Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-11
News Of the Day.

The contract to supply the British
army with corned beei for three years
was given In London to Chicago firm.
Wheat is still climbing. Yesterday
In b fillmore it reached $1.15 for spot
contract aud No. 2 Red Western, and
apparently had not yet stopped Its up
ward movement,
10 the House yesterday consideration
Of the agricultural appropriation bill
was renewed, and the amendment doing
away with the board of referees on pure
foods Vas voted down. COnsidera ioD
o. The bill was not completed.
Slss B. Butcher, president of the
Hamilton Trust Company, died yesterday
in Brooklyn, N. Y, 10 his eightittb
year. Wednesday was the 6ftieth anniver-
sary of his wedding. he suffered a
stroke OF apoplexy Tuesday night
Andrew Pears, head of the soap fac
tory bearing that name aud grandson Of
the founder of the establishment, died
suddenly yesterday Of heart disease at his
suburban home, Brentwood, nesr Lon
doG. He was worth many millions.
Thomas Oliver, inventor OF the Oliver
typewriter, died suddenly in Chicago on
Tuesday of heart disease while waiting
with bis vile st a railway station TO start
for Pine Buff, AK, to test machine
ghich he hfd recently invented, which
he declared would revolutionize the cot
ton industry, The mschine wss cotton
picking device, which was to do away
With the work not done by haud.
After 50 years of married lie, George
A. Hull, a wealthy, retired book dealer,
of East Orange, n. j., WAS yesterday
granted a divorce from his wife, Mrs,
Adelaide Hull, on the ground of deser-
ton. Investigation is alleged to have
resulted in the discovery that Mrs. Hull
has led double life for years, snd proof
Vas made positive, it is alleged, by the
dream Of Il young woman 10 Camden,
who knew Mrs. Hull as the wife of an
other man.
That the CASTOR Depew aud Captain
Potter divorces, recently granted at Col
oradO Springs, will be followed soon by
a double wedding is reported 10 Denver,
where the impending divorce wss first
announced. The feature is the state
ment that while Mrs. Dope is to marry
Capt. Ashton Potter, Mrs. Potter and
aston Depeg will go to the alter about
the same time. The story il that the
Dspews aud Polters were in Switzerland
at the same time, and there they learned
that they had been misma,ed.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Hale in
troduced a bill to repeal the Law which
at present makes Mr.. Knox ineligible to
become secretary of state. Senstor War
rem bottled the vice president that the
conferees had been unable to sgree on
the salaries of the president, vice presi-
dent, speaker of the House and the vari-
Gus other executive aud judicial officials
whose compensstions had been increased
By the Senate. Ia order that the mat
ter might be again considered Messrs.
Warren, HemenwSy and Teller were ap-
pointed conferees on the Part ofthe Sem
ate to confer with the representatives,.
VIM. ]. Bryan in a speech a! Peusa.
cola, Fla, Tuesday night, said "The
country need not hope for a revision OF
the tariff at the hands of the present
Congress. There will be no revision,
for the rCason that the republicans can.
not afford TO lower the tariff, for every
man who has a schedule, has contributed
to the campaign fund and must be pro-
tected. 1t is true tia. the contributions
to the national fund we're published, bul
moneys received BY the congressional
fund we're 60 tainted that the republi-
cans dared not publish them even after
the election. While there may be talk
Of REVISION and a lower tariff, there
will be absolutely no change.