Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-11-30
News of the Day.

The b Gilmore and Ohio Railroad Com
psny is planning to build stone bridge
across the b andwine.
A bomb thrown st policeman in Pater'
900, N. j., Saturday night missed him
aad wrecked a FALCON front.
J. Pierpont Morgan has bought a
Chinese rug from tie Governor Win
throp Amts estate for nearly $75, 900.
The pope will not hold consistorY in
December, partly because of the diff
Guilty of choosing new French cardinals.
Fire, supposedly incendisrg early yes
t9rday morning caused 5000, 900 loss at
,he j. G Brill Oar Conn auy's plant,
10 Philadelp hia.
In the annual football game on Frank
lin field, PbiladelphiS, on Saturday, be-
tween the Army ald Navy, the Army
Won by score OF 6 to 4.
Thirty.two religions bodies will be
represented at the Federal Council OF the
Churches OF Christ in America, a Prot
estaut gathering which will meet in
Philadelphia Wednesday.
Rev, DR.. Alfred Harding, bishnp.eleCt
of Washington, yesterday oficiated at
the cornerstone laying of the new Chap
Ell of the Nativity, Fourteenth street
snd Massachusetts, avenue, southeast
Washington.
Germans regard with suspicion the ef-
forts of American consuls to oba'n
inform ion regarding the cost of pro-
ductiou and other details Of the business
of German manufacturers, with a view
to using the figures as basis for tariff
revision.
Fifty indictments we're returned Sat-
urdsy by the grand jury investigating
the recent night.rider raids sn Reel Foot
Lake region, which resched culmins-
ton month ago in the lynching Of
Capt. QuiDten Rankin, a prominent Al
torney, of Trenton, Tenn.
J. A. Finch, an attorney who was
dsbarred from p'aticing for one year by
the S ate Bur Association OF Oregon, ou
Saturday shot and killed Ralph B.
Flfher, young lawyer, who tal been
designated to act az prosecutor for the
Bar Association in the case against
Finch.
Prof. Lucien Eugene Ooradi Oolliere,
sixty-one Yeas old, hesd OF The French
department in the Washington High
Schools, died late Saturday afternoon at
his residence, the Toronto, Twentieth
and + streets northwest. Many years
ago Prot. Colliere taught French
class in this city.
Mrs. Algernon Daingerfeld, wife of
the secretary of the Jockey Club OF New
York, who is visiting her father. Colonel
II. T. Duncan, at Lexington, KY, was
badly burned Saturday. Scalding water
wa. thrown over her body by ga, ex-
plOsion. She is 10 a hospital ald Is
expected to recover.
Nellie Morton, II years old, confessed
on 5 uurdsy to the police Of R,lleville,
ILL.,, at she watched Peter Wa'l'z, al
sged man. die while her sweetheart,
Sydney B her, held a chloroformed
handkerchief to bis face. Waellz WAS a
Wel-tO-do farmer, aud when las. seen
by his friends had t75 with him.
The proposed Wholesale dismissal OF
skilled mechanics 10 the Washington
navy yard, which created such a stir, will
net take p ace, a. lesst the men marked
for discharge will be allowed to retain
their positions until March 81. The de-
partment has directed that some add.
tiobal work be undertaken which will
keep the force busy until spring.
Twenty-Five bodies, sill bat two uf them
horribly mulila,ed and a number dis
membered, were yesterday taken from
mine OF the Pitisburg- Buffalo Coal Com
psny at Marianns, where an explosion
occurred Saturday, killing many men
and casting into gloom what was until
then considered the model mining town
of the world. There is no doubt that
the death list will reach 1873 men.