Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fire at the Crown Oil and Wax Com
pany's plant at Highlandtown, Md,
yesterday caused damage estimated at
$35, 900.
President Taft was the chief figure in
reunion ofthree of the Taft brothers
under the quaint and hospitable roof
of Aunt" Della Torrey, in Milbury,
Mass, yesterday.
His love spurned by Miss Rebecca
Evans Bloomsbury, Pa, girl, John
Lamberton, 10 years old, Of Danville,
yesterday shot himself through the
temple with a revolver. billing himself
instantly in the sight OF the girl
Because of falling off in the earn
ings Of the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
the working hours of the mechanical
department throughout the entire
system have been curtailed from nine
hours a day to eight hours.
At the Congress of British Medical
Associations on Saturday cancer experts
declared that up to date surgery fur
nished the only cure for cancer, and
that only in the earliest stage.
Five shipwrecked seamen Of the
West Indies sloop Sunlight who lived
10 days on vinegar and sugar were
picked up at sea unconscious by the
British steamer Ikalis and landed in
New York on Saturday.
The Williams drapery store, large
establishment at Accrington, London,
caught fire Saturday night from the
crossing Of electric wires. 1t was
crowded with customers at the time,
and five women were killed.
Gasoline from one Of the lamps in
the young peoples tent at Wesley
Grove campmeeting near Baltimore, on
yesterday, set fire to the straw covering
the floor and caused much excitement
among the tenters. The flames were
soon extinguished and little damage
was done.
The finding OF an overturned canoe |
yesterday afternoon at Echo Lake. near
Patterson, n. j., led to the discovery of
a drowning accident in which Winifred
Henrietta Cecilia, and Charles
w, Pin ney jr., OF the summer colony
Of Echo Lake, lost their lives. The
bodies were recovered later.
Thirty cotton mills at Falls River
Mass, owned by II corporations and
5000 operatives, were shut
down on Saturday until August s for
the purpose Of curtailing production.
A number of other corporations will be
idle two days next week. Shutdown is
quite general throughout Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Maine.
Four young children of Mrs. Joseph |
NJ. Mellow, wife of a wealthy rancher,
near Brentwood, Contra Costa county, |
Cal, were drowned by their mother
Saturday Mrs. Mellow, was evidently |
driven insane by the loneliness of the |
country, She lived on big farm with |
her husband and six children, the Oldest
being Chester, IA years old. No servant
was employed.
Mr.. William Frisch, for more than
% years managing editor of the Balti-
more American, died in the Mercy |
Hospital in that city Saturday night.
Death resulted from an attack Of ne
phrits, superinduced by injuries sus-
tanned by being struck by a taxicab
last Wednesday night at the corner Of
Mount Vernon Place and Cathedral
street. He was 56 years old
Eloryon Totoor, a Hebrew, twenty
five years old, is at the point of death
1t the Garfield Hospital, in Washing
on. as a result Of an alteration with
several negroes at winehouse in
yesterday. The young
mans skull is fractured at its base and
ne is not expected to live. Six negroes
nave been arrested in the case. Totoor
vas at a picnic in Rrightwood yester
lay. 1t is said that he had an argu-
nent with the negroes and one Of them
nit him with beer bottle
Two men we're killed, one was seri-
,usly injured and another made per-
deaf by the explosion Satur-
lay night of 10 pounds Of dynamite
100 feet below the surface Of the earth
n the tunnel for the new Croton aque-
Iuct at Kitchawan, n Y. The charge
vas exploded. presumably by lightning
which struck the car rails at the open {
ng OF the tunnel a quarter of mile
way during severe thunderstorm and
ollowed the rails into the interior Of
he tunnel s
Fire in the Hoe building occupied {
" the United States Geological Survey I
n Washington, which endangered the
invaluable records of that bureau, was
iscoyered early yesterday afternoon by
Iorkers in a neighboring building, !
'hree alarms were promptly sent in, {
rawing to the scene more than half
be city's fire department. Through q
he work of the fire fighters, the blaze q
AS confined to one room of the bureau r
nd the use Of chemical extinguishers =
lved from destruction many valuable 7
comments. The loss is about $50, 600. ;
RAILROAD ACClDENTS.