Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-21
News of the Day.

MI. J0nn ~, ROCkeiolIeL uas B'Op
another 81, 900, 900 to the University OF
Chicago.
A report 10 London that the Duke
d. Abroad would renounce bis title aud
marry NJ ss ElkIns, 10 denied al the Ital-
Ian embassy.
A Joint session Of the General Assem-
bly, Of Illinois adjourned yesterday 10 q
deadlock over the United States sena-
torisl contest.
The Tennessee Legislature yesterday
passed the statewide prohibition bill
over the governors veto. The Law be-
comes effective July l, 1909.
The National Board Of Trade 10 Ses.
sion 10 Washington yesterday adopted
| resolutions condemning the McOumber
bill for the federal inspection Of grain.
Arbitration treaties With Costa Rica,
Austria. Hungary and Ohili aud nstu.
ralizatIon treaty with Nicaragua we're
yesterday acted upon fsvorably BY the
Ser ate committee on foreign relations.
Fiity-tbree workmen lost their lives
and two score more were injured yester.
day morning In the Are which destroyed
the intermediate crib 10 Lake Michigan
used In the construction Of q new water
| tunnel.
A message from the president, sub
hitting the 6ual report Of the James
town TercentennIsl Exposition Commits
sion, with the recommendation that two
copies be printed, was received In both
houses of Congress yesterday.
Attorney General Bouaparte reports
tba! "a special agents are now employed
BY his department. "Thers we're also
employed from time to time" be says
during tie fiscal year 1908, 70 consider.
able nuuber Of persons whose names
we're submitted BY the chief Of the secret
service"
Charged With the murder Of former
United States Senator Edward Ward
Osrmack on the afternoon of November
8 last, Dol. Duncan B. Cooper, bis sou,
Robin J. Cooper, aud John D. Sharpe
we're yesterday srra'gued 10 theDsVidson
county, Tenn, Criminal Court. Four
jurymeu we're secured during the day.
Three unknown Italians deliberately
shot aud killed Scsulon Oarmiuio aud
fatally wounded Finizio Gsetauo, Oh a
lonely road near MiddletoWp, N. Y,
Tuesday night, that they might abduct
the handsome young bride Of Gsetsno,
whom he married recently 10 Italy. The
woman vas carried Of aud fouud later,
hslf.cnzed, In q contractors shack.
President Roosevelt has created q Ma.
tionsl Council Of Fine Arts and directed
that hereafter the heads Of executive de.
psrtmeuts, bureaus aud commissions,
before any plans are formulated for pub
lie buildings or grounds, or for the
location or erection of any statue, must
submit them to the council and follow
their advice, unless for good aud suf-
fcieui reasons the president directs other
wise.
Mrs. Kate sallivau, sixty years old,
was attacked on a street In northwest
Washington by thug last night and
robbed of her purse sud telled to the
ground BY q blow 10 the face. 10 wrench.
ing the purse from the woman's hand
the thief dIsloca,ed his victims left
wrist. Mrs. Sullivan Is at the Homeo-
psthic Hospital 10 q weak condition,
suffering from the injury to her arm and
from shock. She was SO frightened that
abe failed to obtain description Of the
man aud cannot tell whether he is
light.skinned negro or 3 white man.
All Mr.. Taft wants OF the southeruen
Is that they like him for S64 days 10
the year. He does not care about the
o66th, or election day. The president
elect made this plain yesterday In .
speech before 10, 900 AugustauS on one
OF the principal streets. The meeting
was 10 the nature of formal farewell to
Mr.. TAFT who will lerve there Ga Sst1r.
day for Charleston. Although Mr..
Taft aud John d. Rockefeller have been
at the BON Air Hotel since Monday,
they met for the first time last night ct
the banquet In honor of the president
elect.
The military appropriation bill, as ap-
proved yesterday by the House commit.
ten on military affairs, provides for 8
general staff corps, to consist OF chief
Of staff and two general officers to be de-
tached by the president from the army
at large and to be not below the grade
OF brig adier-geneIal; four colonies, six
lieutenant colonies and ak majors, to be
detached from corresponding grades 10
the army under such rulee for selection
SIS the president may prescribe. The
bill carries 9 total appropriation OF $685..
295, 4O6, as against sl04, 900, 900 asked
for end $94, 81, 900, the amount Of the
present appropriation.
Four men we're killed and ten Others
injured, one fatally, when several tons
of dynsmite 10 one Of the buildings of
the Forcite Powder Works at Lake
Hopsc oug near Newsrk, N. j., blew up
late yesterday. The defamation Of the
huge mass of explosives shook the coun-
try for miles around aud blew the build
iug containing 1t 10 atoms. OF the
fourteen men working In 1t not one GO.
capped death or injury. The Forcite
Powder Works belong to the Dupont
Powcer Company, and manufacture
blasting dynsmIte. The force of the
explosion wa, felt all over Philsdelphis,
and people thougLtit was su earthquake.
Two unknown steamers collidedyeterday of
Marlborough Head, England, one sinking
within few minutes. 1t IL believed that the
entire crew Ct the steamer which sank were
lost