Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-05
News OF the Day.


Boston has revived ibe A." blue laws"
10 such an extent that r casket lof the
dead cannot he moved on Sunday.
Elias Rail, wholesale liquor dealer,
and Aaron Jseoby, dry goods merchan:,
made assignments, in Washington, yes
terday.
w. A. Hansell, assistant manager of
the Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
pany, dropped dead in his tilice at
Atlanta, Ga, yesterday.
The House yesterday discussed the
omnibus bill reported by the committee
on war claims and adjourned TO Monday
without acting on 1t,
The anti.:ipping Law, passed by the
last legislature Of New York, was upheld
yesleIdiy in n decision handed down by
the justices Of the court of specal sea
siong.
Inquiry ia authoritative quarters ELECTED
definite denial of tho reports published
in the United States that f reconciliation
between the Duke and Duchess of Mari
borough had been Effected.
Commissioner Clements, Of the Inter
state Commerce Commission. began an
investigation ia Washington, yesterday
of the wrecks at Lawyers, on the South
ern and at Terra Gotta, on the Balti
more and Ohio.
After another LAY Of anxious waiting
there ia sliIl no news Of the steamer
Ponce, OF the New York aud Porto Rico
Steamship Company, and as che is DOW
Eve days overdue, additional fear is felt
that she has met with disaster.
Hart Benton HOlton, q well known
ho5seman, formerly member Of Congress
from the Fifth district of Maryland, and
tnce candidate for governor of Mary land
on the republican ticket. died yesterday
at his country home, in Baltimore coun-
ty, aged sixty-siz year,.
Operator Phillips, in Washington, yea
terday testified bffore the cOroner's in'
quest On the Baltimore aud Ohio wreck
at Terra Gotta that he set The red large,
while Eogiueet Ilildebrand testified be-
fore The interstate Commerce Commits
zion that he saw 20 red signal.
A magazine exploded Friday on the
surface of the Benny mine in Lowell,
Arz. One man was killed, three we've
fatally injured, and twenty miners were
entombed by the closing OF the mouth OF
the shaft. The power honse and shaft
we're wrecked by the explosion.
A cablegram from Paris yesterday an
pouuced The death 10 that city OF Rev
Dr. John Cotton Brooke', Of Springfield
Mass, youngest brother OF the late
Phi. lips Brookea, for 30 many years
rector of Trinity Church. Boston, and
aitergard bishop Of Massachusetts. DR.
Brooks was IS years old
Il. c, Plower. alias G. &. DSlney,
who has been fugitive from New York
since l9O4, where no is wanted 10 answer
charges Of grand larceny and swirdling
credulous investors out OF about : $780,
600 Ia alleged bogus mining operations,
waa arrested in Philadelphia yesterday
by Detective Sergoan, McC0nville, o!
New York, and several local officer.
Antonio Aldo, Syrian, shot and seri-
onsIy wounded his cousin, Oscar Fillah,
at the latter's fruit store in Washington
Yesterday. Alter wounding Fillah,
Aldo reloaded his revolver and commit
ted suicids by shooting himself through
the temple His death was insIanta'
neous. 1t is believed that the men lad
some Misunderstanding OEer hhsnoisl
matters.
Evidence was given before the Inter
state Commerce Commissionio in New
York yesterday that Er II Hartman,
"a president of company holding a
large block OF Illinois Central stock,
sold the securities TO the uoion Pacific
Railroad, Of which he is also president,
and that he had unlimited authority to
handle millions aud acquire railroads,
his acquisitions being approved by MON
Pacific directors after the deals were
closed
Clothed in tsltered garments ari
bearing other evidences of extreme pos
erty. the body of Theodore Slav'nski,
eighly-one years old, novice from q
monastery in South Canaan, Pa, vas
found yesterday stretched across bed
in a little rOoln on the top floor of the
monastery attached to the St. Nicholas
Russian Cathedral, in New York. There
was q bullet wound 10 the old mans
mouth, and blood stained his patriarcbal
II lad tried everything Tor my baby
until DR.. Lyle recommended Cascasweet.
can tfuthfully say IL is the hest medicine
ever used for babies Name J.. Taylor,
Bedford Va. Cascasweer IS sold By W. /