Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-11-13
News Of the Day.
| total of 802 mea are beyond rescue
\, n 6,a In q Westnhalia mine.


after a FIRE 10 a Westphslia mine.
King Alfonso OF S ain will he the
most prominent contestant in the Son'Ier
class yacht races of Marblehesd IN the
summer Of 1910.
The Uuion League Club of New
York last night adopted resolutions sup
porting ElIhu Root for the seustorship
from New York.
The building OF eight new British
battleships and "a desiroysrs 10 the I'M
mediate future was ioreshsdowed 10
Premier Asquith's announcement in the
House OF Commons.
resentative Lloyd, OF Missouri,
cha rmau OF the democratic congressional
committee, was in Washington yester-
day. He places the repu licau majority
at forty five.
That attempts to amend the Sherman
antitrust law unfaycrably to labor would
be made was reported to the American
Federation of Labor at Denver yesterday
by Mr.. Campers.
The secretary OF the navy yesterday
awarded the contract for the constitute
ton of the 81, S2l-ton tattleshiP, the
Utah, to the New York Shipbuilding
Company, OF Camden, N. j., at lis bid
of 5, 3946, 900.
Mr.. Taft will spend next Sunday in
the White House, az the guest OF Presl-
dent Roosevelt. After he makes his
speech in Brooklyn next Saturday, at
the dedication of the monument to
those who died on prison ships, he Will
come to Washington. His visit will be
entirely informal.
Four men and one woman have been
arrested at Martinsburg, W. Va, on the
charge Of administering lar and feathers
to Mrs. Jane Weber, an aged house
keeper for John Murphy, residing be-
tween Johnstown aud Hedgesville. The
woman was raken from her bed late at
night. There was 10 apparent couse fer
the brutality. The woman is in a serious
condition and may die.
Charles J. Msguess, the musician who
married Miss Addie German. was tried
By court. martial on q charge OF deser-
ton. aud the fading was sent to Wash
ington. Nsguess based bis defense on
the pleading that he "was guilty OF being
a Ssept without leave" but not guilty
of "desertion from the United States
army as charged by the government.
His wife was not present at the trial.
The first formal conference of the
government "trust busters" relative to
deciding upon the exact substance OF
the writ of certiorsri which will be pc.
titioned Tor shortly in the Supreme
Court of the United States, ia the
s29, 900, 900 case of the Standard Oh
trust, was held yesterday at The Depart
ment of Justice. The conference may
continue several days. 1t may be that
the Supreme Court cannot be petltioned
for week.
An outbreak ta' occurred between
white troops of Fort Sill and negroes OF
TIE town of LawtoD, Ok'a following
The killing OF Private Wilcox, of b ttery
B. First Field A tillery, in battle be-
tween negroes and soldiers. A rid ta'
been made by white troopers on the ne
gro district and the negroes put to q git.
Paul Williams, a negro, is charged To
having fred the shot that killed Wilcox.
Williams made his escspe, and Ia sill
a large. Officers were summoned from
Folt sill to quiet the soldiers. Wilcox
was twepty.oue years old. He wss q
nstive of Virginia.
David b. Vaughn, travelling sales
man for Umtarger ADD Company, New
York. was shot AID perhaps fstIiy
wounded last night by James Moody, son
of the late Repre'ept. tive Moody, In
WaynesyiIle. N. O allegedlv as resu!t
of political quarrel. Moody and
Vaughan met when the latter said be
wished to apologize to Moody for sn in
solt offered during the quarrel. 1t Is
,aid Moody applied al otjectionsl nsme
to Vaughan and, without warning, drew
a pistol and fred, the bullet taking e.
feet In bis victims abdomen. In the ex-
citement following the az air, Moody es-
capped. Both men live in Wagnesyille.
After post mrr,em Analysis of the
bodies of Et and Laura Da'is, servants
10 the employ Of Rev. Carer Helm
Jones, found dead 10 residence at Ok
lahoua City, which Rev. Mr. Jones was
prepa ring TO occupy, Vincent S1inkle, q
cbemis', stated at the inquest yesttr,sy
that hydrocysnic aid was Responsible
for their deaths. IL is the opinion inst
oil OF bit er almonds mixed with wine
produced death. The analysis showed
90 poison ia a half emptied bottle OF
vine brought there from Lyoch6nFg,
found near the bodies. Rev. Mr.. Jones
va, formerly pa Tor a. Lynchburg, and
Louisville, Ky.
Tan minntss after the lat of the
matinee crowd ta left the Park Tbester
10 Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, a Ere
vas discovered burdiug 10 the rear OF
the family circle ADD In little over half