Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-04
News Of the Day.


+ The aggregate Indebtedness. less sink
ing fund assets, OF the District OF Co
lumbis for 1902 was $l4, $40, l9l, or
$50, AZ per capita.
At the request of Secretary TAFT and
Secretary Root, Senior Quessda, the
Cuban minister, has agreed to remain IN
Washington, representing his govern
ment.
In connection with the case of Senior
Ferrer, charged with being implicated III
the attempt on the life of King Alfonso,
il is charged that he conducted school
for the teaching of anarchy.
The democratic State convention oil
| Rhode leland has made bossism the Is
sue for the coming gubernatorial cam
paign and chosen Mayor Higgins, OF
Pawtucket, as its candidate
Returns from yesterdays election
in Georgia indicate that a light vote
has been polled over the State. The
democratic ticket, headed By HOke Smith
for governor, has been elected BY the
usual majority, there being no opposi'
ton except the socialists, headed by
j. b. Osborne.
Three hundred emeralds, valued at
$40. 900, we're found concealed about the
person of Manuel Suarez, Spaniard,
who arrived at New York yesterday on
the steamer Oceanic from Liverpool.
He declared that he brought no dutiable
goods. but WAS arrested and the gems
were seized by customs inspectors.
Virtually 1000 men are engaged in
the meat inspection upder the new law
which went into effect Monday, and
nearly 500 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES times
as many IS were inspected beiore-are
now under the supervision. of the De-
partment of Agriculture through its rep
resentalives in all of the States and Terri
| tories
The independence league of New York
which nominated Mr.. Hearst Tor COVER
nor, yesterday received from Mr. Hearst
his letter accepting the nomination.
| Dis ItttcI III luc Ha'b 10 "o"""Sie'O'y
OF corporation influence with the gov
ernment. He favors shortening the
term of the Mayor OF New York from four
years to one year, as well as an abbrevi-
alton of the terms Of judges.
By some accident Jacob Gaehring, a
farmer from Hummelstown, got his
feet tangled ip the ropes OF a balloon
which assembled at the Reading, Pa,
fair yesterday and he was carried head
downward into the sky. Fortunately
the rope knotted on Gaehring's shins
held fast, and he had the presence Of
mind to do what the aeronaut below
ordered, SO that the end there was no
headlong dash to death.
A telegram received at Ell Paso, Tex,
yesterday from chihuahua says the Mex
lean Supreme Court has handed down a
decision affirming the death sentence 10
the case of Richardson, Harie and Ma
son, the New York Life Insurance Com
pany swindlers. They will be shot.
The men were convicted of numbering
two men, Mitchell and Devers, for their
insurance. Richardson and Mason were
agents and Harie the examining physi-
clan for the insurance company at Chi.
huahua.
One of the boldest robberies perpetrat-
ed in San Francisco in years was COM
mitted at the Golden Gate japanese
Bank at noon yesterday, when two men
robbed the bank of s., 900 in gold coin,
beat 5 Urakata, manager of the bank,
so badly that he died two hours later,
and injured A. Sasaki, CLERK, so that
he cannot live. Urakata was acting as
teller of the bank. The two victims we're
found in the back room of the bank by
several japanese, who entered to trans
act business. Near by was a section OF
gas pipe which has been used as weapon.
A bold attack made by a number OF
rev lutionists yesterday on the cashier
of the branch custom-house at st Peters.
burg was frustrated by the quick action
OF the police, who captured several Of
the attacking party after a fnsillsde,
during which one man was killed. The
firing occurred at the bourse end of the
palace bridge, one of the most frequented
thor Dughfares in the city, situated hard
ly a hundred yards from the Winter
Palace and the admiralty. The affair
caused great excitement among the oper-
ators on the bourse and the general
public.