Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-31
News OF the Day.


Twelve fremeu we're Injured BY the
breaking of ladder while fighting =
FIRE 10 the building OF Mccormack q
Co. mauufscuring chemists, 10 Balti-
more, late this afternoon. Loss unknown.
President TAFT conferred yesterday
with Messrs. Cannon, Payne aud Dali
zel over the danger OF great delay In
passing the tariff hill. The Senate de.
cided to take Of the countervailiDg duty
on coffee.
Although the agreement between the
mine workers and the anthracite opeTs-
tors expires tonight, the mines will co.,
tlnus working, without any changes in
wages or working conditions, for al in
definite period.
Hungarian miners employed at the
Boyle OolIiery, at Jasonville, Ind, after
engaging in a gun fight With American
miners, ia which / persons were wound
ed, accepted the inevitable aud scattered
10 different parts Of the county.
Union Pacific passenger train 3, west
bound, wss wrecked and partly destroy
ed by FIRE, today, at Castle Rock, Utah.
Fireman Lowbarn and Bsggsgeman
Dorder were killed and the remainder Of
the crew and passengers we're badly
shaken up but none was seriously hurt.
The statement that the Standard Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company of Pitts-
burg bad entered upon negotiations for
merger with the Quaker City Life To-
surancs Company, of Philadelphia, and
the Scranton Life Insurance Company
is denied.
John E. Herrel, president of the Ms
tioual City Bank 10 Washington, died st
bis home In that city last evening, of
uremic poisoning. Mr.. Heuel was born
in Loudoun county, Va, July rs, 1880.
As boy he worked on the farm. snd
later learned the trade OF brick mason.
Race suicide IL not tolerated In one
township 10 Rockingham county, n. O.
The wife of farmer residing near the
Forsyths county line on Monday gave
birth to five children boys and
two girls. Their weights range from
four to six pounds. ALI are alive aud
doing we'll.
Thomas G.. Hayes, former receiving
teller OF the American National Bank,
Of Washington, was yesterday found
guilty on t6enty-four counts, charging
embtzzlement Of So, 2SO e. and missp.
plIcation Of banks fund. No recon-
mendsliou to mercy Was contained 10
the verdict.
The body of Jasper Rand, the New
York millionaire and club man and vice
president OF the Iogersoll-Rand Drill
Company, who died late last night in
Salt Lake City, U.ab, will be brought to
Monlclsir, N. Y, at once for burial.
Raud had been resident OF that city for
q number of years, and WAS director In
the bank Of MOntclair.
William F. Downs, stock clerk 10 the
Office of City Register Thomas, Of Bal
timore, at a salsry of 81, 700 year, and
one of the most popular young men in
the employ of the municipal government,
was locked up in Central police station
last night on the charge of "embszzling
81, 900 belonging to the mayor aud city
council Of Baltimore, which amount
should have been disposited In the Ms
tional Marine Bank on March 9, 1909"
The meeting of the convention OF The
American Federation OF Lsbor, held at
Typographical Temple in Washington
Yesterday, resulted 10 the drafting OF q
consultation for the new union label
trades department, the election OF Off
cera, aud the adoption of measures de-
signed to bring about uniform label for
union made goods Of every description.
The Union Label Digest was authorized
to be prepared and PRINTED, covering the
label laws and decisions Of the various
states.
Scotch English and German steel makers
are greatly Jerturbed today over the award
ing Of q $l25, 900 contract for tram rails and
fish plates to the Lorraine Steel Company, Of
Lorraine Ohio, by tho Glasgow Corporation.
The American bid was 5000 per ton, deliv-
cred at Glasgow, $3.50 under the lowest
Scotch bid and $3.50 under the lowest bid.
The cut is so great that manufacturers on that
side openly express their fear OF an American
invasion by means Of he avy price cutting.
Charles NJ. Schwab, head Of the Bethlehem
Steel Company, emphstically denied the re-
port current in New York that mis- company
has secured the contracts for the construction
Of the two battleships Of the Dreadnaught
type which are to be built for Argentina.
Papa Isio, the BLACK pope" has had his
sentence Of death, committed 10 By Governor
General Smith, Of Manila, who heard thet
The negro tribesmen. Isio will become q life
convict.
DR.. VIM. Jones, detailed by the Field
Museum, Of Chicago, to study the wild tribes
Of the Philippines, was murdered by tribes
men at Dumohsto, in Isabella province, &C.
cOrding TO report received today.
New York dealers in palms for distribution
in Catholic CHURCHES announce scarcity Of
stalks, due to forest fires in Florida.
Ssryia has accepted the proposals laid down
by the powers; she will accept the annexation
of Bosnia as moi infringing her rights and will
disband her reserves.
Japan has refused China's request to sub
nit questions at issue in hanchuria to The
Hague. aud referred to mslign influences IS
having caused China to withdraw from direct
negotiations.
The kings colors flashed first past the post
in two important races today at Newberry,
England His Minoru won the GreenEam
stake. 5000, and bis Oakmere the Berkshire
stake for 3 yesrs old, $500. James X
Keene and II. P. Whitney entered horses ia
both races but their entries were uDplacsd.
Young Waldorf Aston was another who bad
10 see his horses finish without the money. In
the Chiyeley Handicap for purse Of 5 $50
Ieffrey's Koul, was first. Keane's Sufiragetts
". and Whitney's Sixty ii. were unplaced.
EXPLOSION IN A BUILDING.
A halt dozsu lives we're endangered,