Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-14
News of the Day.

Mr.. Walter Beattie has received an
appointment under the canal commission.
and will sail in a few days from New
York to his post in Panama.
A dispatch from Chefoo says that pri-
vate adyices just received from NIu-
chwang indicate that the long expected
battle between Kaichou and Ta-tche-kiao
is now in progress.
Because of discrimination against their
race by the Worlds Fair directors the
national association of colored women
refused to hold its sessions on the
Worlds Fair grounds.
James Snyder, of Brooklyn. and Frank
J. Correll, of Amityville, l.. l., were in
stantly killed, and man believed to be
J. w. Jewell, of Brooklyn, was so badly
injured that he died soon after, as the
result of collision between big touring
automobile and train on the Long Is
laad Railroad at Merrick road crossing
last night.
AL and Ben Wade were electrocuted
shortly after midnight at the Ohio peni-
Tertiary annex al Columbus for the MUIR
der of Kate Sullivan, at Toledo, in 1900.
AL Wade went to the chair first. Only
one shock was administered, and he was
pronounced dead at 1911 o'clock. Ben
Wade was strapped in the char at 1916
and only one shock was given. He was
prounced dead at 1926. Both electro
cutions were successful.
r. II. F. Sewell, Of New Orleans,
has informed the Navy Department that
he has made contract with the Cuban
government to raise the wreck of the
battleship Maine, which has lain in the
mud of the harbor of Havana since the
explosion on the night OF February 10.
1898. The Cuban government, it is
understood, makes no claim Of owner
ship to the wreck, and is governed in its
action simply by desire to improve the
navigation of the harbor.
William p. Scott, colored, recently
nominated for President Of the United
States by the national liberty party, was
arrested recently at East st. Louis and
taken to Belleville, the st. Clair county
seat. Scott was, it is averred, several
months ago convicted of running a dis
orderly house at his saloon and summer
garden and fined. 1t is for failure to
pay balance of nearly 500 of this
fine that the aspirant to presidential
honors is now in durance vile.
Contracts made by incorporated labor
unions with manufacturers prohibiting
the employment Of non-union working
men are void, according to decision an
nounced by Judge Ludwig in the Cir
cult Court at Milwaukee yesterday. 1t is
the first ruling had upon the question in
Wisconsin, and if sustained by he Su-
preme Court, will be ola far-reaching i'm
portance. The decision was given in the
suit bought by the Milwaukee Custom
Tailers, Union against a local concern
which made an agreement with the tai
lors to employ none but union workmen.
A temporary injunction was obtained,
but this Judge Ludwig rules was improp-
erlv issued.
The first conviction in Maryland
lunder the Jim Crow" car law, which
was passed at the last session Of the
Maryland legislature, was secured yes
terday in the Criminal Court, when
Judge Wright found James Davis, col
ored, guilty OF violating the terms Of the
law aud fined him S25. Davis was ar
rested aboard the steamer Rock Greek
July 2 while she was lying at the Baltl-
more wharf, IN a charge of refusing to
occupy the colored apartments on the
steamer. In imposing the fine Judge
Wright said: cit must be understood
that this law must be explicitly obeyed.
A law similar to it has been declared
constitutional by the highest court in this
land and citizens must remember that
infractions of it will be punished.