Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-20
News Of the Day.

piers strike question.
Cardinal Gibbons, Of Blltimore, paid
all the notes OF Rev. O. P. Ebert held
by the banks, amounting 10 s55. 900.
President Tat last night attended a
meeting Of the Yale University Corpora
ton and the alumni dinner OF his alma
mater.
Bishop George d. Gillespie, OF the
Episcopal Diocese OF Western Michigao,
died early yesterday at Grand Rapids,
aged 80 years.
Csp.ain James A. Davis, commander
OF the Ancient aud Honorable Artillery
Company OF NJ sssachusetts, died In Boz
ton yesterday.
In the past four years, the military
courts OF Russia have condemned 1913
persons to death, of which number ], 4S5
we're executed.
At Springfield, ILL.,, yesterday Adlsi
F.. Sleveuson's contest OF Governor
Daneen's election was decided adversely
ID Mr.. Stevenson.
By vote OF 157 to 1872 the British
House of Common yesterday pissed the
second rtaIing OF the bill giving every
man and woman vote.
Mrs. Richard Nelson Luttrell, died
suddenly yesterday st her home, near
AmissviIle, Rsppshaunock county. She
was In the sixth-eighth year Of her age.
Mr.. Humphrey, of Washington, yes
terdsy intypducd 10 the House au ocean
mail subsidy bill over which 1t Is ex.
psctsd the sbip-subsidy Hght of the
Slx'y-6nt Congress will be made.
The j. REGISTER Sons Company, man.
ufacturers of brasswOrk, Baltimore, made
an assignment yesterday to S. W. AUDI. I.
REGISTER, trustees, who bonded for $751;.
900, double the estimated value Of the
company's assets.
Despondent over debts, W. 8. John
Bo7eman, % years DID, piano agent, Of
Berlin, Md, shot himself 10 the breast
Yesterday. He vas taken to the PENN
sula Hospital at Salisbury. he Is q
son OF Rev. John s. Bosemsn, pastor OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Deals Island.
Many of the delegates 10 the mine
workers convention in Scranton, Pa,
next week have now been elected, and
1t is reported today that o large mum.
L. ~ tLan. hara haan toatrnofad IN
oppose strike as last resort and do
all that is possible to secure recognition
of the union.
Disappointed at the failure Of au iD-
veptiOn in which he had sunk the saw
ings of q lifetime, William Glib, q
prominent figure among the Scottish
residents Of New York aud a golf en-.
thusisst and authority, shot himself
during the night on the golf links at
Vance Park.
Pauic.stricken from fear, 30 patients
in the George Washington Hospital
rushed to windows 10 scsnty clothing
aud attempted to get out Of the structure
Yesterday afternoon when Are broke out
10 the medical department adjoining the
hospital, 10 Washington. Doctors and
nurses we're compelled to do heroic work
to quiet the patients.
Fire which started at the land end OF
an S0O-foot Lehigh freight pier in Jer-
sey City yesterday evening destroyed
the pier, slorehouses and sheds aud near
| " 800, 900 worth of merchandise be.
| fore it was flooded out by the combined
forces OF the Hoboken and Jersey City
fire departments aud large feet Of
tugs and frebosts, which poured 10
wstsr from the river side. The total
loss will reach 5000, 900.
A niiroglycerin explosion on Thurs.
day night at Indiana Harbor, Ind,
shock the country for miles around
The new Lake Shore bridge, above
three Others railroads, under erection By
Plttsburg Construction Company, WIS
destroyed and scat cred. The construc-
ton company is employing non.union
men on the job and much trouble has
resulted. A train on the Lake Shore,
west bound, passed the bridge just be-
fore the explosion. The bridge Is to
cost 500, 900.
Three hundred men, most OF then
mounted and heavily armed, are in pur-
suit Of a score of bandits who terrorized
Bald Knob, Ark, yesterday morning and
made an unsuccessful attempt TO dyna-
mite the cate in the Bank of Bald Knob.
While some OF their number rode about
the streets dischsrging their weapons and
holding the populace in terror, others Of
the band worked for more than an hour
10 40 unsuccessful effort to dynamite
their way into the vault Of the bank.
One citizen was wounded In the parting
lusila1e Of the band as they rode away.
Charged with severely beating Miss
Ruth Russell, AGED 10, one Of his pupils,
Prof. Clayton Kellar, principal Of the
high school at Lsceyville, near Wilkes
Barre, Pa, will have to appear before
the April session OF the court to answer
the charge of assault and battery. The
girl, who lie almost SIS old and as large as
the principal, had met him, 1t is stated,
socially at various affairs given by the
young people Of the town, and owing to
this, 1t is sald, her feelingS are deeply
hurt by the cbsstitement she received.
The cause, II il said, was little wster
poured into the hollow OF Prof. Kellsr's
chair by Miss Russell.
If the plans Of the Senate committee
on committees are agreed to when re-
ported to the conference Of republican
senators Monday, the methods OF max.
ing appropriations for the government,
80 far as the Senate is concerned, prach-
cally will be revolutionizsd. This is to