Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cholera, it is officially announced,
has broken out in Vienna.
An Oriental rug factory ut Martins
burg, W. Va, was burned yesterday
with loss of so. 900.
Thousands OF employees were thrown
out of work yesterday by the shut
down OF cotton mills in New England.
Ex-Congressman John c. Sibley was
held Yesterday for court in Warren,
Pa, to be tried on the charge OF con-
spiracy to debauch electors.
President Taft conferred with Sena-
tor Lodge yesterday and made a speech
praising Booker Washington and negro
education.
The recall of Herman de Lager
crantz, Swedish minister to the United
States, was announced in Stockholm
today. He has served in his present
capacity for three years.
In accordance with the plan OF avoid
ing all responsibility for the republican
state ticket this fall and the conduct
OF the campaign, State Chairman
Woodruff OF New York will not seek
reelection.
Instead OF a peace monument, as
first proposed, Americans in Mexico
will erect joint monument to George
Washington and Miguel Costello,
Fathers OF Independence. +" The cost
will be 100000.
The committee of the House OF Rep
resentatives which has been investlgat-
ing the Gore bribery charges and the
McMurray land contracts completed its
work in Oklahoma yesterday and ad-
journed to meet in Washington in No
vember.
The name OF Ira G. Rawn, the dead
railroad official, was brought into the
graft scandal case OF the Illinois Central
at the trial OF three former officials OF
the road which began in Chicago yes
terday.
Four former officers Of the Fraternal
Order OF Eagles, charged with the dl-
version Of 81, ZOO of the orders funds,
have been recommended for expulsion
by a committee that heard the case
and reported to the national convention
in st. Louis.
Headed by Cardinal Vincezno Van
nutelli, nearly 200 delegates to the Eu-
charistic Congress to be held in Mon
treal sailed from London yesterday on
the Empress Of Ireland. The cardinal
was accompanied to the boat by dis
tinguished company of Catholic pre-
lates and laity.
Serious apprehensions OF disorder
during the election for the Cortes,
which occur throughout Portugal to-
morrow, are entertained in Lisbon due
to the persistent reports that the clerl-
cal party leaders are preparing out
breaks rs a protest against the liberal
policy Of the government i'll its rcla-
tons with the vatican.
Standing around ncighborhood
we'll, in Lincolnton, n. c., where his
mother and five other women had
gathered to draw water, Theodore Gil
bert, 5 years old, was instantly killed
and all the women more or less serious
Iy hurt by bolt of lightning from
almost a clear sky yesterday afternoon.
S. D. Valentine, OF Brooklyn, N. Y.
and his 6ance, Miss Moore, who is be-
Iieved also to have come from that city,
were drowned in Lake Waramang,
Conn. Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. UNI
bach, an aunt of the young lady, was
rescued. They went for II row, and
were at the south end OF the lake when
one OF the women dropped something
overheard. In reaching for this the
boat was upset. The wind was blowing
and the lake was rough. Mrs. Umbach
chung to the boat until picked up by
craft from shore, but Mr.. Valentine
and Miss Moore went down, clasped
in each others arms. The bodies
were found later.
Freakish weather for summer visited
some parts Of. Texas during the last
two days. While the southern part Of
the state was suffering from an I'M
usually high temperature, a snowstorm
was raging in the upper Panhandle
region, and overcoats were comfortable.
In some localities the drop in tempera-
ture was 40 degrees in less than three
hours. Heavy rains fell Thursday
night and yesterday in many parts Of
the cotton belt, but the drough in the
central and in the southwestern portions
Of tho 81 utn is sill unhroken ~