Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-19
News of the Day.

Mr.. Roosevelt arrived 1T Bldspes',
yesterday, where, despite the rain, all
classes of iahsbitsnts turned cut to cheer
the former president.
The Valicsu has Issued statement to
the effect that The visi! OF the runcio to
Mr.. Roosevelt at Vienna was made Nth
Gu! instructions from Rome.
M. RougIer, the French ae.onaut, had
narrow escspe from death yesterday
near Nice when his aeropiaue 10 which
he was making fight, Tell ilt> the sea.
Rougier was reacned.
Mrs. Mamie Hurd, % years old, wife
of Timothy Hurd, died lsst night st the
Emergency Hospitsl, Washington, from
the effects OF csrboic acid, taken, 1t is
believed, with suicidal infant.
A dispatch from Budapest says
boat containing seventeen women who
were on their way 10 the annual fair at
SatoraIjs-Ujhely, was capsIz,d while
crossing the river Bodrog yesterday.
Fourteen OF the psrIy we're drowned.
In the Hcu,e of Commons yesterday
William O'Brien repeated his statement
that the chancellor OF tie exchequer
had agreed to make CONCESSIONS and the
chancellor as emphslically conlrsdc;ed
him.
Mrs. Mary Ann Waller, who cut her
tarott With razor tul then turned on
the gas in the bathroom OF her apsit-
ments In The Truzt>n apartment htu'e,
Washington, Sunday morning, with SUI
cidal irt,nt, died yesta1day afternoon 10
the Emergency HoFpltal.
A landslide similar 10 tina. neer st.
Alphouse las. week occurred early yes-
terday st Kakoncache, abtu! 60 miles
above La Tug1e, Gu sbec, On the Traue-
continental Railway. A ballast train coz
tainirg rs men wss buried under a huge
mass Of earth. The rumber Of dead ia
said to be large.
Three mail clerks were killed aud
three trainmen and mail clerk Re,o
Injured 10 the wreck Of passenger train
No. from New Orleans to Chicago, on
the Illinois Central Railroad, 5 miles
no,th of Jackson, Miss early yesterday,
the wreck being caused BY unkno7u
persons who removed 6sbplstes connec-
ton several rail joints.
The House yesterday passed the Dali
zsll bill, providing that hereafter the
court Of Claims shall have Jurisdiction
of all infringement OF patents by the
United States government. The South
ern Appalachian and Whit, Mountsin
forest reserve bill vas also passed, and
TIE MCCALL bill for pubIicilyin campsigu
contributions passed the House spd ia
said to have sn easy way in the Senate.
The administration postal savings
bank bill, as passed by the Senate, is
said to be GA the rocks In tde House.
The sut-c committee OF the House commit
! tee on postofices scd postrosds which
has bad the bill In hand for more than
| month, has split TO pieces over The
mea.ute and reported two bills back to
the main committee.
During a thunderstorm, which passed
few miles north of Lumb ertop, N. O.,
ett,rday afternoon, the wind assumed
! proportions of a cvcl1ue, Wreckiug the
fsrmhouses OF William aud Murdock
Stone. In the la!t,r the aged mother OF
| the family was caught btt~een falling
tin bers end killed. Mrs. Waller Stone,
visitor, was badly Injured. A child
asleep on bed in the hCu'e Wss rolled
up in mattress and blown 200 yards in.
to field, where it Wea lett unipjured:
At PoHe,s7iIle the cyclone wrecked the
house of Hugh MuaselWhite, who Wss
seriously itjlrcd, FIVE children being
slightly hurt
The police trial board in Washing to1
yesterday banded down its decision in
the case of Private E. 4. Sutton, charged
with Conduct unbecomiug an officer. 4
ine of $50 vas imposed, which will be
deducted from Su!ton's salary for April.
| The charges grew out Of the alleged mis-
conduct on The Part of several officers in
the Filth precinct STATEN bcu,e on the
morniug Of April 3. Al that time r
prisoner, Ada Moran, complained to
Capt Williams of indiguiLies she was
forced to undergo. When asked to repeat
her story at the trial OF Sutton, there
VAS decided variance. Nevertheless
The board found him "a 'ty ofan infrac-
ton OF the dipa,tmsf rniss.