Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-07
News of the Day.


again.
Itisaunounced that Andrew Carnegie
will give g., 900, 900 10 advance the cause
of the teacher.
Charles NJ. Schwab. president oil tae
Bethlehem Stel Company, refuses al
the demands OF the strikers.
The Hcuse will pass the chief spprop-
ration bills before taking up the import
ant administration measures.
At 9 o'clock Saturday night in Wtnni-
neg. Canadian officials announced that
go men met death and fcu el irJnred
we're in the hospital as result oil tae
avalanche at Rogers Pass.
Jewels valued at $3.50, 600 we're re-
covered Saturday Ia New York from The
apartment Of Mrs. Henry j. Baker,
which was burned out Friday night by
fire 10 Alwyn Oturt.
1t Is declared Ia London that no change
of auy sort In the constItu ion or Tue
functions OF the House Of Lords can De
made effective by the present Parma
ment.
Fierce conflicts between police and
socialists occurred In Bsrlin yesterday
and many persons were wounded IN the
suppression Of great demonstration
against the suffrage bill.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive Fire.
men and Enginemen Of thirty-tTo east
ern railroads has submitted to the Ger
ersl Managers Association formal DE-
mand for 40 increase 10 wsges.
Senator Elkins states that the river
aud barbor bill, IS reported to the Sepht',
will probably carry an increase OF So
900. 900 to So, 900 over the House
bill.
I A minority report on the administra'
ton ship subsidy bill was Introduced 10
the House Saturday by Representative
SpIpbt for the democratic members OF
the committee on merchant marine ana
fisheries.
Two men, thrown from rowbost
that overturned in the current OF the
NIaraga river one mile above the falls
Saturday afternoon, are reported BY the
state reservation officials to have been
swept over Horseshoe Falls.
On the threshold OF the Arcade
Amusement Oompany's building 10
Washing ton where he was going With his
wife for an atrnoen OF enjoyment,
James A. Addison, sixty years old,
bsiliff 10 the United Stttss branch OF The
police cur! dropped dead Of heart disease
Saturday.
At the hesriug before the Billinger-
Plochct investigation committee 10
Washington, Saturday, Clifford Pinchot
com leted bis testimony aud former Sac
et,ry of the Ipierior Garfield took the
stand Both officials reviewed their COD
neeton with the inception OF the conseI-
walton projects.
Serious conhItti between the police
and socialists, involving lengthy list OF
souueed and hundreds OF arrest, were
the outcome of impressive open'air
demons trstions against the suffrage bill
in Berlin and other cities OF P'uIsia
Yesterday. In Berlin alone, 10000
persons took part 10 what was called
"demons,rstiye stroll"
The heart of the wool district Of Bolt,D
was serIou.jy tbrss tened by a spett icnlar
| bIszs Saturday night which called out
nearly the entire city FIRE depsrimer and
DESTROYED the New England building, OF
200 Sumner street opposite the s. nth
Station. The less Is eslimstsd at halt
million dollars. Three 6remeu we're
overcome by smuke and had to be tsken
to the hospital. Street car traffic around
the S,uta S alton WAS tied up for over
1.-TWO hours.
| O. W. Dunn, chief Of police of Scot
land Neck, N. O., who with Sbts SeGa-
tor E. l.. Travis aud Representative
Kitchin, brother Of Governor KitchiD,
was shot on Friday by E. z. Powell,
merchant of Scotland Neck, died Jet-
| tsrday. Powell vas taken TO Raleigh
BY the sheriff of Halifax county and
placed In the penitentisry for safe. keep
Ing. Ktchin and Travis are repot:d
to be doing well
|! In hope OF discovering a new spses-
thetic, harmless, prompt aud without
after effects, chemist Of the Rockefeller
Institute In New York lie Experimenting
with the mysteries of Sleepy grass, "0ss
It is known 90 the high plstesus Of the
west, or Stips VsteJi, IS 1t is known to
science. A distillation Of "aleepy grass"
when given 10 rabbit sent it psinlessly
TO sleep and when it awoke 1t was as
brisk % II reused from q refreshing
slumber.
Sitting 10 the fork Of large tree 10
!. Potomac park, near the railroad bridge
10 Wsshinet ton, Joseph A Berkinmeyer,
95 years old, q former policeman, yes
t:rday afternoon fred bullet into his
mouth. He died initinlly. The revol
,, yer fell to the ground, but the body re-
! msiped In the tree until removed BY the
= crew Of the police boat vigilsnt. Eight
!. years ago, while s ps.rolmau attached Ia
. the Second precinct police ,titiOn, Bsr'
kInmeyer st;empted to end his life.
: While pstrOlliug bis beat on Seventh
!, street northwest one stormy night ht
= cred a bullet int his left temple. Fol
this, 1t 10 said, be wss dismissed from
the department.
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