Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-06-17
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the State Department yesterday tolo
the House committee on expenditures
in that department that he had bee"
instructed when the missing voucher III
the Day port. ait case under investiga
ton, was found on the floor OF his o.
fee, a few days ago. to keep still about
the discovery. This instruction, he
said, was given him by Wilbur j. Carr,
cl.ief OF the consular bureau. The DIS
closure was made when Chairman
Hamlin asked him il he had made any
further attempt since his examination,
4 few days ago, to discover how the
long missing voucher came to he on
The floor Of his Office.
A crowd Of 5000 persons at the
Forepaugh- Sells Snow at York, Pa.
We terday. was thrilled with an act not
on the programme when Lula Hum
mel dropped from near the top OF the
tent 10 the ground and was fatally IN
jured. Miss Hummel. whose home IS
in Milwaukee,, Wis, was hanging to a
strap with her teeth and was beng
spun around like top, when she lost
her hold. Both arms we're broken an
she sustained internal injuries that will
cause her death. Several women
among the spectators tainted and had
to be carried from the tent. The fall
was about sixty feet Miss Hummel is
about % years old and had been cir
Gus performer for several years.
Rev. Walter D. Buchanan, pastor OF
a wealthy church in New York city
and well known among the summer
,c-iIcnts at Narfagansett Pier, will
have 10 appear before the Superior
Court OF Rhode Island to receive SEN
;crtce in case brought against him for
speeding his automobile on The road
way in the city of Pawtucket. Chief
Justice Du Bots, OF the Supreme Court,
handed down an opinion yesterday, III
which the court holds that Rev. Mr..
Buchanan's motion for new trial oil
the case against him was properly de,
uied by Judge Rathbun after the jury
returned verdict of guilty in the
Superior Court.
The remarkable situation which cy-
lists in the Senate at the present time,
where majority OF the Senate wil
vote for reciprocity, although nearly
every republican senator is bitterly OPP
posed TO it, was illustrated yesterday
when the Senate was compelled 10 ad
iourn within an hour after it met III
order to prevent vote on the bill.
The friends oil the bill, who are all on
the democratic side, have determined
that its enemies, who are nearly all on
the republican side, must furnish al
the debate on the bill. TIE democrat:
will insist on vote whenever it is evi-
dent that the opponents Of the bill are
not ready with new speaker. Yes
terday they put their programme into
operation with the amusing result that
the opponents Of the bill were caught
mapping.
Positive Identification was made yes
terday OF the bodies Of Lemucl f
Smith. jr., an artist on the Newark, \.
| j., Evening News, and George +.
Schulz, his companion, who were
drowned in a storm Saturday after
leaving Bayonne for cruise down the
Bay, the trip being made in Smith 5
yacht, the Vayu. The bodies were
found in the Kill Won Kull. The bodies
OF three other persons who were III the
party have not been recovered.
For the fourth time since the shoot
ing OF w. E d. Stokes, the millionaire
horseman in New York on June Z,
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, the
show girl and the young illustrator,
charged with The shooting, were ar
raigned yesterday before Magistrate
Frcschi and their bail again reduced.
1t was originally set at $50 900, but in
subsequent arrangements it was cut to
Si5,0 900 and yesterday to $4,000.
Even this amount is prohibitive, the
girls counsel argued, and il appeared
they would be kept prisoners at least
until the next hearing, set for June ~.
Although Mr.. Stokes left the hospital
Thursday, he is still under the care OF a
physician at his country home in Long
Branch, y. j. His counsel emphati-
cally denied that his client had in any
wise altered his determination to press
the charges against the girls.
The New York police are looking for
/, I. Il 4,
of William Bley. 80 years old, mu-
sican, who, while on his way home,
was attacked in West Thirty. eighth
street early yesterday by band of
rowdies, and died few minutes later
from fractured skull. a widow, and
six small children are mourning the
dead musician. Bley was member OF
the orchestra OF the Winter Garden.
Edward Benjamin Jardine, aged -,
was hanged in Godericli, Ontario, yes
terday morning for the murder of 10.
year.old Lizzie Anderson on September
20 OF last year. Her dead body he
had stripped and concealed in the Gel.
lar OF a vacant house on the outskirts
Of the town after he had assaulted and
killed her. The young man had been
given a hypodernic injection and
walked bravely to the scaffold. AS he
mounted the gallows, Jardine said: i
bid you all good-by.'
Julius Hamburger, Deputy New York
State Controller. filed with the Surro.
gates Court yesterday, the appraisal
Of the estate of Miss Mary Goodwin
Pinkcy, member OF an old Virginia
Ia -, L.. Of TINT nnme who died ON d.