Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

al IouSukeepsIe, IN. T., yesterday
evening Cornell's freshmen won the
four-cornered freshmen's race. Har-
ward was second and Pennsylvania
third.
At Yesterdays session of the Inter-
national Sunday School Associations
convention in Boston, Mr.. Moody made
an address on the subject of the work
of the Holy Spirit.
At the Holt will trial in Washington
yesterday Mr.. Worthington, ofcounsel,
opposing the will, argued that the will
was forged in New York and mailed in
Washington by one of the beneGciaries
of the will.
1t is said in London that Great Bri-
tain and the United States have agreed
to publish simultaneously, within a
fortnight, all the arbitration CORE.
spondence exchanged between the gov
ernments of the two countries.
Isaac Simmons, of Columbia, Pa, a
freight conductor on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, was instantly killed just east
of Lancaster yesterday. AS he was
stepping from one car to another the
train parted at that point and he fell
to the tracks. The second section pass
ed over his body, cutting off both legs.
Miss Bessie German, daughter of
Hon. A. P. German, and Mr.. Wilton j.
Lambert were married at S o'clock last
night at the residence of Senator and
Mrs. German in Washington. Rev.
Father Richards. S. j., president of
Georgetown College, was the officiating
clergyman. The ceremony was attend
ed by relatives and personal friends OF
the respective families only.
Reports from Marshall, Wetzel and
Tyler counties, W. Va, are to the effect
that great damage has been done ana
some lives lost by great cloudburst
about $3.50 yesterday afternoon. In
Marshall the damage in and about
Mountsville will reach several thousand
dollars. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road track and other property were
damaged to the extent of So, 900 by the
washouts. In Tyler county, in the vi
cinity Of Sistersville, the storm created
the most havoc.
The anti.cigarette law passed by the
West Virginia State Legislature was
knocked out yesterday by Judge Camp
bell, of the Circuit Court. The law inn
posed tax on retail dealers which was
prohibitory, requiring all dealers to
paw an annual license of $500. Judge
Campbell decided that the prohibitory
tax was in conflict with interstate COM
merce and defined an Original pack
age" of cigarettes to be the little box
containing ten cigarettes exposed to
sale by retailers.
, General Bradley T. Johnson gave a
banquet to Consul General Fitzhugh
Lee at the Grand Hotel Ynglaterra, in
Havana, last night. In addition to the
mutual friends Of the two generals, the
editors of all the Havana daily newspa-
pers were present, as we'll as the Mar
quir Palmorala, secretary to the general
government of Spain, and Governor
Duboso. While the banquet was in
progress police officer notified Mr.. w.
W. Gay, correspondent of the New
York World, that by order of the gov
eminent, he would be required to leave
the island.
In Washington yesterday Judge Kim
ball in the police court, sentenced Geo.
G. Corless, well-dressed and respect
able appearing young carpenter, to jail
for year for beating his wife. The
Corlesses have been married several
years, and lately moved to "a L street,
northwest. The judge expressed regret
that he could not have Corless logged.
The father, sister, and wife of Corless
testify to his brutal conduct, and the
court imposed the severest penalty in
his power. The forgiving wife went
home weeping, weakness which the
sister said "made her tired"