Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-06
News Of the Day.

Monday.
Abe Hummel lies in the BLACKWELL
Island Penitentiary Hospital on the
verge of death from an organic disease.
Mr.. Joseph Choate is said to have de-
cIartd that he will not leave The Hague
until an international arbitration court
is decided on.
Congressman Richmond Pearson Hob
son thinks Japan seeks war with the
United States, which should build two
more battleship fleets.
Upon the appeal of the Mayor OF
San Francisco, President Roosevelt has
ordered the government surgeons to
take charge Of the bubonic plague stu
alton.
Fire destroyed the Webb Hotel at
Shelton, twenty miles from Tacoma,
Wash, Wednesday night. Thirteen
persons persisted. All the victims but
two were men.
The second anniversary Of the signing
of the treaty of peace between Russia
and Japan was observed at Portsmouth,
N. a., yesterday evening, by the un-
yelling of a peace tablet.
Almost every professional long-dis-
lance swimmer has sent in his entry for
the championship of the United States,
scheduled to take plsce next Sunday from
the Battery in New York to Coney Is
land.
The recent action of the telephone
companies in advancing night rates to
those charged for day messages has been
rescinded, as the advance was made with
out the consent of the Corporation Com
mission.
The date for the beginning of the trial
of United States Senator Borah at Boise,
Idaho, has been fixed for September %.
Ee is accused of conspiring to defraud
the government by securing illegal entry
OF timber lands.
By the narrowest kind Of amargin a
big sight seeing automobile with 40 pass
engers today escaped going off the Will
amsburg, N. Y, bridge for a2OO foot
drop into Columbia street. Several per-
sons we're slightly Injured in the crash.
TIE international Harvester Company
of Wisconsin pleaded guilty yesterday
10 the antitrust suits brought by the
State of Texas. The company paid a
fine OF $50, 900 assessed by the court
end subscribed to q perpetual injunction
fJrbidding it to operate in the state.
Thomas F. Ryan and George L. Car
ter, who are associated in the construc-
ton of the South and Western Railway,
have purchased vast amount OF land
along the rights of way of The road in
east Tennessee, western North Carolina,
southwest Virginia and eastern Ken
lucky.
When the hearing in the North Caro-
lima railroad rate case was resumed 10
Washington it was expected that the re-
direct examination of Comptroller A.
H. Plant, of the Southern Railway,
would be completed before adjournment,
but little progress was made, and his
testimony will be continued tomorrow.
Rev. DR.. S. B. Switzerland died at
his home in Baltimore yesterday. He
was the oldest minister in the Methodist
Protestant Church in the country, being
ninety years old. Death was due to
appendicitis. He was taken i'll last SAT
urday. DR.. Switzerland was born at
Harper's Ferry. Duriug the civil war
he served at Charleston, 5. @. With
this exception the rest of his ministry
was spent in the Maryland conference.
The factory of the Wemple Gravely
Tobicco Company, man ufacturers Ct
chewing aud smoking tobaccOes, of Dan
vile, was destroyed, together with the
entire contents, by fire which was dis
covered at midnight last night, entailing
a total loss of about $4,000. The fire
started in the boiler room and spread
rapidly. The plant of Swift Il Co. and
the factory owned by Mrs. F. Y. Bur-
ton, adjoining, were damaged to the ex-
tent of about So, 600.
Thomas J. Reed, foreman of the Round
Hill FIGURING Mills, at Round Hill,
Loudoun county. was caught in the ma
chiuery and chain betting of one of the
grain elevators OF the mill Wednesday.
His injuries are serious and probably
{ ,tal. All bis ribs on the right side were
broken, his right arm and hand lacerated
and almost torn from his shoulder. He
was unconscious when found and his
death is expected. He is an experienced
miller, about 80 years of sge, is mar
ried and has a family Of several small
children.
Mrs. Pepper Bell, the medium, who
invented "Little Bright Eyes," the
handy spirit, appeared in court yesterday
when the examination of the mental
condition of her husband, Edward Ward
Vanderbilt was resumed in Brooklyn.
As she sat down beside her aged hus-
band, be smiled and said "Hello, May"
She returned the smile, saying 'Hello, Ed
die" and the old man patted her on the
arm.J ]. +. Libby, the first witness, denied
that he had engaged in a five minutes,
kiss with Mrs. Vanderbilt and be also
denied stories of improper telephone
messages.
FIRST INSTALMENT PAID.
The Treasury Department received
Yesterday a certificate of deposit from the