Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-11-23
News Of the Day.

"A'oAu ucicatCu Il hio III eAS SS
football match at New Haven, Conn,
Saturday BY the score of 4 to 0.
The rapid accumulation of gold BY
the Bsnk OF France during the past year
is attracting attention of fnauciers In al
parts Of Europe.
A merger of al the traction lines of
Ohi,a 90 is the gigantic plan that 6nau-
ciers today admit they hope to consum.
mate within year.
Caleb Chase, one OF the leading bust
ness men OF Boston, died early today 10
his seventy seventh year. he was senior
member OF the coffee firm OF Chase and
SanbOrn.
A baud of Servians, while crossing
the )sGiau frontier near ZvoTnik, was
repulsed by Austrian troops. The Ser
vIaus Lost seventeen men killed, and the
Austr'aus three killed.
Mrs Peter Van Vlissengen. wife of
the confessed iorger of 81, 500, 900 of
worthless morea ges who pleaded guilty
at Chicago and was sent to the peDiten-
tiary, is seeking employment from her
former associates.
Earth shocks were experienced yes
terday at ALEXANDRA, Alvercs, Villafrsncs,
and Arruds, all small towns located near
Lisbon. The residents were thrown iu-
to a panic. but there were no casualties.
The walls of some Of the houses were
cracked.
The democratic national committee
received in all 1920, GAIT and spent
s6l9, 4lO, O6 during the recent preslden-
tial campaign, lesvings balauce In hand
of $1,2S4,71, So reads statement
made public last night by the officers
of the committee.
Edward Lsmieux, of Olsrksville, N.
r., wa, accidentally shot and killed Sat-
urdsy by A E. Dodge, of Boston, Mas.
The men were on bunting trip en-
Cedar rfam when B1dge, catching
| glimpse of Lemieux through the bushes,
fred, thinking he vas shooting at deer.
Cardinal Gibbons a. Baltimore yester-
day invested Rev. William E. S arr,
rector of Corpus Christi Church, with
the rank of monsigpor, In the pres
euce of B shop-elect Rev. Owen Cor.
ripa1, and priests from all parts OF
Maryland, and from Washington and
other cities.
Charles Walter, IS years old, and bis
daughter Emma, 40 years old, COMMITTED
suicide yesterday 10 New York by In
ballug gas. Walter was tailor, but
bad been without work for some time
aud had depended for support on bis
daughter, who was formerly a ialea-
woman 10 q downtown dry goods store,
but who also bad been out of work for
the past two months.
Teu persons are dead and twice a.
May Injured as result Of an explosion
saturday on the Mississippi river steamer
n. NJ. Garter, near Bayou Goula, about
100 miles north of New Orleans. Toe
boiler of the Garter exploded while the
steamer was on its way from New
Orleans to Baton Rouge, with a cargo Of
general merct andise and so or more
passengers. Fire succeeded the explo.
sion and the boat va, burned to the
waters edge.
The lives of more than 800 persons
we're imperiled yesterday when the fruit
steamer Admiral Dewey, inward bound
from Jamaica, cia ,hed into the steamer
Mount Desert, outward boun from Bay
Ridge for the fishing banks of Ooney
Island. The Admiral Dewey, coming
suddenly out Of fog bank, struck the
Mount Desert almost amidships, oper
ing a cash in the fishing vessel that ex-
tended from the upper deck to the wster' g
edge. There we're $50 passengers Oh
the Mount Desert, aud the Admiral
Dewey carried As passengers, No Oue
was injured and the two STEAMERS subse-
quently landed their passengers.