Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Monsignor William ]. White, the
first rector of the church of the Visi'
tation, Brooklyn, died in the Holy
Family Hospital in Brooklyn, yes,
terday of septic poison, following an
operation two weeks ago for kidney
trouble. Monsignor White was born
in New York in 1870. Before studying
for the priesthood Monsignor White
was newsboy.
Rev. Wythe Leigh Kinsolving has
resigned as rector OF St. Georges
Protestant Church. Hartford county,
Nd. to accept call to large church
in St. Louis, Mo. Rev. Mr.. Kin
solving is q brother Of Rev. DR.. A.
B. Kinsolving, rector of Old St. Paul's
Church, Baltimore, and is formerly OF
Virginia.
A Sunday school excursion train
leaving Charlotte, N. c., over the
Charlotte Atlanta division Of the
Southern Railway, bound for John
ston City, Tenn, was wrecked near
Kings Mountain, derailing the tender.
one baggage car and FIVE coaches and
injuring 20 of the IT'S passengers.
None of the injured passengers we're
seriously hurt The cause OF the
wreck is unknown. Two hundred and
fifty feet of track were torn up and all
trains delayed several hours.
Earl Leppo, IA years old, son OF
Ira F. Leppo, of York, Pa, blew his
head off with shotgun on the farm
of E. P. Flinchbaugh, where he was
employed. 1t is said the boys mind
had become unbalanced by the read
ing of cheap literature. The body
was found yesterday in Woodshed,
with the gun resting between the
lads legs and the muzzle near the
face.
Fourteen year old George Bells
was shot and instantly killed yester-
day at her home in Stroudburg, Pa,
by Harvey Osborn, aged 10 years.
The boys had both been paying ct
tention to young girl who was visit
ing at the Bells home, and Osborn,
it is said, threatened to kill Bells il
he repeated certain convention to
the object of bis affection. Bells was
standing at the top Of flight OF
stairs when Osborn entered the house
and fired at him. Osborn made his
escape.
John w. Belcher, of Newton, Mass.
has Just finished a mechanical figure
of woman which walks, talks, writes
and smiles. The life-size figure stands
5 feet s inches, weights 1S5 pounds,
is dressed in red silk gown of the
latest design, can move lips, eyes,
mouth, legs and fingers. Nearly seven
years ago Mr.. Belcher, who had pre-
viously spent about 10 years in search
OF perpetual motion, began the con-
struction of the figure. To make the
figure talk, and answer questions the
inventor uses phonograph.
A dispatch from Berne, Switzerland,
says tourists while crossing the Eoet'
scheu Glacier Monday saw deep down
in the clear ice the faces of two dead
men. Guides accompanying the party
Clipped out With their ice axes the
frozen bodies of the two men and
brought them to the surface. The
bodies have not yet been identified,
but they probably are those OF two
Loudon tourists named Benebecke
and Coin, who disappeared IA years
ago.
A bureau organized to further the
so-called progressive politics, with W.
L. Howser, for secretary of state OF
Wisconsin, and a political lieutenant
of Robert M. La Toilette, in charge,
hes been opened in Washington. The
announcement was made yesterday
that Mr.. HoWser and those associated
with him will at once begin work
with a view to nominating as the
republican presidential candidate next
year some one identified With the pro-
gressive movement. The organization
is admittedly hostile to the renomina-
ton of President Taft. While en-
pbatic denial is made that the move
mont has been started in the interests
of Mr.. La Toilette, the fact that the
active work will be directed by Mr..
Howser, La Toilette republican, is
not without significance.