Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-06
News Of the Day.

Rome, March 20.
The Pope is very slowly allowing the
new regulations to be introduced in The
church of France to replfce those nnlli-
fed by the SEPARATION act.
A lockout in the building industry in
Paris put City IN nssnd men oat Of en-
pIoyrnent and threatened TO extend to
two hundred thousand employees.
Rome is generally accepting as true
lie rumors the Duke of Ab'uzzps ct
esgement to Miss Katherine + klns ia TO
be formally announced in few days.
Supporters of Judge Gray for the
preside ntial nomination will open head
quarters in Washington today. The
Johnson boom has also been formally
launched.
Chancellor Day, Of Syracuse Univer-
sity. ia an address to the Young Men :
Christian Association, said hlisi ex-
trsvagsnce can be relied upon TO dissiPate
"swolleD fortunes"
The train carrying Mrs. ROosev' Il
and party arrived in Atlanta saturday
six minutes ahead OF i@e, with Miss
f. hel Roosevelt at the throttle; the engl-
neer said she made an apt pupil.
J s,pb Lsisls, serving sentence OF
no, exceeding IA yea sand months tor
highway robbery, escaped from sing
Sing, n. Y. prison today ard up TO the
present time has not been recapIured'
The New York police sssert today
hat they are on the trail of the woman
who is believed to have kidnapped three
year-old Joseph Cliff, iron near bis
iather's home in Brooklyn, Thursday
evening.
The Russian government is considering
the il uarce of statement Tecogn'z ng
Chins's sovereignty in Manchurla IN "a
far as is consistent with the purely ad-
miuisuative rights OF Russia in the rail-
road zjne.
Rev. DR.. f. NJ. K Oman, former rector
of Grace P. E. Church, PlaiD6eld, n. j
died ,esterdsy. Dr. R1dmsn was blrn
in NV York seventy-eight years age.
He prepared for The ministry ut the
theological Seminary near this city.
The Chicago police today are making
every ,fijrt to Idenify members Of
gang of youngsters that have made them
selves OF otionable to nortbslde resi-
d mis- and one of whose members last
night fatally shot John Walsh, patrol
mau, who endesvored to dlspeTse them
Street car trsfic at Pensacola Fla, i
at a slandAill today owing to the lac
that the conductors and motornen ART
on a strike. They quit work becsns'
the company wanted Den whom they
had suspended to report TO the fiics'
three times day. The men refused tt
C mply with the order and their conn.,
rsdes struck 10 sympathy.
Jack O. Brien, the noted boxer, aDc
Anthony Dpxel Biddle, well known 10
Philadelpi il social circles and renowned
for athletic sbilily, met 10 the ring Sat.
urday night at the Merton Cricket Ciut
in what was 10 have been a siI-rouud
bout At the beginning OF the fourth
rouod the bout was stopped, rs Mr.
BiddIe was unable to continue. He gave
very good exhi itiou.
TIE mystery surrounding the sudden
DISAPPEARANCE March ] of Col. Edmund
| L. Wol dside, former chief clerk to thu
aoiutant-geusra's Office and aid on tb'
sts fl ofex- Governor Wsrield, was cleared
up yesterday by the finding of his body il
the Severn river, near Annapolis.
Coroner FeldmeYer, Of Annsp Ills, gave
verdict of accidental death, but msD y
friends of Colonel WOOdsids believe b
Committed suicide.
At midnight Saturday night the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, one of the most famous
b selries of New York, ended its exist
ence of hatf century. 1t WAS lily,
hslf-sorrowful party that gathered to Did
the old place od-by. Af'er 40 yes :
of life IS a ho el, during hslt of which
time il served rs the headquarters OF the
republican party of the 5 ate, the house
is to be torn down to make way for q
monster Office building.
The army appropriation bill was com
pleed by the Senate committee on mil E
tqry affairs Saturday aud will be rep 'rled
today II will carry about $l5, 600 OOO
more than was provided in the bill as it
passed the House, making a total of sp-
proximstely 100000, 600 An item Of
about 81, 600, 900 was included to in.
cresss the pay OF the army, revenue cut
t r service and marine corps, but exclud-
ing enlisted men Of the navy, 10 accord
ance with the provisions of the bill
which WIS passed by the Senate.
Policemen by day and burglars by
night, with expert sccomplices for their
assistants, is the serious charge prefer,
red against four pstrolnen Of Phila-
delphis, who Saturday we're arrested
upon information furnished by . boy
thief. Two of the policemen broke
down ard confessed lsst night when
they we're confronted with several thou
sand dollars worth of goods taken from
their homes, but the other two refused
to commit themselves to any statement.
Other arrests will be made and the
investigation promises to lead to the
most sensational exposure of demUraliz ID
police conditions that has ever been
made in that city.
The Auc uAting sff ,irs of Nine. Anna
Gould aud Prince Helie de Sagsn took
turn in favor of the prince yesterday,
when Nine. Gould consented to their
public appearance together for the first
time since their arrival in New York
After receiving call from her brother
Edwin and listening 10 bis pleas that
he give over the prince, Nine. Gould
I4ft her apartments in the Hotel ST.
Regis at 2:SO yesterday afternoon. &C.