Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-15
News of the Day.

Theodore Roosevelt, jr., has injured
his knee at Cambridge, Mass, in play
ing football.
Thomas Ryan, for many years assis'
tIut Secretary Of the Interior, retired from
that position yesterday.
A slide has occurred at the south end
of the Culebrs cut, in the Panama Canal,
and about half million yards OF dirt is
in motion.
The failure of!he firm OF Butler q
johnson, members Of the New York
consolidated stock exchange, was al
nouuced yesterday.
l. il reported that still another high
tfiicisl Of The teleg'aphers' union will be
cuhei when The convention meets in
Milwaukee next week.
Defeated for reelection as inteTns-
tional president # The Teams.ers
Union, Cornelius P. Shea, who engi-
neefed the big Chicago strike, has star;-
I'd rival organization 10 Chicago.
President Finley of the Southern Rail-
way denies the report from Asbeville
that the operation Of The Virgins and
Southwestern would be discontinued
Tie greatest event of Old Home Week
at Baltimore so far, and fitting fore
taste Of what is TO come, vas the monster
reception last night at the Fifth Rsgi-
ment Annoy.
Grief for the death of his first wife,
though the honeymoon with his second
WAS rot over, caused Edward johnson,
AZ years old, Connecticut farmer, to
III Dot himself dead.
Miss Ida Scott, sister o: Mr'. Angus
,us Harj', has been suspended from
private school at MorristOwn, N. j.,
owing to her connection with the Pitts
burg divorce scandal.
Snow fell on the 17-mile grade Of the
Baltimore and Ohio RsilrOsd and in the
glades of Garrett county, w. Va, yes
Ierday morning. A fall OF snow Is also
reported from Davis, w. Va and other
high points.
twenty-five persons were injured,
m'jDiiiy of them seriously, and one, 1t is
believed, fatally, last night, in trolley
collision on the BUfilo and Lske Erie
traction line at Moorheadvllle switch,
near Erie, Pc.
Grown PRICE Frederick William
has became an humble copying clerk in
the Prussiau interior ministry, his
father, the emperor, intending that he
shall familsr'ze himself with The entire
work oflbe administration.
A young woman will testify in the re-
hearing of the case of Professor Hsu,
charged with the murder of bis mother
in-law at Baden Baden, that she saw the
professor going to railway station just
before the woman was shot.
Samuel w. Peck, president OF the
wholesale clothing firm of S. W. Peck
& Co., of New York, has brought. suit
sgainst his wife for divorce, naming
as correspondent Frederick Calhoun, a
horsemsn, who was divorced by Louise
Thorudsk e, the widow of Dion Bouci-
csulf, end who passed through bank
ruptcy q few days ago.
judge Rail, in Chicago, yesterday
Issued an injunction upon application Of
Suyvesant Fish, restraining The Union
Pacific Railroad Company, the Railroad
Securities Company and the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York
from voting at least 2S6, 73l shares OF
ock at Wednesdays meeting of the
stockholders of the Illinois Central Rail
road Company.
One man wss killed, FIVE others will
probably die, and eight we're badly in.
jured yesterday, when seventeen cars of
work train crashed through trestle |
on the New Erie ard jersey Railway, ut |
Slonyford, near Middletown, N. j. The |
cars we're loaded with dirt and stone, and
twenty Austrian labOrers, who were on
the train went, down with them to the |
bottom of The raviue, ninety feet below.
james n. Sutton, father of Lieut..
James II. Sutton, who died at Annspo-
lis Sunday of guushot wound, says be
has urquesiionsble Information from
Annapolis TO the effect that his son came
TO his death by accident. He says his
information also disputes the statement
that young Sutton was possessed of two
guns aBd that there was an effort made
by the mans companions to disarm him.
Further than this, Mr.. Sutton says he
knows that bis son had no reason for taxi
ing bis own life.
10 a report which he will make to the
next Congress in regard to the nutrtive
value of various foods which have been
in cold storage, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
Chief Of the Bureau Of Chemistry of the
Agriculture Department will, it is be-
lieved, declare that it is 10 all proba-
bility unsafe to eat such foods if they
have been kept for more than three
DR.. Wiley is about 10 try some
experiments in the food line with SIDE
Of beef which has been kept In a refrig-
Grating plant for more than fourteen
years. He will try the experiment on a
dog.
Samuel J. Snail, president Of the
Union, did not attend the
meeting Of the New York union held in
Clinton Hall yesterday afternoon. When
q reporter went to the ball and asked
one OF the strikers if Small was there the
striker grinned and replied: "You can
bet your life Small isn't here, aud be
wont come here. He had too much
trouble getting away iror here Sunday,
and he won't trust himself in 8 meeting
If striking telegraphers again. Why, he
never would have gotten away with q
whole skin Sunday If be hadn't gone
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