Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-11-13
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!, her several times in the stomach.
Yesterdays corrections, additions
/ and subtractions left the Hughes
| plurality in Minnesota at 260. The
total vote to date was: Wilson, u.s.
4 ;54S; Hughes, 17S,8Os. Cass county's
revised returns gave Wilson 1,26O and
Hughes eS2. Faribault county soldiers
favored Wilson IA to II. Tabulatlon
of reports from the country auditors
at the capitol is to begin this week,
and first sheets are expected tomor-
row. There are a few prec1nts 10
hear from, and practically all OF the
Second and Third regiments.
] While struggling with a stranger
on the highway, in an attempt to save
iler purse containing several hundred
dollars, Mrs. Lottie Goodrich, visi-
/ tor at Redondo Beach, Cal, attract
ed the attention Of ragged indlvi
dual who was passing on the boulc-
ward. This person rushed to the wo-
mans assistance and succeeded IN
driving away her assailant. He assls-
ted her to her home and, after hav-
ing served him with dinner, Mrs.
Goodrich discovered that her protec-
tor was her brother, whom she had
not seen since he was boy.
Edward Ostrander, proprietor of
the Riverview Hotel, in Worthwhile
village, N. Y, was shot and killed
Yesterday. Three hours later John
Elkinberg and his wife, who live with
in sight of the hotel, were arrested
at the point OF a revolver. After be-
ING questioned, they confessed to the
crime, according to Sheriff Shepard.
It is said Elkinberg told the sheriff
that the wrong man was killed, and
that he intended to kill John Betting
er. who earlier in the evening had
separated Mrs. Elkinberg and an
other woman in a hair-pulling con-
test.
Two persons were instantly kill,
ed and three others badly injured.
one MORALLY yesterday near Newark,
N. Y, when their automobile was
struck by an express train, The
dead are Thelma Jackson, 1G, and
Richard Jackson, Id, of Newark. The
injured are Malbic Clarke 1G, back
broken; Gladys Clark, IS. and
Harold Scarth, Is. All are Newark
high school students, with the eX-
ception of Miss Clarke, who is a
student at the University of Roch-
ester. Miss Clark was driving and
is said to have started the car across
i the tracks after a freight train had
e passed, without stopping to look for
}. another train.
:, A strike Of -four! hundred thousand
G trainmen, unless tho railroads of the
!. country put into effect the eight
hour day January l, is the answer
I of President William G. Lee, Of the
: Brotherhood Of Railroad Tranmen,
n to the suits of the railway executives
: to invalidatc the Adamson law. Any
: railroad that attempts to cancel the
n present schedule of hours and pay,
or refuses to put the cight-hour day
into effect. will find himself with a
strike on its hands, law or no law"
said Lee in statement issued yes
+. terday in Cleveland, Ohio. "The DOW
u o. that was given US last spring,
when 100000 employees of the rail-
roads voted to strike unless the rail-
e roads granted our demands, is just
: as good now as it was then, and will
D be invoked if necessary. What the
Q Supreme Court does with the law is
9 no concern of ours. We have demand
e ed iair working hours and We arc go
/ ing to get them"