Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-10
News Of the Day.

man Of the democratic Steering" COM
mittee.
Several mills 10 New England tempo
rarily have adopted short-time policy
which affects about rs, 900 wOrkmen.
A movement has been started in Nor =
folk to test the right Of those to vote
who do not pay their capitation tax in
person.
The entire police reserve of Havana
is held 10 readiness to quell an outbreak
of the striking mssons. The situation
has been threatening for several days.
A dispatch from Christianina Nor
wav. says the Nobel Peace Prize has been
divided between the Italian, Ernesto
Moreta, and the French candidate, Louis
Renault.
The president, general manager and q
director of the failed California Safe De-
post and Trust Company were arrested
yesterday on charges of wrecking the
concern.
A dispatch from Berlin says Count
Ermss Wrbach has escaped from the
mad house prison to which he was sent
for wedding Dora Fischer, a washer
woman's beautiful daughter.
At Georgetown, KY, today Henry E.
You,sey was the star witness for the
prosecution 10 the trial of Caleb Powers.
he testified that DR.. johnson said he
could Kill GOebel with his revolver
The democratic national committee
will meet 10 Washington on Thursday, to
select a place and time for the national
convention. Denver will bid for the
convention and has offered 500, 900 to
secure it.
Dinizulu, Che Zulu King, who sur
rendered to the civil authorities at
Mongons, Zululand yesterday, is being
taken to Piertmartzburg, Natal, lest bis
people attempt to rescue him even
against his own orders
Prof. Elijah Barrett Prettymau, widely
known IS an educator, died at his home
in Rockville, Nd, yesterday afternoon
at the age OF rs years. For over a half
century DR.. Prettyman had been famil-
lar and conspicuous figure in the Metho-
dist Church and in democratic political
circles. He was born In Pennsylvania
A number OF the highest officials Of
the Southern Railway of the Ashevllle,
N. @, division, including Superinten-
dent Rsmseur, one of the soulhern's
Oldest men; Roadmsster Ramsey, aud
Trsinmaster Fortune, were yesterday
asked for their designations. The re-
quest was followed by the dismissal of
Chief Dispatcher johnson.
Shortly after entering her home in Al
toons, Pa, alone in supposed perfect
safety after a social function last night,
Mrs Leons Seaman, leading young
society woman, was confronted by a
masked burglar, who had climbed into
the upper room by the porch, snd who
beat her into insensibility and robbed
her of diamond pin and gold watch.
Kaiser Wilhelm has completed his
crest cure" at High Olife, Isle of Wight,
and has arrived at London for three days
sightseeing. His majesty hes establish
ed his residence at the German Embassy
Yesterday be lunched with King Edward
at Buckingham Palace and Wednesday
he will leave for home, stopping on bis
way to pay bis respects TO Queen Will
hemina Of Holland.
Charles Carow, of Brooklyn, shot his
wife yesterday because be believed she
had taken 500 he was saving to buy
Christmas presents. When the dying
woman told him she had let him think
her guilty that che might shield another
member OF the family, Barrow, in an
agony of remorse, put bullet in bis own
brain. Mrs. Carow is at the point oil
death ut the hospital.
An argument in favor of the abolition
by Congress of the tariff duties on goods
sent between the Philippines and the
United States, lies in magnificent
silver and gold loving cup presented to
the President of the United States by
the Mayor OF Manila, being tied up in
the Georgetown custom house awaiting
release on payment Of duty, or a special
order from the President that ii be ad-
mitted free. The cup was made especially
from native metals, and from il, the
Mayor drank the health of the President
at the big banquet he gave to Secretary
Taft dufing bis recent visit there.