Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-03-09
News Of the Day.


United States Senator from Alabama, 10
seriously i'll st bis residence In Washing
ton and Ia not expected 20 recover.
Chairman Kuapp, Of the loterstate
Commerce Commission, denies the WI
street report that SUIT against the Har-
riman interests had been decidef upon.
Tho four.story building in New York
occupied by Vim. A Green, Q printer,
from whose presseS "Smsrt Set," and
"Town Topies" are printed. was hnroed
last night causipg loss OF about s3VO'
| 600.
Oger 80, 1000 recruits are wanted with
| in the next few months by the War De-
partment for the regular army. Military
service Is not particularly popular aud
the department is worried over the task
ahead.
Yesterdays session of tho Russian
Douma was o complete victory for the
constitutional democrats. The vote OF
$40 for NJ. TchiInokof TO: secretary OF
tue assembly WAS the highest yet ;iVen
for any candidate.
Francis l.. Cardozo, colored, super
yising principal OF the Thirteenth divis-
lou Washington was last night dismissed
from the public schools for unbecoming
conduct By the board of education, sitting
ss Judge and jury 10 the case.
Bg O unanimous vote, the Apr ella,e
Division Of the New York Supreme
Court Yesterday decided against Ma'or
George B. Mcclellan in bis legal 6lht to
prevent quo warrsnto proceedings FIR q
recount Of the votes cast in the N-w
York city election of 1905. There Was
added to tho decision a recommendation
that the questions involved be passed up
to tho Cont OF Appeals for lnal ruling.
Joseph PRolucci, a young Italian
shoemaker, was convicted 10 Washing
| ton yesterday of murder in the first de-
gree. Justice Barnard remanded him
for sentence, which will be the death
penalty. Paolucci was cOnvi ted OF the
murder of Miss Elizabeth Dodge, IL
yesr.old girl wi b whom be was en-
amored. According to the testimony in
the case, the shooting of the girl, on
September Is last, was premediisted
aud cold blroded murder. The girl had
been on friendly terms with the young
Italian, but did not take his advances
seriously.
Norval l.. Jones, o well-known resi-
dent of Pendleton county, w. Va, has
instituted suit for divorce from Ills wife,
who eloped with George w. W'vbright,
former minister OF the German Baptist
Church, aud until recently member OF
the County Court of PendletOn. Way
bright and Mrs johnson are said to have
started for Nebraska, where, it Is ssid,
they expect to reside. Both Wayhright
and Mrs. johnson are past middle age,
and the former leaves wife and several
children, all Of whom ere grown. The
parties all reside 10 the same neighbOr-
hood near Franklin, the county seat OF
PopdletOn county.
| Rather than submit to the determina-
ton OF a third jury the morris OF the
million dollar suit which Maurice O..
Mengis, of Sheepshead Day, brought
sgainst him for alleged breach of con-
tract in connection with the sale Of the
Western Maryland Railroad, Gen. LouiE
| Fitzgerald, formerly q director Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, formerly
g member of the finance committee Of
! the Equitable Life Assurance Society
and the close friend OF George Gould,
has settled with Mengis by paying him
900, 900 In cash, and tho celebrated
Mengis SUIT has Just been wiped of the
calendar. Mengis had sued Gen.
Frzgerald for Information regarding the
Western Maryland Railroad, and twice
got a verdict in his favor.
The street. railway employees Of Louisville
Ky, hsyo Issued public notice thai unless
their differences with the city railway arr
settled they will strike at 8 o'clock Sunday
morning.
Two German steamships, the "ettern and
Jorgenaon, have fnu1drred during gale OF
the North lei. All hands, numbering thirty
four men, were drowned.
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