Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-20
News of the Day.

in New York yesterday.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given 1925, 900
to the association for the Relief of Res
pec;able Aged, Indigent Females in The
city of New York.
Prof Samuel w. Williston OF the
Chicago Unworthy predicts that the day
will come when women will have mus
taches and full boards.
John F. Stevens, former chief engi-
neer of the Panama canal, has been
made vice president of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
Midshipman Cruise died at the naval
hospital in Chelsea, Mass, yesterday,
making the tenth fatality due to the
recent explosion on the battleship
Georgia.
While drawing a small toy wagon
loaded with wood over lot in Baltimore
yesterday 10-year-old George link gol
tangled in a live wire and was fatally
burned.
1t is stated that this country spends
sc, 600, 600, 900 annually on the crimi.
nal, pauper and vicious classes, and the
annual increase CT wealth is only So
900, 900, 900.
Mrs. Josephine Leslie, arrested charg-
ed with defraudipg members of we'll
known Euglish families by false pre-
lenses, and who represented herself as
friend of j. Pierpont Morgan, has
been committed for trial in London.
Miss Mabel Humphreys of London, a
pretty actress appearing at local theatre
was married in Philadelphia to Viscount
Jacobus Johannus Volkhenius. rich
tobscbo planter Of Batavia, Java. The
bride made her debut on the stage five
years ago.
While Queen Maria and her second
son, Prince Manuel, were automobiling
recently, they were stoned by hoodlums
in Lisbon. Her majesty was struck on
the arm. She stopped the Car, meaning
to question her attackers, who thereupon
bOlted.
DIR. William d. Corse, of Gsrdenville,
Md, was struck by bolt Ct lightning
on the back of The neck during the storm
Thursday night and fatally hurt. The
lightning travelled down his spinal col
umn to his left foot. He was in his
stable when he was struck.
The jury of Union County Superior
Court, N. c., In the case of John Jones,
one OF the 90 residents of Arson county,
charged with lYnching John V. John
sou, at Wanesboro, May 20 of last year,
Yesterday returned verdict of not
guilty, after being out half an hour.
District Attorney Jerome, of New
York, says he did not prosecute life in
surance officials, as he promised in his
campaign, because of lack of evidence.
Supreme Court Justice Dayton has asked
Jerome to produce list of those con-
tributing to the District Attorneys cam
paign fund.
While the Crown Prince of Bulgaria
was motoring 10 the district affected by
agrarian unrest he was stoned and hurt
by peasant in street of small town.
The Prince stopped the car, alighted
and chased and captured the man, whom
be banded over to the police. The Rou-
manian government has sent troops to
the district
With the peacesble dispersal yester-
day of a posse of 300 men who had
formed at Gretna, La, TO lynch the
Italians convicted Thursday night OF the
Lamana murder, the crisis of the kid
mapping incident appears to have been
safely passed. Governor Blanchard
prompt action In ordering out two COM
psnies of State troops within two hours
after the verdict is believed to have saved
the Italians lives.
The entire force OF men employed in
the paint department of the Southern
Railway shops at Spencer, n. O., went
out yesterday afternoon on strike for
an increase of 30 cents a day. Their
demands for raise had been passed up to
the officials Of the company, at Wash
ingtor, some weeks sgo, aud the matter
has been under consideration this week.
1t is not known whether the strike will
become general.
A dispatch from Rome says a member
of the Pope's household in an interview
published last night says Pope Plus
hesitsted somewhat before he took the
grave step of ordering the publication OF
the syllabus with regard to the so.called
modernism in the faith. 1t was declar-
ed that all bis doubts were removed by a
apparition of the Blessed
Virgin, which extended its hand in a
gesture of benediction and encourage
ment over his head as If in answer 10 his
prayer for heavenly guidance, and that
the Pontiff thereupon rose from his knees
and signed the decree.
Judge Kimball of the United States
branch of the Police Court, of Washing
ton, says he will impose Jail sentences
upon men convicted OF making hand
books ON the races; Major Sylvester,
of the Police Department
lys he will exert his best efforts to ar
rest every person engaged in the business
and Prosecuting Attorney Given has in
creased the amount of bond to be re
quired in handbook cases TO 81, 900.
These are the developments in the an
swer to the demand that the most popu-
lar and practically open form of gamb-
ling in the District shall cease. The
arrest of one man Thursday was follow
ed by his demand for jury trial, which
means weeks of delay. Meanwhile the
making of hsndbooks continues,