Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-02-29
News Of the Day.

a DOmD WIS lnfOWu ~ tuc C7ttieB"
of President Alcorta, of Argentina, at
BuenOs Ayres, yesterday, but failed to
explode.
Baroness Pauline Wslhofen-Luccs,
the famous Austrian singer, died In
Vienna, yesterday Of cancer. She was
born 10 1871.
Edward Friedrich Droop, hesd Of an
old music house and resident of Wash
ington for 6ily-one years, died at his
home in that city yesterday afternoon,
sged II years.
A patent Office examiner, Philadel-
phia lawyer and York pa inventor
have been indicted charged with patent
frauds involving electric patents valued
at So, 900, 900.
The women's enfranchisment bill
passed it's first reading In. the British
House of Commons yesterday by 27l to
92. The sufrsgeltes went wild Then
they learned he news.
Thomas A. Edison is out OF danger,
the crisis is past and his early recovery
is expected" was the bulletin issued
from the Manhattan Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital, in New York, today.
J. Ogden Armour, President of Ar
mour & Co., will be elected a director
of the Illinois Central Monday when the
delayed stockholders meeting is held In
Chicago He will succeed StuYVesant
Fish.
Capt. FL jsh Frank Lambert, who
I'd been acting IS first mate Of the ice
boat Latrobe, dropped dead shortly after
o'clock last night while at the wheel OF
that vessel of Cut-of channel near
Baltimore.
1t is said that Rev. William Mercer
Grosvenor, rector of the Church Of the
Incarnation, New York city, will sue
coed the Ri. Rev. Henry Yates Sstterlee,
who died in Washington last Sstur-
day morning as bishop, Of Washington.
In the presence of 200 Daughters of
the Coufederscy, Mrs. Margaret Jtffer-
son Davis Hayes, of Colorado Springs,
Yesterday unveiled two windows placed
in the Episcopal Church at Biloxi, Mass
10 The memory of Mrs. Jefferson Davis
and Miss Winnie Davis.
Thousands turned out to do honor to
the memory of Father Leo HeiDrichS,
the priest slain by an snsTchiat 10
Denver, whose body arrived at Paterson,
N. J. today. 1t is expected that
thousands more will march past the
coffin when the corpse is placed on view
tomorrow In st. Bona Venture Church.
Mrs. J. O. Spires, wife of a farmer
living neat North Baltimore, Ohio,
killed three of her children yesterday,
fatally wounded a fourth, and then
killed herself by taking csrbolic acid,
shooting, and cutting her throat. One
Of the children was drowned in a well
and the others were shot and their
lhroats cut.
Reports from the Rosits Mine explo-
sion, near Usquiiz, Mexico, say there
has been large loss OF life. Some re-
ports place the loss Of life at from forty
to ninety. The mine is owned by the
Monterey Steel Company, and ordi-
narily employs force Of $50 miners,
mostly japanese and Mexican. The
federal government has charge OF the
situation.
A dispatch from Nome, Alaska, says
the frame of q giant mastOdon has been
found imbedded in the ground at Kobuk
river. Parts of the skeleton visible
above ground show that it Will measure
forty feet or more in length. The
skeleton will be taken to Seattle.
Government officials sre preparing to I'M
earth another enormous fossil, traces Of
which have been found.
Yesterdays issue of the OOmmoner
contains William j. BrYan's reply to
the letter sent him by james B. Forgan,
president of the First National Bank OF
Chicago, bearing on the question of the
safety OF the banks. Mr.. Bryan says,
as he understands 1t, Forgan objects to
q government guarantees because it puts
ell banks on az equality. This, he de-
clares, is Sc fish and unfair.
A woman and her three children were
burned to death in Pittsburg early today
in a fire which destroyed boarding
houre. Many other had narrow escapes
from suffOcation. The husband of one
one ofthe victims jumped from second
story window and has not been seen
since. The fire started from an over
turned lamp exploding in a room where
card game was in progress.