Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-18
News of the Day.

The State and federal courts are still
at odds in North Carolina over the rail-
road rate laws.
The widow of William Imam, former
ly of Georgia, denies the report that she
was married in New York yesterday TO
j. B. Duke, the tobacco msgnste.
Thebsud Brothers, one of the Oldest
and best known commission houses in
New York city, assigned yesterday.
Estimates Of the liabilities ranged from
5000, 600 to more than 81, 900, 000.
Another case of "welching" was re-
ported at Brighton Beach yesterday,
when "markers" to the extent of $685.
600 were not paid by Tony Brown, who
il well known as a betting commissioner
for some big plungers.
There was a terrible cloudburst at
Vienna YESTERDAY. The streets were
flooded. 1t is stated that the outlying
suburbs of Neuwaldegg and Hernals
we're destroyed. According TO reports
there we're many victims.
There was destructive cloudburst at
oakland, Nd, early yesterday morning.
Railroad property west of Oakland has
been greatly damaged by landslides and
washouts, and no passenger trains have
been able to get through to the east at
all.
The Philippine Commission has just
enacted law, prohibiting the manu-
iacture in the islands or the introduction
there from the United States or any
foreign county of adulIerated, misbrand-
ed, poisonous or deleterOus foods, drugs,
medicines and liquors.
Gov. Blanchard, of Louisiana, yester-
day sentenced George Stewart, alias
Montgomery, the negro, TO be hanged
at Covington, on tomorrow, July 10.
The crime for which Steward was con-
v:ct9d was an attack on Mrs. Lacrox. 1t
WAS committed on July Z, and only
twelve days will have elapsed between
the crime and the hanging.
The Italian Osservatore Romano yes
terday published decree of the holy
off containing syllabus, which con-
sists of sixty-five articles, condemning
the erroneous theories on the historical
and religions value of the Bible and the
origin of Christianity, which attack the
base of Christianity and are disapproved
by even the schismatic Protestant and
Anglican churches.
The steamship Allegheny, Of the Phil
adelphia-S4vannab Line, OF Merchant
and Miners Transportation Company,
was burned OIL Tybee, Ga, yesterday
evening. All her passengers were saved,
bu! the vessel will be a total loss. The
passengers were transferred to The gov
eminent dredge and taken to Savannah.
The Allegheny had left Savannah yes
terday afternoon and was bound up.
Probably the worst food that ever
visited the towns and country districts
for 40 miles to the cast of Grafton, w.
Va, and particularly the towns along
the Baltimore snd Ohio Railroad, oc
Cured yesterday, due to cloudburst
luhb DlOhC dbOul " IlONh
morning. Tracks have been washed
out, bridges and buildings washed away,
and much damage has been done to
stock and crops. Three persons were
drowned, and there we're number OF
miraculous escapes from serious injury.
Fourteen persons were injured, seven
seriously, in a street car collision yes
terday on the lines OF the Butler Passen-
ger Railway at the Standard Steel Car
Works terminal, Lyndora, q suburb or
Butler, Pa. The cars were running
down a sharp grade, both being crowded
with workmen, when suddenly the
brakes of the rear car let go and the mo-
torman was powerless. The runaway
car plunged down the incline, crashing
into the forward car, which had come to
standstil near the terminal. The
legs of the injured were caught as the
platform of the rear car telescoped that
of the forward car The injured were
buried in the wreckage of the cars, and
the legs of two Of the passengers were
cut of as with a knife and found many
yards from the wreckage.