Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ITOIcSSOI OOoclO, Juc 1uOldu DdCCti'
iologist, is convinced that cholera germs
are transmitted to fish.
The senatorial investigation into the
election OF United States Senator Will
liam Lorimer, OF Illinois, adjourned in
Chicago on Saturday to meet at the
call OF the chairman in Washington.
A case OF cholera developed yester-
day in the Storage OF the Hamburg
American liner Moltke, which has
been detained at quarantine in New
York. The victim is Giovanni Fall
cigan, Sc years old who, came from
Naples.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says
the governor OF the state OF Amazonas
has been deposed by the deputy COVER
nor, with the assistance OF the troops
and the naval squadron, which re-
VOTED Saturday and tombarded Man
aos, the capital Of the state.
Attacking the constitutional right
OF Congress to delegate to the Inter
state Commerce Commission power
given by the long and short-haul clause
of the railroad rate law, the railroads
will challenge the validity OF the new
law, it was intimated to the commission
on Saturday in Washington.
Cardinal Gibbons confirmed class
of 100 at the church OF the Sacred
Heart, in Washington yesterday even
ing. OF the number 80 were converts.
The Cardinal was assisted by Rev. J..
#. MCGEE, pastor Of the Sacred
Heart Church, and Rev. P. j. O'Con-
nell.
John Dietz, who had defied the au-
thorites for more than week, finally
surrendered Saturday after pitched
fight at his cabin, near Cameron Dam,
Wis. and after his house had been
ridd.ed with bullets and he and MEM
bers OF his family had been wounded.
He sent his little daughter out OF the
house carrying flag OF truce.
In highly-spectacular finish and by
a margin OF only six seconds, Len
Zengle, driving the No. II Chadwick
car, won the third annual 20O-mile
automobile race over the Fairmont
Park course, Philadelphia, onSaturday
in the presence OF vast crowd, and
today is numbered among the fastest
OF the worlds motor speed kings. Zen
ple's time was 8 hours, 30 minutes and
7 seconds.
Lambert Tree, fromer circuit judge
OF Chicago, died at the Waldorf-As-
toria in New York suddenly Saturday
evening from heart disease. He was
78 years old. Judge Tree was born in
Washington, where he was admitted
to the bar in 1866. Going to Chicago,
he was elected president Of the Chicago
Law Institute in 1864, and the fol-
lowing year was appointed a circuit
Judge, serving four years. In 1885,
as the democratic candidate for the
United States Senate, he was defeated
by John A. Logan by one vote.
The American steamer Merida, which
has arrived at Willemstad, Island OF
Curacao, from Maracaibo, brings news
of a revolt in San Carlos prison, near
Maracaibo. The prisoners burned the
lookup and killed several officials, in
GLIDING the warden, who was brother
of President Gomez. A gunboat has
been sent from La Guayra to the scene
OF the trouble. There is great excite
ment among the Venezuelans in Gu
racao. 1t is thought that the escape
OF these prisoners may mean very
shortly a revolutionary movement in
Venezuela, as they include many prom
inent men OF the Castro party, who
we're sent to the dungeons in August,
1909.
Entombed by an explosion in the
Starkyille, COL, mine Of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, at least 81
men are the objects of heroic efforts OF
rescuers, who worked throughout the
day trying to penetrate the black depths
OF the mine in the hope that some or
probably all of the imprisoned miners
might be rescued. The presence OF
black damp, which almost invariably
follows in the wake Of coal mine explo-
sions. made the work OF the rescuers
extremely hazardous, and repeatedly
yesterday members OF the parties were
overcome, necessitating retreatlng to
the open air.