Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, ID. c., Nov. rs.

the publication OF the huncle aTtlcles III
the North American Review which de-
nounced General Brooke and praised
General Wood and is said to have been
instigated by the latter, will besummon-
ed by the Senate Committee on military
affairs. Upon his testimony will de-
pend to considerable degree whether
General Leonard Wood or Maj. James
E Runcie, retired, will leave the army
in disgrace. The situation has become
such that it is believed both cannot,
with honor. remain in the service.
In his testimony before the committee
Mai. Runcie declared on oath that the
articles in question was planned at a
dinner in Santiago at which General
Wood. Baker, who is magazine writer,
and himself were present; that General
Wood asked him to write the article and
he had done so. He asserted that
General Wood knew what the article
contained. General Wood denies this
statement, and witnesses supposed to be
able to coroborate Major Runcie's state
ment will testify.
Semi-official information reaching
Washington this morning from Caracas
states that Venezuela will make no
response to President Marroquin's APP
peal on behalf of Colombia to the CEN
trail and South American republics, ex-
cept in the way of formal acknowledge
ment. The Venezuelan government is
inclined to regard the Panama affair as
simply an issue between Colombia and
the United States
The FIRST torpedo fotilla selected for
duty in Philippine waters will probably
sail from Norfolk about December for
Port Royal and Key West, en- route for
San Juan, Porto Rico, with the Board
of Inspection aboard for the observation
of the seaworthiness of the destroyers.
The Board will leave the flotilla as soon
az satisfied as to their safety for the
passage to Manila. The conveying
vessel, which will probably be the
Buffalo, will join the fotilla at San
Juan.
Secretary of Treasury Shaw received
a telegram this morning announcing the
death of his brother, d. w. Shaw, at
Manila, Crawford county, Iowa. lie
was banker, about so years of age, and
had been i'll for some time with nervous
orostration and a complication of dis
eases. Secretary Shaw left here to at
tend the funeral.
Just at midnight December 81 the
Naval Observatory will tick the passing
of the year 1908 to every army post or
naval station in the world belonging to
the United States. Last year this was
done within the United States, but the
completion of the Pacific cables and
those in Alaska will enable the obsery-
nnce to be extended to the Philippines,
Guam, Tutuila, Porto Rico, Honolulu
nd such fsraway possessions. The loss
n time between here and the Lick OBJ
,rvatury last year was only figured at
O6 of q second.
John NJ. Peters aged 81, grandson of
John Peters, the wealthy manufactures
IF tin ware, was shot twice in the head
and probably fatally wounded in fight
with burglars in his grandfather's factory
in williamsburg, New York, this morn
ing. Peters attacked the men and in
the struggle one of them shot him.
Postmaster General Payne and First
Assistant Postmaster General r. j.
Wynne we're served with subpenas today
to appear Monday in Baltimore at the
trial of Thomas w. McGregor former
head of the supplies department of the
rural free delivery division of the Post
Office Department VINO is to be tried
next week on an indictment charging
conspiracy to defraud the government.
Reverend Father Walters, 50 years of
age, claiming TO be pastor of St Johns
Cathedral at Altoona, Pennsylvania,
was arrested this morning at the Penn
sylyania Railroad station by local detec-
tives. Father Walters said he had come
to Washington in special train,. pro-
vided by President Roosevelt, for the
purpose of receiving from him 81, $685.
999.99 collected by the President for
the purpose of aiding suffering humanity.
He will be sent tc ST. Elizabeth's Hos
pital for the insane.
General Reyes, the Colombian envoy,
arrived this morning He declined alb
solutely to discuss his mission for publ
cation and subsequently gave out the
following statement; 'Since my ar
rival at New Orleans have repeatedly
informed the reporters OF the press that
have nothing to say for the present
and | must now add that statements at
tributed to me in several recent publica
tons are entirely incorrect" This
statement is undoubtedly the result of
an intimati0n from the State Department
that if he had been correctly reported in
the interviews at Colon, Port Limon and
New Orleans, where he was alleged to
have said that his mission to Washing
ton was for the purpose OF arraying the
Senate against the policy OF President
Roosevelt regarding Panama, he would
not be received officially by this govern
ment. 1t is General Reyes intention,
as soon as his trunks containing his uni
forms arrive, to call on the various
legations of the South and Central
American republics in the hope that he
may induce them to join with Colombia
in protest against the action of the
United States. General Reyes will stop at
the Arlington while here.
NJ. Bunanau-Varilla the Panama Min
ister, today received from the Ambassa-
dor of Austria-Hungary, formal noti-
fcation of the recognition by that govern
ment of the sovereignty and independ-
ence of the Republic of Panama This !