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


The first monument 10 the United
States Ia honor Of the women of the
Oonfede,acy Was unveiled at Rome, Ga,
yesterday afternoon With appropriate
services.
James M. Doyle, for several years
teller of the Hibernis Bank, at Ssvan.
nah, Ga, is missing, as Is $40, 600 OF
the banks cash, taken from its vaults at
the close OF business last Saturday night.
A men, who gave his name as Andrew
Lee, was arrested yesterday in WASH
ingtou SIS suspect in connection with
the Horusby diamond robbery. BE had
several thousand dollars in his pockets
and quantity of jewelry.
Collector of Cust1ms Loeb OF New
York took luncheon With President
Taft at the White Houss yesterday.
The much disputed surveyorship OF the
port OF New York vas under discussion
bat no defnits conclusion was reached.
The trial of Nicholas Tachaikoysky
and Mime. Breshkovsksys in st. Peters
burg on the charge of revolutionary con-
spiracy, ended yesterday with the &C
auittal OF Tschaiko7sky and the compar-
stively mild sentence of exile imposed
upon Nine. Breshkovskays.
Dr.. William MerrIck Gray, patholo-
gist of the army medical MUSEUM and
library, died suddenly yesterday after
noon OF heart diseaae In the Laboratory
of The Institution In Washing ton. Dr..
Gray was native of Pbilsdelphis, where
he waa born June 20, 1858.
The Senate passed bills to create pat.
emit 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
a blow at the proposed count of COM
MERGE. Mr.. Payne asserted that Mr..
Hobson's plau to build system of roads
would bankrupt the government.
Mrs. Geary of Providence, 3. l.,
the new mother-;s Law OF Philander
Knox, j., says; "If Secretary Knox
'urnes his con and my daughter out
I'll support them myself. think the
boys father is snob. Oar family lie
inst as his and Opponents are not
strange things In either of them. Reed
Knox clipped add tor that matter 80 did
l when l WAS married."
Yesterday was the day they gave
babies away 10 New Orleans. A car
load OF the little tots arrived there from
New York founding and orphan asy-
lam5, with az eager crowd of claimants
awaiting their arrival. In addition 10
those who had previously made tuscess-
'ul claim to baby, many pressed about
lbe car in the hope that there might be
gome "left over" but thoss who had
applied in advance got every baby in the
car.
A cablegram has been received in New
York By friends of Frank Gould, it IL
said, 10 which he ssys tina. his marriage
with Miss Edith Kelly, the EDgliab
dancer, may be an event of the future
Mr.. Gould's friends sent hina congratu-
lstorY messages Tuesday night on the
report tbat he had welded the littIf
chorus girl in Europe. Mr.. Gould is
reported 81 his cableg'am SO saying that
there will be no ceremony uutil psrma-
nert disposition OF the two children by
his former wife.
Dynamite badly wrecked Inc home OF
Mrs. John shokus, good-lookiDg
widow of Ed@ardsviIle, near Wilkes.
Barre, Pa, yest.rday, and the police
believe that the outrage was committed
by a discouraged lover OF the fsir widog.
The police base arrested Peter St,ikis,
who lives near the widow. S!rlkis wac
ia love with the widow, the police
claim, and becauoe she would not en-
c; urnge him they believe that he dyus-
mitsd the hcuse.
Tho English navy estimates for 1910,
which were issusd by the admiralty last
night, provide for an expenditure OF
s2OS,0ls, 500, an increase OF $27, $685.
900 over 1909. The increase is almost
wholly taken up BY building and arms-
nents authorized by parliament before
dissolution. The new programme pro.
vides for FIVE large srmored ships, FIVE
protected cruisers, twenty destroyers and
} considerable number of submarines.
By April l there sill he under COL.
'truction seven bst.le,bip', thres ar
nored, nine protested and two unar-
nored cruisers, thirty seven deslroyels
ind nine tuJ-nasiles.
Sanford Love, prominent business
nan, shit aud killed Miss Lotto Mar.
ten, his finance, at Marion, Ind, yes.
erday. Love called ct the home OF NJ IS
durden, and shot her once In the bress,
md once In tie back. The shooting
ollowed the bresking of the engagement |
y the ycuag woman. Eight years ago |
IoVe shot another young womsp, Nors
filler, to whom be vas engaged. She
covered After the shooting of Miss
lurden Love ret1rned to tho husiness
ect!ou of The ci.y. sna gave himself up |
} the police. Hs is proprietor OF
sstanrant, and is % years old. Miss
burden is Is years old.
WILL DOUBLE TRACK ROAD.