Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-12
News Of the Day.

Inc largest DauklbR COnOoiuo III Oi'ioS',
Ore, has suspended.
General William E. w. Rose, one of
the most widely known Grand Army
men iu Marylsnd, died this morning at
his residence in Baltimore.
The Security Oil COMPANY, operating
the lsrgest refinery ia Texas against
which ,he attorney general entered custer
proceedings, has announced it will 90
out Of business.
Suite Ballo was crushed to death aud
other workmen seriously injured under 8
rock fall in the New York Central
Railroad excavation north of Forty
second street New York early today.
Dexter NJ. Ferry, sr., head OF the
well-known seed firm OF d. NJ. Ferry
g. Co., was found dead in bed yesterday
at Detroit, Mich, by members of his
family. Heart disease was the cause OF
death.
An understanding has been reached
between the presidents Of the Republics
of Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua,
and sll questions at issue have been ad-
iasted and cordial relations established
between those countries.
Governor Wsr6eld LAST night desig-
mated Judge A. Hunter Boyd as chief
Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals
in place OF the late Judge McSheTy.
Andrew Hunter BOYD was born in VIZ
ches er, Va, July 10, lS49.
William Jennings Bryan was the
guest of honor and principal speaker at
the banquet o. the Jefferson Club in
Milwaukee last night. Mr.. Bryan con-
dsmued the national incorporation OF
railroads, as proposed by President
Roosevelt.
Congress will be asked to appropriate
$23, 461, oil, for sea coast Notifications
at the approaching session, and of this
amount it is intended 10 expend nearly
$40, 900, 900 in the insulsr possessions
of the United States. By far the largest
expenditures contemplated are in the
Philippines.
The sale of the Wall and CORTLAND
Street Ferries Company by Anthony n.
Brady TO The Metropolitan Street Rail-
way Company for 1865 COZ, snd the di-
vision of part of the proceeds of the sale
among William @. Whitney, Thomas
F. Ryan, P. A. b. Widener, Thomas
Dolan and William L. Elkins and the
firm Of Moore & Scbley in checks Of
$111 ,625 each, is to be Investigated by
the grand jury OF New York city.
The Sullivan Hopkins faction Of the
Illinois democratic party has addressed q
letter to Mr.. Bryan, urging him to lay
aside his halo long enough to permit the
democrats to elect a President of the
United States. He is asked to give up
his radical ideas and TO get back to
Jeffersonian democracy. The letter tells
him that his own ideas, if carried out,
would make Alexander Hamilton arise
and dance on the gave Of Thomas Jet
feTs0n.
The financial difficulties in The
United States are making their influence
felt on the Italian market, and yesier-
day the stock exchange of Rome, IN
able to resist the downward tendency,
decided to close. Before doing so, low
ever, a resolution was passed urging the
government to Eelp the credit OF the
country by assisting in the formation OF
a syndicate of banks 10 be under govern
ment control, and by placing at the de-
possl OF this syndicate $l4, 900, 600.
Jesse Newton Scale, manager Of the
northern and eastern districts Of the
Southern Railway system, died yesterday
afternoon at the George Washington
University Hospital, Washington, from
stroke of parsly sic. Mr.. Scale was
one of the best-known railroad officials
in the South. Starting in boyhood With
a minor place on the railroad, he worked
his way gradually up TO one of The most
responsible railro. positions in the
South. He was born September |, 1862,
ia Chickasaw county, Miss.
One of the smallest and most perfectly
formed infants of Premature birth ever
known to medical science lies content
edly in q diminutive incubator in the
room Of its mother, Mrs. Edna Hess. wife
of Charles E. Hess, civil engineer in
Chicago. The baby, when born, Octo-
Der 10, weighed little more than apound
aud measured but fourteen inches 10
length. Over its perfectly formed wrists
its mother easily slipped her wedding
ring. During the three weeks that have
elapsed the baby has gained only few
ounces and now weighs but pound and
half,
Rev. Dennis ]. McCsrtie, pastor Of
st. Mchael's Roman Catholic Church,
Newark, N. j., has excited comment IN
that city by statements msde from the
pulDit that his assistant, Rev. Thomas
A. Walsh, was excluded from the bed
side Of a dying woman, desirous of the
last rites OF the church, by physician
and nurses attending her. When be re-
turned later, hopeful that the decision
against bis Efforts to enter would be re-
considered, the woman was desd. Father
McCartis denounced the affair from the
pulpit at all the services Sunday, exon
Grating the nurse from blame, as she wss
acting under the orders of the physician.
Miss Cstharine Vosbsugh, who for
nearly sixty years passed IS a man, died
1T a hospital in Trinidad, COL, yesterday.
Miss Yosbaugh was born in + snce
eighty-three years ago. When ycung
she found it difficult to make her Wy on
account OF her sex. Adopting mems
clothes, she obtained employment as q
bookkeeper While in St. Joseph, Mo-,
she married a woman, with whom
she lived for thirty years, as "Chsrles"
Vosbaugh. As man and wife they went
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