Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-11
News Of the Day.


TIE Southern Baptist Convention will
meet at Hot Springs, Ark, on Thurs
day. -e-'
President Roosevelt returned To Wash
lngton yesterday evening from his out
log at Pine Knot.
French distillers are disturbed over
bill in the Senate for prohibition Of the
manufacture of absinthe.
Mrs. Katie II. Ricketts,, wife Of Oscar
J. r cketts, formerly public printer,
d ed at Garfield Hospital, WASH ugton,
IN Saturday afternoon.
The foundation atone OF a new city,
TO supplsnt Oettinje a. capital Of Monte
negro, wss laid on the Adristic Sea by
the prince of MonieRegro on Saturday.
Winston Spencer Churchill, president
! of the Board OF Trade in the reconstruct
ed liberal Cabinet, was returned to Par
lament from Dundee Saturday by ma
joriiy of 2,709.
Caught by big wave as they were
crossing the bss of Plum island, at the
mouth Of the Merrimac river, nsphIa
LAUNCH, with nine men, capsized yester-
day, and FIVE we're drowned.
II Is said Ia Washington that the
supply bills in Congress are In such con-
di'ijn in both houses that II no COM
plications arise Ia connection with other
leg alton 1t m " be possible TO reach
final adjournment BY Msy 20.
Many p, rsons have been ipjLred and
several reported killed by series OF
cyclones which stuck several Isolated
towns southeast of Woodward, Oklsho-
ma, last night and esrls today. Tele-
graph communication has been cut of
Florence Schenck, the Virginia girl
who figured some time ago In various
sensational episodes With Charles VIII.
SOD, stable manager for Alfred G. Van
derbilt, WAS married to Wilson 10 Lon
don on Thursday, and Immediately sp
peared with him on the coach Venture.
Jeanne Weber, woman, narrowly
escaped lynching by a mob in Nancy,
France, on Saturday, for strangling to
death seven year-old boy. The woman
had been under Arrest on the charge oil
killing number Of children, and 1t was
claimed she was affected with, infanticide
mania.
Counting his life, 10 iis prime, fail
ure, Charles Exton Bsmford, twenty-six
years Of age, formerly 8 lieutenant in
the Thirteenth United States Cavalry,
killed himself late Saturday night or
early yesterday morning In room g. the
Hotel Regent, Washington, where he ar
rived from his home In Trenton Thurs
day.
Bishop Brent, OF the P philippine ISL
ands, who was recently elected bishop OF
Washington In succession to the late
Bishop 5atterlee, has cabled the officials
of the conference held Ia Washington
last week that be now has the call under
consideration but that he 10 not yet
clear as to whether his duty requires
continuance of his work 10 the Philip
pines or the acceptance OF the call to
t1e w asnlngtOh uiOces6.
Five children of Jim Kennedy we're
burned to death last night near Mont
gomsry, Ala, and Two others so badly
burned that they will die before morn
ing. The crime is charged 10 the father,
who, the mother says, locked the little
children in and then set fire to the
house. The police are looking for Ken
uedy, who has not been located. The
man and woman separated and had been
litigsting over the children.
More than 10000 persons yesterday
visited the farm of MIS-. Belle Guune's
near Llporte, Ind, where ten corpses
have already been dug up, mostly of
men iured to the beautiful spot by matri-
monial advertisements and burning love
letters and sacrificed to the woman's
greed for m 1ney. The diggers did not
work yesterday because of The crowd,
and the sheriff ssys they will d. no more |
for several days. The body OF q BABY |
was found Saturday.