Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-04-03
News of the Day.

The Moroccan conference may strlke
another snag through the refusal of the
Sultan to accept the programme arranged
for the government of Morocco.
The bill permitting the ratification of
sweet wines and levying a tax Of cents
a gallon on all wines thus fortified was
passed BY the House of Representatives
yesterday.
Kneeling at the altar rail in the Cath
Ollie chapel of the Philadelphia Hospital,
James Costello, a venerable inmate OF
the institution, died yesterday morning
while in the very ACT of communing
President Roosevelt has appointed
Rudolph Foster to be first assistant sec
rotary to the President, in place of b.
f. Barnes, appointed postmaster, for
Washington. Mr.. Foster was second
assistant secretary.
The determination Of Patrick DOlan
to bold on as president Of the Pitts
ourg district is causing complications,
and some mine0wners hesitate to sign
the agreements submitted by the spec
ial scale committee named in Indian
spolis.
1t is now said that the union label will
be extended to the political field. Can
didates for the House of Representatives
will be required TO fix their fences 10
comport with labor union ideas, or they
will be antagonized by the American
Feder ration of Labor.
Charges connecting Winfield Scott
Hancock. son of Col. John Hancock
and nephew of Ger. Winfield Scott
Hancock, with the mysterious death OF
Emma Smallwood, which occurred Oc-
tober IA last, were Investigated by the
grand jury at Upper Marlboro yesier-
day.
When Emperor William visited Gre
field, Germany. in 1908 a group of girls
complained TO him that they had no
dancing partners and begged him to send
regiment of cavalry there, which he
did Yesterday, much to the joy of the
people of the town, especially the girls.
The city, which is the center of the silk
and velvet industry, was gaily decorated
for the occasion.
Reports from various points show
that the order of President Mitchell to
stop work in the mines has been gener-
ally obeyed; that the tie-up in The an
thraciie region is complete, only one
mine being operated, and that many
bituminous operators are signing the
scale, companies representing an annual
output of 81. 900, 900 tons having al
ready done so in the Piitsburg district
Gov. Folk, through Warden Matt
Hall, of the Missouri penit9ntiary, has
leased mine near Waverley, from
which coal will be mined during the
present strike in sufficient quantities to
supply the State institutions with fuel.
The miners at Waverley are paid more
than the regular scale and 10 not want
to strike. If they should be forced to
90 out Warden Hall said yesterday that
there would be no difficulty in operating
the mine, if the State is forced to resort
to that extremity.
Mrs. Roosevelt and her children, in
company with Minister Morgan and
Secretary Steinhart, who had called on
Mrs. Roosevelt Oh board the Mayhower,
Yesterday visited President Palma at the
palace in Havana. Subsequently the
party, with the exception OF Mr.. Nor.
gan, took a walk on Obispo street. one
of the principal business thoroughfares
of the city, going as far as the
Prado. In the afternoon the party
visited MORO Castle, at the entrance Of
the harbor aud across the bay from the
city.
A dispatch from Charlotte, n c.,
says that in accordance with notice
given 10 days ago 80 High Point furni-
ture aud glass factories yesterday locked
ont all their employees who belong to
labor unions. About 900 men and boys
are idle, and some OF the factories are
considerably handicapped, although
none were forced to shut down. The
factories received about 80 applications
from new men yesterday. There is no
,igu of trouble. Several representatives
of the various union headquarters are
on the ground.
it is currently reported that Mr.. Perry
Belmont and Mr. Thomas F. Ryan have
signifed their willingness TO give money
this fall to secure the reelection 10 Con-
gress of the conservative" democrats
who are nov in that body. and that they
will render financial assistance in the
campaigns of conservative" democrats
who seek to win seats in districts now
republican. But they are reported to
have said outright that not penny of
theirs is to be used IN the canvass OF
democratic congressional candidate who
is one of Mr. Hearst's ''radicals
The court review amendment to the
railroad rate bill agreed upon Saturday
by certain Senators in conference with
President Roosevelt Was presented in
the Senate yesterday BY Senator Long,
of Kansas, who proceeded to make a
speechregardiDg it. He read from eeci-
sioDs of the Supreme Court showing
that the power OF the federal govern
ment to regulate interstate commerce is
equal TO the power of State to regulate
its domestic commerce, and contended |
that if state can fix rates, then Con-
gress could do the same in the regu-
latiOn of interstate commerce,
The General Assembly Of Maryland
for the session of 1906 came to an end |