Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-10
News Of the Day.

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seven cents a hundred more on -four
than on wheat shipments to the Pacific.
President Small, of the Telegrsphers'
Union, threatens TO call a strike IN
Chicago and eastern cities, following
failure TO treat with the operators in San
Francisco.
The first definite steps looking to the
creating ola board of control for Rich
mond has been taken by the special
Joint committee of the city council on
charter changes.
A convention OF delegates from the
Commercial Clubs and labor bodies, of
San Francisco, will be called in few
days to choose a mayor for Mayor
Schmiz's unexpired term.
A small sloOp commanded by Capt.
William Vague, of Brooksville, Me-,
was capsized in a squall in Penobscot
Bay yesterday. and Capt. Vague and
FIVE Young men Of a party OF ak were
drowned.
Admiral Baron Gonbey Yamamoto,
of Japan, arrived in New York today.
81 wish you would all do your best for
peace" were his opening words to the
newspaper men who met him before ne
set foot on United States soil.
Fl broke out in the plant of the
Cream City Woven Wire Works in Allie
gheny, Pa, today. Within half an
hour the wire plant was in ruins, With
losses of $50, 1000 to the building and
$50, 1000 on machinery and stock.
Hundreds of delegates, representing
every State in the union and many
foreign countries, are in attendance on
The twenty third annual international
convention of the Young Peoples So
cety of Christian Endeavor, at Seattle.
Four children of Mr.. and Mrs. Jason
Field, who live at Rogersville, ten miles
from Fon du Lac, Wis, were burned to
death yesterday by the explosion OF a
gasoline stove. One child was saved.
The children ranged from three months
to four years of age.
At La Plata, Md, today Mrs. Henry
Bowie and her son, Henry, charged with
the murder of Hubert POsey, near Indian
Head, in February last, whom they
allege they killed after he had wrouged
and Thea refused to marry Mrs. B)wie's
young daughter, Priscilla Bowie, pleaded
guilty under tn unwritten law.
\ victory for the copper consumers OF
the country WAS scored in New York
yesterday when the copper producers
who, for weeks, have been holding out
for & price for the metal of 254 Genus
pound dropp ed their quotations sharply
aud offered copper at prices 2! to 81
cents under the recent asking level.
The four children of Charles Camp
bell, whose sges ranged from twelve to
one and ope-half yearq, we're burned to
death in fire which consumed Camp
bal's home at Suisuu, Cal. Camp
b II and his wife made heroic efforts to
save the lives of their children, and he
may lose his life and she her sanity as
result of their terrible injuries.
Two well-knowa Confederate veterans
died in New Orleans yesterday. One
was s. S. Prentiss, an attorney and son
of Sargent S. Pfentiss, the famous ante
btllum slavery orator, who moved from
Massachusetts, TO Mississippi. The other
was Eugene F. Forman, who up to a
few years ago was widely known in the
United States both as an actor and a
Snowman.
On the eve of his visit to Ireland King
Edward has granted free pardon TO
Col. Arthur Lynch, who was convicted
of high treason in 1902 for having fought
in the Irish Brigade on the side of the
Beers in the South African war. Colonel
Lynch was sentenced to death for high
treason in 1908, his sentence later was
commuted to imprisonment for life and
in January, 1904, he was released "on
license"
1t was practically decided yesterday |
to erect statue of Christopher Column
bus that will cost 800, 900 in the center |
nf the plaza in front of the new Union |
Railway Station in Washington where it |
was originally intended to erect large |
fountain. 1t is understood that the Sc
lection of this site was at the solicitation
of the members of the Knights OF Co.
lumbus, which organization was response
bic for the act OF Congress appropriating |
the money for the statue.
Vigorous application Of the "third
degree" today wrung from Miss Mary
Brennan, the police say, the confession
that she was responsible for the death of
Charles L. Burnap, waiter at the Hotel
Edgmere, whose body, shot through the
heart, was found yesterday afternoon on
the shore of Lake Quinsigamond, near
Worcester, Mass. Miss Brennan said
that she and Burnap had been quarrel
ing, when to frighten him she pulled
revolver. While she was holding it, 1t
accidentally exploded.
]. II. Seward, of Baltimore, who has
been importing oranges by the steamship
load for years, was yesterday sentenced
to two years in Jail and TO pay fine of
$40, 900 for defraudiug the government
out Of tariff duty by soaking decayed
fruit with water to increase the refund
on overipe csrgoes. In round numbers,
Seward is said to have obtained more than
$3.50, OO0 by this method during the last
four years, and auit for $3.50, 900
agains: him by the government to recover
The amount of the alleged default is now
pending in the United States courts in
Baltimore.
Que person was killed and several in
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