Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-05
News Of the Day.


bassador to Great Britain, and Marx
Twain are among those who will receive
honorary degrees at Oxford University
on June 26.
Mr.. Pollard, a Methodist missionary,
at Chao- Tung-Fu Chins, has been stab
bed and merclessly beaten by Chinese
there. The missionaries who have fled
from Swatow and Pakhoi districts,
praise the conduct of the Chinese officials
in dealing with the peasant outbreak.
The explosion of car load Of
gasoline at Reddick, small town near
Kankakee, ILL.,, last night, caused the
death OF six men. Twenty more men
who we're near the scene of the explosion
were stunned, but none was injured.
The bodies were torn to atoms by the
explosion. The explosion of the gaso-
line car followed the derailing of a car
with hot box. Two cars weSe dersiled
and caught fire. This spread to the
gasoline car and the explosion followed.
A parliamentary commission has re-
fused to recommend the appropriation OF
$40, 900, 900, asked by the Italian war
Office for the reorganization of the artil-
lery and for Notifications. Instead, il
recommends a grant Of 5000, OOO for
artillery, provided the guns required ere
furnished by Italian factories, and &c.
900. 900 for Notifications. The commits
sion's refusal is significant, as it amounts
practically to a reduction OF ornaments
on the eve of the meeting of The Hague
conference.
All the mechanics of the various build
ing trades at present out on strike on
the new Metropolitan Club building at
Seventeenth and H streets northwest
Washington and the row of houses being
erected by Middaugh and Shannon on
Park road, near Seventh street northwest,
will be Licked out tomorrow morning.
Tee Employers Association OF the Build
ing Trades will meet this afternoon, and,
it is said, declare general lockout against
all the building trades mechanics who
have maintained the strike.
The 'ii,u-croW" laws of Southern
States and the separate Accommodations
furnished by carriers, in accordance with
those laws, will be discussed at hear
ing to be held by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, 10 Washington. The
complaint WAS filed by Georgia Edwards,
negro woman, of Nashville, Tenn,
Who alleges that the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company furnishes
interior Accommodations for the use of the
colored race in the southern States.
This, she contends, constitutes dis
elimination, under the amended railroad
rate act.
The town of Terni, Italy, has been
in q state ofuproar since yesterday MORN
ing oSine L, rioting by women strikers.
Women pickets persuaded large num-
bers of male workers to stay away
from work, and many business estab-
lishments had to close for the day. So
much disorder prevailed that detach-
meDts of cavalry were called out aud
made several charges on the women,
though without much effect. Then the
garrison was reinforced by 1900 men,
but the troops were chiefly used to safe
guard the banks and business premises.
In many cases the women boarded the
trains and assaulted workmen who de-
clined to associate themselves with the
strike.
Capt. @. D. F. Chandler, of the United
States Signal Corps, and bis companions,
J. @. Mccoy and Leo Stevens, of New
York, ended their balloon trip yesterday
afternoon at 5:45 O'Clock at Linglestown,
nine miles northeast of Harrisburg, Pa.
The trip, which covered l40 miles, re-
quired hours and 81 minutes. The
balloonists maintained an average height
of $500 feet above the earth, and at
times went as high as a mile and half.
Harrisburg wss the first place recognized
after leaving Washington. After leav-
ing on their sour the aeronsuts encount-
cred cloudy weather and ran through
dense clouds. A steady wind from the
south drove the big balloon almost due
north.
After a conference with President
Roosevelt last night, Commissioner Lane,
of the interstate commerce commission,
ann uuced that before July legal pro-
ceedings would be Instituted to compel
f. II. Hartman to answer certain
questions pvopouudrd 20 him by members
Of the commission At the recent hearing
in New York, when the merger of the
Hartman lines was under investigation.
Previous to his conference with the
President Commissioner Lane had con-
ferred with Frank b. Kellogg, special
counsel for the government in the Stand
ard OIL prosecution, and it was arranged
that Mr.. Kellogg should represent the
government in the case to be brought
against Mr.. Hartman.
Storms In Texas.