Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-31
ALEXANDRIA, GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.
TRLEoRAPHIc BREylrIes.

TELE0RAPHIc BREvITIEs.
Stock Exchange gambling will likely
be the particular evil which democrst C
orators 10 New York will denounce this
fall. The democratic platform will
probably contain plank favoripg laws
to end such gambling, and the prospect
is not making republican leaders feel
comfortable.
New York State prohibition leaders
threaten to complicate the republican
tangle in the State. They are taking
OF nominating Governor Hughes on their
own ticket whether the republicans re-
nominate him or not.
President Thomas Of the New York
stock exchange declared today that it is
unlikely that the governing committee
would ask Thomas Lawson of Boston to
give testimony 10 regard to the wash sale
deals of August %, although Lawson
had expressed willingness to testify.
A demand for the resignation of Gen.
eral Dupont as q member of the repub-
lican national executive committee on
the ground that his connection with an
indicted trust units him for the place is
to-day made by Alfred o. CrOsier. q
prominent republican lawyer of Will
N 'ngton, Del, and author OF the recent
anti Wall street novel The Magnet"
Detectives and police are trying TO
ffrrit out the thieves who last night
entered the summer home of Postmaster
General Won Meyer, near Hsm'ltcn,
Mass and robbed him of a beautiful
collection OF antique jewelry purchased
In the continent at COS, OF SIS.
While Postmaster General Won Meyer
and bis wife were dining out entrance
was effected by means of second story
window.
"Atlantic City will stay closed, IN
conformity W tn the law, 80 long as | am
in the executive chair" declared Cover
nor Fort at Scar Girt, N. j., today when
told the results of the effort to men force
the laws yesterday. A town meeting has
teen called for to take municipal affairs
out of the hands OF the present admins
tration. The republican organization Is
making frantic effort to side track the
movement. There was only one arrest
for violating the Sunday laws yesterday.
The Central Jail, at Calcutta, where
| the most of the men arrested for con-
spiracies against the British rule are i'm
prisontd is under special guard Of
troops today as the result of the discovery
of plot for wholesale Jail delivery.
Narrenden Nath Gesssin, high caste
Hindoo prisoner, arrested for his revolu'
rionary nit RANGES, revealed the plot and
in the fight inside the Jail that followed
bis disclosures, he was shot dead by Gov
ernor General X tchener. There were
thrty.three native conspirators involved
10 the uprising and FIVE of these were
fatally wounded 10 the fight. European
prisoners aided the wsrders in overpower'
iDg the couspirstors.
Eight res in tenement houses in the York.
vile section of New York between 1890 and
/ $50 O'Clock this morning were started by in
cendiaries bent on robbery.
Republican extravagance in the admins
t,atiOn Of the national and state governments
was attacked this afternoon in the state fair
grounds at st. Paul, MINI, by Mr.. W. j.
BRYAN, and he positively declared that there
was no hope fer the cause of the people unles $
the present sy,tsm was overturned.
Mr.. Taft's whirlwind trip through Ohio is
credited at Middle Bass Island, o., with po-
litical significance which is just dawning on
ate and national politicians. 1t is taken to
mean that Taft intends to take the bit and
make his personal campaign in his own wav,
regardless Of National Chairman Hitchcock.
A form,l order by Judge Holt appointing
Charles A. Littlefeld receiver for the a. 0.
Brown & Co. was filed today in New York in
the Office Of the clerk Of the United States
Di trict Court. The bond is fixed at $3.50.
GOO. The liabilities Of the firm are estimated
at s., 0OO. 900 and assets at 100000. Little
field issued statement today saying he will
thoroughly investigate the business methods
of Brown 4 Co.
William Jennings Bryan and Governor
John A. Johnson met for the first time since
the convention in the railway station at st.
Panl this morning, snd within fifteen min
utes common understanding was reached
and it was decided that johnson would aid
Bryan oil he could in Minnesota, while in
return Bryan agreed to make his followers
"plsy fair" with the guberAatorial candidate.
George w. Fitzgerald. arrested week age
on a warrant oh rging him with the theft oil
| S173, 600 from the United States sub-treasuryi
was arraigned before JUICE Chetlain in Chi
osgo today. Assistant States Attorney Bar
hour. who is conducting the prosecution, says
he will not present all the evidence in bis
possession, merely aiming TO present enough
to wrrrant the court in holding the defendant.