Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-05-31
NEWS OF THE IA \ .


hail, caused great damage IN southern
Germany yesterday. Six houses 10
a village in the Grand Durhy Of Baden
were swept away by the storm and Il
persons were drowned. -Four persons
were drowned near Heidelberg, where
a mill was washed away. Elrht inches
OF rain fell at various places in the
south. destroying fruit trees and crops
and killing birds by the whole sale.
Following a meeting at Oklahoma
City Monday more than 1000 men
marched to the city hall and demanded
the resignation OF Mayor Lackey, who,
with the City Council, has refused to
vacate his Office in favor 81 the new
NEGLECTED mayor and the city commits.
sioners. A message from Whit Nj.
Grant. the successful mayoralty can
didate in the recent election, asking
the angry crowd to wait the decision OF
the court, brought an end to the dis
turbance.
An uprising which resulted in the
killing of 40 persons and the sacklng
of stores, government offices and phi
vate homes occurred Monday night at
Cholula, town with population OF
about 1000, eight miles from Puehla,
Mexico. The rebels set fire to the
town. which is threatened with de.
struc,ion. Mob rule prevails at Chol-
ula, and it is feared that Puebla may
be attacked.
Reasons advanced al the weekly
meeting Monday Of the Methodist
Ministers Association Of Cincinnati,
condemning the courts for allowing
George B. Cox to escape prosecution
NAV result in the arrest OF these MN
listers for contempt of court. The
ministers challenge Judge Dickson 10
90 ahead and prefer the charges.
They are all agreed, they say, that
they will stard together and tight
him.
Reuben Combs, a young farmer Of
Stonypoint, Irebell county, \. g., was
taken to jail at StatesrilIe yesterday
charged with the murder OF his
wife. aged IL. Last Thursday morn
ing. Combs alarmed lis neighbors by
saving his wife had left home in her
sleep and had been found dead IN a
COW lot After the burial, it was
learned that he had bought strych-
zine recently. The body was exhnmed
and strvchnine was found III the
stomach. Combs is said TO have con-
iessed having given his wife the poison
in a glass Of milk while at suppe. the
night of her death. The couple had
been married only four months.
James White and Matthew White,
father and son, were slain at their
home at Sac City, Iowa, early yester-
day morning. Clifford Wilson Is IN
charged with the crime, while posse
is searching for an unidentified man
alleged to have been with Wilson at
the time OF the tragedy. Will White,
a son Of James White also was arrested
for alleged completely III the killing.
I, is stated today that Will Nhlle;
his brother, Matthew: Wilson, and
the stranger were ordered out OF the
White home by James White, the
father. who was 80 years old, shortly
after midnight, for creating a dlstu'-
bance. A few minutes later the aged
man fell, fatally injured. He died
within an hour. Matthew was shot
down al almost the same time.
4 dispatch from Melbourne. Aus
tralia, SAYS illiam Morris Hughes.
acting premier OF the commonwealth.
IN a remarkable article which he has
contributed to the Sydney Telegraph,
declares that Australia will never
agree. except at the swords point,
to admit japanese Immigrants, even
should such refusal mean separation
from the mother country.
Two boys struck by lighting, one
probably fatally injured, three fires.
and tie absence OF light III the entire
northern portion of Cincinnati, are
the results OF an electrical and ram
sto,m that visited Cincinnati last
night.
The police in New Britain, Conn.
are securing the outskirts of the CITY
today for two highwaymen who last
week held up a 4-year old boy at
pistol point, while be was on his way
to store. and robbed him OF all his
overwhelmingly, FIVE shiny pen-
MES which he was about to invest III
candy. Indignant at the smalIncss OF
their haul. the two men beat the child
and then thew him into freight car
in the railroad yards, locking the door
behind him. The lad. Peter Gorrtl,
was found in the car Monday weak
from hunger and freight.
4 special cable from Rome says:
Owing to the steady increase OF Cath
olics in the United States the Pope has
decided that Americna should IN the
future be represented by two cardinals
in the sacred college The red hat
will probably be conferred upon Arch
bishop Patrick w. Riordau. OF San
Francisco. This will give equal pres,
tige to the east and the west
The drouth Of some weeks was broken
in Cumberland. Md, yesterday after
noon by storm OF cloudbursr proper
tons. which flooded the streets and
lett on them much debris carried down
from the surrounding hills. The storm
was not o! wide area.
Now is the time to get rid of your