Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-23
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

John DAILY, better known as "Chica-
60 Jack" Daily, former pugilist, yes
terday testified before Municipal Judge
Hines. in Chicago, that he received
$50 from William ]. Boomer, said
to be former organizer for the Chicago
Photographed Union, and John Oh
son. printer, for assaulting Rush
Y. Demon, non-union printer, who
died January 16, 1911, as result
Of his injuries. Boener and Olson
are under arrest, charged with con-
spiracy in connection with the crime.
Samuel Cassidy, said to have been
employed by DAILY, was in court and
admitted striking the blow that re.
suited in Demons death. DAILY testl.
fed that be employed Cassidy,
'NIumie" Wilson and John White, to
whom he paid IS each.
Attorney General Wickersham, who
is staying at the Mount Washington
Hotel was asked if there is any
foundation for the report that he is
about to resign. Mr.. Wickersham
said: There is 10 truth whatever
in the report. I have not resigned,
and do not intend to do so. "
Snow was falling heavily in the
eastern and central sections of France.
last night. The thermometer in Paris
registered 60.
Two identified white men set fire
to the clothing of Dora Summers, 90
years old, Yesterday afternoon, and
left her lying dazed on cot to burn
to death in her apartment at 7O5 Four
an-a-half street southwest. Her con-
dition was reported to be critical.
She refused to divulge the names OF
the men, but declared that one OF
them had thrown a lighted oil lamp
at her, setting fire to her skirt, and
then fed.
A special dispatch from Kaltag,
Alaska, says: Masked men held up
car on the Idatarod fiat tramway
one and half miles from Flat City
Thursday and stole strong box con-
tanning $50, 900 in gold dust. the
property Of Friend, Lawson & James.
1t was estimated last night that so
persons were killed by the recent
storm in Naples. Great quantities of
mud and stones were swept down the
sides OF Mount Vesuyius.
President Taft had heart-to heart
talk in Peoria, ILL.,, yesterday with the
leaders OF the different republican
factionsin Illinois; defined his status as
to progressiveness, pleaded guilty to be-
ing a very poor politician, acknowledged
again that bis ambition had lain in the
direction OF the Office OF chief Justice,
rather than the presidency; admitted
that he had undoubtedly made many
mistakes, but asserted that as president
he had tried to do what he thought to
be right. What the future held for
him he did not know; lie would GO
ahead doing the best he could. Mr..
Taft declared he was not allied with the
extremists OF his party. either conser-
vatives or progresSives, but had tried
to take a middle ground between the
two.
A strong earthquake shock was felt
in the Prince William Sound county of
Alaska, Thursday night, but its extent
cannot be learned because the earth
quake severed the cable connecting
Sitka and Valdez, 100 miles south Of
the latter place. An earth shock
OF unusual intensity was recorded short
~ after midnight yesterday morning
by the instruments at Georgetown Uni
versity. The disturbance began at
1910 o'clock, ending at 1851. At
1927 o'clock the greatest agitation was
recorded, the registration being % mill
imeters. Usually two or three MILL
meters are registered by the needles.
Dimirtri Bogroff, the assassin Of
Premier Stolypin, was tried at Kiev
yesterday by cOurtmartial and SEN
fenced to death by hanging. Bogroff
declined counsel He did not betray
any Of his accomplices. He heard the
sentence Of death pronounced without
even 4 trcmOr.
When j. Y. Harris, Dallas, Tex, a
street car conductor, was tshot and kill
ed yesterday afternoon by d. /. Hoff-
man, street car motorman, homicide
No. Al for the city of Dallas in the IS
weeks OF the current year, since Janu-
AIRY 3, 1911, was recorded. Dallas, for
the last three years, has been afflicted
with crime wave OF homicide, the
killings averaging more than one per
week for that period.