Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-06
News of the Day.

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President Roosevelt has given permits
sion to FIRE q salute OF guns at the
Monument grounds in Washington In
honor of the nominee st Denver.
Of the nine balloons which started
from Chicago on Saturday eight have
landed safely, while the ninth, the
Illinois, is supposed to be still In the air.
Announcement of the withdrawal oil
Senior Arias as candidate for the presi-
dency in Panama has cleared the politi-
cal atmosphere and no trouble is now ex'
pected.
Judge Parker was among the arrivals
in Denver, on Saturday. he has tened
down the resolutions Of eulOgy 10 Cleye-
land so that they will not give ofense to
the Bryan people.
Canada is making extensive prepare
lions for the entertainment of the Prince
of Wales and his suite daring the six
dsys of their visit, July 22-2S, to attend
the Quebec centenary celebration.
The revolutiouists in Paraguay have
oveithrowu the government, and several
of the ministers of State have taken
refuge in the Argentine legation. Some
500 persons we're killed and wounded in
the fighting at AsunciOn.
Mr.. James E. Hooper, of Baltimore,
president of the William E. Hooper &
Sons Company, manufacturers of cotton
duck, and once president OF the Mount
Vernon. Woodbury. Cotton Duck Cor
poration, died yesterday.
Frederick Giles was arrested in Phia-
delphia last night as suspect in con-
nection with the murder of DR.. William
II. Wilson, who died on June &c, after
drinking bottle of poisoned ale, which
had been sent to him from local ex-
press Gffice.
Over 400 buildings, including the
court house, prison and the arsenal at
Port-au. Prince, Haiti, we're destroyed by
FIRE yesterday evening. All of the
prisoners, who included number OF
women, we're taken to other quarters
before the building took fire.
Resr Admiral Thomas, who succeed
ed Admiral Evans as commander Of
the big baitleship feet from the Atlantic,
dropped dead in hotel in Delmonts,
Cal, Saturday night. Admiral Thomas,
just retired, had been i'll for some time.
Apoplexy caused his death.
Commander PearY's steamship, the
Roosevelt, built by the Peary Arctic
Club, sails from New York today, and
after a stop the following day ct Oyster
Bay, where 1t is expected President
Roosevelt will visit the ship, will pro-
coed to Sydney. where Peary, having
gone by rail, will join her.
Candidates for president and vice
president of the United States were
nominated and platform was adopted
by the national convention ofthe socialist
labor party in New York yesterday.
The ticket named Is as follows: For
PRESIDENT Martin B. Preston. of Nevada.
For vice-president-Donald Munro, OF
Virginia.
In the federal court at Nashville,
Tenn, In the case of the United States
against the Virginia Carolina Chemical
Company and others. Judge John f.
Mccall qusshed the indictment, which
charged some fifty-odd corporations and
individuals with constituting fertilizer
tru,t in violation Of the Sherman anti
trust law.
More than 100000 tons of cement,
rock and limestone we're lOosened by a
tremendous blast set off Fridsy evening
Ia the quarry of the Bath Portland Co.
ment Company, q. Bath Pa. 1t was like
an upheaval of nature, the shock being
felt in Allentown and the surrounding
territory. 1t was the heaviest land blast
ever set off in America.
The Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany, which until June 30 had been
operating its plants with union work
man, proposes to employ none but nom
union men hereafter for the purpose Of
saving $500. 600 a year, which the Of
6cers allege that dealing With the Anal
gsmstsd Association Of Iron, Steel,
Sheet and Tin Workers costs them.
Lieutenant Berry. of the New York
police, arrived at New Orleans yester-
day from Puerto Oort z, Spanish
Honduras, with his prisoners, Albert w.
Bailey, Charles Il. Myers snd Captain
Albert Oxley, Francis G. Bailey, brother
of Albert Bailey, escaped from the
steamer before she sailed. The Bailey1
are charged with conspiracy to use the
the United States mails to defraud.
Herman Ridder, of Nsw York, called
on Mr.. Bryan at Liucoln, Neb., on
Friday, and asked him TO withdraw from
the presidential race. In reply Mr..
Bryan said "Mr. BIDDER, | will be
elected. Mr.. Ridder, ] will be elected
without New York State. I'd Just az
leave be elected with New York State,
but after everything possible has been
done to make the situstIOn democratically
harmonious, If New York State does
not want me, that DOESN'T say the coun'
try doesn't"
The defeat of Joe Cans by Battling
Nelson in the 45-round fight for the
lightweight championship Of the world
and purse of $25, 900, at San francisco
Saturday afternoon in the seventeenth
round, was so decisive that there WAS nc
question about it. Cans failed to rise
before the count OHIO. and the referee
naturally gave the fight to Nelson. Cans
was practically out as be had been fol
four rounds, being knocked down re-
pestedly and unsble to protect himself,
despite bis great skill iu blocking.
Injuries to % persons as a result Of celebra