Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

London on Saturday at the age OF SO.
Besides the laying off Of thetempo-
rary employees in the Government print.
ing Office ON Saturday, several promo
tions and demotions were announced.
A high wind, prevented Glenn H.
Curtis, from attempting his aeroplant
flight we the ocean at Atlantic City.
N. j., this morning.
While President Taft declines to
commit himself, it is regarded as prac-
tically certain that Governor Hughes
of New York will be the next Chief
Justice of the United States.
Samuel G. Cornwell, one Of the most
prominent merchants in Washington,
died in Emergency Hospital Sunday
night, from the effects OF the heat and
a fall in his store on Saturday.
Professor Schiaparelli, the former
chief astronomer and director of the
Milan observatory, who discovered the
canalike markings on the planet Mari,
in 1877. died yesterday.
Watcher, the well known aeronaut,
was instantly killed on Saturday by the
collapse of his aeroplane at Rheims be-
fore many spectators, among whom
were his wife and little daughter.
John NJ. Atwater, representative in
Congress from the North Carolina
Fourth district during the populistic
upheaval sixteen years ago, dropped
dead yesterday evening in a field 20
miles fromDurham, n. c.
Jared Young Sanders, governor of
Louisiana, was elected to the United
States Senate by the Louisiana legisla-
lure this afternoon to succeed the late
Samuel McEnery.
Fire at Benton, Columbia county Pa,
last night, caused by a irecracker
lodging in a barn, destroyed half the
town. The Benton Argus plant, a
hotel, bank and principal stores and
% dwellings are in ashes.
The National Education Association
opened its annual convention in Boston
yesterday. Teachers were addressed by
President Taft. Governor Kitchen, Of
North Carolina, and DR.. David Starr
Jordan in Harvard Sta dunn.
A cablegram received at New Orleans
from Bluefields, Nicaragua, states that
Gen. Matuty has been executed,
following a trial by Icourt-martial. 1t
was charged that he betrayed the
Estrada cause.
Associate Justice William II. Moody,
OF the Supreme Court, left the hospital
at BrookIine, Mass, Saturday, where
he had been a patient for several
months, and went to Gloucester, Mass,
to spend the remainder of the summer.
Gov. Harmon, late of Ohio, has
an official statement that he
had decided to retain Joseph Bishop
on the State board of arbitration as
its secretary, with power to deliberate
with the other members on the settle
ment Of strikes. The street car union
at Columbus demanded that the
governor discharged Bishop.
Mrs. Rebecca NJ. Anderson, wife Of
William A. Anderson Of Brooklyn,
superintendent Of the New
York Board Of Fire Underwriters,
herself with gas yesterday. For
several days she had a morbid
Tread Of the noise OF the Fourth Of
July celebration and it was this, it is
believed, that drove her to suicide.
Fire broke out in the lumber piles Of
The Standard Oil Company's big box
shop at Oswego, n. Y, yesterday and
burned a swath 400 feet wide and a
thousand feet long through the center
Of the yard. 1t is estimated hat be-
.ween 10, 600, 900 and 10000, 900 feet
IF lumber, having a value Of 5000, 900,
vas destroyed.
Congressman Champ Clark, of Mis-
souri,. was the long talker7 at the
annual celebration OF Independence
Day of the Tammany Society in New
York yesterday, and drew a rosy vision
Of the time when the democrats would
get control of the House once more.
Congressman Adam Byrd, of Missis-
and Congressman Edward
Saunders, Of Virginia delivered the
short talks"
Five thousand soldiers, regulars and
from Virginia and Maryland,
passed in review before Brig. Gen.
Wotherspoon on the parade ground at
gettysburg yesterday evening. As
Secretary Of War Robert Shaw
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
md other prominent regular army
officers, and Adjt. Gen. HenryM. War
field and Brig. Gen. Geo rye +. Ran
of Maryland were among
hose who witnessed the review
Official announcement has been
made by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company that the members Of the
Order Of Railway Conductors and
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Employed in the train and yarl service
If the company east of Pittsburg,
Erie and Buffalo, are taking a strike
'ote because the company has refused
o give the men further increase in
amounting to from 5 to 20 per
.ent. Approximately 1880 men are
involved.
Two negroes were lynched at Charles
on, Mo-, for the murder OF William
Fox, a planter, OF Mississippi county,
They were taken from the
county jail by a large crowd OF citizens,
Who broke down the doors with sledge
hammers in broad daylight. The
negroes shot Fox in the back while
iding in his wagon Saturday night.
lie died after Identifying his assailants.
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