Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-13
News of the Day.

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offered yesterday, in Europe and in THU
country.
Chairman Morton has begun reducing
expenses in the Equitable by ordering {
cut of from 10 to 20 per cent in all sal
aries over 50, 500.
President Roosevelt is said to be IN
censed ut the delay in arresting Asso
ciate Slatistician Holmes. District AT
torney Beach has begun the thorough in
vestigation of the entire Bureau of Stats
! tics.
The board of directors of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, which met yesterday,
declared semi-annual dividend of y
per cent on the common stock and thus
placed the stock on 5 per cent basis,
making it the greatest dividend that the
road has declared since the reorganiza
ton.
Morris X. Jessup, the New YORK
banker, has contributed $25, 900 to the
fund which Commander Peary needed tC
fit out the Roosevelt A similar amount
had already been subscribed by Others.
This money will be used for supplies,
and it is likely that the Roosevelt will
get away the latter part of this week.
By the collapse of the Peoples United
States Bank, of st. Louis, the So, 900,
stockholders scattered throughout every
State and territory of the Union
will lose more than 5000, 900,
even if the greatest expectations of the
receiver, Mr.. Spencer, as to the values
of the banks securities are realized.
Announcement is made that the large
structure which is now being completed
at Georgetown College. under the name
of the New South Building, contributed
by an anonymous donor, is to be known
as the Ida NJ. Ryan Hall, and that the
1925, 900 necessary TO build it was do
mated by Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, the
vile of the New York fnancier.
That $65, 600 position that led John
F. Wallace to resign his post as chief en-
gineer of the Panama canal and led Sec
rotary Taft to characterize the resignation
having been acluated by "mere lucre, I"
was an offer from the Westinghouse in
terests in Pittsburg to join IN a project
for the purchasing and building of troll
ley lines in several interurban street
railway systems.
A story of wholesale execution at the
little village of Taiklu, 100 miles inland
from Fusan, Korea, has been brought to
San Francisco by Rev. E. F. Mcfarland,
a missionary who came home on the
steamer Korea. In less than a week so
men, charged with being bandits and
cutthroats, we're hanged by order OF the
japanese government. A party of Ko-
rean soldiers were the executioners.
Information was received yesterday at
the Offices of the Southern Railway in
Washington that four trestles between
Rhode and Andrews, n. c., on the Mer-
Ger branch of that road, had been washed
away and that passenger train was
standing in tunnel with the trestles on
each side washed away. Workmen were
at once sent to the scene to repair the
trestles in order that the train might pro-
coed.
Five hundred Chinese were drowned as
a result of the collapse of an overcrowded
mat shed on the banks of the West river,
near Canton, recently. Outside Sui
City, northwest ofCanton. a large gather
ing had assembled 10 witness the dragon
boat festival. Dense crowds hocked to a
mat shed built over the river. The struc-
ture gave way and precipitsted all into
the river. A few saved themselves, but
the others we're drowned.
At Buffalo, yesterday, it was decided
that the next reunion OF the Elks would
be held in Denver. About so, 900 Elks
marched in the parade yesterday in a
rain. The marchers were
CARRIED in uniforms of startling colors
aud unique designs, aud with gorgeously
decorated floats and trophies Of surpris-
ing and amusing character, combined to
make the parade the most picturesque
ever held in the history of the city.
A thorough investigation is to be made
by District Attorney Jerome, of New
York, to find out if the veil known men
and women who put up $500 for
Americas Smart Set," published by
the Society Editors Association, did so
or were blackmailed into it.
This will be done in order to get more
evidence against Charles II. Able. so
icitor for the Society Editors Associa-
lion, who is charged with having at
tempted to extort $500 out of Edwin NJ.
Post, of the Stock Exchange.