Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-08

q. J Slifer, general manager of the
Panama Railrosd, has resigned.

d. ChIc8t bCuOioi mooesSA VI Wv
Panama Railroad, has resigned.
A big slump 10 the Baltimore oyster
market Is reported, with low prices and
light demand as the causes.
Advices from south Africa said that
no basis for The rumor of Mr.. Roose-
velPs illness could be found.
Senator Ounmins, OF Iowa, attacked
Speaker Cannon and defended the''insur-
gents" 10 Congress in speech in Chi
csgo on Saturday.
Senator Oullom, OF Illinois, Is quoted
SIS saying that the elimination Of the
negro vote would result 10 great good to
the republican party In the south.
At the annual meeting Of the Ma
tional Association of Audubon Society
held ic New York city on November
4th, Miss Katharine a. Stuart was
elected 8 member of the advisory board.
Because be was convinced at revival
meeting that it was wrong to use to-
bacco, and decided that ifit was wrong to
use the weed 1t must be wrong to sell 1t,
8. N. Brees, a Wichita, Kan, mer-
chant, yesterday made bonfire Of his
cigars and tobacco.
Robert Spellmau, aged three years,
wss playing 10 his home at 17O8 Thirty
fourth street northwest Washington yes
terday afternoon making animals with
matches on the floor. Four hours later
be brealhed his last, q chsrred little mite
OF humanity, almost hidden from sight
by bandsges, lying on cot In George
town Hospital.
The French Line steamer La Lorraine
was In collision Saturday night with the
steamer St. Ba'thelemy, of Cape Ia
Hague. Several OF La Lorraine's bow.
plates we're damaged, aud she returned
to port IS q precautiOn. The passengers
aud cargo we're transferred to La Gas
cogne, which will sail on Wednesday.
The 81. BsrthelemYs stem was crushed 10
and she also put 10 for repairs.
Alighting from the elevator on the
fourth floor of the Dime Bank building
at Scranton, Pa, Saturday afternoon,
S.year.old Charles Derby toppled back
into the shaft, before the safety door
closed, as the carriage went up. His
mother, Mrs. Frederick K. Derby,
leaned over, make grab for him, lost
her balance and fell alter the child. She
was killed; the boy was fatally hurt.
Foods guaranteed by the Department
OF Agriculture to be pure and unsdulter'
ated will be placed on exhibition 10
Washington today when the National
Pure Food Show opens at Convention
Hall. The sanction of DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, the government chemist who has
led the fight against impure foods, will
be given the exhibition by bis presence
and By his consent to deliver the open
log address.
Wednesday will find the circuit Of
President TafIs journeys completed
With his return to Washington. Hardly,
however, will be have had time to look
over the improvements made in the
White House during his absence before
he starts Cd another trip, this time
short one, into Ne" EOglsnd, where at
Middletown, CT, he will on Friday at
tend the installation OF DR.. William ?.
Shankln SIS president Of Wesleyan
University.
The disqualification yesterday Of the
GFst three horses in trotting race 81
Vienna led to a great riot. The crowd
was Infatuated by the decision, which
made the fourth horse, rank outsider,
the wiuner, and tried to lynch the judges,
who fed from bombardment of beer
glasses, stones, etc. The stands, includ.
log the royal box, we're wrecked, and
when the inadequate police we're REIN
forced, the crowd fought them madly.
Ultimately the police drew their swords
sud deslt cpts indiscrimiustely until the
crowds we're covered. Fifty Of tbs mob
we're severely wounded and numbers
we're less severely injured. Many arrests
we're made.
Twelve brave uuns at st. VincenPs
Orphan Asylum Cleveland, Ohio, orgauiz-
ing bucket brigade, put out FIRE In
the top OF the building last night and
quelled an incipient psuic, which might
have been of more danger than the fire.
The older boys In the asylum, which
houses 400 little ones. we're the 6fst to
learn OF the danger. The sisters, passing
buckets of water up the stair and pour
ing it on the blaze, sent the biggest boys
to oversee the little ones at their studies.
Those Who attempted to rash DOT we're
ordered back, and when help arrived
from outside the children, part Of them
still ignorant OF the peril, we're at their
books. The nuns, almost dropping from
fatigue, held the fire under control.
Posses Of citizens OF Florence, N j.,
are hot on the trail of a masked bandit
who on Saturday night broke into the
country home of Schuyler Rainier near
Florence aud, sfter locking Mrs Jane
Nickenson, the sole occupant OF the
house into kitchen closet, blew open
the fsmily safe and escaped with cash
and gold notes and bonds tn the amount
of about $4,000. Rainier Is wealthy
farmer, 70 years old. 1t lie said that he
refused to trust his money to banks.
Rainier has been Ia the habit OF keeping
s25, 900 in gold 10 his safe. His re'a
lives believe bis loss Is much greater
than at fret reported, aud the exact
amount the man got cannot be figured
out at present.
spREAD OF THE HOOK WORM.