Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-04
News Of the Day.

! h'cot 90 'ahA CouuisoiodeA VI AeH
YORK..
Sonora Alagers Birri0s, widow OF q
former president Of Guatemala, has be-
come an Inmate of the poorhouse at New
Orleans.
The United States will send Eve war.
ships to the Argentine Republic to take
part In the cenlsnnial celebration of that
country next May.
John D. Rockefeller, j., was yester.
day 10 New York, appointed ioremsu of
tbs grand jury chsrgel WITH in7esligat.
ing the so.called "Hhite slave" traffic.
After forty.slx years of service at the
Mount Glare shops OF the Baltimore snd
Oaio Railroad, Master Mechanic CHARLES
7. Turner has been retired.
The great bridge built by the 3. & y,
r. R. %. over the susqueharna river,
between Cecil and Hartford counties, will
bs opened for traffic tomorrow.
The government is Investigating the
Busley Tobacco Society, being convinced
tina. 1t is connected With the depreda-
tIons of the night riders In Kentucky
and Tennessee. ~
Emperor Nicholas yesterday followed
on foot the body of bis granduncle, the
GHnd Duke Michael Nicholaieyitth, to
the Fortress of So. Pster and Psul, o
dis'aucs of three miles.
Louis A. D5nt, former register OF
Wills OF the District OF Ooluubis, WAS
Yesterday appointed by the Supreme
Oour, of The District auditor to succeed
the lac Dol. James G. Payne.
Following copfareuos With Elk rail-
rad Presidents President Tai! yesterday
decided 10 split his message to Oongsss',
sending the section On Interstate COM
MERGE aud that on the antitrust Law in
Cd separate days.
Fire in the Milgsukee plant of the
American B,idgs Oompaay, at MilEau.
kee, Wis, Iast night caused the death OF
fonr 6remeD, who we're buried under q
falling wall, asd $3.50. 600 property
damage.
With bullet in her heart aud re-
vo:ver lying neaf by, ,hs dead body OF
Misc Title 5chwaab, IS years old, vas
found yesterday in The home OF her
father, John schwaab, In Ciuc.nna!i.
Members OF the family reIGss 10 accept
the suicide theory.
The resignation OF NJ. Oscar Murray,
as president of the B & o. Il. R, has
been placed 10 the ha2ds Ut the board o!
directors, according to positive state.
meut by member Of the board In New
YORK. The resignation will be acted on
in few days, and Daniel Willard elect
ed as Mr. Muuay's successor.
! Alter flibusteripg for three hours,
during which time a, affidavit was filed
stating that q former 'dry" council.
man hsd sold cut, the "drYs" were &C.
ieated in the Charleston, w. Va, city
council last night, and license crdi.
nance vas made special order for
Wednesday night.
| Willis D. Maore, chief of the Weather
Baresu aud PRECEDENT OF the National
Geographic Slcisty, yesterday sent q
letter 10 the society, In which he politely
informed that body OF scientlsta that he
would not accept another term ss Its
president to which Office he has been
elected five times.
Parry B. Featberston shot and killed
by policeman Hhile robbing 8 saloon
in Chicago, New Yts,'s morning, was
the head oil the noble English houss of
Feathers!onhaugh and the rightful
bearer OF tho title OF Lord Featherston-
hangh. as one of tho barons OF that line,
according to his sis!er, Miss Emma
Featherstonhangb.
Rev. o. @. Kindred, until weak ago
pastor OF the Christian Church of Eogle-
wood, Illinois, who resigned because oil
family discord, will probably abandon
the ministry and engage 10 some other
business. The quarrel with his vile, be
Gays, Ia incursble, and he says he cau-
not preach peace and good to his
fellow-men, while his own household is
torn with discussion.
Because Miss Blanche S:hnenemenp,
his 2O.year.uld sweetheart, refused to
90 to the thea,er with him, Stephen
| Blanche, % years old, OF Philadelphia,
IA ally shot her 10 jealous rage, ia the
parlor OF her home shortly before mid
night, and then sho! bimsslf. The man
had been drinking. The girl died in
the Presbyterian Hospital less than half
an hour after he bullet entered her
brain.
Mra. Charles Ellis, who was burned
when hsr gown caught Ere during the
New Years celebration at Fifth ave.
nue. restaurant in New York, died yee-
tsrday. Mrs, Ellis was about 80 years
old. It is said that the unfortunate
womaa's dress wes trimmed about the
bodice with spapgles OF highly inaan-
mable conposi,io1. When the h'mes
touched the spauglss they hared up like
; Limitation ivory.
William H. Mckay, aged 68 years,
vas burned to death 10 bis home, short
dls!auce from Silver Springs, Mont
gonery county, Md, yesterday. His
body was burned to crisp, and when
found VAS on the back porch OF the
home. Mckay was sentenced some
yesrs ago to the psni'eatisry for thrse
years for murdetlDg his mother In Law,
Mrs. Msrgsrsts Lang. 10 their home,
near Wheston, that county, and he'd
been liberated feT deys ago.
Thousands of persons marooned, tao
playhouses, a dozen moving picture the
aters were cloael and 5000, OCO damsge
vas done earlg yesterday evening by The
breaking OF 80 inch wa'erms'n at The