Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-09-25
News Of the Day.

an Is months Illness.
- Millions Of dollars worth Of valuable
paintings are being bought abroad BY
American millionaires for free entry uD-
der the new tariff law. Treasury Depart
ment advices show that one Philadelphia
millionaire alone recently imported 5000
900 OF works OF art.
DR.. g. Armsuer Hansen, the discov'
erer of the leprOsy bacillus, has off,
cially announced that he found the bsc-
cillus 10 the skin Of John Early, The
North Carolina soldier whose detention
in Washington for many months at
tracted wide attention.
The Pacific mail liner Siberia left
Manila on Thursday for San Francisco
With two million cigars IS the chief
item of her cargo. This tremendous
shipment has completely cleaned the
local market of cigars, and the factories
are already advancing prices.
The Cook-Pesry controversy over the
North Pole hiss taken on a legal status
as its latest development. Walter Ions
dale, DR.. Cooks secretary, said In New
York last night that suit for SANDER
will be started against the commander
Pesry's threatened broadside OF proof
g. ainst Cook Is meantime withheld.
One hundred American citizens who
Gre stranded at Nome, Alaska, will be
brought back to Seattle on a revenue
cutter. Orders have been sent directing
the deputy collector of customs at ST.
ward, Alaska, to have revenue cutter
proceed at once to Nome, there TO take
on board the men and women who are
destitute.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, her mother,
Mrs. q. E. Perrine; her husbands
niece, Miss Mary L. Hastings and her
children, Esther, Marion, Richard aud
Francis, sailed today from New York on
board the Breliu for Genoa. After
few weeks in Italy, they will go to
Switzerland, where Mrs. Cleveland will
enter her children 10 school in Lausanne.
Nearer to the earth by $l5, 900, 900
miles than it has been for fifteen years,
the planet Mars is now the subject ofim.
mense interest to the astronomers
throughout the world, particularly at the
United States Naval Observatory in
Washington. Its average distance from
the earth is50. 900, 900 miles Its distance
from the earth today was only $4,000,
miles.
Stories brought to New Orleans by
persons arriving from the stricken dis
tricts reveal many pathetic occurrences.
A fOur-year.old child was found lodged
10 the branches OF tree on the lower
coast Of Terrebonue Parish, having sur
vived for three days without food or
water. Two other children about the
same age were found on mcuud In the
middle OF the prairie between Terre-
bonnie Bayou and Little Osillou.
The Tulle silk factories of Calais, the
center of the industry in France, are 10
danger Of shut down today as The re-
salt OF the threatened strike of their
Q nployes. The w1rkmen are de-
an increase in wages. They
say that their wages were reduced
10 1890, owing to hard times, and tina,
while conditions have vastly improved
since then, the reduced wages still con-
tinue.
Theodore P. Shouts, president of the
1925, 900, 900 Interborough Metropolitan
Company in New York and one of the
most potent figures in the foancisl and
business life OF the city, has been sued
for 5000, 900 damages by the husband of
a woman whose affections he is charged
with having aliensted. Through his
lawyer he declares he is the victim of
mistaken identity. The suit is brought
by Frederick Hipsh, New York man.
ager Of Kentucky distillery.
Confident of success, and promising
sensations that will make the attempt Of
her husband to divorce her pale toto
insignifcsnce, Mrs. Mary Scott Hsrje,
wife Of the millionaire paper msnufac
turer, of Piltsburg, is preparing the suit
against her husband, which will be taken
up by the courts next month. Friends
of Mrs. Hsrtje, to whom she has talked,
say the new chapter Of scandal will be
as startling as was the millonsire's
testimony against his beautiful wife.
Another battle OF evidence by slueths.
it is said, will take place. HsrIie in
tends to contest bis wife's snit.
Running down az embsnkment oppo-
site bis home to recover a baseball bat
ted by one of his playmates, Oliver Paul
Thompson, Is years ole, son Of William
T. Thompson, builder sDd contractor,
Of Washington, fell 10 the path of
back in colored funeral procession yes
terdsY afternoon about AIS O'Clock and
received injuries from which he died on
the way 10 the Casualty Hospital an hour
later. Johu Betters, colored, who was
driving the hack in which a colOred
preacher and undertaken we're riding,
was arrested aud he will be brought be-
fore the coroner's jury today.
One person was burned to death, an
other instantly killed, and q third Sc
riou'ly burned when an automobile
driven by John McLendon ran off an s.
loot embankmeut at Americas, Ga, esrley
McLepdOn and Miss Viola
Herman, one of bis companions, we're
pinioned beneath the wrecked car, which
taught fire. Ethel Hit, another mem
Der of the party, although severely burn
ed, ran screaming to Americas, two
miles from the scene of the accident, and
gave the alarm. Miss Hermsn's neck
was broken by the fall and death was in
Simultaneous, but McLeudon was liter
lily roasted alive.