Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-10
News of the Day.

George B. Cortelyou is said to be the
Taft Roosevelt choice for the NOMINATION.
for vice-president.
John S. Lsech yesterday qualified rs
public printer by fixing the oath oil OIL
fee in Washington.
The Oregon democratic Slate conven-
ton yesterday instructed its delegates 10
Denver to vote for Bryan.
A four-masted schooner with l,OOO
dozen pinespples arrived ct Baltimore
Yesterday from Tarp un Bay.
Empress Augusta Victoria while
riding with Emperor William In Berlin
today, Vas t1rOwn from her horse and
slightly injured.
The big steel trust has decided on
reduction in the price of steel products
and iron Gre. The price of steel rails is
not included, however.
The first annual meeting Of the de-
scendant, of the signers OF the Dsclsra-
ton of Independence will be held In
Philadelphia on July 3 and 4.
It has been openly charged that Bslh-
more packers have formed combination
to keep down prices andprayent the free
movement of produce in the open mar
ket.
Gregori, who shot Msjor Dreyfus at
the Pantheon in Paris, in an examina-
ton vest ,rdsy declared be committed
the act voluntarily and sssumed all re-
spousibiIiiy.
One man lost bis life. three 6remen
we're seriously injured, 45 houses were
destroyed and property valued at more
than $4,000 was destroyed in two
fires in New York today.
President Lehman, in addressing a
convention of the United States Brewers
Association, at Milwaukee, yestsrday,
made a plea for the open, legalized
saloon, attacking prohibition and con-
fscatiOD.
Fighting between the Japanese troops
and the Korean insurgents continues
and between June 9 and June 9 there
were % engagements, In which llS In
surgent, we're killed aud 26 taken
prisoners.
Sentenced to life imprisonment for the
murder of his wife, jim Richardson,
negro, asked the coult in Atlanta, Ga,
il he coald not be hanged, aad that
right away. The court did not grant
the request.
Henry Lemoyne, charged with OBJ
lining money under false pretsnses In
alleging that he could manufacture dia-
monds, failed - produce 10 q Paris
court q diamond of specified size OF
his own manufacture.
"The marriage of my sister, Nine.
Anna Gould, u Prince de Sagan Is to
take place with the full consent of all
the Gould family. ! expect to attend it
while abroad" said Geo. Gould yester-
day, az he boarded a steamer at New
York for Bremen.
Col. John F. FineIty, editor of the
Chicago Citizen, lecturer, politician,
soldier and renowned IS leader In the
Fenian raids on Canada in the lite
sixties, died in Chicago today after six
months illness. He served in Congr, So
from 1883 to 1885.
James NJ. BURNETT, the Bristol, Va
midget, recently announced 80 the
smallest Odd Fellow in the United
States, married Miss Lou Majors,
another midget, st Marietta, Miss,
Yesterday. Owing t. opposition in the
Majors family the couple eloped.
Senator Thomas Gore, the blind
sens TOR from Oklahoms, learned yester-
day in Washington, that his eyesleht Is
lost fCrsver Observation snd treat
ment DIR ne the lat week has developed
thst medical science, by sn operation or
treat nent, is unable - restore his sight,
and hope OF this has been abandoned.
The Misses Ethel and Msrgsrtt Roose-
welt, daughter of and second cousin to
the president respectively, were among
the bridesmaids at the wedding of Miss
Geor1isnna Hsriing Farr t. Fletcher
II. Sibley, of New York at st. Mfrk'S
Episcopal CHURCH, held at West Orange,
N. j. this afternoon. The best man
was Thomas Spencer Of New York.
Leroy Fales, the 22-yeAr-old Son of Warren
Fales. the millionaire manufacturer Of Paw
tucket, X. L., in a deposition read in court
today admitted the truth of the allegations
in which his father names him 81 errespon-
dent in suit for divorce against the youths
step mother