Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

w. J. Thomas, OF Grand Tunnel, Pa,
who recently advertised for wife and
promised her his home, bank account
and horse and carriage, has received
500 proposals from women in all parts
OF the country. Thomas is GO years
old, and he declared he wanted wife
aboutthe age of Sc who was willing to
cook him good meals, but whose hair
must be some other color than red.
Pearls valued at $500, 900, taken from
claims in Caddo Lake, an isolated IN.
land waterwa in Marion county, Tex,
have been sold by ignorant fishermen
for few hundred dollars, according to
information verified by the State au-
thorities. The State fish and oyster de-
partment has assumed charge OF the
claims and will put stop to pearl
hunting. Only few days ago a pearl
valued at 81 900 was found and sold to
an eastern dealer for $50. 1t appears
that agents OF eastern dealers have
bought up every pearl as soon as found
for paltry sums.
Her back broken by plunge from a
third-story window OF q sanitarium, Miss
May Motley, a daughter of Charles f.
Motley, railroad official OF Brooklyn,
yesterday was taken to st. Johns Hos
pital in dying condition. The police
reported that the yonng woman took
the leap after brooding over an opera
ton which was to have been performed
on her tomorrow.
Twenty-Five OF the suffragettes ar.
rested with 200 companions in connec-
ton with the demonstration at the
British House of Commons on Novem-
Der 81 were indicted at the London Ses-
sions yesterday. Nearly 200 had been
sumrnarily sentenced by the police
magistrate, at Bow Street Police Court
on minor charges.
Yesterday was the hottest December
u on record in New York and but twice
in the annals of the weather bureau has
the record been approached. At 9
O'Clock in the afternoon the tGermome.
ter was just shade under 60. On the
same day in 1878 and 1899 the mer-
curry touched 50. The hot wave is
pretty general throughout the East.
Up in the Berkshires the maple sap is
running like it does in spring, and the
pussywillows are blooming. Boston
reports that trees are budding in the
parks and the grass is getting green.
Open cars we're being run on many Of
the lines, and mercury is lowering
around the 20 mark.
Bolliver Dent, young Georgian, re-
siding near Savannah, has been driven
away from bis bride by the ghost Of his
dead brother to whom the girl had been
first engaged. Otta Dent and the girl
were to have been married in Knox
vile. The train which was to have
brought the bridegroom, however.
brought his bloody corpse. Bolliver
Dent met and fell in love with the girl1
After they were married the ghost OF
his dead brother came aud stood be-
tween him and his bride. They no
longer live together and the ghost has
ceased to walk.
Ben Workman, 16 years old, died
yesterday at his home near Proctor
vile, Ohio, as the result Of pistol
wound alleged to have been inflicted by
Ben White, companion of the same
age. Young White is held to
answer to a charge OF murder, White, |
q lad OF peculiar tendencies. had been
made the butt of Jokes by crowd OF
boys, OF which Workman was one, and
on this occasion he prepared himself
to resent bis mlstreatment. When
they started to jeer him he opened fire
at his tormentors and the bullet took
effect in Workman's head.
A riotous outbreak interrupted
large mass meeting held at Carnegie
Hall New York last night in support
CT the arbitration treaties which Presi-
dent Taft has proposed with England
and France. Twenty eight reserve
policemen were hurried to the hall.
A London news agency dispatch
from Vienna says that according to
official advice received from Cettinje,
Montenegro, dangerous instruction
has broken out in Albania. Twelve
thousand men are under arms, and
an extension of the movement is
probable. |