Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
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Another slash is 10 he taken at the
big food concerns selling adultera.e'l
,Ioducts by DR.. II ,rvey w. Wiley. the
governments pure food expert. 1t was
announced at the bureau OF chemistry
today that as result OF year OF secret
investigation Of food products on the
Washing ton marker, a.number ofcases
will be prosecuted III the police courts
of thi> city against some OF the largest
fed concerns in the country. These
...,es. the officials said, would bn push
ed to trial rapidly The gun-si,oe was
exposed by the, find of $500 which was
imposed upon Charles w. Cornwell,
manager OF the Washington branch OF
Armour and Co., Of Chicago, who
pleaded guilty to a charge OF selling or
exposing for sale adulterated eggs. Inc
eggs we're stripped OF their shells and
hacked in cans in bulk. Coloring mat
ter and preservatives were added.
A public school quarantine was
established today against children OF
families ia which there are cases OF
infantile paralysis. The city health
office refused to accept the theory OF
eminent physicians that the malady IS
not contagious.
Vice President Sherman was defeat
ed in his own election district, his own
ward and his own assembly district by
The progressive republicans at the
primaries in Utica, n Y, yesterday,
though he carried the city by gaining
delegates in a scant majority OF the
wards. Mr.. Sherman, however, Will
attend the convention at the head OF the
delegation from the first Oneid assem-
Div district, rs a result of the primaries
held Yesterday IN Buffalo, Rochester,
Syracuse, Albany, Troy, and in other
cities and counties upstate. Timothy
l.. Woodruff, chairman OF the re-
publican state committee, and William
Barnes, ir., at Albany, predict Mr..
Sherman's election as temporary chair.
man of the state convention by a sub
stantial majority. The old guard
is defeated" said County Chairman
Lloyd G. Griscom yesterday.
4 legal fight to rescue her husoana
from the government asylum for the IN
sane was begun today by Virginia
Strousc FRANKIE. eightccn-year-oldp rlde,
whose honeymoon came to an abrupt
termination on the day after her wed
ding. when her husband, Edwin tranke'
was arrested rs an escaped luhatic;
FRANKIE was Il private in the army ana
sent TO the asylum from Fort McPher-
SON. Ga. Three weeks ago he left the
institution, met Miss Strouse, whom he
had known in Philadelphia, and aiter 4
dav of ioy-riding. they were married.
AsiaCic cholera. which has been spread
inc through southern Europe and is
working it way northward through Hun
cary. has broken out 1T Kobe, Japan, ac-
cordin" toa cablegram received at the
State Department today from vice Con-
sui Walter Gaflatt, This is the first re-
port of the appearance OF the disease at
Oriental ports. although sporadic cases
are not unusual.
An appropriation of $4,000 will be
asked Of Congress at the next session by
The Commissioner Of Education for the
purpose of maintaining field force OF
EXPERTS to advise with local authorities
ON educational matters. The decision OF
the commissioner follows resolutions
adopted By the National Educationai
Association at its convention in Boston
lust July recommending such legisla-
| ton.