Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-26
News Of the Day.

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Edward Psyson Weston, the pedes-
trisn, is expected to end his WALK from
Portland, Me-, in Chicago this afternoon.
The Bureau OF Statistics estimates that
the total value of American manufactures
each year is at least $4,000, GOO, 600.
The President yesterday forced the
two South Dakota Senators to settle
their differences concerning federal az
pointments by drawing lots.
The prohibition campaign is on in
New Orleans, while the saloonkeepsrs
are attempting to counterfeit lis inhu-
ence by working for reforms.
Six mines in the Des Moines region of
Iowa and several others closed Saturday
because the miners refused to accept
checks. About 900 men are out.
G. P. Barney, former President Of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company, COM
mitted suicide. This was the verdict
of the coroner's jury in New York today.
Seyenty-fve Alpine climbers we're
killed in the Alps during the present
year, and the number OF other fOolhardy
adventures who met with accident was
$50.
Announcement is made that arrange
nents have been completed by the Ds-
tlonsl officers of the b. p. o. L. for the
grand lodge meeting at Dallas, Texas,
next summer.
The grand jury has handed up pre-
sentiment 10 the Jenkins Trust Company
case ia Brooklyn containing three names
Of men indicted which will not be made
public until The men arc arrested.
The dependence of the United States
upon foreign manufacturers for war ms
terisl and serious defects in The anna
ment of battleships are shown 10 the
annual report OF Rear Admiral n. e.
Mason, chief of he Naval Bureau OF
Ordnance.
The board of directors of the Rookie
Teller Institute for Medical Research, of
New YORK, announced an additional
gift from John D. Rockefeller OF 81, 6OO,-
600. The money is to form an endo"-
ment fund, the proceeds Of which may
be used in any way the directors see ii.
Joseph Meyer, moiorman, was killed
aud dozen passengers severely Injured
by shock and fight when two New York
subway trains collided yesterday at ia h
street and Boston Road point where
The subway tracks in crossing q valley
are elevated instead of under ground.
A bridge near Cambria, eight miles
from Tarragons, Spain, collapsed yesier-
day as au express train on Inc way to
Barcelona from Valencia was crossing 1t.
All but three cars fell Into the river.
Tue bodies of sixteen dead and thirty
persons seriously injured have been re-
covered. 1t is believed that there are
many more dead in tt wrecksge.
A conference of importance to the
co, 600 skilled mechanics il the build
ing trades in New York has just been
held, at which the MASTER carpenters
organizations gave notice to the Brother
hood of Carpenters that alter January l
their wages will be reduced from so to
$3.50 a day. Because of tho tightness
in the money market the construction OF
buildings has decreased so per cent.
Ri. Rev. Francis Aidsn GssqueP, the
abbot president of the English Benedic.
tines, who is at present in Rome to un-
dertake the revision OF the Vulgste,
was the object of an iadignity yester-
day, an outcropping of the auii-clericsl
sentiment. While walking in the slIeat
he encountered group Of roughs, who
i1stled him. At bis rem0nstances, one
of them spat in his face. The abbot
controlled his snger and walked away.
One striker was probably fatally
wounded and four other persons Gere
severely injured in a riot following an at
tack by a mob on a soulh-bOund Fourth
avenue car 10 Louisville, KY, last night
Between thirty and City shots we're fred
before the attacking party was dispersed
by the police. The attack was wholly
unexpected, cars having been run all
day without any show of violence on the
part of the srikers. The car attacked
was crowded with men and women.
Claiming that he did not have the
courage to longer endure life, senor don
Rogelio NJ. BOmbalier, chancellor of the
Cabsn Legation, attempted suicide last
evening while in his room at the Douglas
apartments, in Washington, by inhaling
Illuminating gss. He wss discovered
almost lifeless and hurried to the Home
opslhic Hospital. His condition was
reported as critical at late hour, but
the physicians believe he will recover.
The minister said Senior Bombalier has
not been feeling well for several days
and appeared to be homesick.
Louis Straus, a mining stock broker,
who would have been indicted today Tor
forgery, committed suicide by poison
a! his home, in New York, yes
tsrday, while two detectives we're telling
his brother at the door they were there 10
arrest him. Slrsus was accused Of
having forged bills of ladirg for about
$25, 900 and negotiated them for loans.
The complaint on which the detectives
were instructed to arrest him wss made
by William A. Avis & Co., who charged
that they loaued Straus $4,000 on q
forged bill of lading for 81, SOC.
An attempt was made in Lead, S. D.,
to stslssinste George w. Glover, son of
Mrs. Nary Baker g. Eddy, leader Of
the Christian Science Church. Mr.
Glover, who lives at Lead. had refused
to pay an assessment Of $4,000 as his
share of the cost of the famous "next
friends" suit. When leaving the house
where he was stopping Saturday morn
ing, he discovered wire lying scross The
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