Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Jack Johnson, the colored pugilist,
did not make his debut yesterday in
Washington as expected
Twenty-Five persons persisted in a
food that followed clouldburst at the
town Of Dees,, Hungary, yesterday. The
damage 20 property and crops was
heavy.
Aurora ILL.,, residents have been
ordered to take bath once a week in
a list OF regulations issued by the healh
department. The order is aimed at
foreigners, the city officials say in ex-
PLANTATION.
Accident companies with which the
late Ira q. Rawn, president Of the
Menon railroad, carried over $130 900
insurance, announced that the policies
would not be paid until it was proved
that Mr.. Rawn did not commit suicide.
DIR. Frederick c. Graves, one of the
best known practitioners in Bridge
port, Conn.,, yesterday died at the
Galen Hospital as a result of poison
taken with suicidal intent. Two weeks
ago Dr. Graves suffered a stroke Of
apoplexy He recovered, but told his
friends that he knew that another was
coming, and that it would surely be his
end. He said he felt unequal to the
nervous strain OF awaiting death.
Eleven men were killed at La Tuque,
Canada, yesterday One of the men
was opening a can of powder when an
explosion occurred which set fire to
train OF the explosive leading to a tun-
mel in which fifteen men were working.
The accident occurred on the new
Transcontinental Railway line.
An inventory Of the estate OF George
Cabot Lee. OF Newton, Mass, who died
March p, shows it to be valued at
81 $50, S2l, of which 81 500, S21 is
personal and 1913, 900 real. Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, who is grand
daughter Of Mr. Lee, receives one
twelfth Of the property. Mrs. Long
worth's income from her share OF the
estate will be about 50, 800 year.
Louis H. Di Zcrega, retired cotton
broker and one Of the founders OF the
New York cotton exchange, was found
dead yesterday in the courtyard in the
rear Of his apartments in Madison
avenue. The coroner reported the
case as suicide. Mrs. D Zerega said
her husband had long been a sufferer
with asthma, and she believes he had
a fainting spell and fell out the window
He was rs years old.
While racing with a westbOund
Denver and Rio Grande passenger train
in an automobile near Grand junction,
Col, yesterday afternoon Walter Hold
gins, Miss Leona Adams and Miss
Gladys Carlyle, were instantly killed
C. H. Carman and Chauffeur Thomas
Rock were seriously injured The au-
tomobile passed the train and Rock at
tempted to cross in front of the loco
motive. The locomotive struck the
rear ofthe automobile.
The platform convention of the re-
publican party of Nebraska at Lincoln,
yesterday adopted platform strongly
indorsing the administration Of Presi-
dent Taft, expressing unalterable oppo
sition to the system known as Can
nonsn," and hearty sympathy with
the 'insurgent" movement in and out
Of Congress. The platform includes a
declaration for county option as the
method Of regulatingNthe liquor traffic
and for an amendment to the state
constitution providing for direct legis
lation.
A subterranean roadway under the
narrows, connecting Staten island with
Brooklyn, is proposed by the New
Jersey and Staten Island Junction Rail
road Company, which obtained a fran
chise in 1890, but has never utilized it, |
The company is now in conference
with a firm Of engineers who say they |
can construct tunnel under the mar
rows that will be as board as Broadway, |
from curb to curb-broad enough, in |
fact, for automobiles, carriages, and |
railroad tracks. The distance under
the narrows is less than two miles, and
the engineers say that the tunnel can
be constructed in year at cost Of
So, 900, 600.
Because they wanted to be bad
men" aud also needed money to treat
their sweethearts, John Warner and
Ray Metcalf, each IL Yeas old, com
mitted 600 burgaries in different
places in Ohio They were arrested
yesterday in Canton, and after CON
Tossing to their misdeeds led the police
to a disused coal cellar where they had
cached the major portion of their
plumber They were apparently more
adept in housebreaking than crime,
for "A diamond ring was recovered
which they had sold for 20 cents and
gold watch which had been disposed Of
for 10 cents Their operations extend
ed from East Liverpool to IOrain and
according to their confession, borne out
by police reports, in one day they en-
tered as many as rs houses.
The Search for Dr. Crippen and Miss
LeneYe.