Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-29
News Of the Day.

Forty-two States and three Territories
will hold elections on Tuesday OF next
week.
Andrew Carnegie, with his wife and
daughter, arrived 10 New York yesterday
from Europe.
Official denials that q new alliance
had been concluded by Great Britain.
Frauce and Italy were made on Saturday
at London and Paris.
Women fought on Saturday to get near
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who
is accompanying her husband on cam
psigning tJur in Indiana.
Sir George Henry Lewis, acting az 30
licitor for the Duke and Duchess vi
Marlborough, issues statement that no
deed of separation has been signed.
F. 1t is said that James McCres, first vice
president of the Pennsylvania lines west
of Pittsburg, bias practically been selected
TO succeed Mr.. Cassatt when be shall
retire .fss
The Norfolk and Western, and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railways are con.
sidering the use of electric motive power
in place of steam locomotives at certain
points on their lines.
Now that the deed of separation be-
tween the Duchess of Marlborough and
her husband has, it is said, been formally
signed, the Dntchess is expected TO come
to America for. alonstrip.
The railroads ceutering in Chicago
have refused the demands of the switch
men for an eisht.hcur day and increased
wages. No strike action will be taken
until there has been 8 referendum vote.
The roof of the second tunnel through
The Simploni has commenced to fall IL,
not being sufficiently strong to resist the
tremendous perpendicular pressure Of
the mountain above, over 5000 feet in
height.
Secretary ofState Root has, by cable,
instructed Ambassador Wright to assure
the japanese government that the United
States will not entertain the idea of any
treatment toward the Japanese people
other than that accorded to7the people
of the most friendly European nation.
During his annual drinking bout upon
the anniversary of his mothers death,
Andrew Graham, of Philadelphia, on
Saturday tried to commit suicide by
shooting himself in the head. The bull
let, however, missed the brain and the
man is now in a hospital with fair
chances of recovering.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, declares
that the President cannot force State
to optn its schools to japanese. He fears
that Japan is trying to pick quarrel
with the United States. He says Cali
fornia has the same right to separate
japanese, Chiaese, negroes and Indians
from her citizens in her public schools
that she has to separate males aud fe.
males. Senator Rsyner, of Maryland,
also says the United States government
has no right to intefere in the matter OF
barring Japanese from the San Francisco
schools.
Charles w. Morse, the steamship own
or and banker, Of New York, who, 1t
was reported recently, planned to con-
troll the entire Atlantic coastwise steam
ship business, announced on Friday that
he had purchased the stock of the MAJ
lory Line. His latest acquisition gives
Mr. Morse almost a monopoly OF the
ccss,wise service from Maine to Texas.
The Wet Indian branch Of the Clyde
Line, recently taken over by Mr.. Morse,
gives him partial control of the Denim
icau and Central American trade.
Result. tie band it chief, who had been
appointed pscba of Arzills, entered that
town saturday after a short fight with
the iusurgeut tribesmen who were hold
ing it. Three persons were killed and
many mare wounded, and all the prin-
cipsl Caids were made prisoners. After
wards letters from Mohanlmed Ell Torres,
the representative Of the Sultan at Tan
ger, ordering that Rsisui be obeyed, were
read publicly. The city presented ter.
rible appearance. Many houses had
been burned, and the streets were full Of
the bodies of Jewesses who had been vio-
lated.
Bertha Johnson. 81 years old, q promi-
neut church worker and organist of the
Northside, Chicago, ia at the point Of
death in the Marion Smms Hospital,
while Rev. w. w. Thompson, assistant
pastor of the Olivst Memorial Church,
and DR.. Early ]. Dennis, are under ar
rest and held without bail, charged with
responsibility of the girls condition.
DR.. Shafier, head of the hospital, asserts
that Miss Johnson confessed TO him that
DR.. Dennis had performed an operation
on her last week at the request of her.
self and Thompson, who made the ar
rangements.
Clinton @. Clark, 81 years old, sail
or on the United States battleship Indi-
ana, was arrested yesterday when he was
found asleep on the grass in Riverside
Park in New York. and nearby the life
less body of sn unidentified woman. A
coroner's physician who performed an
autopsy on the woman's body said that,
in his opinion, she had been murdered.
Five of her ribs had been broken and
there were bruises on the shoulders. Clark
was held as suspicious person. He
told the police that he had been drinking
aud he could not remember having been
10 the company Of the woman.
Fire early yesterday partly destroyed
Trowbridge Hall, the womsn's dormitory
of Defiance College, in Defiance, Ohio,
and ffty-six girls had narrow escape.
The damage is 1000. Two young
women of BIuffton, Ohio, occupying