Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-24
News of the Day.

An advance Of 81 cents in the price of
wheat for December delivery occurred in
Chicago yesterday,
At Gallatin, Tenn, yesterday, the
Standard Oil Company was fined IS, 900
for violation of the Tennessee antitrust
law.
In Washington yesterday Justice
Clabaugh decided to allow the full legal
time for filing answers to elapse before
acting in the Waggaman. bankruptcy
case.
General Nelson A. Miles will take the
stump for Judge Parker. He made this
announcement just after visit to Chair
man Taggart yesterday and said that he
would make several speeches during the
campaign.
The authorities of the District of Col
umbia have protested against the price
charged for horseshoeing by the Master
Horseshoeing National Protective -Asso-
citation, and there is likelihood of such
work being done in the near future in
non-union shops.
Senator German, it is announced, has
agreed to make one speech in Maryland
during the coming campaign, and the
date has definitely been fixed for Satur-
day night, November 5, in Baltimore.
On that night the democratic COM
mittee has planned to close its campaign
in Maryland with big meeting at which
Senator German will make the principal
address, and efforts will be made to
make it the largest and most telling one
of the campaign.
Rev. w. A. Freeman, colored, a min
lister of the Free Will Baptist Church,
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hardy, of
Weverton, Md, on the charge of illegal
ly riding on Baltimore and Ohio pas
senger train Justice Eugene A. Brown,
at Brownsville, gave Freeman hearing
and sentenced him to the Hagerstown
Jail far ten days. When arrested Free
man had neither ticket nor money. He
testified in his defense that he was travel
ing from one charge to another, and the
Bible said preachers of the Gospel should
carry neither money nor clothing on their
travels. He breaches daily to the prison
ers in the Jail.
The village ofNorth Branch, Allegany
county, Nd, on the Potomac river, four
miles east of Cumberland, was wrecked
by dynamite at 100 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, as was stated in the Gazette
Of that day. The explosion was caused
by Baltimore and Ohio freight train
running into wagon loaded with dyna-
mite, driven by James Laing, at the
crossing at North Branch tower. En-.
gineer Nelson Pike, of Martinsburg, and
Brakeman 9. Walter Whitehair, of Balu-
more, we're killed and eight persons were
injured. The engine was blown about
twenty feet in the air and wrecked and
seven houses and nine cars were demo-
lished.
Secrecy wells the movements of the
japanese armies in Manchuria, and little
that is indicative of developments in the
situation is permitted to reach the CORE
spondents. Apparently four japanese
armies are converging upon Mukden,
but, although the distance TO be covered
is not great, several days are expected
to elapse before there ensues a battle
with the forces under Gen. Kuropatkin.
Improvement in the weather conditions
is regarded as advantageous to the Jap
anese. There is no news from the di-
rection of Port Arthur, though it seems
probable that fighting is nprogress there.
There is no confirmation of the report
that the Russian cruiser Gromoboi has
left Vladivostok in pursuit of japanese
transport.
The boiler in the gin department of the
mammoth cotton mill, erwin No. g."
at Dukes, N. c., on the Cape Fear and
Northern Railroad, about % miles from
Raleigh, exploded with terrific violence
at 7:l5 o'clock yesterday morning, in
stantly killing four men, scalding
another 80 badly that he will die and
partially wrecking the engine room.
Several persons were thrown down by
the shock OF the explosion, but their in
juries are not serious. 1t seems that
the old fireman of the mill had just been
discharged and the new man had gotten
up too much steam. The engine refused
to work and the fireman went after the
superintendent. AS they entered the
engine room together there was a rend-
ing explosion and the men were blown
to pieces.