Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-01-27
News Of the Day.

Many OF GerDsny's highest MOBILES
have gathered at Berlin 10 greet EN-
peror William on his 49lh birthday an-
niyerssry.
Jean Juneau, lesder of the reyo'u-
tiouary movement in Hayti, has been
csptu,ed and shot to death, thus ending
the revolution.
Tue employees of North Carolina rail-
roads, fearing a reduction in pay, will
petition the legislature of the State to re-
peal the 2l-cent fare law.
1t is rumored that Rev. William I.
Russell, Of the Baltimore Cathedral, will
succeed Rev. DR.. D. j. 6tsforl as rector
of St. Psirick's Church. Washington.
Flank r. O'Neil, second vice presi.
dent of the Pulitzer Publishing Com
pauy, end General Manager Of the St.
Louis Post-Despstcb, died suddenly
today.
President Roosevelt carries $85, 900
ia life insurance, sccor ding 10 the
Spectator Company, which publishes
list OF $500 persons who have policies OF
more than $50, 900.
Attorney General Bonaparte has d.
rected that bill in equity be filed to
set aside the control by the Union Pa
cifc RAILROAD Company Of the various
competing lines between the Missouri
and the Pacific Coast.
Jack London, who left San Francisco
last May on a seven-year trip around the
world to procure material for literary
work, and for whose safety fears have
been entertained, returned to San Fran
cisco Saturday on the steamship Mari
poss, from Tahiti.
Through treaty Of peace and work
ing alliance signed ia New York the
Hartman and Gould railroad interests
are reported in San Francisco TO have
terminated all conflicts, and hereafter
the two big railroad systems will act In
harmony in the West.
Detective Theodore B. Hall, better
known as "Tod" Hall, one Of the most
experienced and efficient officers OF the
Baltimore police department, and widely
known az an evangelist and lecturer,
died of pneumonia after brief illness at
his residence In that city on Saturday
evening.
Fire in the factory Of the Norwich
Belt Manufacturing Company, at Nor
wicb, Conn.,, occupied on the first floor
BY the Offices and saleSroom Of slhe COM
pany and on the two upper floors by the
Davenport Fire Arms Company, today
did about $4,000 dsmsge. The loss
Is partly covered by insurance.
The American torpedo-boat fotills
steamed into Bueuos Ayres shortly after
O'Clock yesterday morning. Torpedo
boats of the Argentine Republics navy
escorted them. A great crowd gathered
on the wharves and other points OF
vantage and cheered repeatedly The
| Americans were received with due honor.
"Ouida," Louise de Ia Rance, the
novelist, died Saturday at Viariggio,
Italy, after gu illness extending over a
long period. She died in most distress
ing poverty, her only attendant being an
old servant woman in whose arms she
expired. She was completely blind in
one eye aud the other eye was badly az
fecied, through her having suffered 30
much from exposure and privation. She
wss 6S years old.
The Thaws have been notified by
attorneys for the Earl Of Yarmouth that
the latter will demand g settlement
financially befors submitting to divorce,
IS he holdsa psper signed by Alice Thsw
bafore her marriage which will give him
he right to collect heavily other fortune.
The paper is an agreement that all her
fortune shall pass to the house of Hert-
ford in the event of hes dying childles+
One of the detectives who have been
working on this case yesterday admitted
that the Thsws expected an attempted
hold.up ior$1, 900, 900 on the part OF the
earl, but we're ready for it.