Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-15
News Of the Day.


A nephew Of Senator Depew says the
latter will resume his duties at Wash
ington next week.
Three men wereskiIled aud five in
jured by the collapse of Odd Fellows
Hall in jamestown, Ind, yesterday.
Francis Kossulb, one of the foremost
leaders of the Hungarian coalition party,
is seriously i'll with govt and heart
trouble at Buda-Pesth.
A number of the South Sea Islands
were swept away and Father Paul, a
missionary, was drowned in the tornado
that swept the South Pacific recently.
Mr.. Oscar J. Ricketts, has resigned his
position as foreman OF printing at the
government printing Office in Washing
ton aad will go into the insurance bust
ness.
House committee on elections No. 3,
yesterday decided TO recommend the
seating OF Delegate Jonah X. Kalanian-
aoIe, of Hawaii, whose seat was con-
tested
Subponas have been issued in New
York for witnesses to testify in an al
legged PLOT to kill Rev. Dr. Charles H.
Parkhurst for his share ia snti-vice
crusades.
A man who gave The name of Grover
Cleveland, and who was once in the
United State navy, yesterday climbed
225 feet to the top Of the AagPole on the
Williamson building, New York, and
seemed about to jumpto the street, when
he was brought down by the police.
Resenling President Roosevelts al
legged approval of the Gilbert anti-in-
junction bill, President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor. endorsed
statement before the House committee
on judiciary yesterday, that, if the Presi-
dent really favored the measure he was
an enemy to honest labor and human
liberty.
Based on the recitals of white women
and negresses, alleged to have been his
victims 10 long continued traffic in the
Tenderloin, the grand jury in New York
Yesterday afternoon found four indict-
ments on three counts against Robert
Spriggs, a negro, known as the chief OF
the "White Slave Ring" and Sallie Ben
nett, negress, alleged to be his house
keeper. The indictments we're for as
sault, abduction and conducting di sor-
derby house.
The formal opening of the Whining
ton Methodist Episcopal Conference took
place at Pocomoke City, Md, yester-
day, Bishop Charles O. McCabe pre-
siding. DR.. G. p. Main, representing
the New York branch of the Book Con-
Germ, the publishing house Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, addressed the
conference for half hour, telling OF the
late strike of the union employees of the
concern for gu eight-hopr day. DIR
Main declared that there would be no
surrender on the part of the concern.
Still further complications were yes
terday interjected into the matrimonial
difficulties of Mr.. and Mrs. Washington
Irving futile, of Roland Psrk, near
Baltimore, through the institution OF an
action by the former to recover $50, 600
from Mr.. and Mrs. Robert II. Powell
on the allegation that Mrs. Bessie X.
futile, their daughter, had been induced
to leave her husband through the inhu-
ence of her parents, and that they had
"caused him the loss of her society,
fellowship and assistance in domestic and
social Ways
Samuel H. Kaufman, president Of the
Evening Star Newspaper Company, died
at his home 10 Washington this morn
ing, after a lingering illness. He was
born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1929,
and moved to Washington in 1861,
where he was appointed to confidential
position 10 the Office of the Secretary of
the Treasury. He resigned this Office in
1867, and became one OF the proprieiors
Of the Evening Star, of Washington.
He had been for more than thirty years
the president Of the Evening Star News
paper Company.
The whereabouts Of John ID. Rockefeller
have been ascertained. He is at his home in
Lakewood, n. Y.