Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-14

les mectinB III NcW lOIks IL WAS ues
cided at the meeting that the State con-
vention should meet Ia Rochester on
September Is.
Tonight everything is In readiness for
the sailing from Auckland, N. q Of
the big American feet for Sydney, t =
morrow morning at 8 O'Clock. The last
of the festivities have been engaged In,
though the farewell programme t)mcr-
row, while not as elaborate as the re-
ception, will be big day 10 Aucklsnd's
hi,torY.
Daniel Rierch met bis nephew, Daniel
Thompson, a young man on Mount
Carmel, Pa, street today and the pair
engf ged in a hes ted argument over
family masters, after which the nephew
stabbed Rierch in the neck, killing him.
The police e,ught him and hurriedly
took him to Jail st Sunbury to escape
the fury of mob.
Harry K. Thaw had another outing
from his cell in Poughkeersie jail. With
his two keepers, he went this morning to
APPEAR in the suit of DR.. Wilson, but as
the latter telephoned he could not be
pr. sent until the afternoon, the case was
postponed and the two deputy sheriffs en-
joyed a trolley ride and visited Mount
Beacon.
Fearing an epidemic of cholera In
st. Petersburg, the Department OF
Health has ordered the police to report
eVery arrival OF persons from the affected
provinces so that speedy Investigation
may be made as to whether the new
conner has been exposed to the dread
disease. The department has officially
declared that the city is threatened with
serious outbreak of cholera.
The Chinese uprising in Indo-Ohins,
which the French authorities reported
as crushed, a few weeks ago, Is again
assuming dangerous proportions. Brig
andage and piracy are gaining
ground within the French sphere OF in
huence in south eastern Asia faster than
the eytr increasing European milittry
aud naval forces can suppress them.
The Netherlands government an
nouneed this afternoon that 1t had re-
fused to accept Roberto LoIez, recently
appoiI ted Venezuelan consul TO Curacco.
To action of the government, 1t is gen.
orally understood, fortshsdows a sweep
ing demand for redress from President
Castro before permitting diplomatic rela'
tions TO be resumed.
Speaking representing $50, 900 travel
ing men OF the United states opened the
new "prOsperity congress" In the Mer-
| chants Association Auditorium, In New
York, today. Heat, however, kept many
of the members OF the United CONNER
cial Travellers and the Travellers Protec
tive Association away from the meeting
place. Acting Mayor MCGOWAN wei
c med the delegates.
After wandering eleven years, Ed
ward 5eaton, against whom warran
was sworn out for Sabbath breaking
before his disappearance, is In jail q
Fayetteville, Ark, to-day, on the ole
charge. Seston returned to town a few
DAYS ago, but 1t was not until yesterday
that he met Ed. Sharp, the deputy whC
received the warrant for his arrest clever
years ago. "Hello, Ed.," said Sharp
and shook hands. Then he marched
Seaton off to Jail.
"Hsrry Thsw will be free With n
month";" That Is the opinion of two
eminent New York lawyers who Say
that once Stanford Whites slayer is
taken to Pitlsburg to appear in his bank
ruptcy proceedings, all that will be
needed will be writ Of habeas corpu.
and that the young millionaire will nc
more need to tenant prison cell 80 loDe
as be stays out Of New York state.
Mr.. Taft said today at Hot Springs
Va, that he had read Mr.. Bryan
speech of acceptance with crest dea
Of interest but fnaed 20 make any
comment upon it OF ply t The charges
it contained. II is understood that Mr.
Bryan will he answered by Mr.. Taft on
the 2lst OF the month, when the candi.
date speaks 10 the republicans of Vir-
q mia, at Hot Springs. Mr.. Taft will
begin work on that speech today.
Az the result Of careful investigation
which has been made on all the street
car lines Of Newark, N. j., two con-
ductors on Broad street line "pay-as-you-
enter cars, have been arrested and
locked up at the police station, charged
with ENLIGHTENMENT. Officials of the
public service corporation declare these
arrests are but beginning and that
sufficient evidence has been secured
against the Thirty other conductors I'M
der arrest, while great many more srs
under surveillance.
81 am in perfect harmony with the
declaration of the Ans rican Federation
of Labor in favor Of equal woman sui.
frage said John Mitchell, the formtl
president of the Mine Workers Union.
Mitchell, who Is now q member OF the
National Civic Fed' ration, is in Boston
whiting friends and attending the con-
Vention Of the International Typograph.
ical Union. "PersonslIy believe" he
continued, 'that it would be for the
good of all for women TO be enfrsn-
chised."
John Hayes, superintendent OF the
city water works ast after the evacuation
OF Richmond in the civil war and later