Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-18
News of the Day.

to swing Secretaries ROOT anu OOrlelyOu
for Taft as spresidential candidate.
Oklahoma has ratified the enabling
act and becomes State so far as Indian
Territory is concerned. The new State
has gone democratic and has voted to go
dry.
Through the successful TRANSMISSION OF
two and one half quarts of her brothers
blood into her veins, Mrs. P. II. Welch,
of Chicago, is today on the high road to
health.
DR.. James Carroll, the last but one
of the famous Cuban yellow fever CON-
mission, and who braved death to prove
his theory of fever transmission, died at
Washington yesterday.
In st. Marearets Church, London,
this morning Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
and Miss Jean Leckie were married in
the presence of small select company.
Mr.. Doyle is 4S and the bride half bis
age.
Marian Grey, beautiful and cultured,
but under the charge of maintaining a
contraband "sfinity" club, in ElgiD,
III today deftd the United States au-
thorities to find anything illegal in her
business of uniting love-lorn souls.
Miss Lillian McCully, telegraph edi-
tor of the Oswego, N. Y, Daily Times,
was fonnd dead in her room this morn.
ing. She was about forty years old, and
prominent in literary and muical cir
cles. Heart disease was the Cause of her
death.
1t is generally understood in Wall
street that John d. Rockefeller, sr., has
of late been directing Standard Oil affairs,
owing to the indefinite absence of Fl. b.
Rogers. He has been at No. 26 Broad
way, the oil Offices, number OF times
recently.
Returning home for his noon meal in
Chicago today, George Zturnis sew his
father Martin, eyed "a years, place
pistol to the temple of his mother, Mary
As years old and pull the trigger. He
then turned the revolver against his own
skull and snapped it.
Agrariau troubles have broken out
sgain in southern Italy. The troops
present are insufficient to cope with the
rioters, who already have damaged
property. There have been frequent in
conflicts among the strikers, the nom
strikers, and the troops, in which the
soldiers have used their bayOnets freely.
Six young boys at the Convent of St.
Agnes, Sparkill, 10 New York, were ar
rested at that institution yesterday,
charged with setting fire to the convent
early Last Saturday morning, when the
building wss barely saved from burning
down with 600 children sleeping therein.
The boys made full confession, saying
they were tired Of the place and wanted
to burn it down.
Elmer R. Reynolds, a clerk in the
Pension Office in Washington, died at
the Casualty Hospital about l O'Clock
this morning, as the result of injuries
received when run over by an automO-
bile yesterday afternoon. The man was
hit by the automobile as he was alight-
ing from an eastbound car near the cor
ner of Third and G streets few minutes
after o'clock.
More than 81 900, 600 has been left to
the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsyl-
vania, as fund for the establishment
and maintenance of an institution for the
support and education of male orphans
of Mssons under the provisions of the
will of Thomas r. Patton, who died Sep
TENDER ID, and who was treasurer Of
the grand lodge for "a years. The es'
tate left by Mr.. Patton is valued at be-
tween 81, 900 600 and So, 900, 900.
Judge Grosscup in the federal court
at Chicsgc, yesterday fixed the bond for
the appearance of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana in its appeal rom Judge |
Landis' decision at 81, 600, 900. This is
to guarantee that all the property Of the |
in Illinois will be kept intact |
until the appeal is heard. He fixed the
bond in the plea for a writ of supersedeas
at $4,000 900. The Standard OIL Of
New York was accepted as surety in
both cases.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows at its first business session at
st. Paul yesterday overwhelmingly DE-
feated the constitutional amendment ex-
Guiding wholesale liquor dealers from
In the order. Retail liquor
dealers have been barred from member
ship for 10 years. The proposal to re-
duce the age of eligibility to member
ship from 81 to IS years was defeat.
ed. Denver, Col. wss selected ss the
place of meeting next year.
The attention Of the Pope is now d.
rected toward the excessive number of
religious houses in Rome, especially con-
vents for nune, many OF whom received
orders without the statutory donation,
thus burdenipg the scanty resources OF
The community. The Pope has not only
decided to refuse permits for the estab-
lishment Of new converts, but is inclin-
ed to suppress some of the existing insti-
tutor and order the nuns to return to
heir families. The Vatican is deter
mined net to grant further pecuniary as
sistance.
A conductor on the Louisville and
Nashville southbound train yesterday
Pjec'ed a passenger from the train at
Decatur, Ala, because he refused to pay
8 cents per mile to ride. The passenger
when asked for his ticket, il is said, ten
dered 2 ID cents per mile, the rate
adopted by the last Alabama legislature.
The conductor is said to have refused