Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Of the Alexandria Gazette

TCorrespondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, ID. c., July %.
Rev. Alexander p. Doyle, secretary OF
the Catholic Missionary Union, has re-
ceived gift of so, 600 for the establish
ment of the Apostolic Mission House,
an institution which is TO be opened IN
this city for the training of Roman
Catholic priests as missionaries to nom
Catholics and to the newly-acquired in
sular possessions of the United States.
The donor declined to allow his name to be
made public, but it is said he is a we'll
known priest, who is greatly interested
in the cause of missions to non-Cathollcs.
The Chinese. Minister has officially
notified tide State Department that the
visit to this country Of Prince Cheng and
his suit has been postponed for the present.
Four Slovaks, who have just landed
in Baltimore, and whose purpose was to
repair to Oscela, Pa, to take the place
of the striking coal miners, have just
been ordered deported by the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.. Allies.
Baltimore attorney represents the
Slovaks at hearing before Mr. Allies
and commissioner General Sargent, but
the Department held that, having come
to this country in response to an in
vitation sent to them by relatives at
Oscela. who also provided them with
money. they had violated the alien con-
tract labor law and could not be adj
mitted.
The War Department today received
a telegram dated Manila, July %, stat
ing that Sanford G. Baker, clerk in the
bureau of the insular purchasing agent,
died of Asiatic cholera July 27.
The Navy Department has received a
cablegram announcing the arrival of the
Machias yesterday at Cape Haytien. a
cablepram has also been received an
nouncing the arrival at LaGuayra today
of the tug Potomac. The Potomac will
preform the duties in Venezuelan waters
of the Marietta which has been ordered
to Colon.
The board of visitors to the Naval
Academy has made its annaul report to
the Navy Department. 1t recommends
that the teaching force be made more
permanent and points out that in the ten
years ending in 1902 there have been
29l officers assigned to duty. 1t advises
the dropping Of French from the cur
riculum and the substitution of Spanish.
The maximum age of admission is set
at Is years. The board approves the
general management of the academy and
urges the addition of practice ship.
The board also suggest an increase in
the academy band.
As result of an investigation into
the method of keeping accounts pursued
by Passed Assistant Paymaster Charles
w. Penrose, the Navy Department has
ordered him to trial before a court
material. The charges and speciiica-
tons are based on the report to the
Department by the investigating body
that his accounting methods are care
ess. 1t is understood that the officers
integrity is not involved. Paymaster
Penrose is attached to the cruiser Mich.-
gan, now lying at Erie, Pa, where the
court martial will assemble. He was
appointed to the navy from New York
in 1898.
Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, yesterday or
dered Lieut.. Commander Osborn, re-
tired, to relieve Commander Turner as
inspector of the 14th lighthouse dis
trict. This will be followed by others
placing more retired officers on the
active Elist, particularly in connection
with the lighthouse service. Secretary
Moody mas expressed himself in opposi-
ton to the idea of allowing an officer to
retire on pay and the government to lose
his services altogether.
Commissioner General of Immigration
Sargent has distributed TO the migrant in
spectors at all ports photographs of D'ignoti
GenitOri Cassea Carmelo and D'apasquale,
Turkish anarchists, who have left Turkey
and are said 10 be bound for this country.
Upon landing here they will be promptly
placed under arrest and an effort will be
made to return them TO their own country.
Congressman Cromwell and Joel Clore,
Cincinnati lawyer, are here 10 prosecute
million dollar claim against the government.
They represent Mrs. Elizabeth II. Rice, OF
Cincinnati, who claims the patent rights of
device which has been used by the war de-
partment since the Civil War, for rolling the
shelter tents into clothing roll, 10 be carried
across the soldiers shoulders. She asks %
cents royalty on each one, and as more than
four million have been in use since 1861, her
claim will exceed million dollars.
District Commissioner John w. Ross died
at $3.50 O'Clock this morning. Mr.. Ross was
for twelve years district commissioner and
four times postmaster. He was one OF the
most popular men who ever served as District
commissioner and his death is universally re-
GREETED.
During the storm which swept over
Locust Valley, Pa, last night, half a
dozen homes were wrecked by lightning.
The downpour of rain was the heaviest
in a quarter of century and was accom-
panied by furious hail bombardment,
which had a ruinOus effect on crops. A
number of people were more or less in
jured by lightning,