Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Brodie L. Duke, the tobacco mag
nate has given his young bride hand
some business building in Durham, n. c
President Taft will leave Beverly 70
Maine today to open the campaign il
that state.
A cloudburst ruined the tobacc'
crop and caused 80, 000,0 900 damage,
in three counties of Kentucky on Sat
urday.
One million immigrants were ad
mitted to this country during the pas
fiscal year. Twenty-Five thousand wer'
rejected
Only about $4O0, 600 of the tax OF
corporations, approximating more thai
$27, 000, 900, remains to be collected b!
the government.
Ten thousand girls are wanted by tn
housewives OF Maine, according TO thu
state bureau OF industrial and labo
statistics. That body has started on
to supply the demand.
Twelve prelates and priests anc
twelve laymen of the Episcopal Church
yesterday at New York organized a
foundation to unity all Christian
churches.
A large force of special police is be-
ing recruited by Pennsylvania Railroad
officials in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
other cities to guard its property in the
event Of a strike on the system.
More than three thousand United
States prisoners will be paroled under
the operations Of the law passed by the
last Congress; the work OF paroling will
probably be started within the next two
or three months.
A bill which, if enacted, will compel
all bachelors Of 25 years Of age work
ing for the French government to get
married or leave the civil service has
been laid before the Senate by Senator
Lannalonge, of the Department OF Cars
Fire which caused $500, 900 damage
to the plant Of the Pullman company
at Pullman, H., yesterday, marked
the elimination OF the storm which
swept over Chicago Saturday night
causing loss Of life, heavy damage to
shipping and many fires from light
ming.
Charged in a warrant for first-degree
murder with fastening the rope around
the neck Of Carl Etherington, the
dry" detective lynched at Newark,
Ohio, about two weeks ago, William
Wutster, jr., aged 10, employed in a
GAINESVILLE poolroom, was arrested last
night and held without bail for Newark
officers. To reporters the boy said he
was in the mob, adding that he had
been drinking"
A dispatch to the London Daily Mir
ror from Paris states that the police
have notified Scotland Yard that DIR.
Hawley H. Crippen and Miss Ethel
Leneye arrived at Dieppe on July II,
and took a train for Paris. 1t is sug-
gested that Crippen is masquerading
IS a woman II is gait, effeminate
and manner all com
bine to make such makeup easy for
him.
Ministers Of Cleveland, Ohio, attack
an editorial written by Rev. William
Mcmahon in the Catholic Universe,
in which he declares that man should
be restricted by law in his efforts to
fly, and that the Lord never intended
that man should fly. Protestant min
listers OF the city declare that there is
no harm in mans attempt to rule the
air, and say they believe it was the
Creators wish and desire that he
do so.
William H. Jacobs and his son,
Charles Fl. Jacobs, of Aberdeen, Nd,
had a most remarkable escape from
death during terrific thunderstorm
which swept that section Saturday
night. A bolt of lightning struck
their barn in which both were occupied
at the time in embarrassing a horse.
The lightning came through an end
Of the building like a flash, and struck
the animal, killing it Immediately
but both men were only momentarily
shocked.
1t is announced from Washington
that notes have passed between the
United States ana Italy regarding the
case Of Porter Charlton. arrested in
on the charge OF killing his
wife in Italy. A decision will be reached
his week. Prosecutor Garyen Of Hud
'on county, n. j., said yesterday he
would set Porter Charlton free, having
10 alternative, should the government
-efuse to grant Italy's demand for ex-
tradition.
A trolley car and a delivery wagon |
ZACH 'exacted its toh Of Juvenile death |
n Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday. At Ford
Jity the 3-year-old son of Near
lard Szffran, a merchant, was ground
beneath a trolley car. His neck and
Jack were broken. He had escaped
rom his mother on porch and the
ather, Infatuated at what he charged
With being her carelessness, knocked
Ter down and was beating her when
he police interfered. She escaped
nd is in hiding. At Canonsburg g.
ear-old John Carmack was run over
y team OF mules and his skull was
rushed. He ran away from his
ather into the path OF the team and
'as killed before his helpless parent.
While rushing along through the
Iooded road halfway between City Is
md and Barlow, New York, on Satur-
ay afternoon, the first car ever used
n the new monorail road between
hose two points tore away part Of the
and crashed over the