Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-12
News Of the Day.

| One fireman was killed, two badly
hurt and 500, 900 worth Of new street
cara we're burned in g fire which de-
slroysd one of the Detroit, Mich,
United Railroad car houses today.
The Miles Camp. of the Spanish War
Veterans, met In Washington last night
and protested against the exaction Of
an extra admission price to Mount Yer
non and the tomb Of George Washington.
Nine men have been killed by an
explosion in the Standard Explosive
Works at Vsudreuil, summer resort
some 25 miles from Montreal. The
men were thswing ont dynamite. The
Standard Explosive Works manufacture
high explosives.
An explosion, the cause Of which the
authorities have not been able to
satisfactorily explsin practically wrecked
the brick residence of Joseph Monaco
at south Sharon, Pa, early today,
seriously burning Monaco, his wife aud
sor. Monaco was recently arrested on
charges of black hand dealings.
The indictments against practically
all the bridge companies of Ohio and
their contracting agents, charging vio-
lAtion Of the antitrust laws, were held
to be defective by the Supreme Court
Of Ohio, in affirming the decision of
the Erie County Circuit Court. The
indictments are held to be bad for
duplicity and inde6niteness.
About $40, 900, 900 may be secured
from the government by people of the
South II bill reported unanimously by
the Houss committee on wsr claims
becomes law The bill gives to the
Court of Claims jurisdiction of the claims
| for captured and abandoned property
which was sold during the civil war
and the proceeds turned into the United
States Treasury.
Republican primaries, held through
out Ohio, yesterday, have given William
II. Taft four delegates at large and
twenty-five district delegates to the
national convention at Chicago, and
delegates to the State convention, to be
held March 3, which will be unanimously
in bis favor. Hardin county held no
primaries. No opposition worth men,
tioning developed during the day.
President Patrick a. Mccormick, Of
the New York Typographical Union,
known as the "Big Six" and George
W. Jackson and Vincent ]. Costello,
union organizers, yesterday were 6ued
$3.50 each and sentenced to twenty days
Imprisonment, for disobedience of an 10
junction obtained by the Typothstae OF
New York in 1906. Thomas Bennett
and William S. Anderson were fned
500 on the some charge.
The withdrawal OF the Turkish troops
from the Persian territory to tbs west
of Tabriz, as we'll as the more concilia.
tory spirit shown at Constantinople, is
regarded at ST. Petersburg az obvisting
the necessity, for the present, of taking
further precautionary measures on the
Turkish and Persian frontiers, and it is
probable that the dispatch OF troops
from the interior of Russia to the Osu-
casus will be abandoned pending fur
ther developments.
By tremendous explosion that &C.
CURED in the tank house of the MonOn-
gshela Blast Furnaces, at McKeesport,
Pa, today one man was burned so
badly thas he died, another sustained
Injuries that likely will cause his death,
Two others we're painfully turned, the
entire city was shaken and perhaps
Thousands of dollars worth Of glass was
broken. The force of the explosion was
80 great that houses a mile away were
shaken on their foundations snd people
| we're sSakene,i in terror.