Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-23

| A force OF religious fsuatics 10 British
West Africa recently destroyed French
post near the frontier and killed Eve
French officers.
st. Viatur's College, Roman Catho-
lie institution, at Bourbonnsis, ILL.,, was
burned Yesterday. Loss, $175. 900; in
surance, 800, 900.
Maj. Putnam Bradlee Strong, ofNew-
York, vas arrested ib Shanghai, China,
recently. The charge, it is believed, is
one Of obtaining goods by means of false
pretenses.
Astounding figures are on record in
the tax departments of Baltimore and the
State Of Maryland showing the insig-
nifcant price the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company pays for its vast privileges COM
pared with the enormous profits it de-
riyes from its business in that city.
The indications now are that there
will he strikes OF both the hard and the
soft coal miners April /. President
Mitchell and the committee OF anthra-
cite miners have completed the formula
| ton of their demands as TO time and
wages for presentation to the operators
committee.
A bust Of DIR. William Osler
yelled, amid much enthusiasm,
Johns Hopkins University ami
celebration, at Baltimore yesterdi &c.
dresses were made by Secretary. de
Navy Bonapar,e and DIR. l.. f.
of the faculty. President Rems
sided over the exercises.
Prince Sirongoli, 10 years oil
was to have been married in few
to daughter of the Duke Of Coriglianv,
committed suicide at Naples, yesterday
The boy left letter to his father saying
he killed himself because he was skepti-
cal about life, and another letter TO his
fancee saying she would have been un-
happy with him.
James Mulligsn, of LOga, Wis, mar
rowly escaped being buried alive yester-
day. The funeral procession was on its
way to the church, when the driver OF
the hearse heard groans from within,
followed by smashing of glass. The
casket was opened, and Mulligan, fully
restored to consciousness, sat up and in
quired where he was He had been in
trance for three days.
Secretary of War Taft delivered an
address in Chicago yesterday in which
be expressed the belief that the standing
army should be 100, 900 strong aud that
all efficient reserve should be organized.
He said; "In this republic we need an
army for three purposes First, as an es'
senlsl to any satisfactory system OF
national defense; second, as an indis-
peusibIe instrument 10 carrying out our
established international policy; third,
which | may say is The least important
function, the suppression Of insurreclion
aud civil strife. F"
Lillian Thornman, aged thirteen, at
tempted to burn to death the thfee-year-
old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Dor
sey, of York, Pa, yesterday. While
the mother was absent from the house,
the girl placed the child on a red-hot
stove, with its face downward. The
screams of the little one brought an aunt
to its rescue and saved it from an ex-
cruciating death. The Thornman girl
was arrested and committed to Jail.
When asked why she burned the child,
she said: at was because | had the
devil in me-" The girl confessed to
having burned three other children in a
similar manner.
While q Chicago stock company was
playing at the theater at Linton, Ind,
last night, Miss Pearl Elvin, member
of the troupe, made several sighting re-
marks about the town, which some of
tn q audience applauded aud others Kissed.
A man 10 the rear of the house rose with
an oath, drew q revolver and, aiming it
at the actress, fired. The bullet struck
Miss EIvin in the leg aud she fell to the
floor. Ia an instant the house was in
an uproar The person who did the
shooting managed to escape from the
theater and to conceal his identity.
Miss Elvins wound is not serious, the
ball having penetrated the aeshy part of
her calf.
Phillip Browne Brooks, negro ply
stefan of Washington, wss arrested last
night for investigation in connection
with the robbery of his own home at
3lS Third street, southwest. His wife,
who was choked aud partly chloroformed
by the supposed robber, tod the police
she believed her husband tried TO kill
her so be could marry a white woman.
Edna Russell, twenty eight years old,
was also arrested and is held for investi-
CATION. Brookss wife is considerably
older than he is, and is wealthy. She
declared that her husband had beaten
her numerous times, and that she was
recently coufned in a hospital suffering
from broken rib at his hands. She
said she had been advised by friends not
to take any of his prescriptions.
Naval officers are said TO fear tn IT the tow
ing Of the Dewey TO the Philippines will be
far more difficult and expensive than they had
expected.
The German Reichstag yesterday passed
the first and second readings Of the bill ex.
tending reciprocal tariff rates TO the United
States until June 30. 1907.
Virginia News.