Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

JaDan s newest uTeduuOuRnf tne Nd
nochi. will be launched October 10.
The port OF Naples is practically closed
because OF the cholera epidemic.
/ Heavy frost was reported from many
sections OF Washington county, Nd,
yesterday.
The South Wales miners voted against
the proposition to support the Cambrian
miners 10 their strike.
The Sultan Of Sulu left Washington
Yesterday evening for Chicago whence
he will go to San Francisco and then
back to the Philippines.
Sir Thomas Vesey Strong was yester-
day elected lord mayor Of London with
out opposition. He is a pronounced
temperance advocate.
President Taft is delighted with the
New York platform, but the insur-
gents are surprised at Roosevelt's en-
dorsement OF the high tariff.
The twenty-fifth annual convention
of the Brotherhood OF st. Andrew in
the United States met at Nashville,
Tenn, yesterday.
Manchurian bandits made said on
the town of New Cherang, at the
mouth OF Lilo river, and carried off 10
| Chinese merchants, to be held for
ransom, yesterday.
The trouble at the West Point mill
tary Academy, it is said, was brought
about by what the cadets claim is too
strict discipline on the part OF Capt.
Longan.
Aviator Walter Brookins yesterday
broke the American cross country
sustained fight record by completing a
fight of 1872 ~ miles from Chicago to
Springfield, Ill.
The plant OF the American Olive
Company, of Los Angeles, CAL, said
to be the largest Of its kind in the
world, was destroyed by fire yesterday,
The loss will be $3.50, 900.
State Representative II. J. Becke-
meyer testified before the senatorial
committee in Chicago yesterday that
he received 81 900 for voting for Will
liam Lorimer for United States sem
ator.
| []Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, OF
Philadelphia, widowiof L. Clarke Davis,
Gied in Mt. Kisco, n. Y, yesterday.
Mrs. Davis was so years old, and was
an author OF note. She was the mother
OF Richard Harding Davis.
Charles NJ. Schwab, it is reported, is
behind the attempted purchase Of the
stock OF the shipbuilding concern OF
William Cramp & Sons in Philadel-
phia. He is said to want the plant to
build Chinese warships.
George w. Patten, the millionaire
grain operator OF Chicago, died We'd
nesday night OF tuberculosis at the
home of his brother, James A. Patton,
in Evanston. He left fortune esti-
mated s., 900, 600, the greatest part OF
which, it is said, will be devoted to pub
lie charities, including large donation
for the furtherance OF the anti-tubercu-
losis campaign.
The democratic state convention OF
Rhode Island nominated Lewis A.
Waterman, OF Providence. for COVER
nor. The convention also pledged the
democratic candidates for the general
assembly to support Judge Arthur l..
Brown, OF the District Court, as a sue
eessor to United States Senator Nelson
w. Aldrich.
The Mallory steamship Concho, from
New York to Galveston. had strange
experience when off Galveston nearly
200 miles. when it rained fish for sew
eral minutes and literally covered the
deck with fish sucked from the gulf by
q waterspout. The vessel sighted three
water tunnels leading from the gulf to
the sky, and in trying to avoid the
rapidly moving water whirlwinds ran
into one Of them and the fish simply
stormed the vessel by the millions. The
passengers we're badly frightened.
Three prisoners held at Newark,
Ohio. is the result OF the Iynching OF
Carl Ethnington last July appeared IN
court yesterday and asked permission
to change their plea from not guilty to
guilty. This was allowed and they
were sentenced as follows: Timer Bueh-
Ter, aged 81, son of a retired business
man, for rioting. 5000 fine and 30 days
in jail; for assault and battery, $50 fine
and 10 days in Jail. Charles Baker,
aged "A, coIored, for rioting, 5000 fine
and 80 days in Jail. Charles Clay,
molder for rioting, $500 fine and 80
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