Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-31
News Of the Day.


has planned TO make an organized fgh
| to defeat the Standardization p;atsl say
ings bausa pill.
; A TSrrsnt for the 8rrest OF Gt:lliu
nals,esd, the Washington broker VIII:
recently failed, was issued yesterday on
complaint Of Que Of his Gu .omers VIC
lest monty in a stock tVsussciiop.
] DR.. Jossrb 7. HoBard, one OF tbs
| oil lest phys cisns of Waehiugtou, died
u sdasnly last night at his residsrce,
1925 Ninth street norlhwes'. Dr. How.
srd was sevepty.eight years cid,
| In the Houas OF Saturday Mr..
Champ Clatk offered 8 resolution pro.
! vidiag fer rples committee Of GiIsen
members and the Dismissal OF the pres.
ens com n,iIsee, of which he is men.
lh;T.
| The witnesses OF tho hearing held by
| the congressional committee on post
Offices aud poatroada declared tbs gov.
eminent Yas wasting money By nc
furnishing n bnsiuess administration Of
ne Po.tt flies Department.
! Mss May f. Lewis, d, tighter o.
Willi.m O. LAWS, president OF the
sac Savings BAak OF Tallahassee, Fin ,
ani ca.bier OF the First National Bank
OF the s2me city, disd sally today q! the
II lie! MsrIbor' ugh, New York, IRON
| paralysis. Tbe gil was is J2aIs old.
| a d0z.n Foreigners discussed the meat
boycott at breskiss! il pittsburg, Pc,
! beading hoaae yesterday, aud ell ex.
sc pt "Mic" Sko7.so, Slav, agreed 10
cat 10 nea'. sko7lac, delighted With
| having the brcskfas! STEAK to himself,
tackled il 20 Tia;ectly hat he clicked t.
| dg9!b With the f:5t mtu hfal.
i Ra7, u3orge Calvert Cs.!o7. pastor o
Ct Aodrew's Prolos:ap. Episccpa
| Church, Washington, bnrnii:ed his con.
j srsga'!on at the i O'CLOCK peryice yea.
] ,arjay By announcing bis inicu;ion Of
accepting Q call 10 Inc Church OF .ht
Gedeemes, at Bryn Ma~r, Ps.
Tue Rarlia Tageba!t, one of the
leading German papers, altar an CT
; hausli7s Investigation today declared
pos'tiseiy last Or. Frederick A. Coo5,
! OF Brooklyn. tho alleged discoverer OF
the Norin Pole, Ia DOT ia ssrstorlum
/ 1T Heidelberg, nor in Ihst NEG anor.
! hood, and that ae has not been there.
! Bishop Cyrus D. FOss, retired, Of the
| Methodist Episcopal Oturca, one Of the
beet known cIcrgymen in the country,
! died IL Philadelphia, Saturday night, 10
toe Hapucmann Hoapito!, ircm stroke
! # parslysls, ~bioh eeizsd him while be
~as riding in trolley car there Cd
! January Is. All the members Of hia
| ffm!ly were ct his bedside 1aen the end
| came. he was boTn In kingston, n.
II on January II, 1894.
Mira. Jaue Elizabeth Hewlett, sixty.
seven yesr, Oh, lifelong resident OF
Washington, was sspbYzIated in her
home at 2l3 Wallace street northwest
yesterday afternoon. Her tody ~aa dis
covered By her husband, JOHN II. How
lett, when he detected ths odor ct ga.
snd made An investigation. Carorer
Nsvi.t decided The death OF Mrs. How
lett was accidental,
Abrsm and Jacob OrEwp. father and
sou ard boon cou1pRnioGoin their cups,
lost lheir Hay Saturday night 10 New
ton, n. j., while fuddled. and yesterday
morning Jscob was found frozen to death
10 snowbank. Both nien were on the
"guardsns' list' at BranchVille, aud NO
selocls there could sell then liquor.
o. Saturday they vent 10 Newton TO do
their marketing and took ndVs1tsga o!
theic freedom to drink IS they chose.
They spent all their money and we're put
of the train on their way home. Start
ing to walk, they became separated, and
apparently Jacob laid down 10 sleep in
The enoa. He leaves q wife and FIVE
children.
Beginning today 1t is said the big
packing interests oil the country plan 10
moat the fight on high prices Of food
with counter a,tsck tnat will extend to
every center where the public demon
atrition has been made against. prevail.
ing rates. Ia making Its 6ght The pack.
ing contingent ass decided upon two
measures: First-The cuttailment of The
shipments from packing centers into
New York and ether central poip!s OF
the anti-high price c'u,sdp, Second
The raising OF the Wholesals price Of
meat, tased upon the alleged shortage
in The supply,
With bsads playing "Dixie" and
"Home, Sweet Home" Capt. Joseph
+. Ship Wa greeted tt Chattanooga,
yesterday sTeniug, by at least 10. 600 OF
his felloR.citizsns sben he alighted from
the train that bore him to his home |
from Washington, where be had just
com pleted e sentencs 10 prison for cor
tempt OF curt in connection with the |
lynchiog OF Ed. Johnson, regro. Il
vas the most unique reception ever &C.
corded private citizen of Chattanooga,
sud probably one of the mos! unusual
Occurrences in the history of The country, :