Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Gordon Mckay, millionaire inventor
of shoemaking machinery, died at MS
residence in Newport, r. l., yesterday
He was born in 1921.
Charles Page Bryan, United States
minister to Portugal, was a passenger IN
test trip made by Santos-Dumo!n,,t $
latest dirigible balloon at Neuiiiy'
France, yesterday.
Orders we're issued by the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad Company yesterday to
reduce the force in the shops at Altoona,
Pa. 10 per cent. This means that SOO
men will be thrown out of employment
AtWichita, Kansas yesterday Cresceus
broke the worlds trottiDg record for a
mile by quarter of second, going the
distance in 1854. the previous record,
200. was held by Lou Dillon and MAJOR
Delman.
The Baltimore Supervisors of Elections
Yesterday gave out the party utilization
figures of the recent registration OF
voters, as follows: Republicans, AZ, l6I ;
Democrats, 53,O79; declined to state,
1852. Total LOG, 592.
J. P. Chamberlain, from whom one OF
the stories of Bret Harte's famous
Tennessee Pardner" was drawn, shot
and killed himself at his home at
Second Garrote, CAL, Oh Saturday In a
fit of dependency.
J. E. Liemer, cashier of the Prince
ton. Wis, State Bank, has been arrested
and taken to hartford, where he is now
in iail. State Bank examiner Marcus
G. Bergh states that Liemer had con-
fessed to forgeries amounting to sos, OoO.
President Roosevelt says there is no
truth in the rumors of bitterness OF
opinion between himself and Secretary
Shaw or among members Of the Cabinet
growing out of the report which has been
made to him by Charles j. Bonaparte
and Holmes Conrad of their invesli-
cations into charges affecting the postal
service.
Much interest is being taken by Phil
adelphia shipping men in the experiment
to be made by the Export Lumber Com
pany in bringing lumber from the South
to that port in barges ty what is known
as the sea or outside route. Should 1t
prove successful, it is feared that the
schooners which now carry the bulk OF
the lumber will eventually be crowded
out of the trade.
For two hours Yesterday morning
Newburg, Ore, was practically under
control Of a gang of bandits, whose object
was to blow up the building of the Bank
of Newburg and loot the vault. Though
several charges of dynamite we're explo-
ded. the steel vault failed to give way,
aud the bandits departed on horseback
toward Portland. The vault contained
probably $40, GOO. The building was prac-
tically wrecked.
Total destruction of the mining town
of Montgomery, place of 900 in
habitants, seven miles east Of Washing
ton, Ind, is threatened. The threats to
destroy the town with nitro glycerine,
and fire, and many of the citizens are
terror stricken. Montgomery has been
fired, dynamited, and citizens assaulted
during the last year. Numerous threat
ening letters have been sent, and one
was a demand for 50, 500 or the town
would be burned and wrecked.
The Civil Service Commission has re-
quested the Treasury Department to re-
instate Charles Miller, Adam Richie,
Thomas Devine, and Howard Cole,
watchmen, and Francis p. Rodden,
roller, in the United States Mint at
Philadelphia, whose removals the COM
mison has found to have been for politi-
cal reasons and fragrant violation OF the
civil service law. The commission re-
ports that large numbers of unclassifed
employees have been appointed for polh-
cal reasons.
A conference of the ministers of
finance of the German Federal States
was held in Berlin yesterday. Count
Won Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor,
presided. The object of the meeting
was to discuss means whereby Germany
can raise vast sums of money required
for the increased ornaments of the
country, without augmenting the pre-
vailing discomfort on account of the in
creased taxes. The financial need is
pressing and the sources of revenue are
exhausted and the statesmen are at
their wits end as to means of raising the
necessary amount.
The Alaska decision was signed at
London yesterday. The decision grants
all the American contentious with the
exception of the one relating to the
Portland canal. The signatories were
Lord Chief Justice Alverstone and
Senator Lodge, Senator Turner, and
Secretary Root, the American commits
sioners. They constituted a majority
and insured fnality. Messrs. Ayles-
worth and Jette carried their outspoken
of the decision to the point
Of refusing to sign even that section of
the decision giving the Portland canal
to Canada.
The melancholy experience of sue
ceeding to the millions of his two sons
within period of six years, though he
already had more millions than he
could spend, has fallen to Howard |
Willets, the we'll known polo-player and |
horseman of White Plains, New York. |
Mr.. Willets was on Saturday made |
of the estate of John T. |
Willets, his l7-year-old son, who died
recently in the New York Hospital
,fter an eperation. and under the law |