Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-01
News OF the Day.

Neither the United States nor other
nations not directly interested are ex-
pected to sanction in its present form
the agreement reached between Russian
and Chinese Official boards for the
administration OF affairs at Hardin,
Manchuria.
Application has been made in the Chan
Gerry Court Of Clay county, Miss, by Dis
trict Attorney Lamb for perpetual in.
junction in restraining the Standard Oil
Company from operating In Mississippi,
and seeking to collect penalties asgregs-
ting 81 ], 900, 900 for alleged violation of
the antitrust law of the commonwealth.
The S ate Department has directed
Consul D1ty, st Tsbriz, Persia, to pro-
coed to Urumis to investigate and report
upon the claim for $29, coo which NJ. G.
Daniel, a naturalizsd citizen of the
United States, has filed against the Per-
sian government for alleged arrest, i'm
prisonment and spoliation of property by
Persian officials In 1905.
The House committee on approrris-
tons will today begin the preparation
Of a deficiency appropriation bill, the
total of which, 1t ia now believed, will
approximate 81, 600, 900. Included In
this bill will be sn appropriation OF
$25, 900 with which to pay the travelling
expenses OF the president, thus leaving
intact his salary of $4,000.
According to reports the speaker has
been largely guided in his selections by
bis determination TO punish the 81 in
surgent republicans who bOlted the or.
ganizatiOn during the tariff fight In the
House and to reward the 90 democrats
who deserted Leader Champ Clark, of
Missouri, and joined the Cannon forces
10 the fight over changing the old Reed
rules.
The manufacture or sale OF liquor in
Tennessee became unlawful at midnight
last night, aud today the state Is free
from saloons. Several hundred saloons
90 out Of business 10 Nashville, Ohalts-
nOCgs, Memphis, and La Toilette, "a
result of the passage of the"slate. wide''
aud manufacturers bill, over the ve,Oes
Of Gov. Patterson by the legislature
last January.
President Taft paused in the course
Of al after dinner speech to | 800 grad
yates of Yale, gathered at the annual
alumni feast at New Haven, Conn,
yesterday TO issue serious note of
warning to Congress and to the leaders
of the republican party. The president
declared that If the party which placed
him in power aud 30 long had con-
troled the government failed to live up
to its promises and the expectations of
the people, it would be Felegated to the
position of aminority opposition.
Former Representative and Mrs. Her
man Stump had lucky escape from death
during the severe electrical storm which
passed over, Belair, Md, Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stump reside at Waverly,
about two miles to the south of Belair.
They had retired for the night, when
the building was struck by lightning,
which entered their room with a binding
fash, stunning Mira. Stump. Dol. Stump
was unframed. The bolt passed into
four other rooms of the house, In each
Of which the PlasteriDg WAS Knocked
from the walls, pictures were thrown to
he floor, and other articles strewn abOut.
Charles II. Thompson, fOster-father
Of Edith May Woodill, in Baltimore
Yesterday absolutely identified the jew
els which were pawned on Tuesday
of last week by Eastman as having
been worn by Mrs. WOOdill when she
left home for the last time. Mr.. ThOmp-
son says his daughter never wrote that
love letter to Eastman. The letter is q
plagiarism, from dorothy Vernon of
Hsddon Hail." the novel by Charles
Major, published in 1902. Miss Carrie
Thompson, foster sister Of Mrs.
Woodill, broke her silence for the first
time yesterday and stated that she is
now convinced that Eastman is the
only person responsible for the death of
Mrs. WoOdill.