Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-09
News OF the Day.

1uS uOOu COuultiOub III mlssOull alS
improving.
The government crop report for July
indicate that the yield of corn may ex-
coed 5000. 600, 900 bushels.
Il is charged that number Of inter-
stste express companies have been or
gained by liquor interests to evsde the
prohibition laws.
Oubs's refusal to recognize the Span
ish debt claim is not regarded as finsl,
and the Spanish government expects to
resume negotiations.
The cries Of a deserted child led to
the discovery yesterday that George
Euglaud, Of Niagara Falls, N. Y, had
shot bis wife and himself.
Autoinette Denoti, a pretty Italian
girl, killed herself in New York today
10 prove her innoncence of certain
scandal which had been started against
her.
The Church Of Eoglsnd Council, In
London, declared that marriage to de-
ceased wife's sister, recently legslized,
is contrary to the moral rules of the
church.
The Buffalo Deduction Compsny's
million dollar fertilizer plant and sosp
works lOcated in Oheekiowags, a mile
and half from Buffalo, n. Y, Wss
burned to the ground early this morning.
In the presence Of the Russian Czlr
aud many nolables, the second centennial
of the battle OF POltava was celebrated
in Poltavs, Russia, today. It VAS at
this battle that the power of the Swedes
10 Russia was toiallv wiped out.
A divorce was granted in Providence,
r. l., yesterday, 10 Mrs. Mary Aldricb,
wife OF Edward Aldrich, eldest son Of
U s Senator Aldrich, The ground
was non-support, and Mrs. Aldrich was
awarded the custody OF their lO-year-Old
child.
Colonel Benjamin F. Eshelman, of
New Orleans, died at NarraDgsnsett
Pier Tuesday. He commanded a COM
pauY of the famous Washington artillery
battalion during the civil wsr, and bad
been one Of the most prominent citizens
Of Louisiana for forty years.
Edward Payson Weston arrived 10
Truckee, GAL, at 1910 p. m. yesterday
on his trsnscontiDenlal walk. He has
lost his walk against time from New
York to San Francisco. Yesterday was
the 100.h day, and be will not reach the
coast until Tuesday, four days behind
his schedule.
Actual domicile of one year in the
g ate or territory claimed by the sppl
cant prior to the examination Is required
by Law not only Of applicants for posi-
lions in the census service, but Of sppli-
cants for places 10 other branches OF the
government, by the act OF Congress ap-
proved July 2.
just ss be had concluded an i'm
FASHIONED speech, in which he bitterly
denounced the sction of Gov. Hughes
investigating committee for recommend
ing the resembling of the charter of the
Metal Exchange, George Washington
Jacques, one of the most active members
of That body, fell dead on the floor of the
exchange 10 New York at O'Clock yes
terdsy afternoon.
Premier Clemencesu, OF France, has
decided that Michel Landesen, chief of
the Russian secret service abroad, with
headquarters in Paris, is none other
than the fugitive Hekkellmsn, who es-
capped from a French prison after being
sentenced to five years for an attempt to
kill Gar Alexander III. with a dyna-
mite bomb while the ruler was Ia Psri'.
One OF the most sensational divorce
suits filed in Pittsburg 10 years is that of
Mrs. Joseph q Dickson, of Pittsburg,
who asks for decree from her husband,
naming Jessie Ray, nurse, as cores
pendent. Mrs. Dickson, who is a lead
ing member of Pittsburg society, slleges
that her husband is the father Of a child
boru two years ego to Miss Ray. DR..
Dickson bas not denied the allegation.