Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-01-02
TELEdRAPHIc BREyITIes.

Political developments Of the last few
days bsye shown that England is rapid
Iy approaching the most startling crlsis
it has known 10 three qusriers of GEN.
tury.
Battles of roses and floral bedecktd
parsdes at Pasadena. GAL. yesterday
draw one hundred thousand people 10
witness The snnusl Passadens New
Years carnival. Nearly every port OF
the country was represented,
Wade n. Ellis, assistant atloraey
geutrsl Of The United States, is in Chi
csgo to confer with U. 8. District At
torney SIMS regarding the prosecution Of
the cases against the packers in the fed
ersl graud jury, according to reports to-
day.
With more than $75, 600 10 the hsnds
OF the Massachusetts general relief COM
miIlee ouse.tO-bOuse canvas was
stIiedin Boston today to swell still fur
Their the fund for the earthquake suffer-
e,s 10 Ilaiy and Sicily.
The Americana swish committee 10
New York to-day called upon the Jews
of ADeri,a 10 "opsn wide their purses
and Co0trIbuts what they ta1 70 the
r I'D Gross Relief for the stricken Italia
brother" Mes. ages of encouragement
add brotherhood were sent 10 the
| allan people.
Public funeral services we're held to-
day over the body of Prot. Geo. w.
H1ueb, tie famous astronomer who died
st his homs n Evanston, Chicago. To-
morrow afternoon after a short private
service the BODY vii be AIKEN to A bs-
ny, N. Y, for burial Pfof. Houeh
has been head of the Department of As.
tro1omy al North Western University
for many yesrs.
Charging her husband with giving
her slr,chuins in a glass Of wster, Mrs.
byllle Fitchner, wife Of rsilrr al watch
nah Of Pnisdelpha, today Tad him az
rested for attempting to poison her.
When tue women, allied aud shskng
appeared before msg st alta today she
d car that six OF her child el had
died within the last ten years, and her
only surviving son, Chsrles, now lies at
tae poin, of death, suffering symptoms Of
poison.
January 18th, the centera'y Of the
birth OF Edgar Allan Poe, hiss been set
So the date for the unwilling OF the
brorze bust erected 10 the Poe Park by
the Brouza 5 ely Of Arts and Sciences,
New York. The memorial is opposite
the cOltsge 10 Fordnam B'idge Road, in
which. Poe liv,d during the last four
years Of His life and where bis wife died.
0ae OF POe's descendaulS will unvell the
Dust. Memorial exercises will also be
held on the same date at New York Uoi-
veTsiIy.
Senator odge is guest Of President leet
Taft and there will be doings in the cabinet
manufacturing line before he TetirDs to
Washington. The presence there Of Senator
Ledge Is declared to indicate that TIE effort
is to be made to retain in the rev cabinet in
some position the present Postmaster General
Von l.. Meyer and gossip today couples his
name with the portfolio of the navy depart
ment. a delegation Of 500 business men from
Birmingham, Ala went to Augusta today II
get the pre,ident-elect to visit that city before
he gees back to Washington. He declined
to consider the invitation
A sensation was sprung in Union City,
Tenn, in the eight night riders charged with
the murder Of Cap ain Rankin, when Mrs.
Bud Morris took the stand at hen own re-
que t, t. av, and declared she had testified
falsely under threats that her husband would
be hanged.