Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

John A. Glines, City treasurer vi
HayerhiIl, Mass, was arrested yesterday,
charged with larceny of s4S, 900 in bonds
from the city.
Violent eruptions of the Mount Cohina
volcano. in Mexico, have alarmed the
people, earthquake shocks being frequent
in the region of the volcano.
Receivers have been appointed in
Baltimore for the company which
publishes the Catholic Mirror. The
paper will be continued, however.
The Senate committee on military af-
fairs authorized Senator Foraker to re-
port favorably the nomination of Govern
or Taft, of the Philippines, to be secre-
tary of war.
One of three negroes indicted for the
outrage on Sister Alma, at st. Johns
Home for Boys, at Elm Grove, near
Wheeling, w. Va October 81, pleaded
guilty yesterday and has turned State
evidence.
The Judge of the Criminal Court of
Fayette county, w. Va, has issued a
proclamation calling upon the citizens
not to carry firearms. Fifteen murders
occurred in that county during Christ
mas week.
Parke Goodwin, from 1887 to 1853 edi-
tor of the New York Evening Post, OF
which he again became editor few years
later and well-known as editor and au-
thor of several books, died yesterday IN
New York agedSS.
A summons in the case of the govern
ment against former Superintendent OF
Rural Free Delivery Machen was served
on former Assistant Postmaster General
Perry !. Heath in Salt Lake City yes
terday by United States Marshal Hey
wood.
Sir Thomas Upton has sold ais mem
bership on the Chicago Board Of Trade.
The sale of the Upton membership IS
proof that Sir Thomas does not propose
to do any more business in Chicago.
The Upton plant has been closed down
| for some months.
After celebrating forty-fve minutes
Yesterday jury in New York found for
mer Congressman Edmund II. Drggs
guilty of accepting money to procure a
contract between a private company and
the government while serving as mem
Der of Congress. The jury recommend
ed mercy.
Robert Ludlow Preston, son OF j.
Alexander Preston, one Of the weaithiest
LAWYERS of Maryland, fell under the
wheels of Pennsylvania freight car In
Baltimore yesterday. Both legs were
cut off above the knee. Theyoung man,
who is "a years old, is dying at the
City Hospital.
Some constitutional lawyers in the
Senate say they think the Supreme Court
will decide it has no jurisdiction in the
suit of Minnesota against the Northern
Securities Company involving the legality
of the consolidation of the Northern Pa
cjfic and Great Northern railroads in the
Northern Securities Company.
A story that on next Tuesday Senator
Hanna will announce that he is a candi-
date for President and on the day follow
ing R. G. Kereps will issue prepared
interview declaring for Hanna, pro-
duced little less than a sensation in re-
publican circles in Kansas City, Mo-,
yesterday The story is not believed how
ever.
s. M. Wetherly, treasurer of the Key
stone Type Foundry of Philadelphia, an
nounced last night that the strike inau-
gurated about October l by the union
| typefounders throughout the United
States should be declared off by the Off
GERS of the union, and that the men should
be instructed to return TO work at the
best terms they can get.
For an hour, from to 7 o'clock last
evening, fire ragged under the Senate
chamber at the Capitol, and the main
electric duct, carrying all the wires for
the Senate side, was so completely burn
ed out that not light was burning last
night, and only the hardest kind of work
will suffice to repair the damage 30 that
the electricity eau NC Iuincu vi IVuo!'
The origin OF the fire is unknown, but
the most likely explanation is that it
was due to crossed wires. The building
was not damaged, and the loss is esti-
mated about $500.
Maj. Holmes Conrad, one of the special
counsel for the government in the prose-
cution of the cases growing out of the
postal investigations, will conduct the
trial of August w. Machen, Diller B.
and Samuel A. Croft, of Washington,
and George f. and Martha j. Lorenz, of
Toledo, Ohio, all indicted in connection
with the purchase of supplies for the free
delivery service. The trial will begin
Monday in the District of Columbia
Criminal Court before Judge Pritchard
and a jury. Charles J. Bonaparte,
District Attorney Beach and Assistant
District Attorney Taggart will partici-
pate in the trial.