Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-13
News of the Day.


in the United States.
Atlantic City has been chosen today
as the meeting place for next years en-
csmpment Of The G. A. g., winning
over ct Louis 307 to 299 0
Because the owners demanded too
high rate for the land, the army zig
nal corps has decided not to locate the
seronautical field at College Psrk, Nd
The pedestal for the statue OF General
Robert E. Lee recently placed IN the
Capitol at Washington, which was
thought to be lost, was found in q Bal
tImore marble yard.
What looks like the beginning of the
end of the Schoenvile siriks loomed up
today when the Pressed Steel Oar Com
pany smuggled $50 strike-breskers iutc
the plant.
John F. Daniels, U. S. Marshal oil
Arizons, q Roosevelt roughrider has re-
signed and has been replaced by @. a.
Overloco. Daniels's resignation it Ii
intimated was by request
Three hundred men were thrown oul
of work and property valued at $500,
900 destroyed by q FIRE which today
Quilted the plant of the Hendricks Cop
per Works, st Bslleville, N. j.
John N. and Paul F. Bigley after
carefully going over the ruins of their
big tobacco mandatory at Detroit,
Mich, which burned last night, declared
the damage would total about 800, 900.
At Salt Lake City, yesterday, Samuel
r. Van SAINT, of Minnesota, wss elected
commander.iD-c chief OF the grand army
of the republic. The organization now
has 220. GIG members in good standing.
More than thirty OF the New York
Yacht Club yachts which wealhered the
recent storm off the New Euglsnd coast
started from Portland, Maine, today for
the sixty.two miles ruu to Rockland,
Maine.
Wall street hears that E. Il. Hsrri-
man has about completed plans to Or
panizs q transcontinentsl line of The
Baltimore and Ohio, New York Central,
Lake Shore, Illinois Genital and Union
Pacific.
In a suit filed 10 Pittsburg, the Amer
lean Sheet and Tin Plate Company asks
damages Of 100000 from ffty.six al
legged leaders in the strike at its plants In
| New Castle. The action is unique In the
annals of Pennsylvania labor troubles.
A marvelously rich strike OF gold ore
has been made In a new district 10 DOL
oradc and Southern Wyoming, ihacces
sibIe until the completion Of the Mofla,
Railroad to Steamboat Springs. Some
OF the samples OF ore assay from $2l to
SAC per pound.
Carrying the body of her captain,
John Bridges, the liner Italia steamed
into port at New York today. Captain
Bddges died suddenly on the morning
Of August 9, and as be had expressed 3
desire to have his body buried on land,
the Italia fastened to New York.
President Taft has declared that it
will be his policy to make IS few recess
appointments IS possible In cases OF
vacancies on the federation bench es.
pecislly, the president said, he will
make appointments only 10 districts or
circuit, where the need OF Judge is
shown 10 be imperative.
With his face unmarked aud making
20 pretense at concealiDg his identity,
lone robber entered the Farmers and
Merchants Bank, at franklin, ILL.,, ut
1:3G O'Clock yesterday afternoon, held
up The cashier, Getty T. Wright, rihsd
the vault of 81, 500, walked leisurely out
of the rear OF the bank and made of
with the money.
Chinese Minister WI TiDg-fsng has
been recalled from Washington and
ordered to Picking for further assign
ment. His successor will be Chang YIN
tang, formerly charge d'afsirs at Mad
rid and nov deputy vice president Of
foreign affairs. Mr.. Wa is now In Peru,
to which country be has been accredited
along with the United S ates.
The city officials OF Atlantic City will
not clamp down the Sunday lid. City
K cOrder Ktffer and Police Chief Wood
riff today declined to close up moving
picture shows on Sunday, IS demanded
by the Lords Day Alliance. The chief
said the pictures were not indecent and
he believed that to close them would be
against public sentiment. He also re-
fused to act against the management OF
be Sunday baseball games on the ground
that they had before been arrested aud
fined under the state law.
Mrs. Clara Harris, wife Of GEyn
Harris, an engineer, who resides short
distance from Travailah, near Rockville,
Md, was struck on the head with an
iron bar in a cornfeld nesr her home
about 6 O'Clock yesterday morning, and
lies 10 q critical condition with very
slight chances Of recovery. The county
authorities are searching for Ollie Hsr-
ria, sged % years, son of Jefferson
harris, and nephew Of the woman, who
disappeared about the time The crime
was con mltted, and whose whereabouts
has since been o mystery.
Rear Admiral William Judah Thomp' on,
II. S. N, retired, after long illness. died at
the Providence Hospital. Resr-Admiral