Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-11

Emory Speer in the severest possible
language. Severe as my denuncIauon
was. / could not retract, as the proyoca-
ton has been going on for the last seven
years. and reached the climax at Val
dosta. He never treats officers OF the
court with respect. | have insisted,
with almost certain removal in my face,
that the court be conducted as a court
and not as a plaything or circus, with
myself and my deputies as monkeys.
Speer and Barnes came near having
blows at Valdosta and the judge i'm
mediately adjourned court. No session
of the court has been held since.
The Gas Engine and Ship Works OF
New York city has reported to the Navy
Department that there is now strike
in its yards for the reason there may be
some delay in inc construction OF the
gunboats Dubuque and Paducah Tor
which it has a contract
Senator NJ. S. Quay, of PENNSYLVANIA,
has sufficiently improved in health to be
moved. Arrangements have been COM
pleted for his departure tonight Tor
Morganza, Pennsylvania, where he ex-
poets to visit his brother.
Secretary of War Taft informed the
President this morning that his physi-
clan had ordered him to take a rest IN
the Adirondacks for two or three weeks
He will leave Washington tomorrow.
The new century speedway in Potomac
Park was formally opened this afternoon
with a parade.
Charles H. Robb, of Vermont, Assist
ant Attorney General for the Postoffice
Department, placed his resignation 10
the hands of the Postmaster General to-
day. He goes to the Department OF
Justice. where his time will be devoted
almost entirely with reviewing reports OF
inspectors engaged upon the investiga-
ton of certain branches of the Postoffice
Department. Charges Of over zeal on
the part oil the inspectors are to be care
fully investigated. The names OF fifty
employees Of high and low degrees, have
been recommended by The inspectors for
Dismissal
The National Hotel on Pennsylvania
avenue has been denied by the Excise
Board any further extension of IFS license
to sell liquor on account of its failure
to comply with the regulations for pre-
cautions against fire.
An order was issued today from the
officers of the Secretary of War CONSOLE
dating the Record and Pension offices
of the War Department with the Ad-
iutant General offices under Brig Gen.
f. G. Ainsworth, and giving him the
title of Military Secretary with rank oil
Major General.
Justice Pritchard in the Tyner-Barrett
trial this morning called the attorneys
for the government and defense to time
for unnecessary delay in quibbling on
immaterial and technical points. The
examination of Sam A. Smith, OF Gin
cinnati. Ohio, who was on the stand
Yesterday, was concluded this morning.
Among the interesting announcements
made at the meeting of the Association OF Am
erican Physicians, now being held in this city,
is the discovery by DR.. NOguchl, OF japan,
working under a grant from the carnegie
Institution, of positive antidOte for rattle
snake venom. The announcement was made
by DIR. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia,
who read a letter from DR.. Noguchl
giving the results of his researches. 1t Is
stated that the serum used as an anildote Is
obtained from the blood of goats. Today the
| following officers of the association were
elected: President, DIR. Edward l.. Trudeau,
Saranac Lake, N. y; secretary, DR.. Henry
Hun, Albany. n. Y; Il easurer, DIR. j. +.
| Crozier Griffith, Philadelphia.
| A new consumption serum has been as
covered in London by DR.. Marmorek, of 81:
| Georges Hospital. According to United
States Consul General Guenther, who reports
| the discovery to the State Department from
Frankfort. Germany, the results thus far
attained have been nothing short of remark
able and the scientific men of the continent
are hopeful that the disease has at last met
an exterminator. "The principle" writes
Mr.. Guenther, sis to isolate the specific
poison of the disease and by injecting this
into horses, stimulates them to produce the
antidOte"
Tentative arrangements for the Presidents
summer vacation were announced al tne
White House this afternoon as follows He
will leave Washington for Oyster Bay about
the first of July and remain until after the
formal notification Of his nomination by the
republican national convention. lie will
then return to Washington for two or three
weeks after which he will go again to Oyster
Bay, where he will remain until the middle
of September. No political delegations will
be received at his summer home during the
campaign, and the only individual visitors
who come on political missions must arrange
for their calls through the national commit
tee. Otherwise the Presidents guests will be
confined to those who have official business to
transact. or personal friends who may com e
M .he Presidents invitation.