Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-10-04
News of tue Day.

Pole dwellings, 1000 years old, have
been uDearibed in swamp l2O miles
northwest Of Stockholm.
1t Is said in Washington that the
marine corps will seek TO be transferred
TO the army, the officers being dlssatiS'
fed Nth the dutieS assigned 10 them on
warships.
According to g Paris sporting news
paper james j.. Jeffsries has made The
announcement that be would probably
fight Jack johnson in San Francisco
April 10 or II next.
New York city's share in the Hudson
Fulton celebration ended Saturday night
with carnival parade and display Of
fireworks and warships Illuminated on
the Hudson river.
The condition OF Assistant Secretary
of State Huntington Wilson who was
operated upon at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital Baltimore, for appendicitis last
week is much improved.
John a. Taylor, for many years
secretary of the Connecticut Prison AS
socialiob, committed suicide In his office
at the capitol at Hart ord today by firing
e bullet through his heart.
Washington will be without free
lunches after October 49, The saloon
keepers have agreed to furnish nothing
but cheese and crackers after the date
named, with pretzelS as substitute for
crackers.
William Watson, chairman of the
Cunsrd Steamship Company died 10
London today. Watson was sixty-six-
years old, and had been identified with
the Cuusrd Company from early man
manhood.
Seven of the eighteen balloons that
assembled at Zurich on Friday 10 the In
ternational long distance race have
landed according to late reports today
None Of the distances so far reported
are unusual.
A Pittsburg detective agency las
night announced that the home of Mrs
Henry Z. Res, wife OF one Of Pittsburg''
steel kings has been robbed OF diamonds
within the past few days to the extent o.
prebsps $4,000.
The Cunarder Lusitsnia broke hel
own record for the east-bound trans
Atlsntic passage today when she arrived
At Queentown two hours ahead OF bel
best previous time. The time for tht
trip Was days Is hours and 81 minutes
Carroll E. Pearce, Is years old, who,
on May 2S last, shot and killed biz
stepfsther, Ezra Park willard, neal
Knoxville, Frederick county, Nd, was
convicted on Saturday at Frederick o.
manslsughter. Sentence was deferred
President Taft spent the day in Port
land, Ore, Saturday, seeing drill Of
school children and reviewing troops
A man armed with revolver was at.
rested 10 the crowd near him, but pro-
tested his innOcense OF any wrong doing
King Edward has conferred knight
hood upon Lieutenant General Baden
Powell, who was prominent 10 the South
African war, and who recently founded
the organization Of boy scouts TO promote
good citizenship in the rising generation.
While making her devotions at the
children's mass at SIS. Philip and James
Catholic Church, in Baltimore yesterday
morning, Miss Teresa jenkins, an aged
Montgomery county woman, was
stricken with apoplexy and died in 8
few minutes.
Charles S. Francis, proprietor of the
Troy Times, n. Y, declared 10 public
statement today that under no clrcum-
stances will he accept q re.appointmenl
to the Office of U. s. Ambassador to
Austria, q position be was given under
President Roosevelt.
A critical situation confronts southern
cotton mills because of high price Of
raw cotton, and unless there Is a decided
drop in the price of the staple in less
than two weeks, according TO ex-Presi-
dent s. B Tanner, of the American
Cotton Manufacturer Association,
southern mills will be forced to shut
down.
At least eight men we're killed and
three perhaps fatally injured In a gas ex-
pIosion In coal mine No. l, of the North
western Improvement Company, near
RoslyD, Wis, yesterday. When the ex.
plosiou occurred, column of fire was
thrown hundreds of feet into thu air, ig-
hitting the shaft plant and adjoining
buildings.
Grown Prince Frederick William OF
Germany made a successful ascent with
OrvilIe Wright In an aeroplsne near
Potsdsm on Saturday. Wright broke
his own sud all other records for high
flying on Saturday. He reached the
unprecedented height OF more than
1000 feet, although an official measure
ment Was not taken.
John Henry Cook Thiery, 7 weeks
old, was christened yesterday at ST..
Patrick's Church, in Long Island. j.
a. Cook Thiery's father, John Henry
Thiery, is 81 years old, and ~. a." is
the latest addition to the family OF five
Mr.. Thiery is known throughout the
country as the founder Of the system of
savings banks in schools
The pope, through the Consistorial
Congregation, has pronounced personal
aud general accommodation against
sill the inhabitants of the city of Adria,
Italy, and its suburbs for severely in
juring Bishop Boggisni, Of that diocese,
with sticks and stones during recent
anticlerical demonstration there. This
is the first general accommodation