Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-10-07
News of the Day.

Joint mantuveTs OF the regular army
and the National Guard are thing OF
the past. The resulting benefits we're
small.
The new torpedo boat destroyer the
Reid yesterday developed q maximum
speed of "a. 548 knots on trial at Rock
land, Me.
DR.. Thomas A. Bedgood was acquitted
yesterday at BtewtoD, Ala, Of the muir
der OF James A. Gleason, whom he shot.
The defense simply proved that Gleason
made scandaious remarks about Mrs.
Bedgood.
Announcement was made a! the Oin-
cinuati Chamber Of Commerce yesterday
OF big reduction OF cents gallon ia
the basic price of whisky. The decline,
which is from 81 81 to 81 50, is due TO
the drop In the price of corn.
Lewis Giuzsl, former treasurer Of
Highland, ILL.,, shot and instantly killed
his wife, Addie, at their home, 10 the
presence OF their five children yesterday
evening, and then brushing aside the
little ones went into the kitchen, barred
the door and fred bullet into his own
brain.
Dudley Buck, whose name was seen
perhaps, oftener than that OF any other
American composer on concert and
choral programmes, died suddenly yes
terday at the hone of his son, Dudley
Buck, j., the violinist, in West Orange,
n. J. The composer Was bora at Hart.
ford, o., in 1889.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell WAS insugu-
rated president of Harvard University
yesterday with impressive ceremonies.
President Lowell later conferred homo
rsry degrees upon 30 of the guests PRES
ent, including that of Doctor Of Law
upon Edwin Anderson Aldermen, presi.
dent of the University of Virgins.
According to az article by Rev. Louis
O'Dopovan, secretary to Cardinal Glib
bons, In the Catholic World, the Ostho-
lie Church cannot, consistently with its
traditions, allow non-Oatholic ministers
to become priests uDltss they promise
ceIlbscy. This, be says, may be said to
apply also to married converts who wish
to enter the priesthood.
Typhoid fever is still on the increase
in The District of Columbia, according
to the weekly mOrtsIity report Of the
heslth department for the week ended
October 2, made public yesterday. The
report shows that 81 new cases were
reported during the week, increasing the
total number, after deduCting % cases
discharged, to 1853,
WaYcross, Ga. was swept by q fierce
wind and electrical storm late yesterday
afternoon, which resulted in great prop.
erty damsge, and cost the life of A. P.
Psrham, editor Of the WsycrOss Herald.
Many houses were unroofed, and every
telephone, telegraph, and electric wire
went down. 1t was Que of these wires
that killed Mr.. Perhsm. He stepped
from his flee to see what dsmsge had
been done, and as be gained the street
be was struck in the breast by a dang
ling live wire and instantly killed. TIE
property loss will reach $25, 600.
Capt. Francis II. Ross, graduate of
IVES! Point and former army officer,
shot and killed himself yesterday after
noon 10 the Office of the New Mexico
Development Company, Of which be
WAS treasurer, at 6S William street, New
York. Grief over the death of bis wife
a year ago, and bis own iii health, are
supposed to be the causes. Capt Ross
went to New York with bis wife and
four children from San Francisco, his
native. city about fifteen years ago. He
was 65 yebrs old When be shot him
self, girl stenographers ran psnic-stricken
from his Offices. The police found him
dead, with bullet hole in his temple.