Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-27
News of the Day.

Guild is steadily improving.
A dispatch from philadelphia ssys
Penrose passed good night,
and for the first time since his condition
became seriou, hi. relatives expressed
hopes for his recovery.
In the House Yesterday brief mes
sage was read from President Roosevelt
transmitting a statement from Secretary
Root regarding payment of friends oil
Mas Ellen NJ. Stone who contributed 10
a fund to ransom her from Turkish bril-
gands.
Mexico City experienced two severe
earth quake shocks yesterday. The nr't
shock occurred at 4:30 yesterday even
ing. lasting four minutes and twenty,
eight seconds. No lives were lost ana
the property damage was Insignificant.
Numerous walls were cracked.
John Duvsll, the ten-yesr-old son Of
Mrs. Ella Dnvall, Of Laurel, Md, died
Wednesday from the effects OF drinking
half pint of whisky that he had
found hidden away in cupboard. soon
afterward the boy was taken win con-
vulsions, resulting in his death.
The amendment to the Percy Gfsy
law eliminating the clause permitting
betting at race tracks, and the amend
ment to the penal code, providing im-
prisonment for bOokmakers, without the
alternative of a fine, passed the Ne"
York ASST mbly yesterday afternoon BY
an overw helmiDg majority
Three indictments, each containing
three counts against Patrick Calhoun
president Of the United Railways; L. H.
Ford, generalcouEsel for the same cor.
poration, and Abrsham Ruef, iormel
political boss of San Francisco, secretly
voted by the grand jary "Wednesday
night, we're filed with Presiding Judge
Sturtevsnt yesterday.
William Jennings Bryan arrived 10
Pittsburg, Pa, today and tonight Will
address monster democratic, mae
meeting at Exposition Hall, in lha
city. The depot vas filed with thronI
OF admiriug friends and ne was glveI
a rousing reception as he stepped iron
the train. He will be given anolhe
rousing reception when he sppesrs OF
tie platform tonight.
Governor Hughes, of New York, VIII
give hearing tomorrow at Oo'clocE OF
an application tOr q respite for Ohes'e
| G lletle who is sentenced to be electro
cuted Monday for the murder of Grsc
Brown on the ground OF newly discovers
evidence. Attorney John II. Dugsn o
Albany and Mr.. and Mrs. Gillette
parents of the condemned man, csllst
ON the governor last night and asserted
that they bad new evidence which woul'
have tended to change the verdict.
Mr.. Knapp, chairman If the Inter
81, te Commerce Commission, advocated
Yesterday before the House committee oil
,mmsrcs a uniform bill of ladiDg law
| Uniformity in bills of lading, such uni
formily to be prescribed by the govern
ment, Chairman Knapp said, would Civ
this class OF paper stability as negotisbl,
instruments. Such bills would be bind
Ing upon the the carrier whose agen
issued them 10 much the same sense an
to the ssme extent that ban is lisbl
when it cerlifies check.
10 futile attempt to blow open tn
safe of the Farmers Bank at Spring
town, Ark, early yesterday, the head Q
one OF lhA robbers was blown from hi
shoulders Dg a pf,...siuTe explosion o
dynamite. The body Of the dead robbie
wa, found near the safe in the bank
Ia his pocket was a map showing Gen
nv, SpriDgtown and Sulphur Soring
marked wi b cr0ssfs Banks at the t@
latter places have been robbed latel.
and the police are led to the belief tina
he same gang attempted to rob III
Farmers Bank.
Almost at lbe doorway Of bis brother
William, whom he had travelled 2,OOl
miles 10 SO, after an absence OF itl.
year,, Thomas J. Mofiiiit, pioneer 0
the West, fell dead Of heart diseaie il
Winchester, lad, last Friday, aud To
brother is on what may be his deathbe'
in San Francisco as the result of tn
shock. Mofiiitt, before his trip to ID
east, had been visiting with his dsngh
ter, Mrs. w. l.. Rees, Of San Francisco
His wife. Mrs. Sarah Fl. Moffitt, is ther
at present, and the remains Of the pic
neer will be shipped to that city for in
terment.