Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-09-20
News Of the Day.

Brieadier General Fuuston stumbled
aod fell on a concrete walk at Lesven-
worth, Kiss, Saturday, fracturing bis
shoulder severely.
Cardinal Gibbons attended the laying
of the cornerstone OF the new Catholic
Church OF Our Lady Of Victory, in
Washington, yesterday.
The seabosrd Airline has successfully
used its telephone In dispatching trains
since September 8. 1t will probably do
away with its telegraph system.
Former Gov. james Vsrdamsu, OF
Mississippi, has accepted an invitation to
make speeches in Maryland In support
of the franchise amendment to the con-
stituti0D.
A Georgia mob on Saturday declined
to lynch Morgan Lane, colored, after
the father of the negro compelled his
son to confess that he attempted to as
suit white woman.
Congressman Randall, of Texas, has
challenged Senator Bailey to jjint de-
bate, the jsct to be the senator's re-
lalions with the oil trust. Senator
Bailey rejected the challenge.
Booker T. Washington, the negro
leader, was unable to obtain sccomOda'
tions In the Buchtel Hotel, at Akron,
Ohio. Senator Dick upon hearing this
offered to entertain him at his home but
in the meantime other arrangements had
been made.
A stamp OF new denomination Ia to
be issued by the Postoffice Department
to conform With the recent Increase 10
the price of registration from 8 TO 10
cents. The new issue is TO be 8 l2-cent
stamp, so that on ordinary letters one
stamp will suffice to pay for postage and
registration.
Naval vessels from Great Britain,
France, Germany, Italy aud the Neither
auds, In EurOpe, and from Mexico,
Cnba aud the Argentine Republic are
to be present in New York barbor at the
great naval rendezvous of the Hudson
Fulton celebration on September 20,
according to the latest official advices.
Miss Stella Jones, a good looking
young woman of Glenwood, cashier Of
the Ohio and Pittsburg Milk Company,
was arrested in PitIsburV, yesterday,
charged with stealing IS, 900 from her
employers since last April. She says
she gave the money to Gilbert n. Esler,
her fance, for fear he would desert her
and marry another woman. Esler is
under arrest as an accomplish In the
theft.
President Taft at Minneapolis yeSter-
i day met the 90 members OF the JaTa-
nese Commercial Mission to the United
States, babe them hearty welcome to
the country, assured them OF the
lasting friendship OF The American
people, paid tribute to their qualities
of industry and patriotism and in con-
cusion drank a tosst to the emperor
OF Japan as "the warm and sincere
friend of America" amid great enthu-
sIssm among both his japanese and
American hearers. The meeting with
the Japanese was at q luncheon at the
Lafayette Club, on the shores Of besuIi-
ful Lake Minnetonks, 20 miles out OF
the city, rendered by the Commercial
Club Of Minneapolis,
President TAFT many times during Sat.
urday 10 making little speeches here
aud there 10 Minneapolis and st. Paul
referred to Governor JOhnsOn's illness,
aud expressed anew his distress TO have
been met that morning by the departing
news from the patients bedside. 10 his
auditorium speech at St. Paul the pfesi-
dent called out prolonged applause and
cheering when he declared OF Gov.
johnson: al uoite with you In fer
vent prayer to God that be may be
spared to you and 10 the country. With
his ability, his courage, his great com.
mon sense, he cannot be spared. he is
too valuable, not alone to the people OF
this state, but to the people OF the na-
ton, who doubtless will insist in time
that he shall serve them"