Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-24
From Washington.
correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]

The following CaOlutt dPPoln'n'O"'o
ire announced: William III. Moody. Of
Massachusetts,, Attorney General; Paul
Norton, of Illinois, Secretary of the
Navy; Victor II. Metcalf, OF California,
Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The
designations Of Attorney General Knox
md Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Cor,elyou have been accepted to take
fleet July 1. Mr.. Morton bad always
oeen a regular democrat until 1896
when he bolted the party and became a
sold democrat. Only about two months
100 he came out in an interview in
which he announced his remuneration of
democratic principals and declared that
hereafter lie would be found in
he ranks of the republicans. Mr.. Nor
ton is the son of the late J. Sterling
Morton, who was Secretary of Agricul-
lure under President Cleveland's second
administration. AT present he holds
the position ofsecond vice president ofthe
Atchison, Topeka. and Santa Fe system
and is connected with other corporations
Mr. Morton dined yesterday at the White
House and had long conference with
the President. He hesitated about &C.
cepting the navy portfolio on account of
bis lack of special knowledge of naval
affairs, but the President finally per-
suaded him that this was not necessary.
The appointments of Representative Met
calf to be Secretary of the Department
of Commerce and Labor was determined
upon by the President shortly after 1t
became certain that Secretary Cortelyou
would accept the craftsmanship OF the
republican national committee. MIR.
Metcalf has served in the last three
Congresses and as a member Of the
WAYS and means committee has taken a
prominent part in that body. He was
BON in Utica, New York, in 1858.
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by
her sister, Miss Carow, left Washington
at $3.50 this morning for Oyster Bay
where she will spend the summer. The
President will join her there July 2.
A new consumption cure is being
doomed by the State Department. DIR.
Canu, of Rouen, France, is the inventor
of the remedial scheme, which is a com
b.nation of medicine, electricity and
X-ray, and q. s. Consul Haynes, locat-
ed in the same town, is the physician s
press agent. Mr.. Haynes, perhaps not
wishing to reveal too many the doctor S
secrets, fails to tell the constituents of
the marvellous healing "medicaments."
Representative Robert Hit, ofIllinois,
who has been sick for the past two
weeks, sat up today for the first time.
For three days his condition was serious,
but he has gradually improved and is
now expected to be out in about week.
1t is learned today that prior to the
meeting of the republican national con-
vention, Mr.. Hit, whose vice presiden-
tial boom was being promoted by his
State, authorized Senator Cullom, Of IL
linois, to act for him and do whatever was
best. 1t is stated that Senator CullOm
never communicated with Mr.. Hit dur
ing the convention. He withdrew his
name upon his own responsibility, but
his action is approved by Mr.. Hit.
The remains of the late Chicago mil
lionaire, Levi Letter, were taken from
the vault in Rock Creek Cemetery late
Yesterday afternoon and inferred in the
new Letter family burying lot. The lot
was recently purchased at cost of $l2,-
600 and contains four thousand square
feet of ground. Mrs. Letter, the widow,
and her two unmarried daughters and
her son Joe were present when the coffin
was inferred Extraordinary precautions
were taken to make the grave secure. A
hole, resembling anything but grave,
owing 10 It's remarkable size, was dug.
At the bottom steel girders, weighing
collectively FIVE tons, were placed. A
pocket was left in the center of these
girders into which the coffin was lowered.
Over the coffin and girders five tons of
cement was poured. The casket is now
literally encased in block of steel and
stone. A huge monument will later be
erected over the grave.
A dispatch from Consul General Gum
mere received at the State Department
this morning says that letter received
from the two captives, Perdicaris and
Varley, states that they will leave this
morning from Lafculy and expect to ar
rive in Tangier tonight. The department
is assured that the ransom has been paid
and the captives released.
President Roosevelt today formally
received the congratulations of the men,
bers of the Cabinet at their regula. semi
weekly meeting, which, otherwise, was
devoted to purely routine business. Con-
gratulatory letters and kilograms have
been fairly deluging the White House
for the past twenty-four hours. Those
That arrived yesterday were given out for
publication, but the President soon saw
that the continuation of this plan would
be impracticable owing to their great
quantity, so no more will be made pub
lie. The White House clerical force
will be kept busy for days acknowledge
ing the communications.
The Postofice Department today is
sued fraud orders against Frank d.
Mackey and the Globe Advertising
Agency, Back Bay Station Boston. They
had a beautiful, accomplished young
lady, craving toget married. The agency
agreed to introduce to the young lady
any young man who would join their
clnb and pay an initiation fee of one dol
lar, and he would then have to take his
chance of capturing her. H. ]. Parks
and Company of New York were debar-
red from the mails for alleged false pre-
lenses in selling patent medicine. An
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