Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-11
News of the Day.

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soul of the mathematician Euclid Ia re-
incaroa:ed in William ]. Sidis, Har-
wards prodigy.
Janice, alias Redd7" Gallagher, a
notorious burglar with a long prison rec
ord, wss killed with club In Philadel-
pbia yesterday morning, after desperate
struggle, By Samuel Zeanquenian whose
house be had entered.
Samuel Gompers was tus short In a
speech at the auuusl meeting of the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science in Philadelphia Saturday
by @. P. Neill, Commissioner OF Labor,
acting as chairman.
Mrs. Taft hiss Runc unced that series
| of garden parties, similar 10 those she
gave LAST spring at the White House,
| will be given again this season. Fridsy
afternoon, May s, Is the date Set for the
Frat one.
According to published report, the
State OF Colorado will receive $16O, 600
from the estate OF the late Thomas +.
| Walsh as an inhe ritance tax. The estste
| is valued at IS, 600, 900, aud the inheri'
| lance tax is computed at 2 per cent.
Matthew D. Doss, who t,ld the
| Chicago police last Friday that he killed
his wife, Lillian Doss. st their home, 10
Washington 10 Janulry, 1909, has re-
puiiatsd this confession. Doss says be
| wanted to secure free transportation 10
Washington.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has declared tae Pullman sleeping car
rates to be excessive, aud has slso order.
ed that upper bslths should not cost as
| much as lower berths. A reduction in
rates In some instances has also been
| made.
A Baltimore and Ohio express, west.
bound t, Ohlcsgo, and q wes!bound
i freight locomotive crashed yesterday
three miles west Of Fettermsn, which is
short distance from Graiton, W. Va.
Ooe man was killed and Ave we're in-
jured.
After an exciting chase, Franklin Fair,
an artist and alleged bigamist, who
jumped a $4,000 bail bond in New
York, was captured on the roof OF s
boarding house in Rockledge, Pbiladel'
phia, at midnight. He is being held
pendind the arrival of requlsision papers.
There occurred yesterday The mos
I extensive 6re-iu poiot OF ARIA covered
that New York city has ever known.
T~o miles OF buildings we're burned, and
yet With only nominal lose. The
structures destroyed were the stables In
the old Morris Psrk race track. That
the fire was OF ineendlsry origin is be-
yond question.
Eight men were instantly killed and
three badly Injured BY the p.emstnre ex.
plosion OF q heavy charge of dynamite
at construction camp on the Texco ex-
tsnsiou OF the Sarta Fe Railroad near
| Newt, Texas, yesterday afternoon. One
man is missing. TIE bodies OF the mer
| I,rs tern amutt into shre6a by The force
OF the explosion.
One dwelling was burned to the
ground, FIVE were barely saved, and
hundreds of dollars dsmsge wa5 done
| by forest FIRE in the vicinity OF Bowie,
Nd, yesterday. The fire started al
Lanhsms, and burned IT'D way through
.1e tie lhickly wooded forest to Glen
dale, distance Of 8 mlles. Ties burn-
ing along The lines Of tae Pennsylvania
Railroad spread Ere to the woods. The
flames were under control at 10 o'clock
iast night.
Cae policeman will h3 dismissed and
three others probably will be severely
reprimauded IS the result of an icvesti-
| gation which Msj. Sylvester, superiu.
tendeut of police OF Washington; H.
spector Boyle, and Oapt. George Will
Jams have made OF charges agalDst, three
men regarding their conduct toward q
young white girl who Has a prisoner al
the Fifth precinct police station on tie
nigh! of April 2.
at the close OF his sermon yesterday
Ia the Fifth Avenue Baptist O: urch In
| New YORK, Rev. DR.. Charles F. AIked
asked the membera OF The congregation
FOR contritut obs for tuilding tbs nes
$500, 900 CHURCH, and In half an hour be
had received written pledges amout ting
10 1852, 600. John D. Rockefeller, whit
was preset vita bis SOD, promised tt
give $3.50, 900 for himself and family,
provided ths other $3.50, 900 IVES pledgec
oy others of the congregation.
Chinatown, New York, bad two high.
ly successful murders yesterday, 80
attempt, tia. made brave beginning,
but miscarried by reason OF faulty shoo'-
ing, and one abor;i7s holcu2' Chung
Fook was shut taree times in the chesl
while standing on street cofoer, auo
died before he cou'd be carried 10 a hos
pissl. Oheu Hen was arrested. log Mon,
IS laundrynau, was found dead 10 t
store 10 Doyer ttteet, with bullet hole
in his right aide. Nobody has been ar
rested.
Losing control of Cu'tiss bip!sne,
which he WIS operating at Memphis, a.
height OF rs feet, J. O. Mars p.u1gt d
downward with terrific speed into The
inisld OF the aviation course yesterday,
aligtt Dg on top Of touring automobile,
ia which we're ssa three women and
two children. TIE canopy tip over the
touring car ta7ed tia lives OF is occu
pants, only one Of whom YVES sltghll!
injured. The biplane smashed iGto bit.
and Msrs was caught under the wreckage,
bu: escepsd with slight Injuries.
| John P. Cudahy is on hi' way from
Los Angels, to Kansas City and
reconcile alton with his wife is IN sight,
the enhancement caused by his assault