Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The historic Black Horse Tavern,
which has stood on the old Washington
pike for 1876 years, has been sold to the
school board Of Canonsburg, Pa.
With eight men under arrest, al
Newark, Ohio, charged with implication
in the lynching Of Carl NJ. Etherington,
anti-saloon league detective, with aft
davits in the governors Office that will
lead to $50 more arrests and with the
resignation of Sheriff William Linke,
the investigation into the mob violence
OF last Friday night was given a decided
impetus yesterday.
The Mexican delegate, Senior Salado,
nominated Antonio Bermejo for presi-
dent, while Rodriguez Larreta, in
behalf OF the Argentine delegation,
proposed Henry White for that honor.
Senior Bermejo was elected. The pro-
posal to elect Secretary Knox and DR..
de la Plaza honorary presidents came
from the Peruvian delegation. 1t was
decided that hereafter the various vice
presidents should preside at the sue
cessiye sessions.
Japanse mail to the State Department
quotes returning traveller from Aus
tralia as saying that the anti-Japanese
feeling in Australia had reached an ex-
IRENE point. japanese are forbidden
entrance to the Australian clubs and
forbidden to attend public meetings
German influence is belived to be
responsible for this anti-Japanese
prejudice.
In special session at Charleston,
w. Va, Monday the Supreme Court
refused to grant an appeal from the de-
cision of Circuit Judge Burdett, dis
solving the injunction previously
awarded the Chesapeake & Ohio and
prohibiting the state officers from en-
forcing the two-cent fare law. Under
the decision OF Judge Burdett, the
railroad must refund excess fares over
the two-cent rate and comply with the
two-cent law.
Sixteen-yeaa-o Annie Slak us, a
physical and mental wreck yesterday
accused the Wilkes Barre, Pa, police
e vicious third-degree methods in try
ing to make her confess TO a number Of
thefts. She says the was called vile
names in her cell by some Of the police
men and detectives, that they threaten
ed to hang her if she did not admit the
robberies, and that the detectives visited
her cell in relays TO question her,
abused her, called her names, and that
she was dragged about by her bare
arms from room to room. She admits
committing several thefts, but says she
confessed to more in order to escape
the third-degree treatment.
The House OF Commons, by vote
of 900 to 1870, last night passed the
second reading Of the womeH's suffrage
bill. for which David James Shackleton,
labor member from the Clitheroe, di-
vision OF Lancashire, is the sponsor, and
then referred it to a committee. The
bill provides for the granting Of the
parliamentary franchits to women who
are possessed Of the property qualifica-
ton and who already exercise the fran
chise in municipal elections. The de-
feat Of the bill by referring it to com
mittee, will signalize an outbreak such
as England never knew before. The
women and the men who sympathize
with them will temporize in this matter
no longer" This semi-revolutionary
statement was made today by Waiter
f. Claren, NJ. p, the leading parlia- |
mentsry champion OF the suffrsgettes.