Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-08-01
From Washington.
[Cor espondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, d. c., Aug. l.

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Washington, ID. c., Aug. l.
The State Department has received no
advices that Great Britain has protested
against the seizure of the asL halt lake
in Venezuela, but is so informed by the
asphalt trust. Mr.. Bowen has been in
structed to protest against the receiver
ship on the principle that an American
corporation is being made the victim OF
government exigency. In his dispatch
he also states that copies of ali the
papers in the case are now on their way
to Washington by mail. No word OF
the German action in regard to the
failure of Venezuela to pay the awards
given by the Hague tribunal has reached
the State Department and it is said that
the authenticity Of the report is
dubious in the light of the fact
that the relations between the two cOun-
tries, Germany and the United States,
are of the most cordial character, and
that Germany would therefore hesitate
to take any step in the Venezuelan affair
without consulting with Washington.
Although there have as yet been but
few conferences of great importance at
the headquarters of the democratic con-
gressional committee here, work in the
shipping and mailing bureaus has begun
in earnest and men and women are
busily filling envelopes with copies of
speeches made in Congress that are in
great demand. Although directed against
the administration, and in many in
stances more especially against the Post
office Department, that department has
no other choice than TO distribute them
free of cost to both sender and recipient.
The speech which is in greatest demand
is the one delivered by Congressman
Kitchin, of North Carolina, lampOoning
President Roosevelt and holding him up
to scrutiny for the criticisms of former
presidents in one Of the literary produc-
tions bearing Mr.. ROosevelts name as
author. Chairman Cowherd of the COM
mittee says that the demand for this
speech alone, coming in the main from
chairmen of democratic congressional
district committees, aggregates 800, 600
copies.
Laboring under the hallucinatiOn that
she had been warned by an angel that
President Roosevelt was to be poisoned,
Mrs Amelia Burgadine, aged 55, wife
of Fred b. Burgadine, of Lorissa, H.,
called at the White House this morning
and tried to see the President. She was
apprehended by secret service men, and
upon an examination atpolice headquar-
tiers it was decided to send her home.
She had been visiting her sister-in-law in
Baltimore.
President Roosevelt has no intention
of interfering in the beef strike and I'M
less the trouble spreads to other trades
and the situation takes on the aspect of
national disaster, like the coal strike in
the anthracite region two winters ago,
he will continue TO maintain a Glands
OFF, policy. This decision was not
reached today oryesterday, but is merely
the expression of his settled programme
announced some time ago. Stories to
the effect that he left Oyster Bay for
Washington last week fully intending
to interfere in the packing house war,
may therefore be branded as pure fabri-
cations. During the last few days the
President has been assured by men who
are in close touch with the situation in
Chicago that the trouble will solve IL
self by the men going back to work.
kilograms shown the President today
bear out this prophesy and the necessity
for federal interference of any sort seems
to be receding rapidly.
The Bureau of Labor today issued
report on wages and cost of living in the
United States in 1908, based on an ex-
haustive investigation of the subject. As
compared with the previous year, it
shows that the number Of employees have
increased 3 per cent. wages per hour have
increased 3.6 per cent; weekly earnings
per employe have increased 81 per
cent; weekly earnings of all employees
have increased per cent; retail prices
of food have decreased 0.5 per cent;
purchasing power of hourly wages. as
measured by the retail prices of food,
has increased per cent.
Four colored boys robbed Robert
Hoy's saloon, at Sixth street and Louisi-
ana avenue, last night aud were arrested