Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-04-15
News Of the Day.

NOH > VA
The battleship fleet arrived at San
Diego, yesterday, and Was enthusiastic
cslly welcomed.
The situation in the Chester, Pa,
trolley strike remains uuch aDged today.
No cars are running in the city.
Mrs. Laurene Boremsn, widow of A.
Brennan. first governor OF West Vir-
ginia and later United States Senator,
died at Psrkersburg, w. Va, early TO-
day, aged ".
Superintendent of Streets George F.
Birge, of Northampton, Msss,, was shot
end killed today By John Tracy, who
applied for work and was refused. Tracy
then shot himself.
Three more bodies found this after
noon in the siilI smoking ruins OF Chel-
sea, Mass, bring the number OF known
dead 10 that conhsgrstion up Il six.
They are charred almost beyond recog-
milton. Two apparently sre women.
The third is that OF an infant.
Mr.. Bourke Cochran has introduced q
bill ia the House for giant auto high
way from tho Atlantic to tho Pacific
oceans His measure proposes TO have
constructed roadway 1870 feet wide
for autos, roller skaters, bicyclers, pedes-
trianS, etc.
Herman Ridder, president of the
American Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation, at the Reform Clubs dinner, 10
New York, yesterday, declared that the
Manufacturers of wood pulp have Vio-
lated the law and the order Of The govern
ment and can show no good reason Tor
increasing the price of paper.
TIE commission wagon drivers, union
Of Chiosgo, will meet the ioint council
of the tesmslers' union today to arrange
date for strike. A teamsters strike
is unavoidable, ii is declared by the
drivers and todsy's meeting was hastily
called. The strike will bo the outcome
OF demand for increased psy.
Despite the written declaration u
Judge George Gray that he could not
under any circumstances consent to have
The delegates instructed for him, the
DeIeware democratic State convention
Yesterday officially placed his uSme be-
| FIRE the democracy of the country for
that partv's nomination for president oil
the United States.
The Office of Public Roads of the
United States Department of Agriculture
has recently been conducting series
of very interesting experiments to learn
the amount of damage done to the rock
surface througbfsres by automobiles.
The results prove that the modern fast
moving motor car is the greatest menace
TO macsdsm roads thst has ever made
is appearance.
A stubborn fire in the canning works
of the Standard Oh Company in Long
Island City, n. Y, destroyed that
building, damaged the adjoining paint
works Of james O. NeWcomb and spread
10 a dozen oil tanks. For time the
whole plant of the Standard Oil Com
pany was threatened, but The 6remen
6usly conquered the flames. The loss
sill run into the thousands.
Bonbarded with lemons and hOoted by 8
| crowd who added 10 their noises with COW
j bells, Gov. Hcke Smith. was prevented from
speaking at Marietta, Ca, yesterday, in sup
| port of his candidacy for a second term. This
is the home of Joseph NJ. Brown. who is 9
candidate in opposition TO Gov. Smith, and
the rough house for the governor was created
by Browns supporters. the lttter's son taking
a leading part in the disturbance. When
Gov. Smith took Office he discharged Brown
from the railroad commission, alleging that
| BroTn was dominated by the railroads. Now
Blown has announced himself candidate for
governor, and there is much personal bitter
ness in the contest.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says: Back
Of the marriage Of Miss Ada Il. Pratt, Of
1887 Irving street, Washington, TO B. Frank.
lin Hoover, of Philadelphia, last Saturday
lies story Of unusual romance and interest.
Miss Pratt lived until she was twenty-Dine
Yeas old without forming the Acquaintance
Of man. She was born and raised 10 q
community Of women tat ght to believe that
marriage was a sin. She was bound by
TEACHING and belief always to remain single.
Then she married the fret man TO whom she
ever had been introduced. More than that,
she did more than half the counting.
In the Senate yesterday the confusion and
demonstration following Senator Foraker s
speech cut short the reading Of the presi.
dents message urging four battleships, and
to prevent continuation Of the demoGstra-
in an adjournment was hastily taken. The
day was spent in the House on the oousidera.
ton OF the naval appropriation bill. The
battlsship proposition was not reached. The
presidents message was received and read al
the close Of the day.
Marion Gray, the affinity" broker, con-
victed of using the mails 10 defraud by con.
Quoting matrimonial bureau at Elgin, H.
linois, was sentenced by Judge lands. Ia
Chicago, today, to one year in the House o.
Correction.