Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-18
News of the Day.

Col. Joseph Noble, assistant chief OF
the division OF loans snd currency OF the
Treasury Department, was stricken with
heart disease 10 his Office in Washington
ye,tsrday and died few minntes later.
Mrs. Charles kaufman, who before
her marriage, year ago, TO Mr.. Ksuf-
man, Of Boston, was the widow Of Col.
Alexander BroWn, the Baltimore banker,
died at the Hebrew Hospital yesterday
in Baltimore irJm Q stroke Of spoplexy.
1t is said that since the snti-bettlug
law became effective the Brooklyn
Jockey Club hiss lot $4,000 As 3
result of tie falling of in tne sttendaace
and incidentally the gate receipts, the
Brighton Beach Racing Association has
decided to retrench.
Representative A. A. Wiley. OF Ala.
bams, died ct Hot Springs, Va, yes
terday. He suffered for weeks with
inhammatory rheumatism and central
physical breakdown. Ariosto Apphog
Wiley was born November 6, l84S. ct
Clayton, Barbour county, Ala.
Dr.. George ]. Preston, 50 years old,
died LAST night Of liver trouble st his
home in Baltimore. He was born 10
1853 in Lexipg ton, Va. His father was
Col. J. T. L. Pr ston. former sap'rin-
ndsnt of the Virgins MilitWy
Iuslitut, and profess. in Washington
and LIE University.
Mrs. Mary Scott Hsrtje, wife of An-
sustus Hsrije, the millionaire paper
manufacturer, whose unsuccessful divorce
litigation against his wife has been wide
ly published, won smother victory st
Pittsbury Yesterday when, by des's'on
of Judge Frazer, she wss awarded So,
900 a year alimony, $26, $50 for couri
expenses and $1,000 for attorneys ices.
Announcement was made at the State
Department yesterday Of the appoint
ments of commissioner of the United
Stat to the joint International COM
mission ID Investigate the opium
question in the far East. The COM
mission will meet at Shanghai on the
first of next January. similar com
missions are being appointed by thu
various other world powers.
The will OF Oliver II. P. Belmont
who died June 10, was filed in New orb
Yesterday by attorneys for Mrs. Alya +
Belmont, the widow and sole executrix
It occupies two-thirds OF a Typewriter
sheet Of paper. The will Is dated Janu
sry 16, 1896 The widow is left all thu
real and PERSONAL property OF Mr.. Bel
mont and is appointed the sole execu
irix. The amount OF the estate Is mo-
given, but is believed to exceed S., 600,
900.
The Chemical and the American Elk
change national banks Of New Yori
have broken all banking traditions b.
the voluntary return of the government
deposits held by them. The deposits
it has become known, we're returned OF
Monday, presumably because of unwill'
iueness of the banks ID comply with the
section of the emergency currency law
which compels the payment OF interest
at the to of at least per cent. on al
government deposits.
Returns received from Tuesday:
democratic primary Ia Florida indicate
toe nomination of Albert Gllchrist To-
goueruor over ]. N. G. Stockton, who
favored prohibition. dilchrist esrly 10
the campaign declared himself in favor
of local option. The contest for thu
United St,tes Senate Is close, turns in
dicstipg that Duncan Il. Fletcher lead
Gov. Browsrd by about 900 votes
Dsniett,h Mays, for Congress in tb'
Third district, mas probably defeated j
Walter Kehoe.
An attempt was made in Bsku yester
day to kill the Bsku chief Of police, M
Ney, by the explosion Of tEo powerful
Internal machines. The chief and tTt
policemen we're wounded and sergean
of police was killed. The police were
lured by the men who planned the outrage
to make search OF an unoccrpied build
ing. While they were going through
the building two bombs exploded ant
the house was wrecked. The sergean
was killed outright, while M. Ney ant
the two policemen were hurled through
second-story window and landed II
the street.
The lives OF 200 persons were i'm
perilled in New York early yesterday
by an incendiary, who made futile
attempt to burn big tsnement house In
Stanton street. The stsirwsys from thu
ground to the roof had been saturated
with kerosene and the torch had beer
applied on the lower floor; but one o.
the tenants, returning late, saw the blsz'
and sent an alarm through the house
Two hundred men, women and children
tumbled hurriedly out of their beds ana
rushed to the stree in scsnt attire, while
policeman and several helpers checked
the incipient blaze with buckle Il Ut water
The fire was extinguished before much
damage had been done. Yesterday
attempt TO burn the house was thu
second within two months.