Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-10-15
News Of the Day.

Key West is asking aid for the storm
sufferers.
Rev. Walter Williams was married
st Christ Church, Washington, yesterday
to Miss Anna Cost Poole.
Blight Honorable Gerald FitEgibbop,
lord justice of appeal In Ireland since
1873, died at Dublin yesterday.
The Chinese government is planning
q $40, 900, 900 lottery in place Of the do
mestic loan OF 1908, which failed.
The Russian government hiss dealt
fatal blow to Finnish sutonOmy BY
placing the entire machinery Of state 10
the hands of the Russian governor gen.
ersl.
Discouraged In his search for health
In the dry climate Of the southwest.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Lawshe announced yesterday to the
heads of the bureaus 10 bis division that
he intended to resign from the Postofice
Department.
An amended petition for a writ Of
maudamus to compel the board OF re-
view to tax stock owned by Chicago mil
lionaries, whose total holdings sre valued
by the petitioner at 1896, 900, 900, was
filed yesterday In the circuit court OF
Chicago by an attorney for The Illinois
Tax Reform League.
At Detroit yesterday Detroit kept In
the great fight for the worlds baseball
championship by defestiDg Pitisburg 5
10 4, 10 a battle full Of sensational and
thrilling situations, and todsy the two
teams are tied with three victories each.
The seventh and deciding game will be
played at Detroit Saturday.
Mrs. Sarah T. McAllister, widow of
Ward McAllister, famous in his day IS
New York's society director aud odgi-
nator of the Four Hundred, died at her
home in that city Wednesday. Before
her marriage to Ward McAlister 10
1852 Mrs. McAllister WIS Sarah Painter
Gibbons, daughter OF William Gibbons,
OF Savannah.
Another big bull campaign in wheat,
with some powerful leader accommodating
q line for December, is said to be Cd
In Chicago. For two or three days the
market has been working stronger, but
not until yesterday did the December
price have its sensational upturn, going
from ST. 0Sf 10 the first hour to 81. 06t
three hours later.
Rear-Admiral Robert Wiley MiIligan,
U. s. n. (retired), who was the chief
engineer officer Of the battleship Oregon
and brought that vessel around on its
memorable passage from the north Pa
ci6c coast in time to render valuable
assistance at the battle Of Santiago, In
the Spanish-Americsn war, dropped
dead at his home In Annapolis last
night.
Reseuting q reprimand that Miss Mar
garet Lang, aged Is, of Millvale, Pa,
caused him to receive, yesterday, George
Augustiau, sged Z, raised a shotgun,
fred at Miss Lang and killed her almost
instantly. The killing of Miss Lang
makes four violent deaths in the
Lang family within the past three weeks
three cousins of the dead girl hsv-
ing been burned to death.
Frank Wilson Brown, known to all
the old-timers among the Washington
brokers as a ready spender and a good
fellow, but man who was usually In
hot water with his business affairs, has
been arrested sn San Jose, CAL, by
postof1ce inspectors. he Is charged,
with three other men, who we're taken
into custody, with fraudulent use OF The
mails In engineering bogus sporting
events.
Temperate yderauged by i'll b ealth,
Miss Carrie Hunter, % years old, jump
ed into q we'll at the home of her sister,
Mrs. B. F. Gulledge, 10 Arson county,
N. O., at midnight Wednesday night,
and was almost instantly killed. Par
sued by brother who OWNED her iu-
tention she outrsn him aud lesped into
the well head6nt. She vas prominent
ly connected and recently held a position
with the Southern Railroad at Char |
lotte.
On charge of lsrcency Of a diamond
ring from dead womsn's fingers. Miss
Margaret Landers, 20 years old, OF Lynn,
Mass, was arrested yesterday, She ad.
mitted the theft, and declared that fear.
ing detection, she had swallowed the |
ring. At 6 o'clock yesterday morning |
Miss Lsnders went 10 the home OF James |
1eary, where the body Of Mrs. Gesry |
was lying In a coffin. Miss Lsnders was
left alone with the body for a few mo-
mentS. Later the diamond ring which |
ia valued at $3.50 was missed
A suicide by drowning, Daniel E.
Hallock, AZ years old, of York, Pa, one
Of the owners of the Vacuum Ice Com
pany, OF Baltimore, was found, face
down ward, In the lavatOry attached to
bis room in the hotel Junker, BsIti-
more, early yesterday morning. Finsn-
cial troubles, so Hsllock wrote in
letter mailed by special delivery to bis
brother, q. W. Hallock, OF Philips
ane, Frederick road, had caused bim to
make preparations to take his own life.
The fact that an empty l6.ounce bottle
had contained chloroform WAS found
beside the tub, led to the belief that be
first hsd stupe6ed himself with the
auesthetic.
TELEdRAPHIc BREVITIES.