Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-20
News Of the Day.

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at Peoria, H., today for numbering ns
father.
Minister of Commences File esoien
died during gala performance In . o''
Petersburg theatre last night.
Troops have begun the eviction oil
4. 800 families in Naples from working
class dwellings belonging to the Socfe'a
Del Risanamento.
WI Ting. fang, the new Chinese ambss-
sador to the United States, started yester-
day from Peking for Shanghai, whence be
will sail for Washington.
1t was announced in Baltimore yester-
day that q cure had been found for
-dementia pracox, form OF insanity, by
DR.. N. NJ. OWensby, OF the Bayview In
sane Asylum.
Sixteen horses and two mules were
asphyxiated In Chicago today. A gas
valve was torn off BY q malicious person.
Heretofore horses have been victims oil
pyromaniac.
President Roosevelt's influence was
felt at the meeting of the republican
county committee In New York last
night when the resolution indorsing Gov.
Hughes was put eff until subseqent
date.
Representative Simsj yesterday intro
duced in the House bill providing for
the construction of temporary over head
trolley line from the intersection OF Dela-
ware avenue aud G street to the Union
Station.
O. Hauge, the Norwegian Minister 10
the United States. died yesterday while
on snowshoeing trip 10 Norway. de
was married in 1904 to Mrs. Louisa
Todd Joy, of Louisvill, KY, one OF the
wesl,hiesl women in the Blue Grass State.
In the House yesterday a resolution
was introduced by Mr.. Garritt, OF Ten
nesses, calling for information from the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor about
the Steel trusts control OF the Tennes,
see Coal and Iron Company, and bill
was introduced by Mr. Scott, OF Kansas,
prohibiting dealing in grain futures.
| Masonic circles of Newark, n. d.
we're interested yesterday when 1t wa
announced that Grand Master Austin
Fl. McGregor, OF the Grand Lodge o
| New Jersey, had suspended the charter
of the Triluminer Lodge of Newark, fol
permitting the facts concerning recen
lodge election to get into the public press
]. H. Heuly, of Ansonville, N. O..
one of the best known men In AnsoI
county and postmaster of the town, sho
and killed himself yesterday with
pistoI, placing the muzzel Of the gun II
bis mouth and firing as ne saw post
Office inspector enter his store. F1nan
: cial difficulties and dependency causes
the suicide. He was forty-hve years 0
. age and father of seven children. ID
had been in business at ADsonville 10
about twenty-five years.
By en- almost unanimous vote the re
D publican committee Of New York Las
g night refused to adopt a resolution In
dorsing Governor Hughes for the repuo
ican presidential nomination. Whe
the resolution was offered motion wa
Immediately introduced providing tba
! the resolution go over for considerable,
at the next meeting Of the committee !
= January This motion was adopted wit
a shout that could he heard outside III
committee room.
Il Miss Madeline Dupont, aged twenty
eldest daughter Of Alfred ]. DuPon'
millionaire vice president Of the DuPon
: Powder Company, of Wilmington, Del
! Yesterday eloped from Washington wit
John Bancroft, aged twenty-one, son
; John Bancroft, secretary Of the JOSEF
Bancroft & Sons Company, who is ala
a wealthy man. The couple, who wer
accompanied by several friends, wei
!. married by Rev. DR.. D. @. Macleod,
: Presbyterian clergyman, at the Nations
n Capital.
y Ten thousand working men may marc
;, to the Capitol in Washington early
:, January to protest to Senator'S and Hel
4 resentatives against the present mum
= ton laws and to appeal to Congress Il
N 1 amendments CuIthilihb hnD PA-
:, iunctive powers of the courts. In
~ movement results from the position
which labor unions find themselves
:. account of the Injunction against the
of issued yesterday BY Justice Gould, pr
hitting the Publishing of the names
= firms in the federstion's unfair list, al
70 which. according to the Courts opinion
q, amounts to @ boycott.
% A terrific explosion occurred yesle
ID day evening 10 the military powder ma
r szine near Palermo, Sicily, where lar
ID quantity of dynamite was stored. In
8, was followed by q number of lesser 9
ne plosions. Thewhole town was Shak'
ne and the people thrown into PAM
ct Almost Immediately flames spread
IN the ruins of houses that had fallen, ad
OF ing greatly to the terror. II Is es
~ mated that about 25 persons we're kill
10 and hundred others injured. Sever
DC houses that stood above the msgazl
10 partially collapsed, and their destru
10 ton was completed by the fire. One
40 these was en- emigrsnts' lodging hou'
W and a number of emigrsnts were kilit
Coffin To Be Opened.
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