Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-27
TELRdRAPHIC BREYITlss.

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wife bestsr was released from jail at
Goshen today on bond of $1,000.
The American feet left Sydney, New
South Wales, this morning and expects
to reach Melbourne, about noon on Sat-
urdsy.
Ex-Chief of Police Edgar A. Hslet
of Wakefield, who took part in the
capture of Gitesu, the assassin OF
President Garfield, died today at his
home, Wakefield, Mass.
There was light fall of snow In the
suburbs of Baltimore last night. Flur-
ries are reported from other parts OF
Maryland.
Burglsrs looted the big silk house Of
Kstz and Quint 10 east Twentieth street,
New York, last night taking 200 sample
dresses and merchandise valued at from
$40, 900 to $15, 900.
President Roosevelt and his party
who yesterday aided in the dedication of
the new library at Jordsnsville, N. Y,
arrived in New York today and boarded
the yacht Sylph which at once started
for Oyster Bay.
Arrangements have been completed
for the importation OF about 10000
Mexican cotton picker, of Texas and
Oklahoma. About 5000 Mexicsns Gre
now picking cotton in Texas, rapidly
supplantiug the negroes.
Fearful tnat the dissolution of the
Finnish Diet will precipitate a revolt Of
the Firms, the car is Delaying his disso-
luton edict until sufficient troops can be
rushed into Finland to suppress the ex-
pected outbreak.
Mr. and Mrs. Taft are to be 'sur-
prised" with loving cup by the guests
of the Homestead Hotel in Hot Sprlogs,
Va, this evening, The cup Is to be
given them as a sort Of farewell token
by the men and women among whom
they have lived during the last month.
Within so feet of the spot where Sam
uel Bigelow q New York sct1r, wss
found robbed and bestsn into uncon-
seriousness in Chicago, ye,t'rday William
Chambers, % years old, was found early
this morning with nine knife wounds in
his body. Chambers will die.
An invOluutIry pet ton In bankruptcy
was filed today in the United States Dis
tritt Court in New York against A. @
Brown & Co., by Mouse, OrOssman and
Vcrbaps, attorneys for Frank V.
Strauss, with claim OF $26, 30, Leon
Raven with claim OF $500 and F. V.
Strauss & Co., with claim of $500. -
The bitter three cornered fight be.
tween Congressman George L. Lilley,
Governor Woodruff and Lieutenant
Governor Lake for the republican nemi-
nation for governor Of Connecticut prac-
tically came to an end todsy, when it
became known thst Mr.. LilIey had Sc
cured a majority of the delegates elected
for the convention.
"Standsrd Oil and the Morgan inter-
eft, msrked the firm In New York Of
A. o. Brown & Co., for slaughter" said
a well-known operator on the Stock Ex-
change today, "because they feared the
passage of au snti-gamblirg law which
would practically kill sill their big
plunges on the market"
Ssfs blowers esIly today dynamit3d
the safe Of TIE Federal Supply Company
1T large near Pittsburg, Pa. The blast
shook the entire villsge A posse Of
cit zens armed with shot guns, and re-
volvers started to hunt TIE safe crackers
bat have been unable to get any trace of
them. 1t is believed the robbers es.
capped with 81, 900.
Five Of the leading bankers of New
York have decided that Wall street
stock gambling must be checked. To-
day a third OF series of secret meetings
was held by these bankers and it wss
agreed that unless the stock exchange
takes Or site measures Immediately the
lesson given to A. o. Brown Il Co.,, by
the bankers who admit responsibility for
the suspension will be repeated.
The French Gable Company mas been
found guilty 10 the Mates Revolution by
the civil court Of FIRST instance in Caracas
and sentenced to pay fine Of nesrly
SIS, 600, 900. The decision is practically
the same as that made in the Btrmudez
Asphalt UompaDy's case, the amount be-
log similar. The Gable Company will
| kelly appeal from the decision.
Reports lhst AZ negro families,
fr gdtened away frvm Springfield during
the recent rioting, were planning t. move
into Gage Park, Chicago, caused residents
to purchase shot guns and then declared |
tber would use them should the Invasion |
of the negroes begin. Residents Of other
surbUrbs 10 the vicinity of Gage Psrk |
where negroes nov reside, declared today
they we're organizing to drive the negroes
from their midst.
In BordentowD, N. J p, today, Joseph Hotter
walked up TO Edward Ford, his neigh6or,
near the city hall and, accusing him OF teing
a home breaker, emptied four bullets INTO
Ford s body Ford will die. 1t Is SAID mat
the families Of the two men have been at odds
for two years.
Not satisfied with bani-hiDg his younger
brother. Archduf e Louis Victor, from court
for all, ged immortality, EmDeror Francis
Josef took the formers magnificent palace on
The Sehwarzburg Platz away from him and