Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-01
TELEGRApHIc BREvITIEs.

TWenty.three miners are entemh d t
Goal Greek, B. c., with six hundred
feet Of rock between them and freedom.
The loss of nearly a hundred lives
from heavy rains causing foods in the
Austrian Tyrol is reported.
Eleven marines were On their wsy
from Panama to be treated 10 Washing
ton for hydrophObia.
Farnum, the French serouau', yest'r-
day made two successful flights in New
York, the breez, from the propeller cf
his aeroplaue knocking down photog-
raphers and bending trees double.
Bolivsr, biggest of elephants, died es-
terdsy 10 his prison house st the Phlla-
delphia Geological Gardens. For twenty
ears the big fellow had been confined
within small inclOsure at the 40.
A determined effort will be made TO
defeat Speaker Cannon by organized
labor in the Danville, ILL.,, district. Dan
vile labor organizations have declared
for Fl. G Bell, the democratic candidate
for Mr.. Csnnon's seat.
Chariot Walker, the actress, g)t
divorce yesterday from DR.. John P.
Haden, an oculist OF Galveston, Tex, o
whom she was married twelve yesrs ago
The two daughters. aged 8 and 6 years,
were given to the mother.
The bodies of George A. Rsisbeck
and his wife, OF New York city, found
dead 10 Lake Sylvia, near Minneapolis,
Mimi, Tuesday, under mysterious cir
cumstsnces, will be buried there this
afternoon. Physicians who examined
the bodies last night, today declare that
Mrs. Raisbeck died OF heart disease and
her husband was drowned They think
Rsisbeck's death was accidental.
Saratoga today is the same old Sarsto-
ga The lid is eft, A mysterious tip
circulated vest rdsy that everything WAS
all right gave the gamblers their cue
and list night every gambling house WIS
doing business. Sports are srriviu G
at the springs by the train losd. Sena-
tor Bracket, boss OF the town, 1t is said,
has put his stamp ofRpproVal on the
oral bet ing.
Early this morning John Strohn,
conductor, and Andrew Petsche, motor
man of Buffalo, n. Y, trolley csr
were held up and robbed by four masked
and srmed men just beyond the C ty line.
From The conductor the bighwaymeu
got Splits and rom the motormsn they
took a gold watch. The robbers had
4 concesled themselves at the end OF The
cars run.
! Strike breakers to theE nnmber of { ne
hundred have been reCrnited 10 Phila'
delphia to take the places of striking
swift ,hmen on the LaekwaDna Railroad
should a st'ike be ordered. A man
uamed Clarke, making his headqusrt'r:
i in the Lippincctt bulldog, has charge
of The emil tnert work aud is of 'ring
| SO. 20 day and So 60 for night work
| Working On the relief suppor ed
strongly by evidence that Vernoica Gas.
sidy, II, who was kidnapped from her
home in Chicago Thursday hss fallen
into the hand of San Francisco fugitive
the police dry ms TT i n ccun r
wide arch for the girl and her capto'
The child wasEtlken from hfr home bN
a man giving the name of "F. j. Blair
who said he wanted t. employ her 81
companion to his wife.
A riot occurred between the soldier
of Camp Hall snd color d excursionis'
at Rehobotb, Del, Thursday night, in
which one soldiers skull wss crushed
and several others were injured, while {
number of colored men were badly beaten
10 the hustle on the boardwalk one o
the soldiers VI Company H was jolted BY
cclcred woman and sccident'y he troC
on her foot. The man with the girl
began to shower the soldier with vile
epithets, and the storm broke.
Ait.ra conference with the presiden
today at Oyster Bay, at which the who'll
, subject WAS gone over Secretary OF Wa
Wright decided ID cancel the steps thu
have been taken looking 10 the dismissa
, of the eight West Point cadets nov
under suspension for having participates
in hazing. Secretary Wright stated tina
while he believed dismissal from tn
academy too serious punishment of thu
ofIense in question the cadets wOulC
probably be subjected to court mar isl
Whether to close the race tracks in New
! York as gambling resorts or to continue thu
plan Of arresiiug track officials and look
makers for violation of the Agnew. Hart laS
was the subje ( Of conference at Sarana
Iun N. Y, today betwe n acting district at
t)rney Robert II. Elder, Of New York, an'