Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-05-02
News Of the Day.

Turkish troops On Saturday defeated
the AlbsDisus, cleared Kstchanik Pass
and will Punus the enemy.
A dispatch from Port L'mop, Costa
Rics, said that two-thlrds OF that place
has been destroyed By FIRE.
Gen. Nord Alexis, former president o.
Hall, deposed In the revolution # 1908,
died at Kiugstop, Jamaics, Saturday,.
The II juss on Saturday, received 8
message from the president urging the
SPEEDY completion OF the dafeDses Of the
Panama canal.
Margaret Emerson McKim, society
leader OF New York, Newport aud Bslti.
more, and the wife OF Smith Holllns
McKim, on Saturday, at Reno, New,
filed q suit for divorced In the district
court.
John Quincy Adams Ward, one ell
Americas greatest ,culptors, died yss-
terdsy ct bis home in New York 10 bis
S0.h year. He had been Ill for three
months.
The new association OF civic organiza.
lions which has been organic ID 10 Wash
ington has elimini ted the negro resi-
dents OF tina! city from membership and
participation IN the business oil the coz
ference.
May Day was quiet 10 Paris, and the
services OF the large force OF troops
we're not required. The Federation OF
Labor did not carry out Its threatened
demonstration. The day passed of In
Europe without any seritu disturbances.
United States Ssnstor Lorimer aud
Lee O'Neil Browne, democratic minority
leader of Illinois, yesterday denied the
story Of Representative Charles A. White,
of Ohicsg,, in which the later said be
had received 81, 900 to vote for LorImer.
Rear Admiral Philip Hichboru, U. 8.
N, retired, former chief cor stfuctor OF
the navy, died lat night ct bis home 10
Washington. Death was due to arterlsl
scierosis. Tbs deceased Was bora In
OhsrlettoWp, Mass, March 4, 1889.
Thomas H. Marshall, sged So years,
died st bis home near Gsithersburg,
Nd, yesterday Of tuberculosis. He was
a descendant of the old Marshall family
OF Mari land aud Virginia, and was born
at Marshall Hall, Charles c. ully.
Mr.. Roosevelt yesterday at Amster
dam gave his day over 10 an inspection
Of The magnificent display OF tulips
shich are nov almost at perfection, and
OF Dutch painting. He learned that
Holland annually ships 9, 200, 900 bulbs
to America.
The Somerset county, N. j., su'hori.
ties are seeking for two men who MUIR
dered a ytuh yesterday and tied his
body down ID the tracks OF the Central
Railroad Of New Jersey, near NOrih
Branch, where 1t wss ground to pieces
by an eastbCuld passenger train.
John MtGuckep, eyed 96 years, Of
Philadelphia, q union condu,,or, va,
she and iuttlnlly killed early yesterday
morning curing eight between union and
uoru1 mon mo,ormen and conductors near
the FranNford snd Lshigh avenues car
barn OF TIE Philadelphia Rspid Transit
Company.
John II. Holston, SO years old, son Of
Minus Holstop, at Grsys Oornere, few
miles from Berlin, Nd, yesterday after
noon committed suicide by shooting
himself With double-barreled shots un.
The shooting occurred In the woods q
shoit distance from bis home, and inan-
cial troubles we're the csuse.
The Department Of Internal Revenue
reports that me barrel tax on beer for
the month Of March, 1910, SIM untsd to
| 81 993, 1893, as compared with 81. 079,
222 in March, 1909, this being an iu-
crease OF 22.4 per cent, and beating all
records for the same month Ia sny
previous year. They show an increase
OF nearly 8 per cent over the larges!
March sales previously recorded, which
occurred 10 1907.