Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-06-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ing electricity at two-fifths of a cent per
kilowatt hours and Lynchburg at three
quarters of a cent.
Mrs. Arthur Pue German. the
widow of Senator German, of Mary
land, is critically i'll at her home in
Washington.
In Washington yesterday Justice
Wright ruled that one-sexteenth OF
colored blood is sufficient to stamp a
person as "colored.
A young man of Pittsburg, after
falling from a street car yesterday and
breaking his neck, walked home be-
fore being taken to hospital.
Richard Parr, his claim having been
approved by Attorney General Wicker
sham. will receive moiety, possibly
$3.50. OO0 for his discovery of the sugar
weighing frauds in New York.
President James, of the University
of Illinois yesterday admitted the
charges of Abraham Flexner, of the
Carnegie Foundation, that the medical
schools in Chicago are inefficient.
The people will suffer if the railroads
are not permitted their own way in In
creasing rates where needful is the
opinion OF James ]. Hill Of the Great
Northern.
An anti-Japanese rising of serious
proportions is being plotted, it is re-
ported, in North Korea, by Koreans
who are opposed to the annexation OF
Korea by Japan and who are the enemies
of the japanese generally.
The nomination OF Robert S. Wesley,
progressive, for governor of South Da-
kota, is indicated by the latest returns
received today from yesterdays repub-
lican primaries.
Lee O'Neill Browne, democratic
minority leader in the Illinois legisla-
ture, indicted on the charge of bri-
berry in connection with the election
of United States Senator Lorimer, was
placed on trial in Chicago, yesterday.
Returns from 35 out of SO counties OF
Iowa today indicate that Gov. B. F.
Carroll was nominated at yesterday 5
republican primaries over former Gov.
Warren Garst, the progressive candi-
date, Gov. Carroll now claiming the
nomination by 5000 but Garst has not
yet given up hope.
At the primary election in Harris
burg, Pa, last Saturday, Mr.. j. A.
Marshall, a cousin OF Mr., j. A. and
C. B. Marshall, of this city, was one OF
the successful democratic candidates
for the legislature, he having run second
on the ticket. Mr.. Marshall is a native
of Fairfax county.
Funeral services for William Sidney
Porter, who, under the name Of o.
Henry, became known as one OF the
foremost shOrt-story writer's in Ameri-
ca, took place yesterday in the church
of the TRANSPORTATION in New York
(the Little Church Around the Corner),
around which the author constructed
several Of his stories.
A man sitting in box at Columbia
Theater, New York, last night shot him
self in the right temple with revolver
as the principals and chorus were sing
ing the last concerted number of a
burlesque. In a pocket was found a
letter addressed to the police and the
coroner signed Charles Talbert" and
giving the address, sos Park avenue,
New York.
President Taft yesterday nominated
William d. Crum, Of South Carolina,
20 be minister resident and consul-gen-
eral at Monroyia, Liberia. Crum is
the negro whose appointment by Mr..
Roosevelt as collector Of the port at
Charleston, S. c., raised such a storm
of protest ip the south
In the hope that his life would be
saved, IsidOr Grotzloff submitted to an
operation for cancer of the stomach
Monday. The operation over, the
chances for his recovery were good.
But Yesterday he decided that, although
he had suffered so much to save his life,
he did not care to live longer, and
he jumped from a window on the
fifth floor of the hospital. He was
killed.
An application for divorce on the
ground of alleged desertion and failure
to support was filed in the District Court
in Carson, New, Monday, by Mrs.
Helena Gladys Aoki, against her hus-
band, Gunjiro Aoki, who was formerly
employed as a servant in the home of
the wife's parents. Mrs. Aoki is the
daughter of Archdeacon Emery Of the
Episcopal Church, residing at Corte
Madeira, Cal. Her marriage to the
Japanese at Seattle in March, 1909,
had been bitterly opposed by residents
of various places, where unsuccessful
efforts to have the ceremony per-
formed were made. They have one