Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-01
News of the Day.

Many belsted Christmas packages
were burned when fire destroyed Offices
and warehouses oftne American Express
Company 10 New York city yesterday.
The loss amounted TO about $500, 600.
Charles w. Morse hiss made bis last
fight and will 90 TO AtlSnts Sunday
morning there 10 begin The sentence OF
fifteen Jesrs imposed upon him 10 New
York more than year sgo for violating
the banking laws.
F. ]. Jefmyn, declared TO be a man.
Der Of the millionaire Scranton, Pa f,
family oil coal operatives, wss knocked
down by street car 10 San Francisco
today and very seriously itjIred. He
wss rushed to hospital where, 1t Ia ssid,
bis recovery Is improbable.
William b. Shaw, a familiar figure In
Washington, conspicuous IS news.
paper correspondent and said to be the
irsl to send news from there by tele-
graph 10 any out.of.town paper, died at
bis home In Washington yesterday even.
LOG. He Was 80 yesrs old.
With Senator bale, OF Maine, chair.
man of the committee on appropriations,
the president talked over the question Of
government expense yesterday. 1t was
understood after the conference that he
va, 10 thorough accord with M. Tsf.
He believed 1t was possible for the gov.
eminent to save almost 800, 900, 900
each yesr.
The governors Of The New York stock
exchange have received thu report OF the
committee appointed to investigate the
Rock Island scandal OF Monday morning,
whvr the stock advanced from sol TO
81 aud as suddenly rereded again. rbe
report will be acted on or January II.
Although the strictest reserve is being
mslDtsiued, 1t is generally believed that
The closing OF the "Rock Island incl.
dent" will be accompanied by disciple.
nary measures.
FOr,y.four thousand acres of the Dis.
nal SEamp was sold today BY William
N. Camp and wife, Of Oceols, Fis., to
The Camp Manufacturing Company, Of
franklin. The price Wss not given ont,
the consideration mentioned 10 the deed
being e., This property was granted to
Nathaniel and William Nilsson by the
Commonwealth OF Virginia In 1884 1t
is valuable chiefly for the timber and as.
soc'atlons, romantic and historic, unless
soma millions OF snakes, deer, Wildcats
and other jaUgle bess!s may be accounted
assets.
Two women, one a girl Of twenty,
half clad and shivering, were rescued By
detectives from q Chinese den on the
seventh a lor OF au old building In Chica-
20 late Thursday afternoon. Lai King,
a Chiness merchant, found with the
women, is under arrest. III want to
leave this place, bat the Chinamsn won't
give me my clothing" said one OF the
girls 90 she shiveref. eyes, they bring
other girls hefe. Sometimes there are
10 or 20 girls" King denied the young
woman's story, and said he had never
refused to give her her Clothing.
Three hundred feet of the false struc-
ture Of the Mckinley bridge, Dow under
construction across the Mississippi river
a. 8. Louis, wss knoeked ont by an Ice
I'm yesterday evening. Sixty men we're
thrown into The river, aud some OF them
mgy bave been drowned. One hundred
aud thirty men wsTe at work on the
structure whsn the am began to move.
Seventy of Them heard the warning snap OF
The timbers In time to escape 10 the STEEL
work, bot 30 fell with the twisted mass
If timbers three hoiaIDg engines aud q
travelling crane. The damage Is esti'
mailed a. 800 600.