Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-06
News Of the Day.

lhe present bcoSiOu VI thO ANC" AoiA
legislature ended yesterday.
The Twenty third Congress Of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church of the United
States will assemble in Brooklyn next
week.
The severe storms which swept over
St. Louis and vicinity Thursday even
ing resulted in the death of two persons,
injuries to eight and considerable damage
10 property.
Attorney General Moody has addressed
an opinion to the Senate committee on
Interstate Commerce 10 which he holds
that the government has the power 10
regulate railroad rates.
Az soon as it became known that
Secretary HAY was deriving much
benefit from the hot baths oil bad
Nauheim the State Department officials
began getting into hot water.
Delegates to the international Railway
Congress were yesterday given recep-
ton at the White House, where they
were greeted by Vice President Fairbanks
in the absence of President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Henry Hall Brogden, native OF
Prince Georges county, Maryland who
was formerly chief of a bureau at the
Washington navy yard, died last night
at Providence Hospital, Washington.
The statement is made from official
sources that George Gould will succeed
Joseph Ramsey, jr., as president OF the
Wabash when the latter retires at the
next meeting of the board Of directors.
During the trial yesterday of Johann
Hoch in Chicago on the charge OF poison
inc his wife a trained nurse testified that
while his wife was i'll he spent most OF
his time counting his sister-in-law in the
kitch an.
James Britt, of California, was given
the decision over Jabez White, of Eng
land, at San Francisco, last night, in the
twentieth round of a fight for the inter
national lightweight championship OF
the world.
A special to the Fort Worth Texas Rec
ord from Oklahoma City says; "a tornado
struck Owl, Ind. Ter, yesterday evening
and damaged the business part OF the
Town to the extent of over 500, 900.
The storm covered path about 700
feet wide, and destroyed everything IN
its way.
Rev. U. G. Sutherlin, formerly pas
tor of the Park Christian Church at New
Albany, lad, was arrested yesterday
at Silver Grove, Ind, on war
rant charging him with the murder
of his wife. Last October the body OF
Mrs. Sutherlin was found hanging from
transom in her home, and it was sup
posed to be case OF suicide. Mrs. Suth-
erlin's father, however, made informa-
ton before grand jury recently charg-
ing Sutherlin with murder, and arrest
followed. Mr.. and Mrs. Sutherlin had
not lived together for some time prior to
the time her body was found.
More serious last night was the out
look in the strike of starchers at the
collar factory of Cluett, Peabody ~ Co.
in Troy, N. Y. 1t is now feared that
the trouble will extend to all the
factories in the city. The girls are prov
ing more difficult to hold in check than
the most determined men strikers have
been in labor troubles in that vicinity.
1t is even said troops may be called for.
The girls were in au angry mood last
night and apparently the worst of the
trouble has not yet been reached. A
committee from the Collar and Shirt
Manufacturers Association called upon
the Mayor and demanded better police
protection.
Harry Nickel, Pittsburg, Pa, street
car conductor in fight last night with
his wife, was shot in the temple and
killed instantly. Following the killing,
Mrs. Nickel drank wood alcohol and is
now in the hospital, but will not die
from the effects. A ,cording to Mrs.
Micke's story, her husband had been
Jealous of her since their arrival in Pitts
burg from Philadelphia last September
and they have had stormy time. Last
night she says, when she tried to get in
to her room the door was barred by her
husband. A fight followed and the man
tried TO shoot her with revolver. In
the scuiIle the revolver was discharged
and Nickel fell dead with bullet in his
head. When the neighDors arrived on
the scene Nickel had the revolver clutch
ed in his hand. The wife then drank
the alcohol, it is believed with suicidal
intent.
A Little Nonsense Now and Then.
OF course the running expenses of the