Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-22
NEWS OF TILE DAY,

Bessie Smith, 20 years old, OF Spart'
auburg, s. c., clad in stripes and sent
With other convicts to the rock pile,
is the first white woman ever thus
treated in. spartanburg. The woman
was convicted of keeping disorderly
house.
More than $50 women and children
excursionists were inperiled yesterday
when the Tourist. a new passenger
boat on the Calumet River. was burned
to the waters edge while running from
Hammond to Riverdale, Ind. The
boat was beached to save the passen.
gers. Fire broke out in the hold OF
the boat near the engine rooms while
the craft was in midstream. Flames
pouring out Of the port holes precipitat-
ed panic among the passengers, who
fed from cabins and the lower portions
OF the boat and gathered on the upper
deck. Before the captain ordered the
pilot to beach the boat, many Of the
passengers jumped overheard into
shallow water and waded ashore. A
plumber were cut and bruised.
Fire broke out on the Coney Island
pleasure boat, John Sylvester, with
several hundred passengers aboard,
while passing out Of New York Bay
Yesterday afternoon. The steamer was
steered to dock at Fort Hamilton as
q precaution, in the event the blaze got
beyond control. The vessels crew
put out the FIRE before any great dam
age was done, or serious alarm spread
among the passengers. No one was
hurt and after it was certain the tlre
was out the steamer continued to Coney
Island.
Dallas Clements, 26 years old, shot
and killed his wife. Mrs. Fay Clements,
10 lunchroom at Des Moines, Iowa,
yesterday afternoon, and then turned
the pistol upon himself. He was taken
to hospital, where be died. Mrs.
Clements was seated at a table in the
lunchroom when her husband entered
and without warning shot her 10 the
head. Jeslousy is believed to have
been the cause of the tragedy.
Former President Theodore Roose.
welt, ia letter to Alexander P. Moore,
editor OF the Pittsburg Leader, says: j
must ask not only you but every friend
I have to see to it that no movement
whatever is made to bring me. forward |
for the nomination in 1912. I should
esteem it genuine calamity il sucha |
movement were undertaken.
A powerful automobile going at the
rate of 70 miles an hour, struck another
touring car bound cityward, a few
minutes before last midnight, causing
the death Of one OF the men in the high.
powered machine and the Injury Of
four other persons on Park Heights
Avenue, near fancy Lane in the viciu
ity Of Baltimore.
William F. Stuart, liveryman, OF
Harper's Ferry. was killed by pessen-
ger train while crossing the railroad
bridge at that place yesterday after
noon. 60
When she was told that the wagon in
which her father aud mother we're
riding had been struck by an automo-
bile, Adele Kourhi, 8 years old, OF
Matteawap, N. Y, went into con.
WILSON'S aud died yesterday.
Fifty lives are believed to have been
lost in the wrecking of the Schooner
Rover. near Barbados. The United
has received message from
The steamship Coppename stating that
the latter vessel bad passed the wreck
81 the Rover several days ago. The
Bower left Georgetown, British Guiana,
Oh July 26 for Barbados. There is
great anxiety in these two cities, as
most OF those on board the Rover have
left large families.