Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Sinclair Chlssus, a 5-year.old boy, OF
Bedford, Mich, went to Detroit yes
terday with his grandmother, and
they attended moving picture thea
ter, in which Halloween hobgoblins
and witches fitted vividly ond weirdly
about in black void. 1t was too re-
aiistic for little Sinclair. He tainted
from fright, and when physician
reached him he was dead. The phy-
sician, SAID, the boy was undoubtedly
scared to death.
The will OF Mrs. Ann Maria Fisher,
once slave OF Henry Clay, filed ip
Brooklyn yesterday showed that she
left fortune OF $4,000. She made a
number of charitable bequests, includ-
$4,000 TO the Tuskegee Institute. The
woman died Friday last at the age OF
% years.
Prof. John J. Montgomery, of Santa
Clara College, San Jose, CAL, died yes
terday afternoon after fall from an
aeroplane glider he Was experimenting
With near Evergreen. Apparently, be
lost control of the machine. He sus-
tained injuries to the brain. Profes-
sor Montgomery was an authority on
aerial navigation. He was 30 years
old.
An edict has been promulgated by
the Chinese throne making Yuan Shlh
Kai new premir OF China.
Rev. Clarence V. T. Richcson. pas
tor OF Emmanuel Baptist Church, Cam.
bridge, Mass, was indicted on five
counts charging murder in the first
degree by the Suffolk county grand
jury late yesterday afternoon for the
alleged poisoning on October Ia, Of hls
former sweetheart, Miss Avis W. Lin
nell, Of Hvannis.
Julius McVicker, an actor and singer
OF romantic parts in light comedy and
musical shows, and Mrs. Alanson
Sumner, widow of the Standard Oil
magnate, Alanson Sumner, who died
year ago, leaving her fortune Of
SIS, 100000, we're married in New
York yesterday.
Member of the National Womau's
Christian Temperance Union became
suff agettes in Milwaukee yesterday.
Woman suffrage was indorsed by the
convention in resolution reading rs
follows: Because it is just, and he
| leying that the best interest OF human
ity will be conserved and advanced by
the ballot for women. we pledge our
selves to work for their enfranchise-
meut on equal terms with men. We
pray the United States Congress to fur.
uish just and adequate provision for
the protection of prohibition territory
from the notification of its laws
through interstate shipment OF liquor.
Congress is also requested to pr"hibIt
the sale of alcoholic liquors ",thin
thee miles of army posts, soldiers
homes and naval stations.
Stanley Gorsuch, the 15-year-old son
ef Benjamin T Gorsuch, farmer near
Gemher, Md, was instantly killed bS
tile accidental discharge OF shotgun.
in his own hands Yesterday.
The Potomac Synod, in session at
Hickory, n c., has adopted commit
tee report against Union with the
Nor;bern Presbyterian Church after a
spirited debate.
An automobile belonging to prom
ineut real estate broker, ich had
been taken from repair shop by the
owners brother without his kno Sledge.
crashed into horse and wagon in
charge OF William S. Mulligan, of 14S
Bates street, northwest, Washington,
last night in Wisconsin avenue, betweeu
Grant and River roads. Mulligan and
John c. Williams, passenger 10 the
automobile, we're injured, and the car
was demolished. A few moments after
the accident bystander thre " a lighted
match into the machine, after the oil
tank had sprung leak, and the wreck
vas almost consumed by flames. The
automobile was valued at $4,000.
bMull,gan's horse was so badly injured
that it had to be killed His wagon
: vas demolished. The escape OF all the
men from death vas considered re-
markable.
The town OF Thelnla, Is miles south
of San Antonio, Texas, was practically
destroyed and two persons were hurt
in a tornado Monday.
The Emperor William in course o
conversation in Berlin yesterda!
with Roman Catholic bishop, express
ed alarm at the spread OF Islamisn,
which be declared was endangefng tn
German colonies in the East. lie 10
sisted that measures to stop the evil b
takea at once. His majesty also san
that it was not necessary that every on
l be pious, but every one must have re