Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-12-31
News III the Day.

a slight earth shock was fell! at Port.
land, Oregon, at 4:23 o'clock yesterday
| afternoon.
J. T. Morgan is said to bs In nitrate
trust With $3.50, 100000 cspi!al, to be
founded at Valparaiso.
Former Judge William Preston b.
nun, of North Carolina, famous for his
work 10 reconstruction days, died at his
home in Charlotte yesterday.
Dol. John Byrne, chief of detectives
for the past 80 years for the United
States Express Company, died yesterday
at the family home, 10 Baaalo, N, Y.
Dea,h vas due to a stroke OF apoplexy.
a letter WAS received In Louisville,
KY, yesterday from some Town 10 Ohio
promising the return OF little Alma Kell.
ner 10 her parents on payment OF S., 900
rausom. The girl disappeared On De-
cember s.
a hungry bear which ventured to the
outskirts OF Newmarket, was killed on
Wednesday by W. a. Price and party
OF huu.smen, who, seeing its tracks,
sarled after bis bearship. The animal
when dressed weighed 1877 pounds.
The Boston Elevated Railroad today
is distributing $3.50, 90 in gold as gratui-
ties to lis employees in individual suma
CT from so to $25, New Years gifts, 10
recognition OF faithful service during the
year, The number of benz 6ciarles ID
about s, 800.
| Advices from msnsgua state that the
MadrIz government has appointed Senior
L1is Coraa ss special envoy from
Nicaragua at Washington, empower.
Jog him to srrsngs terms With the
u oited = ases for the settlement of all
pending difficulties between the two
countries.
With The election of officers yesterday
afternoon and an address from President
/ Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard, that even.
ing, the Southern Educational AscocIs'
ton adj burned sine die st Charlotte, y.
O., The place of the next meeting beiOg
left with the executive committee D..
D. B. Johnson, Of Winthrop CJllege,
South Os:oius vas elected president.
An entire oyerturning of the sYste N
employed by The Daughters of the Amer
ican Revelation, In the keeping of their
accounts and records will take place as
result of the investigation now being
made of the books of the society, follow
ing the embezz'emens OF considerable
money by one of the women clerks OF the
organization made public recently.
An indictment was returned yesterday
by the Hamilton county, Ohio, grand
jury sgainst W. Kelsey schosPf, head of
the Cincinnati Traction Company,
charging failure to keep the temperature
In certain strset cars up to the standard
OF CO. Fahrenhite a,provided by statute.
A fine of from 800 to $500 is provided
for violation of the law.
| A rough draft Of the ccp'ervat ion leg
islation, which 10 soon to ba the sut .ct
of presidential message TO- Congress,
has been completed by Secretary Bill
niger, according to a!stsmens made
at the Department of The loterlor.
The legislation recommended deals With
water power sites, coal lsuds, and oil
and gas lands.
Maddin Sammers, who as vice consul
at Madrid, has been engaged In securing
documentary evidence for the Spanish
Treaty Claims Commisslan, has been
transferred to Santiago, Chile, to gather
data 10 be used By the State Depar;m ant
In preparing i.s cass on the Alsop claim
which is to be submitted to King
Edward for adjudication. He will lsaVe
for his new post within The next few
days.
The will of Thomss Murdoch, former
president of Reid, Murdoch & Co.,
Wholesale groiers, who died 10 Chicago
Christmas Day, was made public yester-
day, dsposing of an estate estimated At,
approximately, 81, 900 600, of which be.
tween $1,000, coo aud 80. 500. 900 is be.
queathed TO religious, educational and
charitable institutions, mostly Presby.
terisn.
The body of sn unidentified white
man, aged about 40, was found at Psrry.
Vile, Nd, yesterday, 10 refrigers OF
car on the PennsylEanis Rsilroad. The
victim had gone into the car for shelter
10 the recent blizzard aud was frozen to
death. The car had been standing on a
siding there aimee Saturday. The man
closed the door, and made himself a
prisoner when 1t became locked.
Two bomb explosions on The Eas
Side in Nes York, one shortly after the
other, threw little Italy into the Widest
confusion last night, but cost no lives
aud did comparatively little damage to
property. The drst explosion vas 40
a.tempt-ths second within month
to blow up The bank of O. sanhlippi &
90. It is attributed by the police to the
Black asnd. The second explosion &C.
calred los tenemenh