Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-08
News Of the Day.

News Of the Day.
The House District committee On Ea,-
urday agreed on bill making the car.
ryiug Of weapons felony.
% Wednesday next the electoral vote
for president and vice president will be
counted at joint session Of the House
and Senate.
The heavy guns of the federal depart
ment Of justice will beopened upon the
beef trust when the federal grand jury
reconvenes in Chicago today.
By vote Of III TO 1872, the House on
Saturday refused 10 repeal the national
bankruptcy law but passed number Of
amendments 10 The measure.
Former Mayor Richard w. Sherman,
of Utics, N. Y, and brother of Vice
President-elect James S. Sherman, an.
uounces that he is democrat
The bills admitting Arizona and New
Mexico TO statehood were on Saturday
reported by Representative Hamilton,
chairman OF the committee on territories.
They went to the calendar.
Glilty, with recommendation for
mercy, was the verdict on Saturday OF
The jury 10 the case of w. I. Jones, the
wealthy planter of Union, S. O., who
has been on trial there on the cha'ge
of numbering his wife by poison last
July.
Mr.. Taft declines to be made a Mason
on sight and says: 81 will be glad TO
be Mason. | wish that | was, bat
when l take my Masonic degrees it will
be In the home lodge of my father. | sp-
preciste the fact that the Mssons of Au-
gusts have thought Of me, but will take
my degrees where my father was made
MssOn."
Terrific pesls Of thunder In the midst
of driving snow storm at Atlantic City
last night startled the resort with one of
the stlsngest phenomena ever known.
Patrons of big beach front hotels gath
cred on piazzss to witness the peculiar
reik of nature, and superstitIous ne.
grOes in the tenement section we're ia a
panic. The electric storm lasted for
Over hours.
A dispatch from Santiago, Chile, says
that it was the body OF the chancellor Of
the German legation that was recovered
Saturday from the ruins Of the burned
building. Investigation showed that
the house apparently had been broken
into. Medical experts who examined
the body gave 1t as their opinion that
murder had been committed, as the Off
cisPs skull was split open.
Mrs. Alfred Harding, wife OF the new
" consecraled Episcopal Bishop of
Washington, died of heart disease on
Saturday evening, She was taken i'll on
the evening OF the day her husband Was
consecrsted bishop and after she had at
tended the reception rendered them at
the Willard Hotel. Bishop Harding
was present at st. PauPs Church yester-
day but took no part in the services.
Madly jealous, Mrs. Mary Miller, at
Milton, w. Va, at late hour Salur-
day night entered the room of her hus-
band, John Miller, a rallrrsd carpenter,
and with rsz)r completely disemboW-
eled him. Miller lived less than ten
minutes. The woman went to the home
of a nearby magistrate snd surrendered.
Miller bad been out until after mid
night, and the wife, believing him IN
resorted to the crime.
President-elect and Mrs. Taft, tie en-
gineers who accom- panied him frola the
United States, and Col. Goethals, the
chief engineer of the canal commission,
sailed from Colon for New Orleans yes
terday. Just before Mr.. Taft sailed an
nouncement WAS make OF the intention |
to widen A miles of the Oulebra cut |
rom Bias Obispo to Pedro Miguel from
200 to 300 feet. This will mean an
extra excavation Of 100000 cubic
yards, at q cost OF $l4, 900, 900.
George Stewart, a young farmer OF
Maple Valley, near Sbelbourne, On
.srIo, who is mentally unbalanced, !
started out yesterday with rife and
vent to the nearby home Of John Span
house. He fred upon Mrs. Spanhouse
vice, Wouudiug herin the eye and arm.
Her husband vas shot dead. A son To-
erfered, aud Stewart bat ont his brains
With the butt of the riffs. Stewart then
tarted for home, but stopped a. the
home of Edwin Pounds and attacked the
lired man, George BEAUMONT. aud the
lousekseper, Mrs. Gowaus, beating
hem both unconscious and fractured
he hired mans skull. The maniac
hen fed TO his fathers home, where he
vas arrested by posse.