Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-28
News Of the Day.

King Alfonso has sigped bill for
bidding the ssle Of art works for removal
f-om Spain.
TIE Treasury Department has refused
to advance $40, 600, 600 10 coIton plant
ers of the South on warehouse receipts.
The wreck of 40 unknown steamer en-
Lake Superior is reported at Fort Will
liam, Canada. 1t is feared the crew was
LIST.
There is some talk of making ADMIR- |
r. d. Evans vice admiJAi before
be sails 10 the Pacific with lne Atlantic
feet.
Prince Roland Bouspsrte will spend
over $500, 900 on the trousseau OF bis
daughter, Princess Marie, who is to
marry Prince George of Greece.
Fifteen thousand ironbeds in the
storage building Of the Metallic Bed
stead Company at Rome, n. Y, were
destroyed by fire today, enIailing less
OF $4,000.
Former President s. ]. Small, OF the
Telegrsphers' today issued a statement
10 Chicago declaring every act of The
Milwaukee special convention Of oper-
atos TO be illegal.
Charles Bartlett, candidate for the
nomination for mayor Of Bridgeport,
c., when forced into a position on
Saturday to cast the deciding bsllo',
voted for his rival.
Asserting that ms has brought frsn-
cisl lures; in The Uoi.ed S'a.e9, meO 10
the highest German banking cIrcls s
blame President Il )oseveIt in unneasuTed
terms for the difficulties in this country.
Tie French naval staff has decided
10 recommend the construction Of three
battleships Of 20, 900 or 81, 600 toes. Il
is said that the q. 8. naval board will
recommending construction OF 20, OOO
ton ba!tleShip.
There are $50, 900 900 idle eggs in the
cold storage warehouses OF Chicago,
which ia 100, 900, 600 more than were
in the fretzsrs there last year, aud the
over supply threatens disaster to those
holding them.
President Roosevelt, on Saturday 10
letter on tie financial crisis, cOugrst-
ulsted Secretary Cortelyou and the bus
mess men who worked with him IN at.
fording relief and expie ssd bis belisf
that conditions 10 the country are sound.
Frederick A. Mirti, the rich Italian
banker and former editor of ii Piogresso
Italo. Americana, whose assassination was
attempted last night, supposed by a
Black Hand agent, is recovering at Lin
coin Hospital, New York. 1t was al
fist believed he would die.
Two men were accidentally aspbyiated
By gas yesterday in separate houses, in
Washington, but under similsr cifcum-
stances. They we're w. J. Lsnsdale,
six:y-eight years old, of 9l7 New jersey
avenue northwest, and Eugene j. Milton,
tReuty-six years old, an elevator builder,
Of Lynn, Mass.
In a riot at Yonkers, n. Y. Saturday,
incident 10 The street car strike. at least
twenty-five persons we're injured. Four,
including three policemen, are in hos
pital. The mob, which wss divided TO-
to two sections, tore up car tracks and
Pot up 8 determined fight against the
police, who sought to block its way.
A cablegram from Paris says that de-
spite her denisls it ia well understood
there that Madame Anna Gould is 50 TO-
atuated with Prince de Sagan that she
is determined to marry him. Tbs strenu-
Gus protests of her family and the fact
that the prince is the most notorious
speDdthriit in Europe weigh nothing to
her.
Following the suicide of Fred A.
Breen, aged SO, cashier ana treasurer Of
the Dollar Savings Bank at Akron, D ,
it was announced early today that a
shortage existed in his accounts to the
extent of $25, 900. A notice posted on
the doors of the bank said that the in
stitution will be closed until after the
funeral.
The New York, NeR Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company has decided upon
a sweeping policy of economies. 1t is
announced that Immediately more than
1000 hands upon the steam system will
be laid of, besides several hundred more
| in the Rhode Island trolley service.
Work upon a very large number of the
improvements will either be stopped or
largely curtailed.
Italian soldiers are still engaged in the
work of removing the dead and Injured
victims from the ruins caused by the
earthquake in Cslsbris. A: Ferruzz mo
many persons are still alive in the buried
and collapsed buildings. The soldiers
have recovered alive several children
who we're locked in the embraces of their
dead mothers, who had shielded their
offspring with their own bodies.
With $4,000 in national bank notes
concealed on their persons and at the
point Of drawn revolvers, surrounded by
q fqusd of detectives, two rough-looking
men, believed to be the bandits who
held up the Great Northern Oriental
Limited train near Rondo Siding, Mont.
September II, and ecured $40, 600 in
greeubscks, threw up their hands and
were arrested in a Great Northern dining
car, as it entered Spokane Friday night.
When searched at the police station the
$14, 900 was taken from their clothing.
An effort Is nov being made on the
part of the governors of the various
southern States, the Legislatures Of
which have recently enacted measures
reducing passenger fares on all railways
in those States, and the officials Of the
railway lines affected by such rate re-
ductions to reach, if possible, an ami
cable adjustment Of the controversy re-