Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-05
News Of the Day.

In some quarters it is thought Presl'
dent Roosevelt will appoint oscar ).
Ricketts, Public Printer in place OF FRANK
w. Palmer.
Prof. Philip K. Uhler, of Baltimore,
saws malarial mosquitoes are being car
red to the Blue Ridge Mountains by
freight cars.
Exports of steel rails and fittings in
August we're valued at $685. 1853, falling
below the figures of July, when they
we're swelled by agricultural machinery
sent to Argentina.
Albert Brandt, 80 years old, an engi-
neer, was MORALLY wounded in Chicago
Sunday 10 fight with his brother-in-
law. Thomas Harris, for the possession
of Harris's l8-montbs-old daughter
The Hamburg authorities say there
are no new cases of cholera there. Emil
grants from Russia en- route to the Unit
ed States are detained for four days and
subjected to a thorough fumigation.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works in
Philadelphia turned out 22O completed
locomotives in the month OF August.
This is at the rate of eight locomotives
per day for every working day in the
month.
Discarding her religious belief for the
sake of the man she loved, Miss Esther
Susan, pretty Jewess, Of Boston, was
yesterday baptized in the Catholic faith,
and Immediately afterward she became
the bride of Joseph Frances, of East
Boston.
Secretary OF War Taft and party were
yesterday entertained at luncheon in
Canton, China, by invitation of the Vice
roy, who was unable TO be present. The
Secretary, in a speech, said the boycott
of American goods was an unreasonable
violation of treaty rights.
President Roosevelt yesterday an
nounced the appointment of Robert Ba-
con of New York, to succeed Francis B.
LOOMS as Assistant Secretary of State.
According to Secretary Loeb, the sp'
pointment was decided upon sometime
ago before Secretary Root left for hi:
Labrador trip.
The divorce petition of James b.
Duke was released in the Office of the
Clerk of Chancery in Trenton, n. j.,
Yesterday. Mr.. Dukes bill is brief,
setting forth merely the bare statutory
grounds on which he seeks separation
namely, the alleged intimacy Of Mrs.
D.. DIXIE with Frank T. Huntoon, of New
York. Mr.. and Mrs. Duke were mar
ried at Camden, N. j., on November 20,
1904. They have no children.
A dispatch from Tangier, Morocco
says that the French ultimatum fixes
time limit expiring September 3. Il
the French legation withdraws it is ex'
pected that the British minister, who
fully supports the French demands, will
also withdraw. A popular outbreak i;
anticipated if France makes a naval oil
military demonstration. A feeling o.
panic prevails and most of the stores are
closed, owing to conflicts in the suburbs
between the followers of Raisuli and
other tribesmen.
Paris is stirred by the discovery that
the Shah of Persia, during his recent
visit 10 the French capital, employed
agents to lure beautiful young French
girls TO 90 to Persia and become inmate:
of his harem. Since his departure the
police have been besieged by the relatives
of an unusually large number of young
girls who have disappeared. What
makes the affair even more sensational
is that two girls in their COMES
sions are said to have implicated several
very high French officials and leaders o.
society, who, they say, we're paid com
mission by the Shah for every girl they
procured for his harem.
George Cobarth, the Germ antowr
blacksmith, who is charged with a Grim
inal assaultupon Miss Rosa l.. Holly, O.
Washington, at Germantown, about two
weeks ago, was, at hearing at Rock
vile, Md, yesterday, before Justice o.
the Peace Joseph Beading, committed t
Jail without bail to await the action o.
court at the November term. The testi-
mony was conflicting. Miss Mansfield
denied Miss Holly's statement. DR.
Shippers said she was suffering from acute
alcoholism. Miss Holly said she re-
membered nothing while in Coharth's
company. A witness stated be heard
her ask the defendant for money.