Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

New England waters reaped their
usual crop of Sunday drownings yes
terday, nine having been reported from
various sections.
Mrs. Stephen Gambrill, sister OF the
late United States Senator Arthur +.
German, died at Laurel, Md, on Sat
urday.
Rudolph Spreckles on his return
| from Europe announced his intention
to start an organization to combat the
concentration of wealth in this coun-
try.
Samuel 0. Bowman, aged so, one
OF the best-known cattle dealers in the
Valley, dropped dead yesterday at
his home near Harrisonburg.
The list of dead in the cyclone
which Saturday swept over the district
northwest of Milan, Italy, yesterday
increased to GO, and the injured num-
Der several hundred. The material
losses are estimated at many millions.
In the collapse of the front of the
three-stock brick building at l702-1704
west Pratt street, Baltimore, Saturday
afternoon, nine men were buried in the
debris and badly hurt.
A message to Savannah from the
steamship Menus reads: Fire ex-
tinguished at 1915 O'Clock Sunday
afternoon. Full speed for New Or
leans. The Momus experienced Il
dangerous fire in her hold Saturday
morning while off the Florida coast.
Gov. Marshall OF Indiana, last night
refused request from South Bend to
send troops there to quell Grand Trunk
strike disorders. The request was
made by the superintendent OF the
Grand Trunk Railroad.
Burglars made raid on three
churches in Petersburg Saturday night,
breaking into the First Presbyterian
and First Baptist churches and the
Hebrew temple. A number OF articles
were taken.
Cal Furr was killed in pistol duel
with West Gregory on the streets OF
Clinton, S. c., Saturday afternoon
Gregory was shot in the hand. 1t is
understood that the shooting was
brought about on account Of domestic
troubles. Both duelists were mill oper-
atiyeS.
John W. Barr, president OF the
Fidelity Trust Company, admitted in
Louisville, late Saturday afternoon
that the entire surplus of the company,
amounting to 81, 140,0 900, had been
stolen. This is supposed to represent
the shortage of Assistant Secretary
Ropke, now in jail there.
4 diamond pin, valued at So, 1000,
and other pieces of iewelry, were stolen
from suit of rooms in a downtown
hotel in Washington Friday night. The
icwclry is the property OF Paul Bake
WELL jr., OF st. Louis, who with his
father, were guests at the hotel last
week.
Breaking in the door Of his apart
ments in the Great Northern Hotel at
Chicago, on Saturday detectives after 4
hard fight, arrested James Mcconnell,
a business man, Of Philadelphia. Nc
Connell was arrested on warrants sworn
out by his wife, who charges him with
abandoning her and her two children
because of his love for pretty blue
eyed stcnographcr employed by him.
Two explosions early yesterday morn
1 ;,,, ,,,ra,l- 4, 70 NJ
Central avenue and Findlay street, Gin
cinnati starting conilagration that de-
stroyed three adjoining plants. Five
firemen were buried by falling walls,
and were taken out seriously injured.
The combined loses are estimated at
$3.50, 900.
In scramble among five boys and
girls in a boat over the possession of
a pocketbook, two were drowned in
Lake Cohassett Ohio, yesterday.
Harry Rosenbloom fell overheard in
the scramble, and in falling grabbed
Susie Hermans skirts, pulling her
in after him. Both drowned before
the others in the party could reach
them.
The Japanese steamer Tetsurei-
Moru, plying between Kobe and Dair-
en-, sank Saturday night off Chndo,
Korea. The steamer had 246 pas
sengers aboard, of whom 40 were
landed. The others are missing Two
Of the Tetsurei's lifeboats landed 40
passengers, who tell Of narrowing
scenes when the befogged vessel struck.
Six lifeboats were launched and filled
with passengers, There was no panic,
and everything was carried out in the
most orderly manner.
E. de Markowski, who carries the
title OF inspector of the Russo-Chinese-
Bank, and through whose investiga
tons the theft OF $4,000 worth OF
bonds from the New York agency OF
that institution was discovered, formally
charged that theft up to the cashier OF
the local agency in statement issued
in New York on Saturday Erwin
Wider, the cashier named by Inspector
de Mrrkowski, has been missing from
his home.
Two bandits, the elder IA years old
and the younger II years old, we're
caught Saturday, their pockets bullying
with revolvers, skeleton keys and
burglars tools, at the mouth OF cave
in Van Cortlandt Park, New York,
which they had stuffed with the plumber
of the neighborhood. The boys are the
sons Of responsible men of substance,
and when thew we're arraipned their