Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-22
News of tie Day.

of the Russian peace plenipotentiaries.
The National Association Of Photo
E erayers 10 session at Buffalo, ~ T.,
yesterday adopted resolution against
the closed shop.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court to-
dav granted an injunction asked for to
restrain the consolidation of Pittsbnrg
and Allegheny.
CLARK University, at Worcester, Mass,
Yesterday bestowed the honorary degree
OF doctor of laws upon Mr.. Roo'evelt,
who made an address.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the commission appointed to investigate
the capitulation of Port Arthur finds that
the surrender of the fortress was justin
able.
Mr.. Brodrick, presenting the Indian
budget in the British House OF Com
mons, asked for an increase of the charge
for military service by $l2, 200, 900 for
the defense of India.
In official circles in Washington it is
said that the slumblingblock in the way
Of an armistice between Russia and Japan
is the unwillingness Of either beligerent
to take the initiative.
Johann HOch, the multibigamist, con
yicted of wife-mnrder, will be granted
reprieve by Governor Deneen, OF Hi
nois, in order that bis case may be
carried to the Supreme Court of the
State.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court
handed down decision yesterday holding
that the attempt to force all laborers to
combine in'unions is against the policy
of the law, because it aims at monopoly
OF the labor market.
Twice married to DIR. William A. Davis
and twice divorced from him, Mrs.
Bertha Winter Davis has married Mr.
Alfred Tile of New York, according to
message received by the brides mother,
Mrs. Louise Winter, in Baltimore.
Almas Patrol, of Washington, won
the prize valued at 1000 for the best
drilled body at the exhibition drill at
Niagara Falls yesterday OF Arab foot pa
trolls, held in connection with the I'm
perial Council, Ancient Arabic Order OF
the Mystic Shrine.
By authority of Postmaster General
CortelyOu, an emphatic denial was given
at the Postoffice Department yesterday
in the report coming from Chicago that
the department had permitted the Con.
tinental Finance Company, an alleged
get-rich-quick concern, to continue in
business on a promise that it would
change the form of its advertising litera-
ture.
A marriage of much interest to Vir-
ginians was solemnized yesterday at st.
Margarets Protestant Episcopal Church,
Westminster, London, when Miss Alice
Atwater Carter, daughter of the late
William Fitzhugh Carter, of Shirley,
Va, and ward of Mr.. Thomas NJ. Lana
ham, of Baltimore, was married to Mr..
Robert Valentine Reid, of Glasgow, Scot
land
Fear and excitement over the treat
ment given her by New York Health
Board physician to prevent diphtheria
killed Yetta Green, little East Side
girl, Tuesday, not the antitoxin which
the doctor injected into her veins, so the
autopsy made by DR.. Leblanc, cor Dner's
physician, and Prof John H. Larkin,
of Columbia University, yes
terday proved.
The City Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany, at Philadelphia, for years rated
among the most reliable financial insti
tutions in the community, yesterday
closed its doors, and Albert L. Tabor, a
State bank examiner, was appointed
temporary receiver. This is a sequel to
The stock forgeries of Benjamin II. Gas
kill, involving losses amounting to about
5000, 900 to the banks of Philadelphia.
Running at the rate of fifty or sixty
miles an hour, the Twentieth Century
Limited, on the Lake Shore Railroad,
dashed into an open switch at the pas
,enger station at Mentor, Ohio, shortly |
before 10 clock last night. Seventeen |
persons were killed and twelve or fifteen |
BADLY injured. The combination bag
rage and smoking buffet car and the
,oach behind it caught fire and we're de-
trOyed.
Chairman Paul Morton, of the Equit-
lble board of directors, has accepted the
Of several of the clerks who
we're employed in Mr.. Hyde's Office and
Who, it has been charged, rendered no
ervice to the society, although they
we're carried on the Equitable payrols.
)ne of the men to 60 was Charles P.
who drew a salary of ST.
700 year from the Equitable as secre-
airy to Mr.. Hyde.
The employing printers of the Middle
,tates met in convention in Philadelphia
yesterday and adopted resolutions in op-
osition to the proposed eight hour work
ng day decided upon by the International
typographical Union, TO go into effect
anuaTy |, 1906. Many speeches were
lade, in which the opinion was express
that the establishment Of an eight
our working day would wipe out all
rodts and be practically ruinous.
Mr.. Herbert w. Bowen, former min
ter to Venezuela, in lengthy state ,
tent issued in New York yesterday I
fternoon explains his dismissal from
ne diplomatic service of the United
lates He asks for an "open, impartial,
'arless and thorough investigation in all
he facts; says the "Venezuelan scandal
institutes a national disgrace" quotes !