Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-16
News Of the Day.

and its civic league is discussing the
question OF reeeivership.
Several persons were killed by the COL
lapse of the walls OF the UnitDd Gas I'M
provement Company building in Phila-
delphia yesterday.
Two girls, IS, and 16 years old, held
up Charles Mattel In Chicsgo with an
empty pistol and secured 10 cents, with
which they bought ice.cream soda,
Struck by lightning during fierce
electrical storm last evening, one of the
huge tanks Of The Underwater Pipe Line
COMPANY, at Ohsngewater, N. j., was
entirely destroyed, with about eight
thousand barrels of crude oil. The storm
was one Of the severest experienced in
hat section 10 years.
Princess de Sagan, formerly Anna
Gould, yesterday gave birth to a SOD.
The princess is at her country place, st.
Oh sron, Frauce. The birth of a son not
only secures the Sagsn title, bat means
S gan heir to share the fortune OF
Princess Ssgsn, with her three children
by her previous marriage.
The Tribuna declares there are per.
sistent rumors around the Vatican that
Archbishop Farley, of New York, will
be elevated to cardinslste, st the No
vsm5er consistory, despite The reported
declaration OF the pope that he did not
intend to make another American cardi-
nal until the death OF james Cardinal
Gibbons.
j. Barton Miller, former secretary
treasurer of the Potomac Building and
Loan Association, of Georgetown, al
ready awaiting trial on an indictment
charging him with the destruction OF the
records Of the association, was indicted
10 Washington yesterday for the alleged
embezzemeut OF 1928, 209 SO from tie
funds In his care by virtue o! his position
as treasurer. He is now at liberty On
s., 900 bail.
Congress will be asked at the instance
of President Taft to authorize the issu-
snce Of bonds to the extent of the latest
estimate OF the cost OF the Panama canal.
This issue would be 10 lieu Of that pro-
posed in the rider TO the Payne tariff
bill-slricken out In the SeDate-authO.
rising the issuance of $40, 1000, 900 In
bonds to reimburse the general fund Of
the Tri aanry for the purchase of the
canal property. This decision was
reached yesterday at a luncheon con-
ference at the White House.
The House of Represen a!ives in CON-
mittee of the whole fought for several
hours yesterday over proposition con-
tanned IN the urgent deficiency bill, pre-
sented by chairman Tawney, of the
appropriations committee, to give Presi.
dent Taft $25, 600 for bis travelling ex-
peDses during the present fiscal year.
When a vote was taken on motion to
strike this provision from the bill, tbs
item was retained by vote of $50 to
1O7 The matter has not been finally
decided, aud will be discussed furber.
1t appeals certain nevertheless, that the
president will get the s25, 900.
Charles ). Magness, VINO mhTEleu Tue
daughter of the late Senator German, Of
Maryland, and is serving year for deserfion
at the naval prison at Portsmouth, n. H.,
will he free this evening. Mrs. Msguess is
at one of the neghboring resorts waiting I'M
I'll her husband can come to her. The release
of Ma0ness at time has been earned by good
behavior
Nine Steinheil in prison in Paris waiting
her trial on the charge Of numbering her
husband and mother-in-law, is dying of con-
sumption, her lawyers claim, and may never
be brought to trial. The court still refuses to
release her ON bail.
Made insane by the death Of his wife who
succumbed to lingering illness two week
ago. Edward Cooper OF Pouehkeepsie, NY,
sged &c. shot and killed Mrs Geo. Lam
3 er today, and later cut his own throat from
c ar TO ear.
OF total I 394 votes cast Yesterday by the
striking hatters in Newark, N. j., and
Orange, but line voted to go back without
the union label.
Nine. Cons tani, the widow Of Benjamin
Constant, the greet artist, is dead at her home
in Paris, and il is limited she ende1 her own
life.