Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-03-10
News Of the Day.


The Standard Oil Company has bought
the plants of the Blades Lumber Com
paDy at Elizabeth City and at Newbern,
n. c.
Theodore P. Shonts states that be
will not resign from the Clover Leaf
Railroad or the Panama Canal Com
mission.
The Porte has agreed to the American
demands for the admission, duty free,
of all consignments to the American
schools in Syria.
The Senate committee has favorably
reported a bill to establish vast forest
reserve in the Appalachian Mountains,
the bill including Virginia.
Archbishop 0'Brien, of the Roman
Catholic Church diocese of Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward Island and Bermuda,
died suddenly in Halifax last night
Anna Izmailovitch, daughter ola Ru d
sian general, who attempted to assassi-
nate Governor Kourlof, has had her
sentence COMMITTED TO imprisonment
for life.
Foreigners believe that the Chinese
magistrate at Nanchang committed sui
eide as protest against the Catholic de-
mands and for the purpose of arOusing
the natives.
A resolution and bill designed to
cure the defects in the Tillman railroad
investigation plans by giving greater
powers to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission we're introduced in the House
yesterday.
The presidents of the "big three" life
insurance companies made addresses
before the New York General Assembly
yesterday opposing nearly all the recon-.
mendations which grew out Of the Arm
strong investigation.
A coroner's jury in Washington yes
terdaday held Leo Fitzgerald responsible
for the death OF A. w. G. Nowliu, which
is said to have been caused by Fitzgerald
whom Nowlin was attempting To eject
from the Central Union Mission for
drunkenness.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill appropriating 5000, 600 to be ex-
pended in marking the grsTes OF Con-
federate soldiers who died in northern
prisons, and were buried where they lay
down for their last sleep. The money is
to be expended under the supervision
of a commissioner appointed by the
President. He must be a Confederate
veteran.
A meeting of the democratic commit
lee Of the First congressional district has
been called for next Tuesday in Fred
ericksburg. The object is to fix the time
for holding a primary to nominate 8
candidate for Congress from that dis
trict, to decided upon the conditions,
etc. A chairman of the committee is
also to be elected, to succeed the late
Lloyd T. Smith, of Northumberland
co anty.
President Roosevelt has decided TO APP
point William III. Taft, of Ohio, now
Secretary of War, 10 the next vacancy
in the United States Supreme Court
created by the voluntary retirement OF
Associate Justice Henry B. Brown, who
was appointed in 1890 by President
Harrison from the State OF Michigan.
When Chief Justice Fuller retires-pro-
yided it is during the administration OF
Mr.. Roosevelt--Mr. Taft will be promoted
to his exalted position.
Expressions by the French and Ger
man delegates to the conference on
Moroccan reforms in Algeciras give the
impression that compromise on the
points hitherto deadlocked may be reach
ed at tOday's sitting. The concession
on the bank question paves the way fer
final agreement France is still firm in
the matter of police, but the opinion
prevails that common ground will be
found. Paris expects a peaceful solu-
ton, but rejects the Austrian plan.
Rev. DR.. james Z. Armstrong. pre-
siding elder of the Roanoke district,
Methodist Episcopal Church South, will,
owing to advanced age aud declining
health, retire from the active ministry
at the approaching annual session of the
Baltimore conference, which meets at
Cumberland, Nd, the latter part of this
month. DR.. Armstrong has been in the
active ministry SO years. He will de-
vote his remaining Yeas to writing a
history Of the Baltimore conference, of
which he has for so manv years been the
secretary.