Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-27
News of the Day.

lhe depl0mAlc a0O o0neulsr hpp'O'
orIatlon bill, Carrying more then So, 00O,.
600, wss introduced 10 the House yes.
.erdsy.
Secretary MacVesgh yesterday sub
mitted tho drafts Of proposed acts provld.
log for charges 10 The tax rate on nation
al bank CRU stiop.
The principal copper producers Of the
United States are forming single cor
porstion With q capitalization Of $780,
900, 900.
The combined strength Of the liberal,
labor snd natior alist coalition has
reached 845 tonight, or more tbau half
thu number OF members OF the British
home OF commons.
Work on the Taft conservation bills
By the Senate committee on pdbAc
lands has advanced to q point that
makes II seem probable that all OF them
will be recommended to the Senate for
passage.
Albert II. Willard, who killed Irving
W. Beck, the u'bsud OF bis 24-yesr.old
daughter, WAS saved from the gslloWs BY
jary's verdict In Washington yesterday
but will be examined as to bis sanity.
The prisoner received the verdict joyful
IL and said It would only b. few days
tefore be wtu'd be rsstosed 10 bis family.
Tue Vice president sDd Mrs. Sherman
gave large aud brilliant reception last
night 10 honor Of the Uoited States
| S Jnale. The members OF the Cabinet
and their families and very large as
ssmblsge of official society were enter
tsInsd in the handsome Sherman home
on Sixteenth street. Washington.
Robert Mason and Albert Lindsay,
white youths, wers arrested 10 Lynch
ourS yesterday by southern detectives,
charged with two separate attempts last
Friday afternoon to wreck trsin 80, the
Washington and Atlanta express, north
bouud, near Fall Greek, 40 miles soulb
Of LyDchbuFg.
l.. R. CLAWS, tho frat witness before
the Billinger investigating committee
Yesterday, charged Mr.. BsllInger With
improper conduct az land commissioner
and as attorney for the Cunningham coal
claim ants, and also With drawing up an
illegal agreement for the Wilson claim.
ants.
The s mate committee on foreign re-
lstious yesterday postponed indehoitely
a bill providing for the merit system IN
the coDsular service. This action vas
taken on the ground that the constitu.
ton gives the president the right to ap-
point consular officers and that Congress
hal no authority to sbridge that right.
To keep census sIunerators AID
supervisors good, Representative Booher
lem mo.) yesterday introduced q bill
making 1t a crime punishable BY
$500 fine or years sentence In
Jail for any employee Of the census
bureau to engage 10 any political work
whatsoever during the taking Of The
census.
The Sivsge dislilleEy at KsrnstowD,
Frederick county, Is being removed TO
Washington county, Mo-, near IA igers'
tcwO. Mr.. Joseph II. Savage, the
proprietor, has disposed Of his property
Ia Virginia and will remove to Mary-
land 10 which state be will make BILE
home. Kerns.oWu is 10 "dry" territory,
which pecessIiated the closing Of the
dlstillery.
Rspresentsve Fowler, OF New JeTseyr
one OF the original infu'gent republicans
OF the H ouse, yesterday Introduced res
oluliou providing for reorganization
of the rules mmi!tee aud the removal
of Speaker Cannon from that committee.
The resolution aims strsight at the
Htuls organization and wtp'd shear the
Speaker Of 9 great portion OF the power
of hIs office, according 10 the stassment
OF Its author.
Twenty Italians were at police head.
quarters 10 New York, yesterday, TO
identity Santo Garors, Of ITO Chrystle
street. aud Oolsgero Limpeclssi, OF llS
Chrystie street, who we're arrested late
Yesterday sfternoon on the charge Of as
ssult aud battery. The two prisoners
we're positively Identified as being two OF
the four men who held 40 and robbed 80
Italian lsborers at Glen Rock, N. j., on
November lsst.
Mrs. Ora Guniou, the wife OF Marion
Iud. uachinist II WAS believed died Toes
DAY after a protracled illness resulting
from en- operation. An Undertaken was
called TO take charge OF the body after 9
physIcian had bfen called. He Pot Grape
on the door OF the store OF the woman's
brother, and also on the door Of the
residence. Hs was preparing the body
for Interment when there was percepli'
bic movement OF the corpse. Examina-
ton showed that heart action had been
revived. and relatives and friends we're
called In. A doctor vas / u riedly sum-
moned and 1t Is thought that she will
live.
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