Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-09
News Of the Day.

Cardinal Rampolla is reported W be
so i'll that his recovery seems doubt ml.
Maud Come, the 'Irish Joan of Arc, {"
was refused an absolute divorce 1rf I'm her
husband, Major MscBride, by a Paris
court.
1t is reported in Toledo, o., that the
Pope has chosen Rev. Joseph Weber as
the Polish Catholic bishop in tn United
States.
A letter from the Vatican 90 the Cath
olic Total ALstinenbe Union says the
Pope desires all Catholics to become total
abstaipers.
The Georgia Senate yesterday passed
the House bill sppropriating $50, 900
for Georgia's representation at the
jamestown Exposition.
The expulsion from South Africa of a
small party of American negro preachers
who are sgitsting the doctrine "Africa
for the Africas" is urged.
Rams Horn, the four-year-old son OF
Bute-Aunt Tesss, who recently won
the $25, 900 Brighton Handicap, died
yesterday ct Sheepshead Bay, after an
illness of several days.
Senator Fred 7. Dubois was yesterday
rerominsted by the Idaho democratic
convention, which adopted strong anti
Mormon resolutions. @. o. Stockslager
was nominated for governor.
In asserting its right to 1927, 555 the
Catholic University attorneys in Wash
ington state that Waggaman gave the
university bill of sale on his art col
lection nearly three years before he failed.
Deprived Of speech IA hours by fright
in thunderstorm Tuesday, Mrs. Her
bert Hebert yesterday recovered her
voice under the attention of the ply
sicians in the Harlem Hospital New
York.
The weekly statement of the District
of 'Columbis Health Office. submitted
to the Commissioners yesterday showed
an alarming increase in the number of
typhoid fever cases for the week which
ended August f.
William Esler, of townsville, Wis,
killed his year.old daughter Tues
day night by striking her over the head
with Jug. He says he killed the child
because the mother did not want it, Be-
fore killing the child Esler drove bis wife
out of the house with an axe. He was ar
rested.
The Federal grand jury of Chicago,
yesterday returned an indictment of Is
counts against the Standard Oil Com
psny, charging nonpsyment of storage
charges to certain railroads. procuring
thereby unfsir and illegal advantage over
their competitors in violation of the
Elkins law
Official adyices received in Washing
ton state that the former "mOdel city"
of the Russians in the far East-Dalny
which has been renamed Dsiren by
the japanese since the CAPTURE OF Port
Arthur and the transfer eff the city to
yhem, will within short time open its
doors TO the commerce OF the world.
An aged white man, named Wright,
is in jail at Fort Payne, Ala, charged
with murder, near Lydia, Ala. Wright
went to the house of his sons-in.law, Sam
Bailey aud John Bailey, and began to
abuse his daughters. The Baileys re
monstrated, and John Bailey's thr,at
was cut by Wright so badly that he died |
almost instantly. Sam Bailey, who was
holding an infant 10 his arms, was also |
stabbed 10 the throat, but will recover.
Wright has surrendered.
For using the U. S. mails to defraud
Wholesale grocery firms throughout the |
country A. Donaldson aud J. B. Powell |
are now serving terms in the Atlanta
penitentisry. They began business at
Smithfeld and Newport News, Va, un-
der the firm name of F. II. Carr Il Co.,
as wholesale grocers and general mer-
chandise commission merchants. After |
obtaining price lists and catalogues from
weIl-known Wholesale houses they in
duced many OF the firms to ship large |
quantities of goods to them at .Smithfeld,
from which place the goods we're reship |
ped to Newport News, Norfolk and
Berkeley and there sold at ridiculousy |