Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-04
News Of the Day.

Sydney j. Yard, the noted wster-coior
artist, dropped dead on the sidewalk st
Carmel-by- the.Sss, Oal., on Saturday.
According to an official statement, the
Trinity Church Corporation IN New
York owns property worth $l4, Ole, 800.
The Ohio republican Legislature eau
osus on Saturday evening nominated
Congressman Theodore Burton TO sue
coed Senator Foraker in the U. S.
Senate.
Humphrey O'Sullivan, the rubber
heel king, of Boston, compromised the
breach OF promise suit brought by Mrs.
Isabelle Mutsrd Lee by paying her
$25, 900.
Additional details about the awful ei.
fects of the Italian earthquake shows
that the property loss public and private
amounts to a billion dollars aud the es-
timated loss OF life as 200. 900.
The king of Italy having completed
his tour of the earthquake zone and at
ranged for the troops preserving order
and searching the ruins for injured
persons, is returning 10 Rome.
Mis- Cornelia Vansrien, OF Grand
Rapids, Mich, who cav thief take g
bundle of bank notes while hank tel
Ter was not looking, stole the package
from the thief and returned it to the
bank.
Judge Pardee OF the U. 8. Oircuit
Court on Saturday at Atlanta appointed
President H. M. Atkinson and Vice
President P. s. Arkwright, receivers for
the Atlanta, Birmingham aud Atlantic
Railroad.
Bishop John Carroll, of Helena, Mon. 4,
will succeed Bishop Denis ]. O'Conoell
as rector of the Catholic University, iD
Washington. The change of the head
of the university will DOT 60 into effect
for some little time.
President Roosevelto on Saturday night
announced that he has sent two supply
ships with 1900, 900 worth of supplies TO
Italy, and that he will ask Congress for
additional aid and that be has offered
the use Of the battleship feet to Italy.
Unknown save to bis family and q
few friends, James NJ, Mcknight, once
millionaire, whose adventures in the
field of high finance wreckfd in 1907
the German Natinsl Bank a! Louisville,
of which he was president, died pauper
in Bellevue Hospital on the night OF
December 30. His death was indirectly
due to Starvation.
Judges Bennett and Robinson, ap-
pointed to hear the George L. Fox
charges of violations OF the Corrupt
Practices Act against Governor-elect
George L. Lilley, of New Haven, has
handed down a decision holding that
they have no jurisdiction to sit as TIL
bunal 10 the election case, and that the
Corrupt Practices Act is unconstitutional.
While q dance was in progress at the
home of Charles Haas, at Chandler,
Ind, Saturday night, Edward Strickland,
who had not been invited, appeared on
the scene and approached Miss Ida
Williamson and began to upbraid her
for accompanying Albert Timmons to
the dauce. He was heard to tell her
that be didn't Wsnt her to 90 with Tim
mons, with the statement that she was
going to tell him of Strickland's threats.
The enrsged lover then drew a revolver
and shot both the girl and his rival, kill
ing them. Strickland then put a bullet
drought his own head, dying instantly.
The movement to consolidate the four
Presbyterian papers Of the South, the
Central Presbyterian, of Richmond, the
Southern Presbyterian OF Atlanta, the
Western Presbyterian. Of New Orleans,
and the PRESBYTERIAN Standard, of Obar-
lotte-has been successfully carried out,
with the exception of the Presby teriau
Standard, of Charlotte, which does not
Join the combination. The Presby terrain
of the South is the title Of the coDsoli-
dated organs, sud the deal became
fsctive January l. The new paper will
have its headquarters In Atlanta, but ed
itorial Offices will be maintained at Rich
mond and New Orleans.