Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-02
News Of the Day.

for the separation of church and State
in Algeria has been issued at Paris.
Eugene Fongere, a French actress,
was arrt sted Monday night at the con-
clusion of a performance given at the
Gayety Theatre, in Washington, the po-
lice alleging that her dance was obscene.
Cholera has spread to twelve Russian
provinces. thousands of persons have
died and the scourge in certain sections
is said TO be be- oud control. One death
from plague has been reported on an
Italian steamer which reached Marseilles
from ports ia Asia Minor.
After separating from her husband at
Newport and taking refuge at the home
of her millionaire father, Frank Work,
the beautiful Mrs. Fanny Aurel Batouyi,
formerly Mrs Burke Roche, began suit
for absolute divorce in New York yet-
terday.
A bill will be introduced in Spsin to
stop laborers from emigratiog to work on
the Panama canal, aud the government
has issued circulars which contain
charges of Misrepresentation by agents
and i'll treatment OF laborers.
The Kuicktrbocker Limited and the
shore Line Express, the two fast trains
OF the New York, New Haven and
Hartford service between New York snd
Boston, were in a rear-end collision in
the Union Station at Providence, r. l.,
early yesterday afternoon. Thirty per-
sons were injured, but none fatally.
Conditions are slightly improved in
The storm-swept district of southern
France. The storms Of the last fort
night give Indications of abating and
people are more hopeful. II ia believed
some of the wrecksge of vines and trees
can be saved il there are no further
storms or foods.
Sir Thomas Upton in letter to the
Royal Irish Yacht Club expressed regret
at the refusal of the New York Yacht
Club to accept his challenge, and an
nounced that he gave up hope of con-
test. The Irish club will take no ful-
Their action.
1t was announced in Boston yesterday
that the Suffolk couaty grand jury had
Indicted two Stale Senators, Represen-
tative, an ex-Representative, two alder
men of Boston and a bank president
charged with soliciting positions with
telegraph and telephone companies.
As was pre- licted fortnight ago co.,
tract hss been signed by the Western
Union Telegraph Company and the
Pennsylvania Railroad operating the rail-
road lines west of Pitsburg, taking effect
yesterday, whereby the Western Union
will operate over the same Pennsylvania
wires in that section as hitherto with
several notable additions.
Secretary and Mrs. Taft we're the
guests of honor at a brilliant reception at
the American consulate at Yokohama,
yesterday afternoon, under the auspices
of the Asiatic Association. Features of
the entertainment we're the presentation
OF silver tea service to Mrs. Taft from
the city of Yokohama, and the exchange
OF significant and friendly speeches be-
tween Secretary TAFT aud prominent
japanese.
S:ar ling charges of extravaganza and
neglectful management, or, If not that,
allure to account for millions of dollars,
are made by States Attorney General
Jackson in a petition fled in New York
yesterday, calling for The appointment
of receivers for the New York CITY Rail-
way Company and the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company, and also de-
handing The dissolution Of the New
York City Railway Company.
Miss Evelyn Cauble, aged fourteen,
daughter of David Csuble, who resides
on George Vanderbilrs Blltmore estate,
near Ashville, N. c., was chlorOfOrmed
at an esrly hour yesterday morning at
her home, and an attempted assault was
frustrated by the screams Of her ten
year.old sister, who occupied the same
room. The cries of the younger girl
aroused the girls parents, who put the
intruder to fight
In defense OF his own and his wife's
honor which he claimed had been i'm
pugned by a newspaper article, DR..
Frenzy, of st. Pierre, wounded NJ. Ma
zier, editor of the Reviel, of North Sgd
ney, N. s., 10 a fercely fought duel
yesterday. Swords were the weapons
used aud the men met by agreement in
rink in ST. Pierre. Msaier received a
sewers thrust through the right breast
after 10 minutes of hard fighting, and
bis second declared he could not con-
tinue.
A heavenly body that had the appear
auce of a huge sky rocket, and rose to a
great height in the western sky over The
Rsmapo Mountains, before it broke into
half dozen pieces, was seen last night by
many persons in the vicinity Of Suferp,
N. Y. When it was first seen it seemed
to be huge bullet.shaped ball of fire,
leaving trail of white light in its wake
When it had reached great height and
broke thespieces assumed purple hue,
while the head of the comet, if such it
was, remained white.
The American wife of Hugh Miller, a
wealthy young insurance broker, would
not accept the affinity plea" like Fred
erick Pinney Esrle's wife, and yesterday
she brought suit for divorce in the White
Plains, N. Y, Supreme Court, naming
as correspondent beautiful CArlotta
Knopf, 22-year-old heiress to a great
fortune, who is said to have discovered a
soul bond between herself and Miller.
All efforts to have the divorce obtained
secretly were wasted upon the wounded