Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-12
TELEdRAPHIC BREvITIsS.

TELE0RAPhIC BREvlTIES.
Governor johnson, of Minnesots, will
not be candidsts for reelection, but
urges Congressman Hammond for that
Office.
For the first time since M. Taft VS.
nominated Frank II. Hitchcock AID A.
I. Verys, of Ohio, met at Hot Springs,
today for consultation ON the campaign.
Wireless transmission of messages
through earth and water is the electrical
triumph which CASTOR Oacommi, an ir-
ventor, of Brooklyn, claims to have accom-
plished.
Miss Alice Webb Duke, divorced wife
Of B1,die L. Duke, millionaire tobacco
king, today was found guilty of swind-
ling the Great Northern Hotsl In Chi
csgo by the use OF worthless checks.
O. w. Moore, proprietor Of the Vir
GINA roomipg house at Trinidad, Colo,
today blew off the head of w. A. Oohn,
boardtr, when he found him in q
Pullman berth with Mrs. Moore, as the
couple we're about to elope.
Amid excitement unparalleled since
The Sully operation cotton besrs in New
York today drove the October down to
9 cents or more than two dollars bale
below the high level and Sept. 4. 20 below
the high of last Friday.
Fifty-eight automobiles we're destroy
ed and damaged estimated ct between
$500, 900 and $500, 900 caused By fire
which burned the O. A. Coey garage
and shops .tbis morning. The expIo-
sions of gasoline constantly endangered
the fremen.
Cardinal Gibbons today announced
that his health was go improved that he
expects to carry out all his European
plans, without interruption. He expects
to preside Sunday at the services at the
church of Santa Maria Trsste which is
titularly his church.
John Mitchell, manager of the Trade
Agreement DEPARTMENT OF the National
Civic Federation, and Ralph M. Essley,
its president arrived at Oyster Bay TO-
day, for conference with the president
on matters which they refuse to divulge
until after they had been t. sagamore
Hill.
Charles X. Lord, of Baltimore, form
ally president of the Baltimore 4 Ohio
Railroad Company, is ia a very serious
condition at the Presbyterian hospital
In Philadelphia and is not expected to
live more than few days. A sufferer
from malignant brights disease, he took
a decided turn for the worse today.
After spending the night in the police
station, and unable TO secure marriage
license, in Baltimore, because Of their
youth Albert TIllingbsst and Bessie
Edwards of Spronk, l.. l., who went to
Baltimore last Friday, having eloped,
from their home left today for the Long
Island town in charge Of Miss Edwards
mother and detective.
Mum was the word today when the
republican stats committee met at New
York so far as Hughes and his repomi.
nation we're concerned. The proceed
ny aide from naming Saratoga on Sept.
IA, IS the time and place for the state
convention, were enlivened only by the
springing of boomlet for President
Jacob G.. Schurman, of Cornell Uniyer-
SHY, who Mr.. Woodruff, admitted, would
make q mighty good governor.
Ex-Ministsr of Marine Stuart has
been ordered by the Dutch government
u assume command Of the naval opera
tions In the Caribbean Sea. He will
leave for Curacao shortly on the battle
ship Friesland. SIusrt IL naval COM
mander of recognized ability and his
selection to command the possible demon
stralion against Venezuela is considered
a guarantee that the Netherlands Ia in
earnest in its determination to bring
President Castro to terms.
Telegraph messages from Sand Point,
Idaho, say that that town is in immi-
ntnt dagger Of de-trGction by q forest
IRE which last night wiped out the town
Of Kootenai, burning the $500, 900 mills
of the Humbord Lumber Company and
making 800 people homeless. Five
hunjr.d out Of the 1000 population OF
Sand Point aided by the men who fled
there from Kootoosi and firemen from
Spokane are battling to keep the flames
frnn, the lona