Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-14
News of the Day.

Lord Curzon's impending resignation
Of the Indian viceroyalty Is rumored
more positively than ever.
President Roosevelt is authority for
the statement that Congress will Prooa-
bly, not be called together in extra ses
sion.
Fever statistics 10 New Orleans are as
follows: New cases yesterday, 90; total
cases, 1868; deaths yesterday, II; total
deaths; 1914
Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the South
ern Methodist Church, is ill with tuber-
cuosis at AshevilIe, N. c., and there is
little hope for his ultimate recovery.
Many of the congressman with Secre-
tary Taft's party who were opposed to a
reduction of the Philippine tariff are now
in favor of free trade with the islands.
Traffic is tied up on the Chesapeake
and Ohio cana! as the result Of serious
washout in the tOwpath on what Is
known as the four level, between
Big Slack Water and Kerfoots Lock,
near Sharpsburg, Nd.
One of the greatest horse races of the
year was run at Saratoga, n. Y, Satur-
day afternoon, when James r. Keene's
Sysonby fully justified his title OF king
of the turf in winning the Great Republic
stake worth $50, 900 to his owner.
The Venezuelan government has
signed 100000 contract with the
Schneider Company, Of Creusot, France,
for eight batteries of 75-millimetre cam
paign guns and four batteries Of moun-
tain guns of the same calibre.
Helen Elster, who was not thirteen
years old, died in the Postgraduate
Hospital, in New York, Thursday
night, but her girl baby that came into
the world as Caesar did, is doing well in
the hospital, and is expected to live.
While Thomas O'Hara, of Jersey
City, WAS bouncing his eightmonths-old
daughter Ellen on his knee at his home
last night, the child wriggled out Of his
grasp and pitched headlong out of a
fourth-story window. She struck on her
head in the rear yard. She died 30
minutes later of fractured skull.
Two cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis,
or spotted fever, in which both victims
are boys who frequented the public bath
house, in Philadelphia, have led DR..
Francis Pounds to believe there are
germs of the dread disease in the pool,
and he will ask the Bureau of Health to
investigate. Both boys were seized with
commissions just after returning from the
bath.
Charles McLaurin, relative of Sena-
tor McLaurin, is dead at Tanning, Miss.
and Ernest Moss, the postmaster, is
barely alive as the result of duel Sat
urday night. Bad blood existed between
the two men over the postmastership OF
the town. The duel was fought with a
Winchester and a revolver. The men
fired several shots at each ether each
being badly wounded in the abdomen.
With her eighteen-months' old baby
peacefully sleeping in her death-rigid
arms, the body of Mrs. James f. Daley
was found yesterday, shot to death in a
saloon in Chicago by her husband, a
bartender. Ghe wife upbraided Daley
for his attentions to other women. He
shot her in the presence of their baby
daughter, and left the dead woman and
the child in the barrooom. Daley was
arrested in a saloon near by. The
police hurried Daley TO police station
to prevent Infatuated neighbors from
attacking him. Daley said he killed
his wife "because she did too much rub
bering."