Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-04-07
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ment against polygamous marriages.
1t has been arranged that the signing
of the Panama canal contract shall take
place at the United States embassy,
which is Oh American soil.
The German-American Fire Insur-
ance Company of New York has assumed
the liabilities and absorbed the Riggs
Fire Insurance Company of Washington.
Mr. John d. Rockefeller, of New
York. the multi-millionaire president of
the Standard Oil Company, has given
$500, 900 to the Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tai, of Baltimore, to make good the loss
sustained by the hospital in the great
fire.
The reduction of 80 cents a ton in the
price of anthracite by the mine operators
for April has given an impetus to the
Baltimore retail trade. Dealers who
have depleted their yards of the higher
priced coal are now rushing in orders for
fresh supplies.
As anticipated in the Gazette, credi-
tors of the banking firms Of j. William
Middendorf & Co., of Baltimore, and
John L. Williams & Sons, of Richmond,
Va, gave them additional II months
extension from May next in order to
liquidate their Indebtedness.
James L. Hobbs, former sheriff of
Howard county, Nd, and present mana
ger Of Senator Germans farm, near
Laurel, was held up late Tuesday night
by highwaymen and beaten nearly to
death while returning from Ellicott
City, where he had driven in the after
noon OH business.
Mr.. J. ID. Rockefeller, who is in New
Orleans, said yesterday that he is spend
ing 800, 900 a day in the South, helping
poor children to get school facilities;
also that he had advised Mr.. Carnegie
to spend his money helping the schools
and poor children in the South rather
than in founding Libraries.
Secretary Taft has approved, with a
few minor notifications, the design sub
mitted by Mr.. Edward B. Valentine, Of
Richmond, for the monument to the
memory of Gen. Hugh Mercer, a revo-
lutionary hero. which is to be erected at
Fredericksburg in accordance with an
act of Congress appropriating S25, 900
for the monument.
Mr.. Morgan's $40, 900, 900 Inter
national Mercantile Marine Company
that dream of American sea power which
stirred even the British Parliament to
furious oratory-has passed back to
British management, and the change
marks the utter collapse of the most as
tonishing adventure Of modern high
finance, says James Creelman, in the
New York World.
CDR" George j. Engleman, alias
Hart, alias Horton, who was arrested at
the Riggs house here last night, charged
with the theft of 81, 800 worth of diamonds
in Philadelphia from William Laycock,
a Walnut street jeweler, left for that
city this morning in charge OF detec-
tive. Engleman's whereabouts had been
disclosed through letter from his girl
wife to her father, Alfred Ferries. He
submitted to removal to Philadelphia
without extradition proceedings. Engle-
man is said to have long record as a
swindler. He was released from Sing
Sing only nine months ago.
Tammany dealt blow yesterday TO
the candidacy of Chief Judge Alton b.
Parker for the nomination for President
by the democratic party and to David
B. Hills prestige as leader by winning
over almost the entire Brooklyn organi-
zation, which has been tempted to de-
sert Hill. A prominent Tammany Off
cial announced that Is OF the 81 district
leaders in Brooklyn had deserted their
leader, Senator McCaren, and at the
coming State convention would support
Tammany's plan of an uninstructed
delegation to the national convention.
The detection is the probable basis for
Tammany Leader Murphy's confidence
that the State convention would not in
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