Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Attorney John Stanchfield, Of New
York, has received fee Of $500, 900
for the acquittal Of F. Augustus
Heinze.
The Congressional Bonding Com
mission in its preliminary report just
completed, will favor the bonding Of
all government employees by the gov
eminent itself.
One man was pinned down under an
automobile and drowned and five others
and a young woman were seriously in
iured early yesterday few miles from
Hammond, Ind, when the car plunged
into a creek.
Trial OF the suit instituted by Ru-
dolphe Francke against Commander
Peary, concerning the disposition of
Arctic trophies was begun in Berlin
court yesterday Francke was asso-
ciated with DIR. Cook in polar explora-
ton.
After carefully preparing himself for
death, q young man, registered as James
Murphy, committed suicide by inhaling
gas yesterday at the Majestic Hotel,
Washington He had closed and lock-
ed the doors windows, and transom,
and rammed paper into all the crevices.
The key was left in the lock.
Emperor William has accepted the
designations OF Baron Won Rheinbaben,
| the Prussian minister Of state and
finance, and Wilhelm Won Schoen,
secretary for foreign affairs. Baron
Won Noehte was appointed secretary
for foreign affairs, Won SchOen being
appointed ambassador to France.
Five men were killed and eleven in
jured, two of them probably fatally, by
an explosion which first wrecked and
then set fire to the hotel and saloon OF
Edward Bushay, five miles north Of
Minneapolis on the Anoko, road yester-
day evening. The explosion OF gas
tank in the basement blew the roof from
the building and fire Immediately start
ed. In half an hour the building was
mass Of burning wreckage.
The steamship Mainz, which will pro-
coed on Saturday for the Spitzbergen
Islands carrying Count Zeppeliu's pre-
liminary North Polar expedition,
anchored alongside the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern at Kiel yesterday and was
inspected by Emperor William. It is
planned to erect a dirgible balloon-house
at Spitzbergen and Captain Lau will in
vestigate the possibilities of a dirgible
balloon fight in the Arctic to determine
whether an air route to the North Pole
will be practical.
Leaders OF the Pennsylvania State
Federation Of Labor yesterday began an
inquiry to ascertain if Clifford Pinchot,
the former chief OF the Forestry Depart
ment, has a legal residence in Pennsyl-
vania. II he has, they propose to nomi-
nate him for governor at the head OF
the independent ticket. They say that
they believe such a ticket would get not
only the votes OF the labor union men
of the State, but also many dissatisfied
democrats and republicans.
The New York grand jury present
ment dcnounces the moving picture
shows as a hot-bed OF vice and urges
more rigid legislation for safeguard
ing young girls who patronize these
theatres. Massage parlors and mani
curing establishments are severely at
tackled The grand jurors declared
that they investigated l25 OF these es-
adjustment and found that they
were simply disorderly resorts, dis
guised under different names.
Armed with knives, and keeping
their word to meet at sunrise in the
woods near mcfarland Park, in West
Tampa, Florida, Monday, Mario Adalo
and another Cuban, whose identity has
not yet been established, fought until
both fell from loss of blood. Adalo
died within a few minutes. The
unknown man escaped. Adalo came
from Cuba. He was a labor or
ganizer.
Starting from the Naval Academy
at Annapolis shortly after noon yester-
day for sail in Annapolis harbor,
three young people, Mrs. Joseph McC.
Bowyer, daughter-in-law OF Capt j.
NJ Bowyer, superintendent OF the
Naval Academy, and Midshipmen
Sherman NJ. Mason, Of Newport, X. l.,
and Grisby 4. Thomas, Of Union
Point, Ga, have not been heard from
up Ito a late hour last night, though |
the little craft in which they started has
been found at anchor in shallow water.
Every indication points TO the fact
that they have all been drowned.
A big bundle of papers. purporting
TO be the complaint in suit for 81 ,0OO,-
600 damages against Theodore Roose-
welt, Robert Bacon, American ambas-
sador to France; Charles Graves,
American minister to Sweden, and his
wife, is in the county clerks Office in
New York awaiting disposition. The
bundle was thrown into the Office yester
day by Mrs. Ida NJ. Won Claussen after
the clerks refused to file them because
Of Irregularities. The attempted suit IS
an outgrowth oflhe refusal of Minister
Graves to present Mrs. Won Classen at
the court of late King Oscar Of Sweden
in 1907
FIRE ENGINE HORSES RUN AWAY
Three hip gray fra-enOine horses