Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-25
News Of the Day.


cent agitation due to the appearance OF
night riders in the cCston-rlisipg COM
muDitiss of Mississippi.
Governor Haskell sent reply to w.
Z. Hearst, yesterday claiming that the
Oklahoma democracy under his admin
istration did things, while Hearst only
| talked.
By the coiIapsiug Of q sciffold at the
new residence OF Thomas Winters, Of
Hagsnt1wn, Nd, four men vera strl-
ousIy injured aud narrowly escaped be-
ing killed yesterday.
Judge Dallss, of Wilmington, Del,
has granted an order extending the
time Of taking e7idsnce in the case Of
the Uoitsd States against the E. |. Da-
pont DeMours Company and Other
powder companies said to be in trust,
for 10 days.
Believing they would have no trouble
10 beating their way on trains, Mrs.
Alice Boles and Miss Emma Gardner,
who live in Cleveland, Ohio, discarded
their dresses aud put on clothing bs-
longing ID the husband of the former
aud started on journey to Wisconsin.
w. A. Lewis, former cashier Of the
Smith6ed Bank, ut Smitb6eld, w. Va,
which WAS closed recently by the state
bank examiner, was indicted yesterday
by the grand jury on charges OF embez.
| .iornorF and MISREPRESENTATION nf fha
banks funds. The alleged shortage Is
about $50, 900.
Chief Justice o Rear, Of the Court OF
| Appeals, OF Kentucky, in an opinion
affirming judgment 10 case of the
commonwealth against the Adams Ex-
press Company, which had been indict
ed and fined for carrying whisky from
one local option county to another, said,
Yesterday, that common carriers ought
to obey the law like other persons.
At democratic stlt, headquarters yes
terday in Parkersburg, w. Va, it was
announced that Gov. Claude A. Swan
SOD, OF Virginia, had been assigned TO
address one of the largest meetings Of
the campaign, which will be held in
that city on Monday next O!her prom
inent speakers will alsO be there on that
occasion.
A big FiftS avenue, New York, motor
bus, travelling at high rate OF speed,
crashed into an electric.light post at
Forty-fourth street and Fifth avenue
Yesterday afternoon. Twenty persons at
least were hurt, including many women,
and it is reported that one man, Morris
Striker, who WIS taken t. a nearby hos
pital, is fatally injured.
The control Of the Washington Life
Insurance Company 10 New York yes
rday passed from the hands OF Levi 2.
Norton, Thomas F. Ryan aud Harry
Payne Whitney to Pittsburg syndicate
headed by William O. Baldwin, prssi-
dent of the P ttsburg Life and Trust
Company. 1t will be run as an adjunct
of the Pittsburg concern. Mr.. Baldwin
has been elected president to succeed
John Taticek.
Ohsrles O. Miller, son of Louis w.
Miller, of Cumberland, Nd, was held
up and robbed early yesterday morning
by two highwsymen while he WAS com.
ipg from Ellels lie, in the county, where
he operates a barber shop, to the city
to see his wife who is visiting relatives
there. Miller was knocked down and
robbed OF $40 ia cash and gold watch
cod fob be valued at 800.
Advices received yesterday from AGA
pulcO report that two heavy earthquake
shocks were felt Wednesday of that
port The sea was greatly sgitsled,
and broke ia tremendous waves The
Cosmos Line steamer Rsdmes, from San
Francisco August 9 for Hamburg, wss
caught and tossed about like a chip.
The passengers and crew were thrown
to the deck by the onslaught Of Tho
waves. Four persons we're killed and
several others we're wounded by rolling
spsrs and falling woodwork.
Ia the heavy fog that prevailed yes
terdsy morning the westbouud fast mail
on the New York Central Railroad ran
into Wet Shore passenger train and
express train that had been held in one
OF the blocks a short distance west Of
Little Falls, n. Y. The mail train had
been brought to slow speed because OF
the fog, otherwise there probably would
have been considerable loss of life. The
injuries are confined to railway postal
clerks, three of whom were hurt.
st. Louis and San Francisco passen-
ger train No. SO4, bound for st. Louis,
was derailed a mile and half west Of
Csithsge, No., yesterday morning at
curve close to Spring river. The en-
CINE ana the baggage GER went into the
river and sll OF the other cars left the
track ard turned over. The engineer,
and the fireman were pinned under the
engine In the stream and instantly killed.
Tbirty-six passengers we're more or less
seriously hurt. Some OF them, it is said,
will die.
Wilbur Wright made successful
flight yesterday afternoon at LIE Mans,
against the wind, which was blowing at
the rate of about Is miles an hour
This was the strongest breeze the Amer
icsn aeroplsnist has faced, but he re-
manned up for a fraction more than 81
minutes, covering officially 80 kilome-
tsrs ga miles,, which is about half
kilometer more than the distance he
made for the Micheliu priEs on Mon.
day. 10 reality, Mr.. Wright covered
about 80 miles, the force of the wind
oblging him to make wide turns.
Wa Ting-fang, the present Chinese
minister to Washington, is to be re-
placed in November. His successor is
0hunn. Man. Van Uho moo nonanl ran |