Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-22

president of the Riggs National Bank
and iormtr Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury, at 1910 / street, northwest
Washington. No one was 10 the house
at the me the FIRE started.
Justice Bischoff, in the Supreme
Court, of New York signed yesterday
the final decree granting to Fredsricks
Anna Won Bardleben, better known ss
FRITZ Schef, the actress, divorce from
Frederick Wilhelm Gustsve Carl Won
Bsrdleben, who Is known as q count in
Germany.
The Mssons of the State Of Washing
ton have placed ban on the liquor busi-
ness as means ofIivelihood for members
Of the order. The grand lodge at q
recent meeting made an ironclad ruling
prohibiting traffic 10 whisky by Mssons
within the Jurisdiction. Hereafter TO
engage 10 the liquor traffic Is to commit
Masonic offense, punishable by ex'
plusion, from which there shall be no
appeal.
A check for $9.975 was sent by the
government: yesterday to o. d. Earl, OF
Morrilton, Ark, in redemption OF 8
large roll of greeDbacks which Earl
buried in 1904 and dug up covered
with mud and apparently unrecogniz-
able. The amount of money which
Earl says he buried was $40, 600, so
that. considering the condition of the
"rolP' he sent to the treasury, ne is
considered lucky man not to have lost
more than $25 by the way he conceled
his cash.
It has Just been made public that the
political republican boss OF Mcdowell
county, W. Va, A. L. Calhoun, with
others of the same party, were last sun
day night quietly arrested for operating
a "Social Equality Club" at Blueheld,
w. Va. The clubrooms wtre owned by
e negro and it is charged white men and
negro women and white women and ne
gro men we're in the habit Of cong regat-
ing there to spend the evenings in social
gatherings and feasting. Those arrested
have waived a preliminary hearing.
The bride OF q week of Prof. Rud'
dolph Spitzsr. Of Sternberg, Mecklen-
berg-Schwerin, yesterday, threw herself
from the top of the Bismarck tower
at Heringsdorf, Prussia, falling
l. 200 feet to the bottom OF the
cliffs, upon which the tower is built.
The couple went there on their honey
moon. The woman left note address
ed to her husband asking his forgiveness
and requesting that be marry another
woman with whom he could be
happier. Prior to their marriage the
pair had been engaged for ten yeas.
George Edelep, a colored man, Malcolm,
No., was accidentally shot yesterday
afternoon while calling upon bis sweet
heart. While Edelen was paying court
to the damse futsy dog with an In
duslrious tail roamed restlessly about
the pair, and 6uslly upset a gun which
stood 10 a corner Of the room. When
the gun hit the floor it was discharged,
Eve buckshot taking effect 10 the ar
dent wooer's head. Edelen yelled and
ran st top speed 10 the Office Of ply
stefan who says the wound will not
prove fatal.
A message was received at Rockville,
Md, yesterday afternoon telling oil the
death at Asheville, N. O., of Oliver l..
Minis, who had purchase valuable
farm near Rockville from the Lyddsne
heirs few days ago. He returned to
Asheville to make arrangements for
shipping his stock and other personal
effects to his new home. Shortly after
reaching Asheville, while out driving
with his brother, the horse took fright
and ran away, kicking him In The sto-
mach, throwing him from the vehicle
and inaiet,ng other injuries from which
his death resulted.
All speed records OF the Pennsylvania
system were broken yesterday morning,
when a special train ran from Pierceton
to Warsaw, Iud., distance of nine
miles, in approximately four minutes.
A speed In excess OF 100 miles an hour
was maintained the entire distance. On
BOARD the train we're officials. experts
from the Pennsylvania shops at Altoona,
together with experts from Harvard
University. The object Of the run was
to test bridges, and other equipment.
Half an hour before the l0O-mile-an-
hour record was made, and in the effort
to reach that mark, the train was run
between Pierceton and Warsaw at so
miles az hour.
The members of the subcommittee OF
the American Monetary Commission
have held their last session in London,
and tomorrow they ere to separate, the
majority of them returning to America.
Senator Hale, OF Maine, will sail for
home on the Mauritania, ard Congress
man Burton. of Ohio, will leave on the
st. Paul. Both steamers depart today.
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, and Con-
gresham Vreeland, Of New York, will
90 ID Paris to look int the French fnsn-
cisl system, while Senator Aldrich, Of
Rhode Island, will spend holiday on
the continent Some Of the commission
ers may visit Berlin, but no official meet
ing will be held there.