Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-02-19
NEWS W lhg DAT.


where 1000 persons are on strike.
William G. Whitney says he Is not q
candidsts for the democratic nomina'
ton for President 10 1904.
The plant OF the Louisville Bolt sDd
Iron Company was destroyed by fire
yesterday, entsiling loss OF slOO.OOc.
Governor Taft at the Senate inquiry
yes terday admitted that he was origin
ally averse to holding the Philippines.
The Woman's Suffrage Convention
closed Its session in Washington las.
night with an address by Miss Az
thony.
Premier Won Koerber stated 10 the
Rsichsrsth at Vienna yesterday that
anarchists and net the workingmen
were at the bottom OF the Trieste riots.
The old copper mill OF the Baltimore
Copper Smelling and Rolling Company,
It Canton, has been closed down, and
200 men have been thrown out OF work.
A review of the foreign commerce Of
the United States in 1901 by Frederick
Emory, chief of the Bureau of Foreign
Commerce, shows q falling of In our
exports for the year.
Ex-Secretsry Gage is to succeed
John A. Stewart as president OF the
United States Trust Company at an
annual salary OF $25 900, 1t Is reported.
he will be elected trustee 10 April,
and then ID hesdsbip of the concern.
10 the House yesterday Mr.. Gillet,
Of Massachu sets, declared "the intem-
perance of Mr.. Wheeler's language
carried its own condemnation" 10 re-
plying to the latter's speech Of Friday
latt, aud Mr.. Wheeler said he had
nothing to retraot.
An anonymous writer has written
letter to Ida Wells Barnett, one of the
leaders 10 national and local affairs Of
colored club women which teens With
caustic denunciatlon OF the black race
and urges Mrs. Barnett to use her edu-
cation and talent among her own peo-
pie instead OF wasting them 10 unavail-
Ing efforts to force herself and her COL
ofed friends into the Chicago Woman's
Club and the Daughters OF the Ameri-
can Revolution.
When the Spanish war claims and
the Bowman act claims bills which were
passed by the House last Wednesday,
come up In the Senate, Senator Mar
ito ut the urgent request of Mr.. Rixey
will endeavor to have them go amended
as 10 provide for The payment Of claims
to a number of persons in the Eighth
Virginia district, whose property was
taken or destroyed by soldiers during
the Spanish war, and also for the p y.
ment Of damages to certain churches in
that district by federal soldiers during
the civil war.
Philadelphia republicans yesterday
swept the city against the combined
fJrces of the Municipal League Fusion
lists. The proposition to increase the
c.ty's debt IS 900 900 was passed. The
heaviest vote ever cast in a municiDal
election 10 Pi tsburg was polIed yester-
day. The present republican admins
tration was defeated by tue republican.
democratic, or citizens, ticket by
good sizsd majority. The results at
interior poiL Is were generally favorable
to the republicans. Hsrrisonburg elect
ed democratic mayor.
By direction OF the President the care
aud control OF the Statue OF Liberty on
Bedloe's Island N. Y, has been trsns-
ferred from the lighthouse board, under
the Jurisdiction of the TrcssSry De-
partmeLt, to the War Department.
The transfer will take effect on the lst
OF March, when the light will be die
continued and q day beacon instituted
lost sad. The Secretary OF War has sent
instructions 10 General Brooke, COM
msnding the department Of the east, to
designate al officer OF bis command to
whom the Treasury Department can
turn over the statue and adjacent land.
The light 10 the statue Is useless, so far
as navigation lie concerned. Mr.. Sulzsr
OF New York will endeavor ID ct ID the
whole procedure, however, by Offering
an amendment to the civil sundry APP
preparation bill for the maintenance OF
the light. He thinks the discontinu.
ance of the light an outrage.