Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-02
News Of the Day.

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missioners have concluded their labors 10
Paris, and James Burton Reynolds, as
sistaut secretary of the treasury and his
colleagues will rttarn home at once
With weather favorlng, Vermont
voters to the number OF about 10000
turned out yesterday, aud the trepubli.
cans carried the state by more than 20
900, which was 5, 900 under the predic'
tions by party leaders.
The comparative statement OF the
government receipts and expenditures
shows deficit for the month Of August,
1908, of SO, 900, 127, as against deficit
for July, 1908, of $24. S69, 4SS, and
surplus for August, 1907, OF SO, 62S, All.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close OF business
August 81, 1908, the debt, less cash in
the treasury, amounted to 1888, 1856, 58S,
which is an increase for the month OF
s., 076,7 65.
Potato bugs on the rails at Lazy
Lane, Bristol Ct, yesterday stalled
cars laden with excursionists bound TO
Lake Compounce. In spite of the ter
rife slaughter, the bugs held possession
of the track until the carmen could sand
the tracks.
Succumbipg to the deadly fumes of
burning pitch aud oskum deep down
the forepeak of the British bark Puritan
So she lay at anchor in President Roads,
al Boston, Mass, yesterday, four sea-
men were suffocated and a fifth wss
partly overcome before he WAS rescued
by shipmstes.
Ia restraining the Birmingham Ala,
city authorities from interference with
the shipments OF beer into that city
Judge Thomas 9. Jones, of the United
States Court, held yesterday that the
shipment was an interstate shipment
until it reached the purchaser.
John G. Clifford, president of the
United Oxygen and Chemical Company,
wss blown t. pieces at the plant of the
company at Nisgsrs Falls, N. Y, yes
t friday 10 the presence OF his lS.yesr-old
son, Roger, when tank OF oxygen
charged to 1900 pounds exploded. The
boy IVES unipjured.
Albert r. Johnston, an employe OF
the DIS rict government, whose wife,
Mrs. Annie NJ. Johnston, several dSys
ago filed suit for an annulnent of their
marriage on the ground that he was OF
negro descent, hes flied an answer. He
denies that he is negro and states that
his grandfather was born 10 Maryland.
A woman about 95 years old,
giving her name as Katherine M. Roose-
Welt. CroniD, of Oakland, CAL, called at
the White HOUSE Yesterday. To po-
liceman at the door the woman said she
had come to tell Mrs. Roosevelt to vacate
her room, as she was going to take pos
session. She claimed that she was
long.lost daughter VI President Rose
welt. The police arrested the woman,
and she will be examined to deter nine
the question OF her sanity.
The Geographical Commission ap-
pointed by the government seven years
ago to map all Of the towns OF Mexico,
have just made their report They make
the astounding statement that they die
covered 1879 towns which were not
officially known to exist, and which
have heretofore had no federal control.
Msny of these towns are OF considerable
size, ranging in population from 5000
to $4,000 people. Most of them are
situated in the remote recesses OF the
Sierra Manres and in localities far re-
moved from ordinary courses Of travel.
Lester Tut and Virgil johnson,
colored employees Of the Hotel B .rkeley,
in Maltjnsburg W. Va, engaged in a
cutting sffray in the kitchen Of the hotel
at late hour Monday night, and, as a
result, both men are in Jail there under
the care of physicians, who we're COM
PEELED to sew up 16 ugly gashes in Tut
and a half dozen In johnson. Tut
welded a butcher knife, while johnson
handled a keen-edged-razor. johnson
will recover, but Tut is In a dangerous
condition.
John R. Early, the Washington
leper, will receive pension of $72 q
month, for total disability incurred
while a soldier 10 the United States
army, as soon as the legal difficulties
which surround the payment of the
money can be solved, according to a
statement made By United States Com
missioner OF Pensions Warner yester-
day. The case has beel placed in the
hands of the judge advocate general OF
the army for solution Of the problem
of the payment of q pension to lep.r
who cannot, by reason of his affection,
dispense the money himself.
The forty.second annual encsmpment
OF the Grand Army of the Republic Was
officially opened at Toledo, Ohio, last
night at public meeting. More than
$50, 900 veterans aud their friends ere
there. An effort was to hsve been made
to send the 1909 encsmpment to Wash
ington, whether it was wanted there or
not, but an effectual dsmper has been
placed on this plan by Col. John Walker,
mmander-in-chief Of the Department
of the Potomac, who declared thst
Washington would not take the meet
ing, though it would De mora than
pleased to have 1t at any other time.
Salt Lake City will probably get it.
Because she confessed that she set
fire to the Central Hotel, Des
Moines, Iowa, in which thirty
guests were sleeping, who barely
escaped with their lives. Julia Moon,
IS years old, WAS barely saved from
lynchiDg yesterday. When it became
known that the girl had confessed, q