Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-02-03
News Of the Day.


President RooseveltiS reported to have
decided TO appoint Gen. I. L. Rosser
either postmaster at Charlottesville or
revenue collector for the Richmond dis
trict.
Brooding over the fate of his brothers,
who had taken their lives in similar
manner. Christian Fenstermscher, q
farmer of Kisse Hill, nesr Lancaster,
Pa, committed suicide Wednesday night
by hanging.
The reason for the transfer of Arthur
Simmons, the colored doorkeeper at the
White House, was that he has offended
many people by being too insistent In
his inquiries regarding their business
with the President
Three negroes were 10 have been
hanged yesterday in the Allegheny
county, Pa, jail yard for the murder of
John KIuzor, at Leetsdale, Pa, last
MAY, but Governor Pennypacker has
granted respites in each case.
An authoritative statement shows that
the opening of the School ofJournalism,
for the foundation of which Joseph
Pulitzer gave Columbia University Of
New fork, 81, 900, 900, will be post
poned until after the death Of the news
paper publisher.
Attorney General Moody, in an opinion
rendered to Secretary Shaw, holds that
a drawback of SO per cent OF the duty
may legally be allowed on exported -four
made in part from imported wheat. The
Treasury Department will put the plan
into effect at once.
A small rat terrier, believed to have
been rabil, spread terror through two
miles of Camden street Philadelphia yes
terday afternoon. In the course of its
wild dash it bit and severely laeerated
twelve persons, Eve of whom were school
children. The log WAS finally killed by
policemen.
A postal fraud order was issued yester-
day against the Gibson Manufacturing Co.
and The National Skirt aud Waist Co., OF
Owenton, KY. The cotnpaniesars accused
of having operated fraudulent endless
chain and advertising chemes in the sale
of parlOr rugs and women's tailored
goods.
The Hay Bond reciprocity treaty,
between this country and Newfoundland
has been revised. Premier Bond has
agreed to make some important con-
cessions to American trade which will,
it is said, will meet the objections which
the New England fishing interests had
recommended to the original treaty.
Herbert Sluith, Of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, was heard by the
House committee ON merchant marine
and fisheries, yesterday, asking for the
passage of the eight bills drawn by the
department embOding new system OF
steamboat inspection, suggested by the
investigation into the Slocum horror.
Disiuherited by her father, Charles
Lockart, of Pittsburg, Pa, who left her
only life interest in $500, 900 because
she eloped with poor dentist years ago,
Mrs w. S. Flower, it is learned, is to
be- one of the richest women in America.
A friend of the family announced today
that the heirs of the estate, which
reaches the total OF $3.50, 900, 900, will
turn over to her $50, 900, 900 as her
share.
Representative Maynard yesterday in
troduccd in the House bill appropriate
ing $50, 600 to erect q monument to the
memory of Matthew Fontaine Maury.
1t is stipulated that the monument sh all
be erected either at Cape Henry or on
Hampton Roads. Matthew Fontaine
Maury. known as the Pathfinder Of the
Seas, " was one OF the foremost scientists
in the world. He was a noted geogra-
pher, and his books and charts hav been
adopted as standards. He was native
of Virginia.
The latest reports of the casualties in
the recent three days fighting in the
vicinity of the Shakhe and Hun rivers
say that IA, 900 Russians and 7, 900 jap
anese were killed and wounded. Four
regiments of Russian infantry were
nearly annihilated. Russians report
the finding ola hundred frozen corpses
of japanese wounded who persisted from
cold near Chenhotin Pass. Ten jap
anese bsttalions which attacked the Rus
SLAMS left were repulsed with heavy loss.
The artillsry duel continues at the Rus
sian center.
William Burgs, the negro who shot
and killed his wife, Daisy Burge, in
Washington, on Friday night last, es-
capped from the Homeopathic Hospital
at 2;30 this morning. Burge had been
treated at the hospital for wounds re-
ceiyed while attempting to shoot his
mother-in.law. At 2:30 this morning,
on pretext Of going to the toilet room,
Burge jumped from window ten feet
to the ground, and made his escape,
clothed only in his nightshirt. The
policeman detailed to watch Burge
started in. pursuit.
Mrs. F. X. Rowley, one ofthe women
fatally injured by the collision between
train aud sleigh in Hornellsville, N.
Y, Wednesday night, before her death
made statement in which she blamed
Driver Quick for the disaster. 1.-The
ladies begged Quick not to drive on the
tracks, she said, "but he paid no at
tention to them. The train was in plain
sight and anybody could see that we
could not beat it across, bat Quick kept |
right on, although everybody was
screaming to him to stop, and those in |
the first sleieh werA all shnntino 10 him |