Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

President Taft in a speech at Seattle
last night said the Panama Canal
would be finished by July /, 1913.
In order to effect a saving of nearly
half million dollars year, it is pos
sible that Secretary of the Treasury
McYeagh may ignore the opposition OF
organized labor and install power
presses in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing to turn out the governments
money. The proposition became acute
yesterday as a result Of decision rem
dered by Comptroller OF the Treasury
Tracewell.
For the first time i'll the history OF
aviation actual bomb dropping from an
aeroplane took place at College Park,
Washington, yesterday afternoon.
Lieut.. Thomas De Wilte Milling,
operating an army biplane, took up
former Lieut.. Scott, inventor OF the
bomb.carrying device. and on two sue.
cessive trips released 25-pound steel
she'll from the chassis Of the aeroplane
while the machine was flying Il miles
an hour. -
Drenching her clothing with oil,
which she then set on fire, Mrs. Jennie
Tichenick, aged 40 years, OF Philadel-
phis, yesterday succeeded in what the
police say was her second attempt at
suicide. a passer-by who noticed
smoke issuing from her home, ran in
and found her body lying on mass
OF burning straw in the cellar. All
the members Of her family were out OF
the house, her husband and two chill.
dren being at work, while the five
Younger children were at school. She
had frequently threatened to end her
life.
Dared by bis little companions who
were walking with him in Pelham, N.
Y, near the tracks of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
yesterday afternoon, l0-year-old Frank
Ruhl, OF New Rochelle, climbed to the
top OF one of the iron standards carry
ing the high-yoltage wires conducting
the current which propels trains be-
tween New York and Stamford. As
the boy reached the top he took off his
hat and waved it. His hand came 10
contact with the heavily charged wire.
There was flash, and Franks body
was hurled to the ground.
Cornelius Newton Bliss, for years
one OF tue prominent figures in ma
tional republican politics, and other
wise we'll Known as merchant and a
member of the dry goods firm Of Bliss,
Fabyan j. Co., died at his home in
New York last night of heart disease.
Six burglars we're surprised drilling a
hole in safe early yesterday in New
York and one Of them was killed by 4
shot from policeman's pistol. The
men had carried q small safe from one
OF. the United Cigar Company's uptown
branches and were preparing to dyna-
mite it in the cellar when one OF the
tenants OF the building heard them.
Two policemen tried to stalk the safe
breakers through doors at opposite
ends of the cellar, but one OF them
dropped his club and the men ran,
knocking the policemen over in their
wild rush. They were fleeing over
fences when the other patrolman
opened fire and slot one Of the fugi-
tlves through the heart. The dead
burglar has not been identified, and
one Of his companions, who was cap
tured, refused to talk, The other got
away.
IF Gov. Judson Harmon continues
to foster the open shop at Wooster and
the penal print shop at the reforma-
tory at Mansfield, the Interpationa!
Typographical Union will send circu-
lars to every union organization ID the
country, denouncing him as a friend
to unfair labor" declared Max Hayes,
OF Cleveland, national organizer,
during the course OF an address at the
closing meeting Of the semi-annual
session OF the OHIO Typographical
Union in Akron, Ohio, Sunday.
William Melvin, collector for the
American Loan Company, OF Scranton,
Pa, had a very narrow escape from
death by suffocation yesterday morn
ing in the large vault OF the company,
in the Cornell Building. Melvin en-
tered the vault to get some papers, and
while he was in some person swung the
door shut, and threw the combination
on. There was no person in the office
at the time who could master the COM
bination and it was necessary to send
out for an expert before Melvin could