Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-18
News Of the Day.

IL now appeale Luai oafot0o
ant, whose child hsd been killed By az
an omobile, felIed trees across road
! into which plunged an auto containing
Argentine Consul Gsigsr and four friends
and all were killed.
at orney General Wickersham, 1t i
ammo need. will personally make to
ar u nent before the Supreme Oonr
early in April in the important Missonf
rate case.
Six OF eight negroes were lynch
ed a. Marion, ARR, across tse fi7e'
from Memphis, Last night. The lynch
ipr was the outcome OF the assasainator
of leading citizsu on Monday night
There are no officers In the town.
For four hour, yesterday the U. :.
gu creme Court listened to cobh'clint
arguments n.ths coDstitutioualilY OF ia
corporation lax provisions ofthe Payne
Aldrich ACT. After another days argu
mert the court will take the statut
under consideration with view to ar
irving at decision.
Mrs. Anna Forsell, OF Btooklyn, waE
crushed to death in an elevator II
Ssuey Hospital yesterday as she 49,
unconscious just after an operation hao
been performed. She Was caught DC
tween the coach on which she vas be
ing transferred from the operating room
t, a ward on the first q DOR and the cell
ipg.
Yesterday In Mcdowell county, N. O
near Marion, CHARLES Morris, a farmer
killed his wjfe's mot1er, shot to deatt
his own small child, and fatally wtu I'D.
ed his wife. He then attempted to xii
himself and after several attempts sue
ceeded in doing so. Domestic uuhapp
ness is given as the motive.
Rev. Daniel Savage, seVenty.fVe yearl
old, who was to have been married
Wednesday night, died at the home o
his dsuybtsr, Mrs. W. T. Perkins, 8
Wilkesbsrre, Pa, at midnight. Dsatt
came suddenly, and before the bride-:c
be, Mrs. E. O. Seymour, of Ohestse, Pa.
could reach his side.
A general strike of leather workers or
horse goods involving 103 cities aut
ABBOTT 4 900 men was ordered In Chicago
Yesterday by the executive board of thu
I, tsrua.lonal Brotherhood OF Leather
Workers on Horss Goods. The strike
will 20 into effect on Monday. The de-
mauds ars for increased wages and ar
eight-hour day.
To save q man and wife from What
looked like certain detth In FIRE In the
three. story building at Is First street,
Nsw York, yesterday morning, FRI
man hung by bis legs from 6fe lad.
der aud swung the man and woman to
second fireman who WAS hspging BY hia
legs from are escape four and hall
feet across an aresWay.
A dispatch from Msrinet.e, Wis, says
sensational attempt upon the life oil
District Attorney A. E. schWittay, who
narrowly escaped being slain BY bullet
fred through the window Of his home,
| took place the night following the put
LEGATION In bis paper OF charges that
United States Senator S epheuson pays
taxes upon only a small potion OF his
wealth. There Is no clue to the ideI tlty
OF the woulG-be murderer.
Something like an epidemic of suicides
due to neurasthenia and melancnolia,
was recently observed In st. Petersburg,
and further attention was called 10 it
yesterday by the Ell eide of three girls
o! social status, one OF them heitess to
$40, 900, 600. The three met, and, after
one OF them had played Ohopin's fu osrel
march, all drank poison and died. They
left letters saying they Uete tired life.
Fifteen other suicides, mostly glrl', we're
reported yesterday.
A contract for one million yards OF
the new olive drab cotton cloth fo'
army uniforms has bean swcsded TO the
Smith Bogg Company, selling sgsnts for
the Massachusetts Cotton Mills, al
Lowell. The cloth Ia to be sold t. the
government at 26i cents yard, or q
t?t.l OF s2S2.500. The OAo Goels'
Company, of Philadelphia, is awarded
contract for hundred th' u 'and yards
OF this cloth at the same price.
John e. Redmond, leaisr OF the Irish
parliamentary party, speaking st New
castle Wednesday night, predicted q
general election within month. Hence,
he said. as the United States hal cor-
tribated nsaYly three top ttha Of the $50,
900 which the last elections had cos:
the Irish party, be hoped their American
brethren would help them In the coming
election.
John Smith Kirk, 7S years old, chief
clerk OF the personal tax division oil
the District of Columbia, was found
dead ia bath tub in his apartment Of
the Home apartments, Seventh street
and Massachusetts Avenus northwest,
Washington, late yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Kirk had been In Ill health fol
some months, aud he had been despon'
dent for tHo weeks. The bath tub vas
lull of water. When discovered the
head had fallen In spch manner as II
be between the knees, and the hande
| Rers raised as II the man had, after
s!rangliDg. attempted to draw bis body
from tao tub.