Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-16
News Of the Day.

" - PsoSt PaN~~~'
racing msn Of Baltimore and well.kuown
tir,usbtut the country, died 1t st
JOSePh's Hospital, yesterday, after a
weeks Illness OF appendicitis.
The National Woman's Suffrage Cor =
vention in Washington yesterday uuanI-
mously Gu horiz,d q letter which wss
sent TO PresideI Taft, expressing regu
over the Kissing Of the president at the
meeting on Thursday evening.
After an extended and heated discus.
sion, q bill to confer tbs rank and psy Of
lieutsnsut general, retired, upon Msjor
General Daniel f. Sickles wss defeated
In the committee OF the whole OF the
HcuIe ge.tsrdav. The Sight vii! be re.
neHed in the House propIr.
Astronomers OF the U. S. Naval o.
servaiory, Washington, will begin, Mon.
dag, the work OF making series Of
photographs OF Hslley's comet. A pic
ture viii be taken each clear day until
about June l, when the comet will be
gradually leaving the earth.
Former Governor John L Bales, re.
ceiver for the National City Bank, Of
Cambridge, Nd, which closed Its doors
following the alleged defalcstion Of
George W. ColemsU, $l2-a.week book
keeper, reported today tina! the total
shortage Is sSU9, 0OO.l
Mrs. Matthew 7. Scott, president gen,
ersl Of the,D. A. z, hiss dropped Mrs.
H I. GUS from the OontiDel tai Hall
cOmmi tee as a punishment for breaking
up meeting of the District Daughters
ct the ArllOEt)n 10 Washington week
ego to prevent 1t from passing q restlu
ton indorsiug The administration.
At noon yesterday United Stl'es Sem
ator Leroy Percy, whose election resulted
10 The recent charges OF bribery and cor.
lupt on being brought by stste SEM t,r
bilbo, appeared before the joint session
OF the Mississippi Legislature and de.
manded vote Of confidence. II the
Legislature beAevts, however, that bis
commission Is tainted by fnui or cor
rat ton, Senator Percy said be would re-
sign.
ALDER! Royal and Charles jackson,
nee roes, we're lyuched at Amboy, near
Ashturn, Gs., yesterday, and warrant,
we're lftsr sworn tus for FIVE white men
accused of killing them. The negroes
bad been released on bond after srrest
for sn alleged assault on q white WON
an. They are said to have boosted later
Of their crime. The whites heard Of
their talk, and the lynchirg followed.
Physicians OF the College of Physl-
C isns and Surgeons in New York report
ed yesterday that bones taken from the
fireplace In the fat formerly occupied by
Albert Wolter, who is charged with the
murder of Ruth Wheeler, flied accurate.
IL With tie bones tu,ied with the re.
mainder of the girls body. The district
attorney believes that this establishes 9
perfect chain OF evidence and breaks
down the conter ton of counsel for Vol
ter that there Is no proof that the bod,
Identified snd buried "a that OF Ruth
Wheeler Is the same as tbit of which
bon,s we're found In the fireplace q
VOTERS fat.
A special dispatch from Washington
10 the New York Times says: Informs-
ton has been received bers that ,natoI
Nelson WiImaIth Aldricb, of Rhode Is.
land, has not only decided de6n tsly to
adhere to bis previously annt II Decd deter
mint t0n TO rel!rs from the S.nati at the
expiration of his present term on March
I next, but In preparation for that even
will shortly retire from sill bis commi :
tees, except, possibly, that on iuauce, 10
order to devote the remainder OF his time
In the S9pa.e to the work of The None
tsry commission, of which he Is the head.
Consideration Of bis health Is assigned
as the resson for this determination on
TIE part OF Mr.. AldriCh.
A little son OF Anton Morazek was killed
aud his wife seriously injured by an electric
car on Eighteenth street, New York, today
The family were on there way to ths pier to
board a steamer for Europe when the car ran
them down.