Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-17
News Of the Day.


cured control o! the New York Central,
and with 1t az ocean-to-ocesn line OF
railroad.
The Piltsburg msrrisge license Office
issued license yesterday 10 Mrs. EVsllna
Hall, eighiy-one years old, OF Turtle
Greek, Penn, and Robert b. Wright,
fifty-one, Of the same town.
A man arrested In Harlem with q
piece of meat in his possession told Mag
istTate Breen that want drove him to
break into butcher chop 30 that bis
dying wife might have food.
Following fight of three women In
the suburbs OF Shsmokin, Pa, before day
light yesterday morning, people gathered
up almost 800 which the women evil
IDENTIFY lost from garter purses or their
stockings. After the fight the women
fed.
A mosquito pest OF destructive nature
is causing untold suffering and great
amount of damage 10 cattle, horses and
crops, the latter because Of enforced
neglect by growers, in the coast counties
of Texas.
A new plate glass show window,
burglar and bullet proof and yet as
transparent as crystal, was shown In
one OF the big Paris stores today. The
glsss is the product of Paris glass
factory, and is intended particularly for
jewelry stores. The glass is almost sn
inch 10 thickness and a bullet fred
sgainst 1t makes but little more than a
scratch.
That Eta White, cashier in store at
New Brunswick, N, j., has been poisoned
by money is the belief of the physicians
who is treating her for a peculiar rash
which has broken out on her face. He
also thinks her case should be warning
TO persons who have to count much
money daily not to pause and rest their
chin on their hands in the process, as
that, ne believes, caused Miss Whites
6 Lotion.
The Alabama state Senate refused yes
lerday by a large vote TO adopt the House
bill which prohibits the publication OF
the name of any victim of criminal as
sault. ii Is announced that the leaders
have agreed to eliminate from the Full
Ter bill the provision against the publ
cation Of liquor advertisements in news
papers. Governor Conner, however, has
three tened to thWart the plans Of the
newspaper men.
After an unearthly yaWn that startled
the communicates and completely bieke
up the services, Fred Myra. IS years
old, rushed from and East Providence,
r l., Church sunday evening. Many
of the congregation followed to see what
the matter was. At the end Of that
yawn the youth found to bis astonish-
ment and pain that he could not close
his mouth. He hurried to a physician.
As sOon az the doctor Jaw him he knew
bis sw WAS dislocated and proceeded
to unlock the jaw, which shut with a
snap.
The Sutton court Of inquiry, at Anna
polls, completed its lsbOrs, and the
findings OF the court and the record of
the proceedings we're taken to Washing
ton, yesterday, by Major Harry Leonard,
Judge advocate OF the court These he
delivered TO the acting secretary of The
navy today. The Navy Department
will review the csse and probably with
In a week or 10 days will make public
the findings of the court Of inquiry and
the action of the department thereon.
While there Is no way of knowing
exactly what the Sutton court has found,
as officers are bound to secrecy, there Is
reason for believing that the verdict will
be that Lieutenant Sutton came to his
death by bis own hand by accident.
Because the trustees decided that
burning lights for Sunday evening SER
vices was a useless expense. Rev.
Jacob E. Meeker, of the Compton
Heights Congregational Church in S..
Louis, went to summer garden Sun
day nigh. aud preached a 15-minute
sermon to the pleasure seekers. Pa
irons of The garden applauded and sew
eTal members Of his congregation con-
graduated him when he bad flushed. |
The preacher stood on an improvised |
platform, facing numerous beer tables,
theatre and a dancing pavilion. He
declared q week ago that II people
would net came to hear him preach he
would go where the people coDgregated
and preach to them anyhow. About
l 900 persons heard the sermon.
Screaming at the top Of her voice,
with her hair hanging loose over her
shoulders, and her clothing in dissrray
Miss Matilda Marli, a beautiful young
woman Of %, suffering from the hslluci-
7 alton that her mother was being harm.
ed by prosecutors, escaped from the
Florence OritteDton Home, near Third
and b streets northwest Washington, and
ran two squares before she was captured
by attendants yesterday afternoon.
Shortly after she was retaken by the
home officials the young woman was re-
moved TO st. Elizabeth's Hospital, and
Is confined there as pStient. Miss
Marti's mind Ia said by her mother to
have been unhipged by study OF social
conditions 10 Chicago, where she lives
md follows literary career.
A design for the monument to the
Vomen of the "lost cause" by Miss Belle
Kinney, aged twenty-five years, of I
has been accepted by several I
Itates. 1t is probable that all the south {
'rn states will adopt the design, and
hat rfplioas OF the monument will be
placed in the capitol of each state. The +
central figure Of the monument is of
leroic size, embematic Of the Goddess 7
# Fame. At the right a reclining {
igure, with an expression Of sadness, '