Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-17
News Of the Day.


sire and grand secretary.
L. 81. Hardie, cotton brokers and
members OF the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange, suspended today.
Postmaster General Myers states that
he will recommend to Congress the
establ shment of postal-saving system,
stampvending machines and other postal
reforms.
The u. S. Navy Department has,
according to dispatches from Cardiff,
Wales, contracted with WEIGH firms
for 100, 900 tons of best steam coal.
An enormous crowd cherred the big
turbine Cunarder Mauretanis, sister ship
of the Lusitania, as she left Shields,
EnelsDp, todsyior her preliminary sea
trails.
Wall stree. watched nervOusly today
the opening of the government suit 10
dissolve the Standard Oil Company of
New jersey which was begun before
franklin Ferris, special United States
examiner.
w. ID. Stevens is to receive $4,000
and II. w. Denison $40, 900 and an
annuity of $S40 as a result of their ser
vices to the japanese government during
the recent Russo-Japanes9 war. Both
are Americans.
The government will begin its attack
IN dissolve the Standard Oil trust in New
York today when Frank B. kellogg, the
governments chief counsel, will begin
The taking Of testimony in the Federal
building there.
Edward Butler, aged II years, en-
ployed in department store al Newark,
N, j., was arrested in New York this
morning charged with forging the name
of floor walker to rebate checks. He
was taken TO Newark.
Running at high speed an automobile
containing seven Elks, returning to
Colorado Springs, from social session
at Manitou early today ran into tele-
graph pole. Three men were killed and
another member of the party is reported
to be dying.
After fifteen rounds of fighting, in
which neither man did any particularly
brilliant work, KID Sullivan, Ct Wash
ington, was given the decision over bis
fellow -townsnsn, Tommy Lowe; last
right, before the Eureka Athletic Club
in Baltimore.
August Schmedtie, for many years
identified with the jewelry business in
Washington, died yesterday. Mr.. Schmed-
tie, who was in bis seventy-eighth
year, was native of Germany. He was
for many years prominent member of
The Masonic fraternity in Washington.
Fire starting in Curran Brothers store
threatened the principal business block
of the town of Beaver Meadow, Pa, this
morning. The Weatherly fire depart
ment responded to call for assistance.
Dynamite was effectively used TO check
the spread of the flames, and the fire
was placed under control. The loss will
reach about s25,0O0
Notwithstanding the proclamation Of
the new project of ODESSA, General No
whisky, Outrages in the streets in that
place were resumed yesterday on the oc-
casion of the funeral of police official.
This Black Hundreds fred revolvers reck-
ltssly all day, broke into Jewish houses,
pillaged them and cruelty beat their oc-
cupants. Two Jews were killed and
many injured. Reports are reaching
Odessa OF raids, rObberies and murders
at other places.
After Harry Becker had been killed
and Samuel Becker, his brother, had
heen MORALLY wounded by francesca
Siccs, a young Italian, in New York
last night, two detectives had desperate
a hit with a mob, led by the young
mems mother, bent on lynching the as
ssiant of the two young men, ard it
va only after the detectives clothes
rad been torn to shreds and their prison
err badly beaten that the three were
rescued by the police reserver.
Mrs. Cassie Nj. Chadwick, who, pos
ing as Andrew Oarnegie's natural daugh-
ter, swindled Ohio and eastern banks
and capitalists out of millions in loans
on bogus securities, was stricken with a
nervous collapse at the penitentiary at
Columbus, Ohio, yesterday, which has
left her temporarily blind. Her condi-
ton is serious, and it is the opinion OF
the prison physicians that she will never
live to serve out her ten.year sentence,
two years of which she has completed.
Six foreign laborers we're drowned 1t
Dam No. 2, in the Allegheny river, ct
AspinwslI, Pa, les. night by the sink
irg of a boat load of stone. The men
we're employed by the bravo Contract
Ing Company, which is building the
dam. 1t is charged that the foreman,
Garland Bendendolpb, overloaded the
boat he Was placed under bond to APP
pear at the ceroner's inquest When the
boat capsized the stone fell on top O! the
men and pinned them to the bottom OF
the river.
Two children, Edward Howard, aged
FIVE, and Charles Thompson, aged four,
were burned to death in fire which
destroyed stable and a wsshhouse at
Moundsville W. Va, yesterday. The
children we're playing in the hayloft,
and the superstition is that they were
playing with matches. The loft was
filled with hay and was a roaring fur
mace when the blaze was first discover
ed. When the embers had cooled the
remains of the children were found
burned beyond recognition.
Vice President and General Manager
Hackett, of the Southern Railway, reach
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