Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-07
News Of the Day.

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According to Secretary Shaw. the
government deficiency the last fiscal
year was $40, 40. 572.
Speaker Cannon believes that the ap-
preparation bills and Philippine legisla-
ton will keep Congress busy until
March 4.
Capt. William II. Pope, superinten
dent of the Confederate Soldiers Home
at Pikesville, Md, died yesterday, aged
81 years.
Secretary Taft, in aspeech at Panama,
admitted that the Dingley tariff should
not have been applied between the canal
zone and the isthmus.
An eight year old horse thief and
three alleged boy highwaymen were the
startling features Of yesterdays drag OF
the police net in Philadelphia.
According to decision by the United
States Court OF Appeals, filled in Gin
cinnati. yesterday, the provisions of the
national bankruptcy law do not apply
to the hotel business.
The supplemental brief OF the govern
ment in the case OF Senator Burton, OF
Kansas. was filedin the United States
Supreme Court yesterday. 1t maintains
that he is guilty as charged.
In a peculiar wreck yesterday at Lit
Teton, w. Va, on the main line of the
b. & o. R. R., Is cars we're smashed,
and the accumulated wreckage was cast
with terrific force upon the depot, com
pletely crushing it.
Marc W. Potter, young man, who
is cashier of banks at Davisboro, Glen
wood and Helena, Ga. has mysteriously
disappeared and his books, which have
been checked up by an expert, show a
shortage of something like SIS, 600.
Senator Kittridge, OF South Dakota,
of the Senate committee on interoceanic
canals. says he will introduce a resolu-
ton in few days providing that the
Panama canal be constructed on the sea
level and without locks as has been pur-
posed.
Frederick f. Mordaunt, of Wood
bridge, Conn, laughed so heartily at a
Joke told at the celebration of the we'd
ding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
W. futile, at Woodmont, that be broke
blood vessel near the optic nerve, and
as a result is unable to see.
A sensational communication was made
to the Academy ofMedicine in Paris yes
terday by DIR. Albert Robin, who report
ed his discovery of the fact that certain
metals, such as gold and silver, very
finely subdivided and employed in in6ni-
tesimal doses, exercises considerable ell
feet on the vital phenomena.
At Portland, Oregon, yesterday, the
Jury in the land fraud case, which had
been occupying the attention OF Judge
BeIlinger's court for over two weeks,
brought in a verdict Of guilty for all the
defendants with the exception of Miss
Marie Ware. After the next conspiracy
trial three forgery cases growing out of
alleged fraudulent land transactions
in Oregon will be taken up in court.
Representative William X. Hearst said
in Washington last night, when asked
concerning the published report that he
was candidate for mayor Of New York ::
81 am not candidate for mayor of New
York nor for the presidency Of the United
States nor for any other Office. intend
to serve my term as Congressman and
then retire, not from politics, but from
ofllceholding. do not purpose doing
this through lack of interest in political
matters, for | think it is the duty OF
every American citizen, and, particular
ly OF any man controlling the policies Of
newspapers to takea most active inter
est in the politics of his country.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who has been in
Washington since Sunday, returned TO New
York last night. II is quite possible that she
will take up a permanent residence in Wash
ington and continue her literary work.