Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-22
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette

pers will publish, with editorial com,
ment, the replies of large number OF
Congressman to the circular letter OF
the American Federation OF Labor 10
inquiring as to their attitude on 'ne
onestions discussed in lsbors bill OF
grievances. which was presented to the
President pro tenn. of the Senate and the
sneaker of the House in the last session
Of Congress. Mr.. Glass was the only
Congressman from Virginia who sent
reply TO Mr.. Gompers
The great earthquake in Chill, serious
as it was, produced no effect whatever
at Panama. Neither did that at San
Francisco, so that it would seem that the
Panama canal zone is safe from any
seismoeraphic disturbances affecting the
Rocky Mountains in North America or
the Andes in South America-the So
called backbone of the continent. Cher
Engineer Stevens telegraphed today 10
the Isthmian Canal Commission that the
earthquake at Valparaiso had not been
noticed at Panama and had not even
been recorded on the instruments there.
He also reports an additional case OF
smallpox at Colon bringing the total oil
cases under treatment up to forty.
Minister John Hicks, at Santiago,
Chilli has sent cablegram to the State
Department saying that the anxiety over
the earthquake is subsiding 10 both
Valparaiso and Santiago although at the
date of sending bis dispatch, yesterday,
mild shocks continued to be felt. de
says thst the financial aud business stu
alton is serious apd thai there is fear OF
a panic. Subscriptions are being FaiSed
for the sufferers.
No late news of the Cuban revolution
has been received by the legation here.
The Charge expresses himself as highiy
gratifed with the progress his govern
ment is making in suppressing the dis
tprbipg influence.
1t is uistske 70 assume because OF
the troubles between tas cQlored troops
and the citizens at Fort Brown, browne
yille, Tex that the War Department Is
going to order all colored troops out OF
Texas. The headquarters band andthree
companies of the25th Infantry are at Fort
Bliss and three other companies at FORT
Mcintosh. Those will not be disturbed
for there has been no friction on account
of thea 81 those places. The order only
relates to the thsae companies of the 10Th
that haze been ststiouea 81 Brownsville.
The marriage of Miss Edith Lawye; Of
this city to Montgomery Schuyler, jr. OF
New York, consul general and first
secretary Of legation at Bucharest, Rou.
mania, at noon today, was the social
event of the summer. Bishop Cameron
Mann, of North Dakota, cousin OF the
bridegroom, officiated. The couple met
in SisE, tgO years ago.
Gen. Smith, the ney governor OF the
PHILIPPINES whose Inauguration j. sched-
uled to take place at Manila on septem-
be, 20 was a passenger on the steamer
Mapchpris ghich is now pounding out
its heart on reef of the Hawaiian
Islands. Ia order that hs may reach
Manila in time the War Department has
secured passage for Gen. Smith on the
transport Logan which will reach Hon
olulu tomorrow. A dispatch has been
received from Gea. Smith dated yester-
day saying that The Mnnchuis is still on
the rocks and that her passengers would
probably be transferred To the Korea.
The Ohio Railroad Commission may be one
of the first complQinsnts before the Interstate
Commerce Commission under the provisions
of the new Hepburn set, O. P. Gothlin, one
of the members Of the Ohio commissi9n, and
Howard ID. Warrington, secretary OF the com
mission, are in the city today comforting with
the Interstate Commerce Commission. AS
they will lay before their COM
mission the ACCESSIBILITY of bringing a COM
plant against those railroads crossing Ohio
which disregard the Ohio two cent law in
making through rates The railroads doing
business in Ohio charge only two cents mile
on ;ntsrstgte travel but they have made no
whatever. on interstate rates. Goth
lin is Of the opiniop that the Ohio commits
sion can bring the proposed complaint either
Oh request Of third party or o9 its o%n iBi- |
tiative.
Secretary Of State Root is now on his last |
lap before turning the southernmost end OF
the continent. A dispatch was received by |
the state Department from him today under |
date saying that he was sailing |
for Sandy Point in the Straits of Magellan. |
That point is Otherwise known and marked
on the maps as Punta Arenas. The dispatch |
as received from the cable once gas dated |
from "Ptomlitarbaires' and both the Navy |
and State Departments were mystifed until |
SONG bright mind suggested that 1t stood for |
Point aiiitaTy Bay, otherwise known as Bahia |
Blanca. Argentine's military port, for which |
Place Secretary Root left Buepos Ayres on the |
10th instant.
The Director of the Mint this afternoon
announced the regular weekly purchase of
silver fog subsidiary coinage. There were
100 900 ounces bought at 81 cents an ounce.
LAST weeks purchase was 10000 ounces at
;662 cents. The silver is to be delivered at
New Orleans.