Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

OF snow, AcQlllla SulltJ, ou yedia oiu'
and Miss Sarah Fitzgerald, 50 years old
were run down and possibly fatally inin
ed last night at Seventeenth and =. street
northwest Washington, by al auto
mobile owned by Senator George I.
Oliver, and driven by Alexander Ewing
90 years old. The chauffeur was ar
rested.
The home OF Police Judge John
Lancaster, at Tyron, Ky, was blown
up with dynamite Yesterday and prac-
tically wrecked. No one was injured.
Tha; Judge Lancaster has political and
personal enemies, who are suspected OF
knowing something about the cause Of
and the perpetrators of the explosion.
is the belief OF detectives who are At
work on the case.
Miss Margaret Shawbam, il years
old, daughter OF J. n. Shawham. pri-
vate secretary of Deputy Commissioner
OF internal Revenue Robert Williams,
ir., was found dead in Il bath tub al
her home, 1910 Massachusetts, avenue
northwest, Washington, about $50
o'clocl, last night by her father, having
been suffocated by carbon monoxide
generated by gas water heater.
Alfred Tenuyson Dickens, eldest
surviving son of Charles Dickens, the
novelist, died suddenly OF acute indi-
gestion, al the Hotel Aston New York
late Yesterday. Mr.. Dickens, was in
this country on lecture tour. Mr.
Dickens was in his sixty seventh
year.
i George B. boiling city chemist,
OF Brockton, Mass. yesterday told
William H. White, of Brook
Iyn, that the piece OF amber
girls, which White found on Christ
mas day, while walking along the
beach near the summer cottage at
Nantasket Beach, was worth $l9,2Oa.
The lucky finder tainted from happi-
ness. Mr.. Boiling said that he felt
sure the find, at the standard rate for
ambergris, OF $50 an once, would flint!
a purchaser.
Fire, which broke out last night OF
the seaoud time yesterday in the pack
ing house buildings Of Swift 4 Co, in
the heart OF the union stock yards,
!: Chicago, adjoining the scene Of the dis
astrous fire Of q year ago, threatened
the whole Swift 4 Co. plant aud many
adjoining structures Early estimates
of the loss were placed by Fire Marshall
Seyferlich at from $500. 900 to $500, 900.
The entire west wall Of the smokehouse
was blown out shortly after midnight
by expanding air. The roof OF the
building bore members OF several fire
companies, but they felt the wall give,
and rushed toward the other side OF the
building in time to escape.
! The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion To-Day held as unreasonable. pre-
sent rates on live stock into Oklahoma
CITY, Fort Worth and Wichita, rates
on packing house products cut OF these
J points and the rate on salt from the
Kansas field into Oklahoma City, but
expressing no opinion regarding the
present rates on tankage and hides.
The decision affectslthe entire cattle
) and packinghouse industry OF the
; southwest, aud arguments and briefs
we're submitted to the commission
from manv traffic associations, live
stock exchanges, cattle ~ralsers assocIa-
tons. state commissions and packers
in that part OF the United States.
The commission prcscrbes new rates
on the basis OF mileage scale, not
differing greatly from the present. mile
age scale in force in Texas.
Plunging into detectives witch at
Farley, II miles north OF Bemidll,
Mimi, early yesterday, a southbound
Minnesota and International passenger
train was Trecked. The day coach and
sleeper left the track, aud fourteen pas
sengers were injured, one OF whom,
Huston Byrd, liyeryman OF Pine
Vile, w. Va, died last night. The pas
J sepgers we're thrown out into an at
!. mosphere OF 40 degrees below zero, and
the injured suffered from the cold.
Dangers Of the streets OF New York
are thrown into strong relief 10 the an
nua report OF the Highways Piotec-
tive Society, made public yesterday,
showing that street accidents resulted
10 the killing Of +23 persons and the
serious injury OF 2,0O4 III 1911. Dur
ing 1910 there were SO Killed and
$50 seriously injured. In l?ll G0
chaffeurs ran away and escaped uet,c-
ton after killing pedestrians, according
to the report.
Representative Richard ". Austin,
of Tennessee, announced today that as
the result OF the tragic death of Miss
Margaret Shawham, popular lTyear-
old school girl asphyxIated by gas In
her hume yesterday, he'wlll ask for an
Investigation Of gas water heaters sold
ia Washington. Miss otawham'
death i. the eighth from Carlo
monoxide fumes within little more tina