Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-04-15
NEWS OF TIE DAT.


Archbishop Chapelle, the papal dele
gate in the Philippines, has been sum-
moned to Rome.
1t is reported 10 London that ]. ?.
Morgan will raise loan to pay British
war expenses.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was arrested at
Kansas City, Mo, last light, for OBJ
structiDg the street, and was tried to-
day.
The Jersey Central Railroad officials
came to an agreement with its engi-
neers and fremen. end there will be no
strike.
A hundred and fifty newly-enlisted
men in the Fourteenth United States
Cavalry have deserted at Lssvenworth,
Kansas.
Reports continue to come from New
York and elsewhere of efforts to con-
solidate Southern iron properties 10
VIII ch Baltimore capital Is invested.
Nearly forty cotton mills In Lawrence
and Fall River, Macs, will close down
their works for brief period, throwing
twenty-three thousand workmen out oil
employment.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
appointed temporary receiver for
the Fsrmers' National Bank OF Yer
eennas, VT, whose cashier had en-
bezzled about 800 600.
Ex.Speaker Thomas B. Reed has
been elected director oil the New
York Life Insurance Company, ana
thereby enters the inner circle OF inan-
cial % aguates 10 the metropolis.
Edward Johnson, a New York stock
broker, and Mrs.. Edward William Du..
bois, of Newark, N. j., lovers, separated
years ago by quarrel, met by chance,
were reunited and married on Satur-
day.
The beautiful St. Patrick's Church,
designed and built in Toledo by its pas
tor. Father Hannin, was dedicated by
Archbishop Ireland, OF st. Paul, and
Bishop Horstman, OF Cleveland, on Sat-
u;day.
The Cuban constitutional convention
at Havana decided by resolution not to
90 on record for or against the Plalt
amendment, but to await the return oil
the commission which will visit Wash
iDgton.
The Hamburg American liner steam'
or Deutschland, nov at New York,
has aboard Emperor Williams chef,
who ia learning to make bucKwheat
cakes and other American dishes for
the Kaiser.
John DAILY, msyor of Limerick, Ire
land. in an address said that his visit to
Chicago bad convinced him that Irish
Americans would contribute nothing to
the fuuds of the party seeking Ireland's
freedom through parliamentary agita-
ton.
At .rritic storm has prevailed of the
coast Saturday night and Yesterday Is
the worst of the season. The wind at
tanned terrific velocity and the phenom-
enallv heavy rainfall was as binding
on the water ss the heavy fog that fol-
lowed In it's wake.
Iufluenced by the protests OF the
Evangelical Cnurch council and the
Catholic bishops, Emperor William has
Withdrawn from the Great Hall OF the
blind ASYLUM at Wusterhausen mosaic
portrsits representing the empress as
Al. Elizabeth and himself as the saints
husband.
Captain John J. Griffin, commercial
agent of the Norfolk and Western Rail.
road Company, was shot and killed 10
The rooms OF Major Barnard B. Evans
In Columbia, S, G., on Saturday night.
Major Evans was arrested, charged With
killing Captain Grifio, and is IN Jail.
There were no witnesses to the trag-
edy. 49,,
The British Foreign Office is still de-
sirous OF negotiating q canal treaty
with the United States. The Colon
bian minister at London says he may
approach the British government 10
relation to the bulldog of the Panama
canal. Secretary Hay ia escertsining
the opinions OF Senators before under,
taking to farme new isthmian canal
treaty with England.
The term of Office Of Public Pdnter
Palmer will shortly expire, and he will
probably be succeeded by Representa-
tive Heat wole, of Minnesota, who dur.
ing the past two sessions OF Congress
has been chairman of the House COM
mi,tee on printing and who ia Endorsed
for the office by nearly all the typo.
graphical unions. If Mr.. Heatwole
should decline the appointment then
the position will be rendered to Senator
T. G. Platt's candidate, Archie Baxter.
Governor Beckham, OF Kentucky,
will issue q requisition on Governor
Durbin, OF Indiana, for the return Of
w. 8. Taylor and Charles Finley az
soon AZ the trial CT Garrett Ripley is
over. Ripley has been put on trial by
the Common wealth simply for the pur.
pose OF justifying Governor Beckham
| 10 making the requisition. 1t is be-
lieyed that the testimony given by ex'
Governor Bradley aud Judge W. 81
Yost will influence Governor Durbin In
honorin9 such requistion.
The United States Court in New Or
leans dismissed the suit brought by
Boer representatives to prevent the
shipment OF mules and horses for Brit
ish use 10 the Transvaal. Judge Par
LANCE holds that tie transactions be
tween the citizens of the United States
and the British government are con
Quoted under the order of private citi
zsnsbip, and that the courts have ab
solutely no Jurisdiction to interfere
The horses and mules, the court said
we're bought 10 neutral territory.