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

The Bitch steamship Salars, bound
from NeWcaslle to Singapore, hiss found
cred eff Sea island, eff the coast OF Aus
trslis. The fat, of the crew is unknown.
Dol. William H. Bixby will be nsde
chief OF engineers Of the army Ia June,
succeeding Bdgadler General William
l.. Msrsbsli.
Decision to allow RepressE ts'iv Lever
aud Legsre, oil South OAIolins, to retain
their seats In the House has been al
nou iced by elections committee No. 3
Ia battle yesterday evening between
strikers and township constables at Nc
KEGS Rocks, Pa, at least seven persons
we're ipju,ed, three OF whom will likely
die.
In the Senate yesterday Ssnst,r Smith,
OF SJuth Oarolins, made q spi,itsd criti-
cism of the attorney general. for working
In the interest OF the "shorls" In prose-
outing the "bulr' cotton pool.
By the parrow margin of two votes,
the Muusy resolution providing for the
ratification by the legislature of New
York OF the proposed income tax amend
mert to the United Sites constitution
was defeated 10 the New York as.
sambly yesterday. The vote was "a to &c.
Ssrvis is sgsiu 10 the grip Of the foods
dus TO. torrential rains In the last few
days. At KrsgujsVstz, where the foods
are most severe, IL deaths have already
occurred, and the dsmsge t, property 10
enormous.
The Pickett conservation bill, author
izing the president t. make Withdra walls
OF public lands for purposes Of consersa-
ton, wss passed By the Honse yesterday.
The entire session was devoted TO lite
consideration.
The Sensts committee on naval 81
fairs yesterday fsyorsbly reported the
bill, already passed by the H use, pre-
viding for the placing OF the 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 aitsrnooD,
by the oapsIzlpg Of a fishing boit 10
which they were returning from repsif-
iug Of pound NIT, s.sked of the coast.
Three we're drowned, while crews Of the
government life-,aViug service rescued
four OF the men.
TWENTY-FIVE miners are dead In the
Mulga works of the Birmingham, Ala. ,
Coal and Iron Company IS the result OF
su explo.i)n which occurred last night,
aud fifteen others are entombed. The
shaft is not on Ere aud air ls being
bumped into the mine.
The spot cotton firm OF Knight, Yam.
cey q %. at Decatur, Ala, one OF the
largest concerns 10 lhs south, having Of
fees in Mobile, Huntsville, Decatur,
Birmingham, and other cities, yesterday
filed petition in voluntary bankruptcy.
The liabilities are said to be la the
neighborhood of$4 900. 900.
The National Academy Of Sciences at
its meeting 10 the Smithsonian Inslitu.
ton 10 Washington yest .rdsy elected
DR.. George E. Hale, Of Pasadena, Csl.,
foreign secretary OF the academy, ID sue.
coed the late Alexander AgsssIz. DR..
hale has been 10 charge Of the Mount
Wilson solar observtt)ry at Pasadena.
In bis maiden speech delivered In the
Senate yesterday on the railroad bill
Senator Purcsll, of North Dskots, sharp
ly criticised the president and attorney
general. He practically charged pus-
pose OF 90 transforming the Supreme
QUIT as to issue such construction OF
the proposed law as to supplement and
nu'lify antsgonislic state laws and ttaLe
constitutions.
Mfj. Gen. S. G.. French, the oldest
living CONFIDENT, general, died at Flor
OiS, Als., yesterday, sitter lorg Illness.
he was niuetY-twO years Of sge. Gen.
French was tae oldest liviug grsdu'le Of
West Point, and 10 the Confederate
service WAS a soldier of much prominence.
he was born a.. Gltu,est,r, N. j., 10
1918, snd wss graduated from West
Poirt In lS4S. He went to the sttts Of
Texas and served under Gen. Taylor IN
the Mexican war and vas severely