Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-25
News Of the Day.


Leaders of both Houses OF Congress
expressed confidence that the session
would end with this week.
A case of yellow fever is reported at
the Mississippi river quarantine station,
81 miles from New Orleans.
A Netcong, N. j., man set fire to the
home of a girl who rejected him and shot
her as she was fleeing from the flames;
later he killed himself.
There are rumors that the Standard
Oil Company will increase its capital
from 500, 900, 900 to 5000, 600, 600 and
make extensive changes in its Organiza-
ton as well as its methods.
A clause of the pure-food bill appar-
emily repeats an important provision of
the meat inspection measure-that re-
lating to embalmed meat
The Duke OF Almodovar, Spanish
Minister of Foreign Affairs, who was
president of the Algeciras conference,
died at Madrid, on Saturday.
At Stockton, Cal, Saturday, Mrs.
Emma Ledoux was found guilty of muir
dering A. n. McVicksr, whose body
was found in a trunk at the railway
station.
King Haakon and Queen Maud re-
ceived the Norwegian-American delega-
ton at Trondhiem yesterday. The
king expressed his qualification for the
kindly sentiment of Americans.
The Isthmian Canal Commission a.
warded the contract for the two seagoing
suction dredges to the Maryland Steel
Company, of Baltimore, the lowest
American bidders, at their bid of 1862
900 each.
In the Intercollegiate Rowing Asso-
citation Regatta at Poughkeepsie Satur-
day evening Cornell won the varsity eli hit
and the varsity four, and Syracuse the
freshmen eight. Heavy rain made
thousands ofspectators miserable.
After trial lasting two weeks, Mrs.
Mary l.. Mckinney, of Aledo, ILL.,,
prominent 10 social and church circles,
was Saturday found guilty OF cruelty to
Stella Grady her ward. Mrs Nc
Kinney was found 10 be of unsound
mind.
The closing elections in Panama yes.
terdsy were marked by violent disorders.
Three men were wounded in minor fights
earlier in the day, but late that afternoon,
in order to quel the disturbances, the
police shot into a crowd and badly
wounded six men, while one was killed.
1t is said that big combine is being
formed to fight the steel trust. John w.
Gates companies may join hands with
Jones & Laughlin and other interests are
to come in. The new organization is to
build railroad from the lakes to Pitts
burg, where the first move in the fight
has already been made.
President Roosevelt will visit the
Isthmus of Panama in November next
and will repsin there long enough to
make a thorough examination of con-
ditions on the canal strip. He will be
accompanied by Secretary Taft, Chair
man Shonts and others and will make
their trip on a government cruiser.
In a statement issued Saturday night
Frank j. Gethro, who on Thursday was
expelled from the Massachusetts house
OF representatives, after having been
found guilty of attempting to bride
Neutrality-suspicious., confession of guilt
is made, and Gethro further says, to
avenge his expulsion, he will expose
every member OF the house who has
been connected in any bribery proceed
iDgs.
An automobile going sixty miles an
hour was overturned in Pasadena, Cal,
yesterday. The gasoline tank explod-
ed and the machine burned. Mrs
James j. Cordori, twenty.eight years
old, was roasted to death. John Hen
derson, OF Pasadena, chauffeur, was
burned so severely that he probably
will die. Mrs. Ella May Morris, an
artist, of Pueblo, Colo, was slightly
Dufntu huu DIulstu. y. a. koIuOII anu
G. White escaped uninjured,
A furious mob, estimated at 10, 900 |
strong, last night tied up tight as a
drum the Lehigh Valley transit lines,
the 250-mie Eastern Pennsylvania troll
ley system of Mayor Tom l.. Johnson,
of Cleveland, Ohio. The Allentown
police force, when asked to arrest some
of the ringleaders among the rioters,
declined, saying bloodshed would result.
This answer was made by the officers
after leaders of the assemblsge threat.
ened that in case of single arrest, the
police station would be battered into
ruins. Considerable rioting followed.
The trouble arose ont of the refusal of
he company to recognize its conductors
and motormen as the local division of
he Amalgamsted Association of Street
Railway Workers. The sheriff, at mid
hight, was mastering posse.
A dispatch from Durham, Natal, says that
he rebellion Of the natives is now really
ending. Since the fight last week at Nome
= hen l 800 natives surrendered to the
British, order is being gradually restored.
DISORDERS IN RUSSIA
The Moscow correspondent Of the London