Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-11
TELEGRAPhIC BREVITIES.

In q rear-end collision Oh the Myrtle
avenue, Brooklyn elevated railway at l
O'clock between a Lexington avenue
train and Ridgewood train at Gambler
land street, the motormsn was killed and
FIVE persons were seriously injured. All
the Injured were taken to Brooklyn hos
pitfalls.
Gerirude Coghlan, the actress, has
slruck it lucky. At her summer home
at Fortune Bay, Prince Edward leland,
which Miss COghlan inherited from her
father, valuable platinum mine has
been discovered and Miss CoghIan has
sold the mining rights to a Montreal
firm for $4,000
That Germany will be unsupported
10 her opposition to the Franco-SpaniSh
Moroccan programme when it is present.
ed to the siguatories of the Algeciras
treaty for ratification, was made certain
today by an announcement by the French
foreign Office that it received an accept
ance of the programme from every power
except Germany.
A Joint meeting Of sll the frsternities
in the Ohicsgo high schools will be
held tomorrow morning to perfect plans
for legal wsr vita the school board to
prevent the enforcement of the boards
"aDti-fra" rule. At this time arrange
meDts will be made to apply for writ
to prevent the board from suspending all
members of secret societies.
Wilbur Wright attempted three aero.
plane flights at LIE Mans, France, today
without success. He abandoned the first
two flights owing to fog and alighted
after a tref sail on his third attempt on
account of the failure Of his spsrkipg sp-
parstls to work properly. His longest
| fight today was four minutes and 52
seconds.
Western Msrylspd tDday is suffering
tle Inconvenience of a water famin e
consequent on a long drought and the
mountlin streams are being damned TO
rJcure supply of drinking water for
toe towns. The Potomac river at Cum
berlaud Is the lowest ever known end
navigation has been crippled on the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Rigid
rules as to the waste OF water are being
enforced throughout the whole region.
According to d.. John A. Brsshear,
the astronomer, of Pit.sburg, cyclonic
storms of more than usual intensity are
raging on the sun and are responsible
for large number of Gun spots. These
disturbances are being noted on the earth
in ths form of magnetic disturbances Of
various kinds and may, according to DR..
Brashear, interfere with the wireless
telegraph service if they continue.
The strike of union boiler makers
against the Big Four railroad has col
lspsed. The strikers we're today notified
that they we're t liberty to seek re-em-
ployment II the company would t.ke
them. Eight shops of the Big Four sys-
tenn 10 IliDois, Ohio and Indiana, IN
volving 500 boilermskers, have been
tied up since July Is. The men say
they lost because the boilermakes on
the other New York Genital systems
failed to strike with them.
Seven steamship lines operating to the
Orient from Seattle, Portland and San
Francisco have sgreed upon an incress-
ed schedule of rates to take effect NO
yembe, |. The increase Ia TO be on
through shipment only. 1t does got
bent fit the steamship lines, but VIII Ist-
The receipts of the railroad. in con-
formity with recent ruling OF the In
t,rstate Commerce Cor mission. There
i general fear IN Sc tie, Wash tb't
the higher rate mag drive much traffic
10 the Orient via the Suez canal.