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

ant, whose child had been killed by az
au omobile, felled trees across rad
into which plugged au auto contsinipi
I Argentine Consul Gsiger and focr friends
aud all we're killed.
At orney General Wickershsm. 1t i
anne need. will personsIly make tn
auu nent before the Supreme Oour
tafly in April in the important Missouri
rate case.
Six or eight negroes vera lynch
ed at Msrion, Ark, across t1e fiVtl
from Memphis, lat night. The lynch
inc was The outcome OF the assassinst on
OF leading citiz,u on Monday night
There are 20 offceIs In the town.
For four honr, yesterday the U. 3.
Supreme Court listened to cordcline
arguments on the c1nstituliouslitY OF tai
corporation lax provisions OF the Payne
Aldrich act. After another days srgu
mert the court will take the sisIut'
under consideration with a view to ar.
irving at q decision.
Mrs. Anna Forssll, OF Bfooklyn, was
crushed to death 10 sn elevator 10
Ssney Hospital yesterday as she lay
unconscious just after an operation had
been performed. She was caught be-
tween the coach on which she was be-
Ing transferred from the operating room
| to ward on the first A1or and the cell
log.
Yesterday In Mcdowell county, N. O
near Marion, CHARLES Morris, farmer,
killed his wife's mother, shot to death
bis own small child, and fatally wtu i'd
ed his wife. He then attempted to kill
himself and after several attempts sue
ceeded in doing so. Domestic uohapp'-
meas is given as the motive.
Rev. Daniel Savage, seventy.6Ve years
old, who was to have been msrried
Wednesday night, died at the home oil
bis dsugbtsr, Mrs. w. T. Perkins, at
| Wilkesbs ARE, Pa, ct midnight. Death
came suddenly, and before the bridt-.c-
be, Mrs. e. O. Seymour, OF Chestse, Pa,
could reach his side.
A general strike of leather workers on
horse goods involving 103 cities aud
about 4 900 men was ordered In Chicago
yes terdsy by the executive board OF the
|, teruallonal Brotherhood OF Leather
Workers on Horse Goods. The strike
will 20 into effect on Monday. The de-
mands ars for increased wages and an
eight.hour day.
To save q man and wife from what
looked like certain deIth 10 Ere In the
three. story building at Is FIRST street,
New York, yesterday morning, g fir
man hung by his legs from q fire lad
der aud swung the man and woman to q
second fireman who was haDging BY his
legs from o Gre. escape four and q half
feet across an aTeaWay.
A dispatch from Marlnetie, Wis, says
a sensational attempt upon the life OF
District Attorney A. E. SchWittsy, who
narrowly escaped being slain by bullet
fred through the window OF his home,
took place the night following the pub
lIcstiou In his paper OF charges that
United States Senator S epheusOn psys
taxes upon only email potion OF his
wealth. There Is no clue to the ideI THY
OF the Would-bs murderer
Something like an epidemic Of suicides
due to neurssthenia and melancnolis,
was recently observed 10 St. Petersburg,
and further attention was called 10 it
yesterday by the Ell eide of three girls
Of social status, one OF them heittss to
$40, 900, 900. The three met, and, after
one OF them had played Ohopin's fu 1srsl
march, all drank poison and died. They
left letters saying they were tired OF life.
Fifteen othsr suicides, mostly girl', we're
reported yesterday.
A contract for one million yards OF
the new olive drab cotton cloth for
army uniforms hiss been awarded 10 the
Smith Bogg Company, selling SCENTS for
the Massachusetts Cotton Mills, OIL
Lowell. The cloth Is to be sold to the
government at 2Si cents yard, or
total OF 1882. 1900. The 0ao Goeigs
Company, Of Philadelphia, Is awarded
q contract for O hundred tn Il and yards
OF this cloth at the same price.
John e. Redmond, ltaisr OF the Irish
parliamentary party, speaking st New
castle Wednesday night. predicted q
general election within month. Hence,
be said, as the United Safes hal COZ
tributed nearly three fop tths OF the $780,
600 which the last elections had cost
the Irish party, be hoped their American
brethren would help them 10 the coming
election.
John Smith Kirk, 70 years old, chief
clerk OF the personal tax division OF
the District OF Oolumbis, was found
dead 10 bath tub In his apartment at.
the Home spartmerts, Seventh street !
and Massachusetts Avenus northwest,
Washington, late yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Kirk had been In Ill health for
some months, aud he had been despon.
dent for two weeks. The bath tub was
full OF water. When discovered the
head had fallen In such manner as ID
be between the knees, and the hande
we're raised as II the man had, after
slrangIDg, attempted to draw his body
from tle tub.
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