Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-10-09
News Of the Day.

The main DullolDg oil the O9ldWtli
Hotel, frame structure situated one
mile east of The White Sulphur SPRING.
was destroyed by fire yesterday.
The proposed arbitration treaty be-
tween China and the United States has
been sigued at the State Department,
WI Ting-fsng, the Chinese minister, &C.
ting on behalf Of the Chinese government.
Colonel William F. Stewart appeared
before retiring bosrl 10 Washington,
yesterday which refused TO summon wit
nesses for him or allow him to take the
army test ride.
Refused divorce from one wife and
deserted by another, all in the same day.
Bostwick Parker, sixty five years old, a
civil wsr veteran, killed himself at War
red, Ohio, yesterday after setting fire to
his home.
Forest fires 10 the Adirondacks sgsiu
assumed alarming proportions. A big
force of men were sent ID protect Dr. w.
Stewart Webbs estate and that of Will
liam Rockefeller was threatened.
Comptroller of the Currency Murray
has announced that he will put into inn
mediate action a plan for the formation
of IL districts of national bank exsmi-
ners with a chairman examiner in charge
OF each.
Judge HeatoD, OF the Superior Court,
at Fort Wayne, Ind, holds that the
letters 20. K" written on the back OF
an order for money aud having a sigma
turs under them mean Gall right" and
are equivalent 10 an indUrSoment.
To perpeiuste the memory of the 81
patriotic women of Edentou, N. O., who
first defed the mother country 10 Octo-
Der, IVA, by declining to use any more
tea, bronze tablet has been dedicated 10
them by the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
Smallpox was discovered in Washing
ton yesterday. This is the first case
brought to the attention of the health
authorities 10 four months. James
Holz,tein, a Brazilian, living at 2Ol2
Davis court northwest, Was found to
have a mild attack of the malady.
Rev. Alexander Manu-, rector of Triu-
ity Church, Boston, recently elected
bishop of Washington to succeed Bishop
SstteFlee, had long conference yester-
day with committee of Washington
ministers. A. it, conclusion, DR.. Mann
told them that within four days he
would make known bis decision.
T. Brooke Harper, a retired theatrical
manager and civil war veteran, OF Read
log, Pa, is dead, aged rs years. He
wrote the war dramas "Ths Drummer
Boy of ShiIo," "Pide, or the Fortunes
and Msfortunes of War;" and others.
He was a lieutenant in the Twelfth
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.
Walter Rounds, of the Nineteenth
Maine Volunteers, was yesterday dis
honOrably discharged from the noun
tain branch Of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at johnson
CITY, Tenn, for writing a letter to
President Roosevelt, In which it is
claimed he made false statements.
Edward A. St.rn, secretary Of the
6tm of George Kfssler & Co., wine
merchants of New York, and brother
in-law of Mr.. Ktssler, was found dead
yesterday on the lawn in front of his
country place at Wave Crest, Far Rock
away. The coroner's physician issued
celtiicsts that destl was caused by a
cerebral hemorrage.
While clingiug to the top OF a pillar
Of the elevated railroad structure at One
Hundred and FifIy-ninth street and
Eighth avenue, to watch the New York
Chicago baseball game yesterday alter
noon, Fireman Henry T. Mcbride, OF
Engine Company No. II, lost his grip
and fell to the ground, He was in-
SANITY killed.
John Balto, farmer, of Wheeling,
w. Va, yesterday morning found
man leaving bis stable. Bsrto, who had
been watching for midnight prowler
for several nights past, opened FIRE with
a shotgun, with the result that Walter
Mills, a neighbor, had his left arm
shot away and was otherwise wounded.
Mills is 10 local hospital, with slight
chances for recovery.
Mrs. Donald Mclean, president gene
rel of the Daughters of the Am ericsn
Revolution, announced at a meeting Of
the Continental Hall committee, 10
Washington yesterday, that unless the
unforeseen happens, the hsll will be COM
pleted 10 time for the congress on the
10Th of April next. MIS- McLesn az
uounces that she has arranged for
5000. 900 loan to complete the Oontinen'
tai Hall.
The liner Majestic wed with the
"Litlle Church Around the Corner"
yesterday, when three Epglish girls in
the second csbin we're married in the
ships library t. men who clambered
sboard from the pier 10 New York after
the liner wss safely in her berth. The
young people had known each other
Tor long time. They just flew to
each others arms" said the purser,
land nobody could say anything against
it,"
When aboutto enjoy stri wrlde two
persons we're badly injured and Eve
others were shocked and shaken up rs
the result OF q collision shortly after 6
o'clock les. Dight between an Emory
Grove car and a bay wagon on the
Riester.town road, Pikesville, Nd. The
badly injured ara Mrs. Theodore Cook,
IT,, Miss Fannie COX, Mrs. s. @.
Waters, Mr.. Stuart Rosson, Mrs.
lLa.A...n.. Nj u ala w o. I'D rhan-