Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.


the capital OF Nicaragua yesterday and
appointed a new cabinet.
Major RathEone, who was with
President Lincoln at the time OF as
sassination, and afterward killed Mrs.
Rathbone, is reported to be dying IN a
German asylum.
The converted yacht Siren, purchased
during the SpanishAmerican war for
$40, 900, is to be discarded by the navy.
Thelvesscl is now at the Norfolk Navy
ward. Bids for the little vessel will
soon be asked for by the Navy De-
partment according to decision reach
ed yesterday.
George, the S-year-old son OF Frank
Filler, of Lavelle, near Pottsville, Pa,
died yesterday as the result OF eating
toadstools in mistake for mushrooms.
His parents and an older brother and
sister are in critical condition from
q like cause.
Alexander Burkitt, of Kittanning,
Pa, aged II, found a dynamite cap
week ago and on Monday attempted to
remove large stone from the yard OF
his home with it. He placed the cap
on the stone and hit it with a hammer.
The stone is still there, but Burkitt lost
his right hand.
After slashing his wife's throat with
large knife while she lay asleep Mon
day, J. c. Crump, farmer So years
old, of McKinny, KY, almost severed
his own head and died almost instantly.
His wife is fatally wounded. Crump
is believed to have gone suddenly in
sane.
Samuel J. Hirsh, of the firm of Hirsh
& Wickwre, clothing manufacturers, OF
Chicago, committed suicide yesterday
in his room at the Knickerbocker Hotel,
New York, by cutting his throat with
razor. Hirsh had been travelling in
Europe for his health and had been in
very nervous condition.
1t is asserted in Turin, Italy, on what
is regarded rs excellent authority that
the marriage of the Duke OF the Abb
ruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins will
take place the first OF next year Sena-
tor Elkins and his family, it is said
will be received by King Victor En-
manuel and Queen Helena at Rasconigi
within the next month. Afterward
the duke will 60 to New York and for
NAL announcement Of the bethrothal
will be made.
An attempt to commit suicide was
made yesterday in Biddeford, Me-. by
Richmond II. Ingersoll, former treas
urer OF the closed York County Savings
Bank. He cut his throat. and is in u
critical condition. 1t was announced
that the banks shortage is $3.50, 900.
Ingersoll looked himself in room in
the basement of his residence and
slashcd his throat with an old razor.
That he did not succeed in ending his
life was due to the fact that he was too
weak from illness believed due to an
atl empt OF suicide by poisoning.
Dynamitcrs of cars involved in the
strike in Columbus, Ohio, were more
successful last night than heretofore.
Three cars were partly wrecked and
four persons injured. The dynamiting
was the worst of the strike. Governor
Harmon last night was visited by w.
d. Mahon, president of the Garments
International Union, and other labor
leaders, who insisted that he make .
demand upon the Columbus Railway
and Light Company to agree to arbi-
tration.
A handsome, well-dressed unknown
woman was found dead in Il room on
the third floor of Young'S Hotel, Bos-
ton, yesterday afternoon, with a bullet
wound in the left breast, just over the
heart. She came to the hotel Sunday
morning last and registered as Clara
f. Moulton, Beverly" 1t is doubtful
if that is her right name. as the initials
G. b. c., are on the black handbag
which was her only baggage. There
is not the slightest clew to the woman's
identity. She had written on a scrap
of paper about an inch square the
words, Ill health.