Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Col. Tom OchiItree, of Texas, is
thought to be dying at Hot Springs, va
Unless the government Of Guatemala
takes action, W. Godfrey Hunter, IT,,
NAV escape trial for the killing OF WI
liam Fitzgerald.
President Baer, of the Reading and
Jersey Central Railroads, has been named
by J. Pierpont Morgan as successor 70
Alfred Walter, President of the Lehigh
Valley Road.
President John Mitchell and Attorney
WAYNE Macyeagh are to confer IN WASH
ington, while the independent coal opera,
tors hold conference with the railroad
presidents in New York
A statement issued at the White
House says that the appointment OF
District Attorney Byrne, of Delaware,
was made on the ground of merit and
not in recognition ofthe Addicks faction.
The South Carolina general assembly,
meeting the second Tuesday in January,
will be composed entirely Of whites.
This has not before been the case since
the right of suffrage was granted the ne
gro.
The Ministerial Alliance of Salt Lake
Yesterday adopted resolutions strongly
opposing the proposed election to the
United States Senate of Reed Smoot,
one of the II apostles of the Mormon
Church.
Consul General Gowdy, at Paris, act
ing upon instructions of the State De
partment, has appointed a commission
( OF American doctors TO invo@tigase the
case of Mrs. Ellen Gore to determine
whether she was killed or committed
suicide. Jean de Ridzewski, accused
of killing Mrs. Gore was set at liberty
Professionally.
THEY'RE off at Bennings AT the
quarter were the words four detec-
tiyes heard pronounced in a woman
voice as they were passing the house at
1928 west Thirty-seventh street Wash
ington late yesterday afternoon, and re-
suited in the raiding of an alleged wo.
mans poolroom and the arrest OF 10
women prisoners. Twenty other wo-
men. all dressed in the height OF style
and wearing many diamonds, escaped
over backyard fences when the detec
tiyes broke into the room.
Asa result of conflicts of a serious ma
ture in Havana, yesterday between thu
police and the men on strike two strikers
are dead and eight-two other persons arr
wounded. Five of the wounde'i-on'
lieutenant of the police, whose throa
was cut by striker-have very sever
injuries. Eight other policemen arr
wounded. The police now have the not
ers we'll under control but every precau
tons is being taken to prevent turtle
outbreak of disorder, and all the police
and rural guards in the suburbs have
been summoned TO concentrate II
Havana.
When woman in the government
employ, especially in the Postofice De
partment, hereafter changes her name
for any reason she cannot expect to hole
her place in Uncle Sans employment
One of the rules of the service is tina
when anyone changes his or her mann
he or she must be rcappointed, so tina
their new name can be placed on tn
payroll. Therefore, under the new or
der of things, women who marry can N
longer serve the government IN tn
Postoffice Department. This ruling wa
made by Postmaster General Payne yes
terday, and will be effective after tn
1st of December.
A new invasion Of Venezuela from Co
lombia occurred recently, when 2, 200 re
volutionists, Venezuelan and Colombian
liberated as the result of the surrender Q
Gen. Tribe Tribe, and commanded b.
Gems. Rangcl Garbiras and Espirlt
Santo Morales, entered Venezuelan ter
ritory. On Saturday last, after sever
encounter at Las Dantas with Venezue
Ian troops commanded by Presiden
Castro's brothers, the revolutionists wer'
checked. Colombia is generally regard
ed as being innocent of the movement
though the government at Caracas insist
that Colombia is responsible.