Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-17
News Of the Day.

The lopgshoremen's strike in New
York continue. There were no new
phases in the situation today.
From all directions reports are reach
ing the Department Of Agriculture that
the terrapin scale is iDjuring the peach
crop.
Preliminary steps have been taken IN
San Francisco to remove Chief OF Ponce
Oman and make other needed changes
in that city.
Gen. James Grant Wilson, soldier,
author and lecturer, and Mrs. Mary ID.
Nicholson, widow of Admiral Nicholson,
we're married in New York yesterday.
At banquet given in honor Of j. |.
Rodgers, United State consul general
at Shanghai, the Chinese speakers de-
clared that the American famine relief
had healed all breaches between China
and the United States.
Isaac Stephenson, Of Marinette, was
nominated for United States Senator in
the republican caucus at Madison, Wis,
last night to succeed John @. Spooner,
resigned. Mr.. Stephenson is wealthy
lumberman and banker. He was born
in Fredericton, N. j., in 1929.
DR.. J. R. HowertoD, of Montreal, N.
c., was yesterday at Birmingham, Ala,
elected moderator Of the General Assem-
bly of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States Southern Presbyterisns)
the forty-leventh annual General As
sembly Of which began ten days'seSsion
there yesterday.
DR.. Richard L. Cook was made de-
fendaut 10 a suit for divorce in Washing
ton yesterday. The wife who sues is
Mrs. Helen Finley Cook. DR.. and
Mra. Cook have resided in Washington
since their marriage in Charlottesville,
June "a, 1903. The wife charges inf
deity, cruelty and drunkenness.
The case against Samuel Ii. Agnew,
accused by Mrs. Carter Keeue of obtain
ing money under false pretenses 10 con-
nection with certain dealings in stocks,
was fled in the Police Court in Wash
ington yesterday, and the hearing in.
defuitely postponed. Few additional
facts were brought ont in regard to the
case.
Because a pretty dancer kicked her
dainty toes at smoker given recently
by the Business Mems League, and sang
catchy song, "Not Necessarily So"
the pious members of the Good Citizen
ship league of Atlantic City have fur
nished the prosecutor with the names Of
ten of the lesding business men who
we're present, requesting him TO place the
matter before the grand jury.
The case of Mayor Eugene Schmilz,
of San Francisco, charged with extor-
ton. will go before Judge Dunno next
Monday. Assistant District Attorney
Heney intends to rush the case TO COM
pletioD, having stronger case against
Schmitz than against the penitent boss.
From what could be harmed yesterday it
had been arranged for Ruef to tell what
he knows of graft on the part of Mayor
SchmiiZ.
The adoption of resolution in favor
of the movement to ask the Baptists OF
the country to give one-Ienth toward the
advancement of the work of the church
and a resolution urging President Roose-
vel. to inquire into the reasons why the
Congo outrages have not been inv6sti-
gated we're the features yesterday of the
fourth session OF the American Baptist
Mission Union in session at Washing
ton.
The British steamer Marie Therese,
which cleared few days ego from Gibral-
tar, sprung aleak shortly after leaving
that port. The crew worked at the
pumps for two days and two nights in an
effort to keep the water under, but finally
they were forced to take to the boats In
the Gulf of Lyons. A few minutes
afterWard the steamer went down. The
meu were in tue boats for 80 hours
when they were picked up, half dead
from exhaustion, by an outward bound
steamer, and carried to London.