Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ten thousand wooden operatives
OF Providence b. l., have been placed
on short time.
John A. Dix, jr., bank president
paper manufacturer and opponent Of
William r. Hearst, succeeds William
7. Corners as chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee of New York.
The trial OF five machinists charged
with conspiracy to blow up property OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany with dynamite>was begun in Balti-
more yesterday
The House yesterday voted that no
part of the $4,000 for enforcing the
antitrust law should be spent in pros
ecuting labor unions.
A Platt Andrew, the present. director
of the mint, has been selected as as
sistant secretary of the treasury to sue
coed Charles d. Norton, who has been
made secretary to the president.
August Belmont was thrown from
his horse yesterday afternoon while
playing polo at the Meadow Brook
Hund Club, New York, and slightly
hurt.
Thirteen weather stations in the corn
and wheat belt of North Dakota and
Minnesota yesterday reported tempera-
lures at or below freezing, while a
snowstorm and freezing weather were
on tap in Canada. The weather bureau
has authorized a prediction of no inn
mediate break in the cold spell.
In a fight Wednesday between Sheriff
Henslow and deputies and nine con-
victs near Milano, Texas, one convict
was killed and two were wounded. The
sheriffs we're close behind the cOnylcts
at last reports, and more bloodshed is
expected before capture is effected.
The convicts escaped from railroad
gang.
Taking a silken cord from his
pajamas and tying it around his neck,
Joseph E. CireiIo di Rivas, a member
of a prominent Cuban family, COM
mitted suicide Wednesday a Muldoon'
santitarium, Mount Vernon, n. Y. Di
Riyas returned from Europe suffering
from nervous disease three weeks
ago. The suicide was A years old.
Hiram B. Lyon, of Minneapolis, a
rich grain merchant. who fell into the
hands of customs officers on the pier OF
the Hamburg American Line in Ho-
boken, last Monday, was fined
S., 900 by Judge Rellstab in the
United States district court yesterday.
He pl, AIDED non vault to a criminal in
forma ion filed by United States District
Attorney Vreeland, charging him with
attempting to smuggle two pearl neck
laces into the country, to avoid pay
ment of 81, 400 duty.
The premature explosion of blast
in the quarry Of the Lehigh Portland
Cement Company, at West Coplay, Pa,
TODAY stuffed out the lives of eight
men. Among those killed was Daniel
Cannon. the foreman, of Allentown,
who leaves a family of 10 children
The others we're foreigners. The mer
were preparing three holes 60 feet, anC
had put in 600 sticks of dynamite when
the explosion occurred. No one knows
the cause, but it is believed something
fell into onesof the holes causing the
cap to explode.
Reese Prosser, an automobile sales
man of Seattle, formerly of Cleveland,
Ohio. was shot and killed by his diyorc-
ed wife, Vera, while the couple were
travelling on train The shooting oc
CURED at Libby, Mont, Wednesday
Mrs. Prosser alighted at Libby anC
Prosser's body was discovered after the
train had started. Word was sent back
to the town, aud the woman was arrest
ed. The Prossers were married IL
Cleveland five years ago
Judge Rellstab, in the United States
Court in Trenton, n. j. yesterday i'm
posed fine of 1000 on Hiram A
LYON. prominent banker of DIinneapO
lis. on the charge of smuggling. Igor
was detected last Sunday in the act OF
attempting to smuggle two pearl neck
laces through the port at Hoboken
| n. ]. When arraigned before Judge
Rellstab Lyon entered plea of non
vult and the court Immediately fixed
the sentence,
Defending herself against an intruder
who on Wednesday evening invaded
her bedroom and attacked her, Mrs. c.
A. Weymouth, wife of well-knowr
resident, of Narberth Pa, grabbed q
pistol from bureau drawer and put
the Invader to rout, Then she notified
the town constable, who in the chase
after the offender was aided by society
woman, who offered her automobile
and herself steeerd the machine The
suspect was overtaken, and, after g
struggle, captured and taken to the
police station in Ardmore, and locked
up to await hearing next morn