Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

George w. Williams, the millionaire
president of the Carolina Saving Bank
and the Oldest bankeri in South Carolina,
died at his home in Charleston yesterday
aged SO years.
President George +. Baer says the
price of coal in the Reading Railways
territory will not go above 1913 ton.
In other sections coal will cost from
$40 to $15.
According to the report of the APP
praisers appointed in San Francisco to
place value upon the estate OF the late
Charles L. Fair, Mr. Fair was worth
SO. O4O. 1877 at the time he and his wife
were killed in an automobile accident in
Paris.
There were sensational features in the
courtmartial proceedings yesterday at
Manila against Major Edwin +. Glenn.
The defense displayed purpose OF
shifting, if possible, responsibility for
the water-cure practice upon General
Chafiee.
According to an estimate made by a
conservative physician ofLouisville, KY,
the number of children injured during
the Christmas holidays with blank cart
ridges is 80. OF this number two have
died and several are now in a critical
condition.
information has been received at
Louisville from Guatemala that w. God
frey Hunter, jr., son OF the retiring
Minister to Guatemala, has been acquit-
ted by native court of the murder OF
William A. fitzgerald, also an Ameri-
can citizen, of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Gen. Richard Snowden Andrews, a
Confederate officer who won fame for
himself and his company as the COM
mander of "Andrews' Battery" died at
his home in Baltimore yesterday of paral-
ysis. General Andrews was born
seventy-two years ago in Washington.
The Morton Trust Company, acting
for the Consolidated Tobacco Company,
has concluded the purchase Of all the
outstanding common stock of the Amer
lean Tobacco Company and the tobacco
combine is now complete. Five hum
dred dollars a share was paid for the
stock.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Sulloway
called up and had passed a bill to IN
crease the pension for total deafness
from $50 to $40 per month. lie said
there were but 800 such soldiers on the
pension rolls. The additional charge
entailed on the Treasury would be about
S29, 900 per annum.
The directors of the United States
Steel Corporation yesterday declared the
regular quarterly dividends of per cent.
on the common and l "a per cent. on
the preferred stocks. A financial state
ment was issued, showing net earnings
for the calendar year, with December
estimated of 1892, $50, 600.
Prof. Harry King, chief of the drafts
man division of the General Land Office,
in Washington, and Fred p. Metzgar,
assistant chief clerk in the same division
were yesterday dismissed from the service
by Secretary Hitchcock. They were ac-
cused of making maps for outside parties
and other derelictions of duty.
Representative Gaines, of West Vir-
ginia, for the House committee on cleo
ton of President, Vice President and
Representatives in Congress, yesterday
submitted favorable report on the bill
introduced by Representative Joy, OF
Missouri, to punish frauds at elections
of representatives in Congress and
electors for president and vice president.
Father Don Luigi Sortori, pastor ofSt.
Joseph's Church, Midland, Md, has adj
dressed an open letter to the Federated
Catholic Societies of Allegany county,
protesting against dancing in any form.
The pastor declares that it is one of the
greatest evils in the United States and
compliments the Methodists of the coun-
try upon the stand they have taken
against dancing.
Three of the biggest coal companies
in the United States yesterday formed
an alliance, which, for all practical
purposes, will be combination. The
companies involved are the Consolida-
ton Coal Company, of Maryland; the
Fairmont Coal Company, of West Viz
ginia; the Somerset Coal Company, of
Pennsylvania. The combined capital
stock of the companies is S3l $50, 900.
Pennsylvania Railroad stockholders
will be asked, at meeting to be held
March 10, to authorize an increase in the
capital stock of the company to $780,
900. 900, and the bonded Indebtedness
like amount The present capitaliza-
ton of the road is 1928, 429, 240, and the
securities for 1886, $40, 760, which will
bring the total up to $500, 600, 900, will
be issued from time to time after au-
thorization.
Charles Henry Honeymeter, a press
man. shot and killed himself yesterday
morning in Fulton street, New York,
where he was employed. Almost at the
same time the dead body of bis daughter,
Jennie Honeymeter, eighteen years old,
was found in her bed at their home,
on East 10th street. 4 bottle of poi
soned bromo settler was by her side.
Father and daughter had lived apart from
the other members of the family. Mrs.
Honeymeter and several other children
live at Second avenue and 10th street.
The police have two theories, one that
it was double suicide, prearranged, and
the other that the father poisoned the
girl and then shot himself.
j. w. Cox, lately prosperous COM
mission merchant of Philadelphia, shot
and killed himself today in order that