Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Attorney John Stanchfield, of New
York, has received a fee Of $500, 900
for the acquitial Of F. Augustus
Heinze.
The Congressional Bonding Com
in its preliminary report just
will favor the bonding OF
all government employees by the gov
eminent itself.
One man was pinned down under an
and drowned and five others
and young woman were seriously in
jured early yesterday few miles from
Hammond, Ind, when the car plunged
into a creek.
Trial OF the suit instituted by Ru-
dolphe Francke against Commander
Peary, concerning the disposition OF
Arctic trophies was begun i'll Berlin
court yesterday. Francke was asso-
ciated with DR.. Cook in polar explora-
ton.
After carefully preparing himself for
death, young man, registered as james
Murphy, committed suicide by inhaling
gas yesterday ut the Majestic Hotel,
Washington. He had closed and lock-
ed the doors. windows, and transom,
and rammed paper into all the crevlces.
The key was left in the lock.
Emperor William has accepted the
designations of Baron Won Rheinbaben,
the Prussian minister of state and
finance, and Wilhelm Won Schoen,
secretary for foreign affairs. Baron
Won Noehte was appointed secretary
for foreign affairs, Won Schoen being
appointed ambassador to France.
Five men were killed and eleven in
jurcd, two of them probably fatally, by
an explosion which first wrecked and
then set fire to the hotel and saloon OF
Edward Bushay, five miles north of
Minneapolis on the Anoko, road yester-
day evening. The explosion OF a gas
tank in the basement blew the roof from
the building and fire Immediately start
ed. In half an hour the building was
mass Of burning wreckage.
The steamship Mainz, which will pro-
coed on Saturday for the Spitzbergen
Islands carrying Count Zeppelu's pre-
liminary North Polar expedition,
anchored alongside the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern at Kiel yesterday and was
inspected by Emperor William. It is
planned to erect a dirgible balloon-house
at Spitzbergen and Captain Lau will in
vcstigate the possibilities of a dirgible
balloon fight in the Arctic to determine
whether an air route to the North Pole
will be practical.
Leaders OF thc Pennsylvania State
Federation OF Labor yesterday began an
inquiry to ascertain il Clifford Pinchot,
the former chief Of the Forestry Depart
ment, has legal residence in Pennsyl-
vania. If he has, they propose TO noml-
nate him for governor at the head OF
the independent ticket. They say that
they believe such Il ticket would get not
only the votes Of the labor union men
Of the State, but also many dissatisfied
democrats and republicans.
The New York grand jury present
ment dcnounces the moving picture
shows as 4 hot-bed OF vice and urges
more rigid legislation for safeguard
ing young girls who patronize these
theatres. Massage parlors and mani
curing establishments are severely at
tackled. The grand jurors declared
that they Investigated 125 of these cs-
adjustment and found that they
were simply disorderly resorts, dis
guised under different names.
Armed with knives, and keeping
their word to meet at sunrise i'll the
woods near mcfarland Park, in West
Tampa, Florida, Monday, Mario Adalo
and another Cuban, whose identity has
not yet been established, fought until
both fell from loss of blood. Adalo
died within few minutes. The
unknown man escaped. Adalo came
from Cuba. He was labor or
ganiZcr.
Starting from the Naval Academy
at Annapolis shortly after noon yester-
day for a sail in Annapolis harbor,
three young people, Mrs. Joseph Nice.
Rowyer, daughter-in-law Of Capt. j.
NJ. Bowycr, superintendent Of the
Naval Academy, and Midshipmen
Sherman NJ. Mason, OF Newport, r. l.,
and Grisby +. Thomas, Of Union
Point. Ga, have not been heard from
up yto Il late hour last night, though
the little craft in which they started has
been found ut anchor in shallow water.
Every indication points to the fact
that they have all been drowned.
A big bundle Of papers, purporting
TO be the complaint in Il suit for 81 900,
600 damages against Theodore Roose-
welt, Robert Bacon, American ambas-
sador to France: Charles Graves,
American minister to Sweden, and his
wife, is in the county clerk ks Office III
New York awaiting disposition. The
bundle was thrown into the office yestcr
day by Mrs. Ida NJ. Won Claussen after
the clerks refused to file them because
of irregularities. The attempted suit IS
an outgrowth of,the refusal Of Minister
Graves to present Mrs. Won Classen at
the court of late King Oscar Of Sweden
in 1907
FIRE ENGINE HORSES RUN AWAY
Three big gray fre-epgine horses,