Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-28
News Of the Day.

NEWS Vi tHc Ddy'
Secretary Shaw has issued circular
that no surety company shall be accept
ed on bond in which the government Is
interested for an amount greater than 10
per cent of its paid up capital.
There will be paid out in New York,
in interest and dividends during the
month Of January, $3.50, 600, 900. The
greater part of this will be distributed
bet Seen the first and the fifteenth of
the month.
Edward II. Thompson, president OF
the Maryland National Bank and senior
member of the firm of Edward II.
Thompson & Sons, bankers and brokers,
died suddenly yesterday morning 10
Baltimore. He was 6fiy-three years old.
An effort Is being made in ST. Peters
burg TO compel the authorities.to inves-
tieste the naval scandals Of the Grand
Ducal regime, which are said to be
largely responsible for the defeat Of the
Russians at the battle of the Sea OF
japan.
representatives. of the cotton-g growing
interests Of the South are preparing data
on which to base a request that the Post
oflico Department issue fraud order
against the New York Cotton Exchan G.
They claim that the information they
will file will insnre the issuance OF such
an order.
Fed by thousands Of strawboard boxes
and the Aimsy, inilammable materials
for making them, fire last night swept
the entire five story building running
from III TO l27 north Fourth street,
Philadelphia, occupied mainly by the
Philadelphia SirawbOard Company. The
loss ia estimated at about $500. 0O0.
Mr.. Arnold 6. Hyde, a retiring Gnan-
cier and brolher-in-law OF the late Euoch
Pratt, he founder of Baltimore's system
of libraries which bear his Dsme, dle1
Yesterday morning at the Johps Hop.
kins Hospital His death was due to
complications which SET in after an oper-
alton which had been performed upon
him for Appendicitis st the institution on
Sunday last,
The Correctional Court at Nancy,
France, yesterday fined Bishop Turinez
$40 for striking a gendarme on the occa-
sion OF the formers expulsion from the
episcopal residence at Paris. The COM
mittee of the Senate on church and state
separation yesterday fsvorahly reported
the bill, which was reported to it We'd
nesday, amending the church and state
separation bill of 1905 The measure
will be debated in the Senate today.
Mrs. P. +. Abbott was burned to
death at Woodbury., n j., yesterday in
fire which destroyed the home of her
pon -in-lsw, Lewis P. Starr, prosecutor
of the pleas of Camden county. Her
daughter, Mira. Starr, sustained painful
burns, aud Alexander l.. Rodgers, AZ
sistant prosecutor of the pleas, who was
guest at the house, fell from a ladder
and broke his LEG. The fire WAS started
by children who were trying to light
candles on Christmas tree. II caused
loss of $4,000.
Following the killing of Tiney Chayis,
a white man, by Stephen Clement, q
negro, a Iynching was averted al Spring
Geld, s. c., yesterday by the negro being
rushed to the Bammwell Jail. Cnsvis
went to the negro's house to collect 8
small debt. when he was pushed out Of
the door and shot dead in the yard.
Serious trouble was narrowly ayerted at
the preliminary trial, when mulattU
named Livingston, Of New York, forced
himself into tho trial and began question.
ing the witnesses. He was roughly
handled by friends Of ChaFis and sus-
tanned severely bruised head and a
broken arm.
While about 1000 persons were as
sembling in the public square nj Martin.
Texas, Wednesday night, to enjoy the
carnival attractions great excitement was
caused By three pistol shots fred 10 rapid
succession. A negro girl about u years
old was shot through the head and in
sianlly killed Hunt BrOddis, negro,
received a fatal wound IN The back. A
negro about 80 years old fed through
the crowd, pistol in hand, shooting be-
hind him as he ran, with police IN pnr
suit. Walter Taylor, a policeman, was
slightly wounded In the arm. The negro
has not been captured, but ia said to he
wounded. The cause Of the shooting is
unknown.