Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-01-03
News Of the Day.

A Sunday school conference 10 ar
range for uniform lessons was begun IN
BosIon yesterday with $4,000 sch oolS
represented.
Twelve persons were injured, seyer raj
probably fatal when street car on
s1burbsn line turned turtle today N
Memphis, Tenn.
Captain Winslow is said to have calle' 1
the attention of Secretary Mccall to tho
fact that Sorreon General Kixey violated
the naval regulations in cTiticising Ad-
miral Brownson.
Shareholders i'm the Republic Savings
and Loan Association, of New York,
which suspended payment and went in
to the hands of receivers in May, 1900,
will receive cents on the dollar.
District Attorney Jerome announced
today that the same line Of procedure
in the Ihaw case will hold as prevailed
at the last trial. He will be assisted by
Assistant District Attorney Gsrvin.
The Alabama 9 o'clock closing law
for cities of over Is, 900 will be given
test hearing in the courts end carried to
the State Supreme Court. The law went
into effect Wednesday night at midnight,
but only one-third Of the saloon-keepers
observed it.
John d. Rockefeller's annual New
Years elf. to the University OF Chicago
arrived Yesterday, one day late, in the
shape of donation amounting to g.
191. 600. Mr.. Rockefeller's gifts to the
university which be founded now totel
$2S, 500, O6I.9S.
The Countess OF Yarmouth, Harry
Thsw's sister, is said on apparently
unouesliouable authority in London 10
be preparing suit to nullify her mar
risge. 1t is understood the case will be
heard in Camera at the coming session
of the divorce court.
Receivership proceedings involvin
the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric
Railway Company and allied corpora
tons capitalized at $50. 900, 600 YVES
vacated today in Judge TuthilPs court.
A compromise between creditors aud the
railroad officials has been reached.
Negotiations for the conclusion OF
definite commercial agreement between
France and the United States are pro-
ceeding 80 satisfactorily that the French
government has extended the decree
permitting Porto R!can coffee 10 enter
France upon payment Of the minimum
rate of duty until February l..
Firing a pistol ball into his brain,
Mr.. William Glenn Brooke, member Of a
prominent Anne Arundel unity, Nd,
family, killed himself yesterday after
noon in the Hotel Lombard, in Balli-
more. For some time Mr.. Brooke bad
been respondent. His condition, 1t was
said, was due TO the fact that bis young
est son, Norman Hill Brooke, II yesrs
old, is suffering from epilepsy.
Surrounded by the paintings which be
loved, but which he knew were to be
soon nothing but memories because OF
bis fast failing eyesight, Marquiss Cos
slit Gaspsr, wealthy retired tea meT.
chant, and octogenarisn, shot himself
Yesterday In the sittlug-room of bis
house In New York, dyiug instantly. He
VAS found some time later by bis wife,
who thought him asleep at first.
Declaring the proh;;cciiinn laws as lar
as 1908 is concerned, unconstitutional,
the probate judge Of oullman county,
Ala, has issued nine saloon licenses and
the liquor establishments will be opened.
The mayor is said to be preparing TO
issue city licenses for saloons 10 the city
of Oullman. There is no excilemen
beyond the fact that the probibitionisls
have called on the governor to enforce
the prohibition laws.
Probably the frat lynching Of 1908
occurred at Brook Haven, Miss, yeser-
day, when g mob in broad daylight took
q negro away from police officers and
shot him. The negro, whose name was
not known either to the police or mob,
was accused of killing q policeman at
Oakyale, Miss, Tuesday night. The
negro had been arrested as suspicious
person because be came to Book Haven
to be treated for a gunshot wound. The
mob threw a lssso over his neck as the
officers were taking him to Jail. Owing
to the quick gathering of a crowd sn
effort to hang him was abandoned. A
negro who saw the body said it was that
that of COot Autmsn, accused of killing
a policeman in that vicinity December
10.