Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The directors of the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey, have de-
clared quarterly dividend OF So a
share.
The conductor and mail clerk OF the
Iron Mountain fast mail train No. Z
were injured today when the engine
apd two ears left The track near An
napolis. Mo The wreck was caused
by spreading rails
Rumors are rife in marine and
financial circles in Philadelphia today
OF the purchase OF the Allan Line
Steamship Company by the Canadian
Pacific Railway for sum in excess OF
81, 100000.
In the fail OF his aeroplane at Frank
fort, Germany, today, Lieutenant Won
Tiedmann suffered a broken thigh and
internal injuries that will probably
prove mortal The machine suddenly
collapsed when at height Of sixty feet
and dashed to the ground.
The Seaboard Company organized to
remodel the finances OF the Seaboard
Air Line Railway and hold its securi-
tirs, yesterday in New York, declared a
dividend of 2 ID per cent on its first
preferred stock. This is the first divi-
dend paid since 1907
In the investigation yesterday in the
coroner's court at Ellington, England,
OF the Crippen murder case all scienti-
fic evidence rs to the condition OF the
woman's body was withheld until the
arrival of DIR. Crippen and Miss lie
Neve.
That the Chinese army Of invasion,
which was reported to have captured
Tibet after a general slaughter of the
defenders, was in truth repulsed, is the
information brought from the Orient
by DIR. Emil Bessier, a French expert on
sanitation who reached San Francisco
recently on the Tenyo Maru
The delegates, at last nights meet
ing of the Central Labor Union in
Washington were ordered to insist that
the milk wagon drivers carry union
cards. 1t they do not, and refuse to
affiliate themselves with the newest
labor organization to come within the
ranks of organized labor, the delegates
will have to either rent or purchase
their own COWS, or used condensed
milk in the future.
Despite the fact that the jury which
convicted Mrs. Barbara Wilde, the
Holy Roller" woman, Of having cruel
w beaten little Ernest Wolfe in an at
tempt to compel him to accept the faith
of her sect, recommended that her
punishment be a light one, Justice j. I.
Wallace in San Jose, Cal, recently sen
fenced her to serve 80 days in jail with
out an alternative. This sentence is ex-
pected to serve as a warning to others
Of the sect against engaging in such
practices in the name Of religion in the
future.
Casualties from the great floods,
which last week inundated many dis
tricts in Japan and on Friday and
Saturday submerged two of the prin-
cipal yards of Tokyo, were given out
Yesterday. An official investigation
shows that Liz persons are dead and
hundreds are missing Three thousand
nine hundred and fifty-three houses
were washed away, in addition to the
thousands which were under water dur
ing the flood, but resisted the strain.
Thousands OF persons are homeless and
dependent on public relief.
While a gang of between 80 and 70
Italian laborers were at work yesterday
excavating for a raceway in the bed OF
Grass river, at the foot Of the eastern
abutment, to the 300-foot concrete dam
that is being built a mile above Massena,
n. Y. for the St. Lawrence Power
Company, the huge abutment. nearly
40 feet high, suddenly collapsed. Four
workmen were caught beneath the fall
ing walls and killed Reports We're
sent out yesterday to the effect that
fifty men had been killed