Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-11-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Spanish senate, by vote OF 149
to IS, passed last night the Paddock
bill. !" which prohibits the creation Of
further religious establishments in
Spain until the revision OF the concor-
dat with the Vatican has been COM
pleted.
DIR. Robert Thompson, charged with
the murder of Eva Swan. was found
guilty last night at San Francisco Of
murder in the second degree. The body
of Miss Swan, who had died as the
result OF an operation, was found two
months ago buried underline basement
OF a deserted cottage.
The northeast gale which came in
from the ocean Thursday developed
during the night into one OF the worst
November storms in years. In the
mountain districts OF Pennsylvania
snow fell to the depth OF II inches, and
in some places drifted badly. Rail
road and trolley service in those sec
tons is imbeded.
Three small boys playing with match
ches in Springfield, Mass, yesterday
started a fire that burned two OF them
TO death and injured the third so seri-
ously that he is not expected to re-
cover. The boys were playing in a
cellar where there was a quantity OF
paper and excelsior and when the little
chaps started fire the excelsior caught
and filled the cellar with flames.
Asphyxiated by gas that flowed from
an open jet after money had been
placed in a slot meter the bodies OF
Henry Huntley, so years old, and his
wife, Mary, several years his junior,
we're found in bed in a lodging house
in Philadelphia yesterday. The couple
had retired last night leaving the gas
burning. The supply furnished by the
meter became exhausted during the
night and the owner Of the house
placed a coin in the meter, again start
ing the flow OF gas.
A wave OF alarm swept London yes
terday, when medical authorities an
nounced that cholera germs had been
brought to that city by rats. The
bodies Of three dead rats, found in the
London docks, showed upon cxamlna-
ton TO have died from cholera infec-
ton. They were believed to have been
brought to London on an Italian ship
from the plague-infected regions Of
Naples.
With train, telegraph and telephone
service badly crippled and a part Of
the city cut off from all communica-
ton, New York was yesterday in the
clutches Of the worst trouble making
storm experienced since last Christmas.
The rainfall reached 31S inches in
twenty-four hours. Staten Island was
practically in darkness last night
and in many places the residents were
without phone or trolley service.
A terrific surf, unaccompanied by
wind or disturbance Of the air, swept
the beach and across the Nome, Alaska,
san1sI Thursday destroying two houses
and Is cabins and doing great damage
TO shipping. Several schooners were
wrecked. No lives were lost, but many
persons had narrow escapes. The
water swept far up the streets, those
near the shore being completely mum
dated. The schooner Mary Sachs was
picked up from her mooring by the
mighty rush of waters and deposited in
a spit weller's yard. All the other
boats laid up for the winter were swept
far up on the beach by the wave.
A monster labor demonstration Of a
revolutionary character which had been
planned for today by the strikers Of
Barcelona, and Sabadell Spain, threat
ems to be the spark which will result in
an open attempt to upset the throne.
Additional troops were dispatched to
Barcelona yesterday and orders were
sent to General Weyler, who is in com
mand in the Catalonia district, to use
the most drastic measures to put down
any outbreak. Warrants we're sworn
out yesterday for the arrest of many OF
the leaders and they will be kept in
Jail until after Saturday. Practically
all the workiogmen of Sabadell and
Barcelona are idle.