Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
News Of the Day.

Eighty persons we're killed and twenty
two were injured in ninety accidents IN
the Alps during the summer season.
Tbirty-four balloons left Brussels Yes
terday in race organized by the Bel
gian Aerouautic Club. One hundred
thousand persons watched the start
Representative Theodore Burton, re-
publican nominee for mayor of Cleve-
land. announced that be would accept
no campaign contribution from any pub
lie service corporation.
Woodstock College, the philosophical
and theological training school for the
Jesuit scholastics, which has been located
a. Woodstock, near Baltimore, since
1869, is soon 10 be moved to New York
city and made part Of the university at
FOrdham.
Rev. ". A. Query was yesterday con-
secraled bishop coadjuior of the EPiSco-
pal Diocese of South Carolina, the
services taking place in Trinity Church,
Columbia, S. O., in the presence OF a
distinguished gathering representing all
sections OF the State.
Meat prices scared todsy 10 Chicago
TO the tune of storm of protest at
all the wholesale supply houses. In
some places the protest assumed the pro-
portions Of tumult, but in none did 1t
result 10 any decrease in prices. The
advance is horizontal on all grades Of
meat.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland went
for a short drive at Princeton, n. j.,
Yesterday afternoon. He was accompa-
nied:by a trained nurse, who has been in
attendance on him for scms time. vMr.
Cleveland only sees few very intimate
friends, and these on rare occasions. His
health is by no means good.
The iron giders of the bridges that
will carry 10th and 18th streets over the
depressed railway tracks of the Washing
ton Southern Railway Company on
Maryland avenue, Washington, are being
placed in position, but it will require
several weeks more work before the
bridges are completed and thrown open
n public service.
Two midshipmen at the Annapolis
Naval Academy, James s. SPore, OF
West Bay City, Mich and Solomon
Endel, of Lake Charles, La, had a
fist fight over a private quarrel recently
and Spore was injured so badly that he
had to be sent to The hospital. The
fight originated in a taunt directed
against Endel, who is Hebrew.
A secret meeting of the New York
striking telegraphers was held yesterday,
at which reports were received from the
telegraphers who had struck in the
various Offices. This was on account OF
feeling that had arisen that the crisis
10 the strike will come this week, and
the circulation of rumOrs that today the
strikers may stampede back to work.
The increasing indignation CT the
masses against the escape from the gull
lotine of Soleillant, known as the "mon-
strous violator and murderer" whose
sentence to death for the atrOciOus muir
der of II year-olG girl, was committed
last week by President Fsllieres of France
to life imprisonment, was expressed in
Paris yesterday in series OF the most
curious public manifestations that have
occurred in France for long time. The
demonstration, despite the fact that sew
ersl arrests we're made, WAS almost en-
tirely an orderly one. Many woman par
ticipated.
A mob, bent on lynching a nonunion
mill worker, who had shot some nuioD
men in Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday morn
ing, got rope around the neck of
plain clothes detective by mistake, ard
had him half stung to telegraph post
Lefore the mistake was discovered. 1t
was but an incident Of a very bloody
battle between union and nonunion
forces at the Forty fifth street mills.
John Anderson, nonunion ironwOrker,
with a gang of friends, got into a fight
with a party of union glass workers,
headed by John Manning. There was
some shooting, and Manning was perhaps
fatally wounded. He is at a hospital,
and Anderson is in Jail to await the re-
suit of his injuries.
1t Is again rumored that Baron Won Stern.
burg is soon to retire as German ambassador
10 the United States, because of q malignant
disease with which he has long suffered.