Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-12-20
News of the Day.

utuoCy iOi tho PtSolutoNJ auu was iS-
ceived with enthusiasm
1t is rumored that MIR. George F.
Raid lpb, fret vice president of the
Balumore end OHIO, will resign to take
effect December 81.
General Green B. Rsum, formerly
commissioner OF Internal revenue and
commissioner Of pensions, died 10 Cblea'
20 Cd Saturday.
Mrs Catherine FL zabsth Scarborough
wife of Bishop Scarborough, OF the New
jersey diocese of the Protestant Eipsco-
pal Oh orch, died ct her home st Trenton
Saturday after long Illness. She vas
10 the 9th year OF her sge.
Mr.. William & Hammond, of BaltI.
more, president of the Third National
Bank, aud we'll known fnabcier and
real estate owner, died suddenly Of
heart disease shortly after 6 o'clock last
evening at the Pimlico County Club.
John l.. Allen, A. Slade and Smith
5isds were killed 10 a shotgun battle al
Longstrest, La, yesterday. Allen being
shot 10 the breast With squirrel shot, and
,hs Slade brothers with Winchester bslls,
after Allen had accused Smith Ssde OF
stealing his hogs.
George Cline, aged nineteen years,
and Oven L0gsdcp, sged sixteen ytats,
became involved Ia q quarrel Ia q sR.
lon at Evansville, Ind., Saturday night.
Cline followed Logsden several fq1srss
aod The fight was renewed. Cline vas
stabbed with dirk and disd yesterday
morning.
Demanding recognition Of their union,
a 9 hour day, so hour week, aud uni
form prices, sn Increase OF 20 per cent
IN their wages, the 8. 900 mbers OF
the Ladies' Garment Makers, of Phila'
delphIs last nigh. voted to strike this
moroiOg They expect to be jinsd %
5000 non.union workers,
Thomas B. D.nnns, a wealthy whole.
sale liquor dealer aud noted sporting
man, was killed 90 the outskirts Of Bar
lIngton, N, j., yesterday afternoon when
his automobile, speeding a. go miles an
hour, hit tree, and the five occupants
were hurled from the car. DENIES wss
dashed with awful force against a tree
lrunk. His head Vas crushed, snd
death WAS instantaneous. The other
occupants OF the automobile escaped
fsosl IN juries.
Hot Goals falling upon Mrs Elizabeth
Ogermsn's dress while she was rsking
stove yesterday morning, set her
clothes sfre and she was fatally burned
a. her home In Washington. Mrs.
O0srpsD USs 70 years old, the widow Of
B.rnard OSermsu, al one time promi.
uent business man. The woman died
after she reached the Emergency hos.
piial.
Thomas Valentine Cooper, 8 membtr
OF the Pennsylvania Legislature snd
formerly collector of the port of Pnila.
delphis, was burned to death ct his
home at Media, Pa, yesterday. While
smoking a cigar In the sitting room OF
bis home he either fell asleep or suffered
a paraIytic stroke. His dressing gown
became ignited and be was dead before
the flames we're d scovered by members
Of his family.
Notice vss to have been served today
Oh about IS railroad Ompanies, all esst
of the NJ ssissppi river, By the Brother
hood OF RsilSay Trsipmen that an In
crosse 10 wages for The traiumen will be
demanded, tie iOcrfase to be from 8 to
40 per cent, the d Inference being 10 ratio
10 he present wages paid, About 75,-
900 members of the brotherhood are
employed on the railroads affected.
A dispatch from Bone says Cardinal
ga olli, who recently suffered a relapse
from nephritis, was eighty improved
yesterday morning and insisted upon q
chaplain celebrating MSS In the sick
room. BE elso took communion. Yester'
day afternoon bis condition was very
much worse. Alarming symptoms de-
veloped, and there wss some delirum.
Grave fesrs are entertained for the card
insPs recovery.
Daring tbs year at least 1880, 900
worth of toys have been imported into the
United States. List year they amount
ed to Sc. 929, 8S7. The toymskers Of
Nurem o'rg sent to the Uditsd States
doriug September aud October $l72,-
55l worth moro OF their product thsn
during the same period last year, 81
increase of nearly Ga per cent. During
TIE teu months ended October 80, the
i'm ports Of toys amounted to S., 800, 4S6,
$500 900 more than the same period las!
year.
Three hundred negroes, each answer
Ing In some particular the description OF
a bigbwsv man who shot and killed Mo.
tormqn Epgene V. G udey aud prob
ably fatally wounded Conductor M. P.
o. Brien on q street csr in Est st.
Louis Saturday night, are held at police
headquarters The thug sought for ob-
tsined $40 from Conductor o Brieu by
cutting out his pockets sud taking
the money. The car, after the ne
gro left it, raa uncontrolled for four
miles into the center OF East 81. Louie.
Mu. Caroline W. Martin created two
soepes when sirsigped In the TOmbs
police court In New York on Saturday
to avail, exuadtion to New Jersey on
a chsrse OF beiog implicated in the
murder of Mu. Ocey W. NJ. Snesd.
She astonished the court by denying
any connection socislly or otherwise
with her sister, Mrs. MARY Snsai, other