Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-20
News Of the Day.

Eight thousand Worzmen IN navy
yards will probably lose their jobs co6n
after the bstlleship feet sails for the
Pacific.
Vice Consul G5sse,t, at Kobe, japan,
has re ported 10 the State Department
thst babouic plague has made its appesr-
ance at Osaka, the largest manufacturing
city 10 japan.
Ia sn address to ihe correspondents
st Toxic yesterday on the close Of the
army msneuvcrs the japanese Minister
Of War said that as the great powers
we're constantly improving their armies,
ii was necessary for Japan to do the
same.
Fourteen horses were burned in f e
which consumed a stable at Sll-Sl5
Est sixiy.fourth street, New York,
early today. Mrs. Kate Sheban, who
owns the stable was carried out uncon-
scious from the smoke. The damage
was so, coo.
The widowed Baroness Adolphe dc
Rothschild died at Geneva, Switzerland,
of apoplexy, Monday. The Baroness
was a great friend of the late Empress
of Austria and was her guest at lnnch
the day the later wss asssssinated at Gen.
eva, September 10, 1898.
Henry @. Wright, president of the
Bay Grain aud Flour Company, commit
It'd suicide Monday night by shooting
himself through the head in stable in
the rear OF his residence, near Gainesville,
Nd. Liability to realize on property
is thought to have caused him to kill
himself.
Howard Gould yesterday scorel q
victory in the New York Supreme Court
when Justice O'Gorman refused TO
yacate the order for the examination of
Helen Mar, of London, England, Sc
GouId's witness in the suit for divorce
brought against him by his wife, kath-
crime Clemmons Gould.
The Alabama house general prohibi-
ton bill was passed by the Senate yeSter-
day, only two senators, Hammer and
Sprsggins, voting against it. Last night
residents of Mobile, where the opposition
10 the bill csntered, held mass meet
ing, at which 1t was proposed to take
steps to secede from Alabama, and attach
the city to either Florida or Mississippi.
In a pastoral letter read 10 all the
Catholic churches in Montreal sunday
Archbishop BIuche3i absolutely prohib-
its the solemnzistion OF marriages be-
tween Roman Catholics aud Protes!anis
by priests under his jurisdiction. He
makes the announcement that IN so lar Sc
his diocese is concerned dispensations
will no longer be granted to Roman
Catholics wishing 10 marry Protestsnis'
J. W. Csbaniss, president, and Cliff
Orr, cashier, of the defunct Exchange
Bank of Macon, Ga, were yesterday
indicted on three counts, alleging that
Orr enbezzled $50, 900 and Csbaniss
$500 The felony, according to the
Indictment, consists in their having de-
clared dividend when earnings did not
warrant it, and the misdemeanor in
borrowing $4O. OO0 jointly Without con-
sent OF the directors.
Anthony N. Brady and Thomas f.
Ryan were witnesses before the grand
Jury in New York yesterday in The in
curry whether a crime was committed In
the sale Of the franchise of the Court
landt aud Wall Street Ferris Company
by Anthony n. Brsdy for 1886, 900 to
the Metropolitan Securities Company.
1t was brought out at the hearing before
the public service commission tLat Mr..
Brady, acting on instructions, after
taking out $3.50, OOO, distributed the
balance among William O. Whitney,
Tbomss f. Ryan, Thomas Dolan, P. a
B. Widener, William |. Elkins, and
Moore q Schley, hankers.