Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-05-27
News of the Day.

News" OF Plymouth, EOg'snd 1t Ia
practically settled the Lord Kitchener
will be the next Vicsroy OF India.
President TAFT will not attend the
home. coming celebration 10 honor OF
Theodore Roosevelt at New York on
jane is.
An explosion In the Dolores mine In
the S ate OF Obihustu', Mexico, yester.
day, startd q FIRE which destroyed 100
horses end rendered 500 persons home
less. OSe life was lost.
Two soldiers, Grady and Michel, we're
convicted 10 Paris yettsrdsy OF the muir.
der OF Madame Gouiu, widow Of Jules
Gouin, q noted 6nsncier, Grady being
seItsnced to death and Michel to 20
years In prison.
The diocesan convention OF the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Mary
land yesterday voted sgsiDst a proposed
amendment. 10 the constitution OF the
general church providing for q negro
bishop.
Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stock.
ton, LII. D., U. S. NJ, retired, was yes
terdsy appointed acting president OF
Gsorge Washington University In Wash-
iust)n for tbs term beginning August
81 mex.
Mrs. Eliza Reichert, sged 81 year.,
died beside her husbands grave 10
cemetery hear Harrisburg, yesterday
II ~ husband died FIVE years ago, and
she had jIst placed flowers on his last
resting place when seizsd by an attack
OF heart disease.
Governor Hughes Of New York has
sppolrt,d his secn tsry, Robert H.
Fuller, as member of the stite Wst.r
Supply Comm ssioD, at an snnual salary
of $4,000 and expenses. Dol, Fuller
married Mas Bessie Olsgge t, of this
city, and has many friends in Alexandra.
Commuters from New York who live
In New Jersey and who travel over the
lines of The Erie Railroad aud its
branches will hsvtto pay from 8 to Upper
cent more for their 60.Irip Communication
tickets after June 26, according to tariffs
fled by the roads yesterday with the To-
tsrstate Commerce Commission.
Information received yesterday coz
ceruipg the condition Of Associate Justice
William II Moody, OF the United States
Sdpreme Court, from bis home Ia H aver
hill, Mass, where he had been Ill for
more t9an six moths Is 10 the tffsct the /
his condition is sucb, that heElwill prob.
ably soon SAX for retirement.
England partially forgot her NOUN.
ing for the late King Edward yesterday
In celebrating the torty-thlrd birthday
anniversary oil Q ieeu Mary. The csle-
brstIou, however, was lacking in mot
Of the gala features that usually mark
the birthday OF EDglsnd's Queen.
Fire which started shortly before II
O'Clock last night 10 the oil rt6uiDg plant
OF A. l.. Olemeols & SOp. at Tonnelle
avenue and the Llckawa lna Railroad
ysrd', In jersey Oily, did about $780,.
600 dsmage before 1t was extinaushed.
Almost every available piece OF FIRE sp-
parAtus in the city wss ct the scene
rbe ire drew thousands OF persons, who
stood on the heights of the Palisades,
aud watched The glare on the Hut
sor.
Secretary Meyer hiss ann upced that
he has already approved the designs
of the two new bsttleships authorized
in this years sppropris ton bill add that
only the specifications remain to be
drawn. These ships are 10 be OF
1000 tons displacement and will each
carry batteries OF ten Ii inch gu1s.
Within the course OF the next few
weeks 1t is believed thst cotton manu-
lecturers OF Rho6e Island will be forced
to cultail their production by closing
their factories two days q week, there
by establishing four days a week
schedule.
The lest Effort OF thu New York
woman tuffugists to obtain favorable
action on their constitutional amend
ment removing the word ''msle"
from the const Triton failed Yesterday
when Senator NeEcomb's motion to
suspend all rules aud t,ke 1t up for
passage was deiestsd, 80 to 16.
J NJ. Dslz,ll, better known as "Pr-
vale" Dalzell, who has been prominent
In republican politics In Ohio since the
war and 10 kdown to veterans Of the
grand army Throughout the country, has
voluntarily resigned the position 10 the
treasury at Washington which he hiss
held for thirteen years. He does this,
be admits, to fofestal dismissal.
W. 8. Lowell, Of Birmingham, Ala,
wa, elected trustee and his bond fixed at
800, 900 at The fict meeting there yes.
terday OF the creditors OF the cotton
firm Of Knight, Ysncey d Co., which
filed voluntary petition Ia bankruptcy
on April 20. The liabilities of the
firm are as approximately $5,OOO.-