Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-02
News Of the Day.


bank at Mounds, Okla, at 3 O'Clock
this morning and secured Sc, 600. They
escaped before the citizens were awak-
ened.
After leaving a dollar each to her
eight children, Mrs. Margaret Cullen,
whose will was filed for probate yester'
day, leaves the rest of her estate to st.
PsuPs Catholic Church, Washington.
The New Jersey House yesterday
passed the Senate Joint resolution pro-
yiding for the return Of southern hsg'
taken during the civil war. The hsgI
are to be given back to the organizations
from which they were captured, the re.
turn to be made under direction of the
governor.
The advocates of the snti-racetrach
gambling bills scored victory Ia The
New York Senate last night, when, after
q debate that continued all day, they
succeeded in restoring to the form 10
which it was introduced Senator Agnew''
bill amending the penal code, making
gambling on racetracks felony.
Consideration of measure for The ad
Indication OF the claims of states against
the government account Of the DISPOSE.
ton of the proceeds Of public lands oc
cupied much of the time Of the Senate
Yesterday. Consideration Of the agri'
cultural appropriation bill was continued
in the House.
Evidence was forthcoming in New
York last night that serious efforts are
being made to heal the family breach
occasioned by Nine. Anna Gould's de-
termination 10 accept the hand Of Prince
Helie de Sagan. Among all parties to
the controversy there wss tendency
toward Cancellation.
Suit has been brought by Frank P,
Smith, formerly of Topeka, Kau., bu
living now In New York, against Mrs
William K. Vanderbilt, jr., and Mrs
Hermann Oelrichs, to recover, on The
ground that he is a half-brother of the
late Mrs. Charles L. Fair, one-seventh
of her estate, or about one million dollars
10 Ohio, 465 coal mines have shut
down, $4,000 men being out of work.
The Pittsburg district has 40, 600 miners
out of work. Throughout Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, SO,
900 men have quit. Every coal mine
in Iowa is closed, affecting Is, 600 men.
The shutting down of ali mines in Illinois
forces 8, 600 men into idleness.
81 Ridicule was the only attention given
the charges preferred against DR. james
R Day, chancellor Of Syracuse Univer-
sity, by Rev. George A. Cooke, of Bran.
don, N. Y, by the New York Methodist
Episcopal Conference. Cooks accusa-
ton that in Lis attacks on President
Roosevelt, Day had violated a church
rule, were ruled out Of court by Bishop
Moore.
Judge Foster in general sessions in
New York this afternoon denied the
motion of Attorney General Jackson Ia
expunge from the court records the pre-.
sentiment attacking his integrity recently
returned by the grand jury and directed
that the prtsentment should be se .asts q
Governor Hughes and the Sident OF
the Senate and Speakerof the HOUSE at
Albany. -
~Dssce more bride, the former Mrs.
1 Halsey Corwin, who has figured fire.
quently in the newspapers Is on her way
to Europe today on her latest honey
moon. She Is a passenger on the liner
Celtic with her new husband, Captain
Arthur Hill, of the Irish Rifles, son OF
Lord Arthur Hill, an honarY colonel Of
tie ame regiment, whom she married at
Lockwood, n. j., yesterday. Mrs.
Oorwiu, was formerly Miss Roberta A.
Meujes, of Sheepshesd Bay.
DR.. T. ]. Mcclure, 8 prominent ply
,icisn Of Parkersburg, w. Va, had a
desperate encounter at his home yeater.
day with Rev. Father William Walsh,
priest OF Lewis county. Father Walsh,
it Is alleged, had been drinking very
heavily for some days, and the ply
sicisn tried to get him 10 return home.
Yesterday the priest entered DR.. Nc
CURES house and drew revolver,
which the physician wrested from him
after a struggle. The police arrested
Father Walsh, who was fined In the
Police Court for carrying q revolver.
Later he was rearrested upon State
warrant, charging felonious assault.
Father Walsh was formerly assistant
rector Of st. Xsvisr's Catholic Church at
Petersburg.
William F. Harig, the former Baltimore
! to await hearing on the charge Of numbering
James N. Mahon, the well-known sporting
man.