Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-01-10
News of the Day.

Five 6remen we're injured 10 $780,
600 Gre early today which destroyed Tue
Forester sn1 Cheney knitting mills at
Detroit.
Fire today caused $75, 600 damage 10
Albion, III. The chief business block
of the the town in fame aud the entire
city is threatened.
In the Senate yesterday Senator Gore
introduced q resolution making prest-
dents of the United States ineligible for
more than two terms in succession.
The Senate wss mildly surprised yes
terdsy when Senator La Toilette re-
signed as & member of the committee on
military affairs, one of the important
committee assignments Of that body.
In Newport, r. l., today mail car
riers delivered the invitations to the
wedding of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and
Count Schrecnyi that is to take place
Monday, the 9th Of January, at II
o'clock at west 58lh street.
Cyrus J. Lawrence, OF the banking
firm of Cyrus ]. Lawrence & Son, New
York, and vice president Of the Bush
Terminal Company, died Yesterday. He
was director of the New York, Gus
quehanna and Western Railroad.
DR.. Horace N. Marvin, Of Dover,
DEL, father of the Marvin boy wbose
disappearance last March upset the
police of many cities and as many States,
wss married yesterday in New York to
his motber-in-lsw, Mrs. Flora incline
Swift.
William Redmond, member Of the
British House of Commons, in su ad-
dress in Rome yesterday said that poliii-
cal liberties we're gresier in Australia
than the United States because lrlshmen
formed the nucleus Of the Australian
population.
Banks and financial institutions were
the heaviest sufferers in the financial
furry of 1907, according to the "anuual
report of failures" issued by Z. g. Dan
& Co. Altogether there were 1l,725
silu-es in the United States, for sl97,-
9S5, 225 during the year, compared TO
10, 6S2 failures for sl19, POI, 5l5in 1906
Judge Kohlsast, in the U. s. Circuit
Court of Chicago, rendered a decision
Yesterday In favor Of the Government in
the suit against Capt Oberlin NJ. Garter,
former u. 5. army eugineer, charged
With having deirsuded the Government!
to the extent of $1,000 900 through a con-
spiracy with contractors Greene and
Gsynor.
The most brilliant State function of
the official season in Washington wac
held last night, when the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt received the members OF
the diplomatic corps. All the members
of the diplomatic corps wore court or
military uniforms, while the ladies who
accompanied them wore handsome gowns
and Jewels. Other invited guests to the
number of several thousand were in line.
Martin Maloney, multi-millionaire
and Papal Marquis, simultaneously con-
firmed in New York todsy stories of the
suit instituted to annul bis daughter
Helen's marriage to Broker Arthur
Herbert Osborne aud denied that fl
nancial settlement was made on Osborne
or that the young womsD is to marry
Samuel ClaTkson, the young Eoglishm-n
with whom she was reported to have
eloped last Oclo5er.
A dispatch from Omaha says that the
separation between Ruth Bryan Leavitt,
daughter of William J. Bryan, and her
husband is fnal is indicated 10 letter
Mrs. Lesvitt has written to Miss Edith
L1cse, society reporter on one Of the
Omsha newspapers. Ruth Bryan was mar
ried October 8, 1903 When Mr.. and
Mrs. Bryan sent out invitations to the
marriage it marked the close of the
struggle in which the strong will of the
father had been overcome by the even
stronger will Of the daughter. Behind
the consent which these invitations sig
nifed was a story of supreme effort put
forth by the parent TO prevent the
wedding of their daughter to the young