Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Encouraged by the success of run
ming cars yesterday without serious
interference by the 800 striking motor
men and conductors and their sympa-
thizers, the Coney Island and Brook
Ign Railroad Company operated all
three of its principal lines last night.
Twelve hundred policemen, how
ever, were on special strike duty all
night.
The epidemic Of cholera is spread
ing in Italy, and already it has ex-
tended to Genoa and Leghorn. Dur
ing the period from July % to 26
there we're 6S cases of cholera in
Naples, with 20 deaths. while in
Naples Province there were AS cases
and "a deaths. Throughout the re-
mainder of continental Italy there
we're $50 cases and 81 deaths. In
Palermo there were 100 cases, 80 OF
which we're fatal, and in Palermo
Province rs cases, with 80 fatalities.
OF 50 cases in the remainder Of Sicily
10 we're fatal.
The northbound Adirondack train
from Utica, n. u, yesterday morn
ing struck t9o-seated wagon, con-
tanning several persons. on crossing
about Z miles from Utica. Four per-
sons were killed outright and one was
injured.
A. ". Ayres, an employe of the
Pittsburg, Pa, branch of a Motor
Company at Middletown, Md, was
thrown from a motorcycle on the
National Pike three miles west OF
Middletown, about noon yesterday and
so badly injured that be died last
night He was about to start up the
South Mountain when he was seen to
fall from the machine, which con-
tinued running and dragged Ayrcs
some distance.
When a crowd of rowdies seized his
young bride of two months and her
1S-year-old friend, Viola Wells, IN
Cleveland, last night. while they were
passing the Sheriff street markethouSe,
T P. McKibbon, Richmond, Va,
business man, gave battle in their de-
Tense. He was badly beaten and cut
and might have been killed had not
the women's screams frightened the
thugs. Mr.. and Mrs Mckibbon aud
Miss Wells we're visiting friends in
Cleveland.
Hal D. Lapdon, for twenty years
prominent as political correspondent
and writer in Washington and in Co.
lumbus, Ohio, was found dead yes
terday afternoon in the pit Of the
elevator shaft in the Hotel Metropole,
in Columbus. 1t was evident that he
had fallen into the shaft last Saturday
night. The car does not 60 lower
than the ground floor and the body
was not noticed until yesterday. Ex-
animation showed that the neck was
broken.
Four men were shot and several
others injured by bricks and stones
in an encounter at Crockett, CAL, Sun
day night between former employees of
the California Hawaiian Refinery who
went out on a strike several weeks ago,
and number of non-union workers
from San Francisco. On arrival OF
their train, the strike breakers were
accosted by union men. Edward Beck
or. one OF the strikebreakers, drew
his revolver and opened fire. ln the
melee that followed john Cronin, a
striker, was shot through the stomach
and probably will die. Eugene Crypt,
Waterman at the refinery, received
several wounds in the body. c. ".
Prytz. striker, Eugene Lasalla, and
Becker we're less seriously wounded
Cooperation between the churches
and the United states government that
the cause of universal peace may be
advanced was urged by President
Taft yesterday in his address before the
Methodist ShatauQua at Mountain
Lake Park, Md. A delay in the adop-
ton of the treaties between this coun-
try and Great Britain and France
means halt in the movement for
peace among the great nations of the
world, the president declared, and the
moral aid of the church should be
brought to bear. Sentiment toward
arbitration must grow until Congress
is convinced that delay will imperil
its strength among the people, he
said. The president added that the
fear expressed by members Of the
Senate regarding treaties between
France and Great Britain and this
country Is without foundation.