Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-02
News Of the Day.

John B. Denote, famous lecturer,
dropped dead today Of heart disease in
Fincastle, Ind.
II is estimated that the American
fsrmers' earnings for this year will be
81, 900, 600, 600 greater than last.
The rapid increase of population in
Philadelphia and New York is making
the negro problem acute in the north.
Seven Alabama railroads on Saturday
put in effect the Alabama passenger and
commodity rates, and Judge Jones dis
charged the federal grand jury.
The Manufacturers Record, Of Bal
timore, estimated that the prospective
decrease in the total of farm products
this year will be more than offset by
higher prices.
Marching under umbrellas, twenty-five
thousand representatives of union labor
took part in two rival parades ON Fifth
avenue, New York, today in tie annual
Labor Day celebration.
Protests more vigorous than any yet
presented against sending the battleshiP
feet to the Pacific are likely TO come
from many quarters when the people re-
aliza the ungusrded conditions in which
it will leave the Atlantic coast.
James Brown, a patient at the Sibley
Hospital, Washington, killed himself
yesterday while delirious from typhoid
fever, by jumping from a second-story
window In the institution. Brown was
twenty eight years old and married.
The Czar has instructed the Russian
delegation to the Hague Peace Confer
ence to support any proposition con-
Corning meetings of the conference on
the lines Of the American proposal, viz,
that the conference meet every seven
years.
Virginia Harmed, the actress, who is
the wife of f. II. SotherD, was brought
to New York on special train Saturday
night suffering from injuries to her eyes
brought on by the taking of several flash
light pictures in New Haven on Friday
night She has recovered.
With score of 1909, the Virginia
riAemen landed forty-eighth place in the
national match, which ended Friday at
Camp Perry, o., with U. S. Navy
The winner by a score of 3,42l, with
Massachusetts, second, S,4lS; Ohio third
1868; the cavalry fourth, 1856; Wash
ington fifth, 1851.
William II. Brown, 20 years old, Of
Georgetown, is held prisoner in Wash
;ngton on a charge of embezzlement.
Brown has been employed as salesman
by Golden & Co commission merchants,
and the warrant for his arrest charges
that Brown is q defsulter ia sums rang
ing from 500 to 81 900.
The automobile race for the Florio
cup, at Brescia, Italy, yesterday, will long
be remembered. 1t resulted directly or
indirectly in the death OF three promi-
nent persons, two of them men Of title,
and the serious injury of two other per
sons. The accidents were the worst that
have occurred in the history Of motoring.
The autumn maneuvers of the German
army btgan today on Templehof Field,
Berlin. Brieadier General w. 5. Ed
gerly, Major @. Dewitt Wilcox, Capt.
Robert E. L. Niche and Capt. George
H. Shelton, representing the several
branches of the United States army
service, have been invited to attend the
review as the personal guests of Emperor
William.
At Sheepshead Bay, N. Y, Saturday
evening James r. Keene's great colt,
Colin, won the $40, 900 FuturiIy before
the greatest crowd that ever gathered
there. Jockey Miller, who rode the
winner, won 81, 900 as a apecial prize.
Bar None, II. P. Whitney's entry, was
second, with Martin up. Chapultepec,
owned by f. Burlew, was third, ridden
by Nicol. Other winners we're Arimo,
John NJ. P, De Mund, Acrobat and
Live Wire.
Two Polish boys were shocked and
burned to death last night on the CO..
OOO-volt cables of the Niagara, LOckpori
and Ontario transmission line. Frank
Kronjs, fifteen years old, climbed up
6fty-foo. steel tower, and touched the
cable. He was electrocuted instantly.
His playmate, Stanislaus Z)wlinski,
vent up TO his aid and was burned Ia
death. One of his legs was burned,
his neck WAS burned half through, snd
bis body fell to The ground. The oihel
body remained in the air four hours,
until the power could be turned of.
Thousand of excursionists passing in
trolley cars. saw the body burning on the