Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-01-11
News Of the Day.

ing Taft will be nominated for the presi-
dency on the first ballot.
Admiral Ito was dismissed from the
japanese navy yesterday because OF 8
scandal with the wife of workingman.
Rev. Edward S. Hume, former mia-
sionsry of the American Board at Bonn
bay, Iudia, died in New York, yesterday.
Official announcement has been made
10 Toxic of the appointment Of Ambss-
sador Takahirs, Jspan's representative
to Rome, to the Washington Embassy.
The second jury TO try Harry K. Thsw
for the killing of Stanford White wss
completed late yesterday and on Mon
dsy the prosecution will present its direct
case against the defendant.
William J. Bryan, who spoke at Dan
vile, ILL.,, Thursday night at dinner,
declared his belief that Joseph G. Csn-
non will be the republican candidate for
President and that he will oppose Mr..
Cannon.
The Transvsal yield of gold for the
month of December makes new record.
The output was 5S3,526 ounces, which
is 28, 499 ounces over the previous high
est yield for mo lth. The value of the
December output is placed at f2, 49,
$50.
Edwin Collier. sr, took bis eight-year-
old blind so1, Edwin, to his wife's grave
10 Ravenna, Ohio, cemetery some time
Thursday night, sho; him dead and then
put bullet through his own body. he
died today. Williams killed his son be-
cause New York specialists said be
would never recover his sight.
In New York today City Clerk scully
issued marriage license No. l, 291, to
the Couut LsseIo Jeno Maria Henrik
szschenyi and Miss Gladys Moors
Vanderbilt. The couple called at the
City Hall aud secured their license
before their identity was known to any
but the official issuing the document.
The Wireless Spark Telegraph Com
pany made a record yesterday in trans
hitting messages for 1880 miles, be-
tween Hsuen, near Berlin, and the
Hamburg-Americsn line steamer Cape
Blauco Of Tencriffe, Canary Islands.
This is about 800 mills farther than the
distance trayersed by the Marconi record.
Judge Alton B. Parker gave President
Roosevelt some hard knocks 10 a speech
a. Kingston, N. Y, yesterday. de
spoke of the President as an ''unlutored
jdealisr' and declared that he was dan
gerous. He referred to "callow youth
fuIness of intellectual development
and says property was attacked by the
President.
The report of the Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General for December, shows
that there we're 1884 rural routes in
operation, served by 3S, 1888 carriers, and
that 726 routes render service tri-week-
liz. The petitions for rural service
handled to January 2, aggregated 3D.
727, upon which is, AS adverse reports
we're made.
A motion for manhood suffrage was
defeated in the Frussisn Lsudtsg yes
terdly and Csancellor Won Bulow made
a statement that the government did not
consider manhood suffrage would be
good for the State. This announcement
caused rioling in Berlin, 80, 900 or more
OF The unemployed hungry people giving
the police considerable trouble.
Five hundred people stood horrified
on au overhead bridge at North Brad
dock, Pa, last night, and watched two
young women fight duel, almost to the
death, over a twenty-five year lover. The
Young man appeared finally and himself
stopped the Dlocdy battle, though prob
ably too late to save the life of either
One was shot and the other cut with a
knife.
| Four hremen went to their deaths
last night when they responded, to a
| Ere that ruined the Parker building a
twelve-story business structure occupying
| the block between east Eighteenth and
Nineteenth streets, in Fourth avenue,
| New YORK, and destroyed between 81,
10000 and s6,OOO,00O ia property.
Floor after floor gave way and dropped
to the basement and beneath these and
crumbling walls no les, than thirty fire.
men were caught and either killed
outright or serious injured.