Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-07
News Of the Day.

Shipment of strawberries from lower
Delaware last week aggregated II, OOO,-
900 quarts.
Publication OF an announcement that
Great Britain and Russia have assumed
Joint suzersinty over Persia has created 3
political sensation 10 Europe.
T. Coleman do Pont, president of the
du Pont Powder Company, has with
drawn from the active duties of chair
man of the republican state committee
of Delaware.
Chairman Norris, representing the
American Newspaper Publishers Asao-
citation, has written to Senator Root
showing there is no justification for the
increase in the price of paper.
Archbishop Farley, of New York;
Bishop Mcdonnell, of Brooklyn, and
o.her Catholic prelates have arrived at
Naples on their way TO Rome to take part
10 the ceremonies Of the golden jubilee
Of the American college.
The democrats swept Wilmington,
Del, OF the city election Saturday, the
first time for number of years. Dr.
j. Harvey Sprusnce was elected mayor
by Ill plurality over the president OF
council, William G. Taylor, republican.
Another complete victory was won in
the Senate on Saturday afternoon by
Senator Aldrich and bis "high protec-
ton" forces. Votes we're taken just be-
fore the adjournment on the finance
committees amendments to the cotton
goods schedule of the tariff bill, and the
republican "progressives" we're rented,
with the usual ten or eleven yotee to
spare.
While in bed at Macon, Ga, Salur-
day morning, with his wife by bis side
talking to him, William O. Brunson,
law partner of United States Senator
Bacon, and one OF the most prominent
lawyers in the state, seized revolver
and sent a bullet into bis brain. Mrs.
Brunson hastily called physicians, but
when they arrived her husband was
dead. Brunson had just recovered from
q long illness.
A frightful tragedy was enacted in the
plant OF the North Packing and Pro-
vision Company at East Somerville near
Boston, Saturday afternoon, when John
Murphy, "pig-sticker," suddenly be-
came rsVing maniac and ran amuck
among more than hundred of his fell
ow-workmen, killing FIVE almost in
stantly, fatally wounding three Others
and slashing several others to a lesser
extent before he wss overpowered.
Next FRIDAY, the day following the
close of the United Confederate Vete-
rams reunion at Memphis, many old
soldiers aud Other notables will assemble
at Vicksbnrg to attend the unwilling Of
statue of the late Gen. Stephen Dill
Lee, who was commsnder-in .chef of the
Confederate organization at the time OF
his death. 1t was in the siege Of VickS.
burg that General Lee won his spurs rs
dashing and intrepid commander.
During the current fiscal year the
uationsl banks of the country have re-
ceived in individual deposits 81, S26, O6O,.
3s4, which is mere than billion and
half dollars ia excess OF the entire out
standing money supply of the United
States. The year which will close with
the present month has been one Of ex-
ceptional prosperity for national banks
Since May IA, 1908 there has been net
increase OF 55 in the number of national
banks. OF the number that went into
liquidation, II were in Oklahoma and
withdrew from the national system to re.
organize under the state law, in order to
take advantage of the state guaranty
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