Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-09
NEWS OF TILE DAY.

excursion train just in from Ocean
City. Tho cause, it is said, was the
failure OF railroad employees to hold the
trian long enough for ell the passengers
to get off in safety. The accident is
particularly sad, as it is generally re.
ported that Mr. Lawson endeavored to
persuade hi. wife not to take the trip.
and their children were present when
she VAS run dow.
Hanging to the slush tank in the
bathroom, the body of Mrs Mary E.
Rowan, wealthy widow, was found
shortly after noon yesterday On the top
floor Of the big marble mansion at No.
4 Riverside Drive, New York. The body
had evidently been hanging there for a
week or more. A note from the sui
eide lead as follows: "Only family
troubles made me do this. I am not
crazy. only heartbroken.'
The report of the water department of
the District OF Columbia completed by
w. A. Mcfarland, superintendent, has
been submitted to Commissioner John
stem. Supt Mcfarland, Commissioner
Judson, and Acknowledgment Com
missioner Markham have been con-
sidering an increase in rates, to 60 into
effect July i.
John W. Gates died at $50 O'Clock
this morning in Paris. The remark
able fight to save the life of the fnau-
cer, in which some of the leading
physicians of France, England, and
the United States have participated, has
attracted the attention of the entire
medical world.
The body of Karl P. Bickel, mana
ger OF the Baptist Church Publishing
House of Cleveland, O.. was found
banging to hook in closet yesterday
at the home OF friend, whose home
he was occupying during the summer.
Melancholy over the death of his wife
is given as the cause OF the suicide.
Mr.. Bickle was 6fty-two years old. He
had been in a sanitarium, but va:
taken out by his brother, a missionary,
who has just returned from japan.
Mrs. Letitia White Owen, lecturer,
church worker, and reputed founder
OF the American Boys and Girls Indus
trial League, for whom the police OIL
many cities OF the United States, and
churches and fraternal organizations
have been conducting q countrywide
search, because OF her alleged abduc.
ton Of Marian Beruadette Harris, IL
years of age, of Washington, more than
a year ago, was arrested yesterday in
Wiley, Colo.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Richard L.
Sullivan are frantically searching for
their pretty 15-year-old daughter, Kath-
crime, Rev. Bonayenture Piscope, oil
the Immaculate Conception Italian
Catholic Church, Pittsburg, is wonder
ing where his Young assistant, Rev.
Francis Donatella has disappeared.
Father Donatella is 26 years old.
Admiral Count Togo paid formal
visit to both houses of Congress yes
terday, and thanked the members for
bis cordial reception in this country.
In both the Senate and the House be
was enthusiastically applauded, each
chamber recessing to allow the mem
bers to shake his hand.
| Hanging having failed him as 4
means of suicide, Jeane Baptiste Buis,
a French immigrant, fired six bullets
into bis ear Sunday night at Los An
geles, CAL, and was still alive yester-
day. Five bullets lodged about bis ear
drum, but the sixth entered the brain.
Rev. Mr.. Richmond, OF Philadelphia,
is still denouncing the proposed mar
riage. He said yesterday: 1t is an
outrage on American decency; it
arouses all our moral anger. 1t is IN
holy in origin, sinful in procedure and
its end will be defiance of Gods laws.
1t is marriage of convenience. Aston
wants another beauty. Our girls and
women are money-mad. Lust and
lucre rule along the avenues Of the
smart set. Some of old. time bishops
loved to toady to this set. Not SO to-
day. We are following Christ, not
Wall street. There is not an Episcopal
clergyman in America or England
whom John Jacob Astor can buy to
perform his wedding ceremony"
Lsboring under the hallucination
that the ghost of her husband, who
committed suicide little more than 8
year ago, was haunting her, Mrs.
Johanna D. Winkler, 63 years old, a
resident of Lansdowne, Md, threw her.
self before fast-moving express of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yesterday
morning and was instantly killed.
According to dispatch from Astra-
bad, Persia, Mohammed Ali Mira has
won his first fight against the govern
ment forces, whom he defeated at
Damghan at the northern foot of the
Elbruz Mountains, so miles south Of
Astrabad. The battle is said to have
been hard fought The ex-shah's Tur-
comans finally took the town by storm,
capturing guns and ammunition, their
supply OF which had been short.
Edward Hartlett, the alleged kidnap-
| per and horse thief, for whom the all.
thorities OF Virginia, Maryland and the
District OF Columbia have been eagerly
searching for the last three weeks, wrote
letter to a Washington paper Monday
announcing his intention of commit
ing suicide. He told the details Of his
troubles and Of how he has evaded the
officers He said ha would never be