Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-15
News Of the Day.

out their separation.
Mr.. Roossvelt will take the stump
next fell 10 bshali OF the publican can
didsts for governor Of New York Accord
log 10 a stttsment which was published
aud accredited to Mr.. Roosevel's ffieuds.
The British House OF Commons yes
terdsy, by msiority of 1O5, approved
Premier Asquith's resolu ion dealipg
with the veto power Of the Hluse Of
Lords.
Waldorf Astor hes offered the British
National Association for the Prevention
OF Consumption a practically unlimit ID
sum to carry on the Eight against the
disease.
AuauIt OF, who beat bis wife to
death In New York aud bid her body
under the floor of their apartment, was
yesterday convicted OF murder In the
second degree and given 20 yeara' i'm
prisoumeul.
Mrs. August Stetsou, former head OF
the First Church OF Christ, scientist, re-
fused TO receivs an appeal In New York
from Mnscai, Arabs, for "absent tres.-
ment."
The New Hampshire G. A. Il. en-
campment yesterday passed resolutions
prtt.stipg sgsiuet the placing OF the
sta u OF Gen. Robert E. Lee in Ststu.
airy Hall.
The strike OF tie employees Of The
Philadelphia Rapid Tar alt Company,
which began February 10. was att'ed
last night, The terms OF the settlement
bsye not been announced.
Tie Wesleysn China Inland Mission
at Chargshs, China, the-cspilal OF the
province OF Human, was destroyed by
rioters Yesterday. The missionaries took
refuge 10 the Yamen, which The rioters
'u5aquently attacked. There was no
less OF life.
According to returns OF the vote
Throughout, tie United Slatfs Tuesday
by The presbyterits OF the United Pref
b. terrain Church, the adoption of new
p alter, 10 preparation since 1900. is
assured.
1t 10 probable that The stories Ct
H,lley's come. hss something TO do
with The natives unrett. They are
greatly alarmed over the ccmsl snd a.
such seasons OF fear they always sttsmpt
to propitia.e the God by killing "foreigu
devils"
10 celebration OF the 125th snnive:-
fairy of the organization OF the diocese
of Virginis, tsbl to the memory OF
Rev. Miles S,ldep, lat colonial rector,
snd to Rev. Dr.. Johd Buchanan, first
rector under the new organization viii
be unveiled Ia st. Johns Episcopal
Otu'cb, Richmond, on May IS, the d. to
If the conyening oil the diocesan counc
of Virginia in Richmond 10 ll5h a =
nusl session.
As wss stated In the cate, Marx
Twain, otherslse SAMUEL L. Clemens,
who has BEEN seeking health 10 B Z
muda for the last several months, reach
ed New Yolk yesterday 40 invalid by
the Q1sbec line steamship Octaos. DR..
Edward s. Quintard, his pbyslc''D, ssid
be WIS suffering from angina pectoris
snd that he might live FIVE years and
might die in five mintt's.
Robbers dypsmiled the vault OF the
First National Bank OF Spring CITY,
Temp, early Yesterday, add escaped
with more than $4,000. Shortly after
l O'Clock yesterday noTning one OF TIE
robbers eu tered The ttstion OF tie Or
ciDuat Southern Railroad st Spring
City, covering the operator with q r.
Volver, aud GU ioDiDg him 10 be quiet.
Immediately siterwaEd series of ex
plosiOns wrecked TIE entire front of the
bank building The robbers remsiufd
in The building about twertJ minut 3.
gathering their plumber, and escaped
just rs resider IS of the toWn began 81
irving at the bank.
Mr.. E Ii. Digges, aged 26, OF The
Maryland Gaogrrphicsi Survey, was
struck BY an express train at The Mary
land svenus crossing of the Baltimore
snd Ohio Railroad, near Hya t,yille,
Md, yesterday sfteIn1o n, and instantly
killed. The young man WAS tt!emp,-
ing 10 cross the tIaeks to each the train
for Baltimore, and did not hear the sp-
preaching express. HIS body was thrown
about 60 yards aud null d. both legs
being cut off aud bis hsHd bsdlg crushed.
10 open session last night the Missile
sippi senate by 40 overwhelming vote de-
mspded the resignation OF S1nStor Bllbc.
President pro tenn Hebron then resigned
aud was followed from the chsmosr by
several other sena o's, slso supporters of
Vardsman. Senator Bllbo thea began
an address In bis own deFepse. By q
vote Of % TO Is, only one vote shors OF
the uqllred two thirds msi1rIly, the
serat earlier 10 the evening failed TO
pass a resolution to expel S,nstor Blbo,
who recently charged that he accepted
from l. o. Dulsnty bride OF s645 In
exchsrge for his promise to change bis
vet, from former Governor Jsmes K.
Vsrdsman TO Leroy Percy, for Uoit d
s stes senator.
A series OF earthquakes, varying in in
teusty, has swept over Costa Rica dur
ing the past a hours. doing vast damage
the extent of which can only now be es-
timated at more than 81 900, 900. Sofer
there has been no report of loss of life,
but the people in the cities are panic
stricken and are abandoning their homes
for the hillsides.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the S,uate Yesterday a bill author