Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-01
News OF the Day.

Many belated Christmas packages
were burned when fire destroyed Offices
and warehouses oftne American Express
Company 10 New York city yesterday.
The loss amounted to about $500, 600.
Charles W. Morse hiss made bis last
fight and will 90 to Atlsnta Sunday
morning there to begin the sentence of
fifteen yesrs imposed rpon him 10 New
York mere than year ago for violating
the banking Laws.
F. j. Jerm5n, declared to be a man.
Der of the millionaire Scranton, Pa !,
family OF coal operatives, was knocked
down by street car 10 San Francisco
today and very seriously i,jared. He
was rushed to hospital where, 1t ia ssid,
lis recovery Ia improbable.
William B. Shaw, familiar figure In
Washington, conspicuous So q news.
paper correspondent and said to be the
first to send news from there By tele-
graph 10 any out-of-town paper, died at
bis home in Washington yesterday even
log. He was 80 yesrs old.
With Senator bale, of Maine, chair
man of The committee on appropriations,
the president talked over the question CT
government expense yesterday It was
understood alter the conference that he
was In thorough accord with M. Tai.
he believed II was possible for the gov.
eminent to save almos. 500, 900, 900
each year.
The governors of The New York stock
exchange have received tina report OF tbs
committee appointed to investigate the
Rock Island scaads! OF Monday morning,
Wher the stock advanced from sol 10
81 aod as suddenly rereded again. Tbe
report pill be acted on or January -.
Although the strictest reserve is being
maintained, 1t is geoerally believed that
The closing OF the crock Island Incl.
dent" Will be accompanied by disciple.
nary measures.
Forty.four thousand acres of the Dis.
nal Swamp was sold today BY William
N. Camp and wife, OF Oceols, FIs., to
The Camp Manufacturing Company, of
Frsnklia. The price wss not given ont,
the consideration mentioned Ia the deed
being S., This property was granted to
Nathaniel and William Nelson bY the
Commonwealth Of Virginia 10 1854 1t
is valuable chief for the timber and as.
soc:ations, romantic and historic, unless
soma millions of snakes, deer, wildcats
aud other Jungle beasts may be accounted
ssaets.
Two women, one girl Of twenty,
half clad and shiVering, were rescued By
detectives from q Chinese den on the
seventh a .or oil al old building in Chica-
90 la.e Thursday afternoon. Lai Riug,
Chiness merchant, found with the
women, is under arrest. 81 want to
leave this place, but The Ohinaman wont
give me my clothing" said one OF the
girls as shs 5hiveref. eyes, they bring
other girls hcfe. Sometimes there are
Is or 20 gi1ls." King denied the young
womsn's story, aud ssid he mad never
refused to give her her clothiEg.
Three hladred feet OF the false struc-
turs OF tho Mckinley bridge, now under
construction scross the Mississippi river
a. s, Louis, was trccsed ont BY sn Ice
j IN yesterday evening. Sixty men we're
.hrowB into The river, aud some OF them
mgy have been drowned. Oos hundred
aud thirty men ware at work on the
structure wbsn the jam began to move.
Seventy of Them heard the warning snap OF
the timbers in time to escape 10 the s!eel
Sork, but 10 fell with the twisted ness
Of tim bers, three hois;iug engines aud
travelling crane The damage Is esti'
usted 8! 500. 900.