Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-21
News Of the Day.

Tbs Bitch steamship Sa!ars, bound
from Newcastle to Singapore, hss found
cred eff Ses island, eff the coast of Aus
tralis. The let, of the crew is unknown.
Col. William FL. B;xby will be made
chief OF engineers of the army in June,
succeeding Brigadier General William
l.. Msrshsl.
Decision to allow Represer ta,iv Lever
aud Legare, OF South Carolina, to retain
their seats in the House has been az
neu aced BY elections committee No.
10 battle yesterday evening between
strikers and township constables at Nc.
Kees Rocks, Pa, at least seven persons
we're Injured, three OF whom will likely
die.
In the Senate yesterday Ssnstor Smith,
Of South Oarolina, made spirited criti-
cism of the attorney general. for working
In the interest OF the "shorts'' in prose-
outing the "bull" cotton pool.
By the barrow margin of two votes,
the Murray resolution providing for the
ratification by the Legislature of New
York of the prop oHed income tax amend
mert to the United Sites constitution
was defeated in the New York as
sambly yesterday. The vote was "a to &c.
Ssrvis is again iu the grip OF the foods
dus to- torrential rains In the last few
days. At KrsgujeVstz, where the foods
are most severe, II deaths have already
occurred, and the damage t. property ia
enormous.
The Pickett conservation bill, author
izing the president t, make withdra walls
of public lands for purposes of conser9a-
ton, Was passed By the Honse yesterday.
The entire session Hss devoted to its
consideration.
The Senate committee on naval az
fairs yesterday faVorsbly reported the
bill, already passed by the II usa, pre-
viding for the placing OF t,e Naval o.
| servatory in Washington under tae d.
| rectlon. of superintendent appointed
from civil life.
Seven men we're plunged Into the
roaring sea eff Hsrford Toilet, 90 miles
below Atlantic City, yesterday a'tsruoop,
by the eapsizlug of fishing boit 10
which they we're returning from repair
ing of pound MT, saked of the coast.
Three we're drowned, while crews of the
government ife-sa2ing service rescued
four of the men.
Twenty-6ve miners are dead In the
Mulga works of the Birmingham, Ala,
Goal and Iron Company IS the result OF
an explosi,n which occurred las. night,
and fifteen others are entombed. The
shaft is not on Ere and air Ia being
pumped into the mine.
The spot cotton 6im OF Knight, Van.
cey & %. at Decatur, Ala, one of the
largest concerns in tha south, having Of
fees in Mobile, Huntsville, Decatur,
Birmingham, and other cities, yesterday
fled petition in voluntary bankruptcy.
The liabilities are said to be in the
neighborhood of$4. 900. 900.
The National Academy of Sciences at
its meeting in tho Smithsonian Iusiitu.
ton in Washington yesterday elected
DR.. George E. Hale, of Pasadena, Csl.,
foreign secretary OF the academy, to sue.
coed the late Alexander Agsssiz. DR..
Hale has been 10 charge of the Mount
Wilson solar obaervst;ry at Pasadena.
In his maiden speech delivered in the
Senate yesterday on the railroad bill
Senator Purcell, of North Dakota, sharp
ly criticised the president and attorney
general. He practically charged pus-
pose of 90 Transforming the Sapreme
QUIT as 10 issue such construction oil
the proposed law az to supplement and
Iu'lifg antsgonislic state lava and ttate
coEstiiu: ions.
Mi. Gen. S. G. French, tho oldest
living Ooufadertt, general, died at Flor
ola, A's., yesterday, sitter lorg Illness.
BE was niuetg-two years of sge. Ger.
French was the oldest living graduate Of
West Point, and 10 ths Confederate
service was soldier of much prominence.
He was born a. Gltu ,est,r, N. j., 10
l1918, snd wss graduated from West
Poirt in 1913. He went to the state of
Texas sad served under Gen. Taylor IN
the Mexican war and vas severely
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