Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-28
News Of the Day.

To be a grandmother at the sge Of %
years is The unique dIstlnctiou OF Mrs.
Everett Parker, OF Richmond, Ipd.
Cardinal Gibbons has approved plans
TO raise 800, 900 annually 10 the Gath
Ollie church to educate the negro.
The Chinese government is contem-
plating asking Theodore Roosevelt to ac-
cept a post as advisor general to the
government according to a report in To-
kio today.
Practically the bushes, section oil
Welsh L., was wiped cut by fire early
yesterday. Thirty buildings were des-
troyed, entailing a loss OF 5000, 900 with
little insurance.
Thomas R. Clendinen, at one time
president OF the Park Board and q
prominent attorney OF Baltimore, died
at Riverdsle, Prince George ctuuiY,
Md, on Saturday, aged 81 years.
Mr.. and Mrs Aloia Dlstel and their
SOD, Charles, were instantly killed at
at SellersVills, Pa, yesterday, when
Philadelphia aud Reading Railway train
struck the carriage In which they were
riding.
Terrific explosions In the interior oil
Mount Elna continue, hut the flow OF
lava Is not so strong. Five large new
6ss1res have open nesr the central crater
OF Mount Vesuvius.
Col. Philip NJ. SnoWdep, aged 70
years, former sherif and school com.
missioner Of Baltimore, died at 2 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon at the Smedley
House, Towson, where he was spending
the winter. Colonel Snowden was
stricken with apoplexy on Saturday.
The prosecution en- Saturday closed
Its case In the Pinchot- BalliDger contrO
versy, and Attorney Vertrees made his
opening statement for the defense, in
which be bitterly denounced both CLAWS
and Piuchot and defended Balllpger's
conduct thr6u yhout
The birth Of hfa'ihy baby boy has
made Joseph Sears, at Dedhsm, Mass,
the father OF thirty 'cu' children. He
has bean twice married in the last foItJ
years, his first wife giving birth to eIgt-
teen children, ADD The present Mrs. Scare,
TO slxteeu. But twelve OF the large
family are living. Mr.. Sears Is 81 years
old.
A report has reached Manila that
quo on the United States crusier Charles.
ton exploded during target practice, and
thst eight men we're killed or wounded.
The Charleston Is returning to Manila
from Olopgspo. No details OF the re-
ported accident have BEEN received
By unsnimouI vote, the Central Lsbor
Union, of Philsdelphis, yesterday de.
clared off the general sympat 1etic strike
which was called more than three weeks
sgo as q messure to aid the strikipgcsi-
men OF the Rapid Transit Company, and
directed ell men who went out st that
time 10 return to their work this morning.
Driven to desperation by circumstances
which may never be known, an aged
man whose identity has not been sscer-
taiued and whose connections and psst
are clothed 10 mystery committed suicide
by hanging himsel. from bed post 10 a
,oomiug house on Missouri avenue, north
wett, Washington, yesterday afternoon.
An empty envelope found 10 bis pocket
bore the name oil M. 8. Talbert.
In q confession made at Cambridge,
Mass, Saturday by George W. Coleman
and given out BY bis attorney, q. Win.
Glow, the young man charged with en-
bfzz'ement from the Nat OPAL City Bank
Of Cambridge, admitted that be took
$3.50, 900, aud that practically every cent
Of 1t WAS lost in trying to "bresk faro
bank" In New York.
The tariff dispute with Canada was
practically settled on Saturday evening
at a conference at the White House, 10
which President Taft, Secretary Knox
aud the Canadian minister of finance
and railways took part. The negotiations
have taken form which gives assurances
that q friendly understanding will be
come 10 Immediately. 1! 70 expected
that the Official announcement will be |
msde simultaneously at Washington and |
Ottawa on Wednesday, the 9Oth Infant.
Asher Kinds, parlismeU tirian OF the
Htue, was informally nominated to
succeed Speaker Cannon Saturday by |
Representatives Poiniexter, Of Washing
ton, 10 q corridor address In Washing |
ton In which he spoke fer some Of bis
fellow lnip'gents. he pointed out that
the speaker need pet be member OF the
House, and rtusd 10 favor OF the EGG
lish system Of giving to to the speaker
no powers other than those Of presiding
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