Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.


chemist, died ~ Bad Nassau, Germany,
yesterday.
In a letter to the chairman Of the
Southern Commercial Congress Mr..
Roosevelt praises the south.
80 900 watermelons, the largest
ship ment ever received in Washington,
are being discharged at the Ninth
street wharf, there by dozen Schooners
from the Rappahannoch. Bone River,
and the Eastern Shore.
Judge Keister. at Chicago, yesterday
declaring that all the veniremen had
been approached" in connection with
the retrial of Lee O'Neil Browne for
bribing man to vote for Senator
Lorimer, has dismissed the entire panel
Of 70 men.
A Jersey COW belonging to Mrs. F.
b. Vincent, OF Table Rock Ore. is the
proud mother of triplet calves. They
are all males and all handsome, healthy
little fellows, with markings indicating
they are OF pure Jersey stock. They
are OF an exact size and cannot be told
apart.
Mrs. Judson DARN and infant child,
OF Easton, Pa, while asleep yesterday
were attacked by a large rat. Both
were bitten on the chin and severely
acerated. The mother was awakened
by the screams Of the baby, and later
was herself attacked.
Speaker Cannon in an interview at
Danyille, H., Monday right denounced
insurgents, said that he will be candi-
date for the speakership of the next
House, and declared that reports Of a
contemplated reorganization OF the re-
publican party originated with insur-
gents and democrats.
Again the glare OF the footIights is
said to have attracted Mabelle Gilman,
wife OF w. f Corey, the millionaire
president Of the United States Steel
Corporation. According to adviccs re-
ceived by friends from London, Mrs.
Corey, who was stage favoritc under
the name of Mabelle Gilman before her
marriage, contcmplates return TO the
stage.
Douglas II. Johnson, chief of so, 900
members OF the Chickasaw tribe, did
not remember yesterday before the
special congressional investigating
committee in sulphur Okla, when
asked how it was that he was able to
deposit $75, 600 TO his personal credit
few days after Attorney McMurray
had received $750,000 as attorney
fees.
Dan Friedman's baby cried Justify
for his milk earlier than usual yester-
day morning and Dan stumbled out
in the darkness TO the shed OF his
home in Maspeth, l.. l., to seek out
gentle Jersey COW. In the dark he
lost his sense Of location and with his
milk pail seated himself in the stall
of mule. Friedman was taken to
the German Hospital badly injured.
Yancey Lewis, lawyer OF Dallas,
has been selected by the anti Bailey
democrats of Texas to oppose Senator
Joseph Bailey for reelection to the
Senate. Lewis has been prominent in
politics for years, but never held cleo
tive Office. He was appointed federal
Judge by President Cleveland, but re-
signed to become professor of law Of
the University OF Texas He has writ
ten several law books and other works
and is considered one Of the finest
orators in the southwest.
The horrors of the cholera scourge
in Russia, according to Professor Rein,
of the Red Cross, who has been sent
by the government to south Russia
to study measures combating the
disease, are increasing. Children
are starving in many instances
because their parents and adult rela-
tives have died Of the disease, leaving
them unsupported. There is no in
dication yet Of the epidemic diminish
ing, and thousands of new cases are
being registered daily, the official fig
ures, according to reports, though
immense in themselves, undertaking
the full extent of the disease owing
to the impossibility of registering all
cases.