Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-03-13
News Of the Day.


, It is reported that tho railroad mag
mates are disposed TO support Mr. Rose
velIs plan to centrslize the cGntrol OF
the railroads In toe federal government,
ala protection from State legislation.
A girl, believed to be Gertrude Har.
nish, stenographer, either fell or
Jumped from a window of the thirteenth
floor of the Traction Building in Cincin-
natl early today. She was taken to
hospital in dying condition.
A huge icicle dropped from the cliffs of
| the Niagara gorge on trolley car of the
Gorge Road as It was passing the whirl.
pool rapids yesterday. The motormnn
was killed and three passengers were
struck on the back and badly bruised.
Fire today partially destroyed the wall
paper factory Of Jsneway and Carpenter
| 10 New Brunswick, N. j., and burned
100000 worth Of designs. The loss to
the building will be heavy. The firm
has branches 10 Philadelphia, Chicago,
and employ GOO hands, many of whom
will be thrown out Of work.
The President yeste rday signed an or
der restoring to the public domain nearly
30, 600, 900 acres Of land Withdrawn from
entry under former orders. 1t is esti-
mated that the original Withdrawals
Amounted to about 1900, 900 acres, so
the reservations ordered yesterday amount
nearly one.half Of the whole area
Nine. Anna Gould, rid of her French
count, now has bill of $4,000 to
settle. This is the charge made by Ed
niond Kelley, a former New Yorker,
now Partisan advocate, for securing for
the countess o divorce from her former
husband, the Count Boni do Castellanc.
| The countess turned the bill over 10 her
brother, George j. Gould, who is trustee
OF her estate, and the latter declared, in
forcible Euglish, that he wont pay any
such excessive sum.
President James J. Hill, Of the Great
Northern Railway Company, stated In
unqalifed terms before the Sundberg
Legislative committee in Minneapolisycs-
terday that no would be glad to have the
T. nited States government take over his
line. lie stated further that If the gov
eminent should go into the railroad bus
mess il would be nothing short of lot
terry, and that the country would, as a
matter OF fact. have an elephant" on
| IFS hands. ''-'heD,' said lie, "ihe gov
ernment wonld be obliged to engage In
another lottery to get rid Of the ell
ephant."
After search in various cities Of the
country, Mrs. Joseph Fl. Scovell, the
young wife OF a well-known young man
of Washington, was found Yesterday In
Atlanta by her husband and two city
detectives Mrs. Scoyell, who is said to
be prominently connected in Philadei-
phia, is reported 10 have come to Allan
to with Warren Tucker, formerly star
member of theAl. G. Field minstrel ag-
gtegaton. When the woman saw her
husband she tainted. After being re-
vived she agreed to return to Washing
ton with her husband. Scovell, 1t lie
said, declared his intention Of taking his
wife back to her people.
Stuyvesant Fish, who was deposed by
f. Fl. Hartman from the presidency OF
the Illinois Central, was chosen yester-
day to be director of the Missouri Pa
cifc Railroad, one Of the keenest COM
petitors of the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific. His election is to be fol-
lowed by his appointment to the execu-
tive committee, and it is the under
standing between Mr.. Fish and George
j. Gould, the president of the company,
that Mr.. Fish il 10 take an active part
| 10 the affairs Of the road. Naturally,
the first inference from the announce
ment was that Mr.. Fish's association
with Mr.. Gould meant even greater hos
tility between the Gould and Hartman
systems in the railroad business west OF
the Mississippi.