Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-04
News Of the Day.

The Pope said to the Earl OF Aberdeen
that there are no better Catholics IN the
woill than the Irish Catholics.
Produce deslers estimate that there
we're consumed 10 Philadelphia las year,
approximately, $50, 900, 900 eggs.
All the British insurance companies
have repudiattd their liabilities arising
out OF the earthquake at Valparaiso.
Ernest Howard Crosby, Of New York,
lawyer, lecturer, author, and social re-
former, died suddenly OF pneumonia
early yesterday in Baltimore.
David Starr Jordan. president Of
Stanford University, said yesterday that
he would not accept the secretafyship OF
the Smithsonian Institution.
President Roosevelt has decided 70
call the electious in Cuba sooD, though
1t is regarded as certain that the negro
liberal combination will win at the polls.
William q. De Costa, colored, was
yesterday found guilty Of perjury in the
nsrtje case by Pitrsburg jury. He Is
the second negro 10 be convicted in the
case.
According TO the Berlin correspondent
of the Lordou Daily Mail, the Kaiser
has decided TO eclipse the world in a new
armored cruiser already projected for
1907.
On account Of the heavy rains in Hi
nois. Indiana, and New York, the rivers
have become much swollen and copsid-
cradle damage has been done. Many
factories have been closed down.
After Senator Culberson had yester-
day defende d the Presidents order dis
charging the negro troops, and Senator
Foraker replied to him, Senator Lodge
then spoke briefly and the Foraker reso-
luton went over I'LL Monday TO which
day the Senate adjourned.
Will Harvey, colored, was hanged al
Mayosville, Miss. yesterday three
minutes before notice that his sentence
had been committed reached the sheriff
of Issaquena county Yesterday. Har
vey's attorney was notified by Governor
Vardsmsn that the prisoners sentence
had been committed to imprisonment for
| life. lie hurriedly called up the Issa-
aueua sheriff, but the latter did not reach
the telephone until three minutes AFR
The drop fell Harvey was sentenced to
De hanged for the murder OF Pete Btomo
colored, in March last.
William II. White, the young paying
teller of the Canton National Bank,
Baltimore, pleaded guilty before lndge
Morris, 10 the United States District
Court Yesterday, and was sentenced to
serve five years in the Baltimore city
| iail for the em.bt element of 50, 500 from
the bank, where he had been employed
since his early youth. He tainted twice
| in the arms OF bis vile and sister.
The sentence, which was imposed by
Judge Morris, was the lighlest under The
law, which provides for n term of not
less than live years and not more than
ten years 10 either the Jail or peniien-
tiary Besides his wife aud number OF
relatives, White has four children.
The New York fire department had q
difficult task saving the shopping dis
trict Of Harlem last night rs the result
of a fire that destroyed the mammoth
furniture establishment Of COwpertt
waite Il CT, on Third avenue, causing
loss of half million dollar. Incident
to the fire was a blockade on the Third
avenue elevated and surface linea that
lasted for nearly three hours, jnsi at the
height of the night rush period, and II
became necessary to call ont the police
reaervea from all tho uptown precinc's to
control the crowds that jammed onto the
elevated platforms and fought franticsl-
" TO pet into the stalled trains that were
already ahmed to the sufocaiiDg point.
Harvey Hill, Of All,nta, Ca, who
shot and severely wounded DR.. +. NJ
Ridley, it,. at La Grange, Wednesday
afternoon, returned to Atlanta yesterday
accompanied BY his father and mother
and Reuben Arnold. with whom he Is
associated 10 tho practice Of law. Hill
was released on bond shortly after the
shooting. lie expressed qualification
that DR.. Ridley was not fatally hnrt, but
refused TO discuss the quarrel that led to
the shooting. Solicitor General G. ID.
Hin, father of Harvey Hill, ia quoted as
saying that the difficulty was a personal
one, and no public explanation is neces-
sary or wise. Dr. Ridley's injuries are
reported to be comparatively eight, and
his recovery is assured with careful nnrs-
ing. lie ia reported to have requested
that no legal proceedings br taken against
Young Hill.