Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The directors of the Standard Oil
Company OF New Jersey, have de
clared a quarterly dividend OF So :
share.
The conductor and mail clerk of the
Iron Mountain fast mail train No.
were injured today when the engine
3pd two cars left The track near An.
napoliS. Mo. The wreck was caused
by spreading rails.
Rumors are rife in marine and
financial circles in Philldel phia today
OF the purchase OF the Allan Line
Steamship Company by the Canadian
Pacific Railway for sum in excess OF
81 100000.
In the fall of his aeropIanc ut Frank
fort, Germany, today, Lieutenant Won
Ticdmann suffered broken thigh and
internal injuries that will probably
prove mortal The machine suddenly
collapsed when ut a height OF sixty feet
and dashed to the ground.
The Scaboard Company organized to
remodel the finances OF the Seaboard
Air Line Railway and hold its sccuri-
tirs, yesterday in New York, declared a
dividend Of 2 ID per cent on its first
preferred stock. This is the first divi-
dend paid since 1907.
In the investigation yesterday in the
coroner's court at Islngton. England.
Of the Crippcn murder case all scienti-
tic evidence rs to the condition OF the
woman's body was withheld until the
arrival of DR.. Crippen and Miss lie
Ncvc.
That the Chinese army Of invasion.
which WAS reported to have captured
Tibet after Il general slaughter of the
defenders, was i'll truth repulscd, is the
information brought from the Orient
by Dir. Emil Bcssicr, Il French expert on
sanitation who reached San Francisco
recently on the Tenyo Maru
The delegates, ut last nights meet
ing of the Central Labor Union in
Washington were ordered to insist that
the milk wagon drivers carry union
cards. 1t they do not, and refuse to
affiliate themselves with the newest
labor organization TO come within the
ranks Of organized labor, the delegates
will have to either rent or purchase
their own COWS, or used condensed
milk in the future.
Despite the fact that the jury which
convicted Mrs. Barbara Wilde. the
Holy Roller" woman, Of having cruel
" beaten little Ernest Wolfe in an nj
tempt 10 compel him to accept the faith
Of her sect, recommended that her
punishment he light one, Justice }. l..
Wallace in San Jose, Cal, recently sen
fenced her to serve 30 days in Jail with
out an alternative. This sentence is cX-
pcrlcd to serve as Il warning to others
Of the sect against engaging in such
practices in the name Of religion in the
future.
Casualties from the great Hoods,
which last week inundated many dis
trirts in Japan and on Friday and
Saturday submerged two OF the prln-
cipaI yards of Tokyo, were given out
yesterday. An official Investigation
shows that LIE persons are dead and
hundreds are missing. Three thousand
nine hundred and tifty-thrce houses
were washed away, in addition to the
thousands which we're under water dur
ing the flood, but resisted the strain.
Thousands Of persons are homeless and
dependent on public relief.
While gang Of between % and a
Italian laborerS were ut work yesterday
cxcavaiing for raccway III The bed "i
Grass river at the foot of the eastern
abutment, to the 30O-foot concrete dam
that is being buiIta mile above Massena
n. Y, for the St. Lawrence Power
Company, the huge abutmcnt. nearly
10 feet high. suddenly collapsed. -Four
workmcn were caught beneath the fall
ing walls and killed. Reports were
sent out yesterday to the effect that
fifty men had been killed.