Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-08
News of the Day.


cost OF living 50 pies for favor for tae
Payno tariff Law.
The appropriation for ~ al fres de-
livery was increased by $500. 600 by the
| H use during the cou,idtr-ti)n OF tue
postofice appropriation bill Je'terdsy'
The sale of envelopes by the govern
meat with return addresses printed mp
on them is prohibited BY an amendment
adopted to the posttffice sppropra hon
bill 10 the House.
Two bombs we're II .led iuIo room
| In Lisbon, where psrly OF cierlcsi
candidates we're dining yesterday, and
the explosion killed Two Of ihe diners
aud wounded seven others, Including the
| priest, who was preslding.
Mrs. OordelIa b ,tkin, convicted OF
murdering Mrs. John P. DonniDg by
sending poisoned candy t, Dover, Del,
died 10 San Quentin prison, Oal., yes
terday. The crime was committed August
4, 1898.
Dspoudent over III hesl,h and hnan-
cal reyerses Lson Strauss, OF Philadel-
CHA. Cred a bullet through his brain
some tine Sunday night ct The Ii bel
Belyedere, Baltimore. The body wks not
found Il It'll about noon yesterday.
Relatives OF Ohsrl,s Hinterberger,
aged so, single, Of Cincinnati, thought
bis death yesterday Was from nsIual
causes, a t1s Oh gu idsn. But the core
ner's constable came across this note
"Rats in this house, and contlr uad pains
from rheumatism drove me to this, 80
| forgive me. Good-by +, all-Ohsrlie."
Eight or tsu persons we're reported
killed aud seventeen ipiu'ed mauy oil
them fatally, in an explosion at the
works of the American Msizs Products
Company q. R0by, Iod,, last night.
Toe explosion occurred 10 a detached
bailding OF The plant, and was followed
By FIRE which enveloped large ware
house.
News OF triple shooting, which &C.
CARED In q church a. Hsive3town,
WAYNE county, w. Va, Sunday night
has been received. An under hed
man cred three tulIets through the resr
sail of the United Brethren Church.
Hsttie Johnston, IL years olt, was shot
In tho abdomen, Frank Cdell recelved q
wound 10 the shoulder and Harrison
Taylor carries bullet 10 his head a. o
result oil the shooting.
After legal battle which has been
dragged through state and federal courts
for fully twenty years Me. Eva A.
| 10 gersoll yesterday 10 Boston received a
certified chick for sl95, 55l.98, repre-
senting q fee which she claimed wss Cue
her husband, the late Robert G. lager
soil, for services In breaking the will oil
Andrew J. Davis, millionaire miner oil
Montana.
TIE conviction OF William P. Snyder
aud James NJ. Sbumaker, charged With
conspiracy to defnu the state Of Penn
sylyania, in connection with the iurnisE-
| log OF the state capitol, was sfirmed by
the 1t de snpums coart at Philadelphia
Yesterday. Soyder wsS former su1ItCE
general, aud Shumsker former super
iutendeut of public buildings and
grounds. The cases we're then taken
through all courts Of The state up t, the
highest irll u al. which hiuded dpn t.
decision yesterday,
Declaring that che will Immediately
put In q claim to be rtcogn'zd SIS the
wife OF Sn.tjr Thomas U. Plat, Of New
YORK. who died Ga yrdsy pigAt. Mae O.
| Wool. who is 10 Omaha, ssys the only
difference the senator's death will make
In her course is that she will now fight
a, hIs widow instead Of bis wife. HeI
preseut claim for dyorcs and aimoDy
will be dIsmlssed aud she will, inftssd,
ask to be dtclsfed bis widow and award
ed q widows portion Of the property.
| A dispatch from Rome nsyV that the
pops has telegrsphsd to j. ID. Rookie
teller cougrstul,t Dg him on his --latest
plan to endoW great philsnthropie or
gspIzstiop. The pontiff expressed The
belief that the proposed plan ett'tled tht
originator to the grail ale OF all man
kind. Discussing the work of Mr.
Rockefeller and other American philan'
tbropIs,s In q Leuten address to tb'
cardinals, the pope said "Althcugt
these miliIopsires sre Pr !starts, give
them my blessing because all who d.
good deserve Gods blessing"
: WilIIsm Lay, Of HoDeoye Falls, nsal
Roche.tr, N. Y, 9 naturalist, who hsl
nat died. directs BY will that his bod!
he inclosed 10 solid reinforced concrete
n rise & feet above the gugod. II !
, ordered that the body be plsced In
/ sImple winding sheet, and no coffin used
| H. farther orders that there be o.
funeral service, aud thst 20 woman, no
sxcsltug bis vile. be slloEed to b
present. al the burial. She will forfeit be
share Of tae estate should bis wishes b
ignored.
Albert Wizard. OF Washington, III
: scou,lted slsyer OF bis son-in-lsw, Irwin
W. Beck, who has been held ct the GaV
eroment Hospital for the Insane on To
Q verdict of the jury, for the pat month
. was Recessed this afternoon. To th
petition fled by him for bearing on
rrIt of bsbess corpus Supsrinteuder
White Of the Government Hospital ,ye'
,s,dav made answer thEt Willard sipc
his incarceration there has been unds
,L .k.a,vsiiop and hes shnwe