Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-12-28
News Of the Day.

The monthly statement OF tne bureau
of statistics shows falling off in both
imports and exports.
The United States reciprocity treaty
with Cuba expired yesterday, and will be
renewed for another year.
-Four million trees we're required TO
meet the Christmas demand this year,
according to the forestry bureau.
Ex.Judge Charles E. Phelps, for 26
years a member OF the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore city, died yesterday mort :
ing at his home in that city.
A student of astronomy at Maiuz, on
Saturday, killed bis father, DR.. Racke,
fctmer member of the Reichstsg. and
three sisters because his demands for
money were not gIati6ed.
The jury in the case OF Beach Hargis,
charged with the murder of bis father,
Judge james Hargis, failed to sgree at
Irvine, KY, on Saturday and was dis
charged. The jury stood nine for &C.
qultlal and three for conviction.
Rev. W. E. Bird, pastor of the Fourth
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church,
Baltimore, was suddenly stricken with
indigestion In the midst Of his sermon at
the services yesterday morning and col
lapsed in the pulpit, creating much ex-
element He soon rallied, however.
The will OF the late Claus Spreckles is
10 the possession of the widow, Mrs.
Anna Sprecklss, and will be opened in
San Francisco today. 1t is said that sll
OF the dead capitalists children share in
the estate, the value of which is various
ly estimated at from $40, 900, 900 to $780,
900, 900.
Rev. r. Ashton Curtis, a graduate of
the Virgins Theological Seminary and
formerly an active worker among the
Indians and Mormons aud In the coal
mining regions OF Idaho and Wyoming
has been elected assistant rector of ST
Marks Protestant Episcopal Church,
Washington.
Henry Ruble, son Of Rev. j. A. Ru-
BILE, chaplain az the Soldiers Home, at
Johnson City. Tenn, was arrested and
placed 10 Jail at Knoxville yesterday on
the charge of criminal assault, his al
legged victim being Lula Blrch6eld, q
fifteen-year-old girl, living with her
father, south of that city.
Illinois leads the states of the union
10 the grand totsl Of the number OF
divorces granted during the past 20 years
according to completed statistics on mar
risges and divorces, just issued by the
census bureau. The record for this state
during the period 18S7-l9G6 was 50, 2O9.
Delaware bad the least numbeT-887
Practically every moving picture show
in greater New York that vas closed by
Mayor McClellan's order Christmas eve
reopened its doors Saturday night, under
an Injunction granted by Supreme Court
Justice Gsynor to the William Fox
Amusement Company, suspendiDg in its
case the mayors license revocation de-
cree.
While bathing in a small bathroom 10
a fat at 40 Thirteenth street northwest,
Washington, Yesterday afternoon, Will
liam MCGOWAN, thirty-two years old, q
bartender at the Willard Hotel, wss
overcome By gas thought to be carbon
monoxide. He was found 10 the bath
tub with water up to his chin, by his
wife, Rachel MCGOWAN.
The mother of twenty children 10
twepty-eight years of her married lite
! vas the story told by Mrs. Samuel W.
House in court in Hsgeratown Saturday,
when she appeared as the chief prose-
cutting witness against her husband,
charging him with cruelty beating her
aiteI he had come home on Christmas
Day under the Influence of liquor.
The total number of miles of railroad
constructed during 1908 In the south,
including Missouri and Oklahoma, WAS
l, 760 miles, Last year there we're over
$500 miles built. The greatest amount
of construction accomplished in any one
stats was in Texas, where practically $40
miles we're built. Arkansas came next,
with 213 miles; Virginia third, with 210
miles.
With the merry laughter of his eight
children ringing through the home as
they played beneath their Christmas tree
on the floor below, Robert h. Heine-
man, of Philadelphia, tip-tOed into the
bathroom late Saturday afternoon and
killed himself. What motive there was
for seeking death, neither wife nor
friends knew. Heinemsn had been i'll,
suffering from grip.
Gomez has been recognized by all
Venezuela as president, even OelestlnO
Castro, the ex-president's brother, hav-
ing accepted bis rule. Suits have been
brought against OiprisDo Castro which
are expected to cost him So 900, 900.
The boundary dispute with Colombia
has been settled. Since Gomez took
charge of the Venezuelan government
there has been q marked Improvement