Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-15
News Of the Day.

The armistice between the japanese
and the Russian armies goes into eject
tomorrow.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky has COM
pletely recovered from the wounds which
be sustained at the battle OF the Sea OF
Japan. will not return to Russia until
the peace treaty is ratified.
Senator German spent yesterday at
the Hotel Rennert, in Baltimore, where
be conferred with his lieutenants. A
committee to conduct the fight for the
Poe amendment will be named.
Or. John Kensey Johns died at his
home, on the Manadier farm, about FIVE
miles from Easton, Nd, Wednesday
night, aged rs years. DR.. Johns was. a
native of Frederick county, Md.
Two thousand printers are on strike
in Chicago. They demand eight hours
day and closed shop conditions.
Printers have also struck in New Haven,
Conn.,, St. Louis, Topeka and Niagara
Falls.
Philadelphia society hears that An
thony J. Drexel, son of Anthony j. who
founded the banking house OF Drexel
& Co., is about to eGpatriate himself
and, following the example of William
Waldorf Astor, settle in England and
simply collect his income from this
country
A contract for the hotel and subsist-
ence concession on the Panama canal
zone, awarded to Jacob E. Markell, of
Omaha, Neb., by President Theodore P,
Shonts, of the Panama Railroad Com
pany, will stand. This, 10 effect, is the
decision of President Roosevelt, who yes
terday approved report on the subject
made to him by Mr.. Shonts.
Four men were killed, six we're seri-
ousy burned and dozen more were
STUNNED by lightning which wrecked a
crowded poulty exhibition tent at the
county fair at Indianola, Iowa, yester-
day. The lightning struck the tent
pole, splitting it in two, and tearing
the sides of the tent into shreds. Hun
dreds of the chickens on exhibition were
killed.
Indications last night are that the
threatened strike of freight handlers en-
ployed by the railroads in Chicago will
not take place, the union having decid-
ed to waive the demand for an increase
of 10 per cent. in wages. The railroads
yesterday offered notifications in work
ing hours and pay while injured. The
executive committee of the union last
night decided to advise the men 10 &C
cept the proposal of the railroads.
Mrs. Mary Horn, who lived with her
husband at St. George Staten Island,
Yesterday was beaten to death by one of
two men who called at her house during
the afternoon and with whom she was
heard quarreling. tits said by neighbors
that Mrs Horn ordered the men out OF
her house and it was while she was in
the front yard that she was attacked.
The mountaineering 200 yards from
her house and then sank to the ground,
being dead when help arrived.
Alleging that David E. Sherrick,
auditor of State of Indiana, is guilty of
"a plain and inexcusabe violation of
the law and gross betrayal of public
trust" in that he invested funds belong
ing to the State in private affairs to the
extent of about sl45, 900, Gov. Hanly
yesterday issued an executive order, in
which he took cognizance Of vacancy
in the office aud appointed Warren Big
Ter, of Wabash, as his successor. This
in effect amounts to a removal of Mr..
Sherrck by the governor.