Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-20
News of the Day.

Andrew Carnegie las promised TO eiee
a million dollars lopromoie international
peace.
Alienists have declared that Harry Il.
Thaw was insane when he snot Stanford
White.
The Alabama State Agricultural
School al Athens was blown down by
Sundays storm.
A forthcoming census monograph
shows Maryland's wealth 10 be over
81, 800, 600, 000.
The American Federation Of Labor at
IFS annual session in Minneapolis, yes
terday, declared fer woman suffrage.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, would
have the South press the negro issue as
the paramount one in the democratic
party.
Negro leadersare planning to prevent
the appearance of United States Senator
Benjamin r. Tillman at Orchestra Hall,
Chicago November 81.
The Two leaders ofthe reyolutionists
aud 20 others implicated in the train
robbery at Bogow, Russia, when they
got away with $3.50, 900, have been arrest
ed.
A committee has been appointed by
the Arlington Confederate Monument AS
sociaiion in Washington to collect funds
for the erection OF a memorial to the
Confederate dead in the Arlington Ma
tionsl Cemetery.
President Roosevelt, who sailed Salnr-
day night from Colon, declared just be-
fore he departed that he was so impress
ed with the magnitude Of the canal con
strnclion he would like TO see one Of his
sons among the workers on II.
Tho death OF Mrs. Frank X. Stockton,
widow of the novelist, occurred last night
at her home, 10 the Prince George apart
menls, Georgetown. Mrs Stocklon's
maiden name was Marion futile. She
was born ia Georgetown, n. j.
A large Newfoundland dog, said 10 be
suffering from rabies, bit four school
boys in New York yesterday, and then
dafted into = tenement honse, causing
several women in the honse to faint and
creating a panic II was finally shot by
paiIomar.
II. p. Mcintosh, 81. @. Villas and J.
NJ. Robertson, directors Of the Standard
OIL Company, indicted hy the grand
Jury for violation of the Valentine anti
trust law, appeared in court IN Findlay,
Ohio, yesterday, and gave 81 coo to
appear when wanted John u. Rockt-
feller was permitted to give bond through
his attorney.
Abner Il. Clements, former cashier OF
the Aetna Banking and Trust Company
Of Butte, Mont. John T. Hoag, assist
ant cashier of the same institution in
charge of the Washington branch, and
Eveleih w. Mccormick, Of Washington,
were indicted by the District grand jury
yesterday for conspiracy. The charges
against Il. S. Donaldson and Miss b. f.
L. Kretchmaun were ignored.
The will Of Mrs. Narina Jefferson
Davis. wife of the President Of the Con
iederaie States, was fled in NicssbuTg,
Mississippi yesterday Tor probate.
The will leaves 10 Mrs. DaSis's
daughter Mrs. Margaret Howell Davis
Hayes, of Colorado Springs, Colo., all
of The estate with the exception of $lO,-
900. life insurance, which sum is divided
into numerous small beqIesls.
Thomas Fortune Ryan, mulj-million'
aire and one of the greatest powers in
the financial world las. night in lorma!
statement he announced that he had
severed his official connection with many
railroad and industrial corporations lie
gave as a reason that inasmnch az he ia
closely associated with financial and
liduciary Institutions, owning hundreds
of millions OF assets and deposits belong
ing to thousands of people, he consider
ed it necessary TO sever his connection
with the various corporations with which
these institutions are likely to have bust.
ness dealings.
Acting under orders Of Secretary Taft,
Major General Ainsworth, the military
secretary, has directed that further dis
charges of the men in the three negro
companies of the Twenty-ffth Infantry,
on account of the shooting at Browns
vile, Tex, be suspended, pending fur
lher orders. The action, it was stated last
night, is in order TO await the return Of
Secretary Taft to Washington tomorrow,
and is pending further advices from
President Roosevelt, who has been com
municated with on the subject. The
War Department has been deluged with
protests against the order directing the
discharge of the three companies.