Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-26
News OF the Day.

t1e suicide pact hEI -eu upOu DtJHet
DIR. Frederick Ruth and herself 10 81
Omsba court.
George Moore, tged 20, son of Calvin
Moore, of Williamsport, Md fell from
Thomas Moore's boat in the Chesapeake
and Ohio csnsl above Georgetown Thurs
day night, aud was drowned.
Representative Nicholas Longwoith
and Herman P. G)ebel we're nominated
Yesterday for reelection by republicans
OF the First sud second Ohio districts,
respectively.
William J. Crews, for twelve years
manager for the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, at Raleigh, N. O.. died yesterday.
He was recently pensioned by the con-
psny for long service.
Mrs. Eliza B. Bragg, eighty-three
yesrs old, widow Of General Br,xton
Brsgg, died at New Orleans yesterday.
She was the daughter of Richard g,
Ellis, and was born in Adams county,
Miss.
Gov. Fort hiss been left $3.50, 900 by
the will of Mrs. Abby Ressoner, Of
East Orange, N. j., who was a close
friend of the Fort family. Her late hus-
band Was an official of the Delaware,
Lackawanns and Western Railroad.
Addressing two large gatherings yes
terday Mr. Bryan reiterated his charge
that President Roosevelt was not giving
him a square deal, but that the president
was using federal oficeholders as re-
publican asset. he hurled ridcule at
Judge Taft's tariff revision trusis.
Horace J. Day, aged Is years, con-
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
Philadelphia yesterday in the presence
of 15-yesr-old Florence Marshall, his
schoolgirl sweetheart, because he had
been forbidden paying attention to her
to the neglect of his studies.
The British shipbuilder5 who made
tenders for the construction Of l6 small
wsrships for the Argentine navy failed
to secure single order. The German
and Dotch builders we're under their
British rivals in price and all the ships
will be built on the continent.
The authenticity of the srlicle, which
the New York Times explains IL had
purchased of a magazine writer and who
made Mr.. Cleveland compare Mr.. Taft
| aud Mr.. Bryan as presidential candidates
to the disadvantage of Bryan is now
qualified by Mr.. Hastings, executor Of
the estate Of Mr.. Cleveland.
The international Fishery Congress
| yesterday completed its delib rations 10
/ Washington. A series of important
resolutions was pissed in omnibus form.
Many prizes were awarded by the com.
mittees for articles aud suggestions as Ia
the various modes of fish culture.
Sixteen charges of misconduct appear
10 Helen Kelly Gould's amended com.
plsint sgsiust her husband, Frank j.
Gould, whom she is suing in New York
for divorce. Some of the paragraphs
give the names Of the women correspond
enls, and these we're carefully concealed
By the lawyer who appeared before JUS
tice Glegerich yestsrisy.
Having by his strange actions fright
ened several women waiting at the Chat
han Squsrs station of the Third avenue
elevated line, in New York, for train,
Daniel Msrguetis, % years old, jumped
from the structure yesterday and landed
on the sidewalk at DoyerI and Mott
street, within six inches Of Policeman
Waller. The msu, who bad gone insane,
was 60 sererly Injured that he will die
Washington has again bten invaded
by clever apartment house sneak thieves,
books at police headquarters showing
that number OF houses and apartments
have been entered. The largest haul
was made in the residence Of Mrs. Helen
J. Pauldiug, 2l07 II street northwest,
between 2 and p. IN. yesterday, when
none OF the family was st home. The
thief or thieves succeeded in getting
away with $19l in notes, and as the
work showed haste, it Is the belief OF the
police that the house would have been
ransacked had not the intruders been
frightened away.
Investigation at the Interior Depart
ment has brought forth the fact that The
franchise to the Prairie Oil and Gas
Company, in Oklshoms, was issued BY
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, then Secretary
OF the Interior, as chsrged by Governor
Haskell. 1t further appeared that Mr..
Hitchcock granted the franchise unwil-
lingly, and only after he had once re-
fused to do so. When the secretary did
grant 1t, he yielded to an explicit in
struction from President Roosevelt. The
facts are matter OF record, in letter
flies and elsewhere 10 the Interior De-
paItnent.
The will Of Wipfsld Tucker, who
died at Lake TOxawsy, N. O., on Sep
TENDER 5, was fled in New York yester-
day for probate, 1t disposes Of az es-
tate said to be worth almost 81. 900, 900,
and the Domestic and Foreign Mission
airy Society OF the Episcopal Church is
residuary legstee. During his last ILL
ness, Tucker, who was G5 years old,
was attended by Miss Marie Lowe, a
nurse, OF Cour Isndt, Ala. 1t was re-
ported that Tucker aud Miss Lowe were
to have been married on the day Tucker
died. 1t was thought that Tucker had
provided literally for Miss Lowe in his
will. but she is not named.
ASSAULTS TIE CASHIER.
Hugh NJ. Kerr, cashier of the Ms
tionsl Bank of Commerce, the largest
financial institution of Norfolk, WAS rs