Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-31
News OF the Day.

News OF the Day.
Secretary Shaw proposes to establish
bonded ports for the manufacture OF
products intended for expectation, to
which raw materials would be admitted
duty free
10 the bye -election for tho northeast
division of Derbyshire, England, Mr..
Harvey the liberal candidate was sue
cessful over his conservative rival, DR..
J. Court.
An explosion today in The Willow
Creek coal mines in Dickinson y,
Tenn, killed Hiram Vance ard Jate
Cloud and imprisoned half dozen Other
miners for several hours.
Wm. ]. Donahue, SO years old, the
State assemblymsn from the Fourteenth
distlc', Kings county, New York, shot
himself 10 saloon in Brooklyn today.
He was killed Instantly.
It's now thought that the death list a.
the result Of the explosion in the Stuart
mine 10 Fayette county, West Virginia,
will not exceed so The mine shaft is
being bratticed 30 as to permit the en-
trance of rescuing parties.
preventative Theodore i. Burton,
OF Ohio, will not accept the chairman
ship Of the rivers and harbors committee
10 the Sixlieth Congress. he will retire
from The position at tho end Of the pres
ent session, and under no circumstances
will take it up again.
Zsnas G. Robbins. ninety seven years
old, at ore time register OF wills and pres
ident of the police comm isiOners Of the
District OF Columbia. was found dead in
his chair Yesterday morning at bis home,
10 Washington. He is survived By q
widow and one son, Or Henry A. Rob-
bin9
The prospect is that the people OF this
country will soon be using grannlate1
and other sugars Of distinctly brown or
yellow hue, the pure-lood commissioners
having decreed that no mineral "bluiDg'
substances be used in bleaching table
sugar to make it so nice and white for
the table and the appetite.
Brooding because Ernest Reed, a mo-
torman on the Metropolitan Railroad.
would not marry her, Gertrude Lamkip,
twenty-five years old, committed suicide
in Baltimore yesterday afternoon, by
drinking wood alcohol She was en-
ploycd in the home OF Prof Wood, OF
Johns Hopkins University, and 1t was
in the kitchen of his home that she was
found unconscious
Temporary insanity during periods OF
intense nervousness and augmented by
i'll health, resuting from epileptic at
tacka, is the defense Of counsel for Mrs.
Jennie l.. May, now under trial 10
Washington before Justice Stafford and
Jury on charges growing out Of the
shooting of Lucien II. Conen, a member
of the Marine Band, On September q,
1905, from which injuries Conen died
last October.
Wages on the Panama canal WAS the
subject Of q conference held at the
White House Tuesday by the President,
Chairman Shonts OF the Canal Commits
sion, and Thomas j. Dolan, Secretary of
the steam shovelers' union. 1t is not
probable that the President will agree to
the 'raise" requested. for he is Of the
opinion that the wOrkmen OH the canal
arc we'll paid already, and ii he granted
an increase for tho shoyelers union he
would at once be stormed by the repre-
seD;sti7es Of all the other trades for ad-
ditional pay.
The bill revising the copyright laws
upon which the joint committees Of
House and Senate on the Congressious
Library have been working for two years
has been reported to the Senate by Sen
ator Gittredge: II gives the aut hor Of a
musical composition absolute right Of
control over its reproduction in any
orm Whatever aud therefore is antagon-
site TO The interests OF the manutactur-
"a of automatic piano players, etc. 1t
elves the author Of a book, or other
composition, copyright for twenty four
Gears and to his heirs and assigns for
yhirty years after his death The bill is
timilar t. that reported in the House q
sew days ago.