Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-01-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The total production of gold in the
United States the past year was $751;
s57. O7O and of silver S3l, 040, O25.
The United States Supreme Court
Yesterday decided that an ordinance
providing for telegraph pole license fees
is valid.
The Eastern Steel Company has be-
GUN work on four open hearth steel
furnaces. at PottsviIle, Pa, which VIII
have capacity of 100, 600 tons per
year, and will be part OF one oil the
biggest steel manufacturing mills in the
country.
Great Britain and Germany came to an
understanding four days ago to enforce
the blockade of the Venezuelan coast
precisely as though the negotiations for
arbitration were not going on. 1t was
in consequence ofthis understanding that
the vessels at Porto Cabello were taken.
Whether a seat in the stock exchange
of Philadelphia constitutes property was
question before the U. S. Supreme
Court yesterday in the case of Edward
d. Page, bankrupt, against Charles w.
Edmunds. The Supreme Court was OF
opinion that the seat was negotiable
and tangible property.
In the Supreme Court of the United
States yesterday the court announced
the substitution of the name of Rear
Admiral Taylor for that Of the late Rear
Admiral Sampson, in the Spanish war
prize money claim cases now on the
docket of the court under the title OF the
United States VS.. Sampson.
Rivals of the famous Ormsby "Quads'
we're born in Toledo, Ohio, on Sunday
and yesterday, Mrs. Stanislaus Spychal-
skis the mother of the infants, three OF
whom came Sunday night and the fourth
Yesterday. The mother and her quartet
are well and strong. Mrs. Spychalski
was already the mother of one child less
than year ago.
1t is said that some time next month
the President will send to the Senate the
nomination of Governor Taft to be asso-
ciate Justice of the United States Su-
preme Court. to succeed Justice George
Shiras, who is expected to retire during
that month. General Luke Wright viii
become governor of the Philippines and
w. w. Rockhill vice governor.
Judge Boyd in delivering his charge
to the grand jury at Cumberland, Nd, yes
terday referred in a sensational manner
to prize fights which recently took place
there. In the absence of statute law,
said Judge Boyd, the common law holds
fighters and those present by their ac-
tons encouraging the fighters to go
ahead liable to indictment for assault
and battery.
Mr.. Parker, of n. j., introduced a
bill in the House yesterday TO re-estab-
lish the army canteen. He also intro
duced a resolution providing for an
amendment to the constitution, so that
no State shall legalize bigamy or
polgamy, nor authorize the descent or
distribution of property at the death of
any man to his children by any woman
to whom he has not been joined in law
full wedlock.
All the Americans serving on the
Colombian Government gunboat Bogota
resigned yesterday and the Government
has accepted their designations. The
American officers Of the gunbOat, in
Guiding Captain Marmaduke, had signed
years contract with the Colombian
authorities, under which they are to re-
ceive free transportation to the United
States and four months pay. Part OF
the crew will leave the Isthmus tomorrow
for New York.
Senior Sagasta, many times premier OF
Spain and one of the nations most
prominent statesmen and fearless politi-
cal leaders died yesterday evening. His
death was due to bronchitis and gastric
trouble. His family was at the death
bed and former liberal members of the
Cabinet were near their old leader. A
bishop administered the last sacrament
Yesterday afternoon. The news of the
former premier's death created pain
full impression throughout Madrid.
King Alfonso expressed profound regret.