Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-08-23
News Of the Day.

Governor Conner, of Alabama, has
given the railroads until October l to
comply with existing State laws to face
more stringent measures.
Fire covering four blocks destroyed
eight large factories in Cincinnati last
night. Damage is more than 81, OOO,-
900. Several persons were injured.
All of the union tesmsters in tho en-
ploy of the wholesale butchers and
packers 10 New York went on a strike
Yesterday afternoon, many of them lesV-
ing loaded wagons in the streets.
The text of the American proposition
to the Peace Conference for the estab-
lishment OF permanent court OF arbl-
tration has been completed in agreement
with Germany and Great Britain.
Raymond Lane, ore year cid, while in
his fathers dairy at Washington, Pa,
yesterday, fell head foremost into full
can of milk while no one was about. The
child was wedged fast and was drowned
Twofres yesterday resulting from the
explosion OF gasoline 10 clothes-pressing
establishments in Pittsburg. Pa caused
damage estimated at $3.50, 900 and for a
lime threatened the entire East End Sec
ton OF the city.
Through the defalcatiou of a trusted
secretary-reasurer, G. J. Camp, the
milk wagon drivers unior, one of the
strongest labor organizations in Chicago,
has been plunged from afauence TO tenn
porsry poverty.
Among several other liberal contribu-
tions made by outsiders to the fund OF
the striking telegraphers in New York II
was announced at the Aston House head
quarters las. night that Charles F. Muir
ply, Tsmmsny Hall leader, had donated
So, 900 in cash.
A foreign government, believed 10 be
Russia, has awarded to a British firm Of
shipbuilders a contract for several battle
ships, cruisers and gunboats. A record
insurance of nearly $S5, 600, 900 has been
effected on The building and launching
risks, he policies covering two years.
Marion Story, the miniature painter
and brother of Julian Story, the painter,
and also we'll known IS au enthusiastic
yachtsman and exhibitor in the horse
shows, shot himself in the head with a
re volver in the library of his home on
his estate, Brook Farm, near Port Ches-
ter, N. Y, last night. He died before
medical attention could reach him.
Each convict in the New York state
prison will be furnished with book in
which to keep his accounts, in order
that he may know at any time, his
exact financial condition, if recon-
mendation made by Comptroller Glynn
today, is carried out. The recent inves-
legations of the management of
the prisons showed, it is alleged, a
laxity in the care of convicis deposit
fund and that the convict VAS unable to
keep track of his account depending en-
tirely on the prison officials to keep it
correctly.
A strike against the largest parochial
school in the world-St Stanislaus', Of
Chicagc-wss called Wednesday by the
Carpenters District Council because Of
the installation of seats alleged to have
been manufactured in q nonnnion wood
working establishment, although bearing
a label of the Molders' Union. The
seats we're manufactured at Racine, Wis,
The st. Stanislaus School is calculated
to seat 4, 900 pupils. The school replaces
one which was burned. Should nonunion
carpenters be put to work on the build
ing, other trades will be called out, it is
declared.
Enraged because her husband was
harsh to her, Mrs. Levy Gade, of Eufsu-
la, Ala, bride of two months, waited
until he was asleep, and then blew his
head off with shotgun. The tragedy
occurred Wednesday night. According
to his wife's story, he returned about /
O. clock and began to scold her, finally
striking her. He then laid down anG
went to sleep. Mrs. Gade says she
brooded over the blow until she seemed
to hear a voice ordering her to kill the
man who would strike his bride. Then
she got the gun and shot off his head.
Mrs. Gade has not been arrested.
The Secretary of the Treasury announced
Yesterday that hereafter national dedository
banks would be permitted to use Philippine