Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-13
News Of the Day.


the Chicago street railway cases in favor
of the company.
The latest estimates Of the losses in
the French mine disaster now put the
number of victims at 1000.
LAWYER Albert I. Patrick, under sem
tence of death in New York, was yester-
day reprieved until May Is.
+ An agreement on the question of the
Moroccan police is now practically as
sured on the basis Of the Austrian pro-
possls.
Col. William ID. Mann, editor of
Town Topics, was yesterday indicted in
New York for alleged perjury by the
grand jury.
Emperor William has ordered the
German force in China to return home,
excepting a detachment to guard the
embassy at Pekin.
The suit OF the Typotkela for an in
junction against striking printers was
concluded in Washington yesterday, de-
cision being withheld.
Diplomats of Madrid believe that the
exchange of visits between King Edward
and King Alfonso foreshadow general
Anglo-Spanish alliance.
The Russian official military news
paper announces that the total Russian
losses in the war with japan were lol, :
600 killed and wounded.
A serious collision occurred between
police and student at Buda Pest, Hun
gary, today and IS consequence, the
university has been closed.
A hurricane is raging at Hamburg,
Germany. The country down the EIbe
is flooded. Several shipping disasters
are known to have occurred.
Perry Belmont yesterday addressed
the House committee in behalf of the
national publicity bill to prevent secret
contributions to political campaigne.
On account of the strike of plumbers
in Washington all the plumbing shops
in that city were declared open shops
for the employing plumbers Yesterday.
The mysterious "Jack the Slasher, !"
who just a year ago cut the coats, skirts
and stockings of several school girls IN
Baltimore, has resumed operations in
that city.
At Atlanta, Georgia, yesterday Mrs.
Willie Standifer, who is charged
with killing her sister, Miss Chappell
Whisenant, last Friday night, was re-
leased on s., 900 bond.
Father Gapon WAS arrested in 81.
Petersburg, yesterday, on the eve OF the
inquiry demanded by him into the
charge that his labor organization was
subsidized in the governor.
Judge Alton B. Parker, of New
York, delivered a speech on democracy
before the Joint session of the Mississippi
legislature at the Century Theatre, in
Jackson, Miss, this mOrng.
The New York court of special SEES
sions handed down decision this morn
ing acquitting Heinrich Conr'id of
violation of the Sunday law in giving
Sunday concerts in the Metropolitan
Opera House.
II is reported on excellent authority
that the President will appoint Judge
Horace II. Lurton, of Nashville, to the
vacancy on the Supreme bench, should
Secretary Taft finally decline to accept
the appointment.
Samuel Streets died at bis home, neal
| Arden, w. Va, yesterday, in the one
hundred aud thirteenth year OF his age
He leaves Is children, l3 grandchiI.
dren, and ll3 great-grandchildren, be
sides number of great great-grandchil
dren.
James Dalrymple, traction expert
of Glasgow, has reported TO Mayor
Dunno, of Chicago, that the western
metropolis is not ready for municipal
control of railways, but that the city
should acquire the traction lines as thell
charters expire.
rhe Maryland legislative committed
investigating the B. & o. X. r., decided
yesterday to call upon the company fol-
the names OF the individual stakeholder
in the Washington Branch and to ex-
plain TO what extent the PeDnsylvani;
Railroad is interested in the B. Il 0.
Iii is understood that the President ha'
decided to appoint Col. William Elliott
of Beaufort, s. c., to be commissions
to supervise the marking OF the graves
of Confederates buried at northern
prisons, under the provisions Of the bill
just passed appropriating 5000, 900 fol
that purpose.
Charles c. Bassett, an emplOye of the
geological survey in Washington, ha,
brought suit for divorce against his wife,
Fanny Rice Bassett, naming Rev E.
Lawrence Hunt, former pastor of The
Washington Heights Presbyterian
Church, who now lives in New York, as
correspondent.
The Richmond, Va, Cedar WORKS sre re-
ported on fire, with probable heavy loss.
A Flash in the Pan.
The excitement and furry IN the State