Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-20
News Of the Day.


Senator Tillmsu, OF South Carolins,
Is rapidly improving ct the ssnitsrium
In AtlanIs, Ga.
Italy will send IL Wsrships and 8 tor
pedo boats to make demonstration 10
Turkish waters.
The postmaster general says the
establishment OF a special local parcel
post on rural routes would wipe out the
deficit.
A resolution is to be passed By Con-
gress giving President Roosevelt full su-
thority to deal with the Venezuelan
controversy.
1t is said In New York that the quar-
rel between Frank Gould snd his youSg
wife, Helen Kelly Gould, would be
patched up.
The twelfth annual Marathon run from
Ashland, Mass, to the Boston Athletic
Association was Won by I. P. MOrrisey,
of Yonkers, N. 7.
The streel-car strike in Cumberland
has oeen amicsbly settled, the company
sgreeing to reipstste the men who were
discharged for gambling.
At least four lives we're lost in severe
foods on Saturday In Fort Worth, Tex,
and vicinity; the property loss is est
mated at $500, 900. Live stock suffered
heavily.
King Edward aud Queen Alexandra
left London today on trip to Copen-
hagen, Stockholm snd Christiana. They
will be guests of the royal families OF
the respective capitals.
The attachments of United States SOL
diers with force of coDstabulary have
been distributed from launches around
Bssilsn island and are closing in on the
Moros and disaIming them. An out
break is feared.
Liie-savers at Hereford Inlet, N. j.,
yesterday quieted q panic aboard the
launch Harry M. and rescued twenty
two men and women passengers after
the little vessel had struck on the dan
gerous sand bars of the lower coast and
partly filed with water.
The greatest Easter crowd ever on the
Atlantic City boardwalk psraded at
noon yesterday in brilliant sunshine that
allowed the women 10 wear their spring
frocks and daintiest millinery creations.
Close to 200, 900 persons we're on chow
on the FIVE miles of walk at noon.
]. Pierpont Morgan has bought
Raphae's famous "Virgin of St. An
thony of Padua" for $500, 900 according
to q Central News dispatch from Rome.
The painting will be added to Mr..
Morgan's collection in the Aldebrandin
Palace in the Italian capital, the same
authority says.
The ORR de Paris insists that the mar
rage OF Nine. Anna Gould, formerly the
wife of Count Boni de Csstellane, and
Prince Helie de 5sgan already has
taken place. The paper announced
sometime ago that this marriage had
been celebrated secretly ia Germany,
but the report was positively denied by
members Of the family.
The tower of the 4s-story Metropoli-
tan Life building, at Madison avenue
and Twenty fourth street, New York,
which, rs originally planned, would
have been the highest thing yet in the
building liue. is to be stretched up bit
80 as to furnish a little sitter goal for
later record breakers. By the new
plans it will reach total height OF 700
feet above the sidewalk. The Singer
building is 6l2 feet from sidewalk to
the top.
Two men met death yesterday morning
by asphyxiation from illuminating gas
while asleep in bed In Washington.
OIe who, it is thought, was George 81.
Clair, OF Blackstone, 81. Msry's county
Md, blew out the gas in his room at the
lodging honse, 626 PeDnsy lvania avenue
northwest The other victim, Charles
A. Barnes, hfty-6ve years old, an employee
of an ice company, was found dead in bed
a. his home, 500 E street northwest, about
o'clock yesterday morning. 1t is
believed that both deaths we're the result
of accidents