Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-25
News Of the Day.

Woman suffrage was killed in The
Massachusetts House yesterday.
President Taft has sigDed proclamss
lions granting minimum tariff rates to q
number of countries, China being The
principal one.
Judge FISHERS confessional court'
In Piitsbarg had an exciting climax yes.
terday, when George B. Anderson, q
former select councilman, tainted as The
curt asked him if he had ever re-
ceived money for his vote.
The old Roach shipysrd st Chester,
Pa, was sold yesterday at q receivers
sale for s15S,260 interest on mortgage
of 800, 600. The property vas pur.
purchased by an attorney for VIM. Hol-
map, of New York.
The largest real eataie transaction in
volving F street properly in Washington
rep.rtsd in several months was made
yesterday, when the business property
on the northwest corner of Twelfth and
F streets northwest was sold to Issdore
Saks, OF New York, for $3.50, 600. This
represents something like s37 per square
foot.
With the arrest OF q special policeman
last pight, In New York, It became
known that jswelrY aud;clothlDg VALUED
at nearly $40, 900 had been stolen from
the home OF Miss Louise 81. Tiffany, al
No. 225 Madison avenue, during The
last few weeks.
The coroner's jury In Washington
yesterday decided thst Mre. Florence
Slocum, wife of Maj. II J. Slocum, who
wss killed 6hen trolley car collided
with the automobile of NJ j. Gen. ].
Franklin Bell, came to her death acci-
dent,lly although the accident was due
10 failure of the occupants OF the auto
mobile 10 observe proper precautions in
Gre asiug The railroad track. The verdict
absolves from blame the crew of the
trolley car and Sergeant Ward OF the
signal corps, who Is General Bslrs
chauffeur.
An unknown Black Hand man was
shot through the heart aud instantly
killed In a fight with sheriff's posse
headed by Under Sheriff Warren Hill
near Pueblo, Colo, yesterday. A COM
paniou escaped on horseback, tut lie
believed to heye been wounded. Follow
Ing thr ats, Tony Sautuso placed 81, 900
at poiu. several miles beyond the limits
OF Pubic. When Two men late yester-
day we're taking the money the sheriffs
osse ordered them 10 throw up their
tands. They refused, aad open fre. At
the fra. r;turn volley one Of The Black
Hand man fell dead,
Bomb throWers again became active
In Chicago last night. They threw
she'll loaded with dynamite into gym
nasium under construction In the rear Ct
saloon on the West Side. The
explosion wrecked the gymnasium,
shattered The windows In adjoining build
inga aud threw passengers in an elevated
train into a panic. The shock shook the
elevstad structure 30 that tbs passengers
feared they we're going u be tvppled
over to the ground. The police ASSERT
the bomb throwing vas Que 10 lspDr
troubles.
The republican administration was
arraigned st Cleveland last night before
The Tippecaroe Club by former Gov.
Myron T. Herrick, who charged it VIII
gross extravaganza and asserted that the
high tariff was necessitated by the ims
mense revenue required By uabusiness-
like government methods. Mr.. H,rrick
vas preceded by James r. G rdeld,
former Secretary of the Interior, who
warned the republican party that the
,ouJtry was impatient for the ful6ilaeat
OF Its pledged and that inection or mskc-
shift legislation would not be tolerated
Dir. Garfield declared thst new order
bad arisen, and tina. II ne republicans
did not Wish the control OF the govern.
ment to pssu into other bands they NUT
make an honest tff)rt to carry out the
platform upon which they we're elected
to power.