Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is reported that Brazilian prelate
and one from the United States will be
created cardinals at this weeks consisto-
ry.
The Commissioner of immigration in
New York is oyerrun with applications
for servant girls from Southern and Wes-
tern housewives.
Booker I. Washington was denounced
at negro meeting in Boston yesterday
and negro party advocated to enforce
the reconstruction amendments.
George B. Zimmerman, ofPhiladephia,
Yesterday asked his daughter to play
HYMN for him and after its conclusion re-
tired TO his room and committed suicide.
Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner of
Immigration, suffered an attack OF par
lyisis of the left side in Washington on
| Saturday and for a time his condition
gave his family considerable concern.
| DIR. A. L. Nelden, of New York, insert
ed an advertisement in the New York pa
pers Offering to pay $4,000 for human
ear. which he wishes to graft upon the
head of patient who has lost one OF his
ears.
At the Missouri Conference OF Chair
ties and Corrections on Saturday, Pro-
lessor Elwood charged that the superln-
tendent Of an almshouse had ordered an
insane womans teeth extracted because
she had bitten him.
William L. Elkins, the multimillion-
aire traction nagnate and financier, died
at his summer home at Ashbourn, near
Philadelphia, on Saturday night, of a
complication of diseases. He was sew
enty-one years of age.
United States Fish Commissioner
George NJ. Bowers, Of Martinsburg, w.
Va, has been sued by John Creque for
the alienation of the affections of his
wife The plaintiffs the son of saloon
keeper and former bartender.
At the present session of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in Boston an
attempt will be made to form affiliations
with political party. 1t is said that a
resolution will be offered pledging the
federation to the cause of socialism.
President Frank Buchanan, of the
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers OF
America, has ordered a strike through
out the country on all contracts held by
the Iron League of New York. Forty
thousand men in the building trades and
$50 buildings under construction are al
fected by the order.
A strange and most unexpected ro-
nance developed in the county Jail at
Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday. Mrs. Anna
Hanlam, who last August had her sight
DESTROYED and her face SCARED by vitrol
thrown by L. Peter McCarty, has agreed
to marry the man who, by his own con-
fession, has hopelessly MANNED her for
life.
The Washington branch of the Brick
LAYERS and Masons' International Union
of America on Saturday assented to the
proposition of National President Cub
bins to admit negro bricklayers to the
union. President Gubbins told the
union that in the event of refusal TO adj
NIT the negroes, the latter would be
granted separate charter.
A dispatch from Trinidad says it is
now evident that the strike Of the coal
miners in the first district of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company is no small at
fair In fact. it is strike out OF all
proportions to that ever hoped for by
the officers of the United Mine workers
of America, and ten times what was
looked for by the coal operators.
Mr.. Martin Loew, 81 years old, a
student of the Dental Department OF
the University of Maryland, was found
dead and Mr.. Ephraim Stone, a fellow
student, very ill in their room at TAI
west Lexington street, Baltimore, Satur-
day. Mr. Stone told the police that he
and Mr.. Loew had been tossed in
blanket and beaten in an initiation into
college fraternity the night before,
but subsequently said that Mr.. Loew
had not been initiated.
A new but not dangerous source OF op-
position to Cuban reciprocity legislation
has developed. The American Protec-
tive Tariff League has declared against
it. and has sent former Representative
Tayler of Ohio, to Washington to fight
against the proposed action of Congress.
There is likely to be very little trouble
in getting the Cuban bill through the
House, but its passage in the Senate be-
fore the close of the extra session de-
ponds now upon whether much time will
be consumed by the democrats in dis
GUESSING the Panama canal project and
other matters.
A. Floyd Byrd, commonwealth's at
torney of Breathitt county, KY, who
gained a reputation in the prosecution Of
Curtis Jet and Thomas White for the
Marcum murder, in a long-distance tele-
phone communication with Lexington
last night, confirmed the rumor that be
has decided to remain away from Breath
lit county during the term of court
which begins at Jackson, KY, today.
His action is taken upon the insistent
solicitations of friends and relatives,
who declare that, judging from the past
history of the county, his life would be
in constant peril there.
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