Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-13
New of the Day.


II "a asserted that the director OF the
Norihern Securities Company who failed
of reelection at The regular meeting was
T. II. Hartman.
The executive commitlee'f the Pana-
ma Canal Commission decided to employ
Japanese and Chinese labor in the con-
slructiol Of the canal.
Baltimore society is stirred over The
elopemen, of John V. l.. Findley and
Miss Louise Courtensye d DOnneli, who
were married there yesterday.
One of the diversions of the Presi-
dents huntiug camp in oklahoma yes
terday was SERIES Of foot races, in
which the President participated.
A dispatch from Papeete, Tahiti,
dated March 81. says that hurricane
north Of there, on March "a and
%, caused much damage to shipping
John F. Wallace, chief engineer of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, says
that there are now practically 5000 men
engaged on the construction work of the
canal
TIE old Pimlco raceiraek, near Bal
timcre, ordered by the court to be sold.
was purchased at public auction by the
Mary land Jockey Club for $40, 900, yes
terday afternoon.
The Duke of Manchester, who married
Miss Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, will
take up railrOading, going with one Of
the lines in which his father-in-law is
largely interested.
Nan Patterson and her sister Irs. ].
Morgan Smith )met in the Tombs prison,
New York, yesterday for the first time
since the formers arrest on the charge
of killing Caesar Young. Their meet
ing was affectionate.
The eigh; principal industries Of
Princeton, Ind, have closed down in
definitely on account OF the demand of
the American Federation OF Labor that
unskiled employees get 81 70 day in
stead Of $3.50. The business of the
city is practically paralyzed.
Contracts for armor plate aggregating
fully $25, 900, 900 are to be undertaken
for Russia and Japan by American steel
plants. This enormous and profitable
work will be deyided between the Beth
lehem, Carnegie and Midval steel com
parties, all Pennsylvania concerns.
A deed was placed on record in Wash
iDgfon yesterday by which the National
Metropolitan Citizens Bank transferred
to the Southern Railway Company
the property bounded by Thirteenth,
Thirteen -and-a-half, f, and Water
streets. A nominal consideration was
named in the deed.
Baron d. Estourneles de Constant, the
former deputy and president Of the par
liameDtary group iayoriug international
arbitration, made his debut in the French
Senate in speech urging the military
and naval disarmament of the states of
Europe by proporlionate reduction of
their forces similar to the joint disarma-
ment of Chill aud Argentina.
At great chiefs council of the In
proved Order of Red Men held in Chi
cago yesterday, John W. Cherry, of Nor
folk, was chosen great incohonee to sue
coed the late Thomas II. Watts, of Mont
gOmery, Alabama. Other officers chosen
we're w. A. 5. Bird, Topeka, Kas.,
great senior sycamore, and Joseph
Farrer, Philadelphia, Pa, great junior
sycamore.
A firm OF railroad contractors of Knox
vile, Tenn, has received advices from
President Spencer of the Southern Rail-
way, awarding TO them the contract to
build the tunnel under Lookout Noun
tain, near Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
Souihern's extension from Chattanooga
to Stevenson, Ala. The price involved
in the contract is not mentioned, but it
is supposed to be between two million
and three million dollars Work is to
be begun al once.