Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-11-29
News of the Day.

hOlJ bUOu taNc Tue 1uplo AiheoSc w
join the French, English and Russian
group OF powers.
Nine. Sleinheil, recently acquitted 10
Paris of the charge OF numbering her
husband, arrived In London, travelling
under the name Of Nine. Dupont.
Professor David A. Woodward, artist,
former head OF the Maryland Institute of
Art, and Oldest knight Templar 10
Maryland, died today at bis home near
Relay, Nd.
Political conditions In Cuba are
nearing q crisis. A movement is being
agits,ed to force the retirement OF Presi-
dent Gomtz and place Vice-President
Ziyas In the executive chair.
Au attempt by market hunters TO
ship FIVE hundred psrlridges In q coffin
from upper Michigan to Milwaukee, In
violation Of the sale game lave, was
frustrated BY a keen nosed hunting
dog.
Twenty-eight persona have been killed
and 20 irjared as the result Of ''hnDt.
ing accidents" 10 the Michigan ard
Wisconsin woods this year. OF the
dead ninsteen we're killed since the be-
ginning Of the deer hunting season,
November 10.
The engagement Of Miss Alice Bleeh,
Mrs. Tafps social secretary, TO Lieut..
Richard wainwright, U. s N, was an.
nouuced 10 Washington yesterday, By
her mother Mrs. Paul Blech. No date Is
IS yet set for the wedding, which will
take place in the spring.
The jury 10 the case Of Oliver Herman
Harris, placed On trial q! Rockville,
Nd, Thanksgiving day for the m1rder
OF John Henson Poole, brought in ver-
dict at 1880 O'Clock Saturday night Of
murder 10 the second degree. The pen
atty Is from FIVE to eighteen yesr' in the
sla'e prison.
After being out less than 10 minutes,
the Talbot county, Nd, jury 10 the case
OF DR.. James ,. Merritt, aged 81 years,
charged With performing criminal ops-
! ration on Mss Emerald L. Solborou,
daughter OF kr. aod Mrs. Thomas j.
sothoroD, and who died as result Of an
operation, brought in q verdict OF not
guilty Saturday afternoon.
A special election to Oil the vacancy
caused by the death OF Congressman De.
Almond, of Bltler, Mo, will be called
by Governor Hadley today, fixing the
date 10 the 6nt or second week Of Janu-
airy. Friends of James DeArmond, son
Of the late congressman, are booming
him 10 succeed his father.
President Taf! has given pp bis former
programme OF attempting to secure the
amendment OF the Sherman antitrust
law at the coming session Of Congress.
At the last meeting of tho Cabinet the
situation was thoroughly reviewed. II
was decided that any change made In
the law at this tlme would result in
decrease Of its effectiveness.
Because Police Commissioner Baker
Of New York refuses to permit James
J JtffrIes, and Jack johnson TO open
bids In that city wednesday for their
fight for the heavyweight championship
Of the world, they will 90 to Roboken
for that purpose. It. lie now generally
conceded that the only offers that will
have serious consideration will be those
from California,
More than 10000, 900 pounds Of
cigar tobacco and nearly four times that
quantity Of the other types OF tobacco
was grown 10 the United States 10 1908
according to a bulletin just issued BY
the department of agriculture on Sstur'
day. Kentucky leads oil the states In
tobacco grown, producing more than
one-lhird of the crop Of the country aud
about oue-ninLh OF The entire crop of
the world.
| Both attempting to cross The tracks OF
the other line at the same time at l4lh
street and PennsylVsnia avenue, Wash.
iugton, O lie Droit Park car, bound
south, and car up Pennsylvaoia ave.
uue, on its way to the navy yard, col.
lided and we're badly smashed up at
1904 o'clock Saturday night. ]. T.
Magahs, motorman Of The LIS Droit
Park car, was hurt. Miss II. O. Bal
lenger, OF 1908 B street southwest, while
sustaining no irj1ry, collapsed with ner-
vous fright. Traffic was suspended fer
three. quarters Of an hour.
| A lonely road mile north OF Pronte-
mac, Kan, was the scene Of triple
murder and an assault on q woman some
tine Friday night. The dead are Mr..
and Mu. William Boik aud their two
year.old son. The attack on Mrs. Bork
is the supposed motive Of the crime.
Bork, presumably. wSs killed while try
ing to defend his wife. Mr.. aud Mrs.
BOrk and their child we're last seen sllve
late Friday night, when they started 10
drive home to Frontensc from the home
Of Mrs. BorRs mother, two miles 10 the
country.
| Albert T. Patrick was brought 10 New
York from sug Slug lodsY to make
another Try for freedom before the Appel
lac Division sitting at Brooklyn. Pat.
rick In this latest appeal contends that
the postponement Of his deterioration for
the murder Of William Marsh Rice By 8
stay order granted by Justice Denis
O. Brien of the Court Of Appeals was
illegal, and that be, Patrick should have
been dead, when Gov. Higgins COM
muted bis sentence to life imprisonment.
He practically says that be ia neW legally
dead so fer as the courts are concerned,
and that the failure of the State 10 elsc'
trocule him on the date set BY the court
after bis conviction bad been affirmed
makes II illegal for the state to hold him