Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-08-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
rcoyrsspondence Of tho Alexsndris 6szet'

house did three-i0urt1s VI wy 900 III
Amounting to $1,000 OBJ IN iSVo anu
s11 039 443 in 1899. The Only o'ner
cna'om house showing more than MIL
lion dollars receipts is the one st Cien.
fn.oos OF the total receipts IN lSOo
duties on imports brought sl4, 273, l4O;
dntjes on exports, 81, 066 0O5.
Tn apy city in the United States |
where postal free delivery has been es-
tabIisaed, civil service examinations
will shortly bs held for clerk and as
sistant, bureau of plant industry, De-
partment of Agriculture, 81 600 per an.
mum; photographic craftsman, coast
and geode.ic survey, $500; artist. bureau
OF plant industry, 1900. Il
Among the appointments received
from the President today was the COM
mission OF Joseph Wheeler, jr.. to be
captain in the artillery corps. Chas. T.
Vreelsnd has been promoted to q com-
membership In the navy. A number OF
minor appointments in the army were
received from Canton.
The belief that the gasjet had some
thing 20 do with the water supply that
fills the bathtub cost John Floyd. elk
teen wears old colored boy, bis lie.
John was q stranger in the city and al
go to modern city comforts. he was
stopping with friends at ZIG Arthur
Place. and when he started to take
bath turned on everything he couiu
find. The room filled with gas faster
than the tub did with water and hoaily
the unfortunate boy succumoed to ooth
elements. The coroner gives asynyxia-
ton and drowning as the twin cause
of death, believing that John was over
come by the gas and fell into the water'
Stories 10 the papers about flying ma
chimes unbalanced the mind OF Jsmes
Williams. a colored laborer. Yesterday
he was picked up by the police while
running wildly through the streets nap,
ping his arms and crying: I'm bra"
The Navy Department was today In
formed of the death OF two retired ma
val officers. Ooe OF them was Lieut.
Alder Jouett Dabney. VINO was ooro 10
Kentucky, but who has been living 10
Washington for some years. The other
was Medical Director Thomas L. Turn
ar. who died at MackiDac slsnd, Mich,
Yesterday. He was horn In Pennsyl-
ysnis 70 years ago. The department
also learned unofficially OF the death OF
Mrs. Thomas G.. Mclean, wife OF the
com mauder of the Castlne which gun
boat is now on its way from Port SAD
TO Gibraltar. Commander Mclean Will
learn the sad news at the latter place.
The Presidents proclamation 10 the
| St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposl'
| ton was issued today. The exposition
will be opened 10 st. Louis not later
than the first day OF May and will be
closed not later than the first day Of
December, 1908.
There Is no doubt in the minds oil
any of the employees OF the office OF the
| Commissioner OF Patents of the guilt oil
former Chief Clerk Shepard, who was
summarily dismissed from the service
for the theft of 5000. The safe from
which the money was taken had been
concealed among mass OF old docu-
ments for thirteen years, and the rub
Der bands which had held together the
bundles OF letters were old and rotten.
After the committee appointed by Com
missioner Allen had counted the money
and made q record OF all the letters,
they we're replaced 10 the safe, little
dust sprinkled on them and the safe and
KEY given to Shepard with Instructions
| to turn it over to the financial depart
ment. Shepard took the safe to his
private Office, where no remained Tor
several hours. He asked two persons
| if any record had been made OF the
contents of the safe, aud received mega
tive replies. When he finally turned
the safe over to the proper custodians,
a new count aud check of the contents
| was made. 1t was short $50 %. No
one had o key but Shepard; the safe
had not been out OF his possession be-
tween counts, and be was temporarily
suspended, being dismissed on the fol-
lowing day. The matter will be more
thoroughly Investigated by Secretary
Hitchcock. 1t is also rumored that the
guarantee company that bonded
Shepard will begin action against him.
As to the report cabled from Pekin
that the peace protocol makes no ref
erence to the proposed destruction oil
the Chinese forts because Of objections
raised by Ii Hung Chang, it lie said at
the State Department that this subject
was settled In the preliminary negotia-
tons when it was agreed that the forts
| in question should be rendered inDocC-
Gus. al her by destruction or dismantle-
ment, the precise cOurse to be left to
the military commanders. 1t was not
| deemed necessary, because OF this pre-
yious ARRANGEMENT, to have the subject
again specifically mentioned In the for
NAL peace protocol.
It is said at the State depart
ment that the d ferences between the
Germans and Prof. Tenner regarding
the occupation by the former OF the
| Tientsin University. which were noted
| 10 a dispatch from Tientsin this morn
log, are of old standing The Germans
took possession OF the university about
year ago, and it Is said refuse to remove
or paw rent. Prof. Tenner claims to own
the building and his efforts to gain
possession have been the subject OF
much correspondence by mail between
the American diplomatic representa-
tiyes In China aud the State depart
ment. There have been 90 new devel-
opments Ia the matter since Minister
Conger's return to Pekin.
Judge Advocate Lemly, otthe Schley
court of inquiry, has telegraphed the
Navy Department that he will return
| to Washington on Friday of this week.
He had not been expected before next
Monday and 1t is supposed that his de.
c,sion to cut his vacation short is for the
purpose OF complying with the request
OF Admiral Schley for o list of the wit
nesses to be summoned by him. So far,