Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-28
News Of the Day.

The interstate Commerce Commission
will ct once begin an investigation OF
the freigbt-rsts situation.
Captlin Baldwin will receive Sc. $50
from the government if his tests ct Fort
Myer are satisfactory.
Hydrophobia caused the death Of
James Phillips, of New York, months
after he was bitten.
Count" Won Helden vas sentenced
at New York yesterday t. hard labor at
Sing Sing for bigamy.
Philip Uhler, GO years old, 902 Comp
ton street, Baltimore, ended his life by
firing bullet iltI his head yesterday.
The First Nst onsl Bank OF Friendly,
W. Va, has suspended, and r. d. Gar
rett has been appointed receiver.
Recruiting officers at Washington have
been ordered not to enlist former nation.
al gusrdsmen unless they can show thst
they have been honorably discharged.
The grand jury Of Kings county, N.
Y, Is expected to bring in a present
meut characttrizing the racetracks as
disorderly resorts.
At the seventeenth Universal Peace
Confer. nee which assembled 10 LoLdJn
yesterday, sixteen countries are rep
resented.
"Nan" Patterson, the former chorus
girl, acquitted of q cab murder, was
made to leave Pltsburg yesterday be-
cause she had lured married man there.
The president hiss called Secretary
Wright TO Oyster Bay to take up the
case OF the eight West Point hs7trs
which it Is thought had been settled.
New York republican party leaders
refuse to discuss Governor Hughes
declaration that he will run again, and
ii is said be may decide to become an
independent candidate.
While arguing with Stephen Pierce
because the latter, 1t was alleged, was
keeping COW In yard in violation OF
the town ordinance, Ohsrles Haywood,
one of the town commissioners, dropped
dead of heat disease al RehObolh, Del.
According to decision by the interstate
commerce commission shippers may
combine small quantities of freight
of various ownership, either by arrange
ment among themselves or through the
medium of forwarding agency, and
ship the combined lot st the relatively
lower rates applicable to large shipments.
George W. Ahrell, a blacksmith, and
well.known resident Of Slanesyille,
Hampshire county, W. Va, has been
arrested by Sheriff Johnson, of thst
county, charged with murdtrug JJhn
B. Chapman, the wealthy Winchester
lumbermsn and mt reliant, and wss taken
to the county jail at ROmney to be held
for the neat term OF court.
Baltimore and the couotry for Is
miles around 1t we're deluged with such
a torrent OF rain yesterday morning be.
tween Gas and O'Clock that the tracks
on some OF the railroads we're washed
out, traffic was stopped, vegetation In the
country was beaten down to the ground
and the water in some OF the streams
emplying into the PstspscO rJse as high
as ten feet.
William J. Bryan arrived 10 Omaha
from Chicago yesterday evening. At
the station he IVES met by committee
representing the Knights of Ak-Sar- Ben,
a secret order Of Omaha business men,
who gave him a banquet and later init.
sted him as member. Organizations
OF business men received him ard escort
ed him to an improvised stand where be
made an address and held a public re-
ceptiou. He attacked the republican
plstform and leaders and declared that
his platform advocated needed reforms.
For days 10 the city of Washington
an agent OF the Buresn of immigration,
acting under instructions from the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor, has
been investigating affairs 10 the section
below the avenue. Three women, all
aliens, who came under the ban of the
federal law, living betweeni Eleventh
and Fourteenth streets. we're arrested
by Inspector George Baldwin, of the
Bureau of Immigration. What the
charge against The women will be when
brought into court this morning is IN
known, bat it Ia said they sre illegally
in this country and that under clause
of the lsw they will be depOrted 10
their native land.