Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

James V. won the Brighton Junior
Stakes. worth to the winner so, 500, at
Brighton Beach Saturday.
General Miles will try to ride ninety
miles on horseback in eight hours to
prove that he is too vigorous to he re-
tired.
Yesterdays storm extended over
large portion of Maryland, causing much
damage to crops and roads in Washing
ton, Frederick and other counties.
George Gould, who has been looking
over the Wabash Railroad improvements
at Pittsburg, says the system to tide
water will be completed in Is months.
The American Can Company OF
Chicago is said to have been absorbed
by the United States Steel Corporation.
The deal is said to involve $50. 600, OOO.
The reported diplomatic intrigue be-
tween Russia and China is said to have
aroused the japanese to a policy OF
checking Russia's advance even to the
point of war, if necessary.
James Lindsay Gordon, ex-Assistant
District Attorney, of New York, is IN
the male prison ward at Bellevue
Hospital suffering from alcoholism. He
was said to be improving yesterday
evening.
Charged with being defaulier TO the
extent of $50, 600, Joseph w. Cummin,
secretary-treasurer and cashier of the
Cornwall Bank, is In Jail at Newburgh,
n. ]. The bank is wrecked by the de-
falcation.
At Cleveland, o., on Saturday before
a crowd of $4,000 people Lou Dillon
broke the worlds record for trotting
mares by one-quarter of second, going
the mile in 2.034. Cresceus (2.O2D
alone has better mark.
The New York police are trying to
find the owner of the blood stained
woman's garments discovered in The
Bronx, which were thought to be a clew
to the mysterious murder of Charles W..
Roxbury, the tea tester
Engagements are reported to have
taken place between Turkish and Bull
garian troops along the frontier, but in
Sofia the statement ives made that Bull
garia was gratifed at the promises OF
Turkey and would not call out the re-
serves.
The motion of Senator Caro- regarding
President Marroquin's signature to the
canal treaty was, according to report,
rejected by the Colombian Senate, and it
is also stated that only fourth of the
Senate is favorable to the treaty without
amendment.
A large portion of the theatre and
casino building being erected in Balti-
more by James L. Herman, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday evening. When nm
ished the building would have cost about
$500. 900. The loss is between $40, 600
and $50, 900.
In Baltimore on Saturday Judge Nor
ris in the United States Circuit Court,
appointed James Christy, jr., of Akron,
Ohio, and George Weems Williams, OF
Baltimore, receivers for the Washington,
Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Rail
way Company.
The newspaper Italia of Rome says:
Cardinal Gibbons will represent a
moral force of the first rank. He is the
only cardinal absolutely free and indie
pendent of all the petty intrigues and
Vaccinations which, to some extent,
precede a conclave.
An appeal to Congress is to be made
on behalf of the board of trade Of New
ark for an appropriation for survey
to determine the feasibility and probable
cost OF a ship canal 80 feet deep between
Newark and New York bay. The
proposed scheme would cost seven
millions of dollars.
The New York stock market on
Saturday was adversely affected by the
sharp and successful bear raid on New
York Central. The whole list weakened
alphabetically. The statement of av-
erages Of the Clearinghouse banks OF
New York city for the week showed:
Loans 1909. 529, 900, decrease s7,9l5,
200; deposits 1892, 143, 300, decrease
$11, 749, 900.
There was a remarkable improvement
in Pope Leo's condition yesterday.
He rose, put on his cassock and received
several cardinals in conference. He
also participated in a mass. He told
Cardinal Matthew that he had ''not
ceased for one moment to pray to God
to protect France and have the men
now governing her repent and stop the
persecution of the Pope" He also
sent his blessing to the King of Spain.
Randall Z. Sullivan, Massachusetts
negro elevator conductor at the GeOlogi-
cal Survey building, is accused of hay
ing written an insulting note to a
woman clerk in the building. When
charged with the ofense Sullivan adj
mitted that he wrote the note, and said
when his suspension was ordered that
he was appointed under civil service
rules and he could not be suspended
for writing a note such as any gentle
man might write to a lady" The note
to the young woman, asked her address,
and stated that the writer had some
thing on his mind which he wished to
communicate.
STORM IN BALTIMORE