Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-21
News of the Day.

Senator Foraker, in an interview, says
there can be no peace between him and
Taft.
The wholesale confectionery firm Of
George Miller & Son Company, of Phil
adelphia, went into the hands of receivers
yesterday:
Quincy, Ill.,, it ia reported, was visit
ed by severe storm Monday, and many
persons were injured, while the property
loss was heavy.
United States Senator Plat, president
of the United States Express Company,
denies charges of INSTRUMENTATION made
by stockholders.
The House of Lords, by q vote OF III
to 70, yesterday passed the second read
ing Of the deceased wife's sister bill; sill
the bishops opposed the measure.
The French government has received
confirmation OF the report that Mnlai
Ha6g, the Sultan's brother, has been
proclaimed Sultan. The news Is creating
excitement. especially in the neighbor-
hood of SAT-.
A 6rebug was discovered Saturday
night 10 "Claymont," home Of the late
Frank r. Stockton, near Charlestown,
w. Va, and was driven Of after pistol
duel, in which he was wounded.
Rev. DIR. Charles Comfort Tiffany, for
many years archdeacon of New York
and prominent in Episco pal church az
fairs of that diocese, died from apoplexy
at Northeast HarbOr, Me-, yesterday.
Belief in the prophesy made Sunday
by a fortune teller that the knitting
mills OF Wiuship, Bohe & Co., Of Wake
field, Mass, will be blown up today,
caused 100 of the GOO operatives TO risk
discharge this morning and refuse 10
work.
Attorney General BOnapahe telegraphs
District Attorney Parsons, Of Alabams,
that the entire power OF the government
will be used TO enforce the decree of the
federal courts. Mr.. Bonaparte says
he has DO intention of resigning, but
Is working hard on the trust cases.
Nearly all the governments have sent
instructions to their delegations at The
Hague to The peace conference TO make
an effort TO bring about some obligatory
arbitration, and also the establishment
of a permanent court of arbitration in
order to save the conference from failure.
Dispatches from New York and Chi
cago today show no change In the strike
situation. The telegraphers are still firm
10 their demands and say they are
destined to win the fight. The officials
of the telegraph companies, however,
are equally firm and optimistic as to The
outcome.
Three persons were drowned at Sacra.
mento, Cal yesterday afternoon when
duckboat capsized in the Sacramento
river. A fourth victim WAS added to
The list when Manuel Greggs was pulled
beneath the water by two women after
be had plunged 10 rescue the three per-
sons who's SO boat bad overturned.
j. w. Bronson, Southern Railway
conductor, was stabbed and probably
fatally injured in Asheville, n. @ last
night By Ed Miller, a well known char
acer about town. The cutting took
place on crowded street. Miller was
arrested and held without bond. The
trouble arose over debt which Bronson
was attempting TO collect.
The West Virginia authorities believe
that the tramp under arrest at Greenville,
Pa, charged with attacking Miss Anna
Whitehead, daughter of Rev. Il. B.
Whitehead, is the man who assaulted
Nellie OFT, aged sixteen years, near
Ridgeley, several weeks ago. The des-
criplion of the man answers that of Miss
Outs assailant, and Deputy Sheriff Welsh
of Keyser, left this afternoon with Miss
OFT for Gseenville, in the hope of identi-
flying him.
An armed mob attacked the Office of
the Postal Telegraph Company at Ash
fork, Ariz early yesterday and broke
every window in the building with a
fdlH Vi DuIlt;S. Iuc INCo va ioui Chl-
ployes were endangered, bGs 80 far as
known no one was injured. The last
dispatch from Ashfork stated that ar
range nents were being made to run a
specisl engine to Prescott, TO bring the
sheriff and a sufficient number of depu-
ties to quell the riot. The shooting be-
gan at l O'Clock yesterday morning. The
postal employees made no resistance.
The biggest robbery of the United
States mails ever committed occurred be-
tween Denver and Omaha last Thursday
night, when three thorough registered
pouches, two of which contained $780,
900, were stolen from the Burlington
Railroad fast mail train between Denver
and Chicago. Although the robbery oc-
Cured Thursday night, the news of it
leaked out yesterday, although postal
inspectors of Salt Lake City, Omahs,
st. Louis, Denver and Chicago have
been working on the case since the rob-
berry.
Attempted Suicide.
Newcastle, Pa, Aug. 81. --Humiliated