Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-29
News Of the Day.

In Washington yesterday Clarence
Hoeleit, who stjle jewels vslu'd st
SIC. 900 from ME-. Frederick Busher,
uas sentenced 10 ftu,yesrs 10 the federal
peult ,ulisry at LelvenWorih, Kan.
w. E d. Stokes, j., a l4-yesr-old
boy, yesterday made an argument be-
fore the Senst, committee 10 behalf Of
am, t,ur wirellss tel graph operators.
Thousands OF crates Of strawberries
from the fields of Norfolk end Princess
Anne counties are being shipp,d north
by rail and steamer every day. The
fields are crowded With men, women and
children engaged 10 picking the berries.
All pos,mssters will be given not ex-
ceedIue fise days leave Of absence from
duty TO enable them TO at end the meet
Ing Of the Virginia Postmssters' Asso'
cistIou, which will be held st Rock
bridge Alum Springs July "a ID 80
postm ssler General Hitchcock announced
tle fact yesterday.
IL a single sitting, without opposition
the House of Lords yestsrdsy passed
the budget bill, the frat rel sction OF
which led to the recent general election.
The bill now only awaits the kings sig
nature to become law. The royal appro-
val will be given as matter Of course.
The railroad bill was under considera-
tiou Ia the House ell day yesterday. The
democrats aided by the radical republi-
cans succeeded In amending the bill t.
lnclu lie telephone and telegraph COM
panies under the designation Of common
carriers as used In the sct. 1t Is the
most radical amendment which the OPP
ponet t, OF the bill have so far succeeded
In obtaining.
A special met ting Of the board o
utses of The George Washington
U oiversity In Washington has been
|! called for Monday at 4:30 o'clock, when
the reslguatiOn Of President Needtan
will be considered. There Is 8 possibi!-
lily that DR.. Needham's resignation
will not be accepted unless be insists.
In that event, the tru,tsss will urge
him ID remain In control until the
close Of the present academic yeSr, iE
Juue.
The big circus elephant which started
sll the Others OF the herd on rampage
which on Wednesday afternoon resDl!ed
10 t1ouIsuds OF dollars worth Of damage
being done, besides serious Injuries to
several persons at Danville, ILL.,. wa
prout uuced Insane and was executed
Yesterday afternoon Ia the presence Of q
number OF physicians. Chains we're
fastened around his neck and pulled from
each end by two other elephants until he
Was st'augied. H9 was valu'd oil
s15, 900.
To prevent capture after vicious at
tack on Anna Kipp, Clarence Wood, 10
years old, of Rutherford, n. j., bsrri
caded himself 10 the Rutherford Bolt
Club house yesterday, morning and
for five hours fought of posse Of police
and deputy shsrif,, 30 or 40 members
OF amilitiry company and enough volnn-
teers from Rutherford aud Hsckenssek
to bring the posse up to $50 or 500
armed men. Finally, his stronghold,
fiddled with bullet, and surrender the
oulyI alternative, Wood ended the
slrnggls by firing bullet into his ten
pie, dying almost Instantly. Wood, IL
10 believed, had become suddenly de-
meuted.
Five members of the crew of the Nor
gan Line steamship Ell Alba, bound
from Galveston ID New York with 9
cargo OF onions, met their death 10 Q
most horribls manner last Saturday lost
while the ship was 10 the Gull Of Mex.
co, twenty three hours out from tbI
Texas port. The main steam pipe IN
the boiler room OF the ireigttsr buIs'
aud 4 great stream OF scalding vspol
IVES sent forth, enveloping the comp lrt
ment aud literally boiling the uniortu
nate men. The big vessel Wss crippled
| by the acc dent and WAS lett helpless
Her cond ton was learned in por
through wireless messages and she VA
towed to port.
| Only four houses are standing in the
little hamlet of Orleans, Ontario county
In. Y, the others having been destroyed
| by fire early today. The hamlet wa
wi hout FIRE apparatus. The residents
formed a bucket brigade but could dc
little and the fire burned itself out
Incendiarism is suspected.
| Members OF the Presbyterian board o.
foreign missions in New York today re
ceived with regret the announcement o
the death, ct Beirut, Syria, of Rev. DR.
Henry Harris Jessup, head of the mission
work there. DR.. Jessup was Is year:
old and a noted linguist, g ,ologist aud
botanist.