Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-12
NEWS OF TILE DAY.

CAL, In vars shook the business Duiiu-
ings at $40 clock yesterday afternoon
with such severity that the occupants
fled into the streets. The damage was
trivial. A previous shock had been
felt at 1920 =. m. A slight earth
quake shock was felt at Los Angeles at
$40 p. III. Yesterday.
There is some apprehension re-
garding the cholera in France, but up
to the present no bacteriologically es-
tablished eases are reported except at
Marseilles, where it is agreed that
there are 81 cases. Some wealthy
families have left the country for resi-
dence elsewhere until the plague dis
appears. Every precaution in the
matter of quarantine has been taken.
Brig. Gen. Alverd Bayard Nettleton,
former Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, and civil war veteran, died
suddenly Thursday night in Chicago.
The body will be cremated in Chicago
and the ashes brought to Washington.
The government powder magazine
at San Jose, Costa Rica, exploded from
an unknown cause yesterday. Ser.
eral persons were killed and many
others wounded. A large number OF
houses were thrown down. Showers
OF broken glass fell throughout the
city, bus; ness was interrupted for half
an hour, and all the schools were
closed. The people we're alarmed by
the noise and shock.
IN consequence OF INSTRUMENTATION
in the Sixteenth Infantry, quartcred IN
Lisbon, Portugal, IS sergeants were
arrested yesterday. A part of the
Seventeenth Infantry at Beja planned
mutiny, under the leadership of a
,ub-lieutcnant, who, upon being de-
ncunced, committed suicide by cutting
his throat
After ho had shot and seriously
wounded his wife yesterday in Pontiac,
Mich, HoSard Lindabury, 40 years
old, former justice OF the peace, went
to cemetery and ended his life with
a bullet. The couple had been sepa-
rated for about year.
Prices Of beef are to be raised and
New York retail dealers say the adj
vance makes the cost Of meat pass the
high water mark of last fall. Prices
have been steadily advancing for two
weeks and the wholesalers say another
advance il to come. The wholesale
price Of headquarters of beef has
jumped from II 10 II cents, while
pork loins have gone up from 10 to 10
cents. Wholesalers say the cause OF
the present advance is the scarcity OF
good cattle in the west and southwest.
Yesterday at Spencer, n. c.. SEN
sational case of 'cow-hiding" took
place. George L. Webb, machinist,
! is alleged to have circulated reports
detrimental to Mrs. Fl. &. Sheriff.,
wife Of wel-knoTu citizen of Spencer.
The reports came to the ears Of Mr..
Sheriff., who told his wife. Without
waiting for her husband to settle with
Webb, Mrs. Sheriff., armed with a
whip, hunted up the machinlst, and
vigorously applied the lash, raining
blows over bis head and shoulders.
The husband appeared while this was
going on, but did not interfere. Mrs.
Sheriff. at once went to police head
quarters and confessed to charge OF
assault.
While rounding a sharp curve on
the outskirts of Blueheld, ". Va, last
night, an automobile, in which we're
seven passengers, struck q rock and
turned completely over several times.
James L. Booth, Of the Bluetield police
force, was pinned under the car and
died within 80 minutes. Six other
occupants Of the car were more or less
injured.
Tohn Wood, 81 years old, peddler,
charged with attempting to mistreat
Elizabeth Salaba, 10 years old, in Chi
cago, was pursued by locomotive, in
which the girls mother rode, before
being captured and turned over to
the police The mother saw the man
attack the girl and run down the rail
road track. She appealed to the en-
gineer Of locomotive, who agreed to
aid 10 the chase. The woman climbed
iutc the cab and moment later was
speeding after the pcddlsr. After a
chase Of mile the man was captured.
Taken for the car thieves they them
selves were hunting, Frank ]. Cook and
Dan Veerland, special officer for the
Lake Shore Railroad, were shot dead
late last night on the Michigan Central
tracks in Detroit. The man who did
the shooting, the police believe, is Will
liam Barnett, a Michigan Central de-
tective. He is locked up. The two
men are said to have jumped out at Bar
nett as he was patrolling the Michigan
Central tracks Whether they like
wise took him for car thief or whether
they recognized him and wished to
frighten him, is not known Barnett,
it is declared, thought they were thieves
attacking him, and he drew his revol-
yer and shot both. Cook was shot
through the head, and died instantly.
Ereeland was shot just above the
heart.
LASHED TO \ TREE.
William, Hap,aEar a 0I,arl AZ tLo