Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-27
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington. d. c.. May u.

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The President has appointed Com.
mander Samuel W. B. Diehl to succeed
CAPTAIN Samuel c LemIy as Judge Ad-
vocate General of the Navy, when the
latter's term expires June 3.
All star route carriers, contractors and
mail messengers carrying mails between
nostoAices and railroad stations and
steamboat wharves have been ordered
paid monthly instead of quarterly, be-
ginning July l.
General John G. Black, commander
of the G. A. r., will deliver the Grafton
at the Memorial Day exercises at Airing
ton next Monday.
George f. Ormsby, local attorney,
this morning filed an application with
Secretary Moody Of the navy asking that
Judge Advocate S. c. Lemley be brought
to court martial on charges OF falsehood
and inefficiency. Ormsby alleges that
in sending a case up to the Supreme Court
wherein an order for adyancementon the
calendar was recently made Captain
Lcmley deliberately falsifed the record.
Bishop J. C. Mills, of the United
Brethren Church, in the course OF an
address before the Methodist Protestant
General Conference in its session this
morning said that the hearts of his peo-
ple were with the NJ. =. Church i'll Its
desire for union. He also said that 1t
was a source of great satisfaction that the
committee on church union had present.
ed report that met with such enthu-
siasm. The sympathy of the United
Brethren was with the Nj. ?. Church IN
its work and undertakings. He declared
that there was a great advantage in union
and that it would enable them to stand
6rmer against false spirilualism. In
closing he deplored the interest that was
manifest in spirituaism, Christian
Science and other similar institutions.
On Recommendation OF Director North
of the census bureau, Secretary of Com
merce' and Labor CortelyOu has APP
pointed Hon. Carroll d. Wright, Com
missioner of Labor; Prof Walter f.
Wilcox, of Cornell University; Dr.. Davis
r. Dewey. of the Massachusetts, lnstl-
tute of Technology, and DIR. Henry
Cannett, of the United States Geology
cal Survey, as a special committee 10
advise with the director of the census
npon the scope and the methods OF the
thirteenth census of the United States.
At today's Cabinet meeting Secretary
Wilson told the President that he be-
ieyed the Agricultural Department was
at last on the track of boil weeyll eX-
terminator. It's large brown ant found
in Guatemala. Secretary Taft arranged
with the President for reception to the
delegation of Filipinos, some forty or
fifty in number, that will be in Wash
ington on Jnne 8. Secretary Moody in
formed the Cabinet that hereafter there
will be no appeal from the decisions OF
the medical examining board at Annap-
oils.
A cable from Rome says; Cardinal
Satolli, when in Washington, will request
an audience of President Roosevelt.
The State Department today received off
cial advices of the capture of Kin Chow by
the japanese from Minister Griscom at Toxic.
lie adds that the japanese are moving on
Port Arthur from that point.
limitations have been received here that
Venezuela, in opening four new customs ports,
is working a scheme against the preferred
creditors who received their preferment
through blockade of Venezuelan ports upheld
by the Hague tribunal 1t is significant
fact that the new ports are not included
among those from whose receipts the preferred
claims are to be paid.