Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-02
News Of the Day.

OF OumDerlRDu, uleu OaiuICay he"'s
aged seventy-six years.
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw denies hat she has
demanded q million dollars to consent to
divorce from Harry K. ThsW.
A general resumption Of work among
the cotton cloth mills of Plainheld,
Conn, and vicinity occurred today.
By the oyerturniDg Of boat in which
six boys were fishing on lake st Mart,
Tex, yesterday, four OF them we're
drowned.
An arbitration treaty between the
United States and Greece was signed
by Secretary Root and Minister Lager
cfsn.z on Saturday.
It is believed 10 st. Petersburg that
the United States will convert Csvite,
Island of Luzon, into the most powerful
base on the Pacific.
Mrs. Grace Cooper, prominent in the
social life OF Staten Island, accused Of
the death of her husband, has been sur
rendered by her bOndsmaD.
Officials in Berlin deny reports that
Germany is sgitsting the "Open-door"
question in Manchuria, either alone or
by secret proposals 10 the United States.
Policeman Da@kins, convicted OF
burglary and grand larceny in Brooklyn
while in uniform and on post, WAS today
sentenced to from 8 to IL years In
Sing Sing.
James Oliver, founder of the largest
pillow works in the world, died at his
home at South Bend, Ind, today. He
gained fame by bis invention Of the
"chilled plow."
Thomas B. Wanamsker, of Philadel-
phis, a son of John Wanamsker, aud
himself the owner of extensive interests
10 his home city, died suddenly in Paris
today. The deceased was AZ years old.
The Cumberland coal trade report
shows that 1860, 1886 tons of coal were
mined and shipped during the year OF
1907 in the Cumberland coal region.
The production last year shows a net
increase over 1906 OF 172, 299 tons.
Patrick F. Garrett, known as the gun
fighter who killed in 1881 the notorious
outlaw and gunman, Billy the Kid,
was shot aud killed On Saturday by j..
Wayne Brazil, a youthful rsnchmsn,
near Las Cruces, N. NJ, in dispute
over ranch lease.
Escaping coal gas partly asphyxiated
forty members of the congregation Of
Green Avenue Baptist Olurch at De-
troit, Mich, yesterday afternoon. Ssv-
eral of the worShippers we're made I'M
conscious, but revived after being car
ried TO the open air.
The Mahoning river is at flood stage
at youngstown, Ohio, today and rising
rapidly. Already damage has resulted.
A dispatch from Finley, Ohio, says the
Blanchard river and Esgle creek are
at food due to heavy rains aud trouble
and damage have resulted.
The trial Of Raymond Hitchcock, the
comedian, was again continued 10 New
York today until March 10. An ar
rangement was affected whereby Hitch
cocks attorneys will be allowed to
inspect the minutes of the grand jury
that indicted him and for calling q
special trial jury.
Andrew Hamilton, formerly counsel
to the New York Life and other insur'
ance companies aud in charge for many
years of insurance litigation and lesis'
lative matters in all parts of the coun'
try and Canada, was found dead in bee
yesterday at his home in Albany. His
death was caused by heart disease.
In the House on Saturday Mr.. Msnr
succeeded in having stricken out of the
army appropriation bill an item O.
| $3.50, 900 for the purchase Of 6, 900 acres
of land in Virginia, near Washington,
for a target range, on the ground thai
the land could be purchased for hal
the price or less. Afterward the bill
was passed, the total amount carried by
it being $84, 757, 566.
From present indications. the success
sor of Henry Yates Satterlee as Episco
pal Bishop of Washington may be Bishop
Charles H. Brent, Missionary Bishop il
the Philippine Islands for the lest five
years. Among the other clergymen men
toned IS possible successors to the late
Bishop Satterlee, is Rev. DR.. Randolph
H. McKim, of Washington; Rev. DR..
Ernest NJ. StireS, of ST. Thomas Church
New York; Rev. DR.. William NJ. eros
yenor, OF tie Church of the Incarna
tiop, and Rev. DR.. James E. Freeman
of Yonkers, New York. DR.. Cotton
Smith, rector of st. Johns, Washing
ton, is also considered IS eligible.
Two fires that brought out all the firt
apparatus in the upper section of th'
city and ragged in lively fashion from
midnight till dawn yesterday, burned
down the car barns of the New York
City Railway Company, in Second av'
4 enue, in Harlem, and the paint factory
of George w. Grote & Co., only a few
blocks distant. There we're 74O surface
cars burned in the destruction Of thu
barns and the loss to the company is es
timated at so, 500, 900. The loss on the
pain. factory is given as 1925, 600. L
J was the railway peoples second serious
fire within a year, the former blazt
having destroyed the Madison avenue
car barns.
William J Bryan, who addressed
} Joint session of the Mississippi legisla
} ture in the Century Thester at Jackson
on Saturday, made caustic references
to the four democrats in the Kentucky
legislature who, by casting their vote
with the republicans, elected Mr.. Brad
lev United States Senator Friday. HI
referred to them as "embtzzlers o