Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-19
News of the Day.

EX-Secretaty shaw OF the treasury
Department says that no logical reason
for business depression exists.
Major Hemphill, Of the Charleston
News and Courier, is doomed as a can
didate for the United States Senate. -
Secretary of War TAFT and his party,
including Mrs. Taft, left Washington yes
terday evening on three months trip
around the world.
Edward 5. Cramp, late of the Cramp
Shipbuilding Company, Of Philadelphia,
has purchased large tract of land at
Norfolk as site for shipbuildiDg plant.
The Knights Of Honor have called for
double assessments for August and Sep
TENDER. An additional ten cents month
has been added to all members for ex-
perses.
Last night an immense meteor, ap-
psrently about seveniy-fve feet in cir
conference, fell into the sea about
mile of the Amagansett l.. l., life saving
station.
John Worlden, of London, Fog, q
grand opera hsrytone, was killed Satur-
day by a fall down the hold Of a vessel
on the Great Lakes while rOughing 1t as
deck hand.
Mrs. Fletcher ID. Proctor. wife of the
Governor of Vermont, who was on Sat-
urday thrown under moving steamer
by the capsizIng OF launch, was resus-
citated after two hours work.
The first appeal to organized labor for.
financial assistance in the telegrsphers'
strike was made yesterday by President
Small, when he appeared before the
Chicsgo Federation Of Labor.
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany, which wrote part of 5000, 600 life
insurance carried by Lucian II. Perkins,
of Kansas, intimates that Perkins vas
poisoned and wants the body exhumed.
The big plant of the Cumberland,
Md, Steel Company was totally destroy
ed by fire last night. The origin of the
fire il unknown. The loss is estimated
at 1850, 900. The insurance is 800, 600.
Fire swept the amusement grounds at
Sleeplechase Island, Conn, yesterday,
causing 100000 damage and creating
something of panic among the ~, OOO
visitors. No one was seriously Injured.
Five men were trapped in the forward
hold of the steamer Utica at Buffalo,
n. Y, Saturday afternoon, aud fright
fully burned. The fire started from an
explosion. John Roman, a Russian,
was taken out of the hold dead.
Fire, which started at 4 O'Clock yes
terday morning over the Office of the
master mechanic of The Southern Rail
way at Spencer, N. O., Quilted the build
ing and destroyed large quantity OF
material and supplies of the Southern
10 Spencer.
Ellis Jones, thirty-six years old, OF
Washington, was knocked from a rapid
ly-moying excursion train at Lyons
Creek, near Chesapeake Beach, last
night and killed. Jones was steam
filter, employed at the new union station
in Washington.
Prince Wilhelm OF Sweden is expected
to arrive at the jamestown Exposition
grounds today or tomorrow. A round OF
entertainments has been provided for
him. He will be the guest of Governor
and Mrs. Swanson at dinner at the
Hotel Chsmberlin.
Five cases of bubonic plague, four of
which have resulted in death, have been
reported to the health department Of
San Francisco within the last week.
The patients, with one exception, were
Of the poorer class OF foreigners dwelling
in The neighborhoOd of Chinatown.
The tenth annual issue off. T. James
"Fighting Ships of 1907" which is one
of the recognized authorities on the
nayies Of the world, and which has ust
been published in London, puts the
United S,ales second among the naval
powers of the world, with England first.
The A berdeen Hotel, at Aberdeen,
Nd, and the hardware store of Nelson
Worthington & Bros. were destroyed
early yesterday morning by a fire that
for time threatened to wipe out the bust
ness heart of the town. Four or five
other buildings caught fire, but they
were saved by the strenuous efforts OF
the firemeD and the bucket brigade.
At the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church,
at Cleveland, o., yesterday, Mr.. John
ID. Rockefeller eat in his pew and heard
Rev. Myers suggest that he make a gift
of 500, 900, 600 to Christian Evangel-
ian. The oil king seemed to be placed
at the suggestion, for after the sermon
he greeted Rev. Mr.. Meyers e1usively
and invited him to dine at Foress Hill.
While Mollie O'Hagsn, maid on a
farm near Moutyille, n. j., was up in
the hay NOV gathering eggs, yesterday,
James Moran, farmer, who had long
but unsuccessfully sought Molly's hand
in marriage, stealthily removed the
ladder, the only means by which the
girl could reach the ground, and kept
her a prisoner until she promised to be
bis wife.
After keeping solitary vigil for five
days over the bOcy of his wife, Nathan
p. Beers, IS years old, today consented
to holding the funeral. He followed the
body to the First Presbyterian Church
of Brooklyn, but could not bring himself
to having it inferred. The colin was
placed 10 q vault until Beers will con-
sent to burial. Mr.. and Mrs. Beers had
been married for 65 years.
The discovery of the dead body of an
unidenfed Italian under an elevated
railway station in Chicago early today
and the disappearance of Mr.. Bsrgel An
cd tie ,.urIar nj Dhitf,,