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

didacy 70: the presidency aud was re-
ceiyed with enthusiasm
1t Is rumnred that MIR. George F.
Randolph, 6rst vice president of the
Bslumore snd OHIO, will resign to take
effect Decem Der 81.
General Green B. Raun, formerly
commissioner of internal revenue and
commissioner of pensions, died in Chca,
90 oD Saturday,
Mrs Catherine FL zabeth Scarborough
wife OF Bishop Scarborough, OF the New
Jersey diocese of the Protestant Epsco-
pal Oh orch, died ct her home st Trenton
Saturday after long illness. She vas
Ia the 64th year OF her sge.
Mr.. William 3 Hammond, of Baltl-
more, president of the Third National
Bank, aud q we'll known 6aancier and
real estate owner, died suddenly OF
heart disease shortly after o'clock last
evening at the Pinlico County Club.
John l.. Allen, A. Slsds and Smith
Shade were killed In shotgun battle q!
Longstrest, La, yesterday. Allen being
shot In the breast with squirrel shot, and
The 5lade brothers with Winchester balls,
after Allen had accused Smith Slade OF
stealing his hogs.
George O!iae, aged nineteen years,
sad Oven L0gsdcu, sged sixteen years,
became Involved il quarrel 10 Ed.
Ioon at Evansville, Iod., Saturday night.
Cline followed Logaden several fq1sr.s
aad the fight was reoewed. Cline @as
stabbed with dirk and diGd yesterday
morning.
Demanding recognition of their union,
a 9 hour day, so hour week, aud uni.
furm prices, 40 iucresse of 20 per cent
IN ,bsr wages, the 5000 members OF
the Ladies' Carmen, Makers, of Phila-
dcphla last nigh. voted 10 strike this
moroiog They expect to be ,in.d %
8, 900 non.union wcrkera.
Thomas B. D.unns, a wealthy whole.
sale liquor DEALER aud noted sporting
mar, vas kiilsd on the outskirts Of Bar
llugion, N, r., yesterday afternoon when
his automobile, speeding r. 60 miles an
hour, hit tree, end the Ave occupants
we're hurled from the car. DENIES was
dashed With awful force against tree
! trunk, His head Wss crushed, and
death WAS instantaneous. The other
occupants OF TIE automobile escaped
fa:sl INJURIES.
Hot Goals falling upon Mrs Elizabeth
OVermsn's dress while she wns raking
stovs yesterday morning, BET hsr
clothes s6re and she was fatally burned
a; her hons In Washington. Mrs
O0ernsn wss 70 years old, the widow Of
Barnard Ogesmau, q! one time proni-
uent business man. The womap died
after she reached The Emergency hos.
pital.
Thomas Vsleutins Cooper, membfr
OF the Pennsylvania Legislature anc
formerly collector OF The port of Pnila-
delphis, was burned TO death at his
home at Media, Pa, yesterday. While
smoking a cigar in the sitting room OF
bis home he either fell asleep or sufi,red
paralytic stroke. His dressing gown
became ignited and be was desd before
the flames were d scovered BY members
Of hls family.
Notice ~ss to have been served today
on about IS railroad companies, all east
of the Mississippi river, By the Brother
hood of Rall"ay TrsiDmen that an In.
crosse 10 wages for The traiumen will be
dsDanded, tie iucrfaae to be from s to
40 per cent, the difference being 10 ratio
10 he present wages paid. About TO-
900 membeTs of the brotherhood are
employed Oh The railroads affected.
a Dispatch from Bone says OaTd'ual
sa ulli, who recently suffered relapse
from nephritis, was slightly improved
yesterday moluiag and Insisted rpon q
chaplain celebrating msss in the alex
roop. He elso took communion. Yester.
day afternoon his condition was very
much worse, Alarming symptoms de-
veloped, and there wss some delirum.
Grave fears are entertained for the card
ina's recovery.
During the gear at least s., 500, 900
worth Of toys have been imported into the
United States. List year they amount.
ed TO s6.929,SS7. The toynakers of
Nuremo, rig sent to the Uditad States
dneipg September aud Oatobe. sl72,-
551 worth moro of their product thsn
during the same period last year, sn
iDcyease of nearly GA per cent. During
TIE teo months ended October 80, the
imports of toys amounted to s., 800, 4S6,
$500 900 more than the same pariod las!
year.
Three hundred negroes, each answer
Ing in some particular The descripinn of
bigbwavman who shot and killed Mo.
to,man Engene V. G udey ard prob
ably iatslly wounded Conductor M. P.
O. Bren on street car in Est st.
Louis Saturday night, are held at police
headquarters The thug sought for OBJ
tanned $40 from Conductor O. Brien by
cutting out his pockets sod taking
The money. The car, after the ne.
gro LEFT it, RAJ uncontrolled for four
mills into the center OF East 81. Louie.
Mrp. Caroline W. Martin created two
soeDes when sirsigued In the Tombs
police court in New York on Saturday
to avail, exIadi,ioo to New Jersey on
chsrse of beiog implicated in the
murder of Mrs.. Oeey W. NJ. Snead.
Che astonished the court By DENYING
any connection socially or otherwise
with her sister, Mrs. Mary Sneai, other
than that of blood, and she fought two