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

American Lesgue baseball pennsnt by
defeating st. Louis 10 to 2.
Japaues. are pouring into this country,
and Secretary Sirsus is preparing 10 pc
troll the Canadian and Mexican borders.
Frank D. Pelton and Mrs. Elizabeth
Gordon Hanna, divorced wife of Dan r.
Hanna, we've married today al Stamford,
Conn.
A dispatch from Columbus, o, says
Cassie Chadwick is worss today. Her
pulse has reached 1l5 and she appears
TO be gradually growing weaker.
Alexander NJ. Fox, finsncier, and
oldest director of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, died at his home 10 Phil
adelphis yesterday, aged eighty-tbree.
Newport society crowded Trinity
Church yesterday to see Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt and her betrothed, Count
Laszio szechinyi, who was not there.
Gov. Curtis Guild, jr., and all the
other incumbent State officers we're re-
nominated Saturday by reclamation by
the republican state convention OF Mas
sschHsetts.
William Francis Coxford, a gun deal
err of New York and member of the
Old Guard, was killed and his wife
seriously il ured in runaway on River
aide Drive yesterday.
TIE Lusitanis sailed from Liverpool
on Saturday on Der second voyage to
New York with 8, 600 passengers. and it
is believed will mike real taj't to
beat the record Of the Deutschland.
A shower of aerolites, fragment of
one of which landed on top of Belair
Market in Baltimore about 9:55 O'Clock
Saturday night, was seen in sll parts of
the city and for many miles around in
The counties.
An explosion csused by the upsetting
of the metal pot in the No. | cupOla OF
the Standard Steel Company at Butler,
Pa, late last night, cause1 the death of
four men, fatally injured twenty, and
seriously Injured ten others.
Civil actions will be entefed in New
York TO recover for the benefit of stock
holders upward of ten millions dollars
alleged TO have been illegally paid from
the treasury of the big New York trsc-
ton companies TO corIeiie to POLITICIANS
and fnanciers.
A social sensation has been created
in New York through the announce
ment today that the engagement of Miss
Elizabeth Winthrop Stevens, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ledyard Sevens, to
William H. Emory, jr., son of Rear
Admiral Emory, has been broken by
mutual consent.
Both the candidates "nrmiDated" at
the democratic State convention al
Springfield, Macs, Saturday began their
campaigns today, as neither doubted the
issue, which will be decided this week
by the ballot law board. Both nOmi-
nations will be filed today with the Sec
rotary of State.
The arbitration committee OF The peace
conference, at The Hague after listening,
to fifteen speeches Saturday voted in
favor Of the principle of obligatory arbi-
traitor, the vote standing 80 ayes and
s noes. The negative votes included Ger
many, Austria. Hungary, Roumanis,
China and Belgium. Five countries abb
stained from voting and there we're two
nb5cutees.
A mysterious robbery occurred at the
Georgetown Convention sometime be-
tween 1920 O'Clock Friday night and G
o'clock Saturday morning. The desk in
the Office of the Sister Superior was re-
ported to have been pried open with
small tack litter, aud the Sister reports
that between 5000 and $500 in cash, ?
handsome diamond ring coral necklace
and bracelet we're taken from the desk.
Mrs. Oscar Lee Owens, whose hus-
band is pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Cambridge, Md, has left
home and has returned to her parents
home, in Rochester, N. Y. She prefers
charges against her husband, who adj
dressed a letter to his congregation,
which extends him sympathy and sup
port. The preacher says his wife has
not been in sympathy with his work in
life.
The nortbbound Florida end West
Indian limited passenger train on the
Atlantic Coast Line ran into en- open |
switch and colided with a gard engine
at South Rocky Mount, N. c., at 2:3O |
O. clock yesterday morning. Engineer |
G.. w. Boney, Of the passenger train,
was instantly killed and Postal Clerk T. |
I. Hill slightly Injured. Although !
many passengers we're thrown from their |
berlhs, none suffered injury. Both en-
giDes were completely demolished, as
we're also the mail, express and baggage |
cars.
By the collapse Of the floor in the hall |
of the North End Athletic Club, at
Conn, during a republican
rally Saturday night, tSo hundred men
were precipitated into the cellar Of the
AS the floor gave way, a
board knocked blazing lamp from its
bracket, and Immediately the building
caught fire. In mad struggle to get
put Of the cellar, many Of the men were
Irampled under foot. A wild panic
reigned. One man was probably fatally
hurt and many others we're seriously in
ured.
After nine hours deliberation the jury
In the Rowland murder case yesterday
morning at Raleigh, N. c., returned its
verdict, finding DR.. d. S. Rowland and
bis wife, Mrs. Lilly NJ. Rowland, not
guilty Of the murder Of Engineer Charles
r. Strange, the woman's former hus-
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