Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-02
News Of the Day.

President Taft has dominated Daniel
B. Logan t, succeed Joha n. Davis IS
postmaster at Woodstock.
Liberals war with hostile nttiVes Is
said by the G=rmazs to be more comic
than serious.
The New York grand jury ssys the
ability t. keep foodssuffs i1de6uitely In
cold storage Ia largely responsible for the
Increase iu prices.
O. III. L1u,haa, at present der
revenue collector at Lyuchhurg, 30.
nou iced yesterday thss he is an app.i-
cant for the stmsstarsbip at Char.
lottes7llIe, to succeed General Rosser.
Robert W. Patterson, president of The
Chicago Tribune Company, died last
nigh. In his room in the Bsllevu5-Stra'-
ford Fl tel, Philadelphia. His death
was due to apoplexy.
joseph A. Merrick, known as CAP
Merrick, who Is charged With bIusally
numbering bis wife, Mary Gertrude
Merrick, en- Eastsr Sunday, was pre-
scented BY the grsnd jury 10 Baltimore
yesterday.
Two Italians # uaEt g duel early yes
terdsy In a New York street, not far
from the East Side wstsr front. Ooe Of
them was killed by shot fred straight
through his head. HIS adversary es.
capped, leaving no clus 10 his identity.
Att three days OF sharp controversy
the Senate yesterday passed the House
bill, 80 amending t1e employers llaoil-
ity law as TO give the state court cor-
current jurisdiction with the federal
courts in dealing with III t, for damages
growing out OF accidents.
Goodwin Yorke Alice, for many
years secretary aud general manager OF
t1e Potomac Terra Gotta Company, died
10 Washington yesterday afternoon. H
had been Ill for abou. two years OF
Bdgbt's diszass. He WAS born in De-
troll! sixtJ- eight years sgo.
The indignation of 4. 1000 citIzeus OF
Pitsburg, Pe., over the political COZ
r1ptiou now being unearthsd by The
grand jury and by councilusnic comics
sions and denu lciat!on of civic vice
generally, vas .vehement'y expressed
lsst night tt mass meet ug in that city.
Mayor William A. Magee, who sought
TO address the meeting, waa hooted of
The stage. The resentment shown vas
a. the chief exeeu.iTos failure to clean
up the red light district, delayed action
of traction problems, end ttler local
matters.
Declaring that the Taft admiDisIra-
on is s,addliug the issus Of the couser.
WALTON OF natural resources, represents.
tjves R)binson, OF A'k,us,s; Craig. OF
Alabama, AMI Ferris, ;,oi Oklahoma, three
democratic members OF The FL juse coc-
mi,tee on public lands, yesterday intro.
ducsd couserV: t on bill which they
have ,iutly prepared to deal til the
satiect. 1t authorizes the president to
Withdraw public lands from ett'y and to
have them cassifi:d and then to make
reports t, Congress.
Consumers of cold storage poultry are
paying rs t 80 ceu;a pound for water,
each fowl sccumuIstirg from 10 10 psr
cent. more weight by On unnecessary
fresz3Dg process, according to present.
msnt by The grand jary in Jersey City
yesterday. Having indicted 81 officers
and G concerns Of The so-csllsd feet
trust, t1e grand jury iuishsd lis work
by handing into court preseutmeut in
regard 10 The conditions of cold storsge
plaats 10 H.dson ecu ~. Opinions Of
the lrymen in respec; to the hish prices
OF toodstuff, are expressed and recon-.
mend t on ae t. q remedy ara made.