Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-11-24
News Of the Day.

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York now than they did this time last
year.
1t was brought out ct the annual
meeting OF the Skin and Cancer hospital
that cancerous diseases are increasing
in that city. The hospital has been
forced to use extra houses for its work
because OF the la'ge number OF patients
In the main building.
Will Anderson, suspected Of being
Will Mack, the negro who assaulted
Miss NJ .yers, 16-year-old white girl,
ct Pelatatcbie, Miss, was shot Thurs
day night by a sherfi's pOsse ntaf
Brandon. Anderson started to roo
when aceosled by q 81 arching party, and
refusing to halt, received a load Of buck
shot in his back, dying instantly.
Field Msrshal Lord Roberts caused
sensation in the House Of Lords yester-
day by declaring thai highlands Trade
quale military force would Calse the
loss Of her supremacy ut sea. 10 a
studied speech he pointed out the CON-
parstive ease With which Germany
could land 40 army on the shores OF
England.
Hiding 10 the woods 10 Russia for
months, momeDtsrlly expecting to be
captured by the emperot's troops, and
seeing two companions shot TO death by
the soldiers, and then escaping himself,
WAS pant of the testimony given by Jan
Janoff Pourep, the political refugee
whom the Russian goverumeutis seeking
10 extrsdite.
The Kreuz Zeituug, OF BerliD, fays
that Chancellor Von Buelow took with
him to Pots6am last Tuesday on the &C.
casion of his interview with the emperor
document for the emperor to sigu
which has not yet seen the light. The
TsgebIatt has actrtsined in psrliamen-
t,ry circles that this was a pledge TO i'm
pose self.restraint upon himself in talk
ing with strangers, especially journalists,
but apparently the emperor failed 10
sfiix his sigDa'Dre.
Charles J. Msgness, who msrried
United States Ser ator Germans daughter
and was recently convicted of desertion
from the avy, left Phi'a ielphla yestsr'
day for Portsmouth,, N. H., where he
will serve a year in prison. Nagnes'
wa, accompanied by his wife TO Ports
| mouth. he was In the custody OF q
mats of the receiving ship Lancaster,
and the party occupied sea.s in a Pull
man Ger on the RI ling Railroad. Mrs.
Magness will take up her residence 10
Portsmouth in order to visit her husband
as often as the rules ofthe prison permit
Mr. John d. Rockefeler's cross-ex.
animation in the governments suit Il
dissolve the Standard Oil Company wal
nearly completed in New York yester
day. Several times when questioned
about previous testimony that conStit
uent concerns OF the Standard we're din
dependent" he answered 10 q circle
and Prosecutor Kellogg was unable Il
obtain answers that satisfied him. Mr.
Rockefeller denied thkt he oreaniz'd tht
oil trust, but gave the credit TO II. M
Flagler and 8 o. T. Dodd, He also
declsred he did not construct the frs
pipe lines.
The announcement tia! James A.
Cameron, Of Brooklyn, son Of the lac
James franklin Cameron and DR.. Eliza
bt tn Cameron, was to be nattied yester-
dsy 10 a Manhattan church to Miss
Obsrlotts f. Marsh, of Olsremont, Va,
created a sensation in exclusive circles
in Brooklyn, as did the announcemeDt
thai the ceremony would be private be-
cause of hi, recent divorce. Miss Marsh
WAS born In Detroit, Mich. Her father
G Gorge Foster Ma sh, a lawyer, went lC
Virginia when Miss Marsh was a child
Her mother is the new though. 'Priest
ess" and is from Claremont.
The Pa-ama Journal publishes story
ba', owing to the recent rains, por-
ton of the uncompleted Gatun dam,
which was built 40 feet above the SEA
level, was destroyed Saturday night, 9
portion of it 65 feet wide, so feet deep,
| and 40 feet high sinking into the earth
until the top of the dam WAS level with
the surrounding surface. The Ohagrea
river is described as flowing over the
site, and the railroad tracks, the pump
ing station, and the sides OF the lock a:
under water. 1t lie said the scene of the
accident is close to the spot where 1t Ii
alleged recent bOrings showed there wa:
a lack Of proper natural foundation.
Gordon Lsech, a Y. NJ. O. A. boy,
ran into President RoosseelPs Office 10
the west wing of the White House 81
6:45 o'clock last evening and delivered
the silver tube containing the MESA &c
of greeting from Mayor McClellsn oil
New YORK city. The message was
sta ted on its journey by Richard o.
Morse, general secretary of the interDa.
tiona committee, iu New York city q!
4 O'Clock Friday afternoon. 1t was ex.
pected to reach the president Saturday,
but bad ads and darkness prevented
the little rnnners from keeping up with
the schedule. The tube was delivered In
B fillmore at ll.30 O'Clock Saturday
night and LETT TIA, city yesterday
afternoon ct $3.50 O'Clock.