Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-01-27
News Of the Day.

Mr.. Thomas Fitzgerald has been pro-
noted to general manager of theBaltimore
and Ohio Railroad to succeed Mr.. &. ).
Sims.
Only slight disturbances attended the
elections Of members of the Hungarian
Diet yesterday. Count Apponyi and
Francis Kossutb, leaders of the Opposi-
ton, were reelected.
A bill, the result Of President Roose-
velts conferences with labor leaders. was
introduced in the House yesterday. II
provides that there shall be no injunc'
lions in labor disputes until there has
been hearing
President Roosevelt made a brief adj
dress yesterday on. receiving Bishop
Doane and committee OF the Inter.
church Conference on marriage and di-
vorce. lie promised to help curb the
evil and told the committee Of clergy that
il outweghs all other questions.
Nearly thirty persons we're injured,
one probably fatally, when train that
was sent out from Freehold, n. j., to
open up the snowbound Mattewan and
Freehold division of the Central Rail
road of New Jersey, was wrecked yester-
day at East Freehold. The accident
happened in deep cut through Brier
Hill.
Considerable excitement has been cre-
ated on the isthmus by the receipt OF or
ders by the converted cruiser Dixie TO
proceed at once to the Island of Santo
Domingo, where fighting has broken out
in the streets and become so general that
the assistance of the 500 marines quar-
tered upon Empire Hill are considered
absolutely necessary by the United States.
1t 10 believed that the freeze Wednes-
day night in Florida destroyed all citreus
fruit on trees, except in the extreme
southern part of the State, the total de-
struction being placed at 300, 600 boxes,
1 is feared that trees in the Jacksonville
section are injured, if not killed. 1t will
be impossible TO determine this before
spring. The fear as to orange trees,
however, is confined to the northern Sec
tlon of Florida.
Papers sanctioning the agreement be-
tween the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Western Maryland railroads as to the
Western Maryland crossing the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal on its line from
Cherry run toCumberland have been sign
ed by Judge Keedy at Cumberland. 1t was
also announced that until the completion
of the Cherry Run line the Baltimore and
Ohio will supply the link in the through
line to Baltimore for coal from West
Virginia to Port Coyington, Baltimore.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held
their second formal reception Of the season at
the White House last night. The function
was in honor of the judiciary. Special guests
of the occasion were out in full numbers, but
the cold weather operated against the usual
large attendance Of others invited to the re.
ception. The decorations were simple and
confined principally to display Of ferns and
p0tted plants, with cut flowers on the mantels.
The music was by the Marine Band.
The Virginia Debt Commission has arrived
at Charleston to emand that West Virginia
assume part Of the old Virginia State debt.
Twenty-Five deaths, due to the storm and
the succeeding cold wave, hav been reported
throughout the east.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick has been adjudg-
cd a bankrupt by the United States District
Court in Cleveland.
Action looking toward the settlement Of the
coal miners strike at Essen, Germany. has
been taken.