Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-25

The American steamship Ventura,
which has just arrived at Sydney,
New South Wales, from San Fran
cisco, reports that she picked up a
wireless message from the station
at Tuckerton, N. j., when 5000
miles distant from that point, This
! is said to be a worlds record.
/ President and Mrs. Wilson were
the chief guests yesterday at the
wedding of DR.. Cary T. Grayson,
the White House physician land Miss
Alice Gertrude Gordon, of Wash
ington and New York, in the chapel
of St. Georges Protestant Episco-
! pal Church in New York.
Recent reports indicate that Ger
man submarine commanders are liv-
ing up to their instructions to dis
continue illegal methods of sub
marine warfare. Consul General
Skinner at London reported num-
Der of cases where merchant vessels
were sunk but there is no indica-
ion of violation of international law
Hobart Williams, in addition to
establishing trust fund of s2,OOO,-
900 for the benefit of ten Illinois
institutions, has conveyed to the Uni
versity of Chicago the William Build
ing, a downtown property, worth
about $2,5OO,000. Mr.. Williams also
decided to St. Luke's Hospital prop
erty valued at 100000 and to the
tY. NJ. C. A. property worth about
100000.
Election of salaried officials, re-
vision of the educational superviS-
sion system and the creation of a.
suporannuato tod r,ai,aictero,!f,lnd- -nn-
cupied the General Methodist Prot
estant Conference yesterday at Fan
csville, Ohio. The Rev. George II.
Miller, Steubenville, Ohio, was elect
ed secretary of the new education
board after a spirited battle that ex-
tended over from the afternoon ses-
sion.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in ses-
sion in Saratoga, N. Y, in making
the assignments of bishops to their
fields for the quadrennium yester-
day.. designated DR.. w. F. Nc
Dowell, of Chicago, for the Wash
ington area, and he viii have sup
ervision over the Baltimore, Wilm-
.,ngton> Central Pennsylvania and
the Washington conferences. Blsh-
| op Mcdowell will make his residence
/ in the national capital.
Henriette Holstein, the wife of
| Koenigsbury farmer, was executed
IN Berlin, yesterday for the triple
murder of her husband, daughter
and stepson by arsenic. The exc
cution was performed in the ira
ditional manner by headsman with
a broadax. Two Berli women of the
underworld who were recently con-
victed of the murder and robbery OF
| third woman, are in Jail awaiting
the infliction of the death penalty
by beheading.
From source which New York
ship news reporters declared they
have always found reliable, there
came yesterday the remarkable an
nouncement that within a few days
| New York would witness the arrival
of a German super-submarine, inaug-
| uTdClnR passenger, iiaii OH" ASiS
service between Germany and the
| United States. The submarine now
said to be bound for American is
45O feet long and carries German
mails, ten passengers and a fifty-ton
cargo of valuable freight.
The general assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United
4 States of American yesterday at
Atlantic City, N. j., adopted with
out debate a report from the com
; mittee on bills and overtures warn
ing the New York and all Other
presbteries that the tenets of thu
church must be accepted by candi
dates for the ministry before the!
are ordained. This action, it is be
1ieved, ends. further discussion lin! til.