Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-30
News of the Day.

Burglars broke into the post)flce 81
Laurel Nd early yesterday morning,
aud stole over 800.
The entire middle west is in the grip
of fierce blizzlri, which has demoTa-
iz.d the telegraph and telephone service
and stopped trains.
The omnibus claims bill, c'rrying sD
appropriation of about $1,000, 900,
shlch has been fsvorably acted upon by
the House, wsspassed by the Senate yes
tertay.
Mrs. Fia1ces Folsom Cleveland, widow
Of the late President Cleveland, and
Mrs. Mary Lord Harrison, widow of tbs
late President Harrison, have been grant
ed life frankiDg privileges.
Kueeing at her bed MIRA. Nois Nor
deem, A years old, was found dead at her
home near Minneapolis yesterday. There
wss no fuel 10 the room and snow had
drftsd into the room though cracks.
Two man we're killed aud three bun-
dfed others narrowly escaped death from
"a explosion Of coal dust at the S9wick-
ley mine Of the Keystone Coal & Coke
Company, at Madison, Pa, yesterday.
The Senate passed a bill yesterday
to pay to the Catholic Church of Porto
Rico 1920, 1000, 10 full settlement Of the
claim for the occupation of church prop
erly by federal troops in San Juan,
Porto Rico.
For the second time 10 20 months,
Mrs. William P. Msz1n, wife of a Pits
burg fireman, yesterday presented him
with twins. Both are boys. The twins
born 20 months ago were of the Oppo-
site sex, aud are fine, sTsppiDg young
steis now.
Democrats OF the Senate want Presi.
dent.elect Taft to declare himself once
for sll as to the appointment of negroes
to federal offices in the south. To this
end a strong effort is TO DE male by
Senator Tillman 10 hold up until after
March 4 the nomination of the negro,
Dr. William ID. Crum, to succeed him
self as collector OF the port OF Charles
ton, S. O.
10 the steerage of the Ounsrder Msu-
rela1ia, which arrived a, New York,
yesterday, we're two Episcopal clergy
men, the Revs. Frank Carpenter snd
John Hewts. They are on the Vay to
posts at Nassau, on the Bahama island
of New Providence. FellOB-steerage
passengers told of the lowly way IN
which the clergymen travelled, and said
when they questioned the men as to
their reasons The ministers replied tia.
in accordance with their bslief they
we're practici1g humility. They also
declared Christ would have Travelled in
the same way.
John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of
Abraham Lincoln, is still alive, accord.
ing to a letter recently received by
Speaker Cannon from man living 10
TIE mouutaiUs Of Tennessee. He sug-
gests a novel method OF commemOrating
the 100lh Anniversary of LincOln's
birth Oh February II He urges that
Congress pass a bill on that day grant
log amnesty 10 John Wilkes Booth aud
Others, who uay have knowledge Of his
crime. This should be done, he argues,
bscsuse it would clear up the mystery OF
Booths disappearance. he denies tia
B 10Th wss killed by soldiers after the
s.sa,linstioD, 10 a barn on Virginia
'arm, a few miles from Washington.
J B. Walker, charged with the mur.
der Of Sheriff Jackson S'snla1d, Of
Brunswick county, n. G., last December,
while resisting arres! by posse headed
ty the sheriff, yesterday male his e.
cape from the prison st Southport by
btsiDiOg the night guard, J. B. Foun'
tin, With some heavy instrument pro-
cured in some uusccountsble WaY. after
be had gotten out Of his cell into the
corridor. The guard was dissrmed Of
his pistol ADD sll of the cartridges be
carried, and q white man psmsd Batter,
held as an sccomplice of Walker IN The
killing, also walked out with him. The
guard sas badly wounded, but bis in
juFies sre not tholght to be fatal.
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