Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-18
News Of the Day.

Order has been restored al Nlhi!s'oA'
Russia. where a massacre of jews took
place LAST week.
Trondbjem, Norway, is almost ready
for the coronation OF King Haakon,
next Friday, in the cathedral at Trodh-
jtm.
Attorney General Moody has started
an investigation to find out whether there
is any illegal combination for putting up
the price of ice.
President Cabrera, of Gnatemsls, is
accused Of having inSligated The burn
ing of the coffee estates of General BiTi'-
las, leader of the insurgents.
Though the President is almost sure
to win his fight for meat inspection, he
has aroused the resentment OF many
leading members of Congress.
DR.. Jacob F. Force, former president
of the Northwestern National Lille In
sursnce Company, has been sent to
prison on a charge of grand larceny.
At Hackensack, n. j., the school
board will investigate charge by one
of the women teachers that she was
Rugged by the principal OF the school.
A bulletin of the Geological Survey
places The value of the precious stones
produced in this country in 1908 at
1926. 900, while nearly s36, 900, OOO
worth we're imported.
Harry Nelson Pilsbury, the chess
master died in Philadelphia yesterday
of apoplexy after an illness of many
months. PillsburY was born December
5, 1872, at Somerville, Mass.
W. O. Greene, owner Of the mines in
Cananea, Mexico, where riots occurred
recently, 10 a letter filed at the State
Department at Washington accused the
Western Federation of Miners of incit-
ing the trouble.
The French Supreme Court completed
its examination of the secret documents
concerning the Dreyfus case. The indg-
ment of the Reunes cOurtmartial which
found Dfeyfus guilty of high treason
will be set aside.
Just before the adjournment OF the
Senate Saturday the President signed
the appointment Of John G.. A. Leish-
man to be Ambassador of the United
Safes to Turkey. Mr.. Leishmsn is now
United States Minister to Turkey.
The Key mansion, located at 35lS NJ
street, northwest, Washington the form
er home Of Francis Scott Kew, author of
"The Star Spsngled Banner" Is threat.
ened with destruction in the near feature,
to make room for the erection OF three
stores and dwellings.
Panic stricken by an explosion 10 the
controller hOx of Washington traction
car Saturday afternoon, at Connecticut
avenue snd l. street, six passengers
Jumped to the ground aud we're injured.
The car had but started at l. street when
the explosion took place.
Sssonby, considered by rsce-horse
men TO be the greatest thoroughbred
ever uncovered 10 this country, and
owned by Jas. r. Keene, died at
Sheepshead Bay yesterday OF blood
poisoning, the result of a bruised foot.
The horse won $l78, 900 in stakes, aud
had been beIten but once in his career.
Col. Rufus Ezekisl Lester. member of
Congress from the frat district OF GeOr-
gia, died in his rooms in the Cairo apart
ment house, at 6:22 O'Clock Saturday
evening. Death was the direct result of
the terrible injuries sustained By Col.
Eester III a somewhat mysterious accident
that befell him in the Cairo shortly after
8 O'Clock Friday evening.
The prices of all grades of lumber
have been reduced by the North Caro-
lima Pine Lumber Association, the re.
ductiOn averaging 10 per cent. The cut
is heaviest on the lower grades. The
association controls the output of North
Carolina and South Carolina, and the
reduction is due to the fact that the
trade is dull and customers are buying
10 the west
Rather than take voyage to China
as seamen in a Standard Oil vessel,
two brothers, John and Louis Lonsberg,
of Brooklyn. Jumped into the lower
bay, nearly two miles off shore from
the bsrk Arrow Saturday and ATTEMPTED
to swim TO Staten Island. John was
drowned. Louis WAS picked up uncOn-
scious and revived after hard work. The
Young man who was saved told a
strange story that approaches a tale of
crimping. He accuses his own father
of forciby putting him aud his brother
aboard the Arrow for the Chins trip.
After debating nearly all day the
proposition to charter projected canal
from Lake Erie to the Ohio river near
Pittsburg, the Senate late yesterday
afternoon adjourned for lack of quo
ram. The House passed the joint reso
luton directing the purchase Of supplies
and equipment for the isthmian canal
from American manufacturers and pro.
ducers. The sundry civil appropriation
bill, the last of the annual supply bills,
save the general deficiency, and carry.
ing a total of little more than $95, 600, =
600, was passed in the House. Or this
total amount $40, 900, 900 is for the
continuance of work on the construction
of the Panama canal.
List of Unclaimed Letters.
The following is list of the letters remain.
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