Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-24
News of the Day.

population in 1910 oil the OnlVeu D'''0'
at SO, 041, 496.
Peter Elliott, or Olsen, the lunatlc
who created sensation at the White
House last October, hanged himself IN
Minneapolis yesterday.
Ormonde, the world-famous horse, wa
killed at the Menlo Park stock farm
w. Old Marlborough, near San Fran
cisco, yesterday, to relieve great suffer-
ing from paralysis.
Elliot Danforth, who has just returned
to New York from a political mission to
Hot Springs, Va, says that Judge
Parkers nomination at st. Louis Is
assured beyond question.
Savable, Rosetint and Red Knight,
three added starters, ran and finished
one two and three in the Van Cortlandt
Handicap, seven furlongs, at Morris
Park, New York, yesterday.
President Roosevelt yesterday issued
orders directing the heads Of all execa-
tive departments to comply with the law
in the District against permitting dense
smoke to issue from chimneys.
Colonel Augustus G Buell., veteran
of the civil war and later widely known
as a war correspondent and author OF a
standard "Life of John Paul Jones,
died in Philadelphia yesterday.
The Frederick City Ministerial Asso-
citation will make an appeal to the. Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company to
discontinue the running of Sunday ex-
cursions to and from Frederick.
At Yesterdays session at Mobile, Ala.
of the General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church in the United States Mod
orator Neel announced a committee to
consider all overtures from the churches
of Calvinistic creeds.
The value of kiss which Miss Ellen
Won Bokern declared was forcibly taken
from her by Frank P. r. Bohager was
fixed at 800 by a jury in the Superior
Court in Baltimore yesterday. That was
the amount of the verdict rendered by
the Jury in the suit of Miss Won Bokern
against Mr.. Bohager for alleged assault.
A report from Philadelphia says that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will lay off some II, 900 men 10 get the
payroll down to what it was in 1902.
The reduction applies to all departments
such as transportation, maintenance OF
way and shops on lines east of Pittsburg
and Erie. Similar action will be taken
on lines of the system west, it is said,
amounting to about 10 per cent. cut in
the force of employees.
The most sensational incident of the
Methodist General Conference in Los
Angeles, CAL, occurred yesterday in the
resignation Of Bishop James R. Day, of
Syracuse, N. Y. His resignation was
accepted by the conference. The con-
ference then voted to indefinitely post
pone the election of a successor to Dr.
Day on the episcopal board, and this
action was taken to mean that there will
be no balloting for an eighth bishop by
this conference, and that the board will
remain as at present constituted.
A band of 80 young Jews made an
anti-war demonstration in the streets
of Gomel, Russia, Sunday night. They
carried a red banner bearing an inscrip-
ton reading: 'Down with the war y
and scattered an inhammatory proclama-
ton. The police interfered in the in
terest of order, whereupon the Jews fired
upon them. The police answered with
firing two rounds in the air. The Jews
then dispersed. No one was wounded
on either side. One Jew was arrested.
The population is considerably excited
by the incident.
A fight to eliminate the competition OF
women and to equalize the wage scale
in the various packing centers of the
country has been inaugurated by the
Packing Trades Council in Chicago,
which claims girls are put to the most
brutalizing work and compelled to labor
for far less wages than the men receive.
The new wage scale for butcher work
men and the demand that women be
ousted from all positions which require
them to use the knife will be presented
to the packers within the week. 1t is
alleged that girls still in their teens are
required to stand in blood up to their
ankles while shaving hogs heads and to
cut the quiyeringa flesh from carcasses
not yet grown cold.
The democrats made clean sweep in Mar,
tinsburg, w. Va, yesterday. They elected
the MAYOR and four out the five councilmen.