Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Seymour Paul has succeeded B. NJ.
Bushonh as publisher OF the Harrison
burg Daily Times.
Virginia Harmed Sothern, the act
ress. has entered suit for divorce from
IL. H. Sothern, the actor, at Reno,
New.
Edward T. Rosenheim, OF New York,
wealthy owner OF an automobile that
ran over Miss Grace Hough, has been
indicted for murder.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
WaIdemar Poulsen, the Danish invent
or. has succeeded in lighting incandes-
cent lamps by the wireless transmits
sion OF an electric current.
NJ. Maurice Levy, the noted scien-
fist, teacher and writer, died in Paris
yesterday. He was 70 years old and
was at one time president Of the Acad-
envy OF Science.
Fire early yesterday started mysteri-
ously in the Calumet Mating Com
pauy's warehouse in Chicago ard spread
to the Gotfried Brewing Company s
plant, destroying it. The probable loss
is more than 100000.
Convicted OF stealing cent from a
slot machine. Thomas Spader, OF Buff
falo, was yesterday sentenced to five
and one-half years in Auburn prison.
His record was taken into considera-
ton by Justice Emery in imposing sem
tence.
Cardinal Vannutelli, special envoy
OF the pope, brought his second day in
Washington to close by bestowing the
apostolic benediction last evening upon
an assemblage OF fully 1900 gathered
within and around St. Patrick's Church.
The War Department has ruled that
the cadet organizations Of educational
institutions are not properly a part Of
the organized militia, and army officers
should not be detailed to inspect per-
sonnet OF such organizations.
Insurgent republicans OF the Fifth
district in convention at Martinsvile
on Thursday nominated III. ID. Angin,
of that place, as Candidate for Con-
gress to oppose Judge f. w. Saunders,
democrat, and John NJ. Parsons, regu-
lar republican.
Mrs. Moore and her husband, OF
Cleveland, Ohio, representing a syndi-
cate, were in Rappahannock county
this week with a proposal to construct
30 miles Of railroad from some point,
probably Culpeper, to Washington, the
county seat of Rappahannock. Mr..
Moore is a civil engineer. 1t is pro-
posed that persons in the county shall
subscribe to the stock Of the line.
News reached Roanoke yesterday
evening from Gillian, small mining
town in West Virginia, of the crema-
ton near there Thursday of three col
ored children. The fire started from
an explosion OF a can of oil in the
kitchen and the two children and
woman, who we're in the attic, were cut
off by the flames.
That William Lorimer personally
offered a substantial consideration
for a legislators vote in behalf of him.
self as candidate for United States
senator was the sworn statement made
before the senatorial investigating com.
mittee in Chicago yesterday by Henry
| A. Shepard, democratic member OF the
Legislature from Jerseyville. A sensa-
ton was caused at the inquiry when
Representative Michael S. Link adj
united under pressure that he had per-
jured himself before the Cook county
grand jury in relating details of his re-
ceiving 81 900 Of so-called Lorimer
money.
Three men were killed and seven
seriously injured when car Of steel
rails, which the men were unloading,
turned over at the No. mine OF the
Raleigh Coal Company, near Beckley,
w. Va, Thursday night. 1t was sew
eral hours before the men were taken
from under the pile Of steel Two OF
the injured are expected to die. The
accident was caused by an engine
backing into the car on which the men
we're working. The dead men were
found at the bottom of the pile Of stee
crushed beyond recognition.
The National League OF Republican
Clubs met in New York city yesterday
and heard addresses by John Hay
Hammond, the league president, anC
Theodore Roosevelt, whose speech wa
considered the opening gun of the New
York State campaign. President Tai
will address the clubs at a banquet Il
be given tonight, when it is planned t,
launch the Taft boom for the presiden
tial nomination in 1912. Roosevelt, i
is announced will not be present FOL
the launching OF the Taft boom. Vice
President Sherman also withdrew hi.
acceptance. John Hays Hammond i:
said to be managing the Taft campaign
and arranging for big demonstration,
but many OF the delegates are out-and-
out Roosevelt men for 1912, and will
make that fact known.