Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-12-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. J
Washington, d. c., Dec. 10.

Washington, ID. c., Dec. 10.
A radum factory started in Germany
has many hundred orders on its books,
writes United States Consul-General
Guenther to the Departmental Commerce
and Labor. The company receives 81, =
900 a gram for the strange product and
although its furnaces are working nigat
and day it is unable to meet the demand.
at has been demonstrated" Mr.. Guen-
theirs report continues, that small
glass tube, not larger than a goose quill,
containing little more than thousandth
part of a gram, is as effective as an ex-
pensive and complicated electric appara-
tus for the treatment of cancer, surprising
the best effects of the Roentgen rays.
The ease with which radium can be adj
ministered locally, as for instance in the
nose or throat, is an invaluable advan-
tage. The fact that radium exerts a
very peculiar influence upon Eighteenth
ting bodies has given rise to the hope
that it may eventually play an important
role in the industry Of light. A minute
quantity of radium is sufficient to produce
a strong light from layer of zinc pyrites,
and this light produces no heat, so that
loss of energy is avoided"
During the last fiscal year 800 SOL
diers and sailors were sent to the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane, according
to the annual report just issued by the
Board of Visitors. AT present there are
1850 patients in the asylum. The
dentist was one of the busiest men in
the hospital during the year extracting
and filing teeth &c.
The Navy Department today announc-
ed that the United States cruiser Prairie
now at Guantanamo, Cuba, would sail
from there for Colon tomorrow. The
Prairie carries a force of $50 marines
which will be used to reinforce the ma
rines already on the isthmus.
1t is well understood here that Mrs. j..
Hampton Hoge will not be appointed
postmaster at Blacksburg, Va, as Con
gresham Slemp prefers the retention OF
the present incumbent.
The House committee on elections No.
|. set the Danzler-Levering contest from
South Carolina for Monday next; and
the Kahn-Liyernash case, California, for
Thursday next.
Representative Needham, of California
introduced bill in the House today pro-
yidine that in even numbered years Con-
gress shall meet on the first Monday in
December, and in odd years. on the
second Monday in November. The pur
pose of the measure is to expedite the
business of the House and Senate so that
some things may be accomplished before
the holiday recess in the so-called short
sessions Of Congress, that come to an end
on March 4th.
The War Department today received
the following dispatch from Gen. Corbin,
in New York, commanding the Depart
ment of the East 81 telegraphed Gen.
Macarthur yesterday-Please have 18th
Cavalry started in time to reach their
stations Dec. 49," In the light of the
recent developments on the istnnius'
this message is significant E4
National Committeeman Harry >.
New, OF Indiana, had a short conference
at the White House with President
Roosevelt THE afternoon and when he
emerged from the Presidents Office he
said that "as a friend of senator
Hanna's" he could set at rest all rumors
of the OhiOan's candidacy.
Mr.. Williams, the democratic floor leader,
introduced number Of bills and resolutions
in the House TODAY. One bill is to empower
the interstate commerce commission 70 de-
clare transportation rates in place, Of those
which il may find TO be unreasonable. One
Of his resolutions calls on the postmaster gen,
eral to transmit to the House all papers ana
evidence touching upon the recent inyesnga-
ton of his department; another provides ior
an additional democratic member on each OF
the important House committees.