Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-08
News OF the Day.

Millions OF people are affected by
famine 10 central China.
R3bbera entered the Russian COVERT
ment issay Office at Irkuisk yesterday
apd stole l65 pounds Of gold.
Meat and dairy products worth $780,
coo 900 wi have been exported froU The
L ed State 10 the year ending this
month.
Ia Al eight round bout at Los An
gel-s, Cal last night Ane Audi, cham-
pion feather weight OF the world, knOck
cd out Jimmie Wsl,h, OF Boston.
President Roosevelt addressed the
delegates to the Rivers aud HaTbors
Congress 10 Washington yesterday aud
promised his aid in obtaining waterway
| Improvements
The federal grand jury investigating
coal land frauds in Utah and charges OF
discrimination by railroads has returned
indictments against the Hartman com
panes and Others.
The report Of the committee Of tho
San Francisco Chamber Of Commerce On
insurance. settlements shows ital the
value Of buildings and contents destroyed
in The FIRE VAS $3.50, 600, 600; insurance
$3.50, 900, 600
Mr. John Cropper, al one time a
prominent lawyer in Washington, was
| found dead in the bathroom OF his home,
Yesterday morning. TIE gas in the
room wss turned on, and Coroner hewitt,
eho made an investigation, decided that
death was the result Of an accident.
Testimony bearing on the allegation
that Louis +. Payn, while State SUPER
iutendent Of insurance, demanded 500 =
600 from the president Of the Mutuel K -
serve Fund Lite Association and threat
ened that unless this s1m was paid he
would show publicly that the association
was bankrupt, wss heard in the Supreme
Court of New York yesterday
The House yesterday passed bill
repesling that portion of the Wilson IL
terstale commerce law relating to cnnvict
made goods and permitting the several
States to legisls,e for themselves as 10
their competition with "free' labor
made goods. After having the lfgi~la-
tive. executive, and judicial appropris-
ton bill reported to it, the House sd
journed until Monday.
The United States Weather Bureau il
about to make arrangements with The
Central Physical Observatory, ct s..
Petersburg, for reports covering p'scti-
callv the enormous land area between
the Russian capital AID the Pacific Ocean,
which embraces almost Onc-hslf Of the
eirih of the globe. There will be cable
arrangements with Iceland. The new
arrangement vii enable the Waiter
Bureau to considerable extend the aea
covered by its present forecasts and Issue
them for longer period in advance.
A dispatch from Manila says that later
reports of the fighting 10 the Island Of
Levte, December 8, sho~ that Capt.
Samuel w Han, with detachment OF
Company Lofthe Eighth Infantry, snd a
free of cons,abulary und Leu Rslph
p. Yates, we're rushed by 60 Bol0nen
| four miles from Ia Paz, on the T'ragona
trail, during tho afternoon Of that day.
The Pul ] mes had few guns, fred a
| volley, and then made rush upon the
American force. Five Americans we're
killed and nine were wounded. The
enemy lost 20 men killed Tho number
of Pul,lu wounded and captured is
not known. A detachment has started 10
pu suit of the Insurgents The telegraph
line between Tachban snd IlOlO Ia
down, and no further details are oh
taingble