Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-11
News Of the Day.

general in the Department Of Justice for
ten years.
The news of the veto of the 2-cent fare
bill by Governor Hughes caused gen.
eral renewal of confidence 10 the bull
position on the New York stock ex-
change today.
The Council Of the Pfogressiyes In
Toxic adopted a resolution calling upon
the government 10 demand reparation
and assurances of good behavior from
the United States.
William f. Porter, member Of the
Baltimore bar, and for some years prom
inent in democratic politics in that city,
died yesterday st the University Of
Maryland Hospital.
The New York Assembly last night
repassed over the veto of acting Mayor
MCGOWAN the bill providing for re-
count Of the vote by which Mayor Nc
ClellaD, of New York city, was declare ed
elected.
The largest baby ever born in Chicago,
a girl weighing Is pounds, is receiving a
superstitiOus alteration from thousands
of the Polish residents of the city, who
consider the girl and its parents as
especially favored of providence.
Howard Gould is considering the sd-
visibility of starting a counter suit for
separation against his wife. Such an
action, he believes, would lessen the
chances of Mrs. Gould obtaining court
decree for alimony of $3.50, 600 year.
The Convention of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners sent a telegram to
Haywood, on trial in Boise, Idaho,
which reads: "Fifteenlh annual conVen-
ton sends greetings. Confident OF your
innocence, and we are with you until
your honor is INDICATED and your free
dom assured"
During parade at Buffalo yesterday
morning of the Cole Brothers, circus an
elephant that was in the parade march
ing close to the curb, picked up Pas
quaIe Piguiaparo, an Italian boy, twelve
years old, in it's trunk, threw him to the
pavement, and then stepped on his head
aud chest. The boy died FIVE minutes
later.
Contracts for the construction of Zoo
steel cars, aggregatlng in cost So, 500,
900, have been placed within the past
4S hours by the United States Steel
Corporation. This is one OF the largest
o.dere for steel products and the largest
for steel cars that has been placed since
steel-car construction has been an in
dustry of the Pittsburg district.
John H. Sweldfger, 4S years old, a
printer at the Government Printing
Office, who dropped dead yesterday morn
ing shortly after he came to work,
was vegetarian and was interested in
the work aphysicsl culture organization.
On June | he began fast which wa'
to last 80 days. Since that date be hsC
not partsken of anything but water
Mrs. Florence Channel, wife Of Geo.
w. Channel, a prosperous business man
Of Spring City, was visiting friends in
Philadelphia when her husband rushed
in with a policeman and had her arrest
ed. suspecting that she bad eloped with
the cOachmau, Alfred Briggs, who hap.
pened to be near and was also taken into
custody. Mrs. Channel says the charge
i preposterous.
Harry Gillen, charged with the muir.
der of Lewis NYp, a non-union work
man, was placed on trial at Beaver, Pa.
yesterday. Nye was shot to death from
ambush on the night of August IA last
while watching bridge the Pittsburg
Railways Company was erecting at
Lsgionville, Pa, The company was hav-
ing some trouble with striking union
steelworkers and placed Nye on guard.
Lieut.. Col. Ayres has been asked as tC
the correctness of the interviews attrib
uttd to him relative TO the trouble be-
tween Mrs. Ayres and the officers al
West Point. Upon Col. Ayres' answer
will depend the further course CT the
department 10 this matter. According
10 the published reports of courtsmarliaI
of the army, Col. Ayres has been court
martialed three times, all of them fol
conduct upbecomiDg an officer and a
gentleman.
A dispatch from Barbados ssys that
twenty eight passengers including twelve
women and children we're drowned by
the sinking of the French schooner L9
Jslouse, from Cayenne, for St. Lucia.
The schooner sank oil Barbados lss'
Friday night Her captain and twenty.
one men reached Barbados Sunday. The
women and children were below when
the schooner wss struck by the squall
that capsized her, and had no chance for
their lives.
Make some proposition fan advance
Of wages by June Is or prepare for a
strike on that date" This was the ulti-
mstum given to representatives of the
various packing establishments in the
Union stockysrds in Chicago yesterday
on bebalfof the packing house teamsters
union. The vote to strike was taken
by secret ballot at meeting Sunday
afternoon. 1t stood 335 to 81, and was
then made unanimous. The teamsters'
joint council will be asked tonight to
vote its support. The advance asked
is four cents an hour.
President Roosevelt covered wide
range of subjects in his two addresses at
the jamestown Exposition Company
yesterday. He came out unequivocally
for an income tax law, for a graduated
inheritance tax, for national legislation
to prevent child labor in factories, for
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