Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-17
News Of the Day.

The Hague peace conference will end
Saturday. The delegates will tisn the
final act tomorrow.
MIR. and Mrs. w K. Vanderbilt, sr.,
and the Duchess Of Marlborough sailed
from Cherbourg for New York yesterday
in the Kaiser Wilhelm ii.
The art treasures stolen from French
churches by the map, Thomas, who IS
under arrest in Paris, are estimated to
aggregate 10 value 81, 900, 900.
Twelve men employed by the Ecopomy
Light and Power Company, OF Joliet,
H., were drowned yesterday when big
scow on which they were crossing the
Illinois and Michigan canal, II miles
north of Joliet, turned turtle.
More than 100000 persons saw the
great parade of the frsternal orders in
Baltimore yesterday, and at the ball at
night at the Fifth regiment armOry fully
80, 900 were present The celebration OF
Home Coming week has been most sue
cessful.
The corner in United copper stock,
which on Tuesday gave evidence OF I'M
pending disruption, yesterday collapsed
entirely, the price falling as low as 10,
against 60 on Tuesday, and as one OF
the results the Stock Exchange firm OF
Gross & Kleeberg, of No. 20 Broad street
made sn assignment.
A rather novel experiment will be un-
dtrlsken by some 80 or 40 CLERKS and
letter.csrriefs of the Postoffice Depart
meat in Washington next Monday mora
ing. They will hereafter eschew the
street cars and will come from thei'
ONE, TO the department in the morning
and return in the evening on roller
skales.
Director BALM, of The Hamburg
American Line, was quoted yesterday In
an interview published in the Z:it, Of
Vienna, as admitting the report that his
company in ended to build steamer OF
AZ, 900 tons, larger than the Cunsrd
liuer Lusiiania, to be driven by COM
bination of turbine and reciprocating
engines.
A press dispatch from London
says: "Social circles here were SUI
prisad yesterday by the appearance in the
divorce court of Sir Merrik Raymond
Burrell. who asked for aud obtained a
divorce from his wife, Wllhelmina,
daughter of Walter Wiuans, formerly OF
B.limore, Nd. Capt. Henry King. OF
the Royal Horse Guarda, WIS named as
correspondent.
D clsring that the Indictment in the
handbook case against George L. Good
acre was valid, Justice Barnard, in
Washington, refused yesterday TO enter
tain the defendants plea for dismissal
The attorneys for GoCdacre, who is ac-
cused Of "satting up gambling table"
10 receiving money for bets on horse
races, maintained that the indictment
was defective 10 several ways.
A crop of suicides is expected to fol-
low the stranding of the Black Sea trans
poet Pruth on Berensean Island Tues
day. Drunkenness among the officers
and crew is said 10 have caused the acct
don't. Although the damage was not
serious, the government is 80 much ex-
asperated by incompereucy, intemper-
suce and corruption among both army
and navy officers that a rigid investi-
CATION has been ordered
Their honeymoon plans shattered by
the terrible explosion which on Tuesday
wrecked the compaDy's mills at Fonta'
net, I1d and resulted in such a large
50 of life, Alfred I. du Pont. vice pres
dent of the dU Pont Powder Company,
who on Tuesday WAS married to Mrs.
Alicia Bradford Maddox, in New York,
the divorced wife OF his former private
secretary, left Wilmington, Del, for the
scene Of the explosion, accompanied by
bis bride and Frank L. CODable, super
intendent of The black powder depart
ment.
Two hundred members of Almss Tenn
Ole, Mystic Shrine, OF Washington, their
families, and many friends received a
bad shaking up last night while on their
way from the Hsgerstowu (Md.) fair to
Washington. The train ia which they
were riding, while moving around a
curve at Gspland, Nd, at about twelve
miles an hour, crashed into a slow
pickup" freight which had preceded
the Shriners' train. 10 addition to being
knocked from their seats when the col
lision came, several members of the
party we're slightly injured.