Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-11
News Of the Day.

The Foreign Secretary OF the German
government has assured Harry st
George Tucker, president of the James
town Exposition Company, OF Germany's
cooperation.
The storm Saturday and yesterday
along the Atlantic coast attained a We
locity of more than 20 miles an hour of
Nantucket, but comparatively little dam
age resulted.
At a consistOry in Rome today among
the cardinals appointed were Archbishop
Cavalcanti, of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, the
first South American cardinal in the
Sacred College.
Recommendation looking to the ex-
detrimental establishment of a parcels
post are made by Postmaster General
Cortelyou in his annual report, which
was made public yesterday.
A cry of fire during a performance in
the Biiou Theatre in Baltimore last
night caused a panic, during which
Sarah Huss, a child of IL years, dropped
dead from heart disease, induced by
fright.
Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman has officially announced the
new British ministry. In addition to
the premiership Sir Henry is first lord
of the treasury. John Morley is secre-
tary of state for India.
Two of the sisters Of Mr.. Corey, the
steel trust president, who has separated
from his wife, side with the wronged
woman, while third is in Paris with
Miss Gilman, whom Corey may marry
if divorced from his wife.
The annual report of the Comptroller
of the Currency for 1905 to the first ses-
sion of the Fifly-ninth Congress makes
the best showing for national banking
in the southern States since the first
charter for national bank was granted
in 1868.
Secretary Shaw has announced that
he has authorized the payment of the
interest On United States government
bonds due January |, 1906, on and after
Deem Der Is, 1905. The total interest
payment anticipated will aggregate
about "a, 200, 900.
The convicts in the penientiary at
Havana. mutinied last night, and a
fierce fight between them and the guards
followed, in which two of the prisoners
were MORALLY wounded, sixteen more
or less seriously wounded and three OF
the guards badly injured.
Mile. Zinaida Smolianinoil, the beau
tiful young Russian who has been a
prominent figure in the most fashionable
society in Berlin for several years, was
sentenced Friday 10 fifteen months i'm
pris0nment for high treason by the LelP-
zig Imperial Court. She went to Berlin
with letters OF introduction from oromi-
nent persons 10 st. Petersburg, who de-
scribed her as a lady OF noble family and
the possessor OF remarkable literary at
tainments.
Fire Saturday swept Echo Mountain,
near Los Angeles, Cal, destroying all
the buildings except the Mount Lowe
Observatory, aud damaging other prop
erty. The loss is 5000, 900. Telephone
poles, railroad power-house and much
valuable machinery we're destroyed.
Communication by wire and travel by
rail were cut off and the people at the
Casino and the railway hotel had to fee
on foot to the hills. Twice the flames
threatened Mount Lowe Observatory,
but hard work saved the building and its
valuable contents from more than a
scOrching.
The annual fall dinner of the Gridiron
Club, held at the New Willard 10 Wash
iugton Saturday night, was attended by
many men distinguished in pablo af-
fairs, diplomacy. finance, the learned
professions, industrial enterprises and
journalism. From the oysters to the
coffee there was one rIund of fun, most
of the sikts being good natured bur-
lesques Of prominent people present.
The peace conference aud the so-called
Cabinet gag order cane in for gentle
roa.ts, and there were many topical
songs, on which Vice President Fair
banks, Speaker Cannon, the Cabinet,
Congress, the railway rate agitstors and
the railroads were the subjects.