Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-01-25
Kalser's birthday on Mondsy.

kal6ere OIL 1uhy Oh mOuuey'
The Senate COMMITTEES on Public
Building and Grounds has made a ia
yorable report on the measure TO ic-
crease the cost Of the public building IT
Newport News, from 100000 to
$3.50 900.
"Eddie" Lsnny, of Chester, Pa,
knocked out George Dixon, of New
York, the estherweigtt champion,
10 nine rounds before the Eureka Ath.
le,ic Club at Germsnia Hall, Baltimore,
last night.
Although the demonstration was ar
ranged only yesterday morning, 10000
people greeted Admiral Schley when
he passed through Cumberland, Nd,
with Mrs. Schley to Chicago yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. Pansy B. Phtchard, who was
Miss Belvin, OF Richmond, has obtain
ed divorce in the Supreme Court IN
brooklyn from Robert Keys Pritchsrd.
He was prominent 10 Brooklyn social
snd athletic circles few years ego.
Alexander Hiram Jeffrles, native of
Fauquier county and resident far
mer for over slxty-seVen years, died ct
the home OF his son-in-law, Mr.. Burton,
at Winston, Culpeper county, on Tues
day night. in the Seth year of his age.
The authorities yesterday abandoned
the prosecution 10 the case OF John W.
Green, who had been arrested on q
warrant charging him with arson in
having set fire to the property
40 B street southeast, Washington,
and the case was thrown out OF court.
The mystery surrounding a long
series OF thetts Ia and around the
mountain hamlet of West Hurley, 10
Ulster county, N. Y, has been partly
solved, and Jennie Green, q 17-yesr-
old girl, has been sentenced to term oil
three years in the House OF Refuge at
Hudson.
Among the bills passed by the House
Yesterday was one granting a pension
of $50 a month to the widow OF the late
Rear Admiral Philip. A bill granting
q pension OF Sc, 900 to Mrs. Ida S. Nc
Kinley, passed by the Senate, has been
engrossed, and today will be trans-
miltsd to the House.
Col. G. II. Burton, formerly inspector
general of the Division of Cuba, testified
in the trial OF the Cuban postal fraud
cases OF Havana that examination OF
the books of CT. w. Nicely disclosed
the probable enlightenment OF about
100000. On cross-examination Bur-
ton said he had bought carriage from
the insular funds, and other army off,
Gers, he said. had done the same.
A raid OF unusual proportions was
made by nearly ose hundred policemen
on tbs Bowery In New York last night.
Several notorious resorts we're closed
and thirty-two prisoners locked up.
The raids forsbadow the doom of the
BoWery, for they marked the prelimi
nary step 10 the wholesale cleaning OF
that somewhat famous t1orOughfare.
Ia nearly every raid the propritt1rs OF
the resorts we're arrested.
The Census Bureau yesterday an
nounced the general statistics on the
manufacture of liquors in the United
States. They show that the number OF
establishments increased from 1924 In
1890 to 2,S49 10 1900; the capital invest
ed from S269, &c. 249 TO $457, GA, 0S7;
average number OF wsge earners from
36 067 TO A ,147; value oil pro ucts from
$2S9, us, 500 to $40, 615, 446. These
figures cover the manufacture OF all
classes OF liqaor distilled, malt end
vinous.
The coroner's invss igs ton into the
causes Of the recent disaster in the New
York Central Railroad tunnel wac
brought to o close last night, when The
jury, alter beng out three hours and
five minutes, returned q verdict COM
pletely generating John Nj. Wicker
and E. G. Fyler, the crew of the engine
that crashed into the rear end Of the
train, causing the death OF seventeen
people. The verdict places the blame
for the Conditions leading TO the &C.
cident on the officials OF the railroad.
Mr.. A. G. Robinson, man thor
oughly conversaBt with Cuban affairs,
now in Washington said in an interview
yesterday. "The annexation OF Cuba to
the United State will come eventually,
but If Congress fails to reduce tariffs on
Cuban sugar t1e data will be hast ened.
Cuba is now living on what may be
called her nerve. The failure OF Con-
gress TO provide for her sugar industry
will result In anarchy In the island.
American troops will have to be sent
there, and they will never be with
drawn"