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

III. H. >. 4uCu paouy d p1uoloeEl
racing msn Of Baltimore and Hell.known
ir,usbtut the caunuy, died it st
Joseph's Hospital, yesterday, sitter a
weeks illness OF sppendic ts.
The National Woman's Suffrage Cor :
vention In Washington yesterday unani-
mously su horiz.d a letter which was
sent to PrssideIt TAFT, expressing regrt
over t1e Kissing of the president at the
meeting on Thursday evening.
Alter an extended and heated discus
siou, @ bill to confer The rank and psy Of
LIEUTENANT general, retired, upon Msjor
Genera! Daniel f. Sickles wss defeated
in the COMMIT ee OF the whole of the
Hcu,e yestsrdav. The Sight will be re-
newed In the House prcp:r.
Astronomers at the U. S. Naval o.
| servGtory, Washington, will begin, Mon
dag, The work of making a series o.
photographs Of Hslley's comet. a pic.
ture will be taken each clear day until
sbcut June l, when the comet will be
gradually Leaving the earth.
Former Governor John L Bales, re-
ceiver for the National City Bank, o.
Cambridge, Md, which closed it's door;
following the alleged defalcstioo oil
George W. Colemsu, aSl2-a.Week book
| keeper, reported today tina! the totsl
shortage Is $3.50, 000i
Mrs Matthew T. Scott, preaideut gen
ersl Of the'D. A. R, has dropped ME-.
Fl 7. GUS from the Oontine; tai Hal
commi tse as a punishment for breaking
up meeting of the District D-ushtert
at thu ArlipLt,n 10 Washington a week
ego to prevent 1t from passing restlu
ton irdorsicg the ADMINISTRATION.
At noon yesterday United St,es SEN
ator Leroy Percy, whose election resulted
10 Tie recent chsrges of bribery and cor.
,luet on being brought By stste S:ntt'r
| eilbo, appeared before the joint session
OF the Mississippi Legislature and de.
maDded vote CT confidence. II the
Legislature BELIEVES. however, that bis
commission is tainted by frsui or cor
raEtiou, Senator Percy said be would re.
sigu.
Albert Royal and Charles jackson,
negroes, we're lyuched ct Amboy, nea,
Aehtu1n, Gs., yesterday, and warrant:
we're lttar sworn CUT for Eve white meu
accused Of killing them. The negroes
bad been released on bond after arrest
for an alleged assault on a white wom
al. They are said to hsVe boosted latei
OF their crime. The whites heard O.
their talk, and the lynchirg followed.
Physicians OF the College of Physi
cians and Surgeons in New York report
ed yesterday that bones taken from tn,
fireplace in the fat formerly oct uoied b,
Albert Wolter, who is charged with tn,
murder OF Ruth Wheeler, flied accurate
IL With TIE bones tu7ied with the re
mainder of tie girls body. The dis.ric
attorney believes that this establishes
perfect chain OF evidence and breaks
down the contett ton of counsel for VOL
ter that there Is no proof that the bod
identified snd buried SO that oil Rat
| Wheeler is the saue as thtt OF wblc
ban.s were found in the fireplace C
! VOTERS fat.
| a special dispatch from Washington
10 the New York Times says: Inforns
ton has been received here that ; na,o
Nelson WilmaIth Aldricb, of Rhode Is
land, has not only decided dein t,ly Il
adhere to his previously ann oced deter
mins ton 10 re,ira from the S,rat, al the
expiration CT his present term on March
1 next, but In preparation for t7at ever
will shortly retire from sll bis commi
tees, except, possibly, that on 6aa1ce, ir
order 10 devote the remsiuder OF his timt
In the Sana.e to The work OF The None.
tary commission, OF which he Is the head
Considers ton of his health IL assigned
as tae resson for this determination on
TIE part OF Mr.. Aldrich.
4 little son OF Anton Morazek was killed
aud his wife seriously injured by an electric
car on Eighteenth street, New York, tods Y
The family were on there way to .ha pisr I;
hoard . steamer for Europe when the car ran
| them down,