Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-20
From Washington.


discriminative practices by the Southern,
l. & ~. and other railroads east aud
south of Louisville, KY, and Cincinnati,
o.. on through grain shipments from It.
Louis. 1t is alleged that by manipula-
ton of the expense bills at Louisville,
dealers there, through the existence OF
the reconsignment rates, are enabled to
profit to the disadvantage Of the lower
river crossings.
Reports have been received in Wash
ington of the arrest in British Columbia
of Capt Alexander Mclean, who is
wanted in San Francisco to answer to an
indictment for alleged illegal seal killing
and who has been chased over the "a
cific for year by the government Of
6cials. The State department is assist
ing the Department of Justice in getting
Mclean within its Jurisdiction.
The per capita consumption OF coiiee
10 the United States, according to figures
collected by the Department ofCommerce
and Labor, is 1919 pounds year
Holland is the only country that exceeds
this amount, the per capita there being
1889. In tea drinking Great Britain leads
with 6.O3 pounds per capita, the United
States showing but 100. "Roughly
speaking" says the report of the De-
partment on the subject, between two
ffths and one half of the marketed coffee
of the world is taken by the United
States.
Hon. L. NJ. Shaw, Secretary of the
Treasury, announces that he will speak
in Cleveland September 2S, in Virginia
the first week in October and address
the American Bankers Association ID
this city October 18th.
Word has been received at the State
Department this morning that VIM. >.
Albers, the manager Of the Point Limon
Mining Co.. whose headquarters are ID
Philadelphia, who was recently arrested
in Nicaragua on the charge OF offering
resistance to the authorities and insult
ing the President of that county, has
been convicted.
Chairman Shonts, of the Panama
Canal Commission, together with all the
members of the commission, who are not
now on the istbmus, will sail on the Ha-
yana for Panama on the 28th instant.
This is in accordance with the instruc-
tons of the President that a quarterly
meeting of the commission must be held
on the isthmus the first week in October.
The commissioners will be accompanied
by the board of consulting engineers,
which will make personal Inspection
of the canal route, proposed dam sites,
etc, before making their final report
The members of the commission and the
consulting engineers, if they so desire,
can live aboard the Havana visiting each
morning such points Of the work as they
desire, returning to the ship each evening.
The Coopers' International Union
presented to the Executive Council OF
The A. f. L. today complaint alleging
violation of the decision relative to
cooperage work in breweries and asked
that a decision be rendered requiring
definite compliance on the part OF the
breweries with the decision already rem
dered. The executive council overruled
the request on the ground that the A. +.
L. convention at San Francisco last
November determined the dispute and 1t
cannot be reopened, under the law,
within three years. A joint report was
received on the controversy between
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners, end the Amalgamated So
ciety of Carpenters of America. The
existing agreement has been extended
until January l, 1905, in compliance
with the award of A. Strasser, the arbi-
traitor, which is confirmed. The dispute
between the local unions of wOodworkers
and carpenters in Baltimore as to which
was entitled to certain work, having been
referred to arbitration by the Baltimore
Federation of Labor, an award was made
for the woodworkers. This action was
confirmed by the council. Representa-
tives of the international Seamen's I'm
ion and the International Longshore-
mems Union appeared and presented
arguments on the dispute now existing
between those organizations.
Manufacturers of proprietary medl-
cines are calling daily upon Commission
er of Internal Revenue Yerkes to COM
plain of the new ruling imposing upon
manufacturers and dealers in medicine
of which chief component is alcoholic
shirts the liabilities of rectihers and
dealers in liquors under the federal laws.
Mr.. Yerkes has replied to all that he
will stick by the ruling until it is de-
clared illegal by the courts. The pro-
prietary association, composed Of manu-
facturers of patent medicines Is preparing
a brieffor the commissioner, setting forth
that the effect of the ruling will be to
demoralize the whole trade after Deem
Der LIST. One of the largest manufac-
turers in the country DR. S. B. Hart
man, Peruna, Columbus, o., called on
the commissioner this morning, and
registered bitter protest.
As final blow: in the fight of the
Postoffice Department against illegal
medical practice in Philadelphia, a
sweeping Fictitious" order was issued
today, declaring dozens Of individuals
and several companies" from the use
of the mails. As result of the crusade
the department officials say they believe
all such offices in Philadelphia are now
closed and their advertisements exclud-
ed from the papers.
The transfer of the controlling interest
in the stock of the Chesapeake Beach
railroad from its present owner, David
| n MofIat of Denver. Col. to q New