Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-24
News of the Day.

Harry K. ThaW Was on Sa'urdsy de
clsred bankrupt By Referee Bisir b
Pitlsburg.
Fomer Representative GrosVenor, o
Athens, Oaio, Is TO be appointed {
member OF the Ohickauaugs Psrk Com
mission.
A slump 10 the Baltimore oys!e
market hss beeu caused by the thaW
enabling many vessels to reach port
only to fud The demand slight.
Miss Elizabeth Smith vas fatal!
stricken with neuralgia Of the hear
while attending mass 10 s.. AIMS Oath
Ole Church, Baltimore, yesterday aat
died In few inmates.
Martin w. LIttleton, counsel fo
Charles w. Morse, now serving q sen
encs 10 the federal prison at Atlanta
will apply for writ Of habeas corpus
10 40 endeavor to free the Ice king.
A settlement has been reached re
gsrding the HankOw- sEschuen Railway
Ian of $50, 600, 900, Eoglsnd, France
Germany and The United Sta!es eacl
sharing q gu rier interest.
Fz'a Kendall, well.knoWn actor, diet
yesterday at his home 10 MsrtlusVille
Iod. He was taken Ill at Oakland, Gal.
on January 7, aud closed The tour o
"The Vinegar Buyer" 10 which be VS.
starring.
The new WaVerly b tel and bath
house in II 1t Springs, AK we're tot'l
ly destroyed BY FIRE esrly yesterds!
morning, Ali Of the gueu,s esesped IN
Injured.
Pledges to aba ain from meat ant
other high priced ioois!uGs ere baiOg cir
culated In New York today aod ar
meeting with an unprecedent number o
signerP. Plans for an organized boycott
are under wsy.
With starvation staring her in th'
face. bnt restrained fron asking cid b!
her southern pride, Miss Georgia Nc
OlelIsu, a diminutive, well.educsted cir
of rs. killed berselt yesterday morning
at Der lodgings 10 New York. Gas va
fouid flowing freely from her little ga
heater and JET on the Ga!l.
The meat boz colt hss spread TO th'
Pacific cosst and Is mskiDg great head
way. Representatives Of three lhonsaO t
lsboriog men 10 Los A'geles, GAL, hsv,
passed resolutions calling upon the work
ingmen to Join tbirty.dsy boycott, snC
The uaion men have readily scceded t.
the request. Later q mas meeting Wal
held, OF which the S0.daY limit was re-
moved, and the men declined TO ca
meat again until the prices are lowered
TbeISusquehannO;r river overlooked Sun
day morniog snd poured into Port De
post, filing the etreets With ice snC
water to q depth never known before.
The damage ia conserVaively estimated
at $175, 600. No lives we're lost, but
there were many thrilling rescues.
Practically every bolldIDg in toe town
was either destroyed or damaged. The
PENNSYLVANIA Rsilrosd tracks were Gov
cred With ice 20 feet deep for q distance
of four miller, The ism In the river il
attributed TO the temporary piliug Of the
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad bridge
above Perryville.
While skating on the Charles river
basin at Boston, Yesterday, two young
men were drowned. The body OF one oil
them was secured by the police and
Identified as that of San u'l Geoelli,
aged seventeen years, of BOEbury. A
friend who was with him was also
drowned, tu' his body was not located.
One Oflbe psir skated into On open place
aud the other attempted to save him,
usiug his coat IS heoVe line. 10 doing
so be fell 10, aud went 10 the bottom st
once.
One man wssI killed aud another
seriously hurt In an automobile smssh'
up yesterday on the new Newark, NIX,
turnpike bridge over the h'ckensack
river. The dead man was John LAWN,
OF jersey City. JOhu ]. Egao, OF New
York, Is the irjured man. Egan is 10
the Jersey CITY Hospital with q broken
nose, conclusion Of the brain and many
bad bruises. The accident wss csused
by the car skIddiug CO a curve 10 the
road and dsshIpg Into a girder Of the
bridge.
Rev. Raymond E. Walker, former
pastor Of the GrsnltevIlle, R. l., Bspu't
Church, who was recently arrested on
she charge Of forgety,is 10 criiicsl con-
dition as the result Of desperate attempt
to take bis own life on Saturday. Mr..
Walker sealoWed 3 score OF Pima and a
considerable quantity Of ggound elssa
Walker was committed to jail early In
November. A few days after bis iDcar-
ceratIon be tried to kill himself BY driv'
Ing his head sgsiust the bars OF bis cell.
After he hsd recovered he swallowed a
qnsnliiy OF chloride Of lime,