Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-22
News OF the Day.

| The haV1lands, CHINA MANUFACTURERS,
at Limoges, France, have discharged 200
workmen because OF The lack Of orders
from the United States.
Cotton prices rose sharply upon the
isoue OF the Census Bureau report on
cotton ginned, showing 1911, 2O2 bales,
as compared with 1862, 242 bales Tor
1906.
Fire destroyed the factory Of the Ex-
celsior Furniture Company on the Gel
oron Road at jamestown, n. Y, this
morning, entaiing loss Of $S5, 600,
partly covered by insurance.
Three thousand song birds-csnaries,
blue and gold 6nches, gray clrdlnsls, etc.
from the Hsrz mountains. in Ger
many, arrived in one ship in New York
this week for the Christmas trade.
An injunction against officers of the
bricklayers' union and members of other
building trades unions, who are alleged
to have interfered with work now in
progress by master builder, is asked by
Richardson & Burgess, of Washington.
Justice Gould has set Monday for the
hearing.
Twelve persons we're injured yesterday
in head-On collision of Lake Shore
electric car from Cleveland and local
Soldiers home car, near Sandusky,
Ohio, today. Conductor Lands and
Motormsn Balwin, Of the interburan
car, have heen arrested.
Oscar G. Murray was reelected presi-
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company for the fifth consecutive year
upon reorganization of the bosrd Of
directors in New York yesterday, the
board having been reelected at the
stockholders meeting in Baltimore last
Monday.
Justice Gould ofthe District Of Colum'
bia court will probably not render de-
clsiou 10 the petition OF the Buck Stove
and Range Company, of st. Louis, for
temporary Injunction against the AmeTi-
can Federation of Labor to restain them
from publishing the name of the COM
pany on the so-called "uafair lists" for
at least week or ten days.
Exoneration from the charge of reck-
less navigation, which, it was alleged,
endangered the life OF President RoOse-
welt during the river trip from Cairo to
Memphis, Teun., October 8, was obtained
at Cairo, III for the officers and crew
of the steamer Dick Fowler. They
we're found not guilty by U. S. Inspectors
Waltz and Hodge, of Memphis, follow
ing the trial of Wednesday.
Justice Wyatt, in New York, yester-
day, held w. K. Hearst for the grand
jury on charge of criminal libel pre-
ferred by William Astor Chanler. S. S.
Carvalho gave bail for Mr.. Hearst. The
charges against Mr.. Hearst grew out Of
a publication in the New York Evening
Journal concerning the case of Raymond
Hitchcock, the ac.or. Mr.. Chambers
name was mentioned in connection with
the article.
R.v. John SchsfFer, said to be the
oldest minister in the world, celebrated
his 102nd birthday today at his home
near North Benton, Ohio. Rev. Mr..
Schaffer preached regularly for 60 years.
He has lived in his present home 20
years. He was born in Westmoreland
county, Pa, Nov. %, 1905. At 102
the aged minister reads newspapers with.
on. glasses and his mind is bright. He
still enjoys cigar.
Rev. DR.. Thomas w. Todd, professor
OF rhetoric at the State Normal School
al Cedar Falls, Iowa, has been DISMISSED
as the result Of the discovery of an un-
printable seven-page lOve-letter from the
clergyman 10 Mrs. Katharine Gray, q
teacher of vocal music in the school.
DR.. Todd has confessed to improper rels-
tions with Mrs. Gray, extending over
several years. He has a wife and len
year.old daughter. He was formerly
president Of Osege Seminary, where Mrs.
Gray was an instructor. He frequently
filed nulpits in Cedar Falls and vicinity.