Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-31
News OF the Day.

10 New Orleans last night aged q years
The snii-pass, the pure food and the
free alcohol laws 60 into effect tomorrow.
The Metropolitan Insurance Company
is to erect tower in New York to top
off its new building, 30 stories or 700 feet
high.
Mrs Van Alstyne, OF Ne@ York, has
recovered her four yesr-old boy, who
was Kidnapped, and will swear ont
warrants for her husband and his altor-
Dey on the charge of Kidnapping.
Mrs. Eva /. Totteu, sged %, the
wife OF a man 80 years old, vas shot and
killed by Sidney kaufman, aged 30, who
sfterward fatally wounded himself, in a
room at a New York Hotel yesterday.
Thomas J. Bowman, one Of the lead
ing merchants OF Pendleton county, W.
Va, died at Franklin Saturday. He was
native of Shenandoah county and dur
ing the civil war served in the 2Srd Viz
GINA regiment.
Secretary Shaw, in letter 10 a Nssh-
vile correspondent, declared that the
Treasury in coming TO the relief of the
money market was not aiding stock
gamblers, bnt was assisting legitimate
business operations.
Senator Bailey carried Comanche
county, Texas, on Saturday by an over
whelming vote, practically 4 to /. His
friends we're celebrating with bonfres,
pyrotechnics, speechmaking and brass
bands Saturday night in the town of &c
manchc.
The Presidents New Years reception
at the White House will begiu at II
o'clock tomorrow morning and continue
we'll. on. in the. afternoon, concluding
with the reception OF the citizens of
Washington, which will begin at |
O'Clock.
Spurned when the fact became known
that be was a married man with FAM
liz. Joseph Wildermuth, Ct Salem, y.
j., shot Miss Bessie 'Newkirk, a comely
ylnng girl Of Alloway, Saturday even
ing aud then turned the weapon on him
self Neither will die.
Mr. William II White, for the past
six years paying teller in the Canton
National Bank, Baltimore, was arrested
yesterday on the specific charge of en-
bezzling 81, 900 of the backs funds on
January Z. 1905. The total shortage is
estimated at about s., 900.
The lyncbing Statistics in the United
States for 1906 show an increase OF eight
victims as compared TO 1905, the total
for the current year being eeventy.three
one negro womsn, three white men.
sixty nine negro men. There we're no
lynchings in Virginia during the year.
The conviction of EnricC Caruso, the
Italian opera singer, on charge of an
moving n woman ia the monkey h1rse
at Central Park, New York, was affirm
ed Saturday by Recorder Coz in The
court Of general sessions. Camso'
counsel at once announced that toe case
will be appealed to the appellate division
of the Supreme Court.
Jos Patrilio, an Italian, Maggie Sui
Ivan an American woman with whom he
lived, and Lawrence Sullivan, . year
old son Of Maggie Sullivan, were murder
cd Saturday morning at camp
of laborers engaged in the double track
ing on the Southern Railway, at Mo,leys,
about 80 miles from DAnyiIle. Two
italians have been arrested.
A dispatch from Bristol, Tenn, says
that rear.end collision CT freight trains
at Limestone, on the Knoxville division
of the Southern Railway, early yesterday
morning. deuo shed several cars and
smashed one Of a number OF handsome
vestibuled coaches that were being haul
ed to Birmingham for use on the AT
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Rail
way Nobody was injured.
John G. Price, who has been under
arrest in Philadelphia since December
s, has confessed that he murdered, on
September 10, Mrs Morris X Lewis,
the young wife of travelling salesman.
The crime. a most atrocious one, WAS
committed in the home Of Mrs. Char
lolte Kelly, where MIS- Lewis hal apart
ments. The tragedy CAUSED sensation
and astounded the police by its daring
At a mass meeting of the citizens Of
Washington, held last night at the Co
lumbia Theaicr, the action Of the French
government ia attempting to cOniscate
the churches and properly of Roman
Catholics in France WAS bitterly a.
raigned. Speeches we're made By Edgar
II. Cans, OF Baltimore; Maj. Edward ].
McCrystal, Of New York, Rev. John
Van Schsick, and Rev. ID. j. Stafford,
pastor of ST. Patrick's Church, Of Wash
ington.