Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-26
News Of the Day.

talk by the British officials Of appealing
to their government to obtain more pro-
lection. The cart drivers declare that
they will strike today if certain demands
they have msde are not granted.
Unless there should be a change of the
present programme, private aud public
consistories will be held in Rome re-
spectively OIL December 8 aud II. Sew
eral Italian prelateS will be given the red
hat, but whether any foreigner will be
90 honored has not been decided. No
American is named for The csrdinalate.
, A freight train on the Kanawha and
Michigan road ran into a cut of cars on
a siding st Lsngyille, Ohio, yesterday.
Edward Porter, the engineer, aud John
Edmons, the fireman, we're killed. Eu-
gineer Wallace Stanley, the regular en-
gineer of the train, refused to take his
run yesterday, saying he felt e premo-
milton of danger.
One OF the boIdest attempts at robbery
in Philadelphia in long time occurred
yesterday, when two men tried to get
away with S., 900 they hsd seized from
bank runner in tie United States sub
treasury. Both were arrested and all the
mope7 wss Iec0veu d. They gsve their
names as O. ID. ;es aud Ciarl.s VT
kins, aud sid thy lived in New Yoik.
Bates, who seized the money, cartel
loaded revolver.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will
run its first train into the new UniOn
Sation 10 Washington at 600 o'clock
tomorrow morning, and 10 minutes later
thu train will pull out sgain carrying the
frs. passengers cut Of Washington from
the depot. The Pennsylvania and the
Southern Railroads have pledged them
selves to follow the Baltimore and orc
into the new station on November II,
and notices CT tee contemplated removal
on that date we're posted al the Pennsyl-
vania Station yesterday.
Lieut.. Gov. Clanlef, Of New YORK,
WAS the guests yesterday of the Georgia
State Fair Association at Atlanta and
spoke before q large crowd at the fair
grounds in the afternoon. He was in
troduced by United States Senator Clay.
Lieut.. Gov. Chanler made a plea for the
divorce of the tariff issue from politics
and its handling by Il Donpartisan com
mission. He also urged the punishment
by personal imprisonment OF corporation
officials who violate the Law, slyipg
heavy fines were not preventive.
Mr.. w. J. Bryan declared, in Kings
tor, N. Y, yesterday, that his decision
whether to announce himself as a cand;-
date for the democratic nomination fjr
PRECEDENT will not depend upon The choice
Of the republicans, While passing through
Kingston on his way 10 Port JEWS, MIR.
Bryan authorized the following statement
"Mr. Bryhu's decision as to being a
candidate will not depend on who the
republican candidate is. The question
will be considered entirely from the
standpoint of democratic principles snd
democratic Advancement"
The alarming reports circulated earlier
10 the month regarding the heal;h Of
King Alfonso of Spain appear to be con-
frmed. 1t ia understood the king, who
will travel under the sirictest incognito,
as Duke of Toledo, during his coming
visits TO London, will submit to the ex-
animation of specialist in tuberculosis,
from which disease his father died. TIL
kings open-air life has thus far kept the
hereditary disposition in allegiance, and
an operation was performed on hin re
Gently in the hope of checking the grow
ing symptoms OF consumption
There was "run" on public school
No. II in Junction avenue, Coroas,
Long Island, N. Y, Thursday, by an
excited foreigner, who came near crea-
ling a stampede among the several hum
bred children and teachers by brapdish-
ing stilIetto add demanding bis de-
post. Miss Josephine Lawlor, the
principal, tried in vain to convince him
hat the institution was not bank, but
a public school. To accentuate his
he drove bis knife into the
principals desk stveral times. Mean
while some one called a policeman, who
arrested the intruder. AS Miss L2wlor
refused to make complaint against
he man, the policeman TOOK him out OF
he building aud seat him away.
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette, of
arrived 10 Kalamazoo, Mich,
yesterday on scout for Michigan dele
rates to the next republican national
"If President Roosevelt il
lists upon not accepting another term
o carry cut bis policies, am the msn
% do IT," said the Senator. When |
pressed as to his opinion of whether the |
Presidsn. would consent 10 run next
rear, Mr.. La Toilette was evssiye, but
minated that he had little fear of the |
,ulJ opposition be considered possible.
BE stated that he was already assured OF
! solid Wisconsin delegation, aud was
attending bis campaign into neighbor-
og States as euergetically as possible
That was his errand in Michigan, be
aid.
The arrest of Eosign Charles B.
Jimo, Of the French navy at T0ulon,
France, Thursday, on the charge of be-
ng a spy, and his later confession of
having distracted a secret naval signal
book and the naval cipher code, were
ollowed yesterday By the arrest, ct Ven
Tome, OF an army reserve officer named
3erton, who is charged With negotiations
With an agent of foreign power for the
ale Of military secrets. The arrests are
treating great stir, and as Ulimo is a
Hebrew, the psPsrs term his case a
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