Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Edward Stake, associate judge OF the
Fourth Judicial Circuit of Maryland,
died in his apartment in Hagerstown
yesterday.
In New Orleans on Saturday the
Daughters of the Confederacy reelected
the old officers and decided to meet next
year in Charleston, 5. Z.
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, who
was field marshal in the British army,
is dead. The death of Prince Edward
depriyes the King of life long ana,
perhaps, his most intimate friend
The report of Comptroller General
Derham of South Carolina Just pup
lished gives the total amount PAID out
this year in Confederate pensions as
5000. 227. The total number OF pensions
is 1850.
An automobile caught fire in New
York yesterday and was chased by
hook and ladder truck. Before the auto
was overtaken its gasoline tank explod-
ed and wrecked the machine and threw
the two occupants high in the air.
There were brilliant festivities at Rio
Janeiro on Saturday in honor of the
Inauguration of the new president, Dr.
Rodrigues Aloes, in which the foreign
warships in the harbor, including the
United States battleship Iowa, took part.
Private information received at
Boston states that Gov. w. Murray
Crane, of Massachusetts,, is TO enter
President Roosevelt's Cabinet, succeeding
Secretary Shaw, who will be given
post as Ambassador at some European
court.
Congressman Babcock, Of Wisconsin,
on Saturday withdrew from the speaker
ship race, and upon his suggestion the
Wisconsin delegation pledged its sup
port to Congressman Cannon, OF Illinois
This. it is believed, insures his election.
DIR William II. Grim, for nearly 20
wears surgeon of the Fifth Regiment,
MARYLAND National Guard, and one OF
the most widely known physicians OF
Baltimore, and noted collector OF
antiques, died on Saturday afternoon
after short illness.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company has submitted to the strike
arbitration commission an answer TO the
demands of the miners, in which it shows
that many of its workmen at the
mines are prosperous. Protest IS made
against any agreement with the miners
union.
There is probability that the eXecu-
tive council of the American Federation
of Labor now in session in New Orleans
will be enlarged from to III members
at the present convention, and one OF the
additional members will be representa-
tive of the socialist wing of the labor
unions.
One man was killed and dozen men,
women, and children were more or less
seriously injured in collision last night
between Western avenue electric street
motor and trailer and Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroad freight train
at the Eighteenth street crossing IN
Chicago.
The reciprocity treaty which General
Tasker II. Bliss has gone to Cuba to
negotiate provides for a horizontal re-
duction of Dingley tariffschcdules, while
the Cuban tariff will not be modified on
imports from this country, but the sched-
ules will he raised on similar imports
from other countries.
Bishop Henry G. Potter, of New York,
went all the way 70 DuIutI 10 uIsapPofnI
an audience and get roasted in the
newspapers. The Duluth people were
not satisfied with his lecture. The
bishop talked only twenty-five minutes
and the large audience didn't think that
was full return for the money. Then
there was a sequel. The bishop return
ed the $3.50 which was his compensa-
ton for the lecture.
The big plant of Armour & Co., which
occupied three and one-half acres q
ground at the extreme south end of the
stock yards, at Sioux, City Iowo was
totally destroyed by fire, which started
at 1850 O'Clock yesterday morning on
the second floor Of the fertilizer building.
The loss, estimated by Charles W.
Lennon, manager of the company, reach
es total of 5000, 900. Spontaneous
combustion or animperfectdryer was the
cause. Six hundeed men will be thrown
out of employment. Immense tanks OF
ammonia exploded, spreading the flames.