Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-16
News Of the Day.

uent lawyer and democrat politician OF
Brooklyn, was found guilty yesterday OF
forgery in the first degree and was re-
manded for sentence next Wednesday.
Five men were blown to atoms and
from 10 to 20 others we're badly injured,
some fatally, by the premature explosion
OF dynamite at the Great Western Sugsr
Compsny's limerick quarry at Fort Ool-
Inns, Col., yesterday.
The Supreme Castle, Kuig hts OF the
Golden Eagle, yesterday In Washington
elected officers and selected Yonkers, n.
Y, as the next meeting place. DR.. o.
V. Krim, of Columbus, Ohio, was chosen
supreme chief.
Martha Bakhsb, a beautiful sixteen
year.old Hindu girl, reported to have
eloped from Norfolk several days ago In
company with a prince Of the same ma
tionality, was arrested in Washington
yesterday SIS fugitive from her parents.
She is held by the mstron of police.
Officials OF the Dlstrict of Columbia
health Office are vsiuly trying to discover
the cause of the outbreak OF typhoid
fever in Georgetown. Since last Thurs
day more than rs cases Of typhoid fever
have been reported.
The American Bosri of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions, in annual con-
venton In Brooklyn, yesterday decided
to hold its annual convention next year
In Minneapolis, and to celebrate in Bos-
ton in 1910 its centennial.
Just after making show of his field
10 the three heats of the West stake at
Lexington, KY, Allen Winter, winner
OF the Readville handicap and other
races in the Grand Circuit, was pur-
chased by 1. 5chlesinger, Of Vienns,
Austria. for $50, 600.
Tsmmlny Hall held a great political
meeting 10 New York last night In which
ell the candidates from Bryan down were
Endorsed. Mr.. Kern was present and
was given a grand reception. He said
it was the frst GREETING he had received
since he left Indiana.
s. 8. Rowland announced in New
York yesterday that the fall meeting OF
the Washington Jockey Club, scheduled
for Benning, had been formally declared
of. The passage of the snti-betllDg bill
by Congress last spring made 1t impos-
sible to 20 ahead with the usual session
at Benning.
Mrs. William Tucker, yesterday, 10
Chicago, withdrew the abandonment pro-
ceedings against her husband, Col. Will
liam F. Tucker. Her attorney appear
ed before Judge Gemmil and presented
an affidavit from physician 1ho had
examined Col. Tucker, stating that the
colonel was III, and that his illness
would be fatal.
That co-educstion 10 at least one
sense is a success was proved yesterday
at Alton ILL.,, when seven co-td fresh
men Of ShurllefI College gave Raymond
Carr, member OF the sophomore class,
a hszng be will not soon forget. Carr
was captured by the seven girls, tied to
q tree and t)rmented, and then desert
ed. he was rescued seven hours later
by a college officer. Carris said to have
gained the hostility Of the girls by some
remarks which he made at a class dinner
derogatory Of the co-sducstious system.
While pacing of number of "fresh'
students at the Taft cbool 1T Water.
town, N. Y, in the WISH room, late
Wednesday night, a master int'uded
and put q sudden end to the sport. The
up PIPER clsssmen did not like the act ons
OF some of the new boys, and so, after
they bad retired, the older Students went
to their rooms and OK them from their
beds naked to the wssbrOom below.
Yesterday afternoon the faculty met
and suspended four of the YOUTH,
among them John n Garfield, Of Wash
inston, D. O., son OF the Secretary OF
the Interior