Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-14
News Of the Day.

day. He lost consciousness 81 IN cary
hour and at 1920 p. N was still uncor-
scious. His majesty's condition IS no"
regarded rs being more critical thsn al
any time since his illness became really
serious.
AS a result of Bishop O'ConnslPs mis-
sion 10 Japan, the Vatican will shortly
establish Catholic University at Tokyo.
II will be controlled by Jesuits OF the
American province. The appointment
of An apostolic delegate to Japan is i'm
minent. 1t is said that he will be an
American prelate.
A throng OF hundreds, horror-3lricken
Int D )werIess to aid, watched Mat krue-
ger. lineman for the Commonwealth
Electric Company, slowly burn 10 death
ia midair, in the heart OF the south SIDE
business district of Chicago late yester-
iay afternoon The unfortunate man had
taken held of fl live wire.
Mrs. Amelia Fossom, thirty years old,
living on South Dakota avenue, Wood
ridge, near Washington, met tragic
death last night, while at the home OF
her mother Mra. George ]. Freitag, OF
Langdon, d. c., By swallowing a guam
tits Of carbolio acid from bottle which
she supposed contained brandy.
Prof Henry Fairfield Osborn, Of Co
lumbia University, is unable 10 accept
the position of Secretary OF the Smith
sonisn Iostilution, to which he WAS
elected at meeting OF the board Of re-
gents. December 4. Prof. Osborn writes
his decision, which will be read To the
board at It's annual meeting, January %.
Ii is officially stated in London that
no definite determination hes yet been
reached concerning The appointment OF
an ambassador at Washington to succeed
Sir Mortimer Dnrand, but the revival
of James Bryce's name as likely tenant
OF the post meets with much more gen
eral cfedence that when II WAS first
mO0led.
Considerable alarm was cccasiOnod The
Swedish people Yesterday by a statement
that King Oscar was seriously i'll, that
ell tho members of the royal family had
assembled at tho palace at Stockholm,
and that the crown prince Gustagns Adoi-
phuq, had been summoned hurredly
from Berlin. The king is suffering from
heart trouble.
1t has developed 10 Richmond that
four Of The republican candidates in the
last congressional election in Virginia
Hughes, of Norfolk; Hanson, OF Rich
mond Beecher, OfAlbeTmarle, and Hen
derson, of Alexandra ere fable to the
PENALTY of the Barksdale pure election
law for not filing accounts of their cleo
ton expenses. The maxium punish
ment is n Gne Of $4,000.
Toe Italian Malta Society, which has
transferred its operations from Italy TO
New York city, and which, under the
guise of the "Black Hand" has seven
murders in three days directly charge.
able to it, attempted TO wreck a crowded
tenement at SOP First avenue shortly
after O. clock yesterday morning, with
the result that twenty persons were hurt
but, fortunately, none seriously.
The possibility oil Congressman W.
A. Jones coming ont Rs candidate Tor
the democratic nomination for Governor
of Virginia is being discussed by many
Of his friends. 1t is said that Common
wealih's Attorney Joseph W. Chinn, jr,
of Richmond county, will oppose Judge
| 7. r. b. Wright, of Tappahannock, Tor
Judge of the Twelfth judicial circuit
before The next legislature
Two trainmen were killed, one was
fatally injured, and three passengers were
hurt last night, when fast freight train
crashed into the rear Of west bound
passenger train on the New York, Chi
cago and st. Louis Railroad The pas
senger train had stopped to take water,
and llagman was sent back to signal
following trains, but owing to a dense
fog the engineer of the freight did not
see the signal.
The President has abandoned simpli-
fed spelliog in official documents. An
executive older, to be issued today prob
ably, will restore the old condition OF
AFFAIR.". Alta conference at the White
House yesterday afternoon, Mr.. Roose-
welt informed Representative Lands,
chairman Gf the House committee on
printing. that lie would issue an order
revoking his previous order regarding
simplif.d spelling if the House should
place itself on record "a ia favor Of the
old spelling for executive documents.
W. X. Vanderbilt j., had narrow
escape from death yesterday. With his
chauffeur he was speeding his GO-horse-
power racing automobile on the shore
of Lake Success, Long Island. when the
front axle snapped and the car skidded
zigzlg course. A moment later a
wheel became detached, tho body OF the
car stuck the ground and tore up the
the road for u feet or morc. The jar
hurled Mr.. Vanderbilt from his seat
YER the machine into the lake well away
from the shore. He sank through the
thin ice, bat rose imme lia.elg and swan
| to shore. The chauffeur chung to his
seat and was not seriously injured.
Three persons we're burned to death and
one is dying in a hospital at Wheeling W.
Va. as a result Of accidents in neigbbor-
ing communities Wednesday night. At
New Martiusvlle. by the explosion of a
can of gasoline, Frank CARRIER, the pro-
prietor of dyeing establishment, waa
burned to death, and his wife is now 10
hospital suffering from burns that will
cause her death. At Wellsburg Russell
Lucas, the 1-year-old son of Roy Lucas,