Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-12-09
News Of the Day.

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football in the public schools be sbol-
Isbtd Cd aud sitter January l.
Toe b ok o Eoglsnd sY redntd
lis mioiu um rte OF discount from to
Al ger csn'. The per cen. rate had
b en- In effsct since October q.
Mary Sullivan, sged two, and Joatrh
Sullivan, sged four, were burned loI
death 10 a fire today which dts roYtd
the Sullivan home 10 Bridgeport, Oonr.
John e. Redmond has issue1 q mani
festo 10 bsbalf OF the Irish party, ssyir g
ths, 1t could probably hold the balance
OF power, and asking contributions from
America.
John W. Collier, convicted OF man.
slaughter for the shooting OF Police Gap
tain William H. Mathews, was released
from custody on $4,000 bail yesterday
afternoon.
A bulletin OF the Department OF Ag-
ricollure shows thst the forests OF the
Uaited States contributed 500, 900, 900
10 the counlrY's exports during the hscsl
Yepr Of 1908
Autoniom Moniiyo, 98 years old,
sho! Mrs. Mariana Rosa, SO years old,
with whom he boarded 10 Brooklyn
today, and then put bullet through
bis head. He is dying.
Secretary Frsnklln MscVeagb, In ad-
dressing the Massachusetts Bakers AS
ISOLATION, yesterday declared the rePnb-
licao party has changed froOi and Is NOW
marching toward lover ta:iffs.
Through the efforts of the inspectors
of the D psrtment of Agriculture %
more head of cattle infected with tuber.
culosis were found 10 The District Of 90.
umbia yesterday, and p were slaugh-
tered.
| Mss Martha Lee jenkins, Of Bsli.
more, and Mr.. Clifford s. SIMS, Of AL.
bany, N. Y, second vice president OF
the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and
former general manager OF the Baltimore
sCd Ohio, were married in Baltimore
yesterday.
| Robbers ta;ly today blew open the
safe of the postofics st Oirmichiels, Pa
made a similar but unsuccessful effort
with the vault OF the Oarmichsels banE,
and alter terrorizing tbs town for sn
hour, got sway with about 50, 600 10
Stamps and money.
u N,goiiati ns for the Chinese railway
loan have been brought 10 staudstill
by The opposition oilhe French bankers.
The objections, it is said, are based on
future possibilities In the extension Of
the Chinese building programme and
have 20 hing to do With the question oil
the immedists loan.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, who went to
Wasbir gtOn to keep her eye on Congress
Ws1t into the buffet Of the Union Station
Yesterday afternoon and taking out her
Ratchet welded 1t Unfortunately,
smashing about $50 worth Of bottled
whisky. She was at once arrested and
.aten TO The House of Detention, charg-
ed With destroying private property.
Invading New York avenue, near
q Eleventh street, Washington, Tuesday
4 evening, when the crowds we're the
, thickest, an unidentified man created
, much excitement by throwing The cor.
> tents of bot,le believed to have con
I tanned vit,iOl on ths women who we're
Q passing. Several costs and skirts were
r ruined. The culprit made his escapI
before be could be sppiehended.
3 Samuel Newhouse, Utah mine.owner
4, was a passenger yesterday on the Lusi
b. tsnis when she started from New Yorl
q for Europe. NeWhouse is on his way Il
t Paris 10 an effort to reach The bedside O.
bis brother before death comes. tt
. catch the LuisItanis NeWhouse charter
.. ed a special train which cosl him So, 000
r He made the trip from Chicago 10 New
e York 10 II hours ard 46 minutes.
The Southern Society OF New Yorl
n held its annual reunion and banquet a
+ the Waldorf.Asioria last night. 1t wal
, brilliant aud enjoyable event, anC
II there we're cheers galore when Secretary
e of War Dickinson, the guest Of honol
lhis year, told the barqueters how TIL
d southeruers who left their old homes Il
$ seek fortune in The north and west hsvt
i made good"
. Workmen have started building dam
J.. to catch The surplus oil that Is runni q
i into the creeks from q new gusher IL
Harrison county, Yves! Virgins. The
g gusher has been flowing for two days
Q starting at IS barrels an hour. AL
p available tanks were soon filled, and /
8 is NOW averaging 800 barrels an hour
Is This represents an income OF owe
e $4,000 a day al the present msrke
u prce Of oil.
The slrangest cause Of death ever re
. corded on Long Island, N. Y, is tina
accompanying the report Of the end o
{ Willism Tucker, 81 years old, OF Say
! vile. He died Of blood-poising, induces
o by the peck of her. Tucker had
y fowl 10 his srms Thanksgiving Dsy
y and she pecked him on the hand, max
D Jog a slight abrasion. From this triaini
wound blood. poisoning developed, and tn
$ old mans powers Of resistance beinI
weak, be succumbed.
= A story OF duel to the death will
!, rsvolvers, between husband and wifi
i 10 8 dsrkened room during the night
|. the killing Of the husband by The wife
y and her writing to son telling OF th'
deed, was uufOldtd in Warren, Pa
Yesterday, By Mrs. Anna Anderson,
grsy.hsired woman of &c, on trial TO
!. her life on the charge Of numbering he
II husband. Mrs. Anderson made
6 plea of self.defense and was acquitted
D rhe duel occurred on October 81.
d Uoderweighing Sugar and cheating
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