Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-11
News Of the Day.

Mr.. Taft declines to become involved
10 the West Virginia fight over the
ct t. ticket.
Archbishop Farley, of New York,
like Cardinal Gibbons, has been affected
with stomach trouble, caused by change
OF food aud climate, In Rome.
George William Philips, brother-in-
law Of Congressman William Il. Jack
SOD, died suddenly at Salisbury, Nd,
yesterday, OF neuralgis OF the heart.
The total pack of iomstoes 10 Mary
land, Delaware and New Jersey this
wear will be $500, 900 cases, each case
containing two dozen cans.
Charles Samuel Kline, 10 years old,
died yesterday at Frederick, Nd, as a
result OF gunshot wound Accidentally in
Aicted.
Andrew Romando, an Italian, shot
his room-mate, Nebro Sansasta, in Balti-
more yesterday Sanssts who is ct the
Maryland General Hospital in critical
condition.
Yesterday morning about 3 o'clock the
Jonesyille S. O., Knitting Mill took fire
and was completely destroyed. The
loss is estimated at $3.50, 600, with
$3.50, 900 insurance.
1t is three weeks since Col. William
F. Villas was stricken with cerebral
hemorrhsge, and bis condition shows no
material improvement, unless 1t be that
he is relieved from pain.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, the
welI-known suthotess, died at her home
10 Boston yesterday after an illness Of
nearly nine months. Mrs. MoultJn's
death was due to acute Brighrs disease.
Mrs. Blanca @. WsttersoD, who was
divorced from Henry WsttersoD, j.,
lat March, was married yesterday In
the aldermsuic committee room Fin the
City Hall at New York to Senior Roman
Banus.
John Hartman, Of Myersville, and
Samuel Ha,shman, of near EllerlOn
both we'll known farmers of Maryland
and first cousins, died Friday evening
last, the former from gangrene, due to
dropsy, at the age Of 20 tho latter from
heart disease, at the age Of 6S.
The mechanical force employed at the
Southern Railway shops in Spencer, N.
c., wers materially increased yesterday
when a number of the old employees
were called back ID work after FIVE
months of enforced idleness. They ATE
to work full time.
Another mixed marriage between
white and black, accredited to the social
equality which a negro believes he mas
ia the nations capital, was authorized
10 New York Yesterday when mar
risge license was issued ID Frank Rose,
white, &c years old, and Bulia Goats, %
years old, negress.
When a large boiler exploded at the
York Rolling Mill at York, Pa, yes!er.
day afternoon, eight workmen we're iu-
stlntly, killed and m re than score we're
injured. The CITY was shaken and many
buildings in the vicinity of The wrecked
plant were considerably damaged.
Congressman Serene E Payne, chair.
man of the house committee on Ways
and Means, denies that he is a candidate
for governor of New York state.
Mr.. Payne said yesterday: II am
net and shall not be n Uandidxte for
governor. My present ambition is to
be reelected to Congress and 10 help re-
vise the tariff"
Mrs. Mary Rowden, 65 years old,
and Mrs. R.ss Bockwiih, AZ years of
age, were instantly killed and Fred
Beckwiih, 40 years old, perhaps fatally
injured and Bessie Beckwith, 16 years,
his daughter, badly bruised and
burned by the explosion of their su-
t,mobile at TIE foot of Stickney Hill,
about eight miles from gainesville, Ohio
yesterday.
Ia resr end collision Saturday night
bet Ween passenger trains of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas and Ioternslionsl
and Great Northern rsilWsys, which
occurred at the Galveston end of the
Bay bridge, Engineer Rothenberg, Of
the International and Great Northern
train, wss killed and a nero porter
was fatally hurt A number of psssen-
ger suffered with various degrees of in
juries.
Loaded with what they have been
plundering the country for years, hun
dreds of Turkish government officials of
the old regime are nov hurrying for the
other side of the frontier. Though msny
have been arrested, the total number
caught is but a a small proportion Of the
known offenders. The latter include
practically every one from top to bottom
of the official clsss. 1t is estimated that
the government has been robbed Of
5000, 0G0, 900 through official corruption
In the last twenty years.
Several hundred operatives at the
Lane-Maggins Cotton Mills in New
Orleans have gone on strike, leaving
only small working force 10 the mills.
The company recently announced that
on account of stagnsnt condition
in the cotton goods market it
would be necessary to close down unless
the operatives would accept a cut in
wages. 1t WIS understood thst large
ms jority Of the operatives agreed to the
reduction, but when it went into effect
yesterday only a small proportion Of
them remained at work.
Governor Conner, of Alsbsms, last
night issued proclamation calling for
a cessation of disorders in the state, &C.
compsnied by the threat that he would
Immediately invoke the entire strength
of the state 10 suppress any and all
trouble. Deputy sheriffs and the mill