Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The board OF inquiry that investi-
gated the bursting of the big 12-inch
gun on the battleship Georgia re-
ported yesterday that it could not de-
termine definitely the cause OF the ac-
cidept
The Worlds Prison Congress in
session in Washington yesterday de-
clared in favor Of the indetermlnate
sentence for criminals.
A plan for the merger of the Ma
tional Bank OF Washington with the
National Metropolitan Bank is being
considered by those connected with
both institutions, but thus far no def
mite agreement has been reached.
George Godfrey, who shot and killed
Miss Rika Amelsberg near Hartley,
Iowa, Wednesday night, because she
had resented his attentions, was yester-
day found dead in a cornheld near the
SPOT where he had murdered the girl.
He had shot himself.
A bomb was exploded in the home
of Paul Vitale, all Italian banker, at
Bath Beach, N. Y, yesterday, which
set fire to the building and destroyed
it. The banker, with his wife and six
children, had narrow escapes. Vltale
conducted private bank which re-
Gently suspended and he has received
a number OF threatening letters.
Two men we're arrested in Los
Angeles, CAL, yesterday in connection
with the hunt for the Times building
dynamiters. They are Charles Mehr
and Frank Russell Mehr, according
to the report turned in by the arrcsting
officer, declared that the unions have
something else up their sleeves.
Becoming terrified after the automo-
bile that he was driving struck and
killed Gladys Trout, aged 7 years, IN
West Philadelphia yesterday afternoon,
Benjamin Fink, chauffeur, who was
alone in the car, increased his speed to
escape, and crashed into wagon,
wrecking it. The automobile was un-
able to proceed, and Fink, leaping FROM
his seat, distanced number Of pursu-
ers and disappeared. Until late hour
last night he had not been arrested.
John G. Sims, general manager OF
the Washington branch of the Life In
surance Company of Virginia, who
went suddenly insane on Friday night
last while in the office OF DR.. William
G. Young, in Washington, attempted
to kill the physician with 4 revolver
and shoot himself, was arrested last
night, as he lay on a cot in Emergency
Hospital and held on a warrant charg-
ing him with embezzlement.
DR.. Charles Perry Gibbon, well
known Washington pharmacist, com
mtted suicide in his apartments in the
Ashburne apartment house, 18th and
Hazard streets northwest, yesterday by
shooting himself in the head. Death
was almost instantaneous, the bullet
penetrating the brain. Dependency
over inability to cure an affiiction which
had deprived him of his sense OF taste
and smell and kept him in almost
constant pain is believed to have been
the cause of the suicide.
Barricaded in bedroom at his
home. Frederick Lenchaw wounded
Patrolman Haddox and stood off nine
other officers for two hours in Detroit,
Mich. Wednesday night. When the
police succeeded in gaining entrance to
the house, after firing fusilade through
the door and breaking it down, Len
chaw was found unconscious on bed,
suffering from four wounds said to
have been self.inhicted. He was taken
to hospital where it was said his
chances for recovery were slight. The
police were called to the Lenchaw home
in West Detroit to quell a family riot.
Massachusetts republicans, in state
convention in Boston yesterday, gave
unqualified Endorsement to the ad
ministration of President Taft, COM
mended the Payne tariff and Endorsed
what it termed the republican policy OF
conservation of natural resources. Gov.
Eben S. Draper and the remainder OF
the present state officers were renomi-
mated by reclamation, with the excep-
ton OF Attorney General Dana Malon.
who did not desire reelection and
whose place was taken without opposl-
ton by James H. Swift, OF Fall River.
For the first time under oath, Lee
O'Neill Browne, democratic mi
nority leader of the lower house
Of the Illinois legislature, yester-
day in Chicago, told his story OF the
election OF William Lorimer to the
United States Senate to the senatorial
investigating committee. Browne was
tried twice on charge OF bribng Rep
resentative Charles A. White to vote
for Mr.. Lorimer, but did not testify IN
his own behalf. The first trial resulted
in a disagreement and the second in ac-
quittal. He is still to stand trial at
Springfield on an indictment making
similar charges. Browne yesterday en-
tered a sweeping denial of any wrong
doing in connection with the election
of Lorimer.
THE DEBT QUESTION.