Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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succeeded by Senior Arosemena.
The case of the United States against
Senator Charles II. Dietrich was contlnu-
ed at Omaha yesterday until Thursday.
A minority report has been prepared
by members of the Senate military affairs
committee on the case of General Wood
John Alexander Dowie has arrived at
San Antonio, Tex, to investigate Mata-
gorda Islands as a site for new Eternal
City.
A committee has been formed IN
Chicago to raise $780, to enforce the
laws and prosecute the crusade against
crime.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Burrows
introduced a bill to increase from 81 to
SO the per diem pay of criers and bailfis
in all United States courts.
The Cuban House of Representatives
yesterday passed the national lottery
bill by vote OF 25 to u. The measure
will now 90 to President Palma.
The United States Steel Corporation
for the first time in its history passed the
dividend on its common stock, on account
of the great shrinkage in earnings.
Mrs. Charlie Lane, of Powellton, Ga,
eighteen years of age and bride of only
a few months, was burned to death yes
terday morning while kneeling in prayer
in front Of an open CRATE.
The Maryland Legislature met today
and elected the democratic caucus nomi-
nees for the offices. Spencer G. Jones
was chosen president of the Senate, and
DIR. G. Y. Everhardt speaker of the
House.
Rear Admiral Taylor, Chief of the
Bureau of Navigation, urges an appro-
priatiOn for the enlistment of 5000 ad-
ditional men in the navy, to man the
ships now in service and those soon to
90 into commission.
The Census Bureau gave out cotton
bulletin yesterday showing the quantity
ginned this year up to and including
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cial bales as compared with 9,Sll, 1876 up
to and including same date 1902.
Frank jaeger and John jaeger, we'll
known throughout the United States as
mining stock brokers and promoters,
we're arrested in Chicago yesterday, on
the complaint OF Postofiice Inspector
William NJ. Ketcham on the charge
of using the mails in a scheme TO de-
fraud.
DIR. Charles w. Dabney has resigned
as president of the University of Tennes-
see to accept the presidency of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati. Dr. Dabney was
born at Hampden-Sydney, Va, June,
10. 1855, and is the son of Robert
Lewis Dabney, Stonewall Jackson's chief
of staff.
President Roosevelt will order Land
Commissioner Richards and Chief Of the
Forestry Bureau PinchOt to attend the
meeting of the live stock and wOolmen's
associations that meet at Portland Ore,
on January Il and IL, to learn from the
delegates the changes they ask in the
land laws of the country.
Representative Dixon ofMontana yester-
dav introduced a resolution in the House,
directing the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor to inquire into the cost and FEAST
bility of constructing wire fence along
the Canadian boundary between Lake of
the Woods and Point Roberts, such fence
t be equipped with electric apparatus
to warn inspectors of incursiOns on the
part of Cree and other Canadian In
dams, and also Chinese.
Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, in
his message to the Legislature, denounced
the reports of feuds in Kentucky as
grossly exaggerated. He recommended
that irresponsible romancers" who
sent grossly exaggerated accounts Of
turmoil in Kentucky be made account
able to the law. at is not an exaggera-
tion," he said, ito say that there was
Rot day during the past year that
human life was not safer in Kentucky,
even in Breathitt county, than it is any
night upon tbs streets Of Chicago Or New
York.
A dinner in honor of Senator Thomas
G. Plat was given at the Shoreham
Hotel in Washington last night by the
New York republican delegation in
Congress. The principal speech was
made by Mr.. Plat, who among other
things said: "There is neither factional
nor personal disturbance in the New
York delegation to embarrass or impede
its work. The signs of the approach of
great political year are already nu-
merous, and some of them indicate the
return of the democratic party to a sane
and dangerous condition"
1t was formally announced yesterday
that DIR. w. II. Hawkes., secretary of the
attending staff of the Emergency Hos
pital in Washington, has been removed
from Office as a result of the troubles of
the hospital management for some
months. DR.. Hawkes. was notified of his
removal by his successor, DR.. G. Brown
Miller, but refused to be removed by the
meth d adopted, and has decided to fight
it out. He recently submitted to the
commissioners a report on alleged abuses
and offenses in the hospital with the hope,
it is said, that Congress would take some
action giving the District control of the
hospital.
On account Of the wreck of freight
train two miles north of Greensboro, n.
c., at 3 O. clock yesterday afternoon oil
north bound through trains were heldup
at that point until midnight. Trains