Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-05
News OF the Day.

Mrs. Ssnnegsli Jscss2n, who Hss The
guest OF Mra IIsier FIR Ire past Tort
night, left Washington staterday ter her
home in Tcnrtaste.
Miss Lille Rsifuer. lG yiara old,
operator a, the Tuxedo Exchange, wss
attacked by sn unknown Shi;e mau ca
Il l7edere avenue, near Roland avenue,
Bsiimcra, yest ,rGsy evening aud robeeh.
A criminal assault waa attempted by
the man, but tho screams Of lie g'fl
frightened him s#sy.
Falling sansslcss to th3 Ao1r Of Hol7
Trinity Catholic Church. Wasting %,
ghe.s she wss attending vei2e!s last
night, Miss Margaret a. Sn'liga7, sixty
five years old, formerly & school teacher
10 Washington, died three niDutcs sfler
ehs IVES carried 70 the pricsss NJ u'e.
Heart disease vas the cEu'e OF des!h.
Unable 10 cf1cc: an organization be.
crulc OF The deadlock ov;r the admission
Of the miners delegates from Illinois,
be lint wege conference OF the blum
iuous coal operators aud m!iar1 CT OHIO,
Indiana and Pcnpsgl'a 1ia adjourned st
Toledo, Ohio, last night, sioa die, No
provision was made fc. srother meeting.
William T. Fisher eho. and Killed
E bel Barnard, With whom he Lived In
"a apartment house in New York, and
then shot himself YESTERDAY afternoon,
diving couple cf hlu.s later. Fisher,
Hho was aboat IS years old, dressed we'll
and seemed to 1--we c0mICrtably Without
labor. Tie girl WAS only year or two
over 90 and was pretty. The police
learned that she had been On The stage.
The couple bad baen qrArrallng.
awhile showing hes toys to her liItle
friends whom che bad invited to a doll
patty last uipht, Rose Marshall, 4 years
old, The only daughter Of MIR, and
Mrs. D. J. Marshall. of Washington,
va. fatally burned when her clothing
was igui;ed by The h.a: o! stoTc. She
vas removed to the II 'meopathc Hospl-
tai and despite The th,r.s To save her
Lille, SIC succpmbed to hsr itju-es st ii
O'Clock.
Estelle Z. Gibbs, colorad eirl, II
years cid, o. Ho6okzu, n j, received
yesterday The brst prizH, q gold medal,
at the graduating exercises OF the Hl-
bokau public school pupils. She had
tina Highest average of any public school
scholar 10 the ci;y-99 3 per cent In
six su'jacta. The medal was presented
By May or Gonzalez. There are 10000
white pupils Ia The achooIs and only
II colorsd. Oaly eleven colored tsm!-
lies live 10 II >boke?,
William RuckheiD, farmer, eyed 80
yaara, murdered bis vile and I, ur chill
drsu snd sbot himself Thursday nigh: at
ParRers Prsii;e, Mlpn. Rackhsim de.
Glazed that be bad rscsivcd & divine
command to proceed t. csEtaiu grs7e-
yard, where &c aad bis family Eefe to
*! me several bodiea, u;ing only taeIr
bsre hands. Un'ess this con- Dand was
carried Gu! before Easter, Ru kheim ssid
he aad his family would be
dragged TO dsath. Ailsr exsmiag the
graveyard a5d finding that it 1ouId be
impss3ibla 10 peffoim Inc !ssE ca &C.
count of The frozen grui6, Ruckheim
said he had killed his family to escape
divine veneeEcc.
Ben sniu LenoVits, proprietor CT The
Farmers aod Merchants E1.el, 1920
NJ direct northwest, Washington, was
s~inded out Of 81, 100 on Thursday
afternoon while negotiating With three
New Yorkers for the sale ot the hos!elry.
Tbs prospective pu:ehsSfr represented
himself as "Harry Mmcas, million aIre
horse onner and cluonsn." The million
site wiahed to buy tho hct.l and give it
as present to bis valet, Gaze Il erris,"
who 1ss soon to be married. /. vss
agreed that Marcus shoIld ra7 Sc, 900
ior The hotel. To shoH ih:t be was in
enod faith, Lonoeis saya he deposited
81, 100 with "Mr. Wilson, The par.
ties were to meet y'strdsy afternoon
abea tn, contamination OF the deal WAS
to have been msdc 1kc whereabouts
OF Marcus AID Wilson ers S: present
upkuORn,