Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-17
From Washington.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette
Washington, ID. c., March IL.

The President aud Mrs. Roosevelt, ac-
companied BY Secretary Loeb, DIR. Chas.
+. Stokes OF the navy, and Stenographer
Latta, left this morning for New York
in the special car Olympia, attached to
the regular G:55 Pennsylvania train.
This afternoon at $3.50 the President will
attend the wedding of Miss Eleanor
Roosevelt and Mr.. Franklin Roosevelt
at the residence Of the brides mother.
He will then 90 TO the home of Mrs.
Douglas Robinson, the Presidents sister.
In the evening he will attend two BAN
duets. the Friendly Sons of st. Patrick
at Delmonico's and the Sons of the
American Revolution, at the Hotel As
tor. The presidential party will leave
New York on the return trip to Wash
ington soon after midnight.
Minister Takahira today received the
following adyices from Toxic; FThe
railway station and other facilities for
transportation at Telling are practically
unimpared, being in about the same
condition as those at Liaoyang after its
fall. OF the large quantity of Russian
provision and fodder stored nearby, two
thirds had been burned by the enemy.
Our troops took many trophies which as
vet remain amounted. Numerous
prisoners were captured on our right,
but their number has not yet been re-
ported.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has set for hearing at Cincinnati, On
March 20, the case Of the National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association
against 81 railroads, complaining that
The rate on whisky in carloads was in-
creased from 81 to 81. 25 per 100 pounds,
although the rate on alcohol was al
lowed TO remain at 50 cents. On Mafch
81, also in Cincinnati, the commission
will hear the three cases brought by
Dewey Brothers Co., against the b. ~
o.. C. s. O., and other railroads, alleg'
ing unfair rates Oh hay from Ohio to
North Carolina points. also the case OF
the Globe Wernicke Co. against num-
Der of railroads, protesting against the
rate on book cases, "knocked down and
shipped in packages" as compared with
the rate on other articles ofsimilar char
acter.
The armored cruiser Washington,
which is 10 be launched tomorrow at Cam.
den, n. j. ; by her builders, the New
York Shipbnilding Co., represents, so
naval constructors say, the highest type
of armored cruisers ever developed by
this or any other nation in the world.
When completed the Washington will
have speed Of not less than % knots
in battery power the Washington and
her sistership, the Tennessee, will excel
any armored cruiser designed in the
world, and they will be the equal in this
respect to large majority OF battleships
built by foreign powers.
The Secretary of the Navy is unde-
cided whether to expend $3.50, 600 in
the purchase of submarine boats as au-
thorized under an act of April q, 1904.
He had decided to expend but portion
of this sum this year and utilize the re-
mainder when the utility of certain i'm
proyements in progress in submarine
construction had been demonstrated. A
ruling of the Comptroller of the Treasury
NAV change his decision, as that official
has Just held that the appropriation in
question comes within the class of those
demanding expenditure during the year
in fulGllment of contracts let during that
period.
Application for immediate issuance Of
mandate in the recent decision in the
Hartman Hill case was made in the u.
S. Supreme Court this morning by
w. P. Clough, general counsel for the
Northern Securities Company, and OPP
posed by Maxwell Eyarts, representing
the Hartman interests. The Chief
Justice agreed to take the motion under
Amusement
The Comptroller of the Currency is
sued q call this morning for a report on
the condition OF bational banks at the
close of business Tuesday morning,
March IA.
Former Senator Hawley, of Connect
cut, was still alive this morning, but is
apparently sinking away. His family
have no hope for his recovery. He con-
tinues in cOmatOse state.
Judge Charles c. Cole died at his
residence this morning from pneumonia.
Judge Cole resigned his position as a
member of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia several years ago
and since that time has practiced law,