Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-11
News Of the Day.

The Senate yesterday shelved the
Morocco question aud discussed the pure
food and ship subsidy bills.
The Senste yesterday passed a bill to
appropriate 5000, 900 for making graves
of Confederates who died in northern
prisons.
The House committee hes decided TO
report favorably the bill providing for a
survey of routes for ship canal to join
the Chesapeake bay and the Delaware
river.
Mrs. Julia II. Simpson yesterday told
graphic story of the shooting OF her
father, BARLEY T. Homer, by her hus-
band, DIR. James II. Simpson at North
port, L. l.
Secretary Taft has written letter to
Presidest Roosevelt declaring Poultney
Bigelow's charges against the Panama
canal management to be untruthful and
malicious throughout.
Judge Gildersleeye, of the Supreme
Court OF New York, has directed ii. d..
Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company,
to show cause by Monday why he does
not answer questions of the Missouri in
vestigators.
Representative 0verstreet, of Indiana,
secretary of the republican congressional
campaign committee, announced yester-
day that, because of the Presidents
failure to allow him to name the sur
veyor of the port of indianapolis, he will
not again serve on the committee.
On tomorrow the Infanta Maria
Therese, the only surviving sister of
King Alfonso XIII, is to be married at
Madrid to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria,
who has Invested himself of his German
citizenship and secured letters of ma
turalization as Spaniard.
The Maryland legislature yesterday
re-elect Mr.. Murray Vandiver as State
Treasurer for his fourth term. He re-
ceived two, and probably four, republic
can votes. Mr.. A. P. German, jr., was
appointed chairman ofthe Senate finance
committee, thus making him the demo-
cratic floor leader in that body.
Fire which broke out at 5:29 yester-
day morning at the old Waverly car
barn of the United Railways Company,
on the York road near Baltimore, laid
in ruins the big structure and complete
ly destroyed sixty cars and damaged be-
tween twenty and thirty Others to a great
extent. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
The public ownership commission OF
the National Civic Federation met in
New York yesterday and made final ar
raneements for the investigation which
il will undertake in this country and in
Europe as to the comparative merits OF
public and private ownership OF water
supply, electric and gas lighting, and
street railways. Among the plants to
be Investigated are those Of Richmond
and Dsnville, Va.
Washington B. Williams died sudden.
Iy of heart disease ut his home in Wash
ington last night He was with his fam
lily in the sitting room after supper when
he expired. Mr.. Williams was born in
Montgomery codnty, Maryland, in 1882
He went to Washington when boy,
and in 1855 engaged in the furniture
business at Seventh and ID streets. I'm
til his retirement in 1892, he conducted
a large business, being one Of the promi-
nent merchants of the city,
A man who either fell or jumped from
Bay line steamer between Norfolk,
and Baltimore, some time Tuesday night,
is believed to be John F. Mccormick,
a real estate broker and contractor Of
Washington. Mccormick has been
mysteriously missing since Sunday from
the Stratford Hotel where be lived with
his family. The man thought to be
Mccormick answers his description. and
papers and letters were found among his
effects in his ststeroom on the boat,
which bore bis name and address.