Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-19
News Of the Day.

By the Supreme Court at Columbus today.
Twelve great battleships either of the
Dreadnought type or similar construc-
ton will be completed in Great Britain
10 two years.
senstor J. Fl. Bankhead, junior Ala
bama Senator, is seriously i'll with
typhoid pneumonia at bis home in
Fayette, Ala.
Prince Robert Charles Luis Marie de
Bourbon, father Of 81 children and pos.
SCISSOR of fortune of $40, 600, 900, died
in Paris yesterday.
f. H. Coapman has been appointed
manager of the Northern and Eastern
districts of the Southern Railway system
to succeed the late J. N. Scale.
Mrs. Rebecca Goats, So, and hel
daughter, Mrs. Emma Edwards, were
burned to death when lamp exploded
st their home 10 Philadelphia today.
While attempting to arrest Clement
Neikum, as escaped prisoner, of Hazel
ton, Pa, John Moore, member of the
State constabularly, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded by the former to
day.
ConfessiDg that she was chosen to
carry outa terrorist plot, but that her
courage bad failed, an unknown girl OF
IS swallowed poison aud died today in
the Tsarskoe-Solo railroad station 10
81. Petersburg.
When the case Of Raymond Hitch
cock, the comedian under six indict-
ments based on testimony Of young girls,
was called today before Judge Rosalsky
Ia New York his counsel asked sn i'm
mediate trial aud the case will be moved
IN the next few days.
Former State Senator Thomas FL. Nc
C)nics, one of the best known attorneys
in Ohio, was today indicted by The
Hancock county grand jury on the
charge of attempting to bride juror in
the STANDARD Oil case tried here last
June. A hung jury was the result OF
tie trial.
Judge Henderson, at Rockville, Md,
Yesterday decided the Conduit road cases
In favor of the automobilisis, holding
sha, the road wss rot public highway,
that its use was by the grace OF the
United Sites Government alone and
that the State law regulating the speed
of automobile does not apply 10 it.
Joel Chandler Harris, editor of Uncle
Remus's Magazine, of Atlanta, by special
invitation dined with President Roose.
welt at the White House last night. Mr.
Harris received request from the Pres
ident to come to Washington for a talk
on literary matters, and with special ref
erence to "Uucle Remus's Magazine"
Of which Mr.. Harris is editor.
Judge Hazel in the U. S. Court in
Buffalo, n. Y, yesterday granted tenn
porary injunction on behalf Of the Dels-
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Company, restraining the Switchmen's
Union of North America, Buffalo Lodge,
No. 4, and its officers from breaking an
agreement alleged to exist between the
company and the Switchmen's Union.
The Thomas Iron Company at Easton,
Pa, yesterday annou nced reduction OF
10 per cent, in the wages Of It's employees
to take effect on December /. The re-
duction will affect sll the mines and
works Of the company, including the
Richards mine, in New jersey. A sim
liar reduction has been announced at the
mines and works of the Empire Iron and
Steel Company and at the Joseph WAR
ton Blast Furnaces aud Mines, OF the
Musconetcong Iron Company, at Stan
hope, N. J. The Tbomss Company has
already laid off 800 hands, aud several
thousand are affected by the closing oil
No. l and No. 6 blast furnaces, at Ho-
kendauqus, and No. IL, at HelleFtown,
Pa.
1t is predicted in court circles in Brussels
that Prince Albert is likely to be appoin ted
regent Of Belgium soon, owing to King Leo
pold's frequent absences from the capital.