Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-06-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t was sizzling hot throughout the
southwest yesterday, and heat records
for the year was broken at Kansas City
and at many points in Kansas. The
highest temperature, JOG degrees, was
registered at junction City, Kansas.
Some other towns that swetered were
Leavenworth, 102; Muskogce, Okla
homa and Topeka. l0l.
z Bartello Inziemi, barber OF New
York, pleaded guilty i'll Part IN the
Court OF Specia! Sessions yesterday OF
selling a revolver to minor and was
sentenced to so days in the peniten-
tary. The maximum punishment Is
one year in Jail and $500 fine. The
gun which Inziemi sold was the one
with which John Alilalo, the 1l-year.
old boy whose body was found stuffed
in a bag in the cellar OF his home at
10 Cherry street, was shot.
The contention that express rates
Should be certain percentage higher
| than freight rates was not sustained by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
in decision announced yesterday, OF
the case of Franklin, Stiles & Frank
lin. of Jacksonville, Fla, against the
Southern Express Company. The
commission held that the rate exacted
by the express company for the trans
nortaton Of eggs, IN cases, was un
reasonable and it was reduced approx
mately % per cent.
1t developed yesterday that mistaken
identity was responsible for the shoot
ing and wounding Wednesday night of
Miss Hattie Wetherby, school
teacher, Of Middleton, KY, on the
ShelbyyiIe pike near Louisville.
Thomas O. West, treasurer OF Ken
lucky insurance company, IS charged
with the shooting. The police say
West called on young woman shortly
before the shooting and, not finding
her at home, had become enraged.
Meeting Miss Wetherby, who was
driving il an open buggy, he opened
fire on her from his automobile, be-
lieying her to be the young woman
whom he had called to see West SAID
he had never seen Miss Wetherby be-
fore.
THE bill, the whole hill, and moth.
ing but the bill" Thus President
Taft summed up ali earnest plea for
the unamended adoption by the Sen
ate Of the Canadian reciprocity agree
ment before representative audience
of southern men in New York last
night. The occasion was q banquet
rendered by the New York Produce
Exchange to the Interstate Cottonseed
Crushers' Association The southern
cotton men not only made it plain that
they liked the president, but that they
we're strong for his Canadian reciproc-
ity plan. The southerners chcered
l"very sentence the president uttered
and rose at the end of his speech &c
give a thunderous AYE" when one Of
their number put the question, Are
We with the president ?''
The uniform success that has attend
ed the use of Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Retnedy has
made it fayoriue everywhere. 1t can
always be depended upon. For sale
hy W f. Creighton, and Richard Glib
son.
The Chinese government will de-
manl an indemnity OF $500 600 iron
the Mrs,cau government tnr hnanCid
losses Of It's COunirymen besides pay
for the killing Of BOB Cinnamon wher
the insnrrrctos took Torreon. Lar
Poo. banker of Torreon, has been
designated by the Chinese govern
meut to prepare a report on the SIT
nation, including statement of al
financial losses. Ii is denied tina,
The Chinese fired upon the insur
rcCtOs.