Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-02
News of the Day.

The United States Postal Commission
is investigating the misuse OF postage oy
alleged newspapers, causing q defcit oil
$14, 600, 900.
None of the calendars submitted 70
courts Of New York yesterday bore the
name of Harry K. Thaw, aud his case
may not be taken up before the END Oh
the year.
Nearly | 900 printers and others en-
ployed by the Methodist Book Concern
in New York aud Cincinnati will work
on an eight-hour day basis, beginning
November |.
The District of Columbia grand jury
Yesterday indicted the American Ice
Company and two of its officers and the
Chapin-Sacks Manufacturing Company
and two of its officers, alleging consplra-
cy in restrrint of trade and q trust agree
ment.
in New Orleans yesterday prices OF
cotton futures jumped Al points over
Saturdays sales because OF the new Gull
storm warning issued by the Weather
Bureau and additional reports of the
storm damage last week. December
sold at 993.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
makes number of rulings on the rail-
way rate law in a general order made
public yesterday. 1t holds that where a
State rate forms part of an interstate
rate the State rate should be filed with
the commission.
The democratic machine Of the State
of New York vas practically turned
over to Hearst and Murphy, OF Tammany
Hall, yesterday with the election of w.
J. Conners, of Buffalo, an ardent Hearst
man, as chairman OF the democratic
State committee.
The balloon race for the James Gordon
Bennett Cup was won by an American
Lieutenant Lain, U. S. A; in the bal
loon United States, which was one of the
six which landed in England. One OF
her crossed tho channel to the Isle OF
Wight, eight came down in France.
The Geological Survey has made public
statistics on the production of coal in the
United States in 1905. From these itap-
pears that both 10 quantity and value the
production surpassed all previous records
in this country. The output amounted to
800, 9l9, 34l short tons, which had q
value at the mines of $476, 756, 1853.
1t is stated that the japanese naval
department has decided upon a naval
programme for the improvement OF the
japanese navy, the expansion to cover
period Of eight years The Diet is
asked to vote $l35, 900, 900 for the pur-
pose, of which $4,000, 900 will be used
to repair present vessels, among them
the former Russian vessels captured and
raised,
Late yesterday evening Patrick Coyne
threw his tbree-year-old son over the
Twenty-second street bridge into the
Monongahela river at Pittsburg, and fol-
lowed after him in an evident attempt
al suicide. The boy was drowned, but
the father was rescued by some river
men and taken to the hospital in an un-
conscious condition. Upon regaining
his senses last night, the only thing he
would say concerning the murder of his
son was that he was drunk and remem-
bered nothing of the occurrence.
A child was killed and score of men
aud women injured, five or six danger
ously, last night, when a runaway car OF
the Yonker5, n. Y, Street Railway
dashed down steep incline and jumped
the track at a sharp turn at the foot of
the hill, turned over, burning the pas
sengers in the wrecksge. Fifteen injured
were removed to st. Joseph's Hospital,
and nearly as many more to st. Johns,
but many of these required little or no
treatment, as they suffered chiefly from
shock. OF the injured, several, it was
feared, might die. The child was killed
in its mothers arms. the mother being
seriously injured. The accident was due
to the breaking of chain attached to
the brake.