Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-11
News Of the Day.

The secretary Of the treasury has an
nounced a call on nstiooal bsok deposit
tories for s25, 900, 900 Of government
deposits.
Representative TswneY states that
The administration nov hal al army OF
secret and "specisp agents that cost
So, 900, 900 yesr.
Former President Castro, of Veue-
zuels, who was operated upon In Bsrliu
for kidney trouble, makes favorable
progress towards recovery.
Nicholas Sisni, the priest Of ST..
Rocco's Roman Catholic Church, OIL
Newark, who abducted Jnlielts Tssta,
will be married to the girl today In New
York.
King Manuel OF Portugal rode through
the principal streets of Lisbon yesterday
followed by brilliant staff, 10 order to
disprOve the report that HE recent Hines:
had brought on lung trouble.
Commander Msrsh was found guilty
by the court-msriisl Of negligence 10
connection with the grounding OF the
Yankee 10 Buzzsrds bay 10 September
last and will lose fifteen numbers 10 his
grade.
A despatch from Messina to the Lon
don Telegraph says that very severe
earthquake at one o'clock this morning
ruined part Of the ses wall. The sur
viyors were psnic-stricken. The famous
Thptych, painted by AntonellO ds Mes
sins, which was the best work exhibited
10 the local gallery, has been recover
ed unchanged.
A fight between TiSgua bull and 3
BsDgsl tiger in the bull ring in Ciudsd
Jusrsz, Mexico, opposite Ell Psso, yes
terday afternoon, was ferocious and neces-
STATED the killing of both animals. The
spec acle was witnessed by 5, 500 persons,
largely Americans, many of them tour
lsts, who stopped over especially to
witness 1t.
A dispatch from Zsigler, ILL.,, Gays
nineteen men are known to have been
killed III an explosion in Joseph Letters
coal mine early yesterday morning.
Several other men who we're 10 the mine
at the time of the explosion are missing
TweDty.six are known to have gone In
to the shaft.
Fast to a small tree with his own belt
buckled around his throat, the body Of
I5.year-old John Vesloff was found yes.
urjay In a woods at Upper Dsrby, ntar
Phila1elphis. The police authorities
Of Clifton Heights, where the boy lived,
believe be was murdered, and are look
ing for three men who had quarrel
with him last week. The boy had been
living with Frank Schultz, at Clifton
Heights, and had been missing from his
home since lest Monday.
A merger of independent fertilizer
interests under the name Of the Indepen-
dent Fertilizer Company has been finally
accomplished, according to seml.oficial
statements made in Baltimore, though
not along the lines originally planned,
owing to the refusal of msjority OF the
Baltimore companies to Join on the terms
offered. The company is capitalized at
$50, 900, 900, equally divided between
common and preferred stock. j. P.
Morgau & Co., of New York, have
agreed to finance the combine.
That the cause of all the events at
Rattle Run, Mich, which have been
msguifsd into a murder mystery, was
the desire OF Rev. J. q. Carmichael to
obtain an interesting plot for thrilling
novel, is now believed, and late evil
dence strengthens the theory that both
principals in the tragedy are still alive.
Ttat Rev. Mr.. Carmichael and Blown
ing were seen together on Grand Trunk
train bourd from the west was the state
ment made by Miss Clara Wagner and
her sister, Anne, who lived for several
years near Rattle Run, and who we're
acquainted with both men.