Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-27
News Of the Day.

lhsir new equipment fer $50, OOO, OOV'
The Russian Doums voted to rel ct
the title aulocrat for the Gar IS incOm-
patible with the new order.
1t il announced that Glasgow ship
builders have contracted to furnish Spain
with q navy for $50. 900, 600.
According to the annual report Of the
Pinkertons, bank robbers stole over
800 900 10 one year from financial 10
situations.
Adolph Jackson, an actor we'll known
on Broadway, committed suicide today
By blowing out his brains with revolt
yer 10 Highhridge Park, New YOrs.
Robert w. Goelet's $l7, 900 automo-
bile blew up today in its owners pii-
vate garage in New York and painfully
burned Chauffeur Andrew Concnm anu
aud his helper, John Hickey. Tne
machine was torn to pieces.
The first public lest vas made today
o. the subway extension from the Bat
terry to Brooklyn. The tube probably
will be opened to traffic early in 1908.
Theodore P. Shonts and William Z.
Parsons, who planned the tunnel, were
among the passengers on the car which
made the trip.
A determined effort TO defeat Joseph
G. Cannon for the speakership Of The
House of Representatives is being made
by organized labor, led by Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fede'
ration Of Labor. Mr.. CanDon's defeat
for the speskership, leading workipgmeu
cay, will mean the death of any presi-
Dental aspirations he may have.
Max Brown, con of the late Sena tor,
and a number Of other Salt Lake City
witnesses were placed on the stand. in
the Bradley trial in Washington yester-
day. One testified that Mrs. Bradley
had refused Browns offer Of s., goo
home and 500 month. The defense
rested its case, and the prosecution al
most completed its testimony in rebuttal-
Lola Maddioon, who died in Chicago
March 2 as the result of an operation,
was a sister of Mrs. Annie Bradley, who
Is on trial in Washington for the murder
of Arthur Brown, former Senator from
Utah. This fact was revealed yesterday
10 the trial OF Mrs. Lucy Hsgenow, 2
midwife, on a charge of murder. Mrs..
HaeeuoW was indicted several months
ago for causing the Madison womsn's
death.
A bare hand prolruding from The Ty-
CARTS Valley river, forty miles above
Grafton, w. Va, gave the FIRST init
nation Of the whereabouts OF james
Lebo, a Cherokee Indian of Oklshoma
and q graduate Of the Carlisle Pa J
Indisn School, employed at BslipgtoD,
w. Va, by the West Virginia and
Maryland Coal Company, who mysler-
iously disappeared two weeks ago. The
body had been weighted down with
stones. He was evidently murdered and
robbed.
Edward Payson Weston, the veteran
pedestrian, yesterday broke MS RECORD
made forty years ago in walking from
Portland, Me-, 10 Chicago in twenty
five days. His previous record was
tweniy-six days. Weston has Travelled
a total of ,29S miles since he began bis
wslk, October 80. His official schedules
show a total of l, $50 miles for the en-
tire distance, but owing 10 the circu-
itors less OF some wagon roads he has fol-
lowed and the number of miles lost
through mistakes, the grand total is es-
timated at nearly 300.
If meat prices all over the country are not
being reduced-in fact, have not been re-
duced materially in the last thirty days the
retailers are the ones who are gouging the
public, according to statement today Big a
representative of one Of the six big packing
companies in Chicago
Practically the entire niue district of Gold
field, New. is to be tied up agian by strik
After an all-night meeting the miners union
reached decision not to accept script. They
await the time when the district resumes
payment on tn cash basis.