Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-19
News Of the Day.


China continues 10 refuse to sign with
Great Britain the Tibetan treaty, and is
anxious to assert Chinese sovereignty
over that country.
The trial OF number of weightmasters
at the Chicago stockyards, accused of
defraudiDg shippers, was begun yes
terday. One Of the men confessed.
A score of people we're injured, some
seriously, BY the fall Of a part of a bsl-
cony during minstrel performance at
Fields Opera House. Washington, Ga /,
last night.
Vice President Fairbanks won a VIC
tory over Senator Beverage yesterday
in the organization of the indianapolis
republican State committee his candidate
for chairman being elected.
Hon. Harry st. George Tucker, presi-
dent of the JamestoSn Exposition Com
pany, reached New York last night from
a trip through Europe 10 behalf OF the
exp lsitioa, TO be held 10 1907.
Secretary Bonaparte appeared before
the House committee ON naval affairs yes
terdsy to urge that the Secretary Of the
Navy be given authority TO dismiss mid
shipmen al the Naval Academy.
The Mississippi Mill, at WesOn, the
largest cotton mills Of the South, have
gone into the hands of receiver. There
is bonded debt of $500, 900, but other
liabilities and the assets are not known.
A general meeting Of the Maryland
commission To the jamestown Exposi-
ton was held yesterday, at which res.
oIution was passed calling upon the legis-
lature to appropriate 800, 900 to aid the
exposition.
The Moroccan conference has reach
ed an agreement on the main lines of a
plan for the repression of cOntraband en-
tering Morocco The stiff attitude OF
Great Britain is considered danger in
the conference.
European statesmen and educators
have joined in petition to President
Roosevelt to bring about "the concert
of the European powers to secure peace
and protection for the Armenians and
Others in the Ottoman Empire"
DR.. Swan NJ. Burnett, an oculist,
famed for his Investigations in scientific
research, died suddenly of heart disease
Yesterday at his home, GIG Farragut
square, Washington. DIR. Burnett was
the former husband of Frances Hodgson
Burnett, the authorizes and playwright.
He was born in New Market, TENN,
March IS, 1S47, and was therefore over
fifty-nine years of age at the time of his
death.
Hazing of brutal nature at the Naval
Academy was revealed during he trial
of Midshipman Chester "A. Bloebaum,
at Annapolis. yesterday afternoon, more
plainly than in any previous proceedings.
Three fourth class men testified without
the slightest hesitation that they had
been hszed by Bloebaum until they we're
utterly exhausted, one severe physical
exercise after another being required Of
them until they lacked power to con-
tinue.
Wilton Heinard, of Washington, can
not rec through rabbits eyes. An ope-
ration yesterday at the Episcopal Eye,
Ear aud Throat Hospital there disclosed
the fact that the cornea is too opaque.
Physicians hope that 10 course of time
the patients optic nerves will strengthen
to sdch an extent that partial vision eau
be restored, but announce that the
chances of an operation whereby the
cornea of the rabbit is grated are not
likely to prove successful.
Mrs. Frances Fsnanorie, a thrifty
housewife, with a distrust for savings
banks, kept the family bankrOll in a
belt around her waist, under her cloth
ing. Three men, unknown tc her, en-
tered her fiat, at ~ Thompson street,
New York yesterday, beat and stabbed
her into insensibility, stole the money
and escaped. Tho woman is in st. Vim
cents Hospital in a precarious condition.
The robbery was committed in broad day
light, but no one appears TO have heard
the struggle.
Senator qoldsborOpgh, of Caroline
county, Md, has an anti-cigarette bill
10 preparation, which he will introduce
in the Senate next week. The main
section of the bill is as follows: That
il shall be unlawful for any person, by
himself, clerk, servant, employe or agent,
directly or indirectly, upon any pretense
OF by any device, TO manufacture, sell,
exchange, barter, dispose of or give
away, or keep for sale, any cigarette,
cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers, or
any paper made or prepared for the pur-
pose OF being filled with tobacco for
smoking, he shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, etc."
The present financial crisis at Zion City has
brought out the fact that Iohn Alexander
Dowie has been temporarily depcsed, and
that his trip to the Bermudss was part Of the
general plan to transfer control TO the triurn'
Write with as little publicity as possible.
The Muir der of Mrs. HOLSTER.
Mrs. Franklin G. Hollister, whose