Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-20
News of the Day.


A geyser, playing from $50 to 2OO
feet 10 the air, has made its appearance
10 Yellowstone Park.
The Mayor OF Toxic has offered twenty
thousand cherry trees to President TAFT
fer the new park on the Potomac.
Several thousand people attended the
formal opening Of the new bridge scrosS
the Potomac river at Williamsport, Nd,
yesterday.
General Bernardo Reyes, sspirant for
President DisE's post, ia said to Rave re-
signed the governorship OF Nuevo Leon
and fed to the mountains.
Charged with the larceny of letters
and ships funds, George T. Arlington,
of Washington, d. O, mail clerk on the
United States cruiser Desmoines, was to-
day held 10 Boston In 81, 900 bail for
trial.
An investigation of the continued
bowling by two dogs In an uptown
apartment In New York yesterday led to
the finding OF Louis Bishop Hall, an
actor, who hsd committed suicide by
inhaling gas.
The Central Leather Company an
$50, 900, 900 New jersey corporation
filed with the secretary of state today an
amendment to It's charter, the purpose
of which is supposed to be to admit OF
its being merged with the United States
Leather Company.
Lieuteuauts Vachris and Crowley,
who were sent to Italy by General Bug-
ham after Petrosino was assassinated,
returned to New York yesterday and 10
report made to Commissioner Baker
limited that they had obtained informa
ton about Italian criminals that may
result in the apprehension OF Petrosino's
murderers.
Alleging that sixty-five insurance
companies representing combined capt.
tel of $l56, 900, 900 doing business 10
the state of Arkansas, entered into q
rate combination on December, 16, 1908.
Prosecuting Attorney r. E. jeffrey OF
the third judicial circnit has filed suit
against these companies for pen
alties aggregatiDg SOS. 100000 under
the state antitrust statute.
The Ounard liner Mauretsnia, auch-
ored of Quarantine last night after a
run over the short course, which now
gives her all records for eastward and
westward trips. She did the 2.7S3,
knots In days IA hours and 3S minutes,
as against the best performance OF her
sister ship, the Lusitsnis, over the same
course of 4 days and 10 hours fiat. Her
record over the long course which is ITO
miles longer is 4 days Is hours and IS
minutes.
Eleven members of the crew OF the
Glouchester mass fshsDg schooner
Orinoco we're drowned as they slept
in their berths Wednesday night
when the vessel capiszsd, 25 miles of
Cambro, N. S. and sank less than thee
minutes later. Capt. William Larkin, OF
Pnbnico, N. s., the commander of the
vessel, three men who we're on deck at
the time of the accident and one man
who was below, but who reached The
deck in safety, were saved, All of the
drowned men were either Nova Scotians
or Newfoundlanders
c.. X G. Billings, the millionaire breeder
Of trotting horses, who recently took string
Of ten horses to Europe, returned to New
| York today with his family, bringing back
eight Of the horses. he had presented Elem.
/ ing Boy TO the Russian government for
breeding purposes, and Deligh. to the Ger
man government for the same purposes. Bill
lings declared the American.bred horses so
far outclassed the foreign trotters that he
could get no races abroad and merely con-
tended himself with exhibiting his horses.
| Federal Judge Holt in New York today
| signed an order extending until August 9th,
the time in which the American Sugar Re
fning Company, known as the sugar trust and
its officers and directors may plead TO the in.
dictments charging them with conspiracy.
which were found by the Federal grand jury
in June.