Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-24
News Of the Day.

Harry K. Thaw was on Saturday, de
clared baukrup: BY Referee B!sir .
PitLsbusg.
Fomer Representative Grosveuor, o
Athens, OHIO, Is to be appointed (
member OF the Ohickauauga Psrk Dom
mission.
A slump in the Baltimore oys!e
market hiss beeu caused by the tha~
enabling many vessels to reach port
only to 6ud lhe demand slight.
Miss Elizabeth Smith vas fatal!
stricken With neuralgia of the hear
while attending mass 10 S.. AIMS Oath
Ollie Church, Baltimore, yesterday AT
died il 8 few minutes.
Martin W. Littleton, counsel TO
Charles W. Morse, now serving seq
encs 10 the federal prison at Atlanta
will apply fos writ of habeas corpus
in az endeaVor to free the Ice king.
A settlement has been reached re
garding the Hankow. Szschuen Rsilwa,
IAN of $50, 600, 900, England, France
Germany and The United Stslea eacl
sharing gu .rter interest.
Ez.a Kendall, well.known actor, die'
yesterday at bis home 10 Martlnsville
Ind. he WA taken i'll at Oakland, Gal.
on January 7, and closed The tour o
"The Vinegar Buyer" 10 which be US
starring.
The new Wa7erly 4 ,tel and bnth
house in Il }! Springs, Ark, were total
ly destroyed BY fire early yesterda.
morning, ALI OF the guests escsped IN
Injured.
Pledges to aba'ain from meat ant
other high priced foots!uGs ere baiDg cir
| culated In New York today aad ar
meeting with an unprecedent number o
eigners. Plans ior an organized boycott
are under way.
With starvation staring her in tn
face. bnt restrsired fro1 asking aid b.
her southern pride, Miss Georgia lie
Olellau, a dim!nutive, well.educated cir
of rs. killed herself yesterday mo,nin!
at Der lodgings 10 New York. Gss vs.
fouad flowing freely from her little 81
heater and 20. on the vail.
The meat boz colt has spread to th
Pacific coast and Is mskiDg great head
Wsy. Representatives Of three lhousao'
laboripg men ib Los Acgeles, GAL, hsv
passed resolutions calling upon the work
ingmen to Join tbitty .dsy boycott, sr'
Ihe uaicn men have readi!? sccedad t
the request. Later msss meeting VA
held, at which the 30.daY limit vas re
moved, aad the men declined 10 ca
meat again uu'il The prices are lowered
TbeISGsqaehannp:river overfowed Sun
day morniog snd poured into Port De
post, tilirg the etreets With ice ant
water to a depth never known before
The damage is conssrVsiysly estimated
at $4,000 No lives were lost, bu
there vera many thrilling rescues
Practically every baiId5g il tee towr
vas either Destroyed or damaged. Th'
Pennsylvania Rsilrosd tracka were GOV
! cred With ice 90 feet deep for distsnc:
of four nilep. The ism In the river j!
attributed to the temporary pliDg of tht
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad bridge
| above Perryville.
While skating on the Charles river
| basin at BJs!ou, yesterday, two young
men were drowned. The body OF one Of
them was secured by the police spd
Identified as that OF Sanu Gsoelli,
aged seventsen years, of Rosbury. A
friend who was with hin was also
drowned, III: bis bodJ was not located.
One ofthe pair skatsd into Ga open placs
and the other attempted TO gave him,
usiug his coat SIS q beoVe line. Ia doing
30 be fell 10, aud went to the bottom 81
oace.
One man wsss killed aud another
seriously hurt In an automobile smssh-
Up yesterday on the new Newark, NIX;
turnpike bridge over the hackenseck
river. The dead man Was John LAWN,
of jersey City. Jchu J. Egar, OF New
| York, Is the irjared man. Egan is 10
! the Jersey OitY Hospital With broken
| nose, conclusion Of the brain and many
bad bruises. The accident yes caused
By the car sksddiug en- curve 10 the
road and dashing Into girder Of the
bridge.
Rev. Raymond E. Walker, former
pastor of The GrsuiteVille, R. l., Baptist
Church, Who vas recently arrested or
Che charge of forgsrv,is in crilicsl COD.
dition as The result OF sdsspera:e st!etppi
/, to take his own lie OF Saturday. Mr..
Walker swallowed score OF pine snd 3
considerable quantity ci gEound elasa
Walker vas committed to jsi) early in
November. A few days after bis iucsr'
cerstion be tried to kill himself by driT'
Ing his head against the bars OF Ills cell
Eitsr he hsd recovered he swallowed 8
| qasn!isy OF chloride of lime.