Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-15
News Of the Day.

Senator Stephen b. Elkins, Of West
Virginia, says New York State will pres
ent the Hon. George Bruce Cortelyou
for President in the republican national
convention of 1908.
A North Carolina grand jury has
found indictments sgainst ticket agent
OF the Southern Railway for selling
transportation at rates above those estat-
lished by the legislature.
The general agents. of IA life insur.
ance companies have told the Governor
of Wisconsin that they will withdraw
from business in the State unless he We
toes insurance legislation now pending.
J. Pierpont Morgan appeared in a
London police court Saturday as witness
in the case Of Mrs. Josephine Leslie,
charged with defrauding people by rep
resenting herself to be friend OF the
American fnaucier.
The indictments against Generals
Stoessel and Fock and other Russian
officers on trial by court-martial set forth
that Sloessel and Fock deliberately sent
false reports of battles that never occurred
during the Russo-Japanese war.
1t was announced in Berlin yesterday
that the marriage of Miss Katherine
Eddy, of Chicago, to Senator Albert j..
Beveridge, of Indiana, will take place at
he American Embassy in Berlin on the
afternoon of wednesday, August Z.
William Bsrtels, the expert on ami
mails whose bird and beast farm at Glen
dale, N. j., had for many years been the
Mecca for those who we're forever search
ing for novelties in the animal world,
dropped dead Friday night while seated
at table in restaurant.
Ben Van AK, who five years ago sold
newspapers on the streets of Milwaukee
and played a cornet in the Milwaukee
Journals newsboys' band, has been
awarded the grand prize for cornet play
ing by The National Conservatory Of
Music, at Paris, France, an institution
supported by the French government.
Because Camp No. |, Army of North
ern Virginia, of New Orleans, was not
given the place of honor it believed it de-
served in the reunion parade at Rich
mond the camp has demanded an expla-
nation from Gen. j. Alphonse Pfud-
homme, commander of the Louisiana d.
vision, and threatens to Withdraw from
the Confederate Veterans Association.
In the course Of rebuttsl in the Hay
wood trial at Boise Saturday afternoon
the State introduced William Dewey, q
miner ard former member of the Western
Federation of Miners, who swore that he
accompanied the union men to Warduer.
He was armed with gun given him by
w. f. Davis, the defense's witness, who
swore that he was not at Wardner.
Dewey swore that Davis led the mob.
julius l.. Brown, a praelicing lawyer
of Atlanta, Ga, who had been attend
ing the Knights Templsr convention at
Saratoga, reported to the police Of the
Teuderloin station in New York Saturday
night that he had been robbed of$l2, 900
worth of stickpins and $3.50 in money
by girl whom he met on Broadway
that afternoon. Mr.. Brown, who is
sixty years old, said that he struck mp
an acquaintance with the girl ard she
invited him around TO her apartments at
152 West 9th street. Three women
were arrested and most of the valuables
were returned They were found in the
cellar of a house occupied by colored
people. Brown is years old, and has a
wife and daughter. 1t was said by some
lance of Edwards, the colored man
arrested, that the latter was a SD degree
Mason of the colored order. Brown was
also thiriy-ihird degree Mason. Neither
was observed to make the high sign TO
the other in court.