Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-09
News Of the Day.


election in Asheville, N c., yesterday
By majority of S4S.
1t is stated that Mrs. Mary Scott
Harije, OF Pittsburg, Pa, was offered a
million dollars 10 consent to divorce.
The German foreign Office denies the
report of German feet coming to At
lantic ports when the American battle
ships go 10 the Pacific.
Lieutenant Commander VogelgesaDg
was yesterday assigned TO the command
of the MsyfOwer, the Presidents yacht,
vice Lieutenant Commander Long, who
asked to be transferred.
An Injunction was secured yesterday
against the obstruction of the Crittenden
oaks in the Botanical Gardens in Wash
ington to make room for the PEDESTAL OF
the Grant monument.
A tornado that struck the section OF
Leeds, Ala yesterday caused the death
Of about fifteen persons, who were hit by
falling trees and timbers. The damage
10 property was great
The Isthmian Canal Commission yes-
terday awarded contract to the New
port News Shipbuilding and Drydock
Company for furnishing six steel barges
for Use on the Panama canal at the total
cost of $l20. 900.
w. F. HOl!zusn, lawyer and real
esta operator, of Washington, was yes
teIdsy stricken with paralysis at the
conner of F and Ninth streets northwest,
and is in a critical condition. Mr.. Hol'z-
man is a native of Rsppahaunock coun-
tY, Va.
Twenty-eight of the "fst colonies"
took their horsemanship test from Fort
Myer yesterday afternoon, and the joke
was on the President, who suspected
that some Of them couldn't ride. All,
it is said, acquitted themselves hand
so oely.
E FL. Hartman and bis policies were
Endorsed in resolution passed by the
annual meeting of Ire stockholders of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
b I'D in Salt Lake City, yesterday. The
board Of directors were reelected without
The veto by National President Small
of the strike order by local No. 16, Of
the Com mercial Telegraphers' Union, of
the leased wire operators to go into
effect today, resulted yesterday in the
strike order beipg rescinded at q meet
ing Of the union held in Nav York.
Railroad commissioners from the va
Iious Sta es were startled yesterday when
Chairman Martin A. Koapp, of the H.
terstate Commerce Commission, in an
address welcoming them to Washington,
i ltimste1 that he wanted the States to
yield power to the federal government
over the railways.
The portico of the courthouse in
Washington was the scene at noon yes
terdsy OF fist fight between Leonard ].
Msther and Leo Simmons, two members
Of the Washington bar. The "lie"
precipitated the combat, which lasted
several rounds, and lhs lawyers were
pummeling each other fercely, when
friends interferred.
A summary of the Connecticut town
and city elections held Monddy shows
that three of the four cities which voted
democratic tfficials almost entirely.
One hundred and thirty-six of the 1913
% WIS selected republican officers, against
l45 last year. Three more towns than
last year voted for license, making
total OF 90 towns now licensed, against
76 unlicensed.
Detroit and Chicago, leaders of the
American and National Leagues, re-
srectively, played IL strenuous innings
10 o tie in Chicago yesterday in the first
game ofthe series for the baseball cham
Of the world. The contest was
repIete with sensational situations, and
when Umpire O'Day, of the National
League, called the play off on account
If darkness most of the "a, S77 spectators
ighed with relief and went home we'll
satisfied with the outcome.
Secretary Taft was the guest of honor
It banquet given last night by the |
Americans at Shanghai. In his speech |
be declared that the United States did |
not intend % sell the Philippines, add |
ng that the only alternative to the pres
INT arrangement was independence. Re-
that the United States was
pledged to the open-door in China, Mr..
TAFT declared that the United States
gonld not tolerate any injury to her
rsde by political preference In any COM
'etitor. The Chinese presented a silver
nal IN him