Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-08
News Of the Day.

have recently been M In cold ttr'ge
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, Of th'
Eoglish Amy, arrived iu San francisco
yesterday.
The nomi1stion OF William F. Some,
to be collet of III t)ms at Baltimore,
WAS confirmed By the Senate yesterday.
Miss Sarah Edwards, about IS years
OF sge, dropped dead IN the hume OF Mr..
Stevenson, 10 Paasap. tsBzy, King George
county, Wednesday.
Jsmes Cannon, sr., father of Rev.
James Oinnop, jr., Of the Anti-Saloon
League died at Blackstone yesterday,
aged so years.
Tbs propos ed income tax amend
ment to the federal constitution wss vot.
ed down by the Massachusetts, legislative
committee on federal elections yesterday,
IL to 4.
a bill prohibiting rate interest great
er than per cent. per month on suns
| o: lesg than $500 in the District of Ool-
umbia was passed by the Senate yester-
day. The bill Ia intended to curtail the
operations OF "loan sharks."
Financial Losses 10 partnership
brokerage business at Sylvia, Kans, are
believed to have caused the suicide o.
| Ne!s and @. W. Olsen, brothers, whose
bodies were found on the Missouri. near
Kansas City, Mo-, yesterday.
1t Ia reported from Shiloh district,
King George CT unity, that Mr.. B. Tucker
Ashtou, son of the late Judge Ashton,
was found 10 front of his house Tuesday
| morning in an uacopsci' u, condition
With severe scalp wound, snd at the
last report was still unconscious.
Mr.. John w. Albsugh, jr., 4S years
old, q well.known actor aud jolut owner
OF Albsugh's Theatre, died yesterday
afternoon at the Uaion Protest 'ut H.
Urinary, Baltimore, from atu Br:ght's
disease.
10 Washington yesterday former Rep
resentktive McOleary, OF Minnesota, was
the principal witness before the ship
subsidy Investigation committee. He
ssid be had received money for actual
ex psnses from the M:lchant- Marine
Lesgue, AID no mora.
As the result OF O conference agree
ment Gu the legislative, executive and
judicial bill, SPEAKER Cannon will have
to pay for the upkeep of LIS automobile,
while Vice President She!man's machine
will be maintained 8! government eI.
pense.
Halley's comet was seen with the
! uskel eye easly yesterday in st. Louis.
The celestial wanderer was Visiblr be-
geeu 5:15 and 5.35 3. n. The comet
vas inclined an angle of about 45 de-
greer, and pointed in the direction Of
!he point where the sun rises above the
her ION st this time of the year. 1t was
! in view about 20 Minutes.
"A trney General WIckershau has
| decided that a corporation engaged
| 10 busine's after the approval OF The
act imposing tax Of per cent, Cd
iis NIT income, was liable for such
| tsx, though it may not have become
due until after the corporation was diE-
solved.
The House COMMITTEE on foreign
affairs yesterday rejected uusnimtu.ly
;ke bill passed By The Senate grau'ip2
suthority 10 officisls OF the government
and officers of the army and navy to
| sccsp. certain gifts presented to them By
foreign powers,
A cold wave struck Washipe!.Sf, county
Nd, Wednesday, TIE temperature fell
80 degseea IN few hours. 10 the Har-
Geek fiuit belt there we're snow Hurries.
Several inches OF snow fell yesterday
sStnu2 t high points, Including Oak
aud, Nd, aud Davis w. Va, while
fl.kes e ~ through the air at Cunber-
land.
Louise kmbrodlne, who had the die
! tinttion OF weighing lS4 pounds for
every Inch of her height, died n New
York lat night of Gcue rheumatism,
She waa ttu, feet four iucbes by four feet
.u> lnchca aud weighed 700 pounds. She
vas "a years old sud well.knoWn ss a
professional fat woman.
The British House of Commons, In
committee yesterday adopted Premier
Aaqui.h's frat ve'o resou ION By vote
399 to 237. This resnlt ton declares It
xpedie5t that tbs Houss OF Lords be
disabled by law from rejecting or amen
ling money bill, bu: tina! any such lin
alton shall not be taken ID diminish or
lusl ~ the existing right, OF the Ii )us:e
| Of Commons.
Adolph krsua, oil Chicsgo, who for
the lag! 6va years has been president OF
the B'nai Birth, waa yesterday re-alett.
ed. The convention in Washington
closed late yesterday afternoon. With
he re election OF A. 3. Seelenfreuud es
secretary and the election of LucIus
Solomous, of San Francisco, ss frat vice.
| president, the new officers were COM
pleted.
Moro than 100 enfuristed negroes of
| Kao, Ark, early Wednesday overpowsr.
ID the GOES ables In charge of Frank
Pride and Laura Mitchell, colcr.d, &C.
cused OF Kill ing two persons, took the
prisoners, from the officers, shot them to
death aud sIruug up he bodies. Pride
aged so, slew his own wife becaUse be
vas infatuated with the Mitchell woman
| and aftsrasrd assisted in killing her
husband.
Division Of political utilization OF citi-
| z'ns of The United States bttween prohi-
| o.t!on and auti.prohibition, With William
J. Bryan as the logical leader of the
t5ruer, YES the prophecy of Robert 81.
P't'oD, former prohibition candidate for
| nauarnnr Of Illincia hefnra The Pknhihi.