Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
News Of the Day.

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Early reports of the mufing, at Kron-
stadt. it is stated, were exaggerated.
Much alarm has been caused by re.
port that the "Black Hundred intended
massacreing the Jews in St. Petersburg
last night.
Ex-Goy. Frank Brown, of Maryland,
in an interview yesterday reiterated his
determination to he gubernalorlal
candidate in 1907, aud declared his ee-
lief that the democratic party will re-
gain its power in that canvass.
William Barnes, former superintendent
of insurance for the State of New York,
testified Yesterday before the Armstrong
investigating committee that a one-man
power. in which Thomas Ryan took the
place of james Hazen Hyde, still con-
trolIed the Equitable Life Assurance
Company.
The federal grand jury at st.
Louis, Yesterday. returned an indict'
ment against United States Senator
Joseph K. Burton, of Kansas. 1t is
stated that certain features in the former
indictment against Senator Burton,
which was quashed, we're remedled In
this new indictment.
Major Count AdolfVon Goetzen, gov
ernor of German East Africa, reports
that the insurgents have been beaten in
FIVE fights near Songea, and that 4, 600
Wangoni tribesmen were defeated Oc-
tober 81, nesr Nyambengo. The Ger
man troops had no casualties, but the
insurgents suffered heavy losses.
President Roosevelt has ordered that
the consular service rules be changed so
as to put appointments and promotions
on a merit basis, and that hereafter all
appointees to consular places and to Po-
sitions as embassy secretaries shall be
subjected to a rigid examination, similar
to the civil service examination.
The position on rate legislation OF a
majority of the delegates attending the
convention of the American Hardware
Manufacturers Association on rate leg
isIation was made emphatic in Wash
ington yesterday, when by an almost
unanimous vote a resolution indorslng
the stand taken by President Roosevelt
was adopted
Mayor Tom Johnson, of Cleveland, o.,
alarmed at The official report that there
have been eighty-six suicides in Cleye-
land in the last nine months, has taken
steps to check the epidemic of self
destruction. He has appointed com
mission whose duty it will be to attempt
to dissuade would.be suicides from TAX
ing their own lives.
Members of the st. Georges Episco-
pal Church in New York now think that
Rev. DR.. w. S. RainsfOrd may not be
able to return TO his work. St. George S
Year Book appeared Thursday and in it
Dr. Rainsford writes that he is physical
ly sound, and in many respects never felt
better in his life. He is still exceeding
ly nervous, and lives in daily apprehen-
sion Of breakdown. At times he is
unable to sleep. His present plan is to
remain abroad until next April
A crowd of people saw a woman jump
from a fire escape on the fifth floor OF
the Boston Store, in Chicago, to Instant
death on sidewalk in State street yes
terday afternoon. The woman was Miss
Annie Raines, of Detroit, Mich. Ill
health was supposed to have driven her
to suicide. Suddenly arising from a
chair, where she had been resting, the
woman ran to the window and leaped.
She struck the sidewalk after hitting
one pedestrian and narrowly missing
others who had only the warning OF her
screa ms and the sight of her body tumb-
ling from the fire escape. She died in
stantly, her skull having been crushed.