Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-09
News Of the Day.

The S auda,d Oil Company has an.
nouncsd q reduction of Is points IN the
price of refined petroleum.
Frank Sprieg Perry, assistant to .. 9.
District Attorney Daniel W. Baker, o.
Washington, yestsrdsy submitted bl'
resigns tion. He viii Return to active
practice. Mr.. Perry is we'll known 10
this city.
The Northern Indiana Conference Of
the Methods! Church decidcd that,
owing to the high cost OF living, fsmi!is:
that entertain ministers shall not be
asked to furnish more than one nights
lodging and one meal.
It was announced at Wilmington,
DEL, lale lat night that the celebrated
SANDER suits brought by Alfred [. d.
pott. multi millionaire vice-president Of
the Dupont Powder Company, on behalf
of bis wife against Mrs. Elizabeth CANDY
Bradford Dupont, her sunt, and Mrs.
Mary II. ]. Bash, of Wilmington, have
been dropped.
Six women correspondents bea! Eve
mere men similarly classified In divorce
suit decided In New York yesterday,
when jury. in the suit of Mrs. Edna
Valentine Helm, against Isa Willard
Hsiu, returned verdict finding the
husband guilty on 7 of the IA chsrges
against him. Helms attorney withdrew
all the chargesofimpropriety made against
the wife.
Announcement Is made Of the sp-
preaching marriage of Mr.. John Mason
Lee, it,, of Stafford county, to Miss
Rachel Chris ian Trimble, of Washing.
iugton, The ceremony to take place In
New York Avenne Presbyterian Church
10 thst city April 49, Mr.. Lee Is soo
of Major John NJ. Lee, of Stafford, q
brother OF the LIT, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee,
and is prominent business man.
An involuntary petition In bankru Dtcy
WAS filed today against tho United Stat
Restaurant and Reolty Company, p:o-
prietors of the Cafe de pOpera on Broad
way, New York, by counsel for Isaac
Hsineman and two other creditors who
claim &c, 500 for poultry and fish sup
plies. The company made general
assignment on April to Anton H.
Meyer. The liabilities are about 81 000,-
600 and the sssets smCu2t to $500, 000.
The northern Indiana conference OF
the Methodist Church decided yesterday
at Bluff on, Ind., that owing TO the high
cos: OF living, families that entertain
ministers shall not be asked 10 furnish
more than one nights lodging aud one
meal. The INC ton was made By the dis
trict superintendent and was adopted by
the conference. Under this motion the
ministers will have to pay for entertain.
meut, with The exception of one night
and breakfast the next morning.
a trne bill charging Max l.. Leslie,
collector of Delinquent taxes in Allegheny
county, Pa, with bribery, was returned
by the grand jury yesterday In Pit!sSurg
and at the same time asWeeping presen'-
ment was handed down, with charges
that many of the 125 witnesses whom
the grand jury has had before it In the
graft Investigations thus far have will.
fully withheld knowledge OF graft secrets,
ard that q certain few have practi cally
been guilty of perjary. Directors end
officials of s2me Of the elk big banks
which profitsd by the corrupt deposit Try
ordinance are severely scored by the
probers.
Gov. Cro!hcrs' will veto the Digges bill
passed by the democratic majority 10 the
Maryland Legislature, which sought TO
deny negroes the right to vote. In a
stat ,uent last night the governor said
that such law was Impractical and
conld MT be carried out without causing
Injury 10 the atate. II slso would affect
the s!atas of the democrats in the stu:b-
ern states aud might jsopardzs consti
tu!ions now effective. The governor will
sign the referendum amendment to COM
pal all negroes to nave $500 worth OF
property before they can be registered.
4 dispatch from Berlin says sir people are
reported dead today Ina lire that destroyed
2O7 houses. practically the whole town in Rec.
esno, ia Silesia. Ninety houses were also
burned down in Mesenow, across the Russian
frontier. The FIRE was undoubtedly The work
of an inGendisry More than 1000 persons
ale homeless,
a Michigan Central train has been wrecked
near Waterford, Ont. Several persons are
reported to have been injured.
Dee,rha.s nffor Coryirns