Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-12
News Of the Day.


The military parade of 4, 900 men was
the feature of Inc Baltimore jubilee yes
terday.
Punch is authority for the statement
that Andrew Carnegie, while playing
golf on the Dornoch links, holed the
last hole in one and at once present.
ed library to his caddy.
DIR. Jean Charcot announced yester-
day at the session of the Polar Congress
10 Brussels, that he was organizing an
expedition TO the South Pole, and II
was also annuunc-d that an expedition
to the North Pol, is being organized.
Because she would not give up prop
erty that belonged to his dead wife.
Harry Diamond, % years old, today in
New York. shot and killed Mrs. Bertha
O,hen. his mo. her. n-law, and then shot
himself Diamond is in Bellevue Hos
pital 10 dying condition.
1t has been decided TO try the army
officers accused of graft in the civil
courts 10 Manila instead OF by couIt-
martial. Major General Wood has for
warded the paper TO Washington 10 con-
pection with the case. The officers
accused we're connected with the quarter
masters department.
The arbitrators recently appointed in
Washington to settle the differences be-
tween the master plumbers and their men,
who several months ago we're locked out,
reached a tentative agreement whereby,
pending final settlement of the case,
the men are 10 return to work rs fast ~
tho uaaotor plumbers can lind place for
them.
The grand jury 10 Chicago yesterday
voted indictments against Paul o. Stems
land. former president of the Milwaukee
Avenue State Bank (now under arrest 10
Tangier), aud Henry w. Herring, former
cashier, who ia now confined in jail.
More than twenty indictments we're re-
turned against each man, all of them
being based upon Encouragement of the
bank
Speaking at the outing Of the Repub-
lcsn County Association last night at
Nantucket, Mass, Senator Lodge de-
clared that the fruition OF the Bryan
proposition would mean a turning back
of the wheels of progress. President
Lucius Tultie, of the Boston & Maine
Railroad, in an address before number
OF prominent Bostoniaus at the Tedesco
Country Club, at Swsmpscott, predicted
that government ownership would be the
great issue OF the future.
Deserted by Charles Bruf, whose es-
cspsde with her caused his forced re-
signation as an ensign from the United
States navy, Olga Maxwell was evicted
from the Alabama Hotel, in New YorK,
Thursday night, upon the refusal OF Brua's
parents to continue paying her bills
Miss Maxwell asserts that she is the
young man's vile, and has consulted
lawyer with a view of suing his father
for the alienation of his affections. Brufs
has been taken away from the city by
the family, and, it is said, is in an up
state sanitarium.
When srraigned 10 Police Court 10
Washington, yesterday, Miss Eulalie
Pickett, clerk in the Department of
who was arrested several
weeks ago while, it is alleged, she was
attempting to negotiate loan of Sc. 900
on property belonging to Mrs. Fanny
Sprigg Perry, of Natchez, Miss, whom
she was impersonating, was held 10 3d.
500 bonds by direction of Judge Mills.
The charge OF forgery upon which she
was taken into custody in the Mrs. Perry
case was not pressed, but she was held
m charges of forgery in two cases which
developed after her arrest. In default
Of bond, she VAS committed to Jail.