Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-24
News of the Day.

Judge Austin l.. Crothers, democratic
nominee for Governor OF Maryland, is
declared by his physicians to be suffer-
ing from typhoid fever in mild form at
ElktoD.
The Tammspy Hall primaries are be-
ing held in New York today amid much
excitement. A conservative estimate OF
the situation gives Mcclellan FIVE dis
tricts and Murphy the rest.
Capt. Cassius Marshall Sanford, re-
ferred to in the affidavit of Mrs. Lulu
Williams Clark as having been present
at the murder of Governor Goebel oil
Kentucky, denies all of Mrs. Clark q
statements.
Peace has been declared in Morocco.
The delegates of three important tribes
hsve accepted the French peace over
lures insugura,ed yesterday, and will see
that the terms Of the agreement are
carried out. Hostilties are now at an
end.
The case of Senator Borah, accused
with ~ Others of conspiracy to deIrand
the United States government by fslse
entries of public lands, began In the
Federal District Court before Judge
Edward Whilson, at Boise City yesler-
day.
Gen. Stephen d. Lee, communicate Of
the United Confederate Veterans, has
issued an order to the effect that cadet
military schools maintained by the Con-
federacy were in the military service,
and are entitled to membership in the
veterans association.
Yesterdays proceedings in tho Stan
dard Oil hearing developed an attempt
by minority stockholders representing
the Standard Oil to secretly elect officers
for the Tidewster Pipe Company, Of
Ptnusy lvania, which election the court
declared fraudulent.
The national convention of the Brother
hood Of st. Andrew will meet in Wash
ington tomorrow. A number of foreign
delegates are expected. The programme
of entertainment includes a reception by
the President and visits TO Mount Yer
non, the cathedral close and other points
OF interest.
General James II. Lane, professor Of
engineering at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, died at his home in Auburn
Saturday night, 10 the seventy-fourth
year of bis Pge. General Lane served
ia he Confederate army as brigadier
general. General Lane was born al
Mathews Courthouse, Va, July, %,
1888.
That S'uyvesant Fish means to fight
+. II. Hartman TO finish ard assume
once more a position of commanding i'm
portance in the affairs of the Illinois
Central, from which Mr.. Hartman Gust.
ed him, WAS made evident yesterday,
when Mr.. Fish sent out long letter Ia
stockholders, asking them for theil
proxies TO vote at the annual meeting oil
The company, which will be held in Chi
ergo, on October 16
That Americans are carniverou:
animals is shown by the fact that in the
wear 1904 wholesale butchers slaughtered
81 900, 600 hogs, 1900, 600 sheep and
1000, 900 beeves according to census
bulletin issued yesterday. The value j;
placed at 1868, 900, 900 With the
slsughteriDg of such large quantities Of
meat, the ice manufacturing industry
has increased from practically nothing in
1870 to a production worth $23, 000,.
coo in 1905. The leading States, accord
ing the quantity of ice prOducedare Penn
sylvanis, New YORK, Ohio, Texas,
Missouri, California and Louisiana.
Mrs. Abbie Wallace, aged 60, was
burned to dsatA, one man was bruised
and shaken up by jumping from sec.
ord story window, snd seven men and
two women barely escaped with Their
lives from fire which early yesterday
burned boarding house kept by Mrs.
Wallace 10 Vnslhaven, Me. The men,
all OF whom were boardes, and the two
women dOmesiics were awakened by
Mrs. Wallace, who had discovered the
fire, and hurried rom the building, one
man being forced to jump from the up
per window. The death Of Mrs. Wal
lace wss not Known until her bones were
found in the ruins yesterday afternoon.