Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-16
News Of the Day.


yersity of Illinois, declares the day OF
cheap bread has ended, as the popu-
lation is overtaking the food supply.
Rev. NJ. Ross Fishburn, who for
more than Is years had been pastor of
the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, died In Washington yesterday
OF typhoid fever.
just previous to the removal from her
home at Laurel, Del, yesterday, OF
the white cssket that contained the body
Of her SOD, a daughter Was born TO Mrs.
John Collins, of this place.
1t is announced that the Rev. Father
J. V. QOiun, until recently pastor in
lion, N. Y, has renOuuced Catholiciiy
and Joined the Episcopal denomination
to become a minister 10 that church.
The Rev. Carmello Luci, brought to
Cleveland, Ohio, by John ID. Rookie
Teller, t. become associate pastor of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, has given
up his religious duties to go into the
banking business.
Monday, in Chicago, when two men
charged with robbery we're acquitted by
jury, Judge Willard McCuen became
angry and said to the jury: "You men
are discharged from further service, aud
you can get no pay for today. You Gao
20 now, but | cannot believe your ver-
dict an honest Cne." In case he heard
later he told the young woman defendant
that call men are worthless"
Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland in
New York yesterday gave testimony
for the prosecution in the case of Bfough-
ton Bfandenburg, magazine writer,
who is charged with selling the New
York Times q political article purport-
ing to have been written by former
president Grover Cleveland. She de-
clared her husband did not sign the
article sold to the New York Times. The
document figured in the National CAM
psign of 1908.
In an effort to solve the problem Of
aerial navigation to an seropIane OF his
own make, u. SoreusOD, the town black
smith at Bsrwyn, Eeb., yesterday after
noon fell $500 feet and lives to tell oil
his experience. While the steel braces
of the aeroplane we're broken snd
twisted, SOrenson did not fracture Il
single bone. Half an hour after the
accident he was making plans for 8
new aeroplane and declaring the ex'
perience one that any aviator might ex'
pect.
A cloudburst yesterday did extensive
property dsmsge at Ohildress, Tex.
! The Fort Worth aud Denver Railroad
shops we're flooded to a depth of more
than two feet. The main tracks and
switching terminal were badly washed
out, and nearly half mile of the main
line washed completely away. Many
houses are standing in lakes OF water
The light and power plant is out o.
commission. There are six inches o.
water in the streets The estimated
damage is nearly half million dollars
One of the largest fees in the history
of the Washington bar granted TO az
attorney, $50. 45S, va, yesterday awarded
by the Probate Court to Major Holmes
Conrad, former solicitor general of the
United States, for services In coDnec'
ton with securing judgment from the
Supreme Court of the United States
allowing the claim of the heirs OF the
lae Joseph Parish $lS1 1858 for ice for
nished to the Union army during the
civil war. Because of this aud othel
attorneys fees and debts the two heir
received but $40 S4S of the judgment
Upou the complaint of youDl
white woman that she had received AT
insulting letter, Garrett n. Wormley
3 mulattO messenger employed IN thu
Office OF the assessor of the District
was arrested in Washington yesterday
Wormley was taken before UniteI
| S ates Commissioner Taylor and Their
held under bonds of 81 900 to await
further investigation. The sending o
the letter to the white woman is attribu
lei to The conditions which exist in th'
Office of the assessor, which make II
necessary for white women clerks Il
work side by side With negro men.