Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-02
TELEdRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

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discovered in The KhediveS palace at
Alexandra, today. Alarm is felt TOR
the safety of the Khedive.
Brig. Gen. J. Z Summers, of the
Army Medical Corps, died at Washing
ton yt.t'risy. He was appointed to
the srmy from Virginia.
John II. Converse, of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, states that be has
m ade personal canvass Of the men in
their shops and found them almost to q
mad for Bryan.
At Brockton, Mass, today O'Mara,
of n Can't ridse, won the MsrothoD
race. His time was 2:35 4 5. Edward
G.. Ryder, OF Oakdsle A. A., was
second, and Charles Henry, Lynn, third.
A number of daring hold-ups through
Delaware and Chester counties, Pa. +,
have terrified women of those districts,
and an unofficial curfew law is being
exercised to prevent women and girls
from being oct at dusk alone.
The American and National express
companies were dealt severe blow ct
Boston today when the ststs railroad
commissioners decided that the express
rates charged within radius of City
miles Of Boston vera Excessive and un-
reasonable"
Four are dead, two fatally and three
seriously injured today as the result of q
wreck on the Ohio Central Railroad at
Sugsr Ridge, Ohio. An extra freight
train plunged irto the rear of special
passenger train bringing people from the
Bowling Green Fair t. Toledo.
A conference of doctors and health
authorities Of The larger towns Of Ecus.
dor was called today to tske steps TO
prevent serious recurrence of the bu-
bODic plague. A dozen cases are re-
ported from different points, three Of
them 10 Guayaquil.
The authorities Of Belair and Delta,
Pa, are making every effort today to
capture a man and woman, who yester-
day went to the Green wood public
school, at Fulford, near Belsir, Md, and
boldly kidnapped Annie, the ten year
Old adopted daughter Of Edward LOOMS
resident OF Fulford.
Vltencio Giois and Andrea Ausco,
two OF four Italians held at Rutland,
VT, with Rev. Francis Crocists for the
murder of Accsratio Sanford, pleaded
guilty in the second degree today and
were sentenced to ststes prison for life.
Giois declared he and his companions
sccidently killed Ssntore while chastis-
log him for his attention 10 an Italian
girl. Father Orocis;a is accused Of hsv-
Dg counselled the attack.
At Wellington, New Zsland, MAJOR
leper patient was discharged from
the station today as cured, after hsv-
ing undergone treatment for eleven
months. DR.. Mason, health officer, says
the mao was cured by injections of col-
lures of the leperosy bacillus, the dis
covery of Prof Deycke, director OF the
Imperial Medical School of CONSTANT.
nople, and Reschad Bey, Of the same in
stitution.
Fire destroyed the Alert and Mcguire
pickle factory at Hicksville, L. J., last night.
Forty tons Of saukeraut and thirty tons Of
pickles we're destroyed.
It is now said that Abdul Hamid. Sultan of
Turkey, wants a war with Bulgaria in the
hope that 10 the resulting confusion he could
abrogate the constitution that he was recent
y forced to grant his people.
Notice was posted this morning in the
mills Of the Internst onql Paper CompanY
throughout New England that hereafter the
company would have no further dealing wit
its striking employee s and would proceed to
fiji their places as soon as possible.