Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-01
TELEdRAPHIc BREYITIes.

TELE0RAPHlC BREVlTlES.
A dispatch from Boston says Thomas
W. Lawson ia seriously i'll. There is q
rumor that be has suffered general break
down
Alfred Grubbs, farmer living near
Front Royal committed suicide yesterday
by shooting himself. Ill health Is pre-
sumed to have been the cause of his act.
No provision was made today for the
payment of the semi-annual interest on
the general 4 per cent bond OF the Sea-
b )ard Air Line of which the Continental
Trust of Baltimore is trustee.
After spreading terror throughout the
countryside from New Brunswick to
Bound Brook. N. J lion, escaped
the winter quarters of a circus and pur'
sued by hundreds of armed men was
shot and killed today,
Cholera has reached the stationary
stage in st. Petersburg, the new case;
reached in the last few days showing
but little variation. There we're 267
new cases reported up to 4 O'Clock this
afternoon aud 119 deaths.
At seven o'clock, as the whistles o.
the Hartford Carpet Corporations, fac
tory st Thompsonville, Conn.,, sounded
its call to work, Theodore Roosevelt, jr.i
entered the gates of the establishment
and began his career as bread winner.
He will receive So week at the outset
The assets of the Pillsbury- Wash
burn Company, at Minneapolis, which
was recently placed in the hands OF re-
C sivers, will exceed the liabilities by
81, AS, 646, according to the report
made today BY the accountants to The
receivers.
"ShoW me a Cuban today Who II
clamoriug for annexation and will
show you an ally of sugar trust" said
General Demitrio Castillo, former COVER
nor of the province OF Sautigo and
leader of the liberal party today In Ne"
York.
Charles B. Roberts, the wealthy
Baltimore clubmsn, victim Of the At
lantic City boardwalk shooting, has sc
far recovered from his wound that he
was able to leave the hospital today enc
is now at the Hotel Brighton in company
with Mrs Roberts.
Joseph K. Emmett, son OF "Frietz
Emmett, the old time actor and who is
himself an sc:or was today granted de-
cree of absolute divorce in New York
from bis wife. Lydia Emmett, known on
the stage as L tie Gibson. Testimony
accused Mr.. Emmett with misconduct
" tn Billy Hart, vaudeville actor.
Alter a hested discussion between
counsel 10 the New York sup ren,e Court
,dsy Ju tee Giegerich sbjou rned until
o, tober 18th, the application of Ksthe'
rine Clemmons Gould for $40, 600 q
month alimony and $15, 900 co uusei tees
in her suit for divorce from Howsrd
Gould.
The day was getaway day for the COR
veBtion of the American Bankers AZ
ISOLATION at Denver and it was devoted
to preparations for the election ofoficers
and to addresses by prominent Kankers,
most OF whom took occasion to denOunce
the bank guaranty and postal savings
bank plsrs. George M. Rey holds OF
Chicago will be elected presld ent
John Redmond, Irish home rule lead
or, after a monster meeting " ent to bis
hotel in Chicago last night and wrote
about his success to friends 10 Ireland.
Redmond and his wife left today fer
New York and will sail for Ireland early
next week. A fund of $40, 0C'0 to help
the Ireland nationalist psrty's cause wss
contributed st the meeting.
Revolutionary changes in trsns'A'-
lantic shipping will result from q COM
prehensiYe working agreement BETWEEN
the Ouusrd and German lines, the news
Of which leaked out today in Liverpool
Officials of the various liIies in the new
agreement refused absolutely to give out
any details. A pooling arrangement
for third class traffic is already in prog
ress
Robbed six times 10 three years, and
on one occasion twice in three days, the
postoffice at Bridgewater, FIVE miles from
New Milford, Conn.,, was again st tipped
by "yeggmeb" today, This time taey
got $500 in money and stamps. Once
before the burglars blew the slfe of the
postoffica, getting $4,000. The follow
log day a new safe IVES install ed and on
the next day the thieves retU rned and
demolished it,
At Poughk' e2se, n. Y. today Mr.
Stuyyesa1t ChsnIer and tbs Nominees al
the democrat, convention at Rocheshr
wss notified Of their sci sction. Judge
A ton B. Parker delivered the no tiff, alton
speech. In accepting the hon or con-
fr'ed upon him Mr.. Ohanler &C 'dressed
a special word Of thanks to neigh bors for
their life long loyalty and promised bis
best endeavors 10 their service 1ould be
be elected.
The democratic state convention Of NGsss
chusetts today will nominate Stat Seq .tc !
James II. Valley, Of Waiertown, for COVER Tor
For the second place the delegates nave pcscr,,
tically decided upon John Colder !, of r. II
River a labor leader Of promineT zee. John
Alden ThayeP, Of Worcester, is the only cam