Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-15
News Of the Day.

Court Of Appeals and will not charge for
filing time on messages.
Representatives OF the Chinese gOverr-
meat ridicule the stories that LEON Ling
is being protected on the ground that
Elsie Sigel committed suicide.
Assistant District Attorney Grim, of
New York, conferred with Attorney
General WickerSham yesterday relative
to the suga trust prosecutions. No an
nouncement OF results was made.
Mrs. Maria Perry Thomas Msrkoe,
wife of Col Frank Markoe, former COM
mander OF the Fifth Maryland Regiment
died yesterday at her home, 10 Bslti-
more of BrighPs disease aged 67 years.
Mrs. Charles ]. Magness, daughter OF
the late Senator Arthur p. German, of
Maryland, has gone to Portsmouth, N.
H., to greet her husband when he Is re-
leased from The naval prison on Friday
next.
National President Thomaa l.. Lewis,
of the United Mineworkers, hiss ordered
the Is, 900 miners OF the Pitlsburg Goal
Company TO disregard the orders of
local President FfaDcis Feehan aud not
to 90 on a strike.
1t is whispered at Toxic 10 well-in-
formed circles that Ambassador Tskshira
will not return to his post at Washing
ton. He probably will be succeeded by
Uchids, at present representing the
japanese government at Vienna.
TIE Georgia Senate passed bill yrs
terdsy making it penal odense to utter
any false or defsmstOry remark about a
woman. II WAS not adopted without q
long debate, many senators believing 1t
would impair the right of free speech.
Gteat Britain secures about Is, 900
miles of territory, in return for which
she makes some important concessions to
Siam, by the terms OF the Bdtish.Sis-
mise treaty, which wa4 negotiated
March 10 and has ju't been ratified.
10 the conference on the tariff bill the
representatives OF the House yesterday
agreed TO accept the Senate customs
court provision. President TAFT con-
lerred With Mr.. Payne aud Senator Al
drich relative to the future of the corpo-
ration lax scheme.
A dispatch from Seward. Alaska, says
the United States revenue cutter Perry
yesterday seized the japanese sealing
schooner Taxi, with Is men, while
they we're killing seals within three
miles of the Pribyl islands. rbe Taxi
and her crew were taken to Unalaska.
Estimates place the present d ,od loss
in TIE Missouri Valley at Sc, 1000, 600.
Half the wheat crop has been destroyed.
The Mississippi River crest will reach
81. Louis, today, when it is estimated
the high water mark will be S5.5 feet,
ranking fifth in heightin the last six ty.
FIVE years.
Glenn II. Ourliss, OF Hamm0ndspoTt
~ Y, who is to represent America in
he seronauticsl carnival near Rheims
next month, and who is practicing with
his seroplane, on the Hampstead Plains,
near MiDeOla, l.. l., yesterday made n
splendid fight OF four miles, remaining
10 the air slightly under seven minutes.
Wyatt II. Ingram, jr., New Orleans
banker, jnst married, was srrested yes
lerday on charges OF being defsulter to
the extent of $1,000 1t Is said hat
when be heard the detectives downstairs
he swallowed az opiste in an endeavor
to destroy himself He was found in
his underclothing and partially uncon-
sciOus, but was soon revived.
The big disputes over the tsriff bill
will be fought out between Senator Al
dricb add Representative Payne, acting
for the Sena and House, respectively,
with President Taft serving az umpire
so as to prevent any drawn battles This
vas decided yesterday by the conference
committees appointed by the two
branches of Congress.
DIR. Warren u. Lewis, a professor in
Johns Hopkins University, was granted
az absolute divorce in Baltimore yester'
day from Eula |. w. Lewis. DIR. Lewis
stated Ia his testimony that he chided
his wife for her behavior on February
|, 1896, not three months after their
marriage, and she left him and went to
California. Since that date he says he
has not seen her.
10 low-priced lodging house on the
upper West Side, New York were Tues
day night found the missing records of
the United Copper Company needed by
the federal authorities In the prosecution
of the Heinzes. The books and papers
we're contained 10 two stfamer trunks
with no owner and no one responsible
for them but the lsndlsdy, who did not
know what was 10 the trunks.
The Wright brothers, on account OF
the various unfortunate incidents that
have happened since their arrival at
Fort Myer, may find it necessary TO OBJ
tsin q further extension OF time from
July %, in which to complete their off
cial aeroplane speed and endurance
trials. Up to this lime OfVille Wright
has not made one flight that can be-
called as successful as the average fight
made by him OF Fort Myer last Septem-
Der.
Replying to former Sopreme Court
Justice Brown, who told the members of
the Maryland Bar Association at Old
Point Comfort last week that much of
the divorce evil Was due to recklessness
OF cIergymer, Cardinal Gibbons yesier-
DAY rather cibPd the trouble to TOO
lax laws, which re nder II easy TO annul
the matrimonial bond. The cardinal
a'so objected TO the reported reference