Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-30
News Of the Day.


Many of the striking ;elegrsphers are
returning to work throughout The county.
A report in Pilisburg says that four
people have been killed in wreck on
the Wabash Raiirosd, nesr Venice,
Washington county, Pa.
Mrs. Roger @. Mills, vile Of former
United States senator Roger Q. Mills,
of Texas, died on Monday at their old
s,uthern mansion at Corsicana, in that
State.
A short lived run occurred on the IA
tional State banks at Pittsburg, Pa, te-
day when foreign depositors drew out
about ten thousand dollars. AT noon
the ruD ceased.
Snow has fallen at Elkins, W. Va.
intermiitiDgly throughout The last "a
hours. Rural mail carriers report that
in the surrounding mountsins there was
blizzard yesterday.
Fire Quilted the upper section of the
Knight Richmond building at Bfockton,
Mass, today, causing loss by FIRE ard
water estimated al over $50, 600. The
loss is covered by insurance.
One man we killed and three injured
today in a collision on the Wheeling,
w. Va, and Elm Grove traction line,
at Elm Grove, four miles from Wheel
Jog. The car collided head-on with a
work train standing on the side track.
Heavy fog is sscri5ed ss the cause.
The Finnish Diet has iop'ed The pre-
p sed appropriation Of "a, 600, GEO "a a
bi-aunusl con pensa'ion to the Rn'siao
government for the exemption OF Fin ns
from service in the Russian army, bat
plainly intimated that 20 further money
for this purpose would be forthcomiog.
Al dispatch from Mexico City says
that Governor Miguel Ahumads, of the
S ate Of Jalisco, it is reported. will
succeed Enrique Creel ss Ambassador 10
the United States. Creel becomes gov
ernor of chihuahua. Joaquin d'Casus,
former Ambassador, denies he is to be
returned.
That the South ia financially safe ard
| ia position to benefit greatly the other
portions Of the United States was the
opinion expressed yesterday by New
Orlesns bankers and business men. The
immense exports OF cotton and also sugar
and rice are relied on shortly to bring in
gold from abroad.
That the big sailing ship Arthur Sc
wall, laden with coal for The A mericau
feet 10 the Pacific, has been wrecked
close 10 Cape Horn and her crew Of
forty eaten by csDnibals, who intest the
islands near Terra del Fuego aud The
Straits Of Magellan, is belieeed at the
Maritime Exchange 10 New YORK.
ecretary CIrtelyou hiss decided to
csll in some $50. 900. 900 now deposited
to the credit of Disturbing agents. Wall
street yesterday began to feel the effect
of the battle against The contraction Of
credit, and the movement of wheat, to-
bacco and cotton Is relied on TO bring
large quantities of European gold.
1t is reported at AShtville, N. c., that
an agreement practically has been reach
ed among the governors OF North Caro-
lima, Georgia aud AlabsmS ADD railroad
officials whereby the existing low pas
sepger rates. put in tff:c! by the last
legislatures Of these States, will be SCI
aside and a uuif3rm rate OF 2 IL cents a
mile substituted.
i IL At
ton and improvement csmps Of the
western railroads begsn yesterday, when
tie Union Pacific RELOAD discharged
several thopsend workmen at Omaha.
The approach of cold weather end the
necessarily shorter hours Of employ
meut caused the &C ion, which is similar
to steps taken each aulumn in that stc-
ton.
The hearing on the sppeal Of WIlism
Davis, the New York broker convicted
By tue supreme court of the District OF
Columbia for violating the gambling
laws by taking bets on the races, va
yesterday postponed by tie court of ap-
peals of the District Of Columbia until
December. This action carries the case
beyond the Beuning race meeting, which
opens Nov. 16.
Mrs. Nicholas Kitowski, OF Carson,
Wis, was blown to pieces yesterday By
the explosion OF a stick Of dynamite that
had been placed on the kitchen stove TO
dry. Two Of her children who were
cIiDgipg to the mothers skirts when The
accident happened were fatally injured.
A third child, aged FIVE. was struck by
a piece of the stove, the iron being i'm
bedded 10 its forehead. A fourth child
was also struck by flying metal, but will
recover.
For hazog Charles Stoner, studsn;
ct a Bradford, Illinois, school, five
young men of that place must pay $l4. e
600 damages, according to a verdict
brought in by jury. The defendants
are William Real, Earl Lsppin, Arley
Harwood, Earl Howe and Francis Long.
They sre said to have tied Stoner to q
tombstone in a cemetery aud frightened
him 80 badly that in his attempts to get
free he pulled the tomb,tone ever on him
self, breaking bone in his ley. He was
confined in hospital, e nervous wreck,
for several weeks.
A nywheel in the engine room of the
National Hotel in Washington broke
yesterday morning and caused consider
Sble excittm ent until the exact Cause of
the disturbance was sscertained. For &
time cries OF "Fire !" and earth
quake p rang high above the voices OF
the startled guests. Flying pieces from
the broken wheel crashed through the
engine room ceiling and psssing through
the dining room, damaged is ceiling,
which formed the lower part Of The floor