Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-19
News Of the Day.

| DAVID fdXtOD, OF w nee llnRs W. H.. >
Yesterday shot bis wife and himself,
aud fred at his baby aud his iather-in-
law.
Yesterday was former President Cleve-
lands sixiy-ninth birthday. He is at
present in Florida on account of his
health.
A Mount Holly On. J.) judge has dis
charged Sarah Malone aud Elwood Bow
ker on condition that the man would Sc
cure a divorce and marry the woman.
Six feet ten inches in height and
weighing $50 pounds, Boss Skaggs, the
largest man in Kentucky, is dead at
Blaine, and 4 special cofin has been
built for him.
The result of the peasants in Brittany
and other parts of France against the
law separating church and State is be-
coming serious, and it is feared may re-
suit in iucipient rebellions
rhe twenty-round contest at Los An
geles, Cal, Saturday night between Joe
Cans and Mike Twin } Sullivan for the
welter-weight title was won by Cans in
the tenth round by knockout blow.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, second daugh
ter of the President, Secretary Taft's
daughter Helen and daughter of Gen.
A. w. Greedy were confirmed as men,
bers of the Protestant Episcopal Church
by Bishop Satterlee at st. Johns Church
Washington, yesterday.
President John Mitchell, of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, has mail
ed to George f. Baer, chairman Of the
anthracite coal operators committee,
his reply to the committees communica-
ton rejecting the demands of the miners
organization. President Mitchell, urges
further conference TO reconsider the
differences between The operators and the
miners.
1t is reported that Charles NJ. Schwab,
the ex-head Of the steel trust, will be-
come a candidate for the Senate from
Nevada, and that the recent. trip of
Schwab to the west WAS for the purpose
of getting a residence in the State from
which heaspires to he sent to the Senate.
Lyman j. Gage, former Secretary Of
the Treasury, has decided to resign "a
President of the United States Tru.t
Company, to which position he was
elected after his resignation from Pres
dent McKinley's Cabinet a few years
ago The cause of his resignation is
failing health.
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the in
ternaiional policyholders committee of
the New York Lille Insurance Company,
has sent letter to Alexander +. Orr,
president OF the company, protesting
against the efforts being made BY the Of
fcers Of the company to get proxies TO
re-elect themselves.
Col. William Elliot, of Beaufort, S.
c., was at the War Department in
Washington on Saturday and qualified
as commissioner to locate the graves OF
Confederate soldiers who died in north
ern prisons, to which Office he was APP
pointed by Secretary Taft under author
ily Of a special act of Congress providing
for the proper marking of such graves.
Charles f. Young has accepted the
position OF foreman of the gov ernment
printing Office which was rendered TO
him by Public Printer Stillings. Mr..
Young is foreman OF the night bill force,
and was next in line OF promotion for the
place. He has been assistant to Mr.. |
SpOttswood, who declined the position of
foreman, which was first offered him by
the public printer.
A dispatch from Toxic says that
two extremely destructive earthquakes
occurred Saturday afternoon in the
southern and central parts Of the Island
of Formosa, 8, 000persons were killed and !
injured. There is great distress among the
natives aud the japanese colonists. A
number OF doctors and nurses have gone |
from Tsipei, in the northern part OF the
island, to relieve the suffering.
At a conference IN the Office of down
town lawyer in New York Saturday it
was agreed that the trustees of the New
York Life Insurance Company, who |
we're members of the finance committee
during the presidential campaigns OF
1896, 1900 and 1904. and we're cogni
zant of the polIlica' contributions made
by the New York l. fe, shouli reimburse
the company to the extent Of Sl4s, 600
This is the total OF the political contri-
buttons made by the company.