Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-16
News Of the Day.

a uili u sup M TX ~ WNot OiA
was passed By the Senbts yesterday.
Sixteen persons were drowned daYft
Ohristianis, by the sinking OF the Oar
ish steamship Osmbodls, near Htnae'.
Announcement was made by Apostle
lie Deleg,t, Mgr. Falconio todsy lhit
Rev. E. ler John MlIsne, parish priest
of Amesourv, Bgt)p, has been chosen
Bishop Of Hartford, Cjur.
The political situation Ia Ohio wss
discussed {, { dinner given by President
Tsft st t1e White Htu'e last night.
Ohio Affairs, 1t Is said, trs not sat STAG
tory to Mr. Taft.
Tariff negotiations between lhe United
States and Frsnce have been stopped
aud may not be resumed, Ii is said In
Washington.
A bill making eligible for pensions
widows OF soldiers Of the civil war MAJ
rIen since 1880 was reported 10 the
Senate yettsrdsy from the committee on
penslons.
For the frat time since 907 The BAltl.
moro and Ohio Railroad Company will
be able this year to pay Its full dividend
Of 6 per cent.
Mrs Anna Christian Spreckels, widow
OF OhuI Spreckels, died yesterday at her
residence at San Francisco. She WAS
seventy -1ine years OF sge, and leaves
four sons.
Rev. DR.. z. II. McKim, of Washing
ton, spoke at Royal Arcanum Hall, In
Baltimore, lat night, 10 reply to Col.
John s. Mosby's book on the Oonfeder
ate cavalry In the Gettysburg campaigu.
The rlvtrs and hsrbors bill, carrying
arp OPERATIONS OF more than $S5, 900,
900, with authorizations of work that
will cost In excess Of $1,000, 900 sd.
ditional, was passed by tie House lit
yesterday.
Hoo. John Gill, Of Baltimore, APP
pesred 10 the House OF Representatives
Yesterday for The first time 10 this Sea-
sioU. Mr.. Gill has been quite sick fer
many weeks.
Brigsdier General Water Howe, U.
s. A., has been assigned temporarily
to the command Of the department Of
the east, succeeding NJ j. Gen. Leonard
Wood, who 10 undergoing treatment ct
the Johns Hopkins hospital.
The Wett,rn Uniou Telegraph Dom.
pauy directors In New York, today pre-
mot ,dl B. Books, general supsrinler-
deIt Of the eastern division of the com
pauy 10 be general manager Of the com
plny and to have charge of the operating
end OF the business.
Alexander Schafhirt, general agent ct
Hagerstown, Md for tSe Cumberland
Valley aud the Norfolk and Western
railways, committed suicide ye,t'rdsy
BY shooting himself thru ugh the head,
Continued i'll health, following nervous
breakdown, Is the cause a'slgued.
A dispi b received 10 Paris by NJ.
Trouill t, mich ter of colonies, from the
governor OF Dsksr, Senegal, says that
French detachment was wiped cut
through an sml u Ieade in the Ouidsi
region. Five French officers aud 10
native troops, comprising the deiact
ment, were msssacred.
There was violent shock OF earth
quake a. Poterzs, I'aly, st 4 o'clock ye'
gsrday morning. No damage was done,
but the people we're t,rriGed ard rushed
Gu. OF their houses II - the s'rset. The
shock sIso was felt at Otrstt', Reggie,
and elsewhere, cluiing panlc'. No
damage has been reported. There is
some nnessIness concerning Melt,
small town rs miles from POteDz', with
which 1t Is impossible to get 10 telegraph
comm aicatlon,
Because four OF ils members we're
negroes jury WAS dismissed by Judge
John II, Pilcblord, 10 the District Oouti
at Wagner, near Muskogee, OKLA,
Monday. Ia extu ling the negroes from
du'y Judge PltchfOrd said; 1.-THE laws
Of Oklahoma provide that negroes shall
tIue StphIhtciJ ia ttotno Huu otlcGb ChtEj
that they shall attend separate schools
and:est at separate tselss, aud do not
propose to insult white men By mskIpe
them serve on the jary with negroes"
Negroes form hall Of the population OF
Wsgouer county. Heretofore they have
sat on mixed jurles without Gu ,stion.
Stricken with spoplexy, With lighted
kerosene lamp In his hand, while en-.
deavorIug to securs drink of water
for his sick wife, Engineer j. E. ElckeI-
man, OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, met with a trsg'c desth at bis
home In MsrIlnsburg, W. Va, yester-
day morning, being burned to death
before the other members of the hour
hold could come to his assistance. He
had been attending bis sick wife and
ct uted for the kitchen for water, carry.
Ing Q lighted lamp. When stricken he
fell and the bl6zlDg oil Ig liled his
Death ensusd Ia few min.
utes.
AN UNIQUE WILL.