Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-07-29

CONTEST 1OI lHS OuItSu oIe'1So NS~
tor, was found guilty late yesterday
in Webster Springs, W. Va. He is
the fourth of seven legislators to be
tried for bribery growing out of the
senatorial campaign. State Senator
Ben A. Smith and delegates Bath,
Duff and DR.. H. F. Asbury have been
convicted and are now awaiting SEN
tence.
Three men were drowned and two
barely escaped with their lives when
the steamer, City Of Atlanta, which
docked yesterday at New York, cut
in half the tender of Government
lightship No. 80 off Cape Lookout,
North Carolina, Friday afternoon.
A number of important diplomatic
nominations were confirmed by the
Senate yesterday afternoon, inclua-
ing that of James w. Gerard, OF
New York, to be ambassador to Ger
many; Frederick C. Penfield, of
PENNSYLVANIA, to be ambassador to
Austria Hungary; Joseph E. Will
lard, of Virginia, to be minister to
Spain; and Charles S. Hartman, OF
Montana, to be- minister to Ecua-
dor.
Miss Mary A. Davis, 10 years old,
of 3143 P street, Northwest, Wash
ineton, is in Georgetown University
Hospital, after taking two bichlorlde
of mercury tablets yesterday after
noon. 1t will be several days before
physicians will be able to say whe-
ther the poison will prove fatal.
Several persons were injured and
much property was damaged in the
rain and thunderstorm, which, COM
ing out of the northwest, swept over
Greater New York yesterday after
noon. The reports of the places
struck by lightning were scattered
ell over Manhattan. Car lines were
blocked and business was at stanc-
still for more than an hour. On the
Harlem division of the New York
Central water poured into the cuts in
such torrents that twenty trains were
held up. The electric current, which
operates all trains at this point was
short circuited, and the rush of wa
ter threatened to wash out the tracks.
An attempt to assassinate Premier
DIR. Alfonso Costa, or Portugal, was
made Saturday. A n,hn named Cunha
Neuves, has been arrested. A strict
censorship is being put on all mes
ages. Revolutionary activities is be-
ing reported from many cities.
A feud that lasted ten years ended
Yesterday when Michael Orsino was
shot to death by two men in Chicago.
A policeman was knocking at the
front door of Orsino's room, and he
was crawling out of the window in
the near. The two enemies were in
ambush in the doorway. The police
man was calling to arrest Orsino for
shooting Michael Costello at Blue
Island, several months ago. Seven
men have been killed in the feud.
E j. Sankpeal, vice president OF
a lumber company, and Miss Martha
Hartlebin, young woman of Roches-
ter N. j., were Instantly killed yes,
terday when an automobile driven by
Sankpeal was struck by the VOL
VERNE Express on the New YorE
Central ait a crossing in. Penfield
Mrs. Sankpeal identified both bodie!
at the morgue. She told the corone1
she had quarreled with her husband
Sunday night, and he had left he
I in anger. She was sitting up await
! ing his return when notified of th
i accident.
;. The big silk strike at Paterson, n
); ]. lis over, but not all the employe
!, who left the mill 81 weeks ago, ar
able to find work. The manufac
;, turers have all the hands they ca
use It is estimated the strike cos
/. the employees s5,soo,ooo in los
, wages. The manufacturers lost thei
! spring and summer orders and 2
. small plants went to the wall