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

Though urged by Mr.. Elkin', The
Senate yetsrday refused to fix diti
fJr vote On the administri tion rail-
road bill.
Toe two Japsnese arrested 10 Msnils
on the charge OF being spies were r.
Leased BY order of Secretary OF War
Dickinson.
DR.. I. A. MeGnIre, pbyslcisn at The
Tombs prison, declares that Alotr
Wol'er, accused of the murder OF Rub
Wheeler, Is moral imbecile.
The Maryland legislative session OIL
1910 came to close lsst nigh. 10
speech 10 the Senate President German
announced bis intention 10 retire from
public life.
SSiz rland's largest Catholic college,
the Mariahili, located near SchHJz, with
the church library and valuable
scientific collection, Was burned yester'
dsy.
Miss Freda Norrence was shot snd
killed In San Francisco yesterday by
Nalhsn Pollock, q jsctsd sult'r, while
standing on crowded street corner with
Samuel Goldberg.
Ecudorian mobs yesterday attacked
the Peru 'isn Legation at Quito and the
consulate at Gasysqlil and destroyed
mu,h property, bringing the republics
on the verge OF war.
Believing bis wife, who was walking
the floor With her six.monlhs-old child
10 her arms, was q burglar, June Vau-
dervoort, Kansas farmer, yesterday
shot and killed her with sAotyuo. The
child Wss uni urt.
Burglars in Webb City, Mo-, stole q
A, 000-ptuud safe from Richard Jenkins
pool hall, hauled It In stolen wsgoU
two miles into the county and blew II
open, obtaining 1852 10 cash.
Former Vice Presidert Fairbanks de-
cllued the offer OF President Tstt 10 act
as special eurvoy OF the Uuit,d Salts t.
BnenOs Ayres On the occasion OF the
centenary celebration to be held
there.
More than 800 saloons we're voted
out Of business by the people Of nineteen
Michigan couute Yesterday. OF the
sc counties where local option elections
we're held, the only county not heard
from Is Oscidn, which Is sa!d to possess
only one saloon.
A cyclone of three miputss' duration
late yesterday left In ils wake to the
southeast OF Youngstown, Ohio, score
OF injured persons, thousands Of fright
eDed onfs, ten demcl shed houses, aud
a hundred partially wrecked. The loss
is upward Ct 800, 600.
Ex-President Roosevells refusal to
accept the conditions imposed BY the
vatican IS a prerequisite to an audience
with the pope has caused 3 profC u1d stir.
The Methoditt Conferences now 10 sea
sion in various psrts Of the country are
adopting resolutions congratulstlDg Mr.
Roosevelt on the stand he took 10 the
mater.
la the New York Senate, last night,
Senstor Ben Oonger, after reading o
statement 10 which he declared he fully
realized thst, ss q result Of the Aids
bribery charge, his usefulness as q leg
lslator was ct an end, handed hls re.
signstion TO Lisuteusnt Governor White,
a pnhlieate nj which ho later fil-d with
the secretary OF stit',
The French ambassador 10 Washing
ton, yesterday received a delegation,
beaded by Dol. James Mann, appointed
by The governor OF Ylrgiuis to arrange
for The presentation to the French re.
public Of replica OF TIE famous Houdon
stat Of George Washington. tbs am.
bssssdor expressed the Qualification he
felt at the gift and promised to notify
the commission 80 soon as he hears ON
his government on suitable date for the
presentation of the ststue.