Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Out ltiio W u iiOlCoN.
President Taft is engaged on his
campaign book letter and conservation
speech, and will not defend his action
in Roosevelt matter.
Three young girls were lost for hours
in blizzard on the Colorado Divide.
After wandering six miles over the
mountain they were rescued by a ranch
man.
The reports OF the census show that
the eastern states are holding their own
and that the pull" Of the west will
not be sufficient to disturb the present
equilibrium.
Professor Charles G. Cook, colored,
OF the Howard University Washington,
was drowned in the surf at Sea Isle
City, n. j., yesterday afternoon.
Former President Roosevelt will at
tend the annual frontier celebration OF
Cheyenne, Wyo., on August 26, that
day being especially set aside in his
honor and observed as Roosevelt
Day"
Calling themselves Disciples Of the
Holy Ghost with the Gift Of Tongues,
four members of the sect were found
in Los Angeles starving themselves TO
death in anticipation of the end Of the
world
The Virginia delegation, which
went to Paris for a dedication August
Is OF the bronze replica OF the Hou
don statue OF Washington, presented
TO France by the state OF Virginia on
Saturday, placed a wreath upon the tomb
OF Lafayette upon the anniversary OF
his death.
Mayor GaynOr stole march on his
surgeons and attendants yesterday, and
walked across his room IN the hospital
in Hoboken, n. J. He spent an hour
and thirty-five minutes sitting up yes
terday, and spoke cheerfully to Mrs.
Gaynor and to Charles II. Hyde, cham
berlain of the city, who visited him.
A long freight shed, six mail cars,
six day coaches, a hospital and pay
car we're DESTROYED by fire in the Long
Island City yards of the Long Island
Railroad Saturday night by fire the
origin of which is unknown. The fire,
which did about $4,000 damage, also
scorched about thirty passenger coach
es and threatened the private coach
OF Ralph C. Peters, president Of the
road.
Every state and territory in the
Union, with the single exception OF
Nevada, which is without militia
organization, gets portion Of the
federal appropriation for the purchase
OF supplies and ammunition for the
organized militia during the present
fiscal year. in the first allotment of the
81, 100000 fund. According to the
allotment, made according to the en-
listed strength, Virginia gets more than
$25, 900.
As the result OF the most stubborn
fire which has occurred in Baltimore
for sometime, which broke out shortly
after O'Clock yesterday afternoon in
the three-story warehouse of William
Fritz. dealer in fruit baskets and boxes,
III Center Market Place, six firemen
were overcome by the dense smoke be-
fore the blaze was extinguished. The
fire spread from the Fritz building to
one in the rear, occupied by John ).
Hudgins & Co, ia Concord street,
hay, grain and feed dealers. 1t was
nearly O'Clock before the last spark
OF the fire was extingulshed. The prop
erty loss is $40, 900.
One Of the landmarks of Washington
will have disappeared when the wreck
ers finish tearing down the three-story
building, 617 Fifteenth street north
west. The work will begin on Septem-
Der /. This is Jay Cooks old bank,
the place where the famous Pennsyl-
vanian financed in large measure, the
United States government during the
civil war. The building is directly
opposite the Treasury, and adjolns the
Riggs House and the National Metro
poIitan Bank.
The schooner Ella L. Davenport,
Captain Denton, which arrived at
Philadelphia on Saturday with cargo
of lumber from Jacksonville, reports
meeting a large school Of whales off
the Maryland coast on Thursday
The whales, about seventy-fye in num-
Der, led by giant bull, sported about
the vessel for four hours; diving under
the keel. splashing water over the
decks and drenchihg the crew. accord
ing TO the captain. When off the Del
aware capes the animals deserted the
Davenport and headed in a sOutherly
direction.
Seven bodies, the greater number OF
them burned beyond recognition, have
been recovered from the charred wreck
age OF two freight trains Of the Cen
trail Vermont Railroad which met
head-on at Mortified Falls, Vermont,
Yesterday, and at least three or four
others are thought to be still in the
debris. Several others were injured,
one probably fatally. Twenty-Five cars
were burned, and the horror was in
when two tank cars Of oil ex-
ploded.
Official confirmation was received at
the State Department yesterday OF the
downfall of the Madriz faction in Mica
ragua. The defeat Of the Madriz
troops on the 18th inst and the cross
inc ~ the Tinitana river by the entire