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-
cident.
The Worlds Prison Congress in
session in Washington yesterday de-
clared in favor OF the indeterminate
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 cornfield near the
spot where he had murdered the gIri'
He had shot himself.
A bomb was exploded in the home
Of Paul Vitale, an Italian banker, at
Bath Beach, N. Y, yesterday, which
set Gre to the building and destroyed
it. The banker, with his wife and six
children, had narrow escapes. Vltale
conducted a 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 arresting
officer, declared that the unions have
something else up their sleeves"
Becoming terrified after the automo-
bile that ne was driving struck and
killed Gladys Trout, aged Z years, in
West Philadelphia yesterday afternoon,
BENJAMIN Fink, a 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 a 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 DIR. William
G. Young, in Washington, attempted
to kill the physician with a revolver
and shoot himself, was arrested last
night, as he lay on a cot in Emergency
Hospital and held on warrant charg
ing him with embezzlement.
DR.. Charles Perry Gibbon, wei
known Washington pharmacist, com
mitted suicide in bis apartments in the
Ashburne apartment house, 18th an(
Hazard streets northwest, yesterday by
shooting himself in the head. Dealt
was almost instantaneous, the bulle
penetrating the brain. Despondenc!
over inability to cure an affection which
had deprived him of his sense OF tast'
and smell and kept him in almos
constant pain is believed to have beef
the cause of the suicide.
Barricaded in bedroom at hi
home, Frederick Lenchaw wounded
Patrolman Haddox and stood off nin'
other officers for two hours in Detroit
Mich, Wednesday night. When the
police succeeded in gaining entrance tC
the house, after firing fusilade through
the door and breaking it down, Len
chaw was found unconscious on bed
suffering from four wounds said tC
have been self inflicted. He was takeT
to a hospital where it was said hi
chances for recovery were slight. Ih'
police we're called to the Lenchaw home
| in West Detroit to quell a family riot
Massachusetts republicans, in stat'
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 o.
conservation Of natural resources. Gov.
Eben S. Draper and the remainder o
the present state officers were renoml
mated by acclamation, with the excep
ton OF Attorney General Dana Maion
who did not desire reelection ant
whose place was taken without oppos
ton by James H. Swift, OF Fall River
For the first time under oath, Lee
O'Neill Browne, democratic mi
aority 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 wa'
tried twice on a charge OF brIblng Rep
resentative Charles A. White to vote
for Mr.. Lorimer, but did not testify II
| his own behalf. The first trial resulted
in disagreement and the second in ac
ouittaI. He is still to stand trial al
Springfield on an indictment making
similar charges. Browne yesterday en-
tered sweeping denial Of any wrong
doing in connection with the election
OF Lorimer.
THE DEBT QUESTION.