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

Turkish troops On Saturday defeated
the AlbsDiaps, cleared Kstchanik Pass
and will punus the enemy.
A dispatch from Port L'mop, COSTA
Rica, said that two-thirds OF that place
has been destroyed By FIRE.
Gen. Nord Alexis, former president OF
Hsili, deposed in the revolution It 1908,
died at Kiugctor, Janaics, Saturday.
The H1uss on Sa urday received 8
message from the president urging The
peedy completion of the defenses of The
Panama canal.
Margaret Emerson McKim, society
leader of New York, Newport aud Bslti-
more, and the wife OF Smith Hollins
McKim, on Saturday, at Reno, New,
fled q suit for divorced In the district
court.
John Quincy Adams Ward, one ell
Americas greatest sculptors, died zee
terdsy OF his home in New York In bis
S0:h year. He had been Ill for three
months.
The new association of civic organiza.
tions which hiss been organic ID iu Wash.
ington has elimintted The negro resi-
dents OF tina. city from mem barship and
participation IL The business OF the coz
ference.
May Day was quiet in Paris, and the
services of the large force OF troops
we're not required. The Federation of
Labor did net carry out Its threatened
demonstration. The day passed of in
Europe without any serious disturbances.
United States Ssnstor Lorimer aud
Lee O'Neil Browne, democratic minority
leader of Illinois, yesterday denied tat
story OF Representative Charles A. White,
OF Chicsg', in which the latter said he
had received 81, 900 to vote for Lorimer.
Rear Admiral Philip Hichboru, U. 8.
N, retired, former chief cor sttuctcr Of
the navy, died last night at his home In
Washington. Death was due to arterIsl
scerosis. Tbs deceased Waa boro in
Ohsrlestowp, Mass, March 4, 1889.
Thomas H. Marshall, aged So yesrs,
died st bis home near Gaithers5urg,
Md, yesterday Of tuberculosis. He was
descendant of the old Marshall family
OF Mary land and Virginia, and was born
at Marshall Hall, Charles C! ua.y.
Mr.. Roosevelt yesterday at Amster
dam gave his day ever to an insp FACTION
of The magnificent display of tulips
ahich are now almost at perfection, and
OF Dutch painting. He learned that
Holland annually ships g, 200, 900 bulbs
to America.
The Somerset county, N. j., :uhori
lies are seeking for two men who MUIR
dered a ytuh yesterday and tied hi
body down to the tracks OF the Contra
Railroad of New Jersey, near Nor;t
| Branch, where 1t WAS ground to pieces
| by an eastbou I'D passenger train.
John MtGuckep, sged 36 years, o
Philadelphia, union conductor, va
| shot and iustsnIly killed early yesterday
| mornipg turing fight between union anc
nor IL iou mo.ormen and conductors nesl
the FrauHford and Lehigh avenues ca,
| barn OF the Philadelphia Rapid Transi
Company.
John Fl. Holston, 81 years old, son o.
! Minus Rolstop, ct Grays Oornera, few
/ miles from Bsrlin, md., yesterday after.
noon committed suicide by shooting
| himaeli with a double barreled shotg un.
The shooting occurred In the woods g
| short distance from bis home, and 6nan
| cial troubles we're the Cause.
The Department OF Internal Revenue
reprrts that the barrel tax on beer ioI
the month of March, 1910, sm, unted tt
81 993, 79S, as compared with 81 .079,
222 in March, 1909, this being an In
crease OF 22.4 per cent, and beating al
| records for the same month in any
previous year. They shoW an increase
| of nearly s per cert over the larges
! March sales previously recorded, which
occurred 10 1907.