Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-08
News Of the Day.

| DemOcIa'H In oJuSi'e 90 Sth !,
BareGu of Statistics report on the higf
cos! oil living IS plea fox favor for tue
Payns tariff Law.
Ths appropriation for III al Tres de-
livery IVES increased by $500, 600 by tae
H use during the considtr-ti1n CT tae
postoffics appropriation bill yesterday.
The sale of envelopes BY the govern
meat with return addresses printed up
on them is prohibited by al amendment
adopted to lhs postt flee spproprls t'on
bill In the House.
Two bombs we're luled into rom
in Lisbon, where q psrlY OF clerical
candidates we're doing yesterday, and
the explosion killed Two Of she diners
aud wounded seven others, Including the
priest, who was presiding.
Mrs, Cordells B)tkin, convicted OF
| murderiug Mrs. John P. Downing by
sending poisoned candy to Dover, De!'
died 10 San Quentin prison, GAL, sea-
terday. The crime was committed August
4, 1898.
DespoudeDt over Ill heslsh and 6nan-
cal reverses Lson Strauss, OF Philadel-
phia, fred bullet through bis trIio
some tine Sunday night at the ID otel
Belvedera, Baltimore. The body Wks not
found u1tll about noon yesterday.
Relatives of Chsrl:s Hinterberger,
aged SO, single, of Cincinnati, thought
bis death yesterday was from nslu'al
causes, a'ta:u ID gu !dsn. But the cor1-
ner's constabls came across this note !:
nRats in this house, and contlr u5d pains
from rheumatism drove me to this, SO
forgive me. Good-by 10 all-Ohsrlie'"
Eight or tan persons we're reported
killed aud seventeen iniu'e mauy Of
them fatally, in an explosion at the
works of the American Ma;zs Products
Company at Roby, Iod,, last night.
Toe explosion occurred 10 detached
baildiug OF The plant, and was followed
By FIRE which enveloped large ware
house.
News OF triple shooting, which &C.
CARED In a church q. Harvey town,
Wayne county, W. VA, Sunday night.
has been received. An unidert lied
man fred three tullets through the resr
sail of the United Brethren Church.
Hottie Johnston, II years old, was shot
10 the abdomen, Frank Cdsll received 8
wound 10 the shoulder and Harrison
TAYLOR carries bullet In his head as
result OF the shooting.
After q legal battle which has been
dragged through state aud federal courts
for fully twenty years M's. Eva A.
Iugersoll yesterday 10 Boston received q
certified check for 1896, 55l.9S, repre-
sentipg q fee which she claimed VISA cus
her husband, the late Robert G. Inger-
soil, for services IL breaking the Will Of
Andrew J. Davis, millionaire miner OF
Montana.
TIE conviction of William P. Snyder
aud James NJ. Sbumaker, charged with
conspiracy to defrs Il l the stats of Penn.
sylvania, in connection With The furnish
| iog of tie state capitol, vas affirmed by
the It te snprems coa't at Philadelphia
yesterday. soyder wss former sulittR
general, aud Shumsker former super
iulendent of public buildings and
grounds. The cases we're then taken
through all ccu.ts of The state mp /, the
highest :ril u al. which handed DIV n t.
decision yesterday,
Declaring that che will inmediAte'y
nut in a claim to be recognized ss the
wife OF S:n.t)r Thomas u. Plat, of New
york, vbe died sa I,rdsy night. Mae O.
Wool, who is 10 Omaha, says tho only
difference the senator's death will mako
| in her course is that she will nov fight
as bis widow instead of bis wife. aer
n,eseut claim for divorce and alimoDy
will be dismissed and sbe will, inttsad,
ask to be declsred his widow and award
ed a widows portion OF the property.
A dispatch from Eoms nay0 that the
pope has telegrsphsd to j. D. Rookie
TELLER oopgrstaltt ng him on his latest
plsu to endow great philantbrOpie or.
rsplzatiop. The poutiff expressed The
belief that the proposed plan Ell tiled the
originator to the grail de OF all man
kind. Discussing the work of Mr..
Rockefeller and other American philan-
,hropIs,s In Lsuten address to the
cardinals, th. pope aad: "Although
| these millIopairss are Pr :stauts, give
them my blessing because all who dc
good deserve Gods blessing"
William Lay, Of RoneoYe Falls, near
Rochest. n, N. Y, naturalist, who has
lust died, directs by will that his body
! be inclosed 10 solid reinforced concrete,
10 rise 8 feet above the guuad. It'll
ordered that the body be placed In
simple winding sheet, and no cofin used
n, further orders that there bs nt
funeral service, aud thst no woman, mo-
area, t:up his siis, be alloaed to b'
nresept, at tie burial. she will forfeit he
share of the estate should his Wishes b.
Ignored.
Albert Willard, OF Washing .on, tn
scauitted slayer OF his son-in.IaW. Irvini
W. Beck, who has been held at the G::v
ernment Hospital for the Insane on th
verdict of the jury, for the pat month
gas released this afternoon. To th
petition fled by him for hearing on
writ of bsbess corpus Superintendent
White, o, the Government aosPi!al, yes
terday made answer thtt Willard siDc
bis incarceration there has been unde