Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-12
News Of the Day.

Harry A. Lapgdo1, o-e OF the best
k1oWn survivors of the old-time school
OF American actors, died yesterday at tie
Actors Flu i'd hrms 10 NV York. Lang.
don was born IN Phila ielphia In 1927.
VITA 5000 acres burned over, ST.
Mary's CT uuty, Md, is fighting one OF
the wort forest 6rea In Ills histr7. The
loss Is fully $50. 900, snd will be more
uuless rain falls quickly. Stale Forester
B :sley, vino srrived share today, organ:-
zsd company OF 6re6gh'ers which went
out yesterday and is still at work.
Four peraons were seriously I'M ,ed tc-
day 10 trolley crash st Fifth and South
streets, Philadelphia, when Fssnkfotd
car stuck Paramount Park csr. The
park car, struck In the middle, was burl.
ed 10 the pavement and turned over.
The collision ives due TO caIelessness or
Inc perience of the potorman on t1s
Frankford car.
"All alive 2 2. N. November a."
This, tho latest meassage from the fsta!
s.. Paul coal mine FIRE q. Cherry, H.,
vas brought to light yesterday with the
recovery of 81 bodies which bad been
entombed since the disaster of last No
vember Is. The bodies we're taken from
the lowest level, 500 feet below ground.
The men bad re,rest:d to spscs 20 feet
square and had constructed rude fen
of boards to keep the air circulating.
Seventeen physicians of LBS Angeles,
Oal., assisted at an operation Saturday
Tor tae removal Of table knife nine
inches long from the stomach OF Mrs.
Sarah OsrlsoD, en- insane woman. The
operation was successful and Mr.. Oarl.
son is recovering. The knife lad been
In the stomach Of the woman for several
hours before the physicians could be In
ducsd to believe that the woman Rho
told of having swallowed 1t was not
joking 5ou: the ma tr.
A cyclone, carrying with If msuy cot
tsges, lrees and timber, s1ep. nwey the
southern suburbs Of Pine Bluff, Ark,
yesterday afternoon. Buildings were
demolished, lSees Uprooted, fences blown
away aud much other dsnsgs dons to
prop r:y of telephone and telegraph
com panes. A woman was blown from
hsr home and carried iato the air. She
was caught in telephone wires, and her
screams att.ao cd several men, who got
ladders snd let her down with rope.
She VAS u5iriured
10 the discovery of the body Of Fred.
erick q. Smith under pile OF soot in
tho bottom OF the 1902 foot.sm okestack
Of shop in Ausouis, Conn, the Su nor.
tiles bslieve, Is revealed probably the
most remarkable suicide In the history
OF the state. Both legs we're broken,
aud the police expressed the belief thar
Smith climbed to the top of the stack
end jumped down IUside. He YES lssl
seen eiVe the week following Chris.mas,
when he appeared one day abtu; two
o'clock In the boile, room aud ssked to
be allowed to warm himself by the FIRE
Alb: the time tle Mississippi Sc 1ate
r.sUmsd Its probing into tie bribery
scandal at Jackson yesterday an uproar
wss heard In the House eide OF the Gap
itol. Those who reached that side fr.t
fouod Representative Frank Burkett and
director OF Archives and History Dun.
bar Rowland engaged 10 rough-snd.
tumble fight. Burkeit, orca ea1d-
da.e for vice president on the populist
ticset, but now democrat end very
large man, was being vigorously pume!-
led. H. Enslly got cut trcna uader his
smaller antagonist and hit him DC thF
head " tt cane. The blow rendered
Rowland urconsclous. The row Is cup
posed 10 have s'ait?i ovtr The bribery
iuvt st;gation. Rowland is not believed
10 be seritu'ly bnit.
Dr.. W. R Miller and Mrs. J. B
SaYler we're found guilty in Watseka,
ILL.,, of manelauebt.r for lbe Staying lasl
July OF J. Bryan Sayler, banker, Of
Crescent City. John Crnndeu, med-
cine vender ron, Oklshon a, father of
Mr.. Sayler, was acquitted. Punish,
meOt was fixed by the jury q. II years
imprisonment for Dr.. Miller and years
for Mrs. sayler. J. B. sa3ler was sbot
dead in the parlor OF his home By DR.
Miller. Friends of Sayler alleged that
there was pit between Mrs. Ssyler
and d.. Miller, who were great friends
to get rid Of Say!er. The defendants al
lag5d hat Mr.. Ssyler, .ielding hat
Chef, attacked DR.. Miller without prov
ocation and tina. the doctor acted in
aelf. defense.