Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-09
News Of the Day.

Harry W. jayne, Ph. D., world.fsmed
as chemist, died at his home In. Elkins
PARK, Pa, Monday night. aged 50 Year,.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pauy hiss acquired control OF the Amer
lean District Telegraph Company.
The rejection of the budget BY the
House of Lords In the last Parliament
cost England in loss of revenue Sl42,-
500, 900.
Thieves en- tered The residence of John
T. Osrr, SIS T, street northwest Washing
ton, yesterday afternoon and stole jewelry
valued ct 1915. Every room in the
house was rsnsacked.
According to the emphatic statement
of member of the House ways aud
means committee. the bill providing for
] bond issue of $50, 900, 600 to complete
existing irrigation projects aud launch
new ones, will die in thtt commit ee.
The measure already has passed the
Senate.
The sStsndarn Oil'' yesterday fled
10 the U. s. Supreme Court it's brief in
opposition to the a tempt of the govern
ment to dissolve 1t ss violating the Sher
man ant-au,t Law. The right of indi-
Vidual ci,izsns to associate 10 business
enterprise IS the basis of the defense.
The claim is made that by skill and the
Investment OF large sums oil has been
cheapened.
The psstohioe appropriation bill, car
rylug appropriations sggregatlng SAL
900, 900, was pissed in the House yes
terday while the Ssnste disposed OF the
agricultural bill, carrying S1S, 500, 600.
The postal savings bank bill, which
passed the Senste on Saturday, was re-
ferred to the House committee on post
Offices and postroads.
Policeman B. a. Greiner, OF Pitts
burg, Pa, saw fsxen-haired, wsxen-
faced child lying In the gutter on The
South Side and he gathered it into hia
srms and ran to the station, after report.
ing from q call box that he had ftuud
dead child. At the station bis brother
officers saw The "child" was q wax doll,
8 feet long. A high wind had broken
show window, and had blown the doll
into the gutter.
NJ. Duez, employed by the French
government SO liquidator for some Of
the congregations which were dissolved
by the Law of 1901, WAS arrested yeste!
day charged with embezzlemert OF the
finds which he handled. Duez has coz
fessed that the shortage will reach ST.
100000, ell of which he loss In specula.
lions on the Bourse.
Earl D. Thomas. jr., 80 years old,
son of Brig. Gen, Earl D. Thomas, CON-
msnder of the department OF the Colorado
with headquarters in Denver, before II
O'Clock yesterday fred bullet into bis
brain in his room at hotsl at Colorado
Springs, dying instantly. Indications are
that young ihomss had preneditS ted
suicide.
Because the skull of his Victim was
declared to have been thinner than
that of the average man Caleb Cox,
a butcher, OF Traverse City, Mich, es.
capped punishment for the death of
Frank Hardy. Following quarrel
over an account Cox struck Hardy and
fractured his skull. e post-mortem
examination showed Rsrdy's skull to
be abnormally thin, aad the ctu:t
found thRt similar blow on normal
mans head would not have been sufi-
cient to cause death. COX escaped With
500 fine for assault.
Joseph Gresnberg, wild youth of
%, who stripped rings valued at 5000 !
from his stspmother's fnkers in New
York yesterday, while he held revol.
yer at her head, was arrested last night |
after he had attempted to plsy the
bold highwsymsn In an uptown saloon.
He forced nine men and the bartender
to elevate their hands with q CRY
"Money or your life," but someone
shouted "police" and he fed after
shsttering plstglsss With bullets. Fur-
sued BY a policeman the youth turned
and fired twice, one of his bullets dan.
gerously injariug q nine'yesr- boy.
Greenbsrg VAS captured when night
stick was sent whirling between his
legs.
For "a hours ipeonsolsble following
the death of her mother, Mary An
drews, aged 5, wept herself into eternal
sleep Monday night at the home of
her father, in Mount Pleasant township, 4
lesr Conceivable, Pa. LESS than a
week ago Mra. Andrews was stricken
down. Hemorsges OF the lungs de-
veloped and Sunday evening she died.
1t was with difficulty the child vas per-
susded to leave the death chamber
while her mothers body wss prepared I
for burial. Then she returned, and
throughout the day continued to weep.
AS evening came her sobs grew fainter ,
and fainter. At last they ceased alto {
sether.
A carload OF 100 nonunion men,
Rho we're going to Oorinth, N. T., Ii
% take the places of strikers In the I
mill OF the Iuterns tional Paper Com. {
,any, was dyuamited late Monday Q
light, and forced to return to Sarstogs.
Pistol shots we're exchanged, and CON- q
luctor John Bartholomew was mobbed q
md injured. The railroad bridge was o
,srned. Six hundred employees OF the c
International Paper Company at Corinth
rave been on strike because back 5
ender was discharged. On Monday 81
light 100 strikebresksrs were started fl
rom Saratoga tor Oorinth Oh a Dsla- fl
7sre and Hudson csr, but the progress o.
4 the car vas checked by tho burning al
# the bridge, aud the dJnamislns tol:
owed, sc