Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

RTeSS WHICH nous ltS SlNJn annual
convention in Washington December
| 7, s and 9 will bring together a notable
body OF men who are interested in the
development of the waterways Of the
United States.
At meeting of bankers in London
yesterday a resolution was adopted and
cabled to leading American financiers
that beginning in November American
cotton bills Of lading shall be negotiated
only when they are guaranteed by an
American banking institution.
The strike of u, 900 employees Of the
Northeastern Railway, England, wa:
settled yesterday evening. The men
accepted the terms offered by the COM
pany and the night and day shifts will
return to work tonight and tomorrow
respectively
The Protestant committee rece ntly
formed in Rome has decided to ask
he American Protestant denomlna-
tions and the Archbishop of Canterbury
to join with the German and Swiss con
tgregations in the project to erect a
Protestant church facing the Vatican as
protest against the Papal encyclical
on ST. Charles Borromeo, which Of
Tended German Protestants.
A report reached New York yester-
day from Johannesburg, South Africa,
OF the finding Of another large diamond
at the famous Premier mine The gem
is said to weigh more than 191 carats,
and is described as a pure white stone,
nawless, and measuring two inches in
length by about three-fourths OF an
inch thick. II is estimated to be worth
$3.50, 900, uncut.
Declination by the American Anti
boycott Association to abandon, on its
part, the litigation between the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor and the Bucks
Stove and Range Company, settlement
Of which between the federation and
the company was recently reached,
was announced by the association in
New Yorl; yesterday.
Trapped in bed with her week-old
baby, Mrs. Grace Wilson was burned
to death yesterday afternoon, when
fire destroyed the old Ledyard block,
in Grand Rapids, Mich. A nurse,
Mrs. Amelia Keoney, who tried heroi-
caIIy to rescue the mother and babe.
received burns which proved fatal an
hour later and the babe is now dying
in the hospital.
The biggest single coal contract ever
let in the east has just been obtained by
the Davis Coal and Coke Company
from the Bethlehem Steel Company.
1t will run for twenty years and the
amount exceeds $50, 000,0 900. The
minimum tonnage that is to be delly-
cred to the steel company per year IS
$50. 900 tons. while the maximum is
1000, 900 tons, as required by the cor
poratiOn.
Within month OF his promotion to
the place Of paying teller in the Herald
Square branch OF the Greenwich Bank,
Walter Hall, twenty-six years old, dis
appeared from his home in South
Brooklyn, where he lived with his wife
and two children, and took with him
about $35, 900 Of the banks funds.
Hall has been missing since July 3, and
the directors Of the bank had kept the
matter secret until yesterday, hoping
that their efforts to find the young
teller would be best rewarded in that
way.
After saturating his clothing with
kerosene oil, striking a match and
waiting until the flames had burnt to
his skin, a negro, as yet unidentified,
jumped from the Light street bridge
in Baltimore about 2 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon and ended his life. He was
so badly burned before he plunged in
to the water that it is likely that he
would have died il he had not fastened
his end by drowning. Whether it was
his intention to burn the bridge down
or not is not known, but he did throw
his oil-soaked, burning coat in the
middle Of the bridge, and the structure
was ablaze before he jumped overheard
The belief that William j. Bryan
may bolt the democratic ticket and
support there publican nominees at the
fall elections is growing. and is now
being discussed freely by the news
papers OF Nebraska. Mr.. Bryan will
not express himself on the subject.
Bryan is making his entire campaign
on the county option measure. The
democratic convention OF Nebraska will
undoubtly refuse to indorse Mr..
Bryon's measure, and the republican
state platform will just as surely con-
tain a county option plank.
The Catholics Of north Portugal are
protesting against King Manuel's cen
sure Of Archbishop Braga. Archbishop
Braga, upon orders from the vatican,
suppressed the Franciscan Review on
the ground that it was not necessary TO
the support of the National Catholic
party A royal decree of July II null
lifted the action Of the archbishop, who
was declared to have no right to exc
cute religious instructions without the
previous consent Of the government.
Mrs. Marion Mayo, Of Augusta, Ga,
reputed to be wealthy and of social
position, who took passage on the
steamer City OF Columbus from Sa-
vannah, was missing when the steamer
reached New York yesterday. 1t was
feared that she had been lost over
board. On Wednesday Mrs. Mayo was
an interested spectator Of the burial at
sea Of colored cook. and that after
that she went to her cabin and was not
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