Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-23

May corn went up cents A bushel
on the Chicago Exchange yesterday and
there was talk Of a corner, wheat also
undergoing sharp furry.
The General Assembly Of the Presby-
terrain Church, voting at Winoua Lake
Ind, yesterday, decided unanimously Tor
union with the Cumberland church.
A runaway horse pulling a blazing
wagonload of wool and cotton packing
created excitement yesterday on the
Frederick road, near Baltimore.
The Federation of Labor Unions in
Paris is considering proposition to
make a demonstration against King Al
fonso when he comes to the French cap
ital.
The Hague tribunal upholds the ap-
peal Of Great Britain, France and Ger
many against Japan for levying house
tax on buildings in old foreign conces-
sions.
A 20-story apartment-ho is to be
erected in Brooklyn by well-kuown
financiers as a philanthropic enterprise.
No family will be taken that has not at
least one child
Prince Napoleon Victor Bonapart yes
terday received the Bonapartist leaders
at Turin and informed them that he
would not marry the Princess Clemen-
tine of Belgium.
Three-quariers ola million people have
already died os the plague in Ihdia this
year, according to figures furnished by
Indian Secretary Broderisk in the House
of Commons yesterday afternoon.
King Oscar, of Sweden, will resume
the direction Of state affairs this week,
thus terminating the regency of Crown
Prince Gustav, who will proceed TO Ber-
lin TO attend the wedding OF Crown
Prince Frederick William.
The opposition in the British House
of Commons last night refused to hear
Colonial Secretary Lyttleton reply to
charges made that Premier Balfour had
violated the pledge he made in his
Edinburgh speech concerning the fiscal
question. The disorder was so great
that the Speaker had to adjourn the
House.
Clay Grub and Clarence Thompson,
the former distiller, of Davidson
county, n. c., who was acquitted last
Saturday of the murder of his brother
in=law, o. l.. Davis, and the latter a
prominent witness 10 the recen: trial,
were shot from ambush and critically
wounded near Churchland, five miles
east of Salisbury yesterday.
One of the most brilliant weddings of
the year was that celebrated Yesterday
at St. Peters Church, Westchester, New
York, when Miss Elsie Waterbury, a
famous young beauty, was married to
Gouverneur Morris, writer and descen-
dant of one of the Oldest and most aris'
tocratic families of the country. Bishop
Potter performed the marriage ceremony
before a distinguished throng of society
people.
The dangers that lurk in decayed teeth
were strikingly shown last Friday, when
Louis Brien, of Philadelphia, died from
lockiaw believed to haye been caused
by germs that found Judgment ID his de-
fective teeth. We was tearing away old
boards, handling old nails and going into
cellar and attic, and it, is thought that
the germs disturbed in this work got
their revenge for being disquieted by
breaking into the castle of The mans
body through the OILY weak place in it
the neglected teeth.
President Roosevelt told one Of his
visitors at the White House yesterday that
there had been no change in his intention
to call an extra session of Congress on
October lG to deal primarily wirh rail.
way rate legislation. While that subject
will be the principal reason for the ex-
ira session, he said he would touch upon
the tariff question In his message to the
special session. The administration it
is said is standing pat against the ''stand-
patters" in its policy OF purchasing sup
plies for the Panama canal in the open
market and will buy abroad whenever it
is most advantageous to do so and admit
these supplies into the canal zone entire
ly free Of duty.