Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-01-05
News Of the Day.

prepared a statement which VIII clear
her of all suspicion.
The grand jury in New York yester-
day began an investigation OF the Dodge
Morse divorce scandal.
The Massachusetts, legislature yester-
day unseated a member who Is now IN
Jail for fraud in connection with federal
civil service examinations.
A. J. Cassatt, president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, has bought a large
block of stock of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, and will
next week be elected director of the
latter company.
General Stoessel in his last dispatch
to the Car, prior to the surrender, said:
"Great sovereign, pardon u.s. Judge
us but be merciful. Nearly ele'en
months of uninterrupted struggles have
exhausted us"
Plans are on foot at the present time
for the sale of the interests in the un-
completed Washington, Baltimore and
Annapolis Electric Railroad, which it
was designed to construct, 50 as to con-
meet Washington with Baltimore and
Annapolis.
The de rocrats of Colorado have decided
that on January 10, the date prescribed
BY the statutes, they will have Alva
Adams sworn in as governor ofthe State.
The oath will be administered by Justice
Steele Of the Supreme Court. The hour
and place Of the ceremony have not been
definitely settled. No action was taken
BY the legislature yesterday looking to-
ward a settlement Of the gubernatorlal
contest.
According to information received
from New York, the police there have
arrested three men, giving their names
as Jim" Mullhall, Linden and Brunes,
who are alleged to be the same who COM
posed the Maryland Poultry Company,
of HagsrstowU, which is alleged to have
swindled merchants 10 the Valley OF
Virginia out of about $50, 600 last No
vember.
A special from New York says: Con-
troll of the Detroit Southern has passed
into the hands of independent interests,
who expect to turn the property to an
other road, probably the Seaboard Air
Line. Expectation that sale to the
Seaboard Air Line will ultimately be
arranged is very strongly entertained in
quarters identified with the present con-
troll of the Detroit Southern property,
but Seaboard Air Line interests DO not
admit any such probability.
Chocolate-coated strychnine and nux
vomica tablets, prescribed by a physician
for their mother, caused the death
of Laura and Joseph Barsuglia, three and
six years old, respectively, at their hone
in Philadelphia last night. The children
we're playing in the house and during the
brief absence of the mother found the
tablets in a closet Believing them to be
candy, the boy ate several and is sup
posed to have given some to his sister.
The children were found in commissions
and died in half an hour, despite the ei-
fJrts of physicians to save them.
The omnibus claims bill, in which a
number of Virginia people are interest
ed, was reported TO the Senate yesterday
The measure appropriates 81, 500, 600.
1t carries 1000 claims. Under the
Bowman Tucker act claims sggregati9g
S1.350,0 900 are included under the
French spoliation act, 500, 900; under
miscellaneous findings by the Court
of Claims, $780, 900; other miscellan-
eous claims, 1915, 900. A bill pro-
viding for a national board to con-
troll corporations aud comforting broad
powers 10 prevent mOnopolies and trusts
was introduced by Senator Hepburn.
Senator Stone introduced resolution
for an inquiry into the charges that cor
porations make large contributions to
campaign funds. Senator Newlands in
troduced bill for the federal incorpora-
ton and control of railroads.