Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-11-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

late Sinclair EmDrey OF Deep Run,
Fauquier county, died Tuesday after a
long illness. aged 60 yesrs.
1t is officially announced that 81
persons we're killed aud All wounded
at the time Of the revolution in Por-
tugal.
The returns from the election in
Maryland on Tuesday show that over
33T per cent. OF the registered vote is
missing. The democrats carried the
state by 6,S44 majority.
Derailment Of four sleeping cars at
tached to train No. IA OF the Southern
Railway resulted in the injury OF s pas
sengers, yesterday at Scotland Georgia,
Officials at the scene OF the disaster said
that none was severely injured.
Tho British, French, Spanish and
Italian ministers called at the Foreign
Office in Lisbon yesterday and announc-
ed that they were authorized to resume
negotiations with the Portuguese gov
eminent on cur 2nt affairs.
Even il John d. Rockefeller and his
son did not vote Tuesday they were
we'll represented at the polls at larry
town, N Y. by 800 employees, most of
them Italians and negroes, who had
specific instructions, so it was said, to
vote for John A Dix for governor.
Forty thousand barrels OF kerosene
oil in tank OF the Tidewater Oil Com
pany, at Bayonne, n. j., went up with
such roar early last night that the
countryside trembled for miles around.
One man, working near the tank, is
missing. and is believed to have perish
ed. Five others were seriosuly bruised
and burned. The fire was confined to
the one tank
James Douglass Brady, the 3-year-
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Brady, of Wash
ington, was crushed beneath the wheels
OF heavy motor truck within a block
OF the youngsters home early yester-
day morning. The boy died almost
instantly, the rear wheel passing over
his head.
DR.. Holinger, a throat specialist, was
shot three times in Chicago yesterday,
10y Louis Martin, plumber, who went
to Chicago from Kansas City, Mo-, sew
cral months ago. Martin then killed
himself. DIR. Hollinger was not fatally
wounded. The plumber was a patient
OF the specialist since last spring, when
an operation was performed in a Chi
cago hospital. No motive for the
shooting could be learned.
The r., F. 4 P. r. r. has filed a Pc
tition in Richmond asking the City
Circuit Court to set aside an alleged err
roneous assessment Of franchise tax for
1910 of s23, 1873, claiming it is ex-
empt from franchise tax under the old
charter. The case is expected to go 10
the United States Supreme Court before
being finally settled.
The Department OF Agriculture has
on exhibition in its rooms at the Capt.
tol, Richmond, display OF rice grown
on the Bellwood Farm in Chesterfield
county, Va. The yield was 10 bushels
to the acre. The grower thinks he can
increase the yield to % bushels per
acre. Rice may yet become a profitable
crop for the farmers OF Virginia.
The directors OF the Sloss- Sheffield
Steel and Iron Company yesterday
passed dividend on the common stock
which has been at the rate OF IA per
cent. quarterly. The company ex-
planned its action in statemen which
set forth the flooding OF two slopes OF
one OF the company's most important
mines, which made the entire output
Of ore from this mine unavailable for
eight or nine months,
Keeling from the effects OF gas, IA
miners, imprisoned in the No. 8 mine
OF the Victor American Fuel Company.
since Tuesdays explosion. staggered
out Of No mine near Delagua, Col,
yesterday into the arms OF their loved
ones, awaiting them at the pit mouth.
The rescuers announced that eight
more men had been found alive This
number, added to four saved Tuesday
night, makes the rescued IS. The
bodies OF 80 men making the total dead
AZ, were yesterday found in the north
entry where yesterday 8 explosion origi-
mated.
Mrs. John O. Schenck is in jail in
Wheeling, w. Va, on the charge Of
attempting to murder her husband. a
millionaire member OF the Schenck pork
packing establishment, by administer
ing poison in his food and medicine.
She was arrested last night and Magis-
trate Hobbs committed her without bail
to await preliminary hearing. She
refused to make a statement beyond
asserting that she is innocent. 1t is al
legged that Mrs. Schenck placed arsenic
in the water which her husband drank
that she gave him the same poison in
small quantities in his food, and that
when he became i'll she mixed it with
his medicine.
: Comfortably placed in the private car
Of President Willard, OF the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, Senator Stephen B.
Elkins was taken from Elkins,W Va i
to Washington yesterday. Senator FL !
kins has not improved during the past /
few weeks as bis family expected, and |
It wa, the desire OF his doctor that be |
lie nearer the hospitals OF Washington |
aud Baltimore, should an operation be-
come necessary. II Ia said that the |
mysterious disease from which he is
suffering Is something more than mere
exhaustion, and al operation may be
necessary 10 remove tho DIS. said % |