Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-20
News Of the Day.

ing 10 girls and msu. eighteen olnef
girls were dapgerously Injured.
Representative Ffsnk o. LoTdeD, OF
the Thirteenth [ inois d'st,'c and Rep
resentstiye Cooper, Of Penusylvsnis,
have sunoanced tbst they wiIlHoft te
candidates for reelection to The House
this fall.
A verdict of guilty as indicted With a
recommendation for mercy, was returned
10 Pittsburg yesterday In the case OF
former Councilman III. L. Swift, jr., The
first of those implicated in graft scandsl
to be put on trial on the charge Of
bribery.
With q goodly representation OF Its
membership in attendance, the annual
session OF the National Academy OF
Sciences, recognized as the foremost scien-
tiic body In the United States and ssmi-
poyernm Q utal In It's organization, met 10
Washington yesterday. Ii will continue
uptil Wednesday,
TWENTY-FIVE hundred strikers resumed
work at the Pressed Steel Oar Com
pany's plant at McKees Rocks, Pa, to-
dsy, and 5000 more are expected to re-.
turn shortly. No disorder has been re-
ported.
Eleven persons we're slightly injured
today when q derailed coach attached 10
Oouemsugh division train was struck
by a Pilt,bnrg and Derry accommods-
ton train on the Pennsylvania Rsilrosd
near the Union station at Pi!tsburg, Pa,
todsy.
En- route 10 Philadelphia to join her
husband, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Il
years old, of Cincinnsi, Ohio, gave
birth to a baby boy on Pennsylvania
train No. 6, soon after leaving Altoona.
Pa. Mother and child were taken from
The train ct Tyrone and removed TO
hotel. There the little one died.
Upon an investment Of $40, 600, 900,
testified Judge Wickersbam, delsgst'
from Alaska, before the HJuse commit
tee on territories yesterday, the Alasks
fish packers in 1908 made gross earnings
OF 81, 900, 900. he advocated higher
price for Alaskan fish to be paid by the
packers as protective to the induttty.
Oae thousand troops, including aitil.
lery, cavalry aud infantry, left camp
Oolumbis, Hsvans, today for Santa
CLARA province where the negroes s'e
threatening race riot'. The trouble Ia
believed to be wholly racial, rather than
reVO' n !iobsry,
George D. Brker, So. Of New York,
q motorI an employed by The Philadel-
phis Rapid Transit Oompsny, was scc'-
dentally s,pbyxiated 10 lodging house
in Philadelphia during last night. Par
ker csme to this city when the trolley
strike was declared. The body was tiken
to the mOrgue.
At odds OF % t. l, ]. Lowiys
Bachelors D1uble won the $40. 600 city
and suburban stake race ct London tc-
day. Lord Csrnsiy ms Mustspta 4 TO
l was second, and ]. r Joel's Dfan
Swift, 100 to 8 third. Mlnoru, The
kings horse, was the fsvorite, lu was 1.
placed, Thee we're foultsen starters.
NJ. William Jennings Bryan aud
President Taft spent more than 40 hour
closeted together st the White House
yesterday. The two great travellers ex-
changed "reminiscences and each c)m.
meuted upon how we'll the other wss
looking. Tbe president rsther iutimaed
that being ten at the polls did net
seem to be such bad thing for ones
health and happiness after all. "The
call ives purely q social one," said Af.
Bryan as he left the executive Offices.
The river and hsrbor bill, carrying 80
appropriation OF about $52, 500, 600, IVES
passed by the Senate ye,trdsy. There
we're no material amendments, tn. there
was considerable debste over various
provisions. The omnibus lighthouse bill,
carrying approximately 81 100000 In
appropriations for sids to navigation on
the Atlantic, Pacific and Gull Of COSTS,
and the rivers OF the country, Was favor
ably reported to the House by the con-
mittee on INTEREST,", and foreign coci-
merce.
John Maxwell. who wrote some OF the
articles that finally resulted in the ap'
poiutment OF q special "ship subsidy 10
vestigstion" committee by the House,
yesterday again refused TO tell the source
OF his information when he made the
charges In the American flag r,hectlng
upon members OF Congress. The special
committee will decide today what report
of Mr.. MaxwelPs attitude II will make
to the House.
Because J. J. Keop, socialist leader,
refused to pay poll lax ofsl.5O be be-
gan o sentence OF six months imprison-
ment In Grafton, ILL.,, yesterday. The
City Hall has been converted into all
by screening the windows with chicken
wire. Keen declares that he will serve
his foil time rather than psy the tax or
work 1t out at rs cents day. He holds
that such @ tax Is unconstitutional,
Keon's meals will be bsought from the
city's leading hotel, and Especial deputy
hss been sworn 10 to look after him,
making the cost OF his keep 1926 day.
Keen wss recently defested for circuit
judge.
Albert Wolter sst 10 court Ia New
Yorb yesterday s'tsraoou and faced the
mo.ler of Ruth Wheeler, the l5-year.old
8 eaog,spher, with whJse murder he
stands charged. Hs did not vince, hut
bis eyes evsded the mothers end his
glance roemed about the ccur.r lom from
jury box to press table, thence ID the
spectators, but at DO time during Mrs.
Wheslet's testimony did be openly evlnce