Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-23
NEWS OF THE OLD DOMINION.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

DR.. Harry Elgin Webster, was SEN
fenced 10 Oregon, H., yesterday to LIE
imprisonment for the murder OF his
bigamous wife, Bessie Kent Webster.
About so persons we're hurt last
night by a series OF sewer gas eXpio,
sions which blew up more than Oo
manhole covers on crowded East Side
streets, New York. Some OF those
hurt we're blown more than Is feet into
the air on the manhole covers on
which they happened to be standing
when the explosion took place.
Detectives investigating a series OF
90 murders which have occurrea IN
Louisiana during the last year are
holding a negro preacher, King Harris.
| In each case the victim was negro.
While Harris is not accused OF speci
tic crime, it is believed that he, az head
of the Sacrifice Church" worked
some OF his followers into such frenzy
that they committed several killings IN
the name OF their religion"
Rutherford Page, "a wears old, 4
Yale graduate, registered from New
York, and flying as one Of the Curtiss
ayiators, was instantly killed when he
fell $50 yesterday on Dominique field,
Los Angeles, CAL, few moments be-
fore the close Of the third days pro-
gramme OF the third international
aviation meet. Page was endeavoring
to turn on pivot" when the swell
OF air over the hangar caught his
planes. He made an effort TO regain
his balance, but evidently fearing the
aeroplane was beyond control, gave up,
and when about 60 feet iu the air
jumped clear OF the machine, and fell
fat upon the plowed ground. Accord
ing to the doctors he was crushed to
death.
A mob OF 100 men last night broke
into the Harris county jail at Ham
ilton, Ga, overpowered the iailer, +.
M. 'Rabbitson, and took four negroes
three men and one woman, out and
hanged them to trees / mile from
town. The bodies were rddled with
bullets. The negroes were Belle Hath
away, John Moore, Eugene Haming,
and Dusty" Crutchield, and had
been arrested charged with the murder
OF Norman Hadley, young farmer,
last Sunday. The negroes protested
their innocence to the last.
Officials OF many counties in Penn
sylyania have joined in the effort to
identity two small boys who we're found
frozen in a great cake OF ice brought to
the surface Of the Monoghahela river
by toWboat engaged in breaking ice
in the channel. One boy was about Il
years old and the other was s. When
the bodies were noted in the ice cake,
graphing hooks were attached and the
block taken aboard the toWboat.
Death warrants: for the execution
during the woek beginning May u OF
Clarence V. T. Richeson for the MUIR
der of Miss Avis Linnell we're issued
yesterday and served upon Gov. Foss,
Warden Bridges, OF the State prison,
and Sheriff Quinn, OF Suffolk county,
Mass.
Daniel Davenport, an attorney, Of
Bridgeport, Conn.,, testified yesterday be-
fore the Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce. He argued that labor or.
CARNATIONS are subject to the provisions
Of the Sherman antitrust law. and took
issue with the testimony OF Samuel Com
pers recently given before the committee.
Mr.. Davenport insisted that it was the
intent OF Congress in passing the Sher-
man law 10 make it applicable to labor
unions.