Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-03
News Of the Day.

receiving about 81 40 for each dollar
paid out.
1 Horse bets 10 the United Kingdom
are said to amount to over $42, 900, 0OC
annually.
In IL years the coal output Of Japan
has increased from 200, 900 tons annual
ly to 10000
The president has directed that 8
court martial investigate q deal fol
horses and alleged usnry at Fort Wayne,
Mich, where Col. Daniel Oamman is in
command.
Fire at Cleveland, o., Yesterday de-
s,royed lumber valued at 800, 600, and
threatened The big central viaduct and
Nickle Plate Railway bridge.
Charles 8. Milling.on, Of Herkimer,
N. Y, was yesterday nominated for
Congress as the successor of James s.
sherman, vice presidential nominee OF
the republican psrty.
The wives OF three mail carriers In
New York state sre carrying the mail
while their husbands are away on yscs-
tions ordered for their health.
Marshall Dufin, colored, II years old
wSs arrested yesterday and tried before
Juttice Grimes for malciously shooting
cows of William NJ. Williams, a young
farmer Of Boyds, Md.
john CzOlgosz, brother OF Presi-
dent McKinley's assassin, wss yesterday
sentenced to the workhouse at Sharon,
Pa, for three months. The police as.
sert Czolgozs is insane, aud his case will
be Investigated.
Rear Admiral Henry Glass, U. S. N
retired, died late yesterday afternoon at
heslLh rssop at PasO, Robes, GAL,
following an operation performed several
days sgo at bis home in Berkeley. AID.
miral Glass, was Ga years old.
Herman Bidder, publisher of the New
York Stsats.Zsilung and for many yesrs
leader OF the Germsn-American Reform
Union, is being doomed for the demo-
cratic nomination for governor of New
York.
james R. Keene's Msskette, winner
of the Futurity lsst Saturday, scored
another notable triumph in the crest
6lIy stakes, six furlougs, futurity course,
at Sheepshesd bay yesterday. Maskette
carried 1877 pounds and ran the distance
in 1:12 3-5.
Chief OF Poles Woodruff; of Atlantic
City, claims to be on the trIsl of new
suspect in the Roberts sh ooting case, de-
clsring that neither jealousy nor robbery
was the motive for the crime, and thst
he expects to make an arrest in few
days.
II is announced at Helena, Mont, by
7. ]. Walsh, who headed the Montana
delegation to the democratic convention at
Denver, that the members of the dele
CATION have contributed 81, 500 to the
Bryan campaign fund. There were six
members in the delegation from the
state.
Rev. Henry Caleb Gushing, D. D.,
Of Westminster, Nd, one OF the mos!
prominent clergymen of the Maryland
Annual Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church, died of paralysis on
his farm, near Manassas, yesterday.
DR.. Gushing WAS bora in Prince Will
liam county September 80, 1928, and
was son OF o. O. Gushing.
Hsymakers on the farm of Fl. A. Sell,
near Hanover, Pa, noticed a COW in a
nearby meadow strangely jumping about
and be lowing loud y. Upon investigs-
ton they we're sstonished to find that
eight weasels had stacked her. After
hard fight, the farmers succeeded in
killing several of the bloodsuckers and
scattering the remainder.
The charge that the Wisconsin sena-
torial campaign cost the various candi-
dates from $500, 900 to $3.50, 900, and
that Senator Isaac Stephenson spent the
bulk of the money may result in a de-
cision by Senator La Toilette to organize
a war ia the legislature against his COL
league in an effort to prevent Stephen
sons election.
With rosr like the explosion Of a
cannon the 1S-tln fyWheel on the lsrg-
est engine in the big power-house of the
Frederick Middleton Electric Railroad,
short distance east Of Middletown,
Md, burst yesterday. Fragments of
the big wheel, which was % feet in
diameter, were hurled in every direction
badly wrecking both the interior and
extirior Of the building and running the
engine.
Justice Stafford, of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, yesterday
granted Annie M. Johnson, who is suing
her husband, Albert NJ. johnson, for an
snnulment Of their msrrisge, on the
ground that be is of negro descent, ali
mony at the rate OF $50 a month. John
son is epjoined from molestiDg or inter-
ieripg with bis wife pending the hearing
OF the case.
That there has been q submarine
earthquake or volcanic eruption some
where near Ysquins Bay, Oregon, is the
belief OF a sea captain coming iLto this
port during The past week. The ocean
for miles of shore is covered with dead |
herring, and the beaches for miles on
either side OF Ysquina Bay are now pill
ing up with dead fsh that appear t. |
have been killed in some catastrophe.
Charles Houlder HudQins, OF Hud-
gins, Mathews county, Va, for many
years merchant in Baltimore, died yes
terdsy in the New York Hospital. At
The beginning OF the civil wsr be COM
mauded Company E, of the Twenty.
fourth Cavalry of Virginia. He was on
Gen. stoDewall Jackson's staff the night