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

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girls were Dangerously iDju;ed.
Representative Flank Q. LowdeD, of
the Thirteenth 4 inois st,'c and Rep
resents tive Cooper, of Pennsylvania,
have announced thst they wiIlsart he
candidates for reelection to The House
this fall.
A verdict of guilty as indicted with 3
recommendation for mercy, was returned
In Pittsburg yesterday In the casa OF
former Councilman NJ. L. Swift, j., the
first of those implicated In graft scandsl
to be put on trial on thu charge OF
bribery.
With a goodly representation of Its
membership In attendance, the annual
session OF the National Academy Of
Sciences, recognized as the foremost scien'
ti6c body in the United States and semi.
governmental In It's organization, met 10
Washington yesterday. l. will continue
until Wednesday.
Twenty-Five hundred strikers resumed
work at the Pressed Steel Oar Com
pany's plant at McKees Rocks, Pa, to.
day, and 5000 more are expected to re-.
turn shortly. No disorder has been re-.
ported.
Eleven persons we're slightly injured
today when derailed coach attached to
Oouemaugh division train was struck
by Pilt,burg and Derry accommoda-
tIon train on the Pennsylvania Railrosd
near the Union station at Pi!tsburg, Pa,
today.
En- route 10 Philadelphia to join her
husband, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, q
years old, of Cincinnati, Ohio, gave
birth to 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 a
hotel. There the little one died.
Upon an investment Of $40, 900, 900,
testified Judge Wickersbam, delight,
from Alaska, before the H1use commit
tee on territories yesterday, the Alaska
fish packers in 1908 made gross earnings
OF ST., 600, 900. He advocated higher
price for Alaskan fish to be paid BY the
packers as protective to the industty.
Oae thousand troops, including aitil.
lery, cavalry aud infantry, left camp
Oolu mbis, Havana, today for Santa
CLARA province where the negroes a'e
threatening race riots. The trouble Ia
believed to be wholly racial, rather than
revo n!iobary.
George D. B,rker, IS, of New York,
a motorran employed by The Philadel-
phia Rapid Transit Company, wss scc'-
dentally aspbyxiatsd 10 lodging house
in Philadelphia during last night. Par.
Ter came to this city when the trolley
strike was declared. The body was tlkep
to the morgue.
At odds OF Is t, /, J. Low,ys
Bachelors Double won the $40. 900 city
aud suburban stake race ct London tc-
day. Lord Oarnsly Y )n's Mustapba 4 to
| was second, and ]. R Joel's Dean
Swift, 100 to 8 third. Mlnoru, the
kings horse, as the favori,e, tu was ua.
placed, Tbs:e we're fourteen starters.
NJ. William Jennings Bryan and
President Taft spent more than 40 hour
closeted together st the White House
Yesterday. The two great travellers ex-
changed "reminiscences an0 each com.
msused upon how we'll the other was
looking. The president rather intina:ed
that being bsstsn at the polls did net
seem to be such bad thing for ones
health and happiness sitter all. "rhe
call ives purely social one," said Mr.
Bryan 80 he left the executive cfficss'
The river and hsrbor bill, carrying an
appropriation OF about $50, 500, 600, wss
passed by the Senate yettsrday. There
we're no mtter!sl amendments, tn! there
was considerable dsbste over various
provisions. The omnibus lighthouse bill,
carrying approximately 81, 100, 900 In
appropriations fot sids to navigation on
the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf OF COSTS,
and the rivers of the country, Wss favor
ably reported to the House BY the con-
mittee on interstste and foreign COM
merce.
John Maxwell, who wrote some of the
articles that finally resulted in the ap'
poiutment of special "ship subsidy in
vestigation" committee By the House,
yesterday again refused TO tell the source
of his information when he made the
charges In the American flag r,fecting
upon members OF Oongrtsa. The special
committee will decide today what report
of Mr.. Max#elps altitude 1t will make
to the House.
Because J. J. Keor, socialist leader,
refused to pay poll IaI of so be be-
gan q sentence OF six months impriSon-
ment In Grafton, Ill.,, yesterday. The
City Hall has been converted into Jail
by screening the windows with chicken
wire. Keen declares that he will serve
his foil time rather than pay The tax or
work it out at rs cents day. He holds
that euch a tax is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Keon's meals will be bsoughs from the
city's leading hotel, and Especial deputy
has bseu sworn In to look after him,
making the cost OF his keep 1925 day.
Keen Wss recently defeated for circuit
judge.
Albert Wolter sst In court In New
York yesterday stsrnoon and faced The
mother of Ruth Wheeler, the l5-yesr .old
seacg,spher, with whJae murder he
stands charged. IA did not vince, hut
hs eyes evsded the mothers end hts
glance roemed abe ut the cCu,,r )om from
jury box to press table, thence /, the
spectators, but at 20 time during Mrs.
VI / ooIa,,a tootiponpu did ma nnpnir o;pce