Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-10
News OF the Day.

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Fighting between reyolutionists and
the "Black Hundred" is reported from
different parts of Russia.
Three more midshipmen are cut of
from graduation by charges of hazing,
and the graduates who will get diplomas
will now number an even 100.
Bishop Henry Yates Satteree will Of
ficiate at the wedding of Miss Roosevelt
and Congressman Longworth next Sat
urday. Mr.. Longworth is now sick with
tJnsilitis.
Ebb Coley, formerly of the United
States Coast Artillery, shot and killed a
woman with whom he had been living
at Santa Clara, CAL He then commit
ted suicide.
The Rev. Edward Melville Parker was
consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Diocese OF New
Hampshire yesterday at st. PauPs
Church in Concord, n. II
Vice Admiral Chouknin, commander
OF the Black Sea feet, was attacked in
his Office by q woman yesterday and
wounded. A mutinous spirit prevails in
the feet and many officers have been
arrested. Fierce affrayb between the
Red and The Black Hundreds have &C.
CURED in st. Petersburg.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, the poet OF
the negro race, died at his home at Day
ton, Ohio, yesterday, of consumption.
For three years he had been seriously
i'll, and for a year critically i'll, but he
kept at his work internationally, and
wrote his last poem for his Christmas
book, "Howdy, Honey, Honey" be-
fore Christmas. Dunbar was born in
Dayton, June 81, 1872.
The urgent deficiency hill, carrying
about SIC, 900, 900, was passed by the
Senate Yesterday, after protracted discus
sion of an amendment 10 strike out the
proyision relieving the canal zone from
the operation of the eight hour law,
which was defeated. Yesterday was
pension day 10 the House, APO bills be-
iug passed in seventy-two minutes. A
bill was passed increasing the Philip
pine duty on European cotton goods,
and decreasing the tariff en- shoes.
The House committee ON military af-
fairs reported iavoribly yesterday the
Foraker bill, providing for an appropri'
ton of 5000, 900 for marking the graves
of Confederate soldiers who died in North
ern prisons and were buried at place of
death. Representative Hay, of Vir-
GINA, will try to have the bill amended
so as to provide that the prison dead
shall be brought TO Arlington Cemetery
and be buried in the Confederate section
there, where they will be cared for per-
petually.
/ President Wilcox, of the Delaware
and Hudson Company, in letter to
President Mitchell, of the United Mine
workers, suggests that the questions be-
tween the operators and the miners be
referred to the strike commission, or
cancellation board, and declares that the
increase in wages demanded will in
crease the price of coal to the consum-
ers. Mr.. Wilcox also states thet so far
from being a benefit the demands of the
union, if granted, would mean less
wages and longer hours for the miners
in the anthracite region.
Aurelio Herrera, the Mexican, and kid"
| Hermann Of Chicago, fought 2O-round draw
at Los Angeles last night. Il was mill brim
| full of clever and hard fighting, with flap
Jam finish Hermann had the best Of 1t up
| 10 the fifteenth round. Herrera turned him.
self loose in the sixteenth and never let up
Iutil the finish The last two rounds the
Mexican did his best to put in Knockout.
| and though Hermann was weakened by his
opponents onslaughts, he made gooi finish.
| Referee EytOn threw up his hands and called
the fight draw.
There was no hearing in common pleas
court No, 2, in Pittsburg, Pa, this morning
| on the preliminary injunction obtained yes
| terdsy for Patrick Dolan, president of District
No. S. United Mine Workers Of America,
whom the miners TO wish remove from Office.
The hearing will take place next Wednesday.
! John Brady, waiter, was arrested this
morning in 81. Louis and identified as the
"siabber" who has spread terror among work
lug women in ST. Louis during the last seve.
raj weeks. Four Of the victims identified
Brady as their assailant.
st. Jogeph's parochial school, on north
Pearl street, Albany, N. Y, was destroyed by
FIRE this morning. The school furnished IN
struction for about $50 Catholic boys. The
origin Of the FIRE is not known. No one was
injured.