Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-25
News Of the Day.

The Green-Gayuor case will be given
to the jury at Savannah, Ca, this eve
ming.
The House committee on appropria-
tons yesterday decided TO report favor
ably on a pension bill for the fiscal yea
1907 appropriating $40, 245, 500.
Trouble is expected in the Isle of
Pines on account Of the refusal of James
NJ. Steele, custodian of warehouse, to
comply WITH an order Of the court to de-
liver certain chattles.
The Smithsonian Institution has ac-
cepted the gift of the valuable art COL
lection of Charles Freer, of Detroit, Mr..
Freer to give $500, 600 to erect build
ing to house the collection.
The members of the Imperial Chinese
commission which was sent to this cOun-
try to study conditions here was formal.
ly received by President Roosevelt yes
terday and will go to Annapolis today.
Loss of about 81, coo, 900 was caused by
the storm that flooded the Cherry, Holly,
and Elk rivers in West Virginia, Tues
day. Many bridges, houses. and l,000,-
900 feet of valuable timber we're carried
away.
Baroness Bnrdett- Coutts, one of the
best known and most beloved women in
England, friend # the former Queen
Victoria and prominent factor in
charitable work, is dying at The age
of go. ~
II is denied at Paris that blockade
of the Venezuelan coast has been order
ed, while at Washington the opinion
prevails that none OF the powers will in
terfere to stop the contemplated demon
stration.
The will of Marshall Field, probated
in Chicago, after dispensing requests
amounting TO SIT, 572, 900, provides that
the great bulk of the estate shall be kept
in trust for his grandsons and their
descendants.
Mr.. Bernard CAIN, retired merchant
and fnancier, died yesterday, after an
| illness of four weeks, at his home, in Bal
1
many and WAS born near Mayence No
vember IL, 1884.
Lack OF harmony among its officers,
it is stated, IL responsible for an order
issued yesterday from the headquarters
of the District of Colombia National
Guard by Lieut-Col. l.. NJ. Brett, adj
jutant-general, formally disbanding the
Nayul battalion.
Lord Dalmeny, the Earl of Rossbery's
eldest son, has been elected to Parlia-
ment from Midlothian, Scotland, by
over 5000 majority in spite Of the op.
position of John F. Redmond, who, on
account of Lord Rosebery's opposition
TO home rule, ordered the Irish not TO
support Lord Dalmeny.
Yum Chung Kin, the Korean charge,
paid his farewell call to the State De-
partment yesterday and closed up the
Korean lie. alton. The records and
property of the legation have been turn
ed over to Mr.. Hioki, the japanese
charge d'atfaires, who will attend to Ko-
rean interests In Warrington.
A dispatch from Victoria, B. c., says
that although the latest news from The
wreck of The Valencia is conflicting, il
is probable that l40 lives were lost,
while only fifteen persons we're saved.
A repor; from the steamship Queen that
twenty-five passengers were clng:ng 10
the vessels rigging. with little chance
OF saving themselves, was followed by
the story tina. the wreck had gone TO
pieces.
The District Of Columbia excise
board yesterday decided to have drafted
to the liquor license stipulation, to be
signed by hotel keepers, to the effect
that before a drink can be served to a
guest on Sundays, said guest must have
been assigned to room, which has
been paid for. Registering and being
served with something TO eat does not
constitute bona fide guest "a the board
cOustrues il.
Speaking LIST night at the annual
banquet of the Confederate Veterans
Camp of New York city, General Fred
erick ID. Grant, commanding the depart
ment OF the east, United States army,
proposed an informal resolution that
steps be taken Immediately to make
January 10, 1907, the one hundredth |
anniversary OF the birth of General
Robert f. Lee, a national day of memo
rial. He spoke of his fathers friend
ship with General Lee, and of the lat
ter's heritage TO the country. The reso-
luton was adopted amid cheers.
Frederick Friend, of Roanoke. Va, one |
of the apprentices stricken with spotted fever |
at Newport. K. l., is sinking very fast at the |
naval hospital, and it is believed he will be |
the ninth victim Of the epidemic. He has |
fought the disease for more than two months. |
There have been no new eases at the station
for ten days.
The Scala Theatr@, at Antwerp. has been |
destroyed by fire. The STAFF Of the theatre had |
u narrow escape in getting out OF the doomed
building.
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