Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Behring'S were begun yesterday to test
for rock foundation for the proposed
Hudson river bridge.
The British minister to Brazii'will be
asked TO serve as arbitrator in the
Peru-Colombian boundary dispute.
1t is officially reported that the
Portuguese troops have completely
subdued the Chinese outlaws on Colo
wan Island, off Macao.
The refusal of two companies to join
the Fire Underwriters Association in
New York yesterday was regarded by
insurance officials as imp sding the
success of the new organization.
Jack Johnson was yesterday in New
York fined S. for reckless automobile
driving and $40 for false registration
number. He paid the fines and said it
was cheap advertising.
Fire early today destroyed the club
house, stables, carriage house and
racquet court of the Whippany River
Club at Morristown, N. j., entailing
loss Of $4,000, Forty horses were
rescued.
Members of the American Glass
Bottle Blowers Association voted again
at Atlantic City yesterday against the
proposition of manufacturers to give
up summer vacations and work through
July and August.
Edward w. Favish, of Birmingham,
Ala, has filed suit against the Hotel
Aston Company in New York for $780,,
600 damages. The manager of the
hotel ordered lavish and his wife to
leave the hotel under the impression
that the couple was not married.
Seized with apoplexy, Mrs. Elizabeth
Hulburt, wife of Professor Lorraine S.
Hulburt, OF Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, fell from a small pier into 6
inches OF water in Canadaigua lake
yesterday afternoon and was drowned.
Rev. Athelstan Arthur Hall, or Com
froth, an Englishman Of middle age,
graduate OF Cambridge, OF means and
conceded social standing, killed him
self by sending a bullet through his
head early yesterday in Colonial Park,
New York. What the motive may
have been cannot even be surmised.
Leroy Holzner, II years old, of
Chicago, Yesterday admitted that be-
cause a big fireman" chased him
away from a fire engine house he set
fire to seven buildings. The fires
caused several thousand dollars dam
age. Holzner said ne started them to
get even" with the fireman who chas-
ed him. The boy was arrested Tues
day.
Four children, three OF them of one
family and the fourth their cousin,
were burned to crisp yesterday after
noon in the barn of John Adams,
father Of three Of the boys, a wealthy
farmer of Rasselas, Mexican county,
Pa, when hay in the barn ignited from
spontaneous combustion, Just as a load
Of hay was driven into the barn, block
ing the doorway. The three sons,
John, aged II, Joe ., and Michael D,
and Michael Bosik, the cousin, were in
the loft preparing to handle the load.
The father was dragged from the barn
unconscious and he may die from re-
suit Of burns and inhalation of the dense
smoke.
Death III an almost unheard-of form
waited for Laurence S. Baker, an IL
year-old Jacksonville lad, when he
dived from boat while in LakeWorth,
near Palm Beach. Fla, Tuesday A
stingaree, huge flat-bodied and grue-
some species of warm-water fish, was
lurking just under the boat. One of
the barbed spines which this fish car
ries on its whip-like tail pierced the
boys neck, cutting into the jugular
vein. He rose to the surface crying
for help and bled to death within four