Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-05
News of the Day.

Tbt ugh urged by Mr.. Elkins, The
ssns,e yesterday refused to tx dst'
FIR vote on the administrt ton rail-
road bill.
The two Japanese arrested in Manila
on The charge o! being spies were re-
Leased BY order of Secretary Of War
Dickinson.
Dr.. T. a. McGaire, pbyslcisr at the
Tombs prison, declares that Alatri
Wol.er, accused of The murder OF Rub
Wheeler, is a moral imbecile.
The Maryland legislative session OF
1910 came to a close last night. La
speech 10 the Senate President German
anne need his intention to retire from
public life.
Si:zsrland's largest Catholic college,
the Mariahili, located near SchWyz, With
the church library and valuable
scientific collection, YVES burned yester'
dsy.
Miss Freda Norrsnce was shot snd
killed in San Francisco yesterday by
Nathan Pollock, fjsctsd suit'r, while
standing on crowded street corner with
Samuel Goldberg.
Ecudorian mobs yesterday attacked
the Peru 7isn Legation at Quito and the
consulate at Gaaysqlil and destroyed
much property, bringing the repu5llcs
on the verge Of war.
Believing his wife, who was walking
the floor with her six.moDths-old child
10 her arms, was burglar, June Vau-
dervoort, Kansas farmer, yesterday
shot and killed her with saotyuu. The
child Wss unl urt.
Burglars in Webb City, Mo-, stole a
4, OO0-p pound safe from Richard Jenkins
poll hall, hauled It in stolen wagon
two miles into the county and blew it
open, obtaining 1852 In cash.
Former Vice President Fairbanks de-
clined the offer OF President Tat 10 act
ns special enrroy OF The Uuitsd S:st's t.
Buenos Ayres on the occasion OF the
centenary celebration to be held
there.
More than 800 saloons were voted
GU! of business by The people Of nineteen
Michigan COUNTIES yesterday. Of the
sc counties where local option elections
we're held, the only county not heard
from is O.cidn, Shich is sa:d to possess
only one saloon.
A cyclone of three miuutas duration
late yesterday lett 10 It's wake to the
SOU beast OF Youngstown, Ohio, score
of injured persons, thousands Of fright
eped onrs, ten demrl shed houses, aud
hundred partially wrecked. The loss
is upward Ct 500. 600.
Ez~President Roosevell's refusal to
accep. the conditions imposed by the
vatican So q prerequisite to an audience
with the pope has caused proft nd stir.
The MethodisJ Conferences now 10 sea
sion in various parts of the country are
adopting resolutions cougra!ulstlug MI.
Roosevelt on The stand he took 10 tie
mater.
In the NeS York Senate, !ast nigh,
Senator Ben Gonger, otter reading 0
statement 10 which be declared he fully
reslizsd thst, GO result of the Aids
bribery charge. his usefulness as leg
isator was st an end, handed his re.
sigustion to Lii uteDant Governor White,
n rnhlicata of which ho later filed NTH
the secretary OF stst'.
The French ambassador in Washing
| ton, yesterday received delegation.
beaded by Ool James Mann, appointed
| by The governor OF Virginia to arrange
for The presentation TO the French re.
public OF replica OF the famous H9udor
stt tie OF George Washing tou. Ths am-
basssdor expressed the qualification be
felt at tie gift and promised to notify
the conc mission SO spon SO he hesrs ON
his government on suitable date for the
presentation of The ststus.