Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-04
News Of the Day.

The official records for 1906 show the
lowest recorded birth rate in The history
of France.
Lady Howard, wife of Sir Henry
Howard, the British minister to the
Netherlands. died yesterday at The
Hague after long illuess.
Fire today destroyed the big furniture
wsrenouse of Georye Fennel x Co.,
1860 Third avenue, New York, causing
a loss of 800, 900 aud resulted in the in
jury of seven 6remen.
A bill providing for 20 per cent. in
crease in the pay Of all government en-
ploy ees, both in the classified service and
out of it, was introduced yesterday by
Representative Loudenslsger, Of New
Jersey.
A Rome paper states that one hun
dred thousand Italians who had intended
to come to this county will stay In Italy,
while two hundred thousand more than
usual will return from America because
of The business conditions here.
TIE receivers Of The Southern Steel
Company al Birminnham, Ala, the cor
poratiou which was thrown into invol-
untary bankruptcy several weeks ago,
have decided to close down all of the
mines, furnaces and plants of the COM
pany.
A dispatch from Berlin says that
Chancellor Prince Won BIelow is on the
verge OF resignation. Dissentions among
the various parties and groups which
constitute the gogeromenfs msjority 10
the Rei.hstag i, the source OF his dis
satisfaction.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is so weak
that Crown Prince Gustsve has been
appointed regent of Sweden TO give his
ms jesty an opportunity for complete res.
The king is suffering from insomnia.
He is so old that much uneasiness is fell
concerning him.
The coming departure of japanese
Ambassador AoEi from Washington
figured 10 the London market today as a
bear Influence and caused a raid on
American stocks under which the securi-
ties showed marked weakness. Later,
however, Americans rallied as the inn
preston became general that there is no |
really unfavorsble significance in AoEis !
trip back 20 Japan.
Owing to circumstances surrounding |
he murder at MscLssY, Oregon, Of q |
family named Casleel and the foreman
Of their ranch, Mort Montgomery, the
police advance the theory that Mont
gomery, in a sudden it Of insanity,
killed the others, then sci FIRE to the
house and cut his own throat. The
family had about s., 900, but whether
in the house OF bank is not known. The
bodies of Mrs. CSstsel, her daughter,
her sen, and Montgomery were found 10
the ruins of their home yesterday. From
the fact that shotgun and bloodstsined
Ratchet were found near the place it is
surmised that those weapons were used
in the slaughter.
Several hundred persons living In the
vicinity of the fve-slory tenement house
at SOP east Fourteenth street, New York,
we're badly frightened early yesterday
when q bomb was exploded directly in
front Of the building. No one was in
jured, but big show window on the
ground floor was blown out, the house
was shaken, and several tenents were
thrown from their beds. An instant
later the streets in the Vicinity we're
filed with half-clad men, women and
children. A meeting of the st. Barthol-
omew Society, an Italian benevolent Or
ganizition, was being held on the ground
floor, and members of the society said
they we're convinced the bomb Was in-
tended FIR them.