Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-24
News of the Day.

The Hcu,e OF Representatives yester.
day passed the Shirley bill to establish
a uniform bankruptcy Law thr> uyhout
the United ST ties.
Eight directors OF the Consolidated
Mix Exchange, Of New York, we're yes
erdsy indicted on charges Of couspiriog
to 6x the price Of mIlE.
Two battleships aud probably repsif
shIp 10 follow the asst and make repsirs
sA1st will bs suthorlz ID by the present
session Of Congress.
The House naval com nitt,e yesterday
adopted a resoIu ion calling upon the
secretary OF commerce and laoor for
Peary'S reports of the discovery OF The
North Pole.
Mr.. George W. Dalauo, stock ftor-
pey Of tae LsieWood IN. j. Terrace
Hotel and SaaItarium Company, tell
dad In the East Baltimore B'rgsit
Fl ,use yesterday.
FIT person, ara reported to have b.eo
killed in panic following a hIe few
nIgI |, ego st the Municipal Thealer at
TfCiillo, a town 10 northern Peru. The
fire slaltld from the apparatus used 10
connection With q moVing'pict1re show.
During q clash between the striking
yuyar cane cutters at Point 9 Pitre,
Guadeloupe, and the soldiers three
strikers were killed and several wounded.
The Vendsrmes re,sived wounds. The
suIar fields are burniug, having been
fred by the strikers.
William Boyd, a negro, 80 years old,
was arrested by Washington policeman
lat night charged WITH bsing the man
who shot and probably fatally wounded
Harrison HIg bee and L7alle Lord 10 a
jersey Central traiD between New York
city and Newark yesterday.
The New York Sock Exchange an
thorItles announced yesterday that Olif-
ford NJ. WashburD, f1or member OF J.
NJ. Flske & o., who failed January l9,
the day of The 63.point drop 10 Hooking
Goal, Is ''ln,elIgible for relrttitemeOt."
This Is q tantsmt IL 1t to expulsion.
Among the bills introduced In the
House of Representatives yesterday were
to amend the laws relating 10 the shipping
and employ meDt Of sailors; tt provide
for the Z, tirement Of officers in the army
that served In b. ts the civil and spanish
wars.
10 atraIgumert OF cc-s3ucstion ct
the Cornell Alumni DINER Lass night Of
R cher'S, 10 Washington, DE-. Harvey
W. Wiley, chiet OF the busesu OF chem
iitry, declared women have no plscs 10
TIE classroom, and that 1t Ia more I'm
portrait that they leArn cooking Ihsn
cal, ul1s.
su rendering to The Cincinnati police
Yesterday, in order that be might have
chance ID lead an honest life, Christ an
Happier, 10 addition 10 admitting num-
eroas / Il rslsrIes, declared he 10 su ansr-
chIst and that he vas implicated Ia the
sspassiui ton of Empress Elisabeth OF
Austria, at Genevs, Switzerland, In
1902.
The body OF so lldentif:d young
man wss found last night eucastd Ia q
great block of Ice, which was carefully
hewn out Of a sSaDpy section OF TIE
woods 10 Van Cortland Park. New York.
When the Ice has been tbsSed away I is
noptd TO fod psp,rs 10 the clothing |
witch will aid In the Identification. The
node Ia ell nresefved 10 its lev coveficg
aud probably has lain 10 the woods fr
{ 70 or lree months. The srt re- mass
was removed so the morgue itt,ct.
Charged with Extensive forserles 10
Washington, where be lived uitil is"
months ego, and 10 Obic'go, John
Ward 5ta,giss, tTenty.tWo Years o'd,
EsI arrested 10 New Oflesns yssterisJ
II lie charged that be se'u'ed mere than
sS, 900 nom the n tional Savings aud
Trust Company, Of Washington, where