Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


nate has given his young bride a hand
some business building iniDurham n. c.
President Taft will leave Beverly for
Maine today to open the campaign in
that state
A cloudburst ruined the tobacco
crop and caused 50, 900, 900 damaged
in three counties of Kentucky on Sat
urday.
One million immigrants were ad-
mitted to this country during the past
fiscal year. Twenty-Five thousand were
rejected.
Only about 100000 OF the tax on
corporations, approximating more than
S27, 900, 900, remains to be collected by
the government.
Ten thousand girls are wanted by the
housewives OF Maine, according TO the
state bureau of industrial and labor
statistics. That body has started out
to supply the demand.
Twelve prelates and priests and
twelve laymcn of the Episcopal Church
yesterday at New York organized a
foundation to unity all Christian
churches.
A large force OF special police is be-
ing recruited by Pennsylvania Railroad
officials in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
other cities to guard its property in the
event OF strike ON the system.
More than three thousand United
States prisoners will be paroled under
the operations of the law passed by the
last Congress; the work Of paroling will
probably be started within the next two
or three months.
A bill which, If enacted. will compel
all bachelors of % years Of age work
ing for the French government to get
married or leave the civil service has
been laid before the Senate by Senator
Lannalonge, of the Department OF Cars.
Fire which caused $500, 900 damage
to the plant OF the Pullman company
at Pullman, H., yesterday, marked
the elimination of the storm which
swept over Chicago Saturday night
causing loss Of life, heavy damage to
shipping and many fires from light
ming.
Charged in warrant for lirst-degree
murder with fastening the rope around
the neck Of Carl Etherinston, the
dry" detective lynched ut Newark,
Ohio, about two weeks ago, William
Wutster, jr., aged 10, employed in a
GAINESVILLE poolroom, was arrested last
night and held without bail for Newark
officers, To reporters the boy said he
was in the mob, adding that he had
''been drinking.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mir
ror from Paris states that the police
have notified Scotland Yard that DR..
Hawley H. Crippen and Miss Ethel
Leneve arrived at Dieppe on July y,
and took train for Paris. 1t is sug-
gested that Crippen is masquerading
gs woman His gait, effeminatc
mannerlsms, and manner all COM
bine to make such a makeup easy for
him.
Ministers of Cleveland, Ohio, attack
an editorial written by Rev. William
Mcmahon in the Catholic Universe,
in which he declares that man should
be restricted by law in his efforts to
fly, and that the Lord never intended
that man should fly. Protestant min
listers OF the city declare that there is
no harm in mans attempt to rule the
air, and say they believe it was the
Creators wish and desire that he
do so.
William H. Jacobs and his son,
Charles Fl. Jacobs, of Aberdeen, Nd,
had most remarkable escape from
death during terrific thunderstorm
which swept that section Saturday
night. A bolt of lightning struck
their barn in which both were occupied
at the time in unharncss ing horse.
The lightning came through an end
OF the building like a flash, and struck
the animal, killing it Immediately,
but both men were only momentarlly
shocked.
1t is announced from Washington
that notes have passed between the
United States and Italy regarding the
case of Porter Charlton. arrested in
Hobokcn on the charge Of killing his
wife in Italy. A decision will be reached
this week. Prosecutor Garvcn Of Hud-
son county, n. j., said yesterday he
would set Porter Charlton free, having
no alternative, should the government
refuse to grant Italy's demand for cx-
tradition.
A trolley car and 4 delivery wagon
each exacted its toH of Juvenile death
in Pittsburg, Pa. yesterday. AT Ford
City the 3-year-old son of Near
hard Szffran, merchant, was ground
beneath trolley car. His neck and
back we're broken. Ho had escaped
from his mother on porch and the
father, infuriatcd at what he charged
with being her carclessness, Knocked
her down and was beating her when
the police interiered. She escaped
and is in hiding At Canonsburg 9
year-old John Carmack was run over
by a team Of mules and his skull was
crushed. Hc ran away from his
father into the path of the team and
was killed before his helpless parent.
While rushing along through the
wooded road halfway between City IS
land and Barlow, New York, on Satur
day afternoon, the first car ever used
on the new monorail road between
those two points tore away part Of the
and rashnd over the