Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-10
News Of the Day.

The Baltimore aud Ohio directors at
their meeting 10 New York maintained
the semi-sunuaI dividend on the common
stock st 3 per cent.
Nine steamers arrived ct Baltimore
this week with 173, $40 buuches OF ba-
nsnss. Jamaica sends 1872, 600 punches,
san Domingo $4,000 and Cuba 80, 949.
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, it,, gave
birth to son late Wednesday at the
Rockefeller summer home at Bar Hsr-
bor This Is the third child, the Others
being a boy and girl.
Salvador hes made it plain to the
State Department that it is abiding with
the understanding reached at the Cen
trail American peace conference, and II
is not involved in any way with the
present uprising in Honduras.
1t is expected the affairs of the First
Cooperative Building Association, Of
Georgetown, will 60 into the hands OF
| receiver today, on application OF the
board of direct rs. The directors de-
cided to make such an application after
they had found that all the association 4
books and records, including the bank
books, were missing from the safe In the
Office OF J. Barton Miller, the secretary
Il elsurer. Mr.. Miller is reported ser
iously i'll at his hone and unable to make
any explanation.
Times E. Watson was formally noti-
fed of his nomination for president by
the pOpuIisls of the United States at
mass meeting held at Atlanta, Ga, last
night. Judge J. w. Forrest, Of Albany,
N. Y, hesded the notification commit
tee. Mr.. Watson replied to his speech
of notification in q long ard picturesque
address, and a reception closed the pro-
ceedings. He called the tariff robbery,
also demanded the restoration of green
backs. He scored possessors Of crest
wealth and went back for SMILES to
ancient history.
Alter lying for nearly "a hours In the
resr of little hsir-dressing shop in New
Orleans the body OF Alphonse Dnrel was
found late yesterday afternoon in a bad
" mutilated condition. Nearby lay a
bloody Ratchet, evidently the weapon
used by the murderer. Investigation
showed that Dnrsps shop apparently
had been robbed, and the police began Q
search for q negro woman cook who
works in the neighboshood, bnt who has
disappeared. Durel was for many years
the proprietor of fashionable hair
dressing establishment in the old French
quSrtsr.
The srticles for the labor day fight
| between Joe CANE, the negro pugilist,
of Baltimore, and Battling Nelson, OF
Hegewisch, III. champion lightweight OF
the world, have been signed, and 81, 900
posted by each fighter to bind the match.
According to agreement signed Nelson
gets $40, 900 of the $50, 900 purse, win,
lose or draw, while Cans will have to
be content with $1,000 Nelson will
have two-thirds inttre,t In the NOV
ing. pie lures to be made OF the fight and
The club one third int rest. Cans will
have none. The men will weigh in at
1873 pounds ringside.
Borrowing shotgun from his brother
law, Clements Nichols, who had just
rt turned from hunting trip, William
II. SaylOr, ihirty-6ve years old, CT near
Gsrntt, Nd, went to an outbuilding
yesterday aud shot himself in the chin,
but inflicted only slight wound. Gov
ering the wound with handkerchief,
be went to his home, where he told his
sister that while firing the gun, it kick
ed, striking him on the chin. Going to
hia room, he secured q razor, went to al
OF tbuildi0g, IN slashed his throat three
times, seyering tle windpipe. He was
dead when found. He hsd long been
worried over ill-healIb.
A small but furious riot occurred at
Nanticoke, near Wilkesbare, Pa, We'd
nesdsy night, when number of men
aud bows, who had paid to see side
show performance OF a much-advt rtised
'1ady" dancer, discovered that the
dancer was a man attired 10 pink flesh
ings stuffed with straw to initiate femi-
nine curves. Indignant q! the deep
ton, they swarmed on the stage, strip
ped the man to the skin and beat him,
while the employees, after cutting the
tent ropes and letting the canvas fall on
the rioters, cracked the heads as they
appeared under the canvas. There was
a spirited fight for sometime. In which
employes. the dancer and the spectators