Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-18
News of the DAY.

have protested against the dumping of
New York's garbage so close to shore
that it drifts in on the Jersey beach.
Judge James Hargis aud Sheriff Ed
ward Callahan we're yesterday acquitted
of the charge OF numbering james b.
Marcum at Beattyville, KY.
Dissolution of the Standard Oil Eu't
is said to be the object of proceedings
which the department Of justice ia pre-
pairing to take against that corporation.
While in the act of placing a number
of flowers upon the grave Of his wife,
Peter r. Meixell, an old merchant of
Wilkes Barre, Pa, yesterday fell Tor
ward dead. 1t is believed heart disease
caused the death of the old gentleman.
Bishop Spaulding, of Peoria, one Of
the coal strike arbitrsters, aud one Of
the leading Catholic prelates of America,
is in a critical condition at Sacred Heart
Sanitarium, near Milwaukee, with pa
rslysis.
John w. Clampitt, who, with Rever-
dy johnson, defended Mrs. Surratt fol-
lowing the assassination Of President
Lincoln, died yesterday at the Indian.
apolis City Hospital. He was born IN
the District of Columbia in 1888.
1t is announced at the War Depart
ment that the President had appointed
commission, created under the Mudd
resolution, to investigate and report upon
route for the construction of ship
canal to connect the Chesapeake and
Delaware bays.
With l65 sick marines on board,
nineteen of whom are seriously ill, the
cruiser Columbia has been ordered from
Dominican waters to Boston at once.
When the marines struck the hot climate
10 the canal gone, where the Columbia
was sent to prevent election riots, great
number contracted low form of mala
rial fever.
The New York World says "Harry
X. Thaw viii meyer be placed on trial
for the murder of Stanford White. an
application will be made for the ap.
pointment of commission toinquire in
to his sanity There is no doubt that he
will be declared insane aud sent to the
hospital tor the criminal insane at Mat
teawan."
1t is reported 10 theatrical circles that
there has been break between David
Belasco and Mrs. Leslie Carter-P Payne.
The marriage of Mrs. Carter to William
Louis Payne, the actor, is said to have
brought about this break, although
friends of Mr.. Beasco say that Mr..
BelasoO and Mrs. Garter haye not
been on the best OF terms for several
months.
The committee of trustees of the Mu-
tusl Life Insurance Company appointed
to nominate a new board of trustees to
be voted for at the annual meeting of the
company in December made its final re-
port in New York yesterday fnd in
doing so disclosed the fact that Henry
II. Rogers, aud VIM. Rockefeller of the
Standard Oil Company, had withdrawn
from further con nection with that body.
The Federal grand jury Of Cleveland,
Ohio, late yesterday afternoon reported
that no indictment had been found
against the Standard Oil Company and
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern |
Railway Company, IN connection with
the charge Of violating interstate com
merce laws. This action was decided on
because of lack of jurisdiction. The
case and oil the evidence submitted be.
fore the grand jury will be transferred to
Chicago where proceedings will be in
,tituted in the Fede,s court without
delay.
Not the least important development
in the Hartje divorce case 10 Pittsburg
yesterday WAS the outline of the defense
hat wgs disclosed by the testimony Of
Miss Ida Scott, the & year,old giSter Of
Mrs. Mary Scott Hart!e, who was put on
he stand few minutes before the ad.
ournment of the case until tomorrow
morning. From this testimony il was
gathered for the first time what plan for
accounting for the litputed love letters
will be followed by Mrs. Hartje's attor-
leys. That she had written two or
hree envelopes addressed to Tom"
Nadine, the coachman correspondent, at
he request of Annie Lutz, one of the
maids, and that she also bad given Annie
heels OF her paper, we're among the
igni6cant statements she made.