Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-01
News Of the Day.

President Roosevelt and family re-
turned to Washington from their farm
10 Albemarle county Va, Saturday
night.
Nine hours as day, with free beer,
won over a demand for an eight.hour
day presented by the employees Of nearly
forty breweries in Cincinnati.
The entire plant of the American
Shipbuilding Company, in Bay City,
Mich, was destroyed by fire Saturday
night, entailing loss of over $3.50, 600.
An attempt was made on Saturday
night last by some Italians to wreck the
big plant of the Huntington, w. Va,
excelsior factory. VIM. Turley, presi-
dent of the company, was roughly hand.
led. The Italians were finally driven
of by the police.
A great wave, reachi ng almost tidal
proportions, rolled up Vineyard Sound
Saturday night and, overtaking the big
five-masted sch ooner Henry o. Barrett,
tumbled over the stern and swept over
board to their death Capt Joshua Nor
ton and his mate, James Conley.
The Paris Petit Parisien prints dis
patches from BatOum announcing that
the religious party in Persia has risen
and demanded a constitution. The sit
uation is grave, and martial law has been
proclaimed at Teheran. The agitatOrs
are actuated by a strong ani-foreign
sentiment.
In what the police declare was pre-
arranged duel between two Italians,
fought on the roof six-stOry tenement
at ia Prince street, New York, last
night, Antonio Mazza WAS shot through
the head AID killed, but no trace has
been found of his alleged antagonist, An
tonic ValerO.
10 a little house on the Moffat farm,
at Fee, few miles from Franklin, Pa,
life is going out. John Steele, known
throughout the world years ago as Goal
Oil Johnny, is dying of pneumonia.
After years in obscurity on Kansas
farm. the man, who when young estab-
lished the record of spending SO, 600, 600
in seven months, has been downed by
pneumonia, and the physicians do not
think he can recover. He is "a years
of age, frail and with little of his money
left.
A dynamite bomb was thrown against
the front door of the Giovanni FazZi mac
caroni factory at Scranton, Pa, at l:l5
o clock yesterday morning and the whole
front of the building and half the store
room were wrecked The Arlington
Hotel, adjoining, was badly injured.
Fazzi, who is an aged and well-to'do
Italian, has received three letters since
October 6, signed "The Iron Head"
which made demands on him for 81 900,
under penalty of the death of himself and
family. He paid no heed to the letters,
and did not even notify the police. The
scene OF explosion is in the very heart of
the city.
In the trial on Saturday of Midship-
man Decatur for hszi0g at Annapolis,
two fellow students testified that Decatur
had hazed them. Midshipman Me-
Crary, of Texas, said Decatur made him
stand on his head until exhausted and
was positive in his Identification Church,
of Pennsylvania, also testified that de-
PENDANT hazed him. Decatur will, ac-
cording to his counsel, go on the stand
on Tuesday, and deny under oath the
statement which the two under classmen
made incriminaling him. Cadet Col
fin, IT,, whose trial for the alleged haz-
ing of Midshipmsn Kimbrough was con-
cluded Friday, was before the court for
q brief period Saturday, and heard the
record OF Friday read and approved. 1t
is practically conceded that Coffin has
been convicted and will be dismissed,
though, OF course, nothing is known Of
ficially.