Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-15
From Washington.

Correspondence OF the AleAdhuIia O"@O''N'J
A strong warning against the lndls-
criminate immigration of negroes from
the United States TO Liberia without
being sufficiently supplied with funds to
take care of themselves for at least SIX
months after their arrival is contained
in dispatches from Ernest Lyon, u. ;.
Minister at Monrovia. He refers to the
party of Sc colored persons who went to
Liberia from Erwin county, Georgia,
in 1903. twenty of whom died within a
few months; the remainder were ragged
starving and homeless and finally had to
be sent for by their friends here. Minis
ter LYON quotes number of prominent
officials and clergymen who say that
there is nothing but death there for the
poor ignorant classes who go there with
out any skilled trade and expect to be-
come rich without labor,
The Navy Department was this after
noon informed in dispatch from Pen
sacola of an accident to one of the guns
on the battleship Iowa which occurred
Yesterday during target practice oft that
port. Fortunately no one was injured.
II seems. that after four of the eight-inch
Guns had been successfully tested prepa-
rations we're made to test the nth one.
When it was fired the muzzle was blown
off. The damaged gun has been in con-
slant use on the Iowa since before the
SPANISH war and had been successfully
fred 1903 times before the accident Oc-
Cured.
Gov. Montague Of Virginia has in
formed the State Department in reponse
to the inquiries Of the Italian Ambassa-
dor that he will institute a searching in
yestigation in order to determine whether
or not the Italian, LeOnto, who was kill
ed week ago after numbering deputy
sheriff who had attempted TO arrest him,
died by his own hand or whether he was
killed by the mob which chased him
down. The Department Of Justice will
also make an investigation on its own
account into the affair.
Secretary OF War Taft left here this
afternoon for New York where he will
consult with parties desiring to finance
the proposed railroads in the Philippines
and where he will take part on Monday
next in the meeting of the directors Of
the Panama Railroad.
Lieutenant General Chafiee, Chief Of
Staff, and Quartermaster Humphrey, of
the army, will leaves Washington on
April 18th for a tour Of inspection OF
western posts. st. Louis will be the
first stop on the Oh war journey.
Habert Z. Paine, formerly represen-
ta.ive from Wisconsin, died in this city
Yesterday alter a protracted illness. He
was born in Chardon, D., in 1926.
1t was announced at the Department
of Justice this morning that the Presi-
dent has informed the Attorney General
of his desire to appoint Ex-Governor At
kuson, of West Virginia, as judge Of the
Court of Claims, TO succeed the late
Judge Weldon.
Captain Edison A. Lewis of the 18th
Infantry has been sentenced to suffer
the loss of ten files or numbers in his
rank for defrauding a money lender
named Louis Silverman Of 1925. Ac-
cording to the charges upon which Capt.
Lewis was tried before court martial,
he borrowed the sum from Silverman
giving him in exchange for the money
his pay vouchers for the month of No
vember, 1908. These vouchers were re-
turned to him for the correction OF certain
informalities in the Endorsements, where
upon he cashed duplicates of the vouchers
at the paymaster's office Instead of re-
turning the originals to the money lender.
Under contract to clear it of rats in
that time, a professional rat catcher,
with five assistants and twenty ferrets,
will have charge of the Capitol for
dozen nights. He will use no dogs, as
dogs and ferrets will not cooperate.
At an all day meeting of the Isthmian
Canal Commission today number of
contracts for supplies we're made, and
arrangements we're completed for the i'm
mediate employment of 1000 japanese
coolies on the excavation work of the
canal, the number to be increased to
10, 900 in the near future.
The remains of the late Mexican Am
bassador Don Manuel de Azpiroz were
transferred today from the temporary
receiving vaEit in Rock Greek Cemetery
to Annapolis, whence they will be con
veyed on the cruiser Columbia to Vera
Cruz, Mexico. A guard OF honor, con-
sistiEg of Capt. C. c. Carpenter and
eight marines, accompanied the casket
from Washington to Annapolis, the train
leaving this city at ? o'clock, this alter
noon. On the train, as representatives
of the government, we're Third Assistant
Secretary of State Peirce and Commander
Cameron MGR. Winslow, the Presi-
dents naval aid. Nineteen minute guns
will be fred as a salute when the Co
lumbia receives the remains aboard.