Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Public improvements are pTOJeCteu III
New York that will cost over $500,
900, 900.
Rev. AIphonse L. Magnien, S. S.,
president emeritus of st. Mary's Semin-
airy, Baltimore, died yesterday at that
institution.
Countess Castellane reached New
York Yesterday on the steamer Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse, which arrived Ill
port after q stormy voyage.
Panama advices from the Venezuelan
frontier state that the revolutionary
movement against President Castro Is
now more powerful than ever.
DIR. Tulio de Suzzara-Verdi died of
pneumonia-in Milan, Italy, on Novem-
Der 26. He was for thirty-seyen years
practicing physician of Washington.
Rev. Campbell Fair, d. d., dean of
the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral,
Omaha, Neb., were buried in Green
mount Cemetery, Baltimore. on Satur-
day.
The Humberts, alleged swindlers,
when arrested in Madrid on Saturday
tried unsuccessfully to keep the police
from getting package containing s4S, =
900.
Marconi cables from Glace Bay, n.
S., that he has established wireless COM
munication between Cape Breton,
P. L. l., and Cornwall, England, with
complete success.
Prof. Elmer w. Gates is reported to
have discovered that every mood and
thought of the human brain has rela-
lively corresponding color in the chro-
matte scale and has designed apparatus
to demonstration his theory.
The International Banking Corpora
ton of New York has submitted prop
osition to Secretary Hay and the
representatives in Washington of the
allied powers to finance the payment Of
the Venezuelan claims.
Edward Joseph, Waterman at the
works of the Beaver Dam Marble Com
pany, in Baltimore, was yesterday burn
ed to death in fire in the boiler room,
which it is supposed he entered to turn
off the steam and avert an explosion.
The present crop failure in Finland is
the worst in 80 years, and the people in
1874 of the 500 parishes are destitute.
So complete was the failure of vegetation
in some sections that dead birds by the
hundreds have been found in the forest.
Representative Mercer, chairman of
the House committee on public build
ings and grounds, has filed the favor
able report ordered by his committee on
the bill providing for a building in
Washington city for the Supreme
Court.
Attic hearing of two boys before JUS
tice Flammer, in New York, on the
charged of theft, the justice made the
statement that there was an organized
society which taught boys to steal and
hired lawyers to defend them when
caught.
The Princess of Wales gave birth to
son on Saturday night. Both mother
and child are doing well. This is the
fifth child and fourth son born to the
Prince of Wales, who was married to
Princess Victoria Mary of Teck on
July 6, 1898.
At the trial Of the libel suit Of Mrs.
Katherine Tingley, head of the Univer-
sal Brotherhood, at Point Iowa, evidence
was introduced to show that Mrs. Ting
lev ruled with iron hand, and taught
that the spirit OF the former leader, Mr..
Judge, was reincarnated in her pet-dog.
In the Senate on Saturday Mr.. Jones
ark presented resolution directing
the Attorney General to transmit to
the Senate affidavits and reports relative
to charges filed against certain railway
corporations made by Mr.. William r.
Hearst, charging the existence of an H.
legal combination or conspiracy among
railroads therein named engaged in in
terstate commerce, the tendency and
purpose of which was the establishment
of a monopoly in the business Of trans
porting and selling anthracite coal, and
in connection with said petition a re-
quest was made for permission to
present evidence establishing the exist
ence of such a combination. A resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Patterson was agreed
10. 1t called upon the interstate COM
merce commission to send to the Senate
all reports from inspectors showing the
condition and defects of train and power
brakes on a number Of railways.