Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-18
News OF the Day.

/ The Chesapeake and Ohio canal was
yesterday closed for the season. I'm.
proseDents viii be made TO the canal
duriog the winter
By a decision Of the L. S. Circuit
Court, Of Chicago, the Yerkes millions
will go to establish the hospital he plan
ned for New York.
There may te general investigation
into the coal famine in the northwest
and the reasons for lack of cars for the
transportation of fuel by railroads.
Professor Koch, Of Germany, is re-
ported TO have discovered cure for the
sleeping sickness in Africa aud his ex'
periments upon the natives have been
successful.
Luzzatti, ex-minisier of the Italian
| treasury, 10 10 address in Rome, declared
that Japan and other Asiatic races are
superior to the white rsces in the matter
Of religious liberation.
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Mccormick, daugh-
ter of the late Senator Allan G.. Thur
nan, and wife of the late Governor K.
c. Mccormick, of Arizona, has dropped
Methodism for Catholicism.
Within three years an eight-mile chan
mel deep enough 10 accommodate any
coasting ship will be opened across Cape
Cod from Buzzards' Bay to Sandwich.
The canal will cost $40, 900, 600.
The monument to Francis Scott Key,
author Of "The Star Spangled Banner.
] for which the cum of S25, 600 has been
donated by Charles J.. Marburg, will
probably be erected on the site Of For
McHenry.
The U. g. Supreme Court yesterday
decided that the act Of 1905 authorizing
the Secretary of Agriculture TO establish
national quarantine lines to prevent the
spread of diseases among livestock wa'
unconstitutional.
Gen. John NJ. Hood, creator Of the
Western Maryland Railroad, died ye
terday in Baltimore. His illness was
brief lie won distinction and his title
In the Confederecy by his daring block
age running and in the engineer corps.
The United States Casualty Company.
Of New York, has obtained az iDjnnc-
ton In an Alabama court restraining the
Virginia Carolina Chemical Company
from removing any books or papers
needed In a suit filed by the casualty
company.
A bill empowering al Anglo. French
company to construct a tunnti under
the channel has been deposited with the
English Parliament. II is estimated that
this scheme will involve an expenditure
of $50, 900, 900. 1t is proposed to build
two parallel tunnels twenty -four mile:
long,
With the closing of the Farmers and
Drovers' National Bank at Wayuesboro,
last Wednesday, the arrest at PittsbuIg,
yesterday, ofCashier j. +. +. Rinehar.,
charged with making false reports to the
Comptroller of the Currency, and the
| discovery of an alleged discrepancy
amounting to $3.50, 900, business in
Waynesburg is almost at a standsiill.
President Roosevelt's message on
ship subsidy, which will be presented to
Congress shortly after the Christmas
holidays, it is believed, will support the
Gallinger subsidy bill as passed by the
Senate, but the House committee on
merchant marine and fisheries prob
ably will report the bill so amended that
it will merely offer subvention 10 mai
steamers sailing between. this country
and South American aud oriental porte
The charred body of an unknown
woman was found last Sunday in a bar
rel in the woods near HsZsIlOn, Pa. The
body was strapped with iron bands used
on sugar bogsheads. The hands and
feet were missing. A wisp Of blonde hail
was attached to the skull. The appear
ance of the body showed that it was pack
ed in the barrel after death Stuffed
around the body was half-burned straw
saturated in kerosene. A tag ON the
barrel showed that il had been originally
| consigned to n merchant In Mahanoy
City, Pa. A man named Anislovia has
been arrested. lie at Grst denied his
guilt but later a partial confession was
8rung from him by the police 1t ia be-
lieyed the body wa that Of his wife