Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-29
News Of the Day.

| In Washington yesterday Clarence
Hoelett, who stole jewels vs|u'd al
SIG, 900 fr5n Mrs. Frederick Busher,
vas sentenced to ftutyesre 10 the federal
pe1it ,niisry at Lea7enworth, Kan.
w. E D. Stokes, j., l4-year.old
boy, yesterday made an argument be.
fore the Sepat, omuittee in behalf OF
am, tar wireless tel graph operators.
Thousands OF crates Of strawberries
from the fields of Norfolk end Princess
Anne counties are being shipp.d north
by rail and steamer every day. The
fields are crowded with meD, women and
children engaged In picking the berries.
All pos.masters sill be given no! ez-
ceeding FIVE days leave of absence from
duty to enable them 10 at end the meet
Ing of the Virginia Pos!mssters' Asso'
ciatioD, which will be held st Book.
bridge Alum Springs July 81 to 90
Postm ssler General Hitchcock announced
tle fact yesterday.
IL single sitting, without opposition
the House of Lords yesterday passed
the budget bill, the first rel action OF
which led to :ns recent general election.
The bill now only awaits the kings sig.
nature to become law. The royal appro-
val will be given as matter of ccu'se.
The railroad bill was under considera-
ton In the HOUSE all day yesterday. The
democrats aided by the radica! republi-
cans succeeded in amending the bill to
inc,u lie telephone and telegraph COM
panies under the designation of common
carriers as used In the act. 1t Is the
most radical amendment! which the op-
poneu Is OF the bill have so far succeeded
in obtaining.
A special met ting of the board
u.tses of the George Washington
University in Washington has been
called for Monday at 1880 O'Clock, when
tae resignation of President Needta u
will be considered There Is possioi.-
ity that Dr.. Needham's resignation
will not be accepted unless be insists.
In that event, the tru.tsts will urge
him ID remain in control until the
close of the present academic year, il
Ju1e.
The big circus elephant which started
sill the others OF the herd on rampage
which on Wednesday afternoon resOl!ed
in t1cu3ands OF dolla:s worth of damage
being done, besides serious injuries 10
several persons at Danville, ILL.,. was
pront uucsd Insane and was executed
Yesterday AFTERNOON In the presence OF a
number OF physicians. Ohaius we're
fastened around hls neck and pulled from
each end by two other elephants until he
was st'augied. Ha was valu'd at
SIS, 900.
To prevent cspIure after vicious at
tack on Auna Kipp, clarence Wood, 10
years old, Of Rutherford, n. j., barri.
caded himself 10 the Rutherford Bot
Club house yesterday, moroiEg and
for five hours fought of Il posse of police
and deputy shsriffs, 80 or 30 mem bers
OF amilitary company and enough volaa-
teers from Rutherford and Hackenssek
to bring the posse up to $50 or 500
armed men. Finally, his stronghold,
,iddled with bullets and surrender tbs
oolyS alternative, Wood ended The
slruggls by firing bullet into his ten :.
pie, dying almost Instantly. Wood, it
is believed, had become suddenly de.
mented.
Five members of the crew of the Mo!-
gan Live steamship Ell Alba, bound
from Galveston u New York with o
cargo o. onions, met their desth in a
most horrible manner last Saturday los!.
while the ship was in the Gulf Of Mexi-
co, twenty three hours out from The
Texas port. The main steam pipe In
the boiler room OF the ireigtts, burat
aud great stream OF scslding vapor
YVES sent forth, envsloping the comp ,.t-
ment and literally boiling the uniortu-
nste men. The big vessel YVES crippled
by the acc dent and was lett helpless.
Her cond ton vas learned in port
through wireless messages and she was
towed to port.
Only four houses are standing in the
little hamlet OF Orleans, Ontario county,
n. Y, the others having been destroyed
by fire early today. The hamlet was
wi bout FIRE aprara.ns. The residents
formed 4 bucket brigade but could do
little and the fire burned itself out.
Incendiarism is suspected.
Members of the Presbyterian board of
foreign missions in New York today re-
ceived with regret the announcement OF
the death, at Beirut, Syria, of Rev. Dr..
Henry Harris Jessup, head OF the mission
work there. DR.. Jessup was IS years
old and noted linguist, G ,ologist aud
botanist.
FIELD MEETING