Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-25
News of the Day.

Woman suffrage was killed 10 The
Massachusetts, House yesterday.
President Taft has signed proclsmss
lions granting minimum tariff rates to .
number OF countries, China being the
principal one.
Judge Fnzler's confessional couIt
10 PIitsb1rg had an exciting climax yes.
terdsy, when George b. Anderson, 9
former select councilmsD, tainted as the
curt asked him II he had ever re-
ceivsd money for his vote.
The old Roach shipysrd ct Chester,
Pa, was sold yesterday at receivers
sale for sl53, 260 interest on mortgage
of 100000. Tie property was pur'
purchased by al attorney for VIM. Hol-
man, Of New York.
The largest real estse transaction ir-
volvIpg F stree! properly 10 Washington
rep,rtsd In several months was made
yesterday, when the business property
on the northwest corner OF Twelfth and
F streets northwest was sold to Issdore
Saks, OF New York, for s250,000. This
represents something like sS7 per square
foot.
With the arrest OF q special policeman
last plight, 10 New York, 1t became
known that jswelry aud clothing VALUED
at nearly $40, 900 had been stolen from
the home OF Miss Louise 81. Tiffany, al
No. 225 Madison avenue, during the
last few weeks.
The coroner's jury 10 Washington
yesterday decided thst Mrr. Florence
Slocum, wife of Maj. II ]. Socum, who
wss killed 6hen a trolley car collldtd
with the automobile OF NJ Gen. J.
franklin Bell, came TO her death acci-
dent lily although the accident was due
to failure OF the occupants OF the au!t-
mobile 10 observe proper precautions IN
Gre ssiug The railroad track. The verdict
absolges from blame the crew Of the
trolley car and Sergeant Ward OF the
signal corps, who Is General Bells
cbsufeur.
An unknown Black Hand man was
shot through the heart aud instantly
killed In q fight with a sherifis posse
headed by Under Sheriff Warren Hill
near Pueblo, Colo, yesterday. A CON-
pauion escaped on horseback, tu! is
believed to heve been wounded. Follow
iug ttr ats, Tony Sautuso placed 81, 900
at point several miles beyond the limits
OF Pueblo. When two men late yester-
day we're taking the money the sherifi's
tosse ordered them 10 throw up their
andp. They refused, and open ERE. At
the frs. r,turn volley one OF he Black
Hand men fell dead,
Bomb lhroWers again became active
Ia OhIcsgo last night. They threw
shell loaded with dynamite into gym
ussium under construction 10 the rear Ct
saloon on The West Side. The
explosion wrecked The gymnasium,
shattered The windows 10 adjoining build
Ings aud threw passengers 10 an elevated
trsiu into a panic. The shock shock the
elsvstsd structure so that tbs passengers
feared they we're going % be toppled
over to The ground, The police asset
the bomb throwing was due 10 labor
troubles.
TIE republican administration was
srrsignsd st Cleveland last night before
The Tippecaroe Club by formtr Gov.
Myron T. HeTrick, who charged 1t aitb
gross extrsvsgance ADD asserted that The
high tariff was necessitated by the In,
mense revenue required by uubu,iness.
like government methods. Mr.. Hsrrick
vas preceded by James r. G rdsld,
former Secretary of the Interior, who
warned the republican party that the
:outtry was impatient for the fulfiluent
OF Its Pledge and that lusclion or mEkt-
shift legislation would not be tolerated.
Mr.. Garfield declared tbst a rev order
bad arisen, and that II ne republican q
did not Wish the control Of the govern.
ment to pssa into other bands they NUT
make al honest Il )rt to carry out the
platform apon which they we're elected
to power.