Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-27

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terrible calamities incident to the de
struction of that city.
Myriads will rise up in the judg
ment against those who brought or
the present terrible war.
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NEWS OF THE DAY
| Samuel Powell, aged 49,, retired
contractor, committed suicide yester.
day at Hagerstown, Md, " hanging
himself in his stable. For some time
Mr.. Powell had been in failing health
| It is stated that the RoumaniaT
government has refused a request
of the Austrian and German govern
ments for permission for their war
ships to proceed along the Danube
River III Roumania toward Galatz
and the Black Sea.
Tight shoes killed Sedgwick w. Vo-
gan, according to the verdict of a
coronel's jury in Chicago. Vogan,
while visiting the Panama-Pacific ex-
position in San Francisco, purchased
pair of shoes that pinched his feet,
! A blister was caused and gangrene
set in.
(; John E. Lux, 81, son of former
mayor Of Nutley, N. J., and full back
on the Nutley Club football team, was
carried from the field with his neck
broken Thursday on Nutley Oval. He
was rushed to hopsital, at Passaic.
where PHYSICIANS say complete paraly-
sis is slowly setting in.
twenty-five men of the crew Of
the Chilean ship Carelampu are be-
lievcd to have persisted off the ives,
coast of Vancouver Island A message
received at Tacoma, Wash, from
+; Victoria, B. c., stated that the ship
was pounded to pieces in a storm
and all hands were lost
H. 0. Ledgerwood, prominent at.
torney of Forth Worth Tex, and J
N. Whisannt, of Dallas, are dead fol-
lowing a shooting IN Ledgerwood's
Office Thursday Whisanut, is said tt
have killed the lawyer first then him.
! self. The Dallas man was indicted re.
! Gently for fraudulent use of the mails
in connection with a bankruptcy case
Sylvester Fenton, awaiting trial fol
wife murder, committed suicide If
his cell in the Stcuben county. N. y.
Jail by hanging. Fenton secured {
wire from a broom handle, fastened
it to a sock, which he placed arounc
"a steam pipe, and then wound the res
Of the wire around his neck, making
d crude moose.
Edgar B. Foss. millionaire lumber
man, of Bay City, Mich. and JOSEPH
Miksak, president of the Pilsen Lum
Der Company of Chicago were in
stantly killed Yesterday when an au
tomobile in which they were riding
was struck by train. The bodie
we're badly mutilated, and identifi
cation was not established for som
Il time.
George l.. Huffman, a rancher, o
near Prairie City, Oregan, and hi
, three daughters, aged 4, 6, and
years, are dead from poison admins
tered by Huffman. The rancher cal!
cd the three children from thei
, mother and gave each capsule Of
: quick-acting poison. He then swa
lowed one of the capsules himself. a
!. died within few minutes.
/ Before crowd of 5000 people {
!. Snow Hill. Md, Frank Grano ye:
: terday paid the death penalty b
: hanging here for the death of thre
ii persons. Grano went to his death IT
ii signed by Grano murdered Levin
Robinson, Mrs. P. Robinson, ar
j Alonzo Beddin, a farm hand, nes
.,s!.saesx s Eal, sinf< Sepsen4ber,# Histrmll
) tive was jealousy.
$ A biplane fight of 600 miles fro
Toronto, Canada, to New York in IL