Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-01-06
News Of the Day.

NJ. GUIDE has beer chosen as me ne"
Norwegian Minister to Washington.
Prince Helie de sagsn has decided TO
sue Count Boni de Castellane for ~
cents damages, charging assault.
Frederick Whitridge was today ap-
pointed receiver Tor the Third Avenue
Railroad Company in New York.
The will of Baroness Adolphe de Roths-
child, who died November Is last,
donates over 81, 6OO,OO to charity.
Catholic clergymen 10 the Pittsburg
diocese will soon be ordered to refuse to
marry any person outside Of their own
parishes.
The criminal court Of Paris has set
January 81 for the hearing OF Prince
Helie de Ssgau's suit against Ooun! Bonn
de Castellaue.
Bishop Canevin, of the Pitisburg Do
cese, has issued letter stating tina!
Catholic children must attend the pa
rochisl schools.
A special bulletin, with photographs,
accompanies a War Department appeal
to Congress to provide for better horse
msnship in the army.
Commander Harry Fl. Hosley, of the
United States navy, who took the dry
dock Dewey from this country to Manila,
Died suddenly today in New York.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle says 1t is rumoFed that
Count Boni de Castellane will shortly
remarry Nine. Gould, who divorced
him some time ago.
A special dispatch from Vancouver,
British Columbia, says that hundreds OF
japanese ex-sOldiers now in Vancouver
have received orders from the Mikado 10
return to Japan at once.
The iewelry belonging to Mrs. Lena
Whitmore, found murdered in Lamp
Black Swamp, N. j., has beea found in
a saloon frequented by her husband who
is under arrest for the murder.
Mrs. Fannie @. Chapman, wife of Dr..
Pearson Chapman, died at her home 10
Hartford county, Nd, yesterday. She
was the daughter Of the late Jacob Jack
son and Susan Michael Jackson.
Two.lsr frame storage houses Of the
W. ]. Lemp Brewing Company and
five freight cars we're destroyed by fire in
ST. Louis early today. Loss 500, 600.
The buildings covered FIVE acres.
Another mysterious "ripper" crime
was committed last night in Berlin
suburb. A four-Yesr-olG girl was the
victim. She was stabbed exactly a.
were the children slain similarly last
July.
Frank Smith was fatally hurt at
Cumberland Nd, today, when a huge
"turtle back" engine, used in helping
trains up grade, exploded while he wiI
at the throttle. Smith was thrown many
| feet. The fireman was in the tower and
escaped injury.
With impressive serv ices and addresses
By prominent Hebrew divines. the new
Adath Israel Synagogue, at Sixth and l
streets northwest, Washington, was ded'
icated yesterday. The dedicatory SER
mon was delivered by Rev. DR.. b. P.
Mendez, of7New York.
In behalf of the movement to reduce
the cotton acreage and control prices, a
meeting OF the Farmers Educational
and Protective Union will be held in
| Memphis on Tuesday, when the plan
evolved at a recent meeting OF the
directors of the organization will be dis-
closed aud acted upon.
The fight of the growers Of tobacco in
Kentucky aud Tennessee against the
American Tobacco Company, which has
resulted 10 rioting, bloodshed and the
burning of the company's warehouses,
has led to conferences between repre-
sentative of the company and the growers,
aud the dispute has been transferred to
the beads Of the company in NeS York
for consideration.
A great deal of comment is being
raised throughout Europe by the recent
uttersnces Of the Pope on government,
which tend to show that the sovereign
pontif holds extremely undemocrstic
views. He said, for instance, 10 his re-
cent address 10 the members of the anti
slavery congress at Rome: ga govern
ment, in order to govern well, must be
despotic and tyrsnnical.
The backbone Of the miners strike
seems broken at GOldield, New. l. is
hoped that all mines will be in full
operation within ten days. The hills
are full of miners applying for work,
and they are deserving the Western Fed
Grafton by the score. They intend to
apply for work before their places are
taken by imported miners. The owners
are employing former federation men
along with those imported.
After trial on charges Of insubordi-
nation and incompetency in progress foE
about eight weeks, D.. William E.
Chancellor, superintendent of public
schools of the District of Columbia late
Saturday night was adjudged guilty BY
the board Of educs!iOn Of ten Of the four
teen counts, and dismissed from Office
a. I. Stuart, director. of intermediate