Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

WOTkefs WtHt vi otiiASh @'~"1 ~
j., yesterday.
]. Ogden Armour caused a break in
the Chicago wheat market yesterday by
unloading part of his holdings.
Without public observance the remains
of ex-Gov. Alexander r. Shepherd, who
died in Mexico, were placed in a tomb at
Rock Greek Cemetery, Washington yes
terday.
Members of the National Good Roads
Association will appear before the agri-
| cultural committee of both houses today.
The association is now in session In
Washington.
Among the bills passed by the United
States Senate yesterday is one providing
for the appropriate marking OF the
graves of Confederate soldiers who died
in northern prisons during the civil
war, and appropriating 5000, 900 for this
purpose.
The Kentucky House of Representa-
tives yesterday refused to adopt a resolu'
ton inviting President Roosevelt to adj
dress the legislature. The action was
taken after resolutions had previously
been adopted extending such invitations
to Senators Hanna and German, Will
liam j. Bryan and others.
Horse meat and sausage are becoming
the staple articles of diet among German
workinmeng, according to report receiv-
| ed from Consul Harris at Mannheim.
The reduction in wages caused by busi-
ness depression has made it impossible,
Mr.. Harris says, for ordinary working
men to purchase any better grades OF
meat.
Mr.. Tillman offered two resolutions OF
inquiry, in the Senate yesterday, one
directed to the Secretary of the Treasury
and the other to the Secretary of War.
They asked for specific information rela-
tive to the appointments Of DIR. Crum,
the negro collector of customs, at Char
lesion, S. c., and Gen. Leonard Wood
and the other military officers. Objec"
ton was made to immediate considera-
ton.
Senator McComas introduced in the
Senate yesterday a bill appropriating
So, 900 authorizing the joint committee
on library to purchase from Virginia
Tayloe Lewis the sword of Gen. George
Washington, Miss Lewis being the
g~randniece of the first president and the
owner of the sword. The bill authorizes
the committee, after the PURCHASES made,
to deposit the sword in the National
Museum at Washington.
The House committee on rivers and
harbors yesterday appointed sub-com'
mittees to report on the sufficiency OF
present laws to prevent unlawful deposit
ing of material in navigable channels /;
to define the rights of the government to
bridge nayigable streams, and to define
the rights of private owners whose lands
have been affected by government work
on rivers and harbors Chairman Bur-
ton said that the first question is of vital
importance as scOws are dumping waste
and refuse in channels dredged at enor-
nous expense. This is principally done
at night. Some way must be found, he
declared, to put a stop to this practice Of
scOw owners.
The casket containing the remains of
the late James Smithson, the founder Of
the Smithsonian Institution, who died
years ago in Genoa, Italy, was removed
from the U. S. dispatch boat Dolphin
at Washington yesterday and borne to
the Smithsonian Institution building,
where it will remain until Congress au-
thorizes its final interment in the
grounds of the institution. Rev. DR..
r. II. McKim delivered the eulogy.
The body was escorted from the Dolphin
by Troop F, 18th Cavalry, effort Myer,
and was attended by the British Ambas-
sador to the United States, all the re-
gents of the Smithsonian Institution end
a number of distinguished citizens.
The coroner's jury, which for three
weeks has been listening to evidence re-
lating to the fire in the Iroquois Theater,
in Chicago, last night returned a verdict
by which tbs following persons are held
to await the action of the grand jury
Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago.
Will J.. Davis, proprietor to part and
manager of the theater George Will
liams, building commissioner of Chicago;
Edward Laughlin, building inspector
under Williams William Sallers, fire.
man in the theater James E. Cum
mings, stage carpenter; William Fl.
Musham. chief Chicago fire department /;
William McMullen, who bad charge of
the light that cansed the fire. The
coroneTs jury declared that the cause of
the fire was the contact of drapery with
the food light and that the city laws
were not complied with. The mayor
is accused of showing %lamentable lack Of
force.