Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

MOuHI NSSufiuo 10 III 'iNiS"N ~f
ton today. The guides hut on the
mountain side has been destroyed.
The Philippine scouts and rural con
stabulary defeated $50 rebels in the
streets of Albay, the capital Of the Island
of Albay, on Thursday last, killing 10
and wounding Is.
For an assault upon a thirteen-year-
old white girl, daughter of a sawmil
man named Blake, Crane Green, ne
gro, was taken from officers at Pine
Bluff, Ark, Monday night and lynched.
Rufus f. Holder, a white man about
sixty years old and acarpenter by trade,
living in Charlotte, N. c., is charged
with criminal assault on a little girl
eleven years old. So far, Holder has
eluded the officers.
according to dispatches from Salonika,
a battalion ,,of ktroops has been sent to
Dorian, Salonika, to reinforce the Turk
ish forces. There are already l, 100
troops at Dorian and severe fighting Is
reported. 1t is believed the revolution
lists are resisting effectively. Eleven adj
ditional battalions have been mustered.
A messenger who arrived at Caracas
by steamer and train from Ciudad Boil
var says the city was captured by the
government troops at $3.50 O'Clock yes
terdGy morning The fight from !
o'clock in the afternoon was horrible,
and the only places which still resist the
onset of the governments troops are the
jail and the capitol.
The military camp at Jackson, KY,
was alarmed at 3 O'Clock this morning
by cry of fire and by shots fired by
the provost guard. Two details of troops
were sent into town The fire was near
the depot, a small house, but the people
were wildly excited for fear it was re-
petition of the Even fire. Investigation
showed it was of incendiary origin, and
negro is suspected.
Under the provisions of the bylaws
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, First Assistant A. F. Young
son becomes the official head of the or
ganization, to succeed the late Chief 7.
NJ. Arthur Second Assistant L. ,.
Ingraham, of the Brotherhood, who, UNI
der the rules, becomes first assistant,
will decline to accept the position, thus
necessitating an election to fill the office
Charles II. Major, of Indianapolis,
and Mrs. Major were badly burned
Monday at Mackinack Island, Mich,
in a singular accident. A celluloid
comb worn by Mrs. Major took fire
from an alcohol lamp on which Mrs.
Major was heating curling iron. Mrs.
Majors hair, arms and hands were
badly burned. and Mr.. Major, in at
tempting to put out the flames, was Sc
verely burned about the arms and hands.
President Williams, of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway, announced yesterday
that the consolidation of the Florida
Central and Pennsular Railroad system,
embracing 500 miles of road in Georgia
and Florida, lying south of Savannah,
with the Seaboard Air Line Railway has
become effective. Heretofore the Florida
system has been controlled by the Sea-
board through stock ownership and OPP
Grated separately. AS a result of the
consolidation the Florida lines become
an integral part of the Seaboard.
What is said to be the first suit ever
filed in st. Louis for damages resulting
from labor strike by employers against
employers has been instituted in the
Circuit Court. The suit was brought by
three firms manufacturing bank, bar
and office fixtures against the local union
of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America for an immediate
writ of injunction restraining the defend
ants from in any way interfering with
the operation of the plants of the COM
plainants, and for judgment OF $40
600 for damages alleged to have been al
ready sustained as a result of the action
of the defendants.
Charles b. Calvert, James c. Rogers and
Joseph c. Mattingly, attorneys for Moses j.
Rice, Samuel B. Mcintyre, Ralph +. LittOe,
William A. Behrens, Frank NJ. Flack, Mark
Nicholson, Joseph Litchfeld and John J.
Harley, yesterday entered suit against Sheriff
Benjamin n. Hardisty, of Prince Georges
county, Md. for $4,000 in each case for
alleged false imprisonment in the raid on
pOolrOOm last Tuesday.