Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-19
News Of the Day.

The DOums has rejected by an over
wheIming yots The bill appropriating
80, 600, 900 roubles for new wsrship'.
The Southern Railway has Withdrawn
its funds from all its banks in GeoTgls
to prevent Attachments from being served
on the roso's money.
The Blnk OF England today reduced
its minimum Ta G OF discount IL OF l
per cent. to 8 per cent. The 3 IL per
cent. rste had been 10 effect two weeks.
Governor Guild, who hes been prom
inently mentioned as Massachusetts,
candidate for vice-presidential hOnors, Is
lying at the point Of death at his home
In Boston.
Col. Robert Hougb, Confederate
veteran and we'll known to horse owners
throughout the east, died last night in
Baltimore of congestion of the lungs,
aged sixty-seven years.
The Porto Rican Legislature adjourned
yesterday; the cOck6ghtiug and lottery
bills were killed, bu. the public utilities
bill was passed aud large appropriations
we're made for good roads and education.
The China Insurance Company, a
Massachusetts corporation doing a marine
insurance business in Boston, went into
the hands of receiver today. The
c ,mpany has outstanding risks Of
80, 900, 900
Kid Murphy, OF New York, lost bis
Tile of batam weight champion to Solly
Weinrieb, OF Rochester, 81 the end OF
be eighth round OF scheduled 10
round 20 befJre the. Arena Ashlelc
Club at Baltimore astnight.
All suspected revolutionaries aud anti
government plotters haye been ordered
out of Honduras. The Honduras app'e
heusion is of President H,yls, of Mica
rsgua, who is suspected Of designs against
all his neigbboriug republics.
Roughly speaking, there are now about
1000 bunaloes in existence. Of these
about 1000 srs in the United States,
oearly as many 10 Canada, and with the
exception of a solitary specimsn in South
America, The balance are in Europe.
10 the House yesterday during general
debate on the postofiice appropriation
bill. speeches were made by Representa-
tives Mouser, of Ohio; Hull, of Tennes-
see; Waldo, of NeH York; Hardy, Of
Texas; Adsir and Rsuch, OF Indiana,
and HthiG, OF Alabama.
According TO a dispatch received at
the State Department yesterday the Re
public OF Liberia will send commission
to the Uoited States within short time
TO solicit the assistance of the government
in strengthening out the difficulties with
which the little republic is on the verge
of being overwhelmed.
Miss Elizabeth Amanda Gator, Of
Baltimore, and Frederick Vincent SykeP,
member of the metropolitan police
force of Washington, were married in
Rockville yesterday afternoon. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Thomas
J Packard. rec or Of Christ Episcopal
Church. l. WAS a runaway fff4ir.
The report of the public service COM
mission shows that during February
there we're 3 951 railroad accidents in
New York ia which tweniy-six persons
were killed. OF the ,, 1877 persons in-
iured in these accidents l,2l9 were
passengers. During January the rj1red
we're $500 and the killed numbered
forty.four.
The Iowa republican convention yes.
tsrday named four delegates- at-large 10
the national convention and instructed
them TO support William Fl. TAFT for
the presidency. The convention also iu-
dorsed Senator Allison for reelection,
de. pite lLe fjris Of the Cummins fac
ton and approved the tsrifi revision
plank in the Ohio platform.
An interesting ceremony took place
In the hall of the House Of Delegates
at the Statehouse in Annapolis, Nd,
yesterday afternoon, when handsome
oil plinted portrait Of the late United
States Senator Arthur P. German, for
many years the dominant leader of the
democratic party in Maryland, was
formally presented to the State.
The national convention of the United
Mine Workers of America 10 Indianapo-
lie, Ind. yesterday afternoon changed the
place of its next meeting from St. Louis
to Indianapolis and received unanimous
report from its scale committee, which
has been considering, since lss, Thurs
day, a future policy for the Organization.
The scale committee recommended yearly
settlements with the operators by dis
tricts, tn, minimum demand being the
present wage scale and conditions in
each district. Local differences are 10
be adjusted By the distric, conferences.