Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-22
News of the Day.


drug clerk is declared 10 have poisoned
a daughter of George II. Cresson, Of
Lake Forest, near Raleigh, N. @.
Belief that many Of the forest fres
now raging in New York state ere the
work of incendiares caused the commits
sioner of the forest, fish and game de-
partment to start a crusade yesterday
for the punishment Of the culprits.
Bringing back the daughter of Prof.
Egan, the United States Minister to
Denmark, as bis bride, Elmer Murphy,
Washington representative OF the
United Press, arrived at New York yes
terdsy from Copenhagen.
Frank Marin, the Brooklyn lawyer
who on Monday last was found guilty of
having forged mortgages entrusted to
him by client, was today sentenced by
Judge Dixie 10 the County Cont, Brook
lyo, to not more than twenty and not
less than Is years in Sing Sing.
That Episcopal clsrgymen are far be-
hind the ministers of other denomina-
lions in the matter Of large families,
was The declaration Rev. Cyrus Town
send Brady, of Toledo, novelist and d.
vine, made during an address to the
Episcopal Missionary council, in Ohica-
90, yest' rday.
Attorney.General Wade e.. Ellis, Of
Ohio, yesterday held that the msinte-
nance of separate schools for negro
pupils is illegal and brings out that such
q violation exists in Huron county.
The opinion holds that the denial to
colored children Of equal rights In a
graded school established for white
children is unlawful.
Two funerals IN Greenville, 8. O.,
yesterday evening rang down the curtain
on double tragedy which cost the lives
of two leading cit zens, A. B. Ketttell
and @. F. White. Both men were
drinking when White attacked Kittrell,
shooting him twice. Kitrell then got
the gun and fired two bullets into Whites
body. Both died within few hours.
Convinced, despite the diagnosis Of
physicians, that she had typhoid fever,
Marie Moriere, a French maid, yesttr-
day leaped to her death from the sixth
floor of Hague Court, a fashionable
apartment house on the upper west side
in New York. Her skull was crushed
on the asphalt paving of the court and
she died instantly.
Agents Of European noblemen seek
ing prospective wives will probably be
barred from Chicago. An ordinance is
being considered by the council judi
cisry committee, which provides that
auy person convicted of aiding, encourag'
ing or negotiating for a consideration
the scquaintancesbip between a man and
woman for the purpose of matrimony
shall be guilty OF a misdemeanor and
punished by fine Of not less than 5000
for each oftnse.
Charles Joseph Msgness, alias ]. @.
Hsrtlove, is in the Jefferson county,
KY, jail charged with being a deserter
from the navy. He married Miss Ada
German, second daughter of the late
Senator Arthur Pue German, in Louie
vile, on September g. When arrested
Mag ness had about Sc. 900 in cash and
eighteen 81, 900 government bonds on
his person. This money he obtained
from his wife. He said that she was left
800, 900 in money In addition to some
property from her fathers estate. Mag
ness admitted he was deserler.
President Roosevelt In an open letter
to Senator Knox, OF Pennsylvania, al
ticks President Gompers' proposed labor
measure, declaring it to be despotic leg
islatiou. He demands that Mr.. Bryan
state whether he is committed to Com
pers' labor legislation programme, and
points TO the Pesrre bill as a dangerous
invasion of property rights. The LITTER
deals at great length with the labor
plank in the democratic platform and
with the campaign uttsrances of Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation OF Labor.
Unconfrmed reports were received in
Muskogee, Oklahoma yesterday evening
that fifty or more lives were lost 10 the
cloudburst west of Shawnee yesterday.
As all telegraph and telephone communi-
cation has been interrupted, it is impos-
sible TO verify the rumors. A cloudburst
early yesterday between McLoud snd
Benson Park, Oklahoma, raised all the
small streams in the locality higher than
ever was known, and washed out the
Rock Island tracks between those points
and destroyed much property in the low
lands end along the Canadian river.
About 100 Shawnee and PoitsWatomie
Indians are missing.