Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-04-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

number Of welI-kuown Baltimore
physicians have been nominated by
President Taft to be first lieutenants IN
the Medical Reserve Corps.
Thomas Miller, plate printer OF
Washington, attempted suicide by
shooting himself in the right breast on
a Baltimore and Ohio train on the way
10 Washington last night Miller will
saw nothing in regard to the shooting.
Quartermaster Sergeant Rodney Z.
Howard, aged Is years, of Company T..
Twenty-fourth Infantry, stationed at
Madison barracks, WATERFOWL, \. w.,
Yesterday shot himself through the
head with revolver. Howard home
was Falls Church, Va.
Mrs. R. E. Shore, wife OF Pitts
burg merchant, lost gems worth 3, loo
in an odd manner yesterday. She was
waiting for street car on the platform
at Bggert Manor when her foot went
through a rottou board and ripped her
stocking. When she reached depart
ment store 10 the city she discovered
that a bag containing the gems, which
she had placed in her stocking, had
disappeared.
Using in one instance biting humor
and in the other a deadly arrasnment,
based on facts gained from personal ex-
perience, two United States senators
| last night assailed the false brother
hood Of man and denounced the
boarded wealth, its primal cause, at
the Maundy Thursday dinner OF the
Scottish Rite Masons at the cathedral
in Washington. The speakers were
Senator Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee,
and Robert L. Owen, OF Oklahoma.
On the eve of the opening Of their
Congress in Washington. the Daugh-
tiers Of the American Revolution are
confronted with a serious state Of at
fairs, which threatens the portico OF
their magnificent new Continental Hall.
1t was announced yesterday that if the
costly marble portico in front OF the
palatial hail continues to sink depth
of one foot, the thirteen marble mon
oIiths or pillars will collapse, resulting
in great damage, as each pillar was
erected at a cost Of 1000.
I Coins and crumpled bills to the
amount OF 3, 495 greeted the eyes OF
Peter J. Pitts, teamster Of Boston,
yesterday when his borse backed over
discarded lounge, which had been
thrown out into an east Boston street.
Pitts was loading the refuse when a
wheel Of the wagon broke the lounge
and disclosed the money. His shouts
brought GRO I'd Of work msn, to whom
he gave a share Of the treasure. and q
holiday was at once declared, No clue
to the original owner of the money has
been found.
Col. Henry May, father Of Miss Ce-
celia May, Of Washington, whose en-
gagement to Robert Low Bacon, son
J of the American ambassador to Frauce,
vas broken off recently, has definitely
erded speculation as to the cause by
stating that his daughter had broken
the engagement because Mr.. Bacon re-
fused to make the promises relating to
mixed marriages required by the Cath
oiic Church. He denied that money
settlements had anything to do with the
matter.
President Taft personally ordered out
the Washington barbor police yester-
day afternoon to recover tie body OF
negro woman and that OF a
14-year-old boy whom she pushed into
the tidal basin and then committed
suicide by jumping in after him. The
bodies Of the negro woman and the
boy, thought to be her son, were recov-
cred shortly after 6 o'clock and no"
lie at the morgue awaiting identified
ton. No motive for the woman's act
is known. She was seen by persons in
the neighborhood to grasp the boy by
the shoulder and deliberately push him
into the water. She screamed and fell
over him into the deep water, sinking
instantly.