Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-29
News of the Day.


Wilbur Glen Noliva is to found
new Zion CITY in southern California or
Texas.
The famous Carlsbad Springs are
threatened By mining operations in the
neighborhood
The democratic minority Of the House
committee has flied an adverse report on
the Littauer ship subsidy bill.
From $50 to 200 persons have been
killed, it is believed, by the explosion Of
ire damp yesterday in q Prns,ian COL
liery.
President Roosevelt yesterday took
action which may result in the re-pnlis'-
meut of some of the negro troops dis
missed following the Brownsville riot
a Jury is being impaneled to try DR..
James W Simpson, Of Long Island,
charged with shooting and killing his
wealthy father in.lav, Bailey Homer.
enaior Rayutr gave notice yesterday
that be will address the Senate Tnurs-
day on the subject Of executive usurpa-
zion, as embodied in his resolution last
December.
Unable to pay her board at one Of
Porlland's (Me.) largest hotels, where
she has been staying several weeks, and
having exhausted her means Of obtain
ing money by public readings, Mrs.
Jessie Steele, 30 years OF age, daughter
of Bret Harte, the author, is nov an 10
mate Of Porllnd's municipal poorhouse.
The Senate yesterday adopted a reso-
luton calling on The Interstate Com
mefce Commission for the facts with
reference to the employment Of Charles
S. Hanks, and The results of his work
The House passed twenty District OF
Columbia bills and authorized the sale OF
certain government stores at cost price
to save starving cattle 10 Wyoming.
While Mrs. Joseph Knuckles was go
ing to a well yesterday, short distance
from her home, at Spring Hill, near
Charleston, w. Va, her house caught
FIRE and her two children, aged three
years and one year we're burned to
death. Mrs. Knuckles had locked the
door when she went after the water, and
so rapidly did the fire spread that it was
impossible TO save the children.
4 loss roughly estimated al three
quarters of a million dollars resulted
from fire which started Just before mid
night last night and burned out the gar
age of the New York Transporla ion
Company, at Eighth avenue and west
Forty ninth street, New York. A charg-
ing plant for electric vehicles recently
installed at great cost by the owners of
the garage was badly damaged, if not
ruined. and 100 automobiles owned by
private parties we're rendered worthless.
The car shortage in the West is caus
ing GImine in ice which promises TO
have a serious effect over large seciion
OF country next summer On the Miss
issippi river, between Lacrosse and Lake
Peoip, millions of tons Of ice are har
vested each winter TO supply bali n
dozen northwestern and middle States.
This year dealers are unable to get cara,
aud, as there are nJt sufficient storage
facilities on the ground, the harvesting
Of ice for shipment has stopped Deal
ers at Lacrosse aad other Mississippi
points predict that this will mean an ice
fsmme of serious consequences next
simmer.
Gentlemen of sporIige turn in New
York are Offering to bet even that the
Thaw case will never reach the jury,
and that before it reaches the Salome
stage it will be turned over to q commits
sion in lunacy, az was done in the case
of The negro murderer Of the late Endrew
II. Green, the father of Greater New
Yurk. Briefly, it is the opinion Of many
men about town that the possibilities in
ne line Of scat Il i resident 10 the Thaw
case are so great that the public welfare,
as well as the ends OF Justice, would be
better served by permitting 4 commits
sion ofezperis to decide the question OF
Thaw's responsibility for the murder Of
White before any Jury is permitted to
decide questions of TACT as to the killing.