Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-27
From Washington.
of the Alexandria Gazette

the trlumphs aud troubles OF the Taua-
ma Canal Commission, Secretary Of
War Taft will start this evening for a
visit on the isthmus. He will proceed
by steamer to Hampton Roads, where
tomorrow morning he will board the
cruiser Columbia for Colon. He will
be accompanied by Col. Clarence Ed
wards, chief of the Bureau of Insular
Affairs, and several others. While on
the isthmus Secretary Taft will make an
inspection of the whole route, the build
iDgs, machinery, ETC., and will inquire
particularly into the condition Of the
employees. 1t is expected also that he
will in a general way investigate the
question of the proper type Of the canal
whether lock or sea-level-sO that he
may be able to pass intelligently upon
the forthcoming recommendations OF the
board OF consulting engineers.
Several important murder cases OF
more than ordinary public interest will
occupy the attention of the Supreme
Court of the United States at the present
term. Two of them grow out of the as
sassination of Governor GOebel, of Ken
lucky. Jim Howard, who is supposed
to have fred the fatal shot, and who
has thrice been convicted, brings up his
case on writ of error, appealing from the
life sentence OF the court below. Motion
to advance the case on the calendar has
been denied, but it will probably be
reached some time in December A
motion to advance the case of Caleb
Powers will be made next week.
Powers, who is declared to have been
the arch-conspiratOr in the Goebel case,
has also been convicted three times, and
is now under sentence of death. The
third case Of interest is that of Anna
Valentino, an Italian woman who muir
dered Rosa Saixa near Hackensack, n.
j., and who is under sentence Of death.
Another murder case of national nOt0rle-
ty is that of Mary Mabel Rogers, of Yer
mont, who is also under sentence OF
death and whose appeal as in the Valen-
tina case, is from the order refusing her
PRAYER for writ of habeas corpus.
President Roosevelt's party minus the
President returned to Washington at 6
a. m. from Memphis Tenn, where they
left the Executive Wednesday evening.
The homeward journey was uueventful.
As the members of the party were bid
ding the President farewell, one of them
expressed the hope that he would not be
sea-sick on his bomeward voyage Will
YOU please tell me be exclaimed, when |
have ever been on ship and was not
sea-sick? But, Loeb, there will be others
lust AS bad off as / am, and when | see
him at his worst, no matter how sick /
am myself, | shall offer him some pork
and beansO sour kraut." StenOgrapheT
NJ. G. Latta, of the White House force,
returns to Washington on the sick list.
He dates his ailment to the "marine
supper" that the people of ST. Angus
tine gave the Presidential party last
Saturday night. Several other members
of the party suffered dire disturbances
in their digestive tract after that meal,
but no one was obliged to take to his
bed except Latta. DR.. Rxey said that
Mr.. Latter had a very narrow escape
from ptomaine poisoning.
Up to 1890 this morning no official
information had been received at the
White House regarding the accident to
the lighthouse tender conveying the
President down the Mississippi from
New Orleans. Col. Lockwood, of the
Lighthouse Board, received at 1850
O'Clock the following telegram from
Commander Sears, in command of the
Magnolia, in regard to the accident:
"The Magnolia was struck on the fOreside
about IL p. m. by the steamer Esparta.
No one was injured and the vessel was
grounded at Sixty Mile Point. The
President and his party were taken on
board the lighter Ivy and will arrive at
the West Virginia on time. | believe
the Magnolia can be repaired and that
she can proceed without assistance.
The telegram was dated at Marin.
Delegates TO the second annual con-
vention of the fourth class postmasters of
the United States spent nearly the entire
day in sightseeing. At $3.50 O'Clock
Postmaster General CortelyOu received !
the delegates in his office and made a
short address to them.
The State Department today received |
from the United States legation TO Nor
way and Sweden dispatch announcing
the receipt of a telegram from Stockholm
stating that King Oscar yesterday after
noon upon receipt of the news that the
Swedish Diet had given its consent to
the recognition ofNorway as entirely sep
arate from Sweden had renOunced for him
self and his house the crown of Norway.
The legation was instructed to convey
this news to the United States with the |
promise that later a circular note will be |
sent by Sweden to all the powers making |
the announcement.
Secretary of War Taft has trans mitttd to |
the Treasury Department his estimates Of the |
that will be required for the |
War Department for the fiscal year 1907. |
These estimates aggregate 500, 9SS, 26775, be-
ing $9,7l7, 922.52 less than the total appro- |
priations made by Congress for the use OF the /
War Department for the current fiscal year
ending June 80, 1906
Miss Alice Roosevelt who spent the
night at the me of her aunt, Mrs. l
Douglass Robinson, in New York, occu
pied drawing room in parlor car OF
train No. 81, which started from Jersey
City for Washington this morning.
Before boarding the train Miss Roose
yelt made a positive denial of the re-
poris that she is engaged to Congress
man Nicholas LOngWOrth. of Ohio.