Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-09
News Of the Day.

Harry W. Jsyne, Phi. D., world.fsmsd
as chemist, died at his home In Elkins
Park, Pa, Monday night, sged 50 year,.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pauy hiss acquired control OF the Amer
icaa District Telegraph Company.
The rejection Of the budget by the
House OF Lords 10 the last Parliament
cost England In loss OF revenue Sl42,-
500, 900.
Thieves entered The residence Of John
7. Osrr, IS T, street northwest Washing
ton, yesterday afternoon and stole jewelry
valued at 1915. Every room In the
house was rsnsacked.
According to the emphatic statement
of member OF the House ways and
mesns committee. the bill providing for
a bond issue of $50, 900, 900 to complete
existing irrigation projects aud launch
new ones, will die in that commit ee.
The measure already has passed the
Senate.
The 'Stsndarn OPP yesterday filed
10 the U. s. Supreme Court its brief In
opposition 10 the attempt OF the govern
ment to dissolve 1t ss violating the 6ber
man ant-lust law. The right of indi-
viduaI citizens to associate 10 business
enterprise is the hssis Of the defense.
The claim is made that by skill and the
Investment OF large sdms oil has been
chespsned.
The p,stofice appropriation bill, car
ryIug appropriations sggregating $24l,-
900, 900, was pissed 10 the House yes
tsrdsy while the Senate disposed OF the
agricultural bill, carrying slS, 500, 900.
The postal savings bank bill, which
passed the Senste on Saturday, was re-
ierred to the House committee on post
Offices and postroads.
Policeman B. A. Greiner, OF Pitts
burg, Pa, saw a fsxen-hsired, wsxeu-
faced child lying in the gutter on the
South Side aud he gathered 1t into bis
Sims and ran to the station, after report.
ing from call box that he had fund
dead child. At the station bis brother
officers saw The "ehild" was q wax doll,
8 feet long. A high wind had broken
show window, and had blown the doll
into the gutter.
NJ. Duez, employed by the French
government 90 q liquidator for some OF
the congregations which we're dissolved
by the Law of 1901, Was arrested yesteI
day charged with embezzlemert OF the
finds which be handled. Duez has cor
fessed that the shortage will reach ST.
10000, ell of which he loss In specula.
lions on the Bonrse.
Earl d. Thomas. jr., 80 years old, &
son OF Brig. Gen. Earl d. Thomss, CON-
mander OF the department Of the Colorado
with headquarters in Denver, before II
O'Clock yesterday fred bullet ioto bis
brain In his room at hots at Colorado
Springs, dying instantly. Indications are
thai. young fhOmss had preuedihtsd
suicide.
Because the skull of his victim was
declared to have been thinner than
that of the average man Caleb Cox,
butcher, Of Traverse City, Mich, es
capped punishment for the death Of
Frank Hardy. Following a quarrel
over an account COX struck Hardy and
fractured his skull. a post-mortem
examination showed Hsrdy's skull to
be sbnormally thin, and the court |
found thRt similar blow on n normal
mans head would not have been sufi-
clent to csuss death. Cox escaped with
Q 800 fac for assault.
Joseph Gresnberg, a wild youth OF
%, who stripped rings valued at 5000 |
from his stepmother's fingers In New
York yesterday. while he held revol-
yer at her head, was arrested last night /
after he had attempted to play the
bold highwsymsn 10 an uptown saloon.
He forced nine meu and the bartender
to elevate their hands with CRY
"Money or your life," but someone
shouted "police" and he fed after
platglsss with bullets. Put
sued by policeman the youth turned
aud fred twice, one of his bullets dan.
gerously injariug q nine.year-o boy.
Greenbsrg was captured when 4 night
stick was sent whirling between bis
legs.
For "a hours inconsolsble following
the death Of her mother, Mary An
ifeWs, aged 5, wept herself into eternal
sleep Monday night at the home of
her father, Ia Mount Pleasant township, n
sear Oonnellsville, Ps. Lsss than
week ago Mrs. Andrews Was stricken
Town. Hemorsges OF the lungs de-
veloped and Sunday evening she died.
It was with difficulty the child was per-
Iuaded to leave the death chamber
while her mothers body was prepared
'or burial. Then she returned, and
throughout the day continued to weep.
As evening came her sobs grew fainter /,
Ind fainter. At last they ceased alto /
yether.
A carload OF 100 nonunlon men,
yho we're going to Corinth, N. Y, Ii
o take the places of strikers In the I
Mill OF the International Paper CON- I
AMY, was dynamited late Monday .
light, and forced ID return to 6srstOgs.
'ht1l shots we're exchanged, and Con- q
Iuctor John Bartholomew was mobbed a
nd Injured. The railroad bridge was o
armed, Six hundred employees OF the G
International Paper Company at Oorinth
ave been on Q strike because back {
ender was discharged, On Monday u
light 100 strikebresksrs we're started "a
rom Saratoga for Oorinth on Dsls- fl
rare and Hudson csr, bat the progress OF
( the car vas checked By the burning al