Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-10
News of the Day.

line nrss monument 10 to8 Ouited
States In honor OF the women of the
Oopfederacy was unveiled at Rome, Ga. /,
yesterday afternoon with appropriate
services.
James NJ. Doyle, for several years
teller of the Hibernis Bank, at Ssvan.
nah, Ga, is missing, IS Is $40, 900 OF
the banks cash, taken from its vaults at
the close OF business last Saturday night.
A msD, who gave his name as Andrew
Lee, wss arrested yesterday in WASH
ing,ou as suspect in connection With
the Horusby diamond robbery. BE had
several thousand dollars 10 his pockets
and a quantity of jewelry.
Collector of Cutt1ms Loeb OF New
York took luncheon With President
Taft at the White House yesterday.
The much disputed surveyorship OF the
port of New York vas under discussion
bat no defnits conclusion was reached.
The trial of Nicholas Tschsikovsky
and Mime. Breshkovsksya 10 st. Peters
burg on the charge OF revolutionary con-
spiracy, ended yesterday with the ae-
qui.tsl OF Tschsikovsky and the compar-
atively mild sentence of exile imposed
upon Nine. Breshkovsksys.
DR.. William MerrIck Gray, patholo-
gist of the army medical museum and
library, died suddenly yesterday SITTER
noon OF heart disease In the Laboratory
of The inslItution In Washington. DR..
Gray was a native OF Philadelphia, where
he was born June 20, 1858.
The Senate passed bills to Greats pat
ent appeals court; for department build.
ings; requiring customs brokers to be
licensed; bill To equip coasts With sub.
marine signals. The House committee
amended the TAFT railroad bill, striking
blow at the proposed coult OF COM
MERGE. Mr.. Payne asserted that Mr..
Hobson's plsu to build systsm Of roads
would bankrupt the government.
Mu. Geary of Providence, B. l.,
the new mother-!r-lsw OF Philander
Knor, j., says; "If Secretary KuoI
urnes his con aud my daughter out
I'll support them myself. l think the
boys father Is q snob. Oar family lie
inst as his and elopsments are not
strange things In either OF them. Reed
Knox eloped aud for that matter so did
when Was married."
Yesterday was the day they gave
babies away 10 New Orleans. A car.
load oil the little tots arrived there from
New York founding and orphan asy
lams, with an eager crowd of claimants
awaiting their arrival. la addition TO
those who had previously made success
Iul claim to baby, many pressed about
lbe car in the hope that there might be
some "left over" bat those who had
spilled in advance got every baby In the
car.
A cablegram has been received 10 New
York by friends of Frank Gould, it IL
said, 10 which he ssys that his marriage
With Miss Edith Kelly, the Epgllsb
dancer, may be an event of the future.
Mr.. Gould's friends sent him congratu-
latory messages Tuesday night on the
report tbst he had wedded the little
chorus girl In Europe. Mr.. Gould Is
repolt,d 81 his cableg,am as saying that
there will be no ceremony uutil psrma
oent disposition OF the two children by
his former wife.
Dynamite badly wrecked the home Of
Mrs. John shokns, good-looking
widow OF EdSardSville, near Wilkes.
Barre, Pa, yestTdsy, aud the police
believe that the outrage was committed
by discouraged lover Of the fair widow.
The police have arrested Peter Strikis,
who lives near tie widow. SirIkis was
ia love with the widow, the police
claim, and because she would not en-
c, urOge him they believe that he dyns-
mitsd the houe.
The English navy estimates for 1910,
which we're isusd by the admiralty last
night, provide for an expenditure OF |
s20S,0l8, 500, sn increase OF $27, 8O5,
900 over 1909. TIE increase is slmost |
wholly taken up by building and arms-
ments authorized by parliament before
dissolution. The new programme pro.
yides for FIVE large srmored ships, FIVE
protected cruisers, twenty destroyers and
q considerable number Of SubmsriueS.
By April / there will be under COL.
struction seven bstIle,bip', three az
mored, nine protsc.ed and two unaI-
mored cruisers, thirty seven desIroyels
and nine tu5-mariles.
Sanford Love, prominent business
man, shot aud killed Miss Lote MuT.
den, his finance. at Marion, Ind, yes
terday. Love called ct the home OF M IS
and shot her once 10 the breast
aud once In the back. The shooting
followed the bresking of the engagement
BY the young woman. Eight years ago
Love shot another young womsD, Nors
Miller, to whom be vas engaged. She
recovered. After the shooting of Miss
,furden Love rtlrned TO the business
section of The CITY, sna gave himself up |
. the police. lie is proprietor OF
and is % years old. Miss
Murden Is Is years old.
WILL DOUBLE TRACK ROAD.