Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-09
News Of the Day.

Ia ihe Senate yesterday the bill limit
ing hours Of service Of railroad employees
Tss discussed foT 81 boui sad manJ
amendments suggested
A tentative agreement appears to have
been reached in the Senate that will re-
suit in the adoption of resolution to
Investigate the Brownsville affair that
will be satisfactory to both sides.
President Roosevelt will within a few
days send another message to Congress
giving further reasons for his order dis
charging the battalion of negro troops
concerned in the Brownsville affair.
Mrs. Virginia f. Blythe, Is years old,
died Monday at the home Of her son-in-
law, Mr.. r. P. Harrison, of Richmond.
Mrs. Blythe was married twice, her first
husband being j. J. Wslthall, well
known citizen in the old days OF Rich
mond.
Representative Jones, Of Virginia, ar
ranged With President Roosevelt yester.
day to receive q delegation of ladies from
the Association for the Preservation Of
Virginia Antiquities on next Saturday nj
IL a. N. The committee will invite Mr..
Roosevelt to make an address under the
auspices of the association during the
jamestown Exposition.
Because neither Of the women he mar
ried some years ago cares to acknow-
ledge him as her husband, A. F. Mayer
stadt, recently rearrested II years after
he had escaped from the Norfolk county
all, may escape prosecution for bigamy.
Both the women are living in the sub
urbs Of Norfolk within stones throw Of
each other, are on friendly terms aud are
not at all disposed to make Aagerstsdrs
term in Jail any longer.
At Fl Reno, Okls., yesterday, drring
the examination of Corporal Knowles,
colored, charged with shooting Captain
Macklin on The night of December q,
it wOs developed that there was 3 plot to
murder every white officer ht The post.
The preliminary hearing ia 10 progress
before United States Commissioner I.
X. Milis. The pa,ure of the courts
findiDgs were sufficient to have knoWles
placed in solitary confinement over
night Several negro soldiers were ar
rested at Fort Reno yesterday and are
being held Tor examination following the
trial of Knowles
That f. Fl. Hartman and those
friendly to him hold over $40 600, coo OF
the stock OF the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe road WIS one Of the points
brought ont when the Interstate Com
merce Commission resumed its inquiry
into the Harrimln lioes in Chicago yes
terday. Of this $40, 600, 900 OF Atchi
son stock $40, 900, 600 has been acquired
since last July by the Union Pacific.
This was absolutely unknown by Presi-
dent Ripley ard most of the Atchison
board until it was brought out in the.
testimony given last Friday in New
York by Comptroller William Mabl, of
the Union Pacific, and which greatly
surprised them
Percy Martin, arrested in Hur tington,
W. Va, charged with robbery Of the
Seaboard Air Line train 10 Virginia, ten
days ago. was t,ken to Richmond
yesterday. He has made a full and com
plete confession, in which lie says that he
did the wolk single handed, and that
Charles Powty, nov in Jail al Boydton
on similar charge, had nothing what
ever TO do with il. Martin said that he
was ont Of work and had been drinking
heavily, and that he was overcome with
the thought of the temptation that might
beset his pretty young wife when her
resources should become eXhaua ted. The
young man wept when he mentioned his
wife