Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-18
NEWS OF THE DAY,

refused to handle freight that had been
handled by non-union men. Many
others joined the strike on Saturday,
and traffic has been interrupted. Some
freight men OF the Great Northern, the
Midland, and the Great Western are
out in sympathy On Saturday the
strike seemed almost confined to Dub
lin, but yesterday it spread, and now
the Southeastern is the only railway
running into Dublin that is not affected.
Former United States Senator
Thomas Henry Carter, of Montana, for
many years notable and picturesque
figure in national politics, once head of
the republican national committee,
and since last March chairman OF the
American section of the international
joint commission died at his home in
Washington early yesterday morning
OF an affection of the lungs. He was
81 years old.
The Dixie ", world-famous racing
motorboat owned by Frederick K.
Burnham, OF New York city, got be.
You'd control of Mr.. Burnham off River
side park in the Niagara river Saturday
afternoon while running 80 miles an
Ihour in the last race OF the three-day
The crSs after making the
Feufn, sHeffed snSb y toward the river
bank, and at full speed headed toward
the riprap between the canal and the
river. Thousands OF persons we're
perched there. With the speed Of q
racing automobile the Dixie left the
river and mounted the bank, the crowd
being cut apart almost like waves oil
water. A woman and two boys were
unable to escape. The woman is Mrs.
Elmer Bell. She was bit liz the face by
the prov of the Dixie and knocked
down. Her son Harold, Is years old,
was hurled with great force to the
Jagged rocks. His pelvis and skull were
fractured. He cannot live.
Cicero Thompson, carpenter, aged
As, was killed, and a woman CON-
panion, whom he was accompanying
home, was attacked by an unidentified
negro at Ortego, suburb of Jackson.
vile, Fla, early yesterday morning.
The white couple had taken the last
car home, and we're accosted by the
negro about half mile from the car
line. Without preliminaries the negro
fired point blank at Thompson, killing
him instantly. The woman stood
terror stricken and was next attacks
by the negro. The locality is sparsely
settled, and no one heard the shots OF
the screams at the time. The woman
finally regaineh consciousness anc
sought some neighbors, and the alarm
was given. A posse was formed, and
the woods in the vicinity have been
secured without result.
Nine persons were killed and four
teen injured, some Of them seriously
as the result OF an accident during the
closing miles of a 50-milc automobile
race at the state fair track. Syracuse.
n. Y, yesterday afternoon. when a
Knox racing car, driven by Lee Old,
field leaped from the track, crashed
through the fences surrounding it, and
plunged into the throngs that lined the
other side OF the speedway. Six of the
nine people were killed outright and
four others we're so badly injured that
they died later.
Upon the result OF a conference to be
held at Wilmington today between the
strikingscar repairers of the Atlantic
Coast Line shops here and the com
pauy's superintendent of motive power,
R. E. Smith will depend whether a
general strike, affecting not only the
car repairers, but probably the machin.
lists, blacksmiths. boilermakers, and
freight engineers and conductors OF the
entire system, will be called.
The Spanish ministry of the interior
is authority for the statement that the
Barcelona lpolice have unearthed an
elaborate revolutionary plot. A cam
paign is to be directed by committee
composed of Spanish and foreign anar.
chists acting with a certain political
group which willinclude general strikes
the cutting of wires the dynamiting Of
railroads, and the furcible prevention Of
the publication of newspapers. The
strike situation in Bilbao, is now under
the control of the troops.
While driving to the mines of the
Superior Coal Company, near Pitts
burg, Saturday, with the semi. monthly
pay for the miners. David Steen wa:
shot and almost instantly killed by
highwaymen. His father, William ].
Steen, who was in the buggy with him.
caught the body of bis sou as it toppled
over. The money, So, 400 was saved.
Two Italians have been arrested. The
shooting occurred almost within q
stones throw Of the Steen residence
near Woodville.
The now famous statue, said to be
the image of Miss Natalie Barney, as
done by her sister, formerly Miss Laura
Alice Barney, which was withdrawn
from public gaze a year ago after its
presence on the lawn of the home Of
the former Mrs. A. G. Barney. now the
bride of Christian Hemmick, is about
to come forth again. Once more The
undraped figure is to be placed on the
lawn of Studio House, Sheridan circle
the Barney home, Washington.
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