Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-01-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

William Ellis Corey has resigned as
president Of the United States Steel
Corporation.
The Ministerial Association OF Bris-
tol, Tenn. has agreed not to marry
clipping couples.
Counsel for the Pennsylvania Rail
road filed a brief with the Interstate
Commerce Commission claiming that
the increased wage schedule justified an
advance in freight rates
The first human remains from the
wreck of the old battleship Maine in
Havana harbor were brought to the
surface yesterday by dredge. They
consisted OF two ribs and some small
bones OF the hand, and they were care
fully placed in q special receptacle to
await recovery Of other parts.
When the postoliice appropriation
bill is reported TO the House, about
January 90, it will carry upward OF
$3.50, 00O,000 which breaks all records
for postonice appropriations. The
appropriation for the current year
is $40, 100000. The increase is at
trbuted to the normal increase in the
postal service, which now employs an
army OF 800, 200 employees.
Another landslide has been reported
from the Culebra cut, on the Panama
canal This time more than 500,0
cubic yards OF earth, mostly red clay
and stone, slipped from the side OF
the overhanging mountains couple
Of days ago and has closed the pioneer
drainage ditch. The slide is believed
TO have been moving slowly down the
mountain near Las Casadas for more
than two years.
James J. Gallagher, the disgruntlcd
employee Of the city OF New York who
shot Mayor Gaynor last August in Ho-
boken, was declared sane last light By
Jury in the Supreme Court I'm Jersey
City. Gallagher therefore will go to
trial today in the same court on an in
dictmcnt charging him with shooting,
with intent to kill, William H. Edwards,
commissioner OF street cleaning OF New
York.
A boy aged 8 and girl aged I, chill
dren OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Radell, OF
Utica, n y, were spending New
Years Day with their grandparents
about seven miles from the city. They
went out to slide down Il small hill
Monday afternoon and did not return.
4 stream at the foot Of the hill was
greatly swollen by the thaw. Search
Ing parties were out all night and the
bodies OF the children were found yes
tcrday mile below the place where
they were coasting.
By unanimous decision, the L. S.
Supreme Court yesterday decided that
The Federal government could not
maintain the so-calcd Panama canal
libel suit" against the Press Publishing
Company OF New York in the Federal
courts Of New York. In so holding
the court affirmed the decision Of the
circuit court Of the United States for
The Southern district Of New York.
which had quashcd the famous indict-
incnt.
!Auntier victim, the fifth inthe strike
OF the garment workers in Chicago,
me; death by violence last night. Fred
Rcinhardt, special policeman en-.
pioycd rs a guard, was shot to death
while cscorting two non-union workers
TO their homes from the Hart Schaff-
ncr & Marx Company plant. The two
noL-union men fled TO their homes,
but later declared tho policeman had
been shot by strikers who approached
from the rear The police we're unable
to locate the murderers. Reinhardt
died on the way TO a hospital
Walking into the icwclry store OF
George W. Bower, in Marion, Ohio,
yesterday, man OF 90 years inquired
OF Miss Ethel Krausc, a clerk, for the
proprietor. On learning that Mr..
Bower was at lunch, the young fellow
went out, and, returning within a few
minutes, showed big gun into the
startled young woman's face, declaring
he would kiIl'her il she gave All alarm.
Selling q small tray Of diamonds,
valued at $1,000, he fled, threatening
to shoot a group of spectators if they
intcrfcrcd. He was pursued Il short
distance, when he surrendered. !
cant run III this snow" he said. He
was identified as r. p Christ, OF Knox
vile, Tenn. "A student Of the Ohio Wes-
lpvan University If Delaware