Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-03-11
News Of the Day.

and owner OF vessels SAVING ID DaiSi-
more, died yesterday aged CO years.
Arrangements have been made for
tariff convention with Germany TO tase
the place of the one about to expire
A feet of nearly 100 war vessels repre-
senting 9 nations, is expected to assem-
bic q, the opening of the Jamesto~n
Exposition.
The business organizations Of Norfolk
are preparing to declare war on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway for alleged
discrimination In rates.
From three to FIVE inches Of snO" fell
Yesterday and made surface traffic dis
agreeable aud slow throughout the east.
ern section Of the country.
A shrinkage of $1,69S, 400, 900 has
taken place 10 the last elk months in
the market values OF shares listed On the
New York Stock Exchange.
OF a total 279 republicans in the legis-
latures Of Iowa, South Dakota and Ne
braska, PSI of them declare for the re.
nomination OF Theodore Roosevelt for
third term.
Judge Kimbrough on Saturday denied
that a part Of the Chicago ordinance
under which Manager viii J. Davis WAS
indicted in the Iroquois Theater case is
void. This decision ends the case.
Threats of death have been made
against Canon William Sheafe Chase,
rector of Chris. Protestant Episcopal
Church. Brooklyn, because of his ac-
livily in trying to prevent Sunday theat-
rical performances.
Clarence II. Forrest, of Baltimore, ia
alleged to have defsulted to the extent
of between $4,000 and $4,000 In his
accounts with the Merchants and Man
uiaciurers' Association. He has been
discharged as secretary Of that organizi-
ton.
1t has b cen told by several serious
journals In London that a complete IA
derstandiDg has been reached betweeL
Great Britain and Russia and that q
peace league has been formed, virtually
embracing all the great powers except
Germany.
Justice Ashley III. Could Of the SUI
promo Court OF the District Of Columbia
and Miss Elizabeth Morris Brewer, both
of whom reside at Washln ton, we're
married Saturday at the home Of the
BRIDES sister, Mrs. Morris W. Torey,
in East Orange, n. J.
A Rsyarian wiDedealer has been sen.
tenced TO two months imprisonment and
to pay foe of g, 500 tor adulteratipg
vine. 1t was proved that he manufsc-
lured 5000 gallons of wine in one year
by means OF chemicals, not using a
single drop of grape Juice.
Some time Saturday night Mrs. Mary
Lang, aged seventy-seyeD, was murdered
in her home near Wheaton, Montgom-
cry county, Md, and her son.in-law,
William II Mckay, aged sixty.six, is in
the Rockville Jail charged with the
crime. The woman's body was horribly
mutilated.
Values of personal property in New
York city decreased $685., S4l, 500 dur
Ing 1906, according to the estimates Of
the ~ssessors Of the department Of taxes
aud easements, as shown in report
made pablo Saturday by lawson Purdy,
president of the department. OF this
loss 1915, 1923, 495 is in Manhattan
borough and S77, 1853, 009 in Brooklyn.
The fight to abolish capital punish
ment in New York State will begin in
earnest tomorrow, when delegation Of
opponents of legalized murder will reach
Albany and at once set about trying to
create favorable sentiment for q new bill
making the punishment for murder In
the first degree Imprisonment for life in
stead of death by electricity.
The plate printers and their allied
union associates employed by the gov
eminent in Washington are amazed at
the fact that the sundry civil appropria-
ton act passed at the session OF Congress
just ended contains q provision which
will have the effect Of permitting the
printing Of securities, internal revenue
stamps, checks and work Of that kind on
power presses.
Silas Cransford, sixteen years old,
took an old shotgun yesterday and after
bidding his mother good-by, walked to
the tracks Of the Chesapeake Beach Rail
road at Hill station, near his home, in
Prince Georges county, Maryland, and
| lying down on the track pulled the trig'
ger Of the gun with his foot, killing him
self instantly. Before leaving home the
boy had asked his mothers permission
to enlist In the navy, but she told hin
not 10 talk of such thing as he was toC