Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-17
News of the Day,


Secretary Shaw is to try the expert
ment of paying government employees
by check instead of cash.
General Linevitch has reported Rus
sian turning movement, by which, be
saws. the japanese have been forced TO
retire from Iulantizi after burning their
stores.
While excavating for water mains in
one of the main streets of Helena,
Mont. Yesterday, a workman found an
ingot of copper and gold weighing 70
pounds.
Frances Rush Thaw, actress and
heroine of the Thaw matrimonial! tangle,
in Chicago yesterday received $50, 600 IN
cash and an absolute divorce from Chas
Harper Thaw.
President Roosevelt has appointed a
committee to examine into the methods
of conducting business in the several de-
partments of the government with view
10 recommending improved business
systems.
Alfred p. Marston, assistant forman
OF printing at the government printing
office, died yesterday at bis home in
Washington. He was born in Phila-
delphia Sc years ago, but had lived in
Washington since boyhood.
The feeling of doubt that James Hazen
HYDE has really sold his majority stock
in the Equitable Life Assurance Society
to Thomas F. Ryan appears to be on the
increase and there is a growing belief
that there may be as much one-man
power in the society under the trustee
ship rs before.
In Manchuria, midway between the
two armies, the Russian and japanese
commanders will meet TO sign the arms
tic which will pave the way for the
Washington conference if the present
tentative programme is followed Ex-
changes on this point are now in prog
ress between Toxic and st. Petersburg
via Washington, but no final conclusion
has been reached.
Brodie l.. Duke, the millionaire to-
bacco merchant of Durham, n. O., has
lust served divorce papers on his third
wife, Alice Webb Duke, whose sensational
fight for his liberty was feature OF
metropolitan news last winter, and al
most simultaneously it was learned that
if the plaintiff should be successful in
his suit he probably would remarry his
second wife, Mrs. NJ. w. Duke, of Chat
tanOOga.
There is to be new Assistant Secre-
tary of the Interior, beginning with the
fiscal year. Melville W. Miller, whose
appointment from Lafayette, Ind, in
March, 1903, occasioned considerable
surprise. has been asked TO hand in his
resignation. He will do so today. Jesse
Wilson, of Rensselaer,, Ind, a member
of the legislature and friend and sup
porter of Senator Beveridge, will be APP
pointed in his stead. No reasons are
given officially for the change.
The Pope yesterday received in pri-
vate audience the Most Rev. John j..
| Keane, Archbishop OF Dubuque, IOWA.
During the interview Archbishop Keane,
having thanked the Pope for telegram
sent by him to the convention of Catho-
lie temperance societies held at Cedar
Falls, Iowa, the pontifT emphasized the
importance of inducing the American
people TO abstain from intoxicating
liquors and practice the fundamental
virtue of temperance. The Pope sent
his blessing to the temperance workers
not only of Dubuque, but of the entire
United States. After his audience with
the Pope, the archbishop, who had al
ready paid his respects to Cardinal Mer-
ry del Val, the papal secretary of State,
visited Cardinal Rampolla, former papal
secretary of state, with whom he had a
long and interesting conversation.