Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-27
News Of the Day.


The U. $. Supreme Court yesterday
sustained the railroads of southern Cali
fOrnis 10 the citrus fruit case.
DIR. John Williamson Palmer, author,
editor, journalist and poet, died yester-
day at his home, in Baltimore.
The New Orleans Mardi i. Gras began
yesterday by the entrance of Rex into
the city, which is crowded with visitors.
Senator Lafollette introduced a bill
yesterday requiring the publication by
campaign co nmittees of all receipts and
expenditures.
Congressman E. Spencer Blackburn,
who is accused of practicing before the
Treasury Department, gave bond at Ashe-
vile, N. c., yesterday.
Fire broke out in the Star Short Fac
tory at Bridgeport, Conn.,, employing
100 women at 2:30 this afternoon, and
threatens the destruction of the entire
plant.
Thirty revoluiionisls, who, il ia claim
ed, formed the central group of the
fighting organization OF the social revo-
lutionists, have been arrested 10 st. Pc.
tersburg.
Ten men forced an entrance into the
Russian State Bank, at Helsingfors, Fin.
land, shot the guardian and secured
$37, 500. The robbers have not been
captured.
Robert Collier, editor of Golfers
Weekly, states that he is willing to
spend over $l00,000 to expose Colonel
Mann, of Town topics, and that he has
been pursuing Mann since Town Topics
attacked his father.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., the New York
bankers, have resigned as directors of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad aud
some other railroad corporations, and,
while retaining interests in railroads,
will devote more time to their banking
interests.
Two burglars, handcuffed aad bound
together, on their way from the Tombs
to Harlem Police Court, New York, yes
terday afternoo broke away from Keep
er Creevy, knocked him down with
their manacled hands and ran for 10
blocks before they we're caught.
1t is alleged that, in connection with
the case of Bertha Claiche. the French
girl charged with shooting and killing
Emil Gerdron in New York, the crime
was planned by policeman, and that
the woman shot her old lover to win a
policeman who was present to help make
the arrest at the time of the murder.
The Peoples Bank at the village of
Kenny, near Lincoln, Neb., was blown
up at o'clock this morning, and five
masked men secured from the vault
$500 ir silver and 81, 900 in gold. The
burglars escaped on an Illinois Contra
freight train. The building is a com
plete wreck while the vault is shattered.
The date of the Paul Jones obsequies
at Annapolis has been definitely fixed
for April "a, but the remains will not
be finally deposited in the chapel crypt
until a later date, because the receptacle
will not be completed 10 time for the
April ceremonies. The President will
be the principal speaker on the occasion.
Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner effected a reconcilia-
ton with her husband at little dinner party
in New York yesterday. She said thata con-
spiracy had been Matched to separate them
and that she credited stories against him, but
it had failed. 81 love him." she said, ''and
have found out that he was not as black as
painted"
William B. Kerr, head Of the jewelry man
ufaeturing firm OF VIM. B. Kerr * Co., New
York, COMM ted suicide at his home, in East
Orange, n. j., this forenoon, by shooting
himself with revolver. Financial N tiers
are believed to have caused Mr.. Kerr to end
hta Iffa