Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-22
News Of the Day.

Seventy thousand dollars TO bride city
councils, ia what a detective agency claims
to- have frustrated In connection with the
action on the Piusbnrg & Table City
ordinance
There was rumor ia the lobby OF the
House OF Commons yesterday that James
Bryce author of "The American Com
monw ealth, F." would be appointed British
ambassador to Washington.
The trustees Of Andoyer Theological
Seminary, and President Eliot, of Har-
ward, have prepared plan for the meTg
ing, edncAtionally, OF that institution,
with lis 81 900, 900 fund, with Harvard
University.
The report which has been in circula-
ton for several days in Austin, Tex,
that II. Clay Pierce, of st. Louis and
New York, president Of the Waters :
Pierce Oil Company, has been indicted
by the grand jury for false swearing was
confirmed yesterday.
The republican State committee OF
New York spent 1912, 2lG. % in The last
campaign. The New York American
says that 81, 1870, 600 was contributed to
the republican campaign fund from in
dividua!s and trnst companies The
largest individual contributors were !
Pierpoinf Morgan, $4,000; Levi P.
Morton, $40, 900; Andrew Carnegie,
50, COO and Timothy Woodruff, $4,000.
Poisoned by eating candy which they
bought ,at little shop near their home
in Philadelphia, eigh.-year-old Mary
Carey, and her sky ear-old sister, Anuie
are dead, and their three -year-old
brother, Edward. is dangerously i'll. The
girls died on Tuesday night within a
few hours of each other, after having
suffered for nearly two days. They were
stricken after having eaten the candy on
Sunday.
A dispatch received at Cherbonrg,
France, reports that the North German
LLOYD steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse which lefs southampton and
Cherbourg yesterday for New York, has
been in collision with tho Royal Nail
steamer Orinoco. Both vessels were
severely damaged 1t is declared that
four members of the crew OF the Kaiser
Wilhelm were killed while twelve were
injured Five members OF the crow OF
the Orinoco are missing, and are supposed
to have been drowned The OriDoco
left Southampton yesterday for West 10
dian ports and New York.
Il. WAS moi the cry of man or a
boy. 1t was q cry OF some one in pain,
the cry of some one in peril. Aud it
was a woman's cry. | could not be
mistaken. Mrs. MarjOry Carey, OF
East Orange, n. j., thus testified yes
terday afternoon at the trial at Herki-
mer, n. Y, of Chester f. Gillette for
the murder Of Grace Brown, his cast
OIL sweetheart. She was describing q
cry that rang across the waters Of Big
Moose lake in the dusk OF the evening
Of July II last. She will always believe
that il was Grace Browns death cry.
The prosecution charged that it was the
last lie ul,erancce Of the foraker little
factory girl.
President Roosevelt yesterday Travelled
in an automobile over the military road
from Ponce TO San Jnan, Porto Rico, and
was acc Jrded IN ovation by the people Of
The island. The eighty-mile trip was
made ia six hours aud thirty minutes,
counting The lime taken up by stops at
the principal towns along the route, where
the President made short speeches to the
people The President 10 all his speeches
dwtlt on the affection he held for the
people OF Porto RicO, and assured them
that he would use every effort to secure
citizenship for them, declaring that his
efforts would be unceasing to help them
along the path OF true self government
Cheering crowds greeted him at every
town. and his reception at Ponce and San
Juan was particularly enthusiastic
The four mlsted schooner May V. Neville,
going at full speed, crashed into the North
German Lloyd steamer Main. from Bremen,
as she was steamiDg up the ship channel ~
New York today. Both vessels were damaged.
The ships butcher was the only person iDJur
ed on the Main.
At the Refinement exercises held at Phil
adelphia today over the remains OF james
Wilson, one Of the signers Of the Declaration
Of Independence, Attorney General Moody
made tie principal address.