Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-21
News of the Day.


favor of transferring the ashes OF Emile
lola to the Pantheon.
Miss I.uise Moncheur, daughter OF
Baron Moncheur, the Belgian minister,
died yesterday in Washington.
President Roosevelt says he is willing
TO reconsider the dismissal of negro troops
if there is any new evidence 10 the matter.
AndreS Carnegie denies the report
that he promised 81 00O, 900 TO Congress
man Richard Bsrtholdt to promote the
cause of international arbitration.
The Westminster Gazette, of London.
says that Great Britain's former influence
and prestige at Washington have been
usurped by the Germany Embassy.
Mrs. William L. Lawson, wife Of the
millionaire iute manufacturer, says 10
witnesses periured themselves in testify
ing in the three divorce suits Instituted
by her husband.
The body Cf James Wilson. a signer OF
the Declaration OF Independence, was
disinierred at Edenton, N. c., yester-
day and is on the way to Philadelphia,
where il will be reburied.
The French customs authorities are
barring American canned pork and bacon
because of the elimination of the micro
scopic examination OF The meat from the
new American inspection regulations.
Bishop William c. Doane, of the
Episcopal Diocese of Albany, n. Y, yes
terday criticized the canons of The CHURCH
affecting divorce and suggested that the
State, which separates, write divorces.
Secretary Root delivered an address
before the Trans Mississippi Commercial
Congress in Kansas City, yesterday 10
which he declared that the Monloe Doc
,rine was still in force He urged the
adoption of the ship subsidy bill.
The Wade Hampton statue was yes.
terday unveiled at Columbia, S. c., in
the presence OF vast throng. The ex-
ercises were opened with prayer by
Bishop Capers. Governor Hayward, on
behalf of The State, accepted the statue
and Gen. NJ. G. Butler was the orator OF
the day
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany was found guilty by jury in the
United States Circuit Court in New
York yesterday OF accepting rebates
amounting to S2G, 600 from the New
York Central Railroad Tue New York
Central WAS recently found guilty OF
giving rebates TO the American Sugar
Refining Company and fined sos, 600
In desperate effort to escape from
the Municipal House OF Refuge on Ran
dal's Island. New York, last night, a
young girl, Ina Williams, was drowned
in the Bronx Kills, tideway a mile
wide that flows between RsndalPs Island
and the mainland. Another girl, Rose
Frank, was lonnd by bOaIman in mid
stream. She WAS swimming f,ebly, but
lost consciousness on the way TO the
Hospital and may die from exposure
Robert Vance Freeman, twenly-lhree
years old, formerly an emplcye OF the
Department Of Agriculture, aud a mem
Der OF the first "poison squad in the
experiments conducted by Prof. Harvey
W. Wiley, chief Of the Bureau Of
Chemistry, is dead of tuberculosis at the
home of his mother, Mr.. Lurea Latham,
in Washington. His death is attributed
by his mother to the effects of the adul-
teranls placed in his food after he vol
unleered his services to Dr. Wiley in the
experim ents.
Seven trackmen Of gang OF 10, eE-
gagged ia removing slide on the Dry
Fork branch of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, near BlneGelds, W. Va. were
killed Yesterday as The result of big
slip OF land Men we're swept down the
mountain side and into the river. Twelve
of those who we're working in the gang
escaped. The bodies Of four Of the vic
Tins we're recovered and three Of the
bodies are buried under hundreds of tons
of earth All of the victims were Italian
laborers and were known only by mum.
bers, not names.
The proposed ship subsidy bill was
Yesterday denounced as CONSUMPTION by
President Samuel Gompers before the
American Federation of Labor. The
Federation endorsed the anti-iDjunctiJn
bill sHd scored the injunction plan. The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen wa9
denounced as a "strke- breaking" or
ganization, and resolutions were adopted
recognizing the sovereignty Of the Switch
mems Union of North America as hay-
ing complete jurisdiction over all rail
road yard and switching crew.. II vas
ordered that unions of newsbOys be or
ganizsd at once throughout the United
states.