Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-12-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.


shot 10 northern Michigan this season.
w. X. Vanderbilt, IT,, will soon be-
come head OF the New York Central
Railroad, succeeding w. c. Brown.
Vanderbilt became assistant to Mr..
Brown some months ago in order to
learn the business.
Fire last night in east Dallas, Texas,
swept away nearly three blocks Of frame
buildings. most of them small ones,
and two large brick concerns. The
property losses are estimated at $780,
600 or $250,000. About 500 persons
are homeless.
John F. Donahoe, OF Lynn, Mass,
for twelve years a confidential clerk in
the employ OF Thomas w. lawson, the
financier, committed suicide yesterday
by jumping in front of an electric train
in the tunnel OF the Boston street
railway. The cause OF the act is un-
known.
Leila A. Skunk, wife of Alonzo w.
Skunk, clerk in the War Depart
ment, was found dead in a sleeping
room OF their home, 1920 East Capitol
street, Washington, at $3.50 O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon. Dependent on
account Of i'll health. she had evidently
committed suicide by inhaling illumi-
mating gas through a tube connected
with students lamp.
1t has now become evident that there
is going to be bitter fight in Congress,
both in the Senate and House, over
President Tait's demand for an appro-
priation for the fertilization OF the
| Panama canal. The battle will be non
partisan. Some OF the democrats will
support the Presidents proposition,
while others will oppose it. The re-
pubicans likewise will be divided.
While asleep in her crib, Liebe
Lewis, % months old, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. Lewis, of 921 Four-and-a
half street, Washington, was attacked
by rats few nights ago and severely
bitten. Blood poisoning set in, but 1t
is said the child is out OF danger.
Hearing the child cry in her sleep one
night recently, Mrs. Lewis discovered a
large rat gnawing at her arm.
Rev. II. NJ. Wharton, OF Baltimore,
is conducting revival services at Falls
Church in the new stone church just
completed. On Sunday afternoon,
December 4th, by the request Of the
Good Templars, he will deliver an adj
dress on Death at Frolic," in the
interest OF temperance. The meeting
will he in the new church at $3.50
O'Clock.
| In determined effort to make an
| impression upon them and do some
thing toward reforming them, Mayor
Lewis p. Kuffen, Of Wilkes Barre, Pa.
yesterday sentenced three bad boys
Of that place to - hours starvation,
without anything to cat or drink.
They were charged with maliciously
destroying sign and stealing some
small articles. Not wanting to find
them, which would be a hardship. to
their parents or to send them to Jail,
the mayor thought that the 24-hours
starvation would be a novel form Of
discipllning.
The prevalence Of child marriage was
aired Yesterday in New York at the
hearing before Magistrate House oil
the case of Millic Consoli, aged Il, who
recently refused to obey the order OF
Mrs. McWllams, the truant officer, to
return to school and explained that she
was soon to be married. Magistrate
House fined the father Of the girl SO
and ordered her sent back to school,
regardless OF her statement that she
had already been married. Mrs.
McWilliams told the court that there
had been 10 such child marriages in the
last few months to escape the compul-
sorry education law.
A fierce gale is raging along the
French coast, and the battleships Of
the second division Of the United
States Atlantic fleet have been forced
to stand off shore under full pressure
1t was reported in Cherbourg last night
that an American picket-boat has been
sunk and seven met lost. A launch
from the battleship Louisiana yester-
day made a gallant rescue Of the crew
of launch from the French armored
cruiser Dnpleix, which was swamped
by the heavy seas. Many Of the Amer
lean sailors are ashore, being unable TO
get back to their ships.
A squad OF striking chauffeurs kept
the New York police on the jump last
night running to the rescue of wrecked
taxicabs. The strikers smashed win
dows, slashed tires. and broke in the
doors il they had time, then separated,
to meet at a nearby corner, out OF sight
of the police. In front Of the Uniyer-
sity Club, in Fifth avenue, they tipped
over two taxicabs. Taxicab after taxi
cab was overturned and wrecked in the
theater district as the rioting progress
sed. In every instance the assailants
permitted the occupants OF the vehicle
to alight, then proceeded with the de-
molilion. The nonuuion chauffeurs in
most instances fled the scene. No one
was seriously hurt.
THE VENDING CASE.