Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-08
News Of the Day.


The correspondent at Toxic of the
London Telegraph says at is officially
stated that submarines actually were
used in the Tsu straits battle"
At a meeting of the board OF directors
os the Equitable Life Assurance Society
at New York yesterday resolutions pro-
posing sweeping reforms were passed.
Tie selection of a chairman of the board
was deferred until Friday.
Many church dignitaries attended the
commencement of the Catholic Uni
versity in Washington yesterday. The
amount received by the university for
the year was 1899, O47, of which Car
dinal Gibbons personally collected
$S2,949.
Because he persisted in writing love
letters to Miss Alice Roosevelt all sug
costing matrimony, John johnson,
Swede, was arrested in st. Louis yester-
day by Elmer German, United States
secret service officer. Johnson's mind Is
weak, and he has been patient in an
insane asylum.
The highest price ever paid for land IN
New York, 1925 square foot, was given
on Tuesday for the property at the cor
ner of Wall street and Broadway. The
plot fronts 20 feet, 10 inches on Broad
way and 80 feet, 10 inches on Wall
street. 1t faces Trinity Church. The
amount paid was 800, 900.
Alice Niesen, Who claims to be the
Baroness de Vorts Salmo, wife OF an
Austria nCblemen, yesterday in Wash
ington pleaded guilty to the charge of
stealing aces from Mrs. William Slater,
by whom she was employed as a maid.
Sentence was suspended upon recommen.
dation of District Attorney Beach. The
woman is suffering from consumption in
advanced stage.
After a conference in Chicago lasting
for five hours between the Employers
Association and the committee appoint
ed by the Transfers Joint Council with
full power to settle the strike, all negoti-
ations were declared off last night and
there is no immediate probability Of a
settlement. The union submitted a
number of proposals, which the EN-
ployers fatty refused to consider at all.
AT Christiania, Norway, Yesterday, as
stated iu the Gazette that day, the Storth-
ing declared the union between Norway
and Sweden under one king to be dis
solved and that the king had ceased to
act as king of Norway. The Storthing
further empowered the present State
Council to act as government Of Nor
way until further notice and to exercise
the power heretofore spperiaining to the
King
The failure ofthe YladivostOk squadron
to put to sea and effect diversion in
favor of Admiral ROjestvenky at the
time of the recent battle is explained to
have been due to the utter absence of
knowledge on the part Of Rear Admiral
Jessen as TO whether ROjestyensky in
tended to circle through the straits of
Korea. Jesseu at no time was informed
of the Russian commanders plans, and
was unable to cooperate with him.
For the first time since the street car
employees Of Bay City, Mich together
with those of Saginaw and the interurban
line between the two cities, went on
strike Sunday morning to enforce a de-
mand for an increase in wages and a
shortening of their hours, serious rioting
broke out yesterday and at times the po-
lice were unable to cope with the unruly
element. All the strikebreakers received |
their wounds during attacks on their cars
by crowds of men and boys. Windows
in number of cars were broken by the |
missiles thrown by the crowds.
Lawson Trail, aged forty, and Walter
Grandson, aged sixteen, were killed at the
county poorhouse near Bedford Md,
yesterday afternoon by lightning. They |
took refuge from storm in an clubhouse
that had been used az a pen for pig.
The building, nearly two stories high,
was surmounted by a cupOla, which pro-
badly attracted the lightning. Trails
body was burned, but his clothing was
uninjured. GranisOn's coat was torn to
shreds and a new shoe on his right
foot was burned to a cinder. Trails
brother until recently was keeper of the
poorhouse Charles Lawrence, who stood
near Grandson, was knocked down by the
bolt.