Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-05-22
News of the Day.

According to recently compiled Jsps-
nese statistics there are SO, 900 japanese
10 the United States, SO per cent. OF
whom are In California.
A wireless dispatch from the May.
flower reports that the May flower is ez-
pecled to srtive at Washington on Sun
day afternoon at one O'Clock. Secretary
Dickinson's condition is improved.
Charles Green Bush, the noted car
toonist, died at Camden, N. i, last night,
following an attack Of heart trouble. For
years he had been the acknowledged
dean Of American cartoonlsts, sud bis
work has been copied worldwide.
Adeline Hawkins, a uegress, was
frightened to death Thursday night by
the powerful sesrchlight OF the battle
ship Mississippi, as she passed on her
way up the river to Nstchez, "lt IS
the judgment lightp she cried in terror,
and fell dead.
Violence aud disorder marked the
fifth day of the strike Of white 6remen
on the Georgia Railroad and the situa.
ton threatens to involve every southern
railrosd' in an industrial war with the
elimination of the negro as the obJec'
tive.
Miss India Harris, a member of one
of the most prominent families 10 Ala
hama, accidently shot herself fatally
today in Birmingham, Ala, while ex-
aiming revolver. Miss Harris is q
trained purse and the niece of the late
Bishop Harris. She cannot recover.
The mandate has gone forth from the
New York City Hall that the Sunday
laws are to be enforced at Ooney Island
irrespective of seven.dsy licenses, and
ample police have been detailed to aid
Inspector Russell in clsmpiDg and rivet-
ing the busher at the seaside resort.
Fire, which started on the second
floor Of the Ira NJ. Smith department
store in Grand Rapids, Mich, early
today, caused a total loss Of $500, 900,
aHd threatened the entire business por-
ton of the city. Spontaneous COM
bustion is believed to have been the
cause.
Ooincident with the removal OF the
treasury branch of the government
printing Office to the main building
comes the announcement that about
60 men OF the subsidiary Office have been
indefinitely furlouged. This order WAS
promulgated yesterday by Public Prin'
ter DOnnelly, each OF the men st the
treasury receiving separate orders.
A jury 10 Washington yesterday &C
quilted William Jones, who had been on
| trial for the killing in October laat of
/ james A. Mcpherson, farm lsborer
employed by him. Self-defense was the
plea. In 1881 Jones attempted to
ayenge the death OF President Garfield
By shooting at the assassin, Oharlss
Jules Guiteau, while the latter was be-
ing conducted from the courthouse to the
Jail In Washington.
1t was announced last night that the
coalition of democratic senators aud
progressive republican," has been
broken 30 far as the income tax ques-
ton is concerned and the amendments
on that subject will be presented by both
Senators Bailey and OumminS. Both
of these amendments will provide for
fat rates of tax, but they differ in some
other important features, particularly
the proposed tax on corporations.
National League games YESTERDAY re-
suited: At Boson-Chicsgo, 7; Bos-
ton, 0. New York and Pittsburg game
| postponed; rain. Philadelphia aud St.
Louis game postponed; rain. Brooklyn
aud Cincinnati game postponed; rain.
American League games resulted: At st.
Louis-St. Louis, 2; New York, l. At
Ohicago-Boston, G; Chicago, 3. At
Oleveland-Oleveland, 4; Washington,
II. At Observation-Disclosures, 8; De-
troit, 4.
Jorge EugerIaud, professor Of geology,
and Collaboration Fernando Urbiua, who
were commissioned to penetrate the
wilds of Chispas, Mexico, and conduct
prehistoric studies, have just returned,
after making discoveries that will revo-
lutiouize & number of theories aud de-
auctions with reference to the former
habifation Of America. Conclusive evil
dence was encountered that man in.
habited America during the Stone Age.
The expedition also found iossilixed re-
mains of fauna of the Piocene and Mo
Gene ages In the Tertiary period.
Fire caused by crossed electric wires did
$50, 900 damage to the plant Of the LockpOrt,
N. Y. Coldstorage Company today. Sixty
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