Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-09-23
News Of the Day.

A dispatch from Chicago says Major
General Frederick GRAFT will be the
prohibition candidate for president In
1912.
Commander Pesry aud his family
stsrted from Sydney, n. s., yesterday
for their home on Eagle Island, Maine,
by rail.
According to james NJ. Hamill, a
wealthy miner. who has just returned
from Fairbanks, Alsska, the gold output
of the Tanana valley this year will be
more than $12, 900, 900.
A bomb Was found last night in the
rear of the custom-house at Jnarez, Mex
leo, few feet from the platform which
has been erected for the meeting between
President Taft and President Diaz 90
October 16. More than thirty arrests
we're made. Juarez Is across the Mexi-
can border.
One person, a by-stander, was shot
through the hip and seriously wounded
two motormen were hit with bricks, and
one of them perhaps fatally wounded; 8
conductor Vas less seriously injured, and
eight cars we're partially demolished In
riots which occurred last night In con-
nection with the Omaha street car strike.
Brilliant weather favored the great
parade OF Odd Fellows through the
business streets Of Seattle yesterday.
More than 10000 men we're In the
column, and there we're numerous floats
designed by Rebekah lodges and many
Rebekah members In decorated automo-
biles. Atlanta was chosen for the next
convention. The grand lodge approved
revised ritual for the Sisters of Re-
bekah.
Mamie, the young step.daughter OF
Joe Perry, pleaded guilty In Wilson, N.
O., yesterday, to the charge Of killing
her stepfather with an axe while he wss
asleep. The girl says she has never been
iu church, nor ever heard Of Gci. By
consent, the indictment was changed to
manslsughter. She was allowed to give
bond for her appearance at the next tern
of court, when arrangements will be
made to place her in 3 reformatory.
Perry was q notorious character, having
killed three men.
George Washington Murray, a negro,
who, 10 reconstruction days, represented
the Sumter, 8. O., district in Congress,
and is now held in Chicago at the re-
quest of the South Carolina authorities
10 serve q sentence of three years for
forgery, refuses to return to Columbia
without requisition pspers. Applica-
ton for these WAS made yesterday to
Gov. Ausel. Murray fed while the jury
was celebrating upon his case, and sem
tence was imposed In his absence. Muir.
ray has divorced his negro wife, it is
said, at bis home, and married white
woman.
A dispatch from Leopoldville, Bel
GUM Congs, Gays the charges brought
against Rev. w. w. Morrison, an
American missionary, by one OF the
Congo concession companies. which has
monopoly of rubber gathering In the
Kssai region, have been withdrawn, but
the plaintiffs reserve the right to bring
auit later for damages. Rev. w. n.
Sheppard, another American missionary,
has been sued for Sc, 900 by the same
company for "calumnious denuncistion, Z"
the suit being based on an article which
appeared in the Kassi Herald. Judg-
meut in this case will be rendered on
October 4.
Ordinary imprisonment having failed
to check riotiug on the part of the
suffrsgettes, a magistrate at Birmingham,
Eng, yesterday afternoon sentenced
Mary Leigh and Charlotte Marsh, two
OF the ringlesders In the outbreak at the
meeting In Birmingham the night Of
September II, when Premier A'quith
delivered an address upon the budget, to
two and three months at hard labor.
Another woman was given one month at
hard labor, and other various terms OF
simple imprisonment. When the SEN
fences were pronounced a number Of
suffrsgettes in court picked up whatever
they could lay their hands on in the
form of missiles and broke the windows
of the courtroom.