Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-03-16
News Of the Day.


A d. eco ALLEGED revolutionists were
dragged from their beds in Haiti and
shot recently.
After an illness of several DAYS United
States Commissioner Benjamin l.. Wells
died in Malone, n. Y, today.
United States Senator William Pink
ney Whyte is seriously i'll at his home
in Baltimore.
There are 10 convicted bankers in the
federal prison at Leaven worth, to which
John r. Walsh, of Chicago, has been
sentenced.
Arthur Essing ran an elevator until
A lmes 10 the shaft burned his hands in
rescuipg girls from a factory fire on
Saturday 10 New York.
Harry Orchard murderer of Governor
Steunenburg, of Idaho, will be sentenced
to death on Wednesday. He says he i:
ready and willing to take his punishment.
The president has issued proclama-
ton promulgsting the terms OF the
treaty of arbitration recently agreed
upon by the United States aud France.
After an exhaustive search into the
laws, Senator Rsyner concludes thai
the constitution prevents Congress from
passing a Law to prohibit shipments Of
LIQUOR from one State into other.
A bomb exploded yesterday at Bar
celoua in the market place, near the
Rlmbia, irjuring four women. The
market was closed at the lime, other
wise great damage might have been
done.
immigration statistics compiled by
steamship companies show that tide OF
alien arrivals In this country still re-
mains at low ebb. while ths return OF
foreigners 10 Europe continues in uu'
usual numbers.
An attempt to escape was made Sat
urday by Giuseppe ALA, assassin OF
Father Heinrichs, 10 Denver, who
Wits a razor blade, slashed a "trusty,
cleaning his cell, but Was overpoweret
| oetOre ne gov IhI'
At the point of guns in Pittsburg,
s iturday, two men we're caught 10 the
act OF counterfsiting Coins Of the U0ited
States, and the authorities uncovered
what they claim to have been the most
perfect aud the largest den ofcounterieit'
ers in the history OF the country.
Eight persons were killed, one was
probably fatally injured, aud property
valued at Macy thousands OF dollars
was wrecked Saturday as the result oil
an explosion of gas in the basement Of
five story building occupied by the
Nstchtz Drug Company in Natchez,
Miss.
Robert L. Owning, the actor has
foraker the stage for the church and
will become an evangelist. At q revival
service at the Rhode Island Avenue NJ.
IP. Church, Washington, Friday
night he mounted the pulpit of that
church, and made his first address as q
| Christian.
A. B. Hepburn, formerly comptroller
of the currency and now president OF the
Chase National Bank, New York, just
home from abroad, declares sill Europe
is an enemy of the United States and
Japan, being jealous of their progress,
and that the Continent would welcome
a war between the nations.
The Oriental Limited mail car was
held up early yesterday morning by 8
lone bandit near Bonners Ferry, Idlho:
He bound two mail clerks and rlhed all
the regular pouches. he rode on the
train for 100 miles and then dropped of
with the BODY 10 the suburbs of Spo-
kane. The mail officials say he did not
70, large sum.
Abe Hummtl, the lawyer, sent to
the Blackwells Island New York, peni-
Tertiary for subordinstion Of perjury in
connection with the Dodge-Morse d.
vorce scandal will probably leave the
island on Thursday. He has been there
slice May 20 of last year, and his time
will expire his week If the $500 fine he
WAS sentenced TO pay is settled.
In heavy thunderstorm which struck
Greenwich, Conn.,, yesterday, bolt Of
lightning struck a cornice on the 81.
Mary's Roman Catholic Church aud
hurled 1t to the middle of Greenwich
avenue, about 100 feet away. Rev.
Richard Morrisey, curste Of the parish,
who was standing on the veranda of the
parish. house, a few yards away, was
temporarily blinded by the fash, but
was able to officiate at yespers few
hours later.
II Is the Pre- .ideuts intention to rec
ommend to Congress the authorization
OF Second A sstaut Secretary of the
navy, who shall be selected from The
lioe Of The service. The duties of this
officer will be 20 coordinate the work Of
the various bureaus, to settle disputed
regarding technical matters which may
arise between them, aud TO give a har-
monious trend to naval deytl Dpment.
He will be subordinate 10 the Secretary
of the Navy.
Benson Bidwell and his son, Charles
F., promoters of the Bidwell Electric
Company, a &C ld-mo,or" concern,
were found guilty in Chicago on Satur-
day of operating a confidence game, a
penitentiary ofense. Benson Bidwell is
brother of George aud Austin Bidwell,
who, 1t is said, came near defrauding the
Bark of England out Of S., 600.
He started the electric company In 1906.