Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-09
News OF the Day.

4 DR.. w. L. Shoemaker, OF George
town, died yesterday at the age of eighty
four years.
The Senate yesterday passed the bill
to give military telegraphers of the civil
war a pension status.
Rev. l.. r. Mibourne, wel-known
Virginia Baptist minister, died yesier-
day at Charles Town, w. Va.
The japanese House of Representa-
tives passed by vote Of 222 TO 1875 the
! bill ior a continuation Of war taxes.
Senator Scott's bill giving telegraph
operators of the civil war pensionsble
status was passed by the Senate yesterday
The transfer was effected yesterday of
the Clyde Steamboat Company of Della
ware 10 the newly incorporated Clyde
Steamship Company of Maine.
A father has brought suit for $500
damages against minister Of New Jer-
sey for marrying his son. a minor, with
out obtaining the parents consent
The Columbian, S. c., Banking and
Trust Company, a State institution, has
closed iis door. The assignment was
precipitated by run of small depositors.
The bank is capitalized at $4,000. 1t
is thought the bank will pay its deposit
tors in full.
Rufus johnson, the negro who MUIR
dered Miss Atkinson at Moorestown, N.
j., January Is, and was captured in
Baltimore, was found guilty Of murder
in the first degree by jury at Mount
Holly, N. j., yesterday. and sentenced
to be hanged February 20.
David B. Hill is reported to be seri-
ously i'll at the Kirkwood hotel, Cam
den, S c., where his physician has sug-
gested that he sojourn for at least ninety
DAYS. Mr.. Hills friends in New York
and Albany are worried over his con-
dition. He was taken with severe cold
on October 81, while experimenting
outdoor work on his farm, Wolferts
Roost, near Albany, and later his kidneys
and eyes became affected.
Secretary Root is about to reorganize
the State Department and put it on a
business basis. He will apply the same
remedy to the consular service. 1neffi-
cient and incapacitated clerks arc TO be
dismissed and a corps of active, alert,
and competent clerks substituted. Red
tape is to be ruthlessly cut and anti
quated methods superseded by those
more consistent with Mr.. Roots notion
of what great department of the gov
eminent should be.
Senator LaFolette yesterday intro
duced bill prohibiting Federal officials
from asking or accepting railroad or
other passes and prohibiting railroads
from granting them. 1t imposes penal
ties for violations of the law. The bill
forbids all persons aud corporations Civ
ing free passes or franks to any political
committee or its employees. to any can
didate for an Office under the constitu-
ton or laws of The United States, or TO
any holder of such an office.
As result of an opinion from John
Mitchell, President Dolan, OF the Pitts
burg miners, probably will be forced out
Of Office today. This action, it is said,
will make the prospective bituminous
coal strike on April certainty. Ten
thousand miners in Pennsylvania have
been called out on account Of the al
legged violation of the Altoona agree
ment by the operators. The possibility
of a great anthracite coal strike is in
dicated in an ultimatum sent to John
Mitchell by David Wilcox, president OF
the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
Rev. S. H. Hadley, superintendent
of the old Jerry McAuley Water street
mission, New York, died today in the
Presbyterian Hospital. Hadley was
operated on for appendicitis week ago
last Wednesday. He died about 9
o'clock this morning. Hadley was an
interesting character. He was born in
Malta township, Morgan county, Ohio,
in l842, and all of his family had reli-
eious connections His father founded
the Hopkins Academy at Old Hadley,
Mass, while his brother founded ths
Church Army in America.
Advices from various points in Pennsyl.
vania and New York report heavy snowfalls