Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-08

Electioneer. winner of the Futuri'y,
has been sold to Felix lsman for $50, ooo
Ten cents has been fixed as mini
mum price for which cotton should De
sold this season by the executive com
mittee of the Southern Cotton Assocls-
ton.
w. j. Bryan said that he would be
unable to take part in the campaign 10
New YORK. He says also that ne breads
the proposed trips to Panama, and
Australia, and may not take them.
Greatest of all events in the history OF
Baltimore will be the gala jubilee dem.
onstration to be inaugurated Sunday and
continue throughout the coming week.
All plans for the celebration have been
perfected.
An inmate of the asylum for the in
sane at Cora Kalwaris, about thirty
miles from Warsaw, secured an axe
Thursday, and, although he had previ-
ously been quite inOffensive, ran amuck
through the institution, killing seven OF
his fellow -lunatics before he was over
powered.
A dispatch from Charlotte, n. G,
says that Raslus Spurrier, white man,
was placed Cd the main line OF the
Southern Railway, near the dividing
line between the Csrolinas, by drunken
negroes. snd train No. 40 crushed the
mans head into a mass OF pulp. Spur
rier's refusal to give the negroes more
liquor caused quarrel, during which
they knocked him insensible and then
placed the body on the rails.
The seventh annual convention OF the
United National Association OF Postof-
fee Clerks which has been 10 session 10
Savannah, Ga, adjourned Thursday after
electing officers TO meet next year 10
Peoria, ILL., 1t was announced that the
association would not become affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor
The association took the stand that
while the attitude toward the federation
was most amicable, il would not be adj
yissble to become affiliated with it.
Emperor William has decorated Card
inal Kopp with the Order Of the Back
Eagle the highest Prussian decoration.
This is the first time the order has ever
been conferred upon Catholic prelate.
II is remarked that the relations between
the German government aud the Vsti-
can have grown closer since the church
and State situation in France became
acute The headquarters of Cardinal
Kopp are at Breslau, where he has stead
ily used his influence in lettering the
relations between tie Poles and the
Prussiau authorities.
A prominent law officer OF the govern
ment states that the President intends
to nominate Attorney General Moody, of
Massachusetts, as justice of the Supreme
Court. There is vacancy created BY
the retirement last May of Justice Brown.
The place was offered Secretary TAFT
soon after Justice Brown retired, Mud the
offer was taken under consideration.
The opinion has been growing that Mr..
TAFT will decline. The authority for the
report that Mr.. Moody will be selected
states that Mr.. Taft has already an
nounced his decision to the President.
A revolution is in progress at NIGGA
dor, on the Atlantic coast of Mo
rocco. The iusurgent tribes are attack
ing the town. The French Minister al
Tangier has sent the cruiser Galilee to
the scene OF the disturbance, and the
representatives of the other powers have
cabled for men-of.war The disturbances
we're caused by the high handed action
Of Anfoos Ksid in supporting outside
tribes in demanding that Jews living 10
Mogador return to Mellab, the Jewish
quarter. or otherwise their houses would
be sacked. These Jews have lived in
The town many years, but the Moorish
law requires them to live 10 Mellsh.
Anaoos had no authority for acting.