Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

John r. Pfeiffer, recently candidate
for sheriff, committed suicide yester-
day by hanging from beam in bis
Toulouse at Pfeifiers Cornor, Howard
county, five miles from Ellicott City,
Md.
In sight of vast crowd at the
South Georgia Exposition at Tifon,
Ca, yesterday afternoon, Capt. John
Brodc fell 700 feet from his balloon,
and was instantly killed. Brodie's
parachute failed to fill, and be plunged
to earth like shot.
Mrs. Mary Suydam, so years old,
for many years resident OF Liberty
vile, H., committed suicide Wednes.
day night by hanging herself in the
cellar Of the residence Of her SOD.
Bishop James A. Handy, OF the
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
died iu Baltimore last night, aged So
wears. He served as financial secre-
tary of bis denomination for "a years,
and was elected bishop 10 1892.
The unrest in Panama has caused
the United States to rush troops to the
Canal Zone.
William Elroy Curtis, well-known
traveller, journ Hist, and writer on po.
iitical topics, OF Washington, D. c.,
died suddenly in his room in a hotel
IN Philadelphia last night. He was
81 wears OF age. Mr.. Curtis was boru
in Akron, Ohio, in 1850.
Attempted appropriation OF kisses
from pretty girls passing the corner
of Fulton street nsd Flatbush avenue
Brooklyn. led to the appearance in
the Flatbush Court yesterday OF Mich
olas Fairchild a good-looking law
student, 81 years old, on charge OF
disorderly conduct. Policeman Tobin
said Fairchild intercepted five or six
sgeet-faced Brooklyn girls and tried
to kiss them He was found guilty,
hut sent nee w IS suspended
The movement TO liquidatc the debt
OF about $4,000 on Continental
Memorial Hall, the headquarters of
the Daughters OF the American Reyo-
luton in Washington is meeting with
success, according to report made
to the national board OF management.
The money is being raised by the
sale OF liquidating certificates. The
officers OF the organization reported
the Daughters OF the American Revo'
luton in flourishing condition. The
membership is said to have grown to
more than $4,000.
The formation OF ten.year Burnley
tobacco pool, including the establish
| ment OF great cooperative factory
at Lexington, KY, for the manufac-
ture OF Burley pooled tobacco, was
finally assured yesterday, when James
| B. Haggin, n New York financier,
signed contract to pool his crop and
became one Of the leading stockholders
in the manufacturing operations.
Haggin annually produces the largest
Burley crop in the world, and his con-
nection with the pool assured its sue
cess, it IS said. The enterprise Is to be
capitalized at S., 100000.
Although Miss Catherine B. Park
who died at the City Home in Cam
bridge, Mass, September +, was sup
posed TO have been dependent upon
charity, search OF her late home
revealed approximately $4,000 10
various .ections OF the house, under
mattresses, 10 books. vases and clocks,
was found nearly $4,000 in gold and
paper currency. Three bank books,
"a III showing deposits amounting 10
81 600. also we're discovered.
When United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson found that his expenses
for nomination at the primaries in
1905 were running 50 high that items
for beer and cigars alone amounted TO
$50, 600 and the aggregate was fast
approaching the final total OF Slo1,
t1e3 he demonstrated and told his
campaign managers. L want to win
the nomination, but don't want to
buy it. =
According to the latest adviees, the
Italian flag last night vas floating
over a dismantled fortress at Trlpoil.
The Turks have not capitulated but
have retired to the interior. The ltai-
ians have landed small forces and at
.overal noints along Il coast to Berg
hast. There will be Emo landing in
force until the maiu expedition arrives.
small bodies of Arabs skirmished with
The landing forces. Some OF the IN
habitan.s of Tripoll displayed enthus,
| asm when they saw the Italians land
| ling from the cruiser Giuseppe Carl.
baldi. Italian warships bombarded
aDerna and Berghast.