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

SQOL III IiOILuCll MlCiiiSau tHiS ScdSoH.
w. K. Vanderbilt, ir., will soon be-
come head Of the New York Central
Railroad, succeeding w. G. 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,
0oC or $3.50, 900. About 500 persons
are homeless.
John F. Donahoe, Of Lynn, Mass,
for twelve years confidential clerk in
the employ OF Thomas w. Lawson, tho
fnancier, committed suicide yesterday
by jumping in front OF an electric train
in the tunnel of the Boston street
railway. Tho cause of tho act is I'M
known.
Leila A. Skunk, wife of Alonzo w.
Skunk, clerk in the War Depart
ment, was found dead in sleeping
room of their home, 1920 East Capitol
street, Washington, at $50 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Dcspondcnt OIL
account of i'll health, she had evidently
committed suicide by inhaling ilumi-
mating gas through tube connected
with a students lamp.
It has now become evident that there
is going to be bitter fight in Congress,
both in the Senate and House, over
President Taft's demand for an appro-
priation for the fortfcation 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-
pubIicans likewise will be divided.
While asleep in her crib, Liebe
Lewis, % months old, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. Lewis, of 92l Four-and-a
half street, Washington, was attacked
by rats few nights ago and severely
bitten. Blood poisoning set in, but It
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 Mt 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 18th, by tho request of the
Good Tcmplars, he will deliver an adj
dress on Death at n Frolic," in the
interest OF temperance. The meeting
| will he in the new church at $50
o clock.
In determined effort to make an
impression upon them ana do some
thing toward reforming them, Mayor
Lewis P. Kuiffcn, Of Wilkes Barre, Pa,
yesterday sentenced three bad boys
Of that place 10 - hours starvation,
without anything to cat or drink.
They were charged with maIciously
destroying a 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 novel form OF
disciplining.
The prevalence ofchild marriage was
aired yesterday in New York at the
hearing before Magistrate House Of
the case Of MiIic Consoli, aged II, who
recently refused to obey the order Of
Mrs. McWilliams, the truant officer, TO
return to school and explained that she
was soon to be married. Magistrate
House fined tie father OF the girl So
and ordered her sent back to school,
regardless OF her statement that she
had already been married. Mrs
McWiliams told the court that there
had been Is 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 gallant rescue of the crew
of launch from the French armored
cruiser Dnpeix, 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 vim
dows, slashcd tires. and broke in the
doors If they had time, then separated,
to meet at a nearby corner, out of sight
of the police. In front Of the Univer-
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
sod. In every instance the assailants
permitted the occupants of tho vehicle
to alight. then proceeded with the de-
molilion. The nonuuion chauffeurs in
most instances fled the scene. No one
was seriously hurt.
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THE VENDING Case