Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-29
News Of the Day.

ceiyed when he fell from window III
the second story OF his home.
The B1arI OF Directors Of tie Pitts
burg, Pa, Stock Exchange decided 10
remain closed today. No official state.
ment was given out other than the bosrd
deemed it bes. not to open yet.
Four 6remen were Injured last night
in collision between Truck NJ. 2, OF
the Washington FIRE department, ard q
south bound Fourteenth street car, st
Rhode Island avenue ard Fourteenth
street northwest.
Announcement wss made in Pittsburg,
Pa, yesterday evening that 10 prevent
the personal holdings of George West
inghouse from being sacrificed, be is TO
have three years extension to allow bin
to realize on bis assets.
The government expects to conclude
i.s case sgaiust the Standard Oh Com
psny before spring. Experts ere now
81 gayed in nslJzing the testimony thus
far taken in New York, to ascertain
just where they stand.
I,ls reported in Vienna, from Salz.
burg, AusiIis, that ATchfuke Ferdi-
nspd ", gssndduke Of TpScadv, Is
dying. He received be last sacrament
yesterday. BE is seveniy-wo years old,
and for long time has suHerd from a
nervous mslady.
After en- illOess OF few months, VIII.
liam w. Birth, said 10 be the Oldest pa
tive WAshingronisD, died yesterday
afternoon. Mr.. Birth lacked but one
year of bti5g one hundred years old,
he having been born in Washington
January IL, 1903.
Blinded by the intense darkness and
heavy fall Of rain, Charles Fl. Fuller,
tweniy-sight years of age, Of Washing
ton, yardmaster a. the Peunsy lvsnis
freight yards at BenuinE, d. c., stepped
in front of a Unbound passenger ex-
press about 7 o'clock last night and was
killed.
Omaha packing houses yesterday re-
duced the prices Of all kinds Of meat 10
per cent, and expect still further re-
duction. Edward A. Cudahy, OF the
Cudthy Packing Company, expressed
the belief that the prices Of all commodi-
ties would be materially reduced, and that
the pre-, eat financial furry would result
in a general reduction ia values.
After a plea that prison sentence
would be equivalent to death sentence,
Dr.. Walter r Gillette, ex-Vice president
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company,
who wss convicted Of perjury for swear
ing falsely before :he grand jury in the
insurance investigation, was sentenced
in New York yesterday by Justice
Bowling to six months ia the peniten-
tisfy.
Raymond Hitchcock, the comedian,
who is playing in ''Tbe Yankee
Tourist" at the Aston Theater, New
York was arrested yesterday on the
charge OF having assaulted a fifteen
yesr-old gil. 1t was announced by The
district attorneys Office that other
charges Of q similar nature, involving
four or FIVE other girls, would be pre-
scented to the grand jury today.
Several railroads and express COM
paoies charged before the Interstate
Commerce Commission with conspirscY
to ruin the $50, OO0, 900 business of The
larger creameries Of The middle ives have
filed their answers. They deny the sl-
legation CT conspiracy aud claim that as
butter and cream are msnufactur d
product they are entitled to higher rate
than of the shipments OF milk. They
allege that at the former rates they were
carrying milk at loss.
Senator McOumber called st the White
House yesterday to talk with tke Presi-
dent about a bill which be intends to
introduce as soon as Congress meets
which will provide that sl corporations
engaging in interstate commerce may,
if they desire, get charter from the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor. If
such a charter is granted the corpora
tions will be under constant federal gu
pervision and may not issue stock in
excess Of their actual assets.
As result of class rivalry, 20 sopho-
mores Of the School OF Mines. at Rolla,
No., were routed out Of bed Sunday night,
and, half clad, were tied to trees on the
campus, where they remained until day
light yesterday, shivering in the nippiDg
atmosphere. After they had been re-
lelsed by other sophomores, the entire
sophomore class captured seveuty-Gve
freshmen, bound them with ropes aud
chains, and marched them around towo,
accompanied by the school band.
Astronomers at the United States
Naval Observatory have been making
observations for the last two weeks on
new comet which has bsen named the
MeIish comet, from the fact that its
discoverer WAS J.~E.- Melllsb. farmer,
Of Cottage Grove, near Madison, Wis.
1t has already been ascertsined that the
new comet is approaching the earth.
The Comet is of the eighth magnitude,
and is not visible TO the naked eye, but
can be seen plainly with a small power
lens.
Chief Justice Clsbaugh yesterday in
Washington signed rule, returnable
Friday, November 8, for Samuel Com
pers, president; Frank Morrison, secre-
tsry, and fifteen others, who make up
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, 10 appear on that
date and show cause why they should
not be temporarily restrained from main.
tanning boycott against the Buck Stove
and Range Company. Of St. Louis, and