Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-25
From Washington.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington, March 20.

announces ludt AhOiehSo ""D N
be shot Nocolas Arias, the officer IN
command of the insurgents who killed
Boaiswain johnson, of the U. 5. ;.
Columbia, about month ago. Minis
ter Powell states also that the provisional
government now controls all of the
island except the province Of Monte
Cristo, the home of Jiminez.
The President today sent to the Senate
the nomination Of George B. Curtiss, OF
New York, to be U. S. Attorney for the
northern district of New York. Also
that of Charles Dunning White, of New
jersey, to te secretary of legation at
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic
Friends of the eight hour measure
were given hearing by the House COM
mite on labor this morning. James
o. Connell, president of the national as
ISOLATION of machinists, said that
the statements of those who have been
heard by the committee in opposition to
the bill to the effect that the laboring
man is not for the measure, are false, in
every particular. The machinists of the
country, he declared, are for the bill.
President GOmpers, of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, was present and will
be heard in favor of the bill later today.
The Census Bureau today issued
bulletin on the cotton crop for 1903,
giving the total number of bales Count
ing round as half bales) as 10, Ola, 454,
compared with 1874, 473 for 1902.
Reduced to equivalent bales of 500
hounds standard the 1903 crop was TO-
045. GA. or commercial bales, 10, 399,-
sos The total number of ginneries
operated during 1903 was 80, 2lS as COM
pared with 80, 94S in 1902.
Miss Alice Roosevelt was in
vited to attend the st. Louis Worlds
Fair on Oklahoma Day, September 3,
this morning by Miss Richardson.
Young lady from the territory. Miss
Richardson was presented at the White
House by Delegate Bird S. Mcclure.
President Roosevelt thanked the fair
caller in behalf of Miss Alice, who Is
absent from the city, and regretted that
if would probably be impossible for her
IN o4l-..I. On september the 10Th
anniversary of Oklahoma City will he
celebrated and the people of the Terri
tory intend to make it memorable at the
fair by doing things Gin sixteens."
There will be sixteen of the prettiest
girls in the territory at the Oklahoma
building, sixteen train loads of ex-
cursionists will arrive at the fair from
the budding state, and, as Delegate Nc
CURE expresses it, sixteen will rule in
everything possible except sixteen to
one in money"
The weather cleared today before the
time for the races and large crowd
gathered at Bennings.
Four representatives of the American
missionaries resident in the Congo Free
State in Africa called upon Secretary
Hay this morning to urge the State De-
partment to do something to alleviate the
condition in that country of both the
natives and the missionaries. They
brought with them photographs illustrat-
ing the tortures inflicted upon the natives
by the officials OF the government and
complained that all the land was held by
the Belgians and that nothing could be
done in that country without the con-
sent and the cooperation of King Leo
polds representatives. 1t is not likely
that this country will take any action in
the matter.
A committee of representative bust
ness men of the Northwest and New
York State was heard by the House |
committee on rivers and harbors today,
On the project to construct a ship canal
around the shoals and rapids OF Niagara
river. The estimated cost of the canal
is 81, 500, 600. President j. }. Hill, of
The Great Northern Railroad, said that
the trade of the country was going out
Of the great lake region through the st.
Lawrence. The clock of the Missis-
,ippi struck twelve years ago, he said, in
reply to a question as to why the Mis-
,issippi river was not an excellent water
way of travel from the lakes. COntinu-
ng, he said that "the bed of the Miss
ssippi river is covered with lost hopes"
is far as making it waterway for COM
nerce is concerned. Others who were
heard by the committee in favor of the
proposition were General f. V. Greene,
# New York city, and Attorney Gen
raj Cuneen, of New York State. Col.
Symons, of the Engineer Corps, U. S.
A., also spoke.
Mr.. Rixey has presented to the House
petition of Lawson B. Moore and
'thers, of Gordonsville, Va, in favor of
he Hepburn-Dolliver bill; also a petit
ion of citizens of Rectortown, Va, and
icinity, in favor Of the Brownlow good
Dads bill.
Minister Dudley at Lima, Peru, re-
,orts to the State Department that the
ubonic plague has broken out in San
'edro, Callao and Lima. lie also says {
hat the republic has appointed Volney
:. Foster to be its representative on the
Commission OF Archaeology
nd Ethnology established some years
30 by the Bureau of American Repub-
cs. :
John Barrett, minister to the Argen- !
ne Republic, but recently promoted to /
ne Republic Of Panama, reports to the Il
tate Department. under date of February
highly prosperous condition Of the
ountry to which he is accredited and
lso warmly urges that Americans bestir a
to capture the trade. He rec 9
mmends that reciprocal treaty of y
'ade be consumated by this country o
laf fast mail and nassenrer line of 4