Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-27
News OF the Day.

gramme ~ the present session.
The House yesterday passed a con-
current resolution TO stop the useless
publication Of public documents.
The new Protestant Episcopal Church
Of Port Tobacco, Nd, parish, was almost
totally destroyed by fire Sunday even
ing.
In the election at Hagerstown, Nd,
yesterday, the democrats swept the city.
Only one republican councilman was
elected.
The subcommittee of the House ways
and means committee yesterday agreed
TO report bill to take the revenue tax of
denatured alcohol.
David II. Fenton, of the Maryland
House of Delegates, died OF heart disease
on the street in Washington Sunday
night.
The proposed action Of the Depart
ment of Justice in the Chattanooga
lynching case is declared to be uncon-
stitntiOnal.
Chairman Payne, of the House ways
and means committee, announced yes
terday that there would be no tariff re-
vision legislation at this session of Con-
gress.
Trains armed with machine guns are
held in readiness at Irkutsk and at
Chto, Tomak, Krasnoyarsk and Chelia-
bnsk to suppress disorders along the ST.
berian Railroad :y.s
The mine workers yesterday served an
ulimatum Oh the coal operators, stating
that they will stand firm for the scale
of 1903, which means an advance of
5.55 per cent.
Charles Moran, the ironworker,
pleaded guilty in New York yesterday
to the charge of attempted dynamitng,
and told OF many other outrages perpe-
trated by the HOusesmiths aud Bridge
mems Union.
Justice O'Sullivan, yesterday instruct
ed the New York grand jury that it
must investigate the political contribn-
tons made by the big insurance COM
panies in order TO determine whether
the officers making them had comitted
larceny,
After they had quarreled and made up
in New York yesterday afternoon, Chas.
Reinecker coaxed his wife to sit on his
lap, and while he was embracing her he
shot the woman in the left temple. As
soon as he could shift the muzzle of the
revolver Reinecker sent better into his
own head Neither will live.
After being threatened with dismissal
from school tor using slang Jessie Nc
Gregor, fourteen years old, died from in
haling Illuminating gas last evening in
her bedroom, in Brooklyn. The girl
was dead when her father, John Nc
Gregor, an engineer, returned from
work.
In Pittsburg yesterday five men we're
placed under arrest charged with com.
plicity in The plundering of the Enter
prise National Bank. The men arrested
are "small fry"-the secretary of w.
II. Andrews, supposed partner of I.
Lee Clark, the cashier of the bank who
committed suicide or the day of the
failure, and three clerks of the bank.
President James H. Linford, o. the
Brigham Young College, Mormon in
sttu.ion at Logan, Utah, told the mem
bers of the Senate committee on privi-
leges and elections at the Smoot hear
ing yesterday that he believed in the
principle of polysamy, and admitted
that Zyna K. Card, the librarian of the
college, is plural wife.
Secretary BOnaparle will succeed At
ey-General Moody on July |, ii is
believed, and George Won l.. Meyer will
become Secretary of the Navy. Judge
Cbas. Magoon, the Governor-General of
the Isthmian canal zone and a member
of the lsthmian Canal Commission, may
be appointed Secretary of War should
Secretary Taft retire.
Four 6renen, one the foreman of an
engine company, were killed in the fac
tory fire at Bedior, and Downing streets,
in old Greenwich village, New York,
yesterday afternoon. One other fireman
WAS injured so severely that he may not
recover. Three more were hurt slightly.
Nearly 100 families from adjacent tene-
ments we're evicted by the police to save
lie. More than fifty girls whose es-
cape was cut off were rescued. One
building was crushed into heap of
debris, and half a dozen others were
burned so that they are uninha bitable.
Near Couchee. eight miles south of
RuDge, Tex, a Mexican named Ramon
overlook a vehicle contsiniDg two young
women and little boy Sunday. Ramon
climbed into the rear of the buggy and
cut the throat of one of the women,
causing instant death. The horse be-
came frightened and began to run,
whereupOn Ramon drew a revolver and
shot the other wOmaH dead. Jealousy
prompted the deed. The two dead wo-
men were daughters OF Alexander NJ.
Henry, well-t0-dO ranchman OF that
county. Officers are searching for
Ramon.
Six railroad Iaborers we're killed ard
a score were injured, several probably
fatally, when train on the Wyoming
division Of the Chicago and Northwes-
tern RaiIrod dropped into a swollen
stream through an undermined bridge
near AatsOna, Wyoming, mention of
which was made 10 yesterdays Gazette.
The locomotive passed over the bridge,
but several cars, including a coach, fell