Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sir Henry Tichborne, who, as child
was defendant in Arthur Orton's his
toric attempt to possess himself of the
Tichborne estates. died in London yes.
terday.
Rev. Father John F. Quirk, S. j.,
professor of philosophy at st. Joseph's
College, Philadelphia, will succeed the
Rev Father John j. Fleming, S. j., as
vice president OF Georgetown University
for the scholartic year Of 1901.
Betting on the races at the Maryland
Club, the pooroom which was opened
last Monday at Kenilworth, Nd, just
across the District of Columbia line,
received severe jolt yesterday, when
its telephone service, supplied by the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company was suddenly cut off.
While fighting fire from the roof
of stable at 1909 Wylie court north
east Washington, yesterday afternoon,
Stewart X. Rosenberger, OF No. 10
Engine Company, was knocked to the
cement pavement by the rebound OF
hose, receiving fractured skull,
from which he died at Casualty Hospl-
tai last night.
The youngest child Of Mr.. and Mr..
Fred w. Arthur of Lee Summit, Md,
died yesterday from inhalation OF
ground allsplce sprinklcd into, her
face by her brother, 4 child OF eighteen
months. The little boy picked up a
can OF allspice and dashed it into his
sisters face as he had often seen his
mother use the can Of talcum powder.
General Minlet. who two days ago
started an uprising near Ell Caney,
Cuba, was surprised in camp yester-
day and captured by detachment OF
the guard under Lieutenant Carrlllo.
One OF Minlet's insurgents was killed.
Minlet and two others were taken prls-
oncrs and the others fled.
A cablegram from the agent OF the
Peruvian Steamship Company an
nounces that the Hau!laga, which left
Panama July 81, was burned at sea
on the northern coast of Peru Tues
day. No passengers, lives were lost,
but three Of her seamen persisted.
Through Il wireless message, to her
sister ship. the Ucayali, the latter yes
sci was enabled to pick her up and
transfer the passengers and the remain
der OF the crew.
According 10 figures prepared by the
census bureau the larger cities OF the
country pay more for schools and for
police and fire protection and related
service than on all other accounts, and
OF these two items the payment on ac-
count Of schools is much the larger.
the per capita expense for schools be-
ing $40 us compared with 1928 for
police, and S1.72 for fire protection.
Frank Morteagupdo, Spaniard, 40
years old, fireman on tie tug Peerless;
James Ceidcl, assistant engineer and
Hugh Harper dcckhand, were
caught in the explosion of a steam
chest on the tug at Baltimore yester-
terday. Morteagurdo was literally
boiled alive and died i'll a few minutes
after his rescue. The other two were
taken to a hospital and may not live.
The men were rescued from the steam
filled engine room by Capt. Irving Rud-
sion, Of the tug Dixie, which was lying
near the Peerless.
An automobile containing two men
and boy plunged into an uncovered
elevator shaft in the garage at 800
west Fifty-fourth street New York
yesterday afternoon, instantly killing
Leroy Pcltier, foreman of the place,
who was driving the car; lracturing
the leg OF John Stafford l4-year-old
boy Of Huntington, L. l., vino was
testing maching that his parents had
agreed to purchase for him, and
severely bruising John Fulton, a ma
chinist, and brotherinlaw of Peltier.
Because he is mulatto some of
the negroes of the District OF Columbia
are Directing to the appointment Of
Whitetield Mckinley as collector of the
port at Georgetown, recently made by
President Taft. One prominent mem
Der of his race, speaking for part
of his people, said yesterday that they
do not believe the appointment of a
mulatto would be of any benefit TO
their race. Some white uan, he said,
should receive the appointment. He
declared that it was not right, when
recognizing the negro race, to give all
the good positions to mulattoeS.