Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-19
News Of the Day.


The first shipload of Roosevelt tro-
phies arrived in New York yester-
day.
Samuel ]. S.ligmap, the New York
banker, dropped dead at bis summer
home, at Deal, N. j., yesterday even
ing.
The Gloucester fishing schooner
Oinoco, it is reported, has been lost OIL
Luuenburg today. Eleven members oil
her crew we're lost.
Mrs. Julia Fisher COLON, wife Of
Senator Shelby NJ. Oullom, oil Illinois,
died yesterday at their residence in
Washington of heart disease.
Thirty thousand dollars worth oil
gambling apparatus, seized at French
Lick Springs, we're burned yesterday by
the state authorities of Indiana.
Orville Wright aud his sister, Ksthe-
rine, arrived In Berlin today from London
ADD have taken the "Phnce's apart
ments" in the most exclusive hotel In
the city.
A tank car of bepzine exploded at
Moulias, France, today, setting on Are
he large depot, which burned TO the
ground. Two persons we're killel out
light in the explosion and many In
jured,
II. G. Peters has suddenly Withdrawn
as leading counsel for the "drys" in the
Roanoke local option election contest
case, assigning as his reason, 1t is said,
that he has no faith In the case. 1t is
believed that this will greatly discourage
the "drys" 10 the contest.
Harry K. Thsw WAS taken from the
Westcbeser county, n Y, jail
back to his old quarters in the Mattea-
wan asylum for The criminal insane yes
terday afternoon. His mother will
move to Matteawsn tomorrow to resume
her residence near the asylum.
Presiden, Taft told callers yesterday at
B ,verly, Mass, that he Was not al all
disturbed by the talk of attacks on the
new corporation tax. The tests and the
protests, the president declared, were
all anticipated, aud no threats of the
corporation lawyers now cause the presi-
dent any alarm.
Several Paris eabmen we're todsy
sentenced TO various terms Of imprlsOn-
ment on conviction of having made their
tsxicabs register false distances. Three
of the convicted men bad discovered q
method, by using thread, to make the
T gister run twice as fast as it should
sud fourth was caught farming the rear
wheel OF his taxi" like whirl-wind.
A dispatch from Bombay says the
fate Of the prosperous Punjsb city OF
Dera Ghszi Khan, which for months
past has been gradually slipping into
the river IOdus, is now regarded as
definitely sealed. The process oferosion
is going on rapidly. From so to 100
feet OF the river front is being swept
away every day, and one by one mosques,
mansions, and hotels are disappearing
10 the swift stream. Ders Chat Khan
has a population Of 25, 900.
Elvira Todd, %, the beautiful dsugh-
ter Of prominent Augusta family, who
Yesterday entered the Office OF fhe Gen.
trail of Georgia Railroad at Augusls,
Ga, and shot down Cashier Richard
Watson, ia still held in jail without
bail. Watson is still alive but his con-
dition is critical. The young woman
declares she was infatuated with Wat
son for years and that she thought he
was going to "throw her over" to marry
another woman and that she could not
stand it.
1t is said that President Taft has de-
cided upon the census supervisors for
Virginia. One is to be appointed for
each of the ten congressional districts,
and 1t is likely that O. P. Osrdwell, OF
Richmond, will head the Third district.
r. P. Bunting, of Norfolk, will conduct
the work in the Second district. Each
supervisor will have the appointment of
about fifty assistants. Mr.. Oardwell is
q lawyer by profession aud the son Of
Judge r. n. CardWell, of the Virginia
Supreme Court Of Appeals.
The committee Of the Eastern Yacht Club
at Marblehead, Mass, having the elesting Of
three American yachts to meet the German
for the Presi ent Taft international Sonderk-
lass prize announced that the Ellen, owned
by c. P. Curtis, jr would be one Of the boats
named. The seventh race Of the preliminary
series was started at IL O'Clock today.
By practically unanimous vote at three
me tings held in Orange and Newark, N. J..
yesterday moe than 1900 members OF the
local branches Of the United Hattels Of North
America ra'i6ed the tentstive agreement pre-
pared by Governor Fort, looking to a settle.
ment of the hstterP strike.