Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-31
News of the Day.

all northern New York towns yesterday.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
found that labor is scarce throughout
the world.
The treasurer of The United States,
has submitted bis annual report, show
ing a surplus of s25, 900, 900 for the past
year.
The Comptroller of the Currency says
that the money deposited in the Aetna
Banking and Trust Company, in Butte,
Mont, was stolen.
The Isthiam Canal Commission de-
sire, an appropriation of $26, 4O6, 2oS.7S
to continue it's work on the Panama ca
nal during the next fiscal year.
The French government has ordered
the projects OF police to see that valuable
religious objects are not removed from
the churches before the application Of
the separation law.
Senator Dubois has informed President
Roosevelt that if Secretary Taft makes
speeches 10 Idaho against Governor
Gooding he will appear in the attitude
of defending Mormonism, that being the
only issue.
In response to rumors-- circulated, II
is alleged, as a joke-that whites Of
Brookhayen, Miss, were forming Ku-
Klux Clan to drive out the negroes, the
latter have organized Wbitecap band,
which has already killed one man.
In the report of c. H. Treat, Treas
urer of the United States, it is shown
that on October the circulation was
80, 8l2, 1873, 694, or per capita of 1913. OS,
an amount unparalleled in the history OF
the country. The surplus for the year
was 1926, 500, 1922 Treasurer Trea: shows
that the sum of 1877, 200, 2S8 is held in
gold in the United States Treasury.
The New York Court of Appeals last
night handed down a decision affirming
the right of the Independence League OF
New York city to make nominations by
m ultiple petitions. The court slse de-
cided that in the Judicial nominations
the judicial certificate filed first had prior
claim, and that the Independence League
had the right to designate their own
candidates.
Mrs. Columbus Alexander, who re-
sides in an old and elegant home in
Georgetogn, is the victim of series OF
thehs as mysterious as they have been
annoying to the aged and feeble occu-
pant of the Alexander mansion in the
hill above Cambridge" After asking
help to detect the thief, she, however,
orders them to cease further investiga-
ton. She keeps money at her home,
and, it is said, has lost 81, 900.
George Estes, who on Sunday night
shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Sasely and
wounded Constable John Bowers when
the officer at Hales Point, Tenn, raid
ed crap game in which the negro was
participating, was taken from sheriff s
posse, by an armed mob at that place
Monday night and hanged. A great
bonfire was started to furnish light, and
Este WAS tOiu Ludt TIC ndu o low hiuuNoo
in which to prepare for death. He
groaned some camp meeting expressions,
begged for mercy, beseeched delay upon
all sorts of excuses and ended by con-
Tossing bis guilt
The French Cabinet held meeting
yesterday and approved a measure pro-
vidipg for the abolition of the death
penalty. This means that parliament,
at lis coming session, will enact law to
that effect. Such action has been ex-
pected since the Office of "Monsieur de
Paris" or public executiouer, was sup
pressed few months ago by the excision
of his salary from the budget AT that
time neither the Sarrien ministry nor the
Chamber of Deputies took formal action
declaring that capital punishment would
no longer be inflicted in France, but M.
CIsmenceau, the new prime minister,
has decided on taking definite step to
that end.