Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-03-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS Or LIE LA L.
Judge Grosscup, of Chicago, says non
Of the proposed laws to curb trusts seem
adequate.
Former Congressman Jehu Baker die
at his home in Belleville, ILL.,, yesterday
Death was direct due to an attack o
partial paralysis two days ago.
President Roosevelt sent to the Senat,
on Saturday the nomination of Hon. III
b. f. mcfarland to be Commissioner o.
the District of Columbia for another
term.
Milton +. Allies, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, will it is said soon re-
sign his position and become vice presi.
dent of the Riggs National Bank in
Washington.
Miss Edith Cation, of Red Bank, n.
j., who was supposed TO be dead, came
to life while the undertaken was making
preparations TO embalm the body on
Saturday.
Senators Tillman and Clay have decid-
ed to prevent the confirmation of w. ID.
Crum as Collector of the Port at Charles
ton, S. C.. The President will reappoint
Crum as soon as Congress adjourns.
1t is reported that William Il. Mer-
RAM, director OF the census, will soon
tender his resignation to accept posi-
ton with an international credit con-
Germ with headquarters in New York.
A woman has given the Chicago
authorities information that furnishes
damaging links of evidence against the
men accused of robbing the Chicago
postofice of $40, Clio worth of stamps.
A fire that started in NOR, Son &
Co. IS biscuit works, at Halifax, n. s.,
on Saturday, destroyed property valued
at $500, 900. Three firemen were Sc
riously injured by the collapse of a
ladder.
Captain Shawe-Taylor, secretary Of
the Landlords and Tenants Conference,
says that a settlement of the Irish land
question will greatly improve the rela-
tons between Great Britain and the
United States.
The ID. A. r. Congress adjourned in
on Saturday night. The con-
yress decided to change the date of
assembling hereafter to the week which
includes April 10, instead of that in
;luding Washington's birthday.
j. Edward Addicks has again Gre
ired' for the present from the senatorial
ace, and it is expected that each re-
publican faction in Delaware will elect |
ne senator today. A1dicks will make |
he fight again two years hence.
Gen. William Far.ar Smith better
.nown as "Baldy" Smith, one of the
rominent figures of the civil war, died
his home in Philadelphia Saturday
light. He was in his eightieth year
nd was born in st. Adams, VT.
Speaker Henderson declined on Satur-
ay to allow the Foraker bill providing
n an appropriation Of 5000, 900 to mark
lie graves of Confederates who died in
orthern prisons, tc come up. The bill
lssed the Senate without a dissenting
Dte.
Representative Livingston, of Georgia,
lie ranking democratic member of the
ouse committee on appropriations makes
rough estimate that the total amount of
oney appropriated by the Congress
hich is now about to close will reach a
ininum figure Of 81, 900, 600, 900.
While in state of intoxication and
azed by drink, VIM. Farmer, deputy ,,
eriff and well-to-do farmer of Clayton
unity Ga, Friday night shot and killed
) father-in-law, James Christian, NOR
lily wounded his wife and then placed {
pistol to his heart and fired, dying in
Intly.
Lewis Nixon, the prominent shipbuild- ;
whose brief leadership of Tammany
al, after the abdication of Richard
ecker, brought him into utilization and !;
iuence with the democratic command :,
of New York and the Eastern States, :
out for Chief Judge Alton B. Parker "
President. .
The Pope's physician was unable to P
suade him from receiving the cardinals Ii
'terday, the ntif'declaring he would le
form his duty to the end He talked re
half an hour with the ~ cardinals, Ia
scented each one with pamphlet re-
wing events in his pontificate, and OF
d he would order copies sent to
rdinal Gibbons and the few other d,
dinals not at the audience. Il,
Floods and windstorms caused con- q,
cradle damage in Wisconsin, Ken T
ky, Tennessee and western Pennsyl- l.
Tia in the vicinity of Pittsburg Satur-
afternoon. A heavy snowstorm in ca
Ith Dakota caused the abandonment ar
abroad trains. A furious windstorm
ted Norfolk and vicinity. Wires III
factory chimneys were Frustrated ar
the harbor was filled with craft %
raced by a tremendous gale. All in
ling vessels were delayed. A whirl- fro
kissing waterspout, pyramid of
water that rose as high as a three
y house and threw off torrents of or,
" as it spun around on its axis, bill
pit across Baltimore harbor at 3
Ock on that afternoon. Rittenburg, su,
and other points along the ins
er Ohio river were swept by dan ins
us flood yesterday, many homes and
ness houses being under water. MI
The Stomach Is the Man. 7
weak stomach weakens the man, because tiol
mot transform the food he eats into your rep
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