Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-21
News Of the Day.

The death of NJ. Paquip, The famous
dressmaker, was announced In Pans
yesterday.
King Edward signed a proclamation
today summoning the British Psrlia-
ment to meet January 20.
Representatives Williams and De
Almond 1t is said refuse The oyertures OF
friends to reconcile their differences.
The condition OF John Mitchell, pres
ident of the United Mine Workers, is
about the same today as reported last
night.
Judge Hough, in the U. 8. District
Court. decided that the 8C-cent gas bill
passed by the New York legislature Is
constitutional.
Mrs. Ann Halsizer died last night
aged IO7, in West Liberty, o. She was
believed to be the oldest white woman
in the United States.
Japanese public men are unanimous in
saying they will welcome the American
fleet II it comes there, and that they do
not regard the cruise as threat.
A new pontoon bridge opened today
at the Junction at Allahsbsd, Ind, Of
the Canes and Jumna rivers collapsed
under the crowds, 100 we're plunged into
the water and many were drowned.
J. w. Hendrix, a revenue officer, was
killed yesterday by moonshiners, while
raid was being made on an Illicit
distillery in the Smithtown section of the
Sauratown mountains in Stokes county,
In. @.
Robert Caldwell, who was accused o.
perjury growing out of his testimony in
the bruce hearing in London, was ar
rested In New York today after leaving
the steamer on which he came from
Europe.
Goods valued at 81 DO, 900 obtained by
gang Of alleged swindlers from firms all
over the county are believed by the post
Office inspectors to be stored in various
warehouses throughout Boston. Six
men have been arrested.
The steamship Miguel de Lsrrinaga
which has arrived at Liverpool from
Galveston, brought the captain and
crew of the schooner Gadiner b. Rey-
nolds, abandoned in sinking con-
dition enroute to Portland, Me-, from
Wilmington, N. O.
Viscount Kaneko, in toasting United
States Ambassador O'Brien at a ban
quet in Toxic, Thursday night, declared
tnat the greater the naval power OF
America, the less would be the burden
of Japan in their joint responsibility OF
maintaining peace on the p cifc.
The Agricultural Department esti-
mates the acreage of winter wheat al
1872, 900 bushels, spring wheat II, :
| 079, 900 bushels, corn, 99. 93l ,OOO
bushels and oats 81, 1877, 900 bushels.
The farm products of the nation for
1907 were valued at So, 4O4, 900, 900.
The President yesterday directed that
the United States troops that have been
stationed at Goldfeld, New, for several
weeks, because of the mining touble,
be withdrawn Monday, December 3d.
The Gold6eld Mine Owners Association
refused yesterday to recognize the West
ern Federation of Miners as labor or
ganizitiou, or to deal with the local
miners union as body.
A warm verbal encounter took place
yesterday in Chicago at the annual
meeting of the Illinois Central Railroad
between President Hsrshan and Stuy-
yesant Fish. In the end the meeting
was adjourned in the manner Mr.. Fish
desired and in accordance with the order
of Judge Ball, TO March 2, 1908. Mr..
Fish warned Mr.. Harahan that he had
better keep civil tongue in his head.
The work of rescuing the persons who
we're injured by the explosion Thursday
night, in the military powder magazine
of Palermo, W continued until yester-
day morning. Up 10 the present time
it is known that SO persons met their
death from the explosion and subse-
quent FIRE, and more than 100 we're
injured. The clearinghouse for emf
grants, which was destroyed by the
lames, gave the largest number Of vic
Tins.
Baron Won BiebersteiD, scion of q
noble German family owning sn estate
valued at $500, 900, who has spent the
last few months roughing it In the west,
was married at Albuquerque, N. NJ,
Thursday night to Miss Elva Moor
man, of Lynchburg, Va, after a re-
nance which began six months ago at
the Valley ranch, on the Upper Pecos
river The Baron, who has lived as a
cowboy and prospector, was Injured by
fall 10 the mountains and was nursed