Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-25
News Of the Day.


The Canadian Pac fc Rsilwsy Com
pany's crack oriental liner Empress q
China sank Wednesday highs alongside
her dock at Vancouver B. c., Her
sescocks must have been opened, but
how is not known.
DR.. Walter r. Gillette, who Was con
necte6 with the Mutual Life Insurance
Company for tbiriy-six years and who
was vice president when be retired about
year ago, after the insurance dis
closures, was convicted in New York
yesterday evening of perjury for having
sworn falsely before the grand jury.
President Stephens Z Mccarthy, Of
the Journeymen Plumbers Union oil
Washington, one of the leading men,
bers Of the grievance committee Of the
Building Trades Mechsuics' Council,
died suddenly yesterday. The immediate
cause of his desth was congestion OF the
kidneys, said TO have been brought On
By excessive work in the interest of the
building trades.
Il is announced that there will be no
advance in passenger fares to and from
Washington when the various railroads
occupy the new Union Station. The
subject was discussed at a meeting yes
terdsy, of officers Of the various
lines that will use the new station.
After q full interchange of views, the
proposition TO make an additional charge
was Indefinitely postponed, which means
that it was abandoned.
BscauSed 200 OF 'h-ir countrJmsn wers
detained Oh board by tle sanitary iDspec-
tors of Santa Cruz, Mex 400 Chinese
who had just been laude mace NM
derous assault Wednesday night upon
the crew of the English ship Woolwicb.
Many men were seriously Injured in the
sffray and FIVE may Gle from Their
wounds. The Chinese would have swept
all before them but Tor the timely aid
brought b! large force Of federal troops
and gendarmes.
After having executed his will, dis
posing of his property, and telling Lis
con where to look the following day for
bis dead body, Ransom Goodwin, aged
seventY-six, of johnson county, Odio,
who last August murdered his wife in a
cold blooded manner, sho. himself
through the heart, yesterday at Ashe-
Vile, N. c., death following to-
stantly. At the place designated Goot-
wins son found his fathers body.
Ransom had made two previous attempts
10 kill himself
What is said to be the mos! sweeping
Injunction ever issued against Organized
labor wss granted at Philippi, W. Va,
yesterday by Federal Judge Dayton. The
which is temporary, restraints
John Mitchell, president; 7. l.. Lewis,
v;cs president aud the district officers Of
the United Mineworkers Of America
from organizing or interfering in any
way with about l., 900 nouunion miners
by the Hickman Coal Com
pany, Glendale Coal Company and the
Richland Company, located in the
Wheeling district. A 6usl bearing in
he case will be held 2, Parkersburg, ".
Va, mex. month.
Admiral Winfield Scott SchleY was
elected to the ihirty-third degree and
named honorary inspector general for the
Washington jurisdiction by the Supreme
Council, Thirty-:hird Degree Scottish
Rite Mssons, for the Southern Jurisdi
ion, at an executive session If the Su
Dreme Council yesterday at ernoon given
entirely to the consideration of the names
for Masonic hooors, in
he several subordinate jurisdictions IN
Ter the Supreme Council. Fully one
hundred were named IS honorary in
pectors general and Knights commander
If the court of honor, among them II.
T. Thompson, of Virginia.