Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-16
News of the Day.

Almost simultaneously birth and a
death occurred yesterday on tourist
car on the Burlington route.
The Moroccan sultan has ordered the
Riff tribes to cease attacks on Spaniards,
and has promised to qnell the revolt
without action by Spain.
The Chinese government in q formal
note TO japan has agreed to negotiate at
Mukden the various points in the An
iung-Mukden railroad controversy
Brig. Gen. Edwin F. Townsend, U.
s. A., retired, died Yesterday at the
Walter Reed Hospital, in Washington,
after long illness, OF apoplexy. Gen.
Townsend was born In New York in
1888.
Jean Deputy, minister of commerce
In France, Is endeavoriDg to find means
of avoiding q tariff war with America.
French business circles are not pleased
with the three months notice OF the
expiration OF the present agreement.
One of the biggest surprises OF the
present racing season was sprung st
Saratogs, N. Y, Saturday, when, Rocky
O'BieD, a Meddler colt, quoted at 40
TO /, won the Hopeful sakes for two.
ytars-old, six furlongs. Rocky OBrien
ran In the name and coIorS Of James
McMsnus, q former California street
car conductor who won $3.50, 900 by the
race.
The Cathedral of st. Mary Magdslene
was dedicated at Salt Lake yesterday
BY Cardinal Gibbons, assisted BY q
distinguished gathering Of Catholic pre-
lates. The cathedral was 10 years
building and is a monument to the zeal
of Bishop Lawrence Seaman, OF the
diocese of Utah. Mormon, Jew and
GENTLE united to do honor to the oc-
casion.
Reformers made no further move at
Atlantic City yesterday toward the clos
ing of saloons, nor did they interfere
with the baseball game at Inlet Park, as
they had threatened to do. The cafes
aud saloons ran their business 10 the
usual wide open manner. The police
gave warning against selling liquor to
intoxicated persons, and as q result
there wac no sign Of disorder.
The arrest of Leonard Martin, Pull
man car porter on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, running be.
tween Chicago and Lake Geneva, brought
confession 10 the detectives in Chicago,
on Saturday, revealing the fact that more
than a year ago, he had robbed Mrs.
William r. Harper, widow Of the presi-
dent Of the University Of Ohicsgo. Mar
tin, who is only % years old, 1t is said,
admitted that he took diamonds valued
at $40, 600
Sunday the summer White House at
Beverly, Mass, was a somewhat event
fol one. President Taft took the census
ont of politics by an explicit order to
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nsgel.
He also announced the appointment Of
1874 more census supervisors, but none
from Virginia. He served notice that
any msn engaged in the taking OF the
thirteenth census of the United States
%ho engages In politics in any way will
be Immediately dismissed from the SER
vice.
Asceriaining after eight years Of mar
ried life that his wife was negro woman.
Alfred fisherman, a white man, after q
visit to Washington, d. O., returned on
Saturday to their home, in Columbus,
Ohio, and shot her twice and then, turn
ing the revolver on himself, inflicted
wound that will prove fatal. The
woman Is still living, but the doctors
say she canDot recover. She was q
beautiful woman and had no apparent
traces OF negro blood. The couple had
3 seven-year-old SOD.