Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-14
News OF the Day.

ACCOFuhk W tuc Sbduuphe OPCin-
tors, $4,000 miners in Ohio are out
az the result of little difference over
wages.
W. J. Bryan, indorses the British
war minister's plan for army reduction
and says be is opposed to any increase
in the fighting strength OF the United
States.
Representative VIM r. Hearst made
1t known to his friends last night that
he would run as an independent demo-
cratic candidate for governor of New
York this fall
1t is believed in Washington that
Secretary of War Tafts destinations OF
Supreme Court justiceShip signifies
that he will be a candidate for the
REPUBLICAN nomination for the presi-
dency.
Rumor has it that the Pennsy lvania
Railroad is behind the great electric power
operations on the Susquehanna river
and may in a few years run all its
trains south of Philadelphia by electric
iiy.
Henry Clay Evans. of Hamilton
county, former commissioner of pensions
and recently American Consul-Genersl
in London, late Thursday night was
nominated for Governor of Tennessee by
the republican State convention. ID. q.
Swab was nominated for Railroad Com
missioner.
William l.. PAYNE, of New York,
and Mrs. Leslie Garter, theswell-known
actress, we're married at noon yesterday
at the st J,hn's Episcopal Church in
Portsmouth, n. H., by the rector Rev.
Henry Emerson Hovey. The greatest
secrecy was observed about the matter
and Mrs. Carter vas heavily yelled.
The officials of the two Washington
ice companies who we're indicted by the
grand jury for alleged conspiracy to
raise the price of ice have given bail for
their appearance for trial. Yesterday
ii was announced that they will probably
be arraigned next Friday before Justice
Gould 10 Criminal Court Mol.
Wrecking tugs which we're sent to the
relief of the American schOOlship st.
Mary's, reported to be ashore Of Cape
Spartel, have returned to Gibraltar and
report that there is no truth 10 the state
ments that the vessel went ashore. 1t
is stated that the st. Mary's required no
assistance and is at sea bound for Oh
brsltar.
The men in the collieries of the Cen
trsl Pennsylvania bituminous coal dis
trict, numbering nearly 10000, who
have been idle since april |, when the
mines closed down because the Oper-
ators would not restore the scale OF
1903, will resume work on PARTIALLY
the same scale as 1905. The agree
ment provides for open shop, arbitration
and chock weighman's fund.
Bishop NJ. F. Nichols of the Episco-
pal Church announced that the entire
block on the summit of Mob Hill, San
Francisco, which before the fire WAS oc.
cupied by the mansion of Char les Croker
has been given TO the Episcopal Church
for the erection of great cathedral.
This probably il the most valuable piece
of residence property in The city. II
commands an unobstructed view of the
city and bay.
Deputy Sheriff Hammil of Pierce
county, Wis, was killed, aud City
Marshal Isaacs, Of Prescott Wis, was
seriously injured by Italian laborers near
Prescott late Yesterday afternoon. Ham
mil and Isaac's went among fifty Italians
employed in track laying ON the Bur-
lington Railroad and served warrants
on several men wanted for violation
of the game laws. Six of the Ital-
ians attacked The officers With shoVels
beating Hammil to death and wounding
Isaacs 30 badly that he WAS left for dead.
The assailants of the officers escaped.