Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

suffrage to women.
A Connecticut judge yesterday render
ed decision adverse to labor union
which had instituted a boycott.
The Dominican revolutioaists have de-
manded recognition, but Minister Powell
has refused to hold communication with
them.
Ex- Secretary Carlisle has been engag-
ed as counsel by those who are opposed
to the admission of Senator Smoot oil
Utah, to the Senate.
An attack was made on the stock OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad on the New
York Stock Exchange yesterday and the
price was driven down to ll24, the low
est point that had been reached in five
years.
Democratic leaders of Maryland say
that one outcome Of their recent success
at the polls aud their control CT both
branches of the next General Assembly
will be the passage ola Jim Crow bill by
the legislature.
p. ]. Dwyer, manager Of the Metro
politan Jockey Club since its advent as
an active racing concern, resigned from
Office Yesterday. Dryer received $780,
600 per annum. President Reynolds
will succeed him next year.
The sculptor Valentines design for a
memorial to Jefferson Davis was accept
ed by the Daughters of the Confederacy
in session in Charleston, s. G. 1t is to
be erected at Richmond, alta cost of s7O,-
900, of which $62, 900 already is on
hand,
In the work of retrenchmentw which the
officials of the United States Steel Cor
poration have ordered and planned 1t Is
proposed to reduce the annual payroll OF
the corporation about Sl5,000,O 900, or
slightly more than 10 per cent. OF the
wages paid last year.
Reports from the centers of the cotton
mill industry throughout New England
| indicate that the announcement at
Fall River that 10 per cent. reduction
in wages had been decided upon by the
cotton manufacturers there, to go into
effect November 20, has caused general
uneasiness, due to the belief that an
requal reduction at other places is ineyi-
table.
The whole Pacific coast, from British
Columbia to Southern California, and
the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and
western Colorado, were sweptby a storm
yesterday that has resulted in an almost
total prostraiion of telegraph service over
that territory, and in the mountains has
all but tied up the railroads in regular
midwinter blockade.
The democrats OF the Senate will pro-
badly resist any plan on the part of the
Administration to enter into treaty with
the newly born Republic Of Panama.
The position which the minority will
probably take is that the Administration
must obey the mandatory provisions OF
the canal bill passed by the Fifty-seyenth
Congress, and that unles that law is re-.
pealed and new authorization secured
no treaty on the subject of the canal can
be made with the Republic OF Panama.
BLIND TIGERS SMAsHED.-To the
ringing of the fire bell yesterday after
noon at 3 O'Clock 400 citizens armed
with axes gathered at the City Hall at
Gainesville, Ca, as per previous ar
rangement and proceeded to smash the
blind tigers and other notorious resorts
in the city. After completing their
work of demolition the members of the
mob, through their leaders, served
notice on the proprietors of the liquor
joints and other resorts that they must
leave the county in 10 days and thatno at
tempt to reopen their places will be
tolerated. The committee of citizens
was composed of the best people of the
city, and headed by Rev. j. w. Wynne,
pastor of the First Baptist Church. a
mass-meeting was held after the alleged
violators of the law had been visited, at
which large sum was raised to be
used in the prosecution of any person
who shall attempt to reopen one Of the
closed resorts. There has been con-
siderable trouble at Gainesville recently
in which liquor has played large part,
and as the county in which the place is
situated is dry the illegal sale was re-
garded as the chief of evils. A few
weeks ago Rev. J. F. Petty had duel
with G. G. Lipscomb as result of an
article charging Lipscomb with running
blind tiger. Several shots were ex-
changed, but neither party was injured.
HEAD CRUSHED WITH CLUB. -Chas.
Imler, boy nineteen years old, was
struck on the head with a club by HON.
err Quarry, two years his senior, at Cum
berland, Nd, Tuesday, night, and re-
ceived injuries that we're almost imme-
diately fatal. The police are searching
for Quarry, who in the confusion follow
ing the fatal assault made good his es-
cade. 1t appears Quarry owed Frank
Imler, father of the dead boy, borrowed
money. He and Charles Imler met in
Charles Snyder's store Tuesday night,
and Quarry, who was drinking, told I'm
Ter he could not get any goods without
the money. Imler replied he coald buy
what he pleased if Quarry paid him back
what he owed. A quarrel followed
Quarry's alleged insult, the men going
on the outside, and two negroes, brothers,
named Love, going along. Quarry pro-
ceeded to the street, followed by Imler