Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-29
News Of the Day.

Ii has been decided that hereafter
only coloEed men should be appointed
musicians 10 coiored bands.
The sizs of the average family In the
United States has decreased from 5 8
persons 10 1890 to 4 6 10 1900.
Governor Samuel G.. Oosgrove, Of
Washington, died suddenly at PssO
Robles, CAL, yesterday, Of BrighPs dis
ease.
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal will
begin operations 90 April l. Ten new
b1ats have been built at the yards at
Cumberland.
Ia the federal circnit court, In New
York, today, Judge Holt lmpoaed q
6ne Of 10000 on the New York Gen.
trail Railway for granting rebates on
shipments OF co-operage supplies.
Four dead, five fatally injured, aud at
least 30 others cut and bruised seriously,
was the result of head.on collision on
the Piltsburg and Butler trolley line al
Sample, a PiItsburg suburb, Saturday
afternoon.
Miss Marion o. Spier, q trained
nurse, died at her home, In Cumberland,
Md, Saturday night, from streptococcic
poison, which she contracted from kis-
sing dying patient who was suffering
from diptheris.
There is great interest 10 Washington
in the wave Of economy which is sweep.
ing through executive and legislative
branches Of the government, but 1t is
generally believed that the wave will
soon disappear.
Grown Prince Georges remuneration
of the right Of succession to the throne
OF Ssrvls was approved by the National
Assembly, as WAS also letter from
King Peter, declaring Prince Alexan-
der, his second son, heir to the throne.
Chief Crazy Snake aud band Of 200
Indians, hslfbreeds and negroes are on
the warpath In Oklahoma. The Indian
chief retrested before five companies of
Oklahoma militia last night, thus de-
ferfing an expected Dattle.
Mr.. ThOmas Fitzgerald, formerly gen.
ersl manager of the Baltimore aud Ohio
Rsilrosd and for the past year receiver
and general manager OF the Norfolk and
Southern Railroad, died Saturday at the
Church Home and Iunrmsry, in Balti-
more.
As the resul. of the recent decision of
the Maryland Steel Company, at Spar
rows Point, to decrease the salaries Of
its employees 10 per cent, 1t is reported
that on April l, the day the new scale
of wages ia expected to go into effect,
500 men employed in the marine depart
ment will go on q strike.
Ms. Laura Jackson Arnold, sister Of
"SlonewslP' Jackson, celebrated her
eIghty-tbird birthday at Columbus,
Ohio, Saturday, by taking half-mile
walk and receiving her friends. She 10
the only surviving child of Jonathsn
Jackson. Mrs. Arnold has lived at o.
lumbus for twenty nine years.
While attempting to climb into her
room window st Patterson, N. j., from
he rear porch roof early today, pretty
lS.yesr.Old Sadie Bell slipped and fell
through a skylight, lighting on q bed In
which a mao boarder was sleeping. The
girl broke her left knee aud was other
wise painfully injured. The man tainted
from fright.
The strike Of the local firemen who
are demanding better hours and, more
pay was 10 part responsible for half
million-dollar fire loss today In Havana.
The big Genital Warehouse and docks
of the United Railways Company, an
English concern, we're destroyed while
The bIsze spread to the German Alien.
burg and several ctastwise craft, all Of
which were burned to the waters edge.
Blamed by bis immediate family for
the death of his father, who committed
suicide two weeks ago, and discouraged
by his mother in regard to his mstri
monial intentions, 2l-yesr.old George
Quick, q sailor on The bsltleship Min
nesota, took bis own life early Saturday
morning at the home OF his uncle, Jacob
Quick, on the Belsir road, near Garden
VILE, Md by drinking an ounce OF car
bnljc acid mixed with coffee.