Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

When Henry Klein, boilermaker,
was shot By Antonio Jennings in Ben
bow City, H., Monday, the injured
man calmly picked the bullet and two
broken teeth from his mouth and dared
bis assailant to fire again. Jennings
fed, but was captured in Granite City.
Michael Scudno, driver of an ash
cart in Bayonne, N. j., yesterday found
bag containing $4,000 in cash in a
barrel which be emptied. He remem.
bered where be had gotten the bag and
took it back. He says he was rewarded
with gift OF rs cents.
A dispatch from Georgetown, British
Guiana, says Rev. 0. E. Davis, super
intendent of the British Guiana mission
of the Seventh Day Adventist denomi
nation, the headquarters of which are
near Washington, D. c., has been
murdered in the interior while prosely-
tlzing among the natives.
Giovanni Ricci, who recently went to
Chicago from Orient, Pa, was shot and
killed there Monday night and tho po-
lice believe that the Black Hand So
ciety is responsible for the murder.
The CHILEAN steamer Tucapel has
been wrecked and is total loss. Eighty
one persons we. drowned. The
steamer Tucapel was engaged in trad
ing on the west coast OF South America
G. E. Griffin, mayor of Jackson,
Tenn, stands indicted in the criminal
court for the alleged offense Of being
intoxicated in public. Magistrate J. T.
Rushing also has been indicted on a
similar charge.
Hazel Ruth Martin, 1-year-old
daughter of Peter and Ada Martin, OF
Cearfoss, Md, was drowned Monday
evening IN q crock containing two
quarts of water. Mrs. Martin was in
the yard hanging up the days wash and
the child was playing on the grass.
Crawling to the crock the child, when
the mothers back was turned, fell with
her head in the water and straneled to
death.
Arthur Slusher, superintendent of
public schools in Grant county, w.
Va, was instantly killed Monday by
lightning. He took refuge from Sc
we're storm in an old building by the
roadside, which was struck by light
mig and wrecked, causing the school
officials death.
Instead OF ordering the federated
shop employees Of the Illinois Central
Railroad to strike, representatives OF
the nine international organizations
involved in Chicago last night, after an
all-day conference, decided to send
reply to the letter 10 which c. H.
Markham, president of the road, fatty
refused to recognize the officers of the
system federation.
Thomas Her, milkman, was
drowned near Gilmore, Neb., yester-
day in 1000 gallons of buttermilk.
Her was driving a tank containing the
buttermilk to Gilmore when the wagon
dropped into depression in the road
and was overturned. The tank burst and
the milk filled the depression. Her
was caught beneath the tank. Occu-
pants OF a passing automobile pulled
the body from the sea Of milk half
hour later.
William Brigan, of Worcester, Mass,
is in a serious condition in hospital
in Philadelphia as the result of three
days confinement in refrigerator car.
The man, who is 80 years old, was
found unconscious and nearly frozen
between two sides OF beef in the car
when it arrived at Germantown Monday
from, Buffalo. Brigan says be entered
the car last Saturday with the intention.
of coming to Philadelphia and did not
take into consideration the low temper
ature. The doors we're locked at But
talo, and failing to get them open or at
tract attention, he fell into stuporand
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