Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-02
expects to raise a campaign fund OF over
three millions of dollars. Is the ne&' "
be another bought election :
From Washington.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gaze''e'l
Washington, Aug. 2
War Depar ment officials are consider
inc what punishment should be meled
ont m First Lieutenant Sidney Smith,
10th Inf,ntry, who is reported to have
ridden another fellows horse into fn-
o,ber officers quarters during the wee
hours OF the morning. The alleged Of
tense is reported to have been committed
At Fort William Mckinley, where the
Sixteenth is nov doing duty. The tech
nical charge 10 the case is stated as be-
ing "conduct unbecomlng an oficer and
a gentleman" :.
The largest marine gasoline engine In
the world is about to be shipped IRON
Baltimore Md, TO Russia. 1t is OF
|. 900 horsepower, and is one OF four or
dered by the Cars government at
cost OF 500, 600, to go into lake subma-
rine torpedo boats.
The annual report of the Commission
er of Internal Revenue, made public yes
terday, shows that during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1906, the internal reve.
nue. taxes collected 10 Virginia amount
ed to $4,139, 25S "a. The total of Vir,
GINA does not include the counties OF
Accnmsc and Northampton, which are
ip the district composed of the States OF
MARYLAND, Delaware and the District oil
Columbia.
America is rapidly becoming beer
drinking nation, az during the last fiscal
wear it consumed 81, 65i, $3.50 barrels,
which is 100, 600, 600 gallons more beer
thar 1t drank duriOg any other year 10
lis history. This is an increase OF TWO
gallons for every man, woman and child
10 the United States.
"The Material Results of the Race. "
was the topic under discussion at today s
session of the Negro Young Peoples
Christian and Educational Congress.
President l.. J. Rowan, of Alcorn Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, OF Lor'
man, Miss, read paper 90 1.-THE trade
and mechanical enterprises of the race.
He said that the negro might be denied
seat at the festive board with the white
man and not allowed to ride in the same
car with him, but that there are no OBJ
iections to BIN earning his bread and
butter in the same work shops and on The
same walls as the white man works for
his dear ones. Rev. w. K. A. Palmer,
of Birmingham, Ala, told OF the learn
ed professions filed by the race. Others
told of money holdings and rePl estate
investments.
On orders from acting Secretary OF
the Treasury Reynolds, Collector OF
Customs Stone, of Baltimore, has sus'
pended Deputy Surveyor Dick from duty
pending investigation with regard to
certain charges that have been made
against him of neglect of bis duty.
The death in the PHILIPPINES from
ssiatic cholera of Alfred H. Brown, of
Company II, 18th Infantry, is an
bounced.
Minister Combs at Guatemala today
csbled the Slate Department that the
President of that country had announced
a complete Disarmament of the Guaie-
malan army under the peace arrange
ment recently reached with Salvador on
board the Marblehsad.
Chief Engineer Stevens, OF the Panama
Canal, cabled to Washington today the
appointment of Joseph Ripley as prin'
cipsl assistant engineer. He was tor
merly superintendent of the Sault Ste
Marie Canal and one OF the assistant
engineers in Reconstruction.
Congressman Gambler of Mississippi was
ole of the visitors at democratic congress
iOnal headquarters today. be is just IN from
Mississippi and declares that the sentiment
for Bryan there is overwhelming and that he
will carry every voting precinct in the state.
The feeling against Roosevelt is notas bitter
as it formerly was, but he is far from popular
he decares. Notwithstanding that fact he
predicts that the republicans Will be
forced to renOminate Roosevelt for the
Presidency in 1898 to offset, as much as pos
sible, the Bryan swell which he says Is
sweeping over the country. Mr., Candle Is
convinced that there is not only possibility
but a probability that the next House OF
Representatives Of Congress will have
democratic majority. Speaking Of the sena-
torial struggle in his State he ridiculed the
baasl of Gov Vardaman that he would beat
John sharp Williams in the popular election
for Senator by a vote Of two to one. He said
that the Williams sentiment is very strong
and that the fight will undoubtedly be close
one.
Minister Collier lat Madrid has Informed
the State Department that he has reached a
satisfactory understanding with the Spanish
government regarding the entry of American
goods under the new customs tariff which
Spain IS soon TO promulgsts.