Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-16
News of the Day.

a bill to sop hsz;rg at Yves! Pcin!
was passed By the Senate yesterday.
Sixteen peraous were drowned day 1t
Ohrissiania, by tha sinking OF the Dar :
ish steamship Csmbodia, near II :snae'.
Dn,u1cemeEt was made By Apostle
lie Deleg,t. Mgr. Falconio todsy tbs
Rev. Fst1er John Mi!aDe, parish priest
of Anesourv, Betop, has been chosen
Bishop OF Hartford, Cour.
The political situation iu Ohio vas
discussed q dinner given by Presider t
Tsft at t1e White Htu'e Last night.
Ohio affairs, it is ssid, srs mol sat 5fac-
tory to Mr.. Taft.
Tariff negotiations between lhe United
States and Frsrce have been stopped
aud may no. be resumed, il is said in
Washington.
A bill making eligible for pensions
widows OF soldiers of the civil var MAJ
rlen since 1880 vas reported TO the
Senate yestsrday from the committee on
persiona.
For the frat time since 1907 The Balti-
mora and Ohio Railroad Company will
be able this year to pay Its iull dividend
of 6 per cent.
Mrs Anna Christian Sprsckels, widow
OF Oliui Spreckels, died yesterday at her
residence at San Francisco. She was
seventy -aine years Of age, and loavea
four sons.
Rev. Dr.. R. H. McKim, of Washing
ton, spoke at Royal Arcanum Hsll, in
Baltimore, last night, 10 reply to Dol.
Johu s. Mosby's book on lhs Confeder-
ate cavalry In the Gettysburg campaigo.
The rivers and harbors bill, carrying
ar p OPERATIONS of more than $S5. 600, :
00O, with authorizations of work thst
sill cost in excess of $1,000, 900 ad.
ditional, YVES passed BY the House 1T
yesterday.
H,n. John Gill, of Baltimore, ap.
pesIed 10 the House OF Representatives
yesterday for the first time in this sea-
siop. Mr.. Gill has been qaite sick fer
many weeks.
Brigadier Ganeral Waiter Howe. U.
s. A., has been assigned emporariIy
t, the command Of the department Of
the east, succeeding NJ j. Gso. Leonard
Wood, who is undergoing treatment S.
the johns Hopkins hospital.
The West,rn UuiUn Telegraph Com.
paoy directors in New YORK, today pre-
mot.dl B. B:ooka, general supsrin!er-
deIt Of the eastern division of The com
pauy TO be general manager OF the ccm :
pany and to have charge of the operating
end of the business.
Alexander Schafhirt, general agent OF
Hagerstown, Md for toe Cumberland
Valley and the Norfolk and Western
railways, COMMITTED suicide ye,t'rdsy
BY shooting himself thru ugh the lead,
Continued i'll health, following a nervous
breakdown, Ia the cause assigned.
A disp, t:h received 10 Paris by NJ.
Tfonill t, miniter of colonies, from the
governor OF Daksr, Senegal, saYs That a
French detachment was wiped tu.
through an smt u cade in the Ou'dsi
region. Five French officers and ITO
aative troops, comprising the deIact :
mens, were nassacred.
There vas violent shock OF earth
quake q. Poterzs, LAZY, 81 4 o'clock ye,-
tsrday morning. No damage was done,
but the people were rriGed AID rushed
Gu. OF their houses ili) the s'rset. The
shock slso was felt at Otfslt', Reggie,
and elsewhere, CT iug psrics. No
damage has been reported. There is
SONS nneasiness concerning Melf, q
small town % miles from Potecz', with
which it is impossible to &c. in telegraph
comm u 1ication.
Because four OF i!s members were
negroes july was dismissed By Judge
John II. Pi!cbford, 10 the Dislric! Oouti
at Wagner, near Muskogee, OSls.,
Monday. In ext ing the negroes from
du'y Judge PltchfoFd said {: "The laws
Of Oklahoma provide that negroes shall
ride separately in trains aud street cara;
that they shall attend separate schools
and:eat al separate tstlsg, and do not
propose to insult white men by msklpe
them serve on the j1ry With regroes."
Negroes form hslt Of the population OF
Wagner county. Heretofore they have
sat on mixed juries without GU :stion.
Stricken with apop!exy, With lighted
kerosene lamp In bis hand, while en-.
deaYorIpg to ascnre drink of water
for his sick wife, Engineer J. E. Backe.-
man, OF the Baltimore and Oaio Rail-
road, met with trsg'c desth at hin
home in Marlinsburg, W. Va, yester-
day morning, being tu:ned to death
before The other members of the hour
bold could come to his assistance. he
had been attending bis sick wife and
st uted for the kitchen for wafer, carry.
Ing 0 lighted lamp. When stricken he
fell and the blsziDg oil Ig lied his
clothing, Dsath ensned in a !e7 min.
utes.
AN UNIQUE WILL.