Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-01-24
NEWS OF TIE DAQ.

A leading Berlin newspaper urges
Germany ID buy up the country's
steamship lines 10 order to checkmsts
the proposed transatlantic comblna'
ton.
The formation OF big new tobacco
com bIne, embracing British. American
end Cubnu firms, to fight the Ameri'
can Tobacco Trust, Is announced in
| London.
The House judiciary committee has
agreed upon she provisions OF an anti
anarchist bill which imposes the death
penalty for 40 attempt 10 kill the pre-
sident or anyone in the line OF sue
cession.
One of the largest receptions ever
held at the Wits House took place
last night, when the President and Mrs.
| Roosevelt held their annual official
entertainment in honor OF the members
Of Congress.
It Is understood that Senator Hanna
is paying particular attention to the
laboring Interests of the country with a
view to securing their support 10 his
effort to capture the presidential nomi'
nation In 1904.
John F. Dryden, OF Newark, pre-
sident OF the Prudential Insurance
Company, was yesterday evening Sc
Iected as the republican caucus nominee
for United States Senator from New
Jersey to succeed Gen. William J.
Sewell.
Phe Emperor OF China, for the first
time in history, received the foreign
ministers as his equals 10 the large hall
of sac Forbidden City" yesterday.
The DoWager Empress, the real ruler
OF China, was concealed behind q
screen during the audience.
Miss Vivian Sartoris, granddaughter
OF President Grant, has renounced
society for an artistic career. She Is 10
| Paris but shuns balls, teas and dinners,
and applies herself persist entity twelve
hours every day 10 order to pass the
severe examination OF the Ecole des
Beaux Arts.
News has been received OF the death
10 sanitarium at Cfsrlnds, Iowa, oil
ex- Congressma Adoniram J. Holmes.
Mr.. Holmes served 10 the House from
| 1888 to 1889, inclusive. He was elect
ed Sergeant.ot-Arms OF the House In
the Fifty-frsl Congress-, and served
during the Reed regime.
The Senate CON mittse on military
affairs has decided 10 report adversely
the nomination OF Lieut.. Col. William
| Orc zier to be Chief Of Ordnance of the
War Department. This decision is
based on the theory, held by practically
ell the members OF the military affairs
committee, that no officer below the
grade OF colonel should be at the head
of any War Department bureau.
Prince Henry has selected number Of
handsome presents to give the Amsri'
cans who will entertain him while on
a visit here. The Princes present to
| Mics Alice Roosevelt will, ii lie said, be
a diamond bracelet, and to the Presi'
dent hunting gun. Under the law NO
person holding any office OF profit OF
| trust under the Unit I'D States shall,
| without the consent OF Congress-, accept
a present. Before Prince Henry can
give the President hunting gun Con-
gress must consent.
Mrs. Bula Abbey, wife of a young
merchant near Sparta, Tenn, Ia
dead ss the result of pulling out one
OF her eyes 10 fanatical and ltsral in
terpretstion Of the Injunction Of the
Scriptures: "If thine eye offend, pluck
| it out and cast 1t from thee, for it is
better to 90 into heaven having only
one eye than to suffer the torrents Of
hell-fire." She became much excited
over religion early last autumn, and
since that time is said to have been
noted for strange vsgaries 10 religious
work.