Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-02
News Of the Day.

The famine conditions in northern
Japan are said to be worse than hereto
fore described.
Secretary Bonaparte declares there is a
great shortage Of coal in the navy yards
and calls for an emergency appropriation
of $3.50, 900
Bishop Potter, of New York, and his
daughter arrived in Rome yesterday
with the intention Of spending a month
in that city.
A dispatch from Shanghai says French
Catholics are blamed to a certain extent
for the trouble leading up to the massa-
ere at Nanchang.
DIR. Fl. Preston Pratt, x-ray expert,
said in Chicago yesterday that uniyer-
sal blindness is TO be humaniiy's penalty
for the benefits Of electricity.
The stringent laws of North Carolina
against distilleries having driven out
practically all the small distiIers from
eastern Carolina, many of these have
come to Virginia.
Representative MAYNARD, of Virginia,
has introduced bill in Congress proyid-
ing for federal appropriation OF $50, '
900, 900 for the purpose of building
roads in the States.
President Roosevelt has asked Congress
to appropriate 500, 600 to defray the e6-
penses of the delegates of the United
States to the Pan-Americsn Congress in
Rio de Janeiro next spring.
Mrs Columbia Rhea, siIty.f years
old, of Norfolk, who was visiting her
sister, Mrs. Martha Bridges, in Balti-
more was fatally burned yesterday morn
ing, her dress catching fire from an
overheated stove.
Ia midair fight along the narrow
footway of the East river bridge super
structure, Naw York, in which mis-
step would have meant fall OF so feet,
witnessed by hundreds yesterday after
noon, one man received injuries which
resulted instantly in his death.
The anthracite coal operators will
meet next week TO consider the demands
of the miners President Roosevelt, il
is said. has not invited either John
Mitchell or Francis l.. Robbins to come
to Washington for conference, but if
they did come they would, of course, be
granted an interview with Mr.. Roose-
welt
Mr.. Smith, of Pennsylvania, intro
duced Joint resolution 10 the House
yesterday for the repeal of the second
section of the fourteenth amendment to
the constitution of the United States in
Congress ia case they limit the rights OF
citizens to vote. The resolution contains
long preamble more or less iacetious
in character in which reference is made
TO restricted suffrage in Southern States.
The army appropriation bill, carrying
more than $69, 100000, was passed by
the House yesterday after five days OF
consideration. The House committee
on military affairs made unanimous
report on the Prince bill abolishing the
grade Of lieutenant general in the army.
The House passed the Foraker bill pro-
viding for the marking of Confederate
graves in the north.
The peaceful residents of Springfield,
Ohio, we're in fear OF another outbreak
last night. Edward Dean and Preston
Laid. the two negroes whose shooting
of Brakeman Martin Davis Monday
night caused the series OF riots, were
taken before their victim at the hospital
Yesterday for Identification. He idenii-
fed Dean, but failed 10 recognize Ladd.
When this became known murmuring
was renewed.
The pursuit of the bandits who last
Monday night entered the Russian State
Bank at Helsingfors. Finland, killed
the guardian and secured 1877, 800, re
suited yesterday in another dramatic in
cident and cost four more lives at Tam
mersfors, where two OF the fugitives
we're cornered. One of the bandits got
possession of the town hall and Eeld
it for hours, but finally was subdued by
Il stream of water directed by 6remen.