Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-05
News Of the Day.

4 Governor Guild of Msssachusett. ia
I his inaugural address yesterday advocai-
ed revision OF the tariff.
Six thousand dollars in bonds part OF
the proceeds of robbery, we're found 10
a cellar in Bridgeport, Conn, yesterday.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Payne
opened the debate on the Philippine
tariff bill with long speech in favor OF
the measure.
A report from heAmerican Vice-Con'
sul at Mansgua that Masaya, Nicaragua,
had been overwhelmed by an earthquake
and volcanic eruption is denied by Presi-
dent Zelava, of Nicaragua.
Joseph Chamberlain was howled down
10 an attempt TO speak before a mass
meeting at Derby yesterday and propo'
silion to give Gerald w. Balfour a vote
of confidence was defeated at another
mass meeting in Leeds, which he repre-
sents.
Henry w. Furniss, of indianapolis,
who was recently promoted from the
post of consul at Bahia, Brazil, to that
of minister to Hayti, was married at
Bahia several months ago to a white
woman of rare beauty and culture aud
of German parentage. Furniss is full
bIooded negro.
1t developed yesterday that SIS, zoo
in cash has been stolen from an express
pouch between Atlanta, Ga, and New
York. The Southern Express Com
pany received the package, and it ar
rived in Washington Sunday morning.
The Adams Express Company then sent
it to New York, and there the loss
was discovered.
Fifteen detectives are guarding the
Big Four track rolling lift drawbridge oil
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad between Cos Cob and
Riverdale, CT. Eight of them are in the
employ of the New Haven Road, aud
seven have been hired by the American
Bridge Company of New York. They
fear strikers will carry out a threat to
blow up the 6,000-ton steel structure.
Dr. Charles Eliot Norton, of Cam
bridge, man of letters and translator OF
Dante's "Divine Comedy" has Joined
forces with Miss Anne S. Hall, of Gin
cinnati, and with Mrs. Maud B. Booth in
their campaign for killing off of The hope.
lessly insane, hopelessly diseased, and
victims of accidents. They held thai
humanity should not suffer merely that
doctors may display their art and that
painless end is the kindest
Margaret Kemp, the one-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Kenrp, of Mount Washington, neal
Baltimore, died in terrible agony yesIer'
day at the City Hospital by choking as
the result of swallowing a nut while
PLAYING with some other children. The
child had been taken TO the hospital tc
have an operation performed to remove
the nut, which had lodged in its wind
pipe. but before it could be done she
died. The child was playing with some
nuts and accidentally swallowed one Of
than.
At New Haven, c., last night, Cor
oner Mix, after an all-day investigation
into the circumstances surrounding the
Mysterious shooting and death OF Char'e:
A. Edwards, the retired chemical manu-
facturer, who resided in New York city,
issued an order to the detectives to take
into custody Allan Maxcy Hitler,
brother-in.law to the dead man. The
autopsy on the body of Edwards reveals
The fact that the wound was not self-in-
flicted, and, as there is evidence of a
family quarrel over the disposition OF
an estate, Edwards's brother-in-law,
Hitler, at whose house Edwards was
visiting, was arrested.