Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-11-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Floods IN southern France have rem
dered 1900 persons homeless and did
considerable damage to property.
Approximately 1000 positions in
Cook county, H., which includes
Chicago, now held by republicans, will
be handed over to democrats az re-
suit OF Tuesdays election.
The official count OF ballots in Tues
days congressional election in the
Fifth Virginia district shows majority
OF 81 for Congressman +. W. Saunders,
democrat, over Parsons, republican.
A verdict in seven minutes was
brought in yesterday in Lexington, by
the jury, for murder in the first degree
against Harry Sitlington, colorcd, for
the murder OF Miss Fannie Brown,
October %, 1910, at her home on
Walkers creek.
Representatives from all over the
United States will be present at the
board meeting OF the National Jewish
Hospital for consumptives which meets
in Richmond Sunday for the discussion
OF the work now being done in Denver,
where the national hospital is being
built.
The first ser ious accident directly
credited to the Grand Prize auto race
to be runsSaturday occurred yesterday
afternoon at Savannah when w. II.
Sharpe and his mechaDician Albert
Fuchs were bothEprobably fatally in
iured by their car turning turtle.
Mrs. Rose Fireman, grocery store
keeper at Pittsburg, is one woman who
can threw straight. Yesterday she sur
prised a negro burglar at the cash reg
lister, and Selling two pound weight
from the counter she hurled it at the
robber. striking him in the forehead
and telling him. The negro had first
begun to throw smaller weights at the
woman, and for few moments there
was duel. The police got him.
The new Mckinley bridge, the
largest spanning the Mississippi river,
was formally dedicated at St. Louis
yesterday with imposing ceremonies.
Gov. lladley, Of Missouri, and Gov.
Deneen, Of Illinois, were the central
figures in the exercises. The new
bridge was constructed at n cost OF
SO, 600 900 by the Mckinley trac-
ton interests, controlling large interur-
ban railway lines in that section.
The Berlin Taeglche Bandschan
says that the Prussian government
viii refuse the yaticau's request that
Catholic professors Of theology be
compelled to take the test oath against
modernism. Prussia will also, accord
ing to the paper, refuse to subject her
Catholic clergy generally to such an
oath. The Bayarian government has
already declined the same papal re-
quest.
Wednesday was theday for cashing
in election bets, and one Tam
many election captain hired an
express wagonto do it. When he
he had made the rounds he had a full
ton OF new hats and boxes Of cigars.
1t is estimated that 81 900 600 changed
hands on the result. One curb broker
is said 10 have handled 1851, 900. Fred
Brooks, the old-time betting commits
Sioner, says he placed $3.50, coo. An
other broker made $1,000 in commits
sions and 800, 200 in backing his own
judgment This heaviest individual
Joss reported beiell man who bet on
Dix, but placed his plurality at $4,000
or better
A lone robber almost succeeded in
looting the National Bank at Camden,
a few miles cast of Richmond, Ind,
early Thursday morning, and getting
away with $50, 900 in the safe. After
he had drilled the hole and was in the
act OF placing the dynamite charge that
would have enabled him to put bis hand
upon the booty he was discovered by
w. II. Deshwall. Deshwall ran from his
house across the street, revolver in
hand to prevent the robbery. The
crook saw him coming and jumped
out OF window, making his escape.
He ran a few miles out Of Camden,
where he stole a horse to continue his
fight. He was not captured.
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