Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-28
News Of the Day.

The trial of Mrs. Noble on the charge
# numbering her husband resulted in
her acquittal at Flushing, n. Y, yes
terday evening.
George J. Gould has resigned from
the directorate of Union Pacific because
he is interested in Western Pacific, the
Gould extension to San Francisco.
A report of the condition of the Young
Mems Christian Associations at the
Worlds Conference in Paris shows that
there are 1861 associations in 40 coun-
tries, with membership of 6SS, 900.
In an address before committee of
ministers in Boston yesterday DR..
Washington GLADDEN. again attacked the
Rockefeller gift, declaring that the
Standard Oil played with stacked cards
and loaded dice.
Charlss NJ. Schwab will procure from
Russia the contract for building the
greatest and most formidable fleet Of
battleships ever constructed and will re-
ceive the lions share of the $3.50, 900, 600
appropriated for the new navy.
The executive committee of the Mu-
aicipal League of Baltimore disclosed
yesterday the contents of its report,
which was completed Wednesday, and in
which charges of graft by the City
Council are made. The committee ex-
presses as its conviction that "money has
been corruptly used in a number of
measures in our council.
Excitement was renewed in the Chica-
ago wheat trade again yesterday by an
additional break of A cents in the May
price on sales of perhaps 1000, 900
bushels, chiefly by two or three big
houses Wheat traders we're elated at
the close, because it looked as if the May
price had dropped to level where the
cash trade would take hold Of, The market.
May wheat sold yesterday at S6i.
President Roosevelt has decided to
return to Washington a week earlier
than at first planned. The Venezuelan
affairs may be the cause of the change
of plan, although Secretary Taft says
that there is no pressing emergency re-
quiriug the immediate presence of the
President, who was doubtful when he
stated that he would be able to re-
main in the hunting county until the
middle of May.
"Practice charity TO all and maintain
unity, peace ard concord among your
selves" was, in effect, the parting in
junction of DR.. William Osler in bis fare
well address to the Medical and Chirurg-
ical Faculty of Maryland in Baltimore
yesterday afternoon. At the close Of the
address the painting OF Dr.. Osler pre-
scented to the faculty by some of the doc
tors friends was formally placed in the
keeping of the faculty.
Assistant Secretary of State Francis
LOOMS last night gave out a statement
denying in detail the charges made
against him by United States Minister
Herbert w. Bowen, at Caracas, Vene-
zuela. The publication of this state
mept met with the unqualified approval
of Secretary of War GTaft. 1t was adj
mitted yesterday for the first time by
Secretary Taft that charges imPuging |
the official character of Mr.. LOOMS had |
been made to him by Minister Bowen.
Yesterdays session at Columbia, S.
c., of the Eighth Annual Conference for |
Education in the South was given up to
the conference of southern State super
intendents of education. DR.. Alderman,
president of the University of Virginia,
said that he had recently read an excel
lent article in the Atlantic Monthly On |
the Difficulties and Dangers of Col
lege President" Smetime he said |
be wanted TO write, or get someone else
to write, an article on the pleasures of a
college president. he spoke Of the type |
of the student in the South and said that
he was more serious minded than the
student of other sections of the country,
spending less time ridingi in automobiles,
yachts and the like.
The failure Of w. A. Clark is announced
on fha Nau Xork Consolidated Sfnak EF. |