Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-20
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette'I
Uoah;noton ID g. April 20.

Miss Katherine Norbeck, the young
woman who was shot by Frank Jones,
and who was operated on by the surgeons
Al Providence Hospital, died this morn
ing at 4:30 O'Clock. The bullet was ex-
trscted and for time it was thought
she would rally and rec over, but turn
for tSe worse occurred shortly before 4
O'Clock and she passed away about 4;SO.
ZONES. the murderer, is still improving
ct the same hospital. His wounds are
not as serious as it was first supposed
aud unless blood poisoning sets in he
will recover.
Lucien futile, of Boston, President
Of the Boston and Maine, the Maine
Central and other New England Rail
road Corporations, denied in the Senate
committee on Interstate Commerce this
morning the recent charge Of Judge
Prouty of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. that the Railroad managers OF
the country were in "stifl neck opposl-
ton" to proper regulation OF public util-
tiles and that they were eagerly DESTROYS
of throttling any attempts to secure such
legislation.
Theo. P. Shonts, Judge Magoon AMI
Clarence a. Edwards, forming a ma
iority of the executive board of the Pan
ANA railroad, had a conference thi'
afternoon with delegation of business
men from New Orleans who desire that
action shall be taken which will enable
lauch of the material to be used on the
Panama canal to be shipped through
aheir port. They al,o want the docks
at Colon to be thrown open for the use
of the fruit steamers that ply between
New Orleans and the isthmian ports.
The general question of rates over the
Panama railroad is also involved.
Officers of the Department Of Justice
who have been investigating for the
State Department the facts in connection
with the recent killing of the Italian,
Joseph Leanto, near Alexandria, Va,
who met his death while resisting arrest,
after he had killed deputy marshal
who was trying to serve a warrant on
him. have made a report to the State
Department. the conclusion Of which is
that Leanto died from gunshot wounds
while offering resistance to lawful arrest"
The Italian Ambassador has been inter
ssting himself in this case because Of the
conflicting reports which have been made
: 10 whether Leanto's wounds from
which he died were inflicted by himself
or were occasioned by members Of the
posse which was trying to hunt him down.
Gov. Montague, of Virginia, is also
conducting an inquiry and when his
report is received by the State Depart
ment it, together with that Of the De-
partment of Justice, will besubmilted to
ire Italian Ambassador 1t is expected
that will end the case.
The following changes were made in
the postoiices in Virginia today; May
Carruthers to be postmaster at Levy,
Loudoun county, vice Herman r. Smith,
resigned; f. II. Yansickler, to be post
master at Mountville, Loudoun county,
vice j. NJ. Mount, resigned.
Naval opinion here is to the effect that
news OF torpedo attacks by the japanese
on the Russians may be expected in the
course of the 4S hours.
Senior Munoz, the Guatemalan minis
ter, has recently had reason to believe
that revolutionary movement against
his country was being fomented by pc.
litical refugees in Mexico and in Saliva
dor. He has been making frequent in
quiries at the State Department on the
subject and was there again today on the
same business. This government has
been unable to give him any iniorma-
ton as yet, but has assured him of its
earnest desire that there shall be no
breach Of the peace.
Valeriano Casio, in arms against the |
of the United States in the
Philippines, and sentenced TO be hanged,
has had his sentence committed to life |
on the remarkable ground
that he did not know that he was fight
ing the government. He thought he
was still battling Spanish oppressors.
Word that Governor General Wright has
the sentence has just been re-
ceived here. Gasic's wife took up his
cause and in her plea for clemency made
the statement that her husband took up
arms against Spain in 800 and remain
ed in the field until 1904, when cap
tured by the constabulary, still of the
opinion that his acts were directed
against the Dominion of the Dons. The
date of Gasic's execution was 80 near at
hand that the gallows had already been
erected, when proof Of the culprits ig-
roronca savad his nack