Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

4 bronze statue OF Thomas B. Reed
was unveiled at Portland, Me-, yester-
day.
Turkey has granted to American re-
ligious, educational and benevolent in
situations there the right Of exemption
from the Ottoman law, and allows
them to hold land
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington announces that the general
stock of money in the United States
is nearly So, 500, 000,0 900.
1t was suggested at the rate hearing
in Chicago yesterday that the railroads
might turn the table on the shippers,
subjecting them to an inquisition as to
their profits and the return to which
they enjoy from their invested capital.
The suggestion was made at the rate
hearing in Chicago that the railroads
change their defensive tactics and seek
to compel the shippers to tell of their
profits on the commodities, under con-
sideration.
Labor unions in Perth, West Austria
LA are considerably stirred over the SEN
tence imposed upon Assemblyman
w. D. Johnson, who was fined $3.50
as the Alternative of serving two months
imprisonment at hard labor for abet-
ting the strike Of the street railway
men, of whose union he is secretary.
Johnson was convicted under the re-
Gently adopted Cancellation and arbi-
tration act OF the legislature, which
renders employees and employers who
lnstigate or support q strike or lock-
out, liable to years imprisonment.
One boy was killed and three others
were seriously injured in Philadelphia
yesterday when they attempted to imi-
tate the Swiss family Robinson and
build a cabin in tree 40 feet above
the ground. The boys were dancing
for JOY ut the completion of the plat
| form on which the house was TO be
erected when the nails gave way and
all four crashed through the branches
to the ground. One was found dead
with fractured skull and the others
were suffering from damaged arms
and heads and probably internal in
juries when passersby, who had heard
their screams, came to their assistance.
Prof Alexander Lockhart Nelson,
aged SO years, died suddenly while
seated on his porch at Lexington yes
tertlav afternoon. He was educated ut
Washington College-now Washington
and Lee University-and the Univcr-
sity of Virginia He was assistant pro-
lessor ut the University of Virginia and
became professor OF mathematics at
Washington College in 1854 and was
associated with Gen. Robert E. Lee
during his presidency. He was made
professor emeritus and retired from
active service in 1906, after a continual
service OF more than half century.
bud" Meadows, Is years old, son
of Henry Meadows. Of Toilets near Har-
risonburg, was shot in the right thigh
by the accidental discharge of a shot,
gun in the hands OF Cass Caves, Is
years old, who was walking behind
him. The boys were returning from 4
days hunt and were near Meadow
gate. The wound is severe one.
Presumably taking vengeance for
fancicd wrongs, unknown parties Tues
day night blew up the tollgate on the
New Market and Sperryvile turnpike,
il the eastern suburbs Of Luray. For
some time this road has been causing u
conflict between the owners and farm
err travelling it, due, the farmers say,
to their unwillingness to pay toll on
the road. Dynamite was used in the
lpyplosioD