Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-08-09
News Of the Day.

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pointments, made impossible the passage
Of a postal savings bank law
Speaker Cannon has promptly de-
MED the report that he will not sgain De
a caujidste for Congress.
King Gustav, of Sweden yesterday
made en- unsuccessful effort to settle the
strike in S Stockholm, which has reached
an acute stage.
Harry X. ThaW has issued state"
mept declaring he is sane, because ne
feels and acts nationally and tina! Is
alienists bear him out.
The remodeIiDg Of the executive offices
10 the western wing Of the White House
be9an Saturday. The plaus for the
changes call for the expenditure Of
$40, 900.
Roland Hilton Perry, sculptor, says
that the Ludlow street jail, New YORK
whers be is staying for non-psyment OF
almony, is fne place for. summer rest
and study.
Philippine cigars bearing govern
ment label that they are of-the quality
represented aud made under absolutely
sanitary conditions will soon be on the
American market.
In New York on Saturday Mrs. Mary
Scott Castle asked that she be allowed to
enter a counter charge against Craig,
the lawyer she shot in the Waldorf,
and obtained an adjournment.
Police along the shores of Lake Mich
igan are today trying to devise some
m ,aus for preventing the numbers Of
drowniDgs that are appalling. Six per-
Sons met death Ia the waters yesterday
Mrs. Mary L. Keene MAS granted an
absolute divorce in Lexington, Ky
Ky, from Foxhall P. Keene, the NeT
York clubman aud son Of James K.
Keene, the Wall street broker on the
grounds of abandonment.
j. E. AIvord, secretary and treasurer
of The Continental Trust aud Savings
Bank Company, of Toledo. Ohio, hsi
announced that 81, 900 of the banks
cash is gone, and also gave out the in
formation tba! trusted bOOkkeeper Of
the bank has been missing since July rs
President Taft, while at Beverly, vii
probably pame supervisors Of the census
| in southern states. In accordance witt
the Taft policy that because a man Ia a
democrat he need not necessarily refrair
from receiving patronage from repub
llcnn administration, 1t is not unreason-
able to suppose that the census Officials
will be half democrats and half rapubli.
cans In eight states Of the sonth. Thes'
sre said to be Virginia, South Carolina
Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas
Texas and Florida.
| The mutilated body of a womsT
about 50 years old was found in a clnml
of underbrush in Hsmtrack, IN the vi
cinity of Detroit, Mich yesterday. Th
condition of the body indicates that to-
woman was assaulted and killed. Th
skull wss crushed and the face sD'
body we're covered with bruises.
handkerchief, supposedly belonging l.
the victim, Was found several feet away
as WAS also her purse, which had beef
| torn open. Nothing which might sery
to identify the body was left in it.
Ella G;ngles, the Irish lacemakeI
whose recent trial IN Chicago for steal
, ing the lace brought forth from her sen
salional charges of "White slavery,
unwillingly departed yesterday 70
County Antrim in the island OF be
, forefathers. The young Irish lseemas
or demurred when the authorities Of
, dered her deported, because, she said
her parents bad read garbled newspspt
, accounts of her sensational experience
) in Chicago and she doubted whetht
she could explain to their satisfaction
The Cunard liner Mauretania, which a
rived at Queenstown today, took one mimi
of her New York Queenstown record, maj
ing the passage in four days, II hours and
. minutes, an average speed Of 26.S9 knots
hour.
Atlantic City had its biggest day in histol
, Yesterday and more than 100000 Peep
swamped the place.