Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-07
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington. d. c.. Nov. Z.

Washington, d. c., Nov. Z.
II. s. Minister Rockhill, al Peking,
has cabled to the State Department under
loday's date to the effect that he has re-
ceiyed adyices from the Viceroy of Can
ton saying that he had ordered the Magls-
,rate at Yingtak 10 take extraordinary
measures to protect the missionaries
aud missionary station there. Advlces
from there yesterday were TO the effect
that an attempt had been made by
Chinese mob to burn one of the mission
buildings. The Magistrate in reply tee-
graphed that there was no sign OF enmity
among the people against the mission
aries. He further stated that three mis-
sionaries had decided to go with their
families to Canton and that they would
be very carefully protected on the way.
The subcommittee of the advisory
board of the Panama Canal Commission
which has been preparing a report on
the best method to be adopted in build
ing the canal with locks has completed
its work and submitted its report to the
full board. The subcommittee which
considered the best plans for the con-
struction Of the canal as a sea-level pro-
position made its report some time ago.
The two reports are now under consider
alton by the full board Of American
and foreign advisory engineers who VIII
hold daily sessions from now on to de-
termine which tppe of canal they shall
recommend as being the best for the
United States to build, taking into con-
sideralion the cost, time of construction
and other factors that enter into the
problem. The report Of the sub-com-
n,il,ee on the lock canal makes recon-
mendations as to the number Of locks
that would be needed to carry the canal
at height Of thirty, sixty or ninety
feet, but it is believed that it recon-
mends, if lock canal shall finally be de-
cided upon, that it should not be elevated
to a greater height than sixty feet. The
report recommends where the necessary
locks should be construed, indicates
their size, probible cost and time neces-
sary to build them.
The following changes in the consular
service were announced at the State De-
partment today: Wm. A. Prickitt, OF
New Jersey, has been transferred FROM
the position of Consul at Rheims,
France, to that of Consul General at
Auckland, New Zealand, and j. Martin
Miller, of New Jersey, has been appoint
ed to Rheims as Consul. VIM. J. Pike,
of Pennsylvania, consul at Zittsu, Ger
MANY. has been transferred to be consul
at Glauchau, Germany, ana VIM. X.
Estes, of Minnesota, consul at SOlingeU,
is transferred to Zittau. Jas W. David
son, of Minnesota, has bad new COM
mission issued to him as Consul, at
Antung, China, 10 lieu of the one APP
pointing him to Antung, Manchuria.
Spencer Eddy, the U. S. charge
d'afaires at st. Petersburg, cabled to
the State Department this morning that
he has received dispatch from U. 5.
Consular Agent Martin at ROstoh-on-
Don to the effect that the disturbances
there have Quilted down. Rostoff was
one of the places from which advices
came yesterday that rioting and mob
violence had reached such pitch that
the American residents has had to APP
peal to the authorities for protection
which was granted them.
Announcement is made at the Stat
Department today that the President
will receive the British Ambassador and
members of the Royal Commission on
the care and control of the feeble mind
ed tomorrow at noon.
Several workmen were slightly scald-
ed by escaping steam al the Potomac
Electric Power Company's plant last
night. They were taken to the Elmer
gency Hospital.
J. F. Peerce, District inspector of
sewers, was so badly injured by falling
into an excavation at 18th and streets
that he died later from his injuries at
the Emergency Hospital. His skull was
fractured.
Attorney General Moody will confer
in this city Thursday with L. ,. Dis
trict Attorney Morrison and Assistant
District Attorney Pagan, of Chicago, as
to the next steps to be taken by the gov
eminent in the prosecutions against the
beef trusts. Conference will no doubt de-
termin, d whether or not the present
action against the beef packers can be
successfully maintained. The defendants
have fled a pl'a, declaring that
of Corporations Garfield
promised them immunity from prosecu-
ton when the permitted the bureaus
to have access to the packers
b Oks books, information from which
thew charge was turned over to The
Department of Justice and now con-
stitutes the basis of the governments
case against them. II is for the pur
pose of discovering the extent Of the
understanding between the bureau OF
corporations and the packer that
Thursdays conference will be held. 1t is un-
derstood that the District Attorney is not
tirmer in his convictions of the governments
rights than Commissioner Garfield, the pres
ent action may have to be abandoned. 1t Is
believed, however, that before the District |
ATTORNEY returns TO Chicago the governments |
answer to the packers plea will have been
fully outlined.
Walter G Tubby, Of st. Paul, now general
storekeeper Of the Great Northern Railroad, |
has be N appointed by Chairman ShOnts as
chief of the division Of supplies Of the |
Isthmian Canal Commission, not superinten-
dent of construction. AS reported from 81 |
Paul this morning His headquarters will be |
at Cristobal, canal zone, and be succeeds Pay |
master Z. G. Tobey, t. 5. ~, who has been
recale by the Navy Department for service |
in the navy.