Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-20
News of the Day.

Threats OK q strike II wages are cut
were made yesterday By officers OF
several railroad uuions.
The German government ia considering
the expenses of buying out the Standard
|O.l Company and establishing a gov
ernment monopoly.
Representatives of the various rail-
roads made arguments before the House
committee yesterday against the en-
ployers' liability bill.
Brigsdier General Ftancis ]. Dodge,
U. s. A., rsNred, died in Washington
lite lsst night. Gen. Dodge gss born in
Massachusetts, in 1843.
The suspension of ]. E. Sherwin,
broker trsDsactiDg general brokerage
business was announced on the New
York Consolidated Exchange today.
A dispatch from Brussels says natives
have sacked Belgian factory in the
Ksssi district OF the Congo and the up
rising ia spreading. Troops are being
rushed to the scene.
The Cour! of Appeals at Albany, New
York, has fixed the date for the execu-
ton of Chester Gillette, murderer Of
Grace Brown, for the week beginning
Monday, March 80.
Praying the Almighty to forgive hin,
sinner. William l.. Handy, a negro,
WAS hanged at Eastou, Pa, today for
the murder of Policeman Schuman, at
Souih Bethlehem last september.
Twenty-six midshipmeu were yester-
day recommended to be dropped from
the rolls of the Naval Academy St An
nspolis, as a result Of the semi annual
examinations at the Naval Academy.
Eusign Charles Ullmo, Of the French
navy. a distant relative oil Dreyfus, was
formally pronounced guilty today BY the
court-martial at Toulon, France, which
tried him, of attempting to sell naval
secrets.
The Roster report, which will be
presented 10 the President early next
week, will disclose q deficiency in the
running expenses of the Government
Printing Office of over halt million
dollars.
In response to a Senate resolution In
troduce by MIR. Tillmau, Secretary Cor
telyou yesterday sent to the Senate re-
port showing that 306 national banks
were placed 10 charge OF receivers be-
tween January l, 1898, and JaDuary 81,
1903.
That Harry Thaw's relatives will soon
endeavor to secure his transfer from
MatteawRn to private sanilarium, ut
that no move is contemplated to Get him
entirely st liberty is asserted in an ar
ticIe published here today aud credited
to the highest authority.
senator Tlllman charged in the Sen
'--dGy afternoon that the st. Paul
ave De- po";eo ,,n-heS syndicate, OF Port
I auu 0 cV was franz '-Iently usiOg his
name in its circular, urging o'oP's I'D II
Connecticut, Wisconsin, Virgins o
other States to buy lands al present held
BY the Southern Pacific.
William and Alzina Birmingham,
kidnsppers Of Lillian Wulffe, may live
long behind penitenliAry walls to regret
their crime. Both were found guilty
/ in Judge Ker,zen's court in Chicago
last night. TIE punishment OF The man
WIS fixed by the jury at thirty years IN
prison. and that of the woman stiwenty-
Eve years.
Several Wssked men entered the town
hall at Daniel, province OF Ciudad
Real, Spain, during session OF the
municipal council and shot The mayor,
and, according to one story, six coun-
cilors, killing them and wounding otherF
The muriersrs escaped. 1! Is supposed
they were aclualed by detire for polit-
icsl revenge.
Friction between Rev. J. Hennipg
helms, rector of the Pro-Csthedrsl
Church of the Ascension in Washington,
and its choir and choirmaster, Ernest E..
Leigh, eliminated last night in the &C.
| ceptsnce OF Mr.. Leigh's resignation by
the vestrymen, gathered 10 special seq
sion, as q result Of differences that oc-
Cured between the two men st choir
rehearsal Tuesday evening.
Having brought death TO ten persons
In Chicago and its immediate vicinity,
serious injury to scores, and tied all
/ kinds of traffic, the worst storm ofrecent
years abated yesterday aud hurried east
ward. All previJus records in the Chi
csgo weather bureau had been broken
When the snow finally ceased falling.
The official record shows fall of u 6-lO
inches in twenty-four hours. The list OF
deaths was increased by eight yesterday,
making ten 10 sll who had succumbed
to the storm In various ways.