Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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first nine months of the fiscal year.
Cold and wet weather has caused
serious damage to the crops in France;
the loss in the champagne district is
estimated at So, 000, 900.
Thirty-six persons were drowned
at different points in New York
state and in Massachusetts, yesterday,
the majority of whom were bathers
seeking relief from the heat.
Secretary Meyer has signed an order
authorizing the sale Of the third-class
cruisers Detroit and Boston, the gun
boat Concord and the torpedo boat
Winslow,
Rev. Clinton Dewitt Sharp, OF the
Seventh Day Adventist Church, and IA
year-old Eunice Whitaker, who eloped
from Schenectady, N. Y, a week ago,
have been arrested in Kansas City.
Fire threatened the little village Of
Cannon, Del, yesterday. Churchgoers
left services and fought the flames
until outside assistance arrived. -Four
persons were overcome. The loss will
amount to about $4,000.
The United States submarine boat
Salmon has fully demonstrated the
~practicability of the submarine for long
voyages, having made the run from
Quincy, Mass, to Hamilton, Bermuda,
800 miles.
The loss OF $50 on Jeffries, coming
on top of a long series Of money
troubles, made a night Waterman in
New York so respondent that he hanged
himself in a stall Of the stable where
he worked.
Col. r. Preston Chew, one Of Char
leston's prominent citizens, was operat-
ed on yesterday at Gharlestown, w.
Va, for appendicitis. He is n Of
the best known ConfederTtc veterans in
the Shenandoah valley.
Members Of the Indiana Brewers
Association have formally protested
before the democratic State central
committee against the bringing OF
William Jennings Bryan into the state
to make speeches this fall.
One Of the greatest corn crops in the
history Of the United States is indicated
by the government report of conditions
on July /, published Saturday. For
wheat. however, the outlook is darker.
The general average condition OF crop
growth in the United States on July l,
was about 2.5 per cent lower than on
July l, 1909.
A four horse stage coach carrying
II passengers bound for Ell Portal, the
gateway Of the Yosemite National Park,
went over n cliff into the Merced river,
a fall Of 100 feet, Yesterday. One man
and three women were carried down with
the stage and injured seriously. The
other passengers and the driver jumped
and chung to the rocks at the edge Of
the road. Two horses were killed.
Leroy Hughes, aged 7; Russell,
aged 6, and Jane, aged 4, are in a
hospital at Turtle Creek, near Pitts
burg, Pa, with burns about the head
face and neck that will mark them
for life, while Russell will lose his
sight. The children while playing
yesterday about a regulator pit of a
natural gas company lifted the cover
from a trap and struck a match.
The three we're hurled a hundred feet
by the explosion that followed.
With $4,000 guaranteed as the
nucleus Of a defense fund against the
open or nonunion shop movement in
the District OF Columbia, organized
labor OF Washington yesterday after
noon inaugurated plans by which a
propaganda will be set in motion with
the object of breaking up %non-union
and open shops. The Amalgamated
Association, OF Carpenters have set at
nought the edict Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor and are keeping their
men at work.
General Porfirio Diaz, who will be
eighty years old on September Is next,
was yesterday reelected as president of
Mexico for a term Of six years, this be-
ing the seventh time he has been chosen
by the people of his country as the
head Of the national government.
Tamon Coral was elected vice-president.
Reports from all Of the States in the
Mexican Union are to the effect that in
the electoral college which met yester-
day, Diaz and Corral won oyerwbelm-
ing victories, and that no disorder Of
any kind occurred in any section of the
country.
The British government has ordered
a public inquiry into the failure OF the
Law Guarantee Insurance Society,
which recently collapsed with losses
amounting to more than $4,000, 600.
Among the directors were several OF the
most eminent members of the legal
profession, while its trustees included
Two Supreme Court judges. The
heaviest losers were lawyers, among
hem Lord Chief Justice AlverstoDe,
who lost 81 ,000, 900.
William Elhrecht, Of Maspeth, %
old, was caught in a death trap
Of mire in a creek near Old Mill at
Bay, near East New York,
Yesterday, and died while friends were
desperately trying to SAVE him. He
lad fallen into the creek in the dark
ness Of the early morning. While
lis friends we're calling to him Ell
1recht sank into the morass. The
men had been out fishing. In the