynamite
close to bis bresst and, touching eff E.
fuse, blew of half OF bis body. On
Friday last Bennett fred three shots st
his wife, the bullets hitting corstt
8'eel and detecting. The sitting.rocm
10 which Bennett tragically ended bis
life waa wrecked, all the Windows being
blown 10 atoms and the furniture aud
brio s.brsc demolished.
A corset steel, connected With thu 'act
that the revolver is of small eaiiber,
saved the life OF MIS-. Walter Garner,
who vas shot by her husband Saturday.
Tue little lead bullet dropped on! OF az
waist In Bafalo, n. Y, while physi.
clans we're attending her for slight flesh
wounds In her shoulder and arm, caused
by other bullets. Garner never re.
covered consciousness from the Time he
seut .22.caIiber bullet into hia braiu,
just after shooting bis vile, Ill be died.
late ga urday night,