Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-12-31
News Ut the Day.

a bHROL ehItD bnUCk WAS loiL db LOis-
land, Oregon, at 4;23 o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
J. T. Morgan Is said to be In nitrate
trust With $3.50, OOO.0 900 cspi!al, to be
founded ct Valparaiso.
Former Judge William Preston b.
nun, of North Carolina, famous for his
work 10 reconstruction days, died at his
home In Charlotte yesterday.
| Col. John Byrne, chief of detectives
for the past 80 years for the United
States Express Company, died yesterday
at the family home, 10 BafAlo, n, Y.
Dealh was due to q stroke OF spoplexy.
A letter was received In Louisville,
KY, yesterday from some Town 10 Ohio
promising the return OF little Alma Kell.
ner 10 her parents on payment OF So, 900
rsUsom. The girl disappeared on De.
cember 8.
a hungry bear which ventured to the
outskirts OF Negmsrket, wss killed on
Wednesday by W. A, Price and party
OF huulsmtn, who, seeing It's tracks,
s,srled after bis bearship. The animal
when dressed weighed 1877 pounds.
The Boston Elevated Railroad today
Is distributing $3.50, 90 In gold as gratul-
ties to Its employees In individual sums
CT from $50 to $25, New Years gifts, 10
recognition OF faithful service during the
year. The number of benz 6cisrles Is
about 8, 800.
| Adyices from msnsgus state that the
Madrlz government has appointed Senior
L1is Coraa IS special envoy from
Nicaragua at Washington, empower.
log him to arrange terms with the
| United y stes for the settlement OF all
pending difficulties between the two
countries.
With the election OF Cficers yesterday
afternoon and an address from President
Emeritus Eliot, OF Harvard, that even.
ing. the Southern Educational Asocls
ton adj burned sine die st Charlotte, \.
TO-. The place OF the next meeting beiog
lei. with the executive commIttsA -
D. B. Johnson, OF Winthrop CJllege,
South Os,olIns was elected president.
4 An entire oyerturning OF the system
employed by the Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution, In the keeping of their
accounts and records will take place as q
result of the investigation now being
made OF the books OF the society, follow
ing the endorsement OF considerable
money by one OF the women clerks OF the
Organization made public recently.
An indictment was returned yesterday
by the Hamilton county, Ohio, grand
Jury sgslnst W. Kelsey Schospf, head Of
the Cincinnati Traction O1mpauy,
charging failure to keep the temperature
10 certain strset cars up to the standard
OF 60 Fahrenhite a. provided BY statute.
A fne of from 800 to $500 Is provided
for violation of the Law.
| A rough draft Of the ccnlervst lon leg.
islation, which Ia soon to BE- the sut ,cs
OF presidential message to Congress,
has been completed by Secretary Bil'
niger, according to statements made
at the Department of the loterior.
The legislation recommended deals With
water power sites, coal lands, and oil
and gas lands.
+ Msddin Summers, who as vice consul
at Madrid, has been engaged 10 securing
documentary evidence for the Spanish
Treaty Claims Commission, has been
transferred to Santiago, Chile, TO gather
data TO be used By the Safe Depar,m ant
In preparing lie case on the Alsop claim
which Is to be submitted to King
Edward for adjudication. BE will l'ave
for his new post within the next few
dsys,
The will Of Thomas Murdoch, former
president OF Reid, Murdoch d Co.,
Wholesale grolers, who died 10 Chicago
Christmas Day, was made public yester-
day, disposlDg OF an estate estimated At,
approxin stely, "a, 900 600, OF which be.
/ tween az, 900, GOO aud az. 500. 900 10 be.
( queathsd to religious, educational aud
charitable institutions, mostly Presby.
terisn.
The BODY Of So unidentified white
3 man, sged about 40, Was found at Perry
, VILE, Nd, yesterday, 10 refrigera' OF
T car 90 the Pennsylvanis Rsilroad. The
victim had gone into the car for shelter
10 the recent blizz,rd aud was frozen to
, death. The car had been standing on 9
aiding there sluce Saturday. The man
closed the door, and made himself
, prisoner when 1t became locked.
3 Two bomb explosions on ihs Ea,
side 10 NsN York, enc shortly after the
c other, threw little Italy into the Widest
e confusion last night, bat cost no lives
, and did comparatively little damsge to
property. The 6rst explosion was an
, a;tempt-ths second within a moth
0 to blow up The bank OF Q. eanhliPPi q
! 90. 1t is attributed By The police 10 tbs
= Black Hand. rhs second explosion oe'
cnlrsd ic.s tenement