Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-21
TELEGRAPHic BREVITIRs.

TELEGRAPfiiC BREVITIES.
Vice President Charles w. Fairbanks
is i'll in ssDitsrium at Excelsior
Springs, Mo.
10 Philadelphia today Joseph Nc
Lsuehlin, of that city, was reelected
president of the Ancient Order OF Hi
bernisDs.
The ,ndit'on of Rt. Rev. Bernard j..
MtQuaid, bishop Of Rochester, N. T.,
who collapsed while speaking at the
banquet held at St. Beraard's Seminary,
is slightly improved t,day. He is In no
immediate danger of death.
Reports that $500 in diamonds and
other Jewels had been stolen from a
secret room at Indian Neck Hall, the
country home Of Commodore Frederick
G.. Bourne, of the New York yacht club,
t Oakdsle, Long Island, are positively
denied today.
Police are today guarding the docks OF
the Western Transit Company, at Chi
csgo, following race riot 10 which i've
men we're inbred. SpectsttrS shouted
"Lynch the negroes." Some Of the
white men declared they would not work
with negroes and demanded that the
blacks quit. This the la,ter refused to DO.
With his skull crashed, the body Of
John Georgia, a coal miner, was washed
ashore at Brownsville, Pa, today. Coro-
ner Ross, who investigated the case de-
clares Georgik WAS murdered and his
body thrown into the river. County de-
tectives are working on the case.
YegOmen invaded the suburbs Of Oin'
cipnati, o., early today. At Lockland,
the vault of the Cincinnati Trust Com
psuy's branch bank was blown, but the
safe crackers got nothing. At Kennedy
Heights, the post flee safe was blown
and $50 secured.
Believing that Guy Standing, tt'r Of
"The Right of Way" has 80 identified
himself with the character he portrays
on the stage that he is wandering in
England with his own identity lost,
Klaw and Erlsnger, Of New YORK, today
are keeping the cable hot with attempts
to trace the missing actor.
Messages received at Sonora, CAL, to
day from Yosemite Park say that the
forest fires there are the worst In the his.
tory of the stste. Under the direction
IF Msj9r Benson, sll the U. s. troops
and the Park Rangers are fighting to
control the flames which have already
bprned the homes and cattle Of many
settlers 10 the vicinity.
Every policeman In New York today
is on the lookout for Minnie NJ. Haskiu,
daughter of 81. M. Hsskin, aud tor Of
the American Tobacco Company, who is
believed to be wandering, dementsd,
about the city. Miss Haskins escaped
from q nurse OF The Plsiu6eld, N. j.,
ssniisrium on Tuesday afternoon.
Cliuging to the desperate hope that
The fifty miners entombed in the May
pole mine, at Wigsu, Eng, by Tuesdays
explosion may sill be slive, wives and
latives of the victims made detsr'
mined assault today upon the officials
Who were flooding the mine in order to
prevent the cremation of the bodies by
the mine fire.
Smashing the door of the state build
ing at the prison farm near Milledge-
vile, Ga, today, Andrew Ford, con-
Vict, stole a gun and pistol, after which
be ran to the stables, tIok the horse Of
the superintendent and fed. No one
saw Ford's escape but he had gone but a
few minutes when his absence was dis
covered and a posse was at once formed
aud started in pursuit. Ford is des-
rerate character and bloody fight is
Ger ain whtn he is overtaken.
Practical endorsement of the csndi-
dacy of Governor Hughes, of New York
denomination was given in New York to-
dsy when James Sherman republican
candidate for vice president who took
part in yesterdays conference with
President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay de-
clared thst it was the consensus oil
opinion at the conference that Hughes
wss the broadcast aud most available can
didsts and that the name OF no other
man Was considered.
The body of the man found murdered
in trunk in the woods near Camden,
n. j., has been positively identified IS
that OF s. j. Rosenbloom, general
storekeeper of Windber, Pa. Rosen'
bloom disappeared from home on No
yember IL last and shortly after that biz
son Alfred vanished. At the same time
a trunk disappeared from the house. The
son returDed to Windber in q few days
but remained at home only 48 hours.
He has not been seen since.
Willie Snyp, a kitchen boy, was
burned TO death and rs guests, many Of
them prominent residents of Washington,
nsrrOwly escaped when Owlyout Lodge,
a popular hotel on Upper Chstesugusy
Lake, hear Malone. N. Y, was destroyed
By fire early today. The hotel wSs owned
and operated by the Misses Alyis Bently
and Miss Edith Westco.t of Washington.
Miss Bently was slightly burned and a
number of the guests suffered bruises as
they leaped from the windows of the
hotel in the scramble to escape the flames
which had driven them frUm their beds.
With an official dinner by the State
Department and entertainments in
every theatre tonight free to the Ameri-
can officers, sailors and marines, the
first day of the festivities In honor Of
the American feet came to close at
Sydney, n. s. w. The parade OF mora
than 1000 sailors and marines today,
which, owing to a slight stupidity on
the part of the local officials, threatened
fol- time to result 10 an embarrassing
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