Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-04-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Count von Waldersee is sending on

Secretsry hay yesterday pufcbaseu
81 600 600 worth OF short-term 4 per
cent. bonds at $113.55.
The Methodists are planning a Wig
orous proselyting campaign In Mantle.
Bishop Henry w. WsrreD, OF that
church, has just arrived there.
The supreme court of Pennsylvap'a
yesterday decided that members OF the
American Federation OF Labor had no
right to en.ice glass manuiac urer's
apprentices TO join the union.
The Cuban constitutional convention,
at secret session yesterday, appointed
committee Olive delegates to 60 to
Washington to see President Mckinley
regarding the Plat amendment.
Mr.. w. 81. Stayton, of the New York
grim OF counsel for the Mount Vernon-
Woodbury. Cotton Duck Company, Is
authority for the statement. that ell
cotton mills have now been coDsoli.
dated.
Major Barnard B. Evans made q
declaration to friend who visited him
10 jail in Columbia, 8. G. yesterday that
be killed Capt. John J. Griffin 10 self
defence. He has abandoned the claim
Of suicide.
10 arguing on q brief filed In the
Uuited States Supreme Court, counsel
for the New England Tobacco Grow.
ers' Association yesterday commended
that tie Porto Rico case is purely po-
liticsl question.
II Is reported In Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad circles that Mr.. Thomas Filz.
gerald, tho general superintendent oi
the main line and branches, will prob.
ably succeed Mr.. F. d. Underwood ss
general manager.
Mics Rosie Boote, an actress, is now
the Warehouses OF Headfort. Her
marriage to the Marquis, it Is definite
ly learned, took place April IL in the
registrars Office at Saltwood, near
FOlkostone, England.
A supposed rabld dog attacked and
wounded number of persons In Balti.
more yesterday. The animal was f.
nally shot to death while It's faugs were
buried 10 the leg Of William O5erdlck,
a sixteen-year-old lad.
Monsignor James Mcmahon died at
the Catholic University, in Washington,
yesterday, aged "a years. He had been
at the university for about eight years,
but had no official connection with the
institution. He was born In Ireland,
but Came to this country many years
ago.
The United Ststea Supreme Court
yesterday decided that divorces are
only generally valid when the parties
have legal bona-fide residence In the
State which granted them. The court
also decided that the provision OF the
war tax law imposing tax on export
bills OF fading was unconstitutional.
A dispatch from Paris says 1t lie
learned from a Trustworthy source that
the outlook for On early settlement OF
the Chinese indemnity question is less
promising than week ago. The ne.
eotiatiops between the powers are
bringing out conflicting ideas and in-
terests, and are likely to be very pro-
tracted.
The trial of Commissary Sergeant
John Weston, charged with completely
Ia the commissary frauds In Manila, ia
foished. Captain James 9. Read, for.
merly depot commisssry at Manila, has
been arrested. 1t Is charged that the
commissary department made unau-
thorizsd purchases of quantities Of
champagne.
At Ann Arbor, Mich, yesterday, Dr.
Victor @. Vaughan, dean of the medical
department and one OF the most noted
psychologists in the country, appeared
before the State Board OF Health and
prac ically acknowledged that the case
OF the student Charles B. Hare is one Of
bubonic plague. He assured the board
tina. there would be no spread OF the
disease.
Associate Justice Charles @. Cole, of
Washington, has transmitted to the
President his resignation from the
bench OF the District of Columbia Su-
preme Court. His retirement 10 to &C.
cur about April % 1t is understood
that Judge Cole desires TO resume the
practice of law and Ia to be made the
special attorney for the District gov
eminent 10 the Potomac waterfront
cases.
The State Department has been ad-
vised through the American Ambassa-
dor at Rome and the italian foreign OF.
fee that Baron Fava will be succeeded
as AMBASSADOR from Italy to this coun.
try by the Marquis Ooizzo Mslispina di
Carbonars, st present minister for Italy
to the Argentine Republic. Baron
Fava has seen longer service ct bis pres
ent post than any diplomatist now
ia Washington.
10 the trial at Frankfort, KY. OF
Garnett H. Ripley, charged with being
accessory to the murder of William
Goebsl, Ripley yesterday took the stand
10 his own defence. He corrohorsted
the testimony of Ex-Governor Bradley
and Judge Yost, making the strongest
witness so far who has implicated w.
S. Taylor. The acquisitions for Finley
and Taylor are expected to reach To-
dianapolis before the last OF the week.
WAR OF DIFFERENTIATION ON RATS.
A world war on rats may be proposed
by Japan. That nation has been con-
ductiog an exhaustive investigation,
and the conclusion has been reached
that the rodents are menace to hui
mankind. Consequently, says DR..
Nagusha, who Is visitor 10 Chicago,
the Miksdo's government Is to appeal
to civilization to ex.erminste the 70.
dents. II is declared that the rats
spread ell sorts of contasion, while hun
dreds OF thousands OF dollars worth of
property are destroyed by them each
year.
The plague, says Dr.. Nsgusbs, would loso
half Of Its terrors should the rats OF thesworld
cease to exist. Other diseases would claim
fewer victims, and the earth would be SAFER