Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-12-18
News of the Day.

will accompany Mr.. TAFT to Panama AID
it is said the lock plan may be abandoned
for a sea level canal
Senator Raynor introduced resUln-
ton yesterda- inquiring into the prfsi-
dents authority in ordering all the Ms-
rine Corps off warships.
The House yesterday passed Az pri-
vste pension bills. They were all Honse
measures, none having yet been sent to
the House by the 5era!e.
II is announced that Fritz Scheff and
John Fox, IT,, we're married on Sunday,
at The home Of Mr.. Fox's brother, Rec
tor Fox, at Mount KiscO, N. Y.
General Simon leader Of the last revo-
luton in Hsyti, was yesterday utani'
moUsly elected president by the Haytien
Congress. A riot now seems to reign
there now.
Philauder o. Knox, U. S. senator
from Pennsylvania, has been asked by
William H. Taft to become secretary of
state in Mr.. Taft's Cabinet, and he has
consented 10 serve.
Miss Lillian G. Davis was the star
witness in the Wilson divorce case in
which ex-senator George l.. Wellington
ia named IS correspondent, which began
in Baltimore yesterday.
Physical tests for marine corps officers
sre prescribed in an executive order,
Just issued. In some respects these tests
srs similar to those which army officers
have to Undergo. They must ride ninety
or walk fifty miles to qualify.
After an inspection of the building for
the insane a. Bayview Asylum, Nd, DR.
John o. King, superintendent of the
Southwestern State Hospital for the To-
sane st Marion, Va declared last nigh
that the place is FIRE trap and that the
existing conditions are shocking.
Prof J. O. B ahm, former principal
of the school at Accident. Garrett
county, who was charged with a serious
offense, Eta B)wser, urder l6 years Of
age, having been his alleged victim, was
acquitted by Judge Henderson, st Oak
land, Nd, yesterday. He was formerly
from Virginia.
Henry Harvey, coiored, who was
hanged at Rockingham, N. o., yester-
day for murder, refused the attentions Of
the ministers, who approached him to
administer spiritual comfort, telling
them tina, he desired to 90 to hell for 8
special purpose. On the march to the
gallows a cIichen flew over the heads
Of the party, and the condemned MAJ
exclaimed, lsughingly, Somebody catch
that chickenI' Haryey's crime WAS
the Staying of Hugh Prince, also colorsd,
at Rockingham, last summer. Both the
victim snd his murderer we're from Rca.
noke, Va.
Orlando Clyde Cullen, who shot and
killed himself when placed under arrest
at Gainesville, Md, recently, wss to
have been called as a witness by tie
defense 10 the trisl Of T. ]. Hams st
Flushing n. Y, for copplicity in the
murder of w. E. Aunis last
August. II was expected he would
testify that Annis boosted before club
men add yachtmen OF having won the
affections of Mrs. Hams. The wife Of
Cullen decl iIeI III be vas a psra1Oic
aud thai be had been 10 an insaue a'y-
lam. Charles Birch6eld, a yachmau,
and Frederick A Storm, real estate
dealer, testified to Thornton Hams visit
ing the Bayside Yacht Club seeking
AnDis.
John d. Rockefeller, j., because Of
an article that appeared in the New
York American, yesterday morning,
caused the arrest yesterday afternoon OF
S. s. CarvalhO president Of the 5 a.
Company. which publishes the news
paper. AT the same time that young
Rockefeller got the warrant for the ar
rest OF Mr. Osrvalho he included the
rames of Bradford Merrill, the TREASURER
oil the company, and Edward Il. Clark,
secretary. The articles in question a2-
peared In the American under Chicago
date line. The headline read: "John
d. Rockefeller, it,, Originated Peonsge
10 Stock Yards, 1t is Said" The
dispatch told of the conditions said to
exist in a stocksde at Argo, Ill. The
case was set for a hearing on December
26.
What was supposed to be sensation.
al development in connection with the
suit of DR.. Pierce B. Wilson, j., against
his wife, Mrs. Tsbitha V. Wilson, for
divorce, trauspired in Baltimore, yester-
day, when il became known that Dr..
Wilson had sued Rev. DR.. Robert ).
COPELAND, rector of the Protestant EpiS.
copsI Church Of the Ascension, for $40, =
900 damages, DIR. COPELAND said yes
terday that he hiss not the slightest idea
OF what the complaint of DR.. Wilson
against him IL. DR.. Ooupland also said
that DR.. Wilson might think that he
would testify for Mrs. Wilson in the d.
vorce suit 10 which ex-senator Yelling
ton is named as correspondent. While
declining to furnish any information
about the suit against DR.. Couplal
Mr.. Wilson's attorney said 1t has no
connection With the divorce case aud
that DR.. Cauplaud knows the cause of
action.
The Halns Trial.
Flushing, n. j., Dec. 1S.-The trial