Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, ID. c., July 10.


It is quite possible, perhaps probable,
that no attempt will be made by this
government to present the Bnai Birth
9etition to the Gar. Everything depends
mon the conference to be held tomorrow
at OYSTER Bay between the President and
Messrs. Levy, Wolf and iStraus. The
committee will be informed of the proba-
bility of the rejection of the petition at
St Petersburg and the consequent humil-
iation TO the United States in that event
and then they will be allowed to decide
whether the incident shall be closed or
become a matter of international lrrlta-
ton. The State Department has recelv'
ed authoritative information that the
Car is doing everything in his power to
right the wrongs of the Kishenef Jews
and to punish those guilty of the atrocity.
In many quarters the latter promulga-
ton is regarded as preliminary to clos
ing the incident without forwarding the
B'nai Birth petition. Of course II the
committee shall insist that the document
be sent on the administration is bound to
do it,
At l1:4O this morning the Papal
Legation received the following cable
rram from Cardinal Rampolla: "Ameli-
Grafton illustrious patent not progress
ing. Prayers recommended.
II. S. Minister Wilson, at Santiago,
Chile, reports that the plague exists at
nearly ali Chilean ports. He says that
the postal service is thoroughly disorgan-
lied. only one American mail having
arrived in nine weeks.
The next Congress will be asked for q
large appropriation with which to es-
tabIish a National Gallery of Art, en-
bracing all branches, but with particular
reference to ceramics and the work OF
North American Indians. If a Ma
tional Gallery is provided for by Con-
gress, Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan has
promised to pay for erecting at least
one wing of the building, to which he
will transfer his entire collection OF
pictures and other art works which re-
Gently was appraised at Sc, 600, 900. 1t
is also said that Mr.. Morgan would
contribute the collection Of art works he
recently purchased in Europe, bu t
which he has not brought to the United
States on account of the duties he would
have to pay.
Judge Robert William Wilcox died
at Honolulu yesterday, as re-
suit of an operation, blood poisoning
being the immediate cause of death. He
was prominent for years in Hawaiian az
fairs and in 1889 led the revolution to
restore the old constitution. In 1894
he organized the Diamond Head revolu-
ton against the Dole government to re-
store Queen Liliuokalani, and was con-
demned to death, but the sentence was
committed to 35 years at hard labor. In
S95 he was pardoned and in 1901 was
elected a delegate to Congress.
Surgeon General Wyman of the
Marine Hospital Service has issued
orders directing his assistants at Tam
pico, Mexico, and Limon, Costa
Rica, to take the temperature of ali
passengers and members of the crews
of vessels bound for United States ports
before their departure, and to detain
those whose temperature is above normal.
The order is intended to guard against
the introduction of yellow fever into
this country, both the ports mentioned
being infected.
The Farrar Lumber Company, of
Dalton, Ga, has filed complaint with
the interstate commerce commission
against the southern and other railways,
charging that the companies maintain as
high rate for lumber from Georgia
points to Dalton as to Chattanooga, al
though the distance to the latter point
is the greater.
Lightning yesterday struck the Hotel John
son and Staley's cafe 1871 f street. While
no one wa hurt, the flash alarmed number
Of persona.