Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-26
News of the Day.

evening.
According to postmaster General
Cortelyou's figures, it costs the govern
ment $S4, 500 annually to mail seeds.
A tack 10 a cOgw heel caused a spark
that re luced to kiDdling wood the
Phoenix Powder Factory, in East ST.
Louis.
Of six men who looted savings
bank in St. Petersburg, five we're con-
demned to death and one to 20 years
imprisonment.
Thomas w. Kiley, the missing mill
lionaire merchant banker and self-con-
iessed bigsmist, of Brooklyn, will live
abroad with bis legal wife.
Tallman F. Hubert, of Breedsville,
Mich, was married last week to Mrs
Annie NJ. Hubert, of Jersey City, who
had iilied him 40 years ago.
The residence of Julian Hawthorne,
the novelist, at Yonkers, n. T., was
partly burned yesterday and the family
library and number Ofrare manuscripts
ruined.
John G. MCGOWAN, supposed to be
the only man who ever escaped from
Libby Prison in Richmond in daylight
during the civil war, died in Washington
yesterday.
Seven persons, representing three gen.
erations of the family of Neidig, near
Sunbury. Pa, we're killed Saturday
evening by wagon in which they were
going TO a family reunion, being struck
by train on the Reading Railroad.
A person of high standing in Russia,
in an interview yesterday said that the
danger 10 the crisis which would ensue
with the meeting of the Parliament was
that the reform programme would be
overthrowD, he said that an armed Ievo-
luton was impossible.
Two bills were introduced in the
House Yesterday to put an end TO the
extravagant waste in the government
printing bureau. The House passed 200
pension bills and passed the Senate anti
hazing bill with an amendment r6quir-
ing cadet officers to report infections OF
the rules.
Fire at midnight, starting in the rear
of the Thornton dry goods store, at Fay
ettevile, N. c., destroyed half of the
northern block on Hay street, West and
Northwest Market Square, and the whole
of Highsmith block to Highsmith Hos
p;al. Rough estimates place the loss
at from $3.50, 900 to $3.50, 900.
Edwin Henry Brown, sr., former State
treasurer and associate judge of the
Second judicial Circuit, Maryland,
died at Greensboro, Caroline county,
Yesterday. Death was due to paralysis,
with which he was stricken Saturday
afternoon, while driving from Green's
boro to Centeryille IN company with
Oh aries +. Rich.
Announcement was made Saturday IN
New York by the anth racite mine opera
tors that they have on hand. within a
radius of less than one hundred miles OF
New York city, reserve supply of more
than 5000, 900 tons good, marketable
grades of anthracite coal. This is in
addition to the supplies held by the
dealers and large consumers.
Thirty-four girls working ia Kindler's
mills at Pabianice, ten miles southwest
of LODI, Poland, on refusing to join a
strike were on Saturday poisoned by a
powder that was strewn upon the floor
of the mill One of the girls died from
the effects of the poison and the re-
mainder are seriously i'll, ten of them
not being expected to recover.
The anthracite coal operators have is
sued statement embodying a calcua-
ton TO show that an increase of l2a per
cent in wages would neces9itate an in.
crease OF 81. 20 ton in the price of coal
to the consumer. The operators feel
that the public should be fully informed
upon this point, as il will be absolutely
impossible to sell coal for less than this
increase if the demands be allowed.
The stormy romance of AlphoDs6 Ze-
lava, son of the Nicaraguan President,
and Miss Marguerite Lee Baker, of
Washington, reached happy culmina-
ton saturday when the couple we're
quietly married at the home of the
brides parents, DR.. and Mrs. William
NJ. Baker. But few friends were pres
ent and the affair WAS kept secret, it,
having been announced that it would
not occur until next week.
"Scotty," the Death Valley miner,
who has been in the imelight because Of
a rapid "trip across the country on the
Santa Fe and his stories of tsbulously
rich mine in the desert. was arrested in
San Francisco Saturday night on war
rant from San Bernardino charging him
with being concerned in the shooting of
of his brother WarreB and ambushing a
party of Boston mining men, with min
ing expert, while he was acting as their
guide.
Charles Moran, a member OF the
Bridgemens and HOusemiths' Union.
who was arrested 10 New York several
weeks ago with two other ironwOrkers,
charged with attempting to dynamite the
Bliss Building, being erected on East
Odd street by Post & McCord, made a
complete confession Saturday to Assis-
tant District Attorney Train. Mr.. Train
says he implicated several walking dele
gates of the New York and New JERSEY
branches of the union, declaring that
they put up the money to have not only
the Bliss Building dynsmited, but other
buildings destroyed and the work of con-
stTuction halted.
The second trial of the Hermann
Tompkins msnslaugbter case was con-
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