Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-14
News Of the Day.

The French Chamber of Deputies
yesterday adopted by vote of 80 to
a6l the frs clause of bill for the
relief of winegrowers, designed to pre-
vent frauds. The disa1ection of troops
is exaggerated.
II was said by prominent officer yet-
terdsy that the West Point authorities
are 10 possession of letter of Col.
Charles g. Ayres, u. 5. A.. written
from the Philippines, in which Col. Ayrts
is said to have disapproyed The actions
of his wife at West Point.
What is believed to be Black Hand
outrage occurred early yesterday at the
home Of James Keefover, a farmer of
u illarsyille, near Washington, Pa,
when nitrOglycerine bomb exploded,
partially wrecking the building aud tear
ing large hole in the ground Nobody
was injured.
Two miles east of LumbertoD, n. O.,
Mrs. Francis Phillips, seventy years old,
committed suicide yesterday by burning
herself to death. During the last two
weeks she bad several times attempted
to take her life--once by trying to drink
concentrated lye, and again by throwing
herself on a railroad track'n front of a
train.
The special train bearing the remains
of the late Senator Morgan, who died in
Washington Tuesday night, left that
city at ll:15 O'Clock last night bound
for the Senator's former home in Selma,
ALE. Accompanying the remains were
his two daughters, Misses Mary and Cor
nela Morgan; his secretary, James o.
car Jones; Barney Leighton, Assistant
Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, and the
Senate House and committees.
Her baby'a head completely severed
from her body was the terrible sight wit
messed yesterday on death avenue" by
Mrs. Anna Hass, of Brooklyn. She had
left her six-months-old daughter Lillian
playing in her carriage on the sidewalk
in front of her home, when team of
horses, frightened by passing car, plum
ged into heavy plate-glass window near
the child. A big piece of the glass fell
upon the little one, completely decapi-
tatiDg her Just as the mother, alarmed
by the fight of the horses, had started
to shield her.
The longshoremen's strike, which had
been in progress in New York for six
weeks, was formally declared oil last
night at q meeting of representatives of
the nineteen branches of the Longshore-
mems Union Protective Society. About
II, 900 strikers will apply for work to-
day at the various rans-Atlantic piers.
The strikers return to work at the wages
they were receiving when they struck.
The only concession is that there will be
no discrimination in taking the old en-
ployes back. and that as many of them
will be taken back as possible, but all
new men who are competent will be re-
tanned.
As the result of little horse play in
the sospsione quarry at Alberene, Able
marie county, hasty word, and blow,
Sidney r. GiaDniny, it,, nineteen years
old, son of Sidney Gianniny, of Abe
rene, was MORALLY wounded Thursday
afternoon by Martin Peasants, aged
nineteen years, of North Garden. He
died five hours later. The trouble &C.
CURED in the quarry while the two youths
we're at work. Gisnniny, according to
Peasants, rubbed a haudful of dirt in |
his face and he returned the attention.
10 moment they were Mt blows. Pleas
ants does not remember striking the |
blow which fractured his opponents
skull, but admits he had an iron gauge |
for measuring stone in his hand during |
the scuille. 1t penetrated Ganniny's |
brain through the temple.
Armed men early today robbed the North |
Shore health resort, at WineLka, on Lake |
fashionable sanitarium. terroriz-
ing 81 patients and leaving several in a criti |
cal and got $1,000 in money and jewels.