Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-20

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counsel and invoking the laws delay.
The international warships that took
part in the demonstration to enforce the
demands of the powers in regard to the
Macedonian reforms have been ordered
to return to their respective stations, the
Porte having agreed to the demands.
Miss Daisy Wilkinson, a popular
Young schoolteacher, of Logan county,
w. Va, shot and killed Herman Nolan,
coIored, who attempted to assault her,
on Saturday. The shooting occurred
cn the highway running through wood
land.
DIR. w. S. Forbes, professor of anato-
my and clinical Surgery at Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, died yes
terday of angina pectoris. He had been
i'll but short time. DIR. Forbes was
born in Falmouth, Va, seventy-iour
years ago.
Charles A. Herfich testified in a New
York court Saturday that Attorney Abe
Hummel paid him to act as dummy"
inthe Dodge Morse divorce case, when he
was TO stand aud be identified as Dodge,
one of the principals in the case, in or
der to annul the divorce between Dodge
and his wife.
Four persons, employees, were Gre
mated and q number of others rescued
by desperate means in fire of unknow
origin which destroyed the Verbeck
Theatre at Larain, Odio, early yesterday
morning. The efforts of the imprisoned
tenants to escape when they discovered
the FIRE were pitifuI.
Five men we're killed by an explosion
Saturday at the Dupont company's dy-
Mantle works near Marquette, Mich.
About fourteen hundred pounds of nitro
glycerine exploded in the mixing house
of the company's factory, which is three
miles distant from Marquette. The ex-
plosou badly damaged the plant and
caused much excitement in Marquette.
Open acknowledgment by the govern
ment of the right of corporations to COM
bine and form trusts under the super
vision of the federal statutes. with all
due safeguards provided for the public,
is the remedy advocated for present in
dustriaI ills OF the nation by Commits
sioner Garfield, of the Bureau of Cor.
porations.
Secretary Root is anxious concerning
the threatened German tariff imbroglio.
He is giving earnest thought to the most
practical means to be adopted to induce
the Senate, at as early a date as possible,
to agree to some tariff concessions to Ger
many. II this is not done within the
next two and half months all the signs
indicate that there will be heavy loss
in American trade in that part of the
world.
President Roosevelt, in justification of
his course regarding the nOn-prosecution
of Paul Morton, makes public his cor
respondence with Mr.. Moody in the
Santa Fe rebate case. The cOrrespon-
dence consists of two letters, one from
Attorney General Moody to the Presi'
dent S response, in which he approves MI
Moody's decision that there was no
warrant for the prosecution Of Mr.. Nor
ton.
The bodies of Martin Alhast and John
Salks, mine workers, of Port Griffith,
Pa, were found yesterday morning
near their homes. They had been shot
and dubbed to death and robbed of
their two weeks earnings, which they
received at the mines Saturday. They
we're not together, but the police believe
that they were murdered and robbed by
the same gang, which has committed
several robberies recently on pay day
nights.
After binding the railroad Waterman,
William Jones, and bis twelve-year-old
son to chairs in the railroad station at
Sufiield, Conn, yesterday morning be-
fore daylight, six bank robbers pried
their way into the Suffield Savings Bank,
on Main street. blew open the safe after
the fourth attempt, and made away
with about $50, 900 worth of registered
bonds and stocks not negotiable, accord
ing to President NJ. T. Newton, of the
institution. They overlooked So. 900 in
cash and negotiable bonds in drawer
near by. The robbers made their es-
cape, leaving no cleW whatever.
A gold cross set witt diamonds, sus-
pended on gold chain, was cut from
the vestmenls of Rev. Charles H. Col.
ton, bishop of the Roman Catholic Do
cese of Buffalo, while he was attending
the dedication of st. Nicholas Greek
Catholic Church yesterday. The cross
was valued at more than $1,000. The
cross hung about the bishops neck over
all his robes. While in crush imme-
diately after the service the cross dis
appeared. Police we're summoned quiet
", and while no one was searched,
everyone was closely scrutinized leaving
the church The bishop has offered a
reward for the return of the cross.
The North Coast limited. westbound,
on the Northern Pacific Railroad, was
held up and robbed Is miles west of
North Yakima, Wash, Saturday night.
Two masked men compelled the eDei-
neer to stop the train and run the loco
motive, the mail and the express cars
half mile west OF the train. The rob-
bers dynamited the express cars, shat
tered the through and local safes and
escaped with the contents. The amount OF
plumber from the through safe isunknown
to the messenger. The contents of the
| l,cnla II is aid were NOT Of great Yalne