Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.


severe storm has caused some damage
along the gulf coast and appears to be-
gaining in intensity.
ga man, supposed to be c. A. Innes
wealthy Chicago business man, shot
and killed himself in his room in the
Hoffman House, New York, today.
He was apparently about 90 years old
Forest fires are reported to have
broken out afresh on Bailey Creek
lust outside OF the Yellowstone Park
and on the headwaters OF the West
GaIlatin river. No rain has fallen in
that region, which is surrounded by
heavy timber.
One OF the worst electrical storms in
recent years passed over Federals
burg, Md, yesterday afternoon. RAN
and hail fell in torrents, and it IS Tear
ed that much damage has been done t.
growing crops.
Attorney Lee O'Neil Browne, OF Otta-
wa, H., democratic Legislative leader
charged with bribery in connection with
the election OF William LOrimer, Of
Chicago. to the United States Senate
was acquitted by jury in Judge George
Kersten's division of the criminal court
in Chicago yesterday.
Resenting alleged aspersions upon
his wifes character, l.. A. Currin, in
Oxford n. c., yesterday hunted up
Lee Harris and fired five shots at him
with revolver, the last shot striking
him above the thigh. Harris in turn
gave Currin a terrible beating about
the head and face with metal knuckles
while Currin was firing wildly. Both
are in a serious condition.
William A. Gale. OF Flatbush, n.
Y, was bitten on the lip by mos
quito a month ago. He died Thurs
day night in Seney Hospital, Brooklyn,
of blood poisoning, resulting from the
wound. 1t is not known whether Mr.
Gales blood was infected by the mos
quito or by his finger nails when he
scratched the swelling caused by the bite.
Gale was Is years old.
While taking a shower bath with
two white insane patients yesterday
at the Philadelphia Municipal Hospital
George Hill, negro, also insane, was
set upon by the white men and given
beating from which he died. Hill
said to one OF the men; Pm going
to stab YOU" The whites threw him
to the floor and with their feet bare in
hicted fatal injuries.
Captain Ferguson, OF the Maine
Commission, arrived at Havana yes
terday. He and Colonel Black called
upon President Gomez, who offered tc
render all kinds OF facilities for raising
the wreckrge OF the battteship Maine,
work, on which is to begin on Monday
The commission is first to ascertain the
quantity OF mud and weeds collected
around the hull before determining the
method they shall employ in the
raising
The strike of A 900 coal miners il
Illinois, which was settled Thursday, il
is estimated, cost the miners, $l2 900,
600 in wages. The loss to the opera
tors during the five months shutdown
is placed at $15, 5000 The annua
production OF coal in Illinois amounts
to 100000 900 tons and the shortage
this year due to the strike will be IN
the neighbOrhood OF 10000, 900 tons.
The Tribuna of Rome yesterday de
clared that the operations of the Black
Hand Society have reached such pro
portions that the communal authorities
have been forced to treat with it in or
der to preserve lives and property. The
newspaper demands exemplary punish
ment for the murderers Of Policeman
Royolino and his family, at Pelaro
recently, saying that otherwise the
popuace will lose all its confidence ii
the administration OF justice.
Miss Marie NJ. Adams, the head OF
the Christian Science Church in Utica
aud a close friend OF Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, by whom she waS personally III
structed in the teachings Of the church,
died at her home in YorkvilIe, suburb
Of Utica, Thursday night, after long
illness. Miss Adams was born in
Kirkville, N. Y, and educated at Belle
Haven Institute, in Alexandria, Va,
and the Syracuse University.
Twenty-Five lives were lost yesterday,
when Pere Marquette car ferry No. Is,
bound out from Ludington, Mich, at
11:30 Thursday night tn Milwaukee,
went TO the bottom OF Lake Michigan
halfway across the lake. Thirty-fve
we're rescued by sister ship which was
summoned by wireless. The dead in
clude Capt Peter Kitty, of Ludington
S. F. Sezepanek, of Chicago, purser and
wireless operator, whose signals OF dis
tress brought assistance to the sinking
steamer, and two members OF the crew
OF car ferry, No. II, who lost their lives
in All effort to rescue the crew Of No.
Is.
Gath Shoemaker, II years old, senior
in the High School at Anderson, Ind.
few days ago made the first practical
demonstration with an aerOplane ever
seen in that portion OF Indiana. How
he came out Of it alive is puzzle to
his friends. Shoemaker started the
engine OF his homemade monoplane on
slight kne = the middle Of 60-acre
meadow. The engine and propeller
worked perfectly and the machine
slowly took the air to the height of 10
feet, when Shoemaker became confused
and the machine overturned. fell and