Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-24
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington. d. c., Nov. "a.

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In legal circles the opinion prevails
that, so far as the Supreme Court of the
United States is concerned, Mary Mabel
Rogers, the Vermont murderess, is a
doomed woman and that nothing will be
done to interfere with her execution on
December 8 for the brutal killing of her
husband. The court will convene again
next Monday and decision on Mrs.
Rogers case is expected then. Mre.
Rogers appeal is from the decision of the
U. S. District Court for the district OF
Vermont discbarging her writ of habeas
corpus and remanding her to custody 10
the State prison.
Will the ladies of America permit this
country to enter into a tarif-rate war
with Germany? Surely not if they once
realize that most of the very light gauze
Lisle hosiery comes from the Fatherland.
The recep,ivity of American market,
Consul Harris, of Chemnitz, Germany,
has Just written to this government, for
this HOSIERY "almost like cobweb," has
entirely changed manufacturing methocs
in Germany, much finer counts than
formerly being used on machines. The
hosiery industry, be continues. hes stead
lily increased, but America has gobbled
up the increased production.
Orrin Clyde Cullen, the man who,
according to the records of the State
Department, has been victimizing peo-
pie all around the world by claiming to
be an agent of the department and who
has threatened Assistant Secretary Of
State PIERCE with a suit for criminal
libel because he sent out a circular
warning ali consuls of the United States
against him, has developed a new
scheme. He is addressing letters to
American consuls all over the world re-
questing them to send to him sells OF the
stamps and postal cards issued by the
government of the countries in which
they are stationed, promising to remit
their value on receipt. He asks that
the philatelic specimens be sent to him
in care of the American Consulate Cen
eral at Panama. A number of these
letters have already been forwarded 10y
the consuls ty whom they were received
to the State Department for its informa-
ton. Cullen is the man for whom war
rants of arrest are still pending in Vir-
GINA on the charge of fraud.
Senator Foraker, Of Ohio, this morn
ing. informed the Senate interstate
commerce committee that he approved
the results desired by the President in
the matter of railroad rate regulation,
but presented bill as an amendment
to the Elkins law, which be claimed
would avoid all of the troublesome
legal questions that the Presidents
plan entails, and provide "a more
prompt, more economical and more
efficient remedy could be secured through
an exercise by the government of the
rate making power" His plan, as out
lined in the bill, is to treat specifically
against determinations, he maintaining
that existing laws cover all other forms
of abuses by the railroads.
The President this morning announc
ed the appointment of Herbert J. Heger-
man, of Roswell N. NJ, as Governor of
The territory, to take effect at the expi-
ration of Governor Otero's term, Janu
airy %, 1906.
Lewis Einstein, of New York, third
secretary of the U. S. Embassy to Lon
don has been designated by the Secretary
of State TO act as secretary to the Amer
lean mission to the conference of the
powers on Morocco which will be COM
posed of Ambassador Henry White and
Minister Gummere. The exact date of
the conference has not yet been definite
ly fixed but it is expected to be held at
Algeciras. Spain, on or about December
18th.
Advices from Japan are to the effect
that recently the government broke one
of its oldest traditions in allowing for
eigners to buy and hold land in that
country, and in permitting her own pee
pie to mortgage their resl-estate hold.
ings. This is regarded as movement
to advance the industrial conditions #
Japan,