Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-11-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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ing OF peritonitis.
In the football game at New Haven,
Conn, on Saturday, between Harvard
and Yale, neither scored.
An alleged system OF graft in meat
for city and state charity hospitals was
unearthed by the commissioner OF ac-
counts in New York on Saturday.
Twenty years in San Quentin prison,
CAL, was the sentence imposed Satur-
day upon DR.. Robert Thompson, con-
yicted OF murder in the second degree
through a criminal operation per-
formed upon Eva Swan, young stem
ographer, whose mutilated body was
discovered under the floor Of vacant
house.
Gov-elect Eugene n. Foss issued q
statement in Boston last night, in
which he demanded that Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge withdraw from the
field for reelection. In the event OF
refusal Mr.. Foss declared he would
go into every section OF the common
wealth in a campaign to defeat the
senator.
Mr.. Champ Clark is now so sure OF
being elected speaker Of the next
House that he is not taking the trouble
to count the votes he will have in the
democratic caucus. His own estimate
is that he has 40 positive indorse-
ments and 80 or 40 besides, which
he classes as equivocal. II the demo-
cratic majority is Ga, he will need only
115 votes in the caucus 10 make his
election sure.
Milton H. Smith, president OF the
louisville and Nashville Railroad, has
announced the engagement of his
daughter, Miss Eva Lee, to Robin
Cooper, acquitted last Tuesday in the
courts Of Tennessee OF the murder Of
Senator Edward Ward Carmack on
November 9, 1908, on the streets Of
Nashville.
Forty-fve head OF race horses, valued
at $50. 900, were burned yesterday at
Wichita, Kan, in the stables OF the
Wichita and Southwestern Fair Associa-
ton. The horses were in winter quar-
tiers after a racing season on the fair
circuits OF Kansas and Oklahoma. The
stables destroyed were valued at $12,-
900. A further loss OF $4,000 was due
to the burning Of racing carts, har-
ness and other accessories.
Former Captain 0berlin NJ. Carter
was in New York on Saturday stripped
of every dollar he has in the world
by a decree OF the U. S. Court OF
Appeals. 1t is all forfeited to the
government as partial recompense
for the money Carter, together with
Col. John F. Gaynor and Benjamin
D. Greene, acquired as the result Of
the frauds committed on the Savannah
harbor Improvements, OF which Car
ter was the government engineering
officer.
A single vote in the Buffalo, n. Y,
district, where more than Al 900 ballots
we're east on November 8, elected
Charles Bennett Smith, democrat. n
member OF Congress. The board of
canvassers completed the official count
for the district, on Saturday. Tie
face Of the returns indicated tie.
Representative D. S. Alexander and
Mr.. Smith received 2O,6S4 each. There
was an error Of one in the total on a
tally sheet from one district. The board
corrected the returns, giving Mr.. Smith
the one vote necessary to elect him.
One man was killed and three others
injured late Saturday night when an
automobile collided with a wagon on
York road, 10 miles north Of Philadel-
phia. Joseph T. MCGOWAN, supcrin-
tendent OF the postoffice at Oaklane, a
suburb, is dead. The party was re-
turning from a hunting trip and travel
ing at a high rate OF speed when the
collision occurred. The automobile
turned over and MCGOWAN was caught
beneath and killed almost instantly.
The others were thrown clear OF the
machine. The driver of the wagon
was hurled into a field and was not
hurt.
While l.. L. McEwan and Miss Mary
McEwan waited outside the Wabash
station at Pittsburg for their brother,
Thomas NJ. McEwan, to return from a
northern health resort, on Saturday, he
vas dying within few feet OF them.
He swallowed carbolic acid when he
missed his brother and sister in the
crowd about the station, and although
they pushed through the crowd to see
who had drunk the acid they did not
know for hours that it was their
brother.
Thousands OF soldiers Will change
their stations as result OF an order
Just issued from the War Department,
which affects troops in many sections
Of the country, who will proceed to
Hawaii and the Philippines to relieve
those now on duty in the insular posses
sions. The changes are in conformity
with the governments settled policy OF
limiting to three years, where practi-
cable, the tour of duty of soldiers,
serving in the Philippines and Hawaii.
The movements Of troops will begin
early next spring, and will not be COM
pIeted until the following December.
Congressman Charles G. Edwards,
of the First Georgia district, and
Pleasant A. Stoyall, editor Of the
Savannah Press, and members OF the
state democratic executive committee
fought one sharp, short round on a
wet and slippery street in front OF the
City Hall in Savannah yesterday, but