Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-10
News of the Day.

Robert Taber, the actor and divorced
husband of Julia Marlowe, died at
saranac Lake, n. Y, Tuesday night.
The German Bundesrath has assented
to the bill passed by the Reichstag re-
pealing the paragraph in the anti-Jesuit
law forbidding Catholics to reside in that
country.
In New York yesterday the referee de-
cided that the divorce of Mrs. Charles F.
Dodge was legal; G. w. Morse asked
that the decree annulling his marriage
to her be vacated.
In a conference with Ambassador
Porter, in Paris yesterday, President 30,
of the Panama Canal Company, asserted
that there is not the slightest obstacle to
the completion of the transfer OF the
property.
A dispatch received at Louisville,
KY, yesterday announces the death in
Epiwanda, CAL, of Charles Edward
Langham, father Of the Baroness Won
Sternburg Mrs. Langham is now
travelling IN Italy.
Ex-President Cleveland has taken the
first steps in Free Masonry, according
to a Trenton dispatch, which says that
Grand Master j. Holt Apgar has ar
ranged to convene the Grand Lodge in
Princeton and give Mr.. Cleveland the
three blue lodge degrees at one time.
The United Fruit Company of Balti-
more. yesterday received the first full
cargo of bananas to come from Jamaica
since the hurricane which devastated
the island last summer. The cargo con-
sisted of 20, $50 punches. A Norwegian
steamer also brought in 1922 punches
of bananas for the same company.
The contested appointment Of General
Leonard Wood to be major general of
the army was taken up yesterday in exc
cutive session of the Senate. A brief
prepared by Senator Hanna, summing
up the testimony which had been given
in the bearings before the committee on
military affairs, and protesting against
the appointment, was read.
Mr.. James L. Norris has been vir-
tually recognized as democratic national
committeeman for the District of Col
umbia by the subcommittee of the DEM
ocratic national committee, appointed to
the political tangle which has
existed in the local democratic situation
since 1900. The subcommittee, which
met on Tuesday, also ordered the APP
pointment of committee Of five to
make new rules governing district pri-
maries. By this action Mr.. Norris has
practically obtained the national COM
mittcemanship and the anti-Norris fac
ton, headed by Charles w. Slater, has
received assurances of primaries under
new system.
The surgeons Of the Bellevue Hospital,
in New York, have a most unusual case
in the psychopathic ward Of woman,
81 years old, who has been driven in
sane through the nursing and caring for
thirteen children that she brought into
the world. This remarkable patient is
Mrs. Eva kbernathy. She was in the
hospital last January when she became
the mother of her fifth pair of twins.
Mrs. Alternately was born in Petersburg,
Va. She was married when 10 years
old, and at 10 became the mother of
her first pair of twins. In the next three
years she gave birth to three girl babies,
and then in six years, ending with last
January, brought four pairs Of twins in
to the world. Mrs. Abernathy's grand
mother raised family of 25 children.
Her sister, Mrs. Susie Black, who lives
in Petersburg, is but 80 years old and is
the mother of 20 children.