Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-29
NEWS OF THE IA Y

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day. most of them slightly, when m
excursion train on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, from western points to At
lautic City, was derailel near Bnrdette.
on Seneca Lake The accident was
caused by n broken rail. Three Pull
mans loft the track and rollei down 4
ten-loot embankment. All the injured
we're in these cars.
Gen. John 3. Castleman, veteran of
the Southern Confedeiacy and OF the
Spanish American war, u he lives 10
months, probably will he the first Ken
tuckian who ever saw an equestrian
statue Of himself erected. OF the esti-
| mated cost-$l5, O0O--i fund Of 50, 600
already has been subscribed. The
statue, which is designed to honor
General Castleman for his service n
park commissioners OF Louisville. is ex-
pectel to he completed by October
1912.
A dispatch from Halifax says the
steamer John Irwin struck = rock
and sank off Beaver Harbor last Tues
day morning. Willie Mcleod, OF
Halifax, vas washed ashore on a
hatch at Iiscomb, 80 miles east OF
Halifax. and i, is believed 10 be the
only survivor Of the dozen or more men
in the steamers crew.
Edward Morse Shepard, the we'll
known New York lawyer and demo-
cratic political leader, who had been
i'll since The contraction Of cold III
New York on June l6. died at his
summer home in Lake George, n. y !,
last night Of pneumonia. He vas born
in 1850.
While playing bali with several sea-
men aud sailors in the rear OF the
Navy Medical School Hospital, Twenty
third and Z streets northwest Washing
ton, yesterday afternoon, John Paul
Freeman, If years OF age, and living
at 20G Twenty-second street north
| west, was hit on the head by a
hatted ball and instantly killed.
Lapsing into Inconsistencies two
days after being struck on the head by
baseball, in Gainesville, s. G., Miss
Christine Rosemond's condition yes
terday became so critical that all OF her
family were summoned.
That Mrs. Antoinette Zoll, OF Conk-
lin, who was found dead in cowshed
in the rear OF her farm home near
Muskegou, Mich, late Thursday was
not murdered, but came to her death
Ivy being butted by ram, is the con.
clusion practically arrived at by officers
investigating the case.
Fifteen persons are reported killed IN
\ head-on collision late last night, be-
tween = crowded excursion train on the
Bangor, Me-, aud Aroostook Railroad
and the midnight train from Van
Buren, to Bangor. Thirty or 40 people
are known to have been injured, and it
is thought that several others are be-
meath the wreckage. The excursion
train contained about $50 people. and
it is reported that few, il any Of them.
escaped death or serious injury.
Sixty.iive year.old Mrs. James Beck
er. of Canaan: Wayne county, Pa,
aud who has been deaf since she was
child. has had her hearing restored by
being struck by lightning early this
week.
A dispatch from Teheran, Persia,
states that the Russian minister there
has declared that Russia will not per-
NIT battle within 20 miles Of the CAPT
tai. The owner OF the steamer Christie
fore las discharged its captain and as
sistant captain at Baku because they
communicated to the press the news
OF the voyage on the Christofore Of
the ex-shah while he was returning to
Persia. The oil steamer is not per-
United to carry passengers, and Mo-
hammed Ali Mira paid $25 900 for
his transportation.