Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-16


mission, composed of Americans and
Cubans, to draft new laws for Cuba.
General Manager McGill, OF the
wrecked Ontario Bank, 10 Toronto, ad-
mils a shortage of 81, $50, 900, most OF
the money having been lost through
speculation.
The price Of silver bullion, as dis
closed by the government purchases yes
terday, was 70.13 cents per fine ounce,
the highest point reached since the repeal
Of the Sherman Law in 1898.
The death of Mrs. Roosevelt's uncle,
Capt. Edmund Leighton Tyler, which
occurred last Thursday at his home, near
Admission, Ala, will be followed by a
brief period of mourning al the White
House.
The second largest Printers Union in
Canada, that at Ottawa, has decided to
secede from the International Typogra-
phical Union rather than to continue
paying the assessment in support OF the
American job printers strike.
The trial of the Standard Oil Company
at Findlsy, Ohio, on the charge OF vio-
lating the antitrust law. was brought
near conclusion yesterday by ruling
that the prosecution must show that an
agent who gave rebates acted under Or
ders.
Mr.. John Sharp Williams spoke in
Greensboro, N. c., yesterday. He said
the statement of Mr.. Bryan thot he be-
lieved in government ownership of rail-
roads. is Mr.. Bryan's private opinion,
and will find no place in the democratic
platform.
The baseball season of 1906 is now
officially closed, and a review, which
necessarily, because of the games spread
over the country, is probably incomplete.
shows that it claimed twelve victims;
that is, twelve men or boys were killed
while playing.
The suit instituted by G. II. Venner
against James J. Hill to compel the
president of the Great Northern Railway
Company to restore to the stockholders
$40, 000,0 which it is alleged, he
made illegally in the old Burlington
stock conversion deal came up in New
York yesterday.
In the lots at Broad and Cstharine
streets, Phisdelphio, under The windows
of two churches and family hotel, a
bare knuckle fight for $50 purse was
pulled off Sunday afternoon. All the
sports in the neighborhood got tip, so
that crowd made up of some hundreds
of men and boys saw the fight.
As a result of the conference yesterday
bet zen the president, Representative
Henry II. Bingham, of Pennsylvania,
and Michael j. Doyle, of Philadelphia, a
bill will he introduced at the next session
of Congress, granting the employees of all
navy yards in the United States half
holiday on Saturday the year round.
A score or more of guests, who bad a
Dash in alimony in their lives, Satur
dsy night helped Mrs. Sophia F.
Diesenger, of New York to celebrate the
of her divorce. They had a
lovely time discussing summonses.
One woman said she had not enjoyed
herself so much since she got her decree.
Father Francis Xavier Werntz, the
new general of the Jesuit order, has
turned over to Pope Plus the entire pat
rimony of the order, amounting to $4O,-
900, 900. This is done as tribute Of
LOYALTY on account of the trouble between
the Roman Church aud the French Re-
public, which ssgreatly diminished the
resources of the former.
Testimony was heard yesterday in
Chicago before three members of the
Interstate Commerce Commission rela-
tive to the possible existence of grain
trust. The inquiry brougb! out an amaz-
ing state of affairs. The railroads are
10 the alleged plot. Two men testified
that they were ruined by the grain as
sociations for dealing with farmers.
Sometime after dark yesterday even
ing some one threw nearly pound Of
paris green into the drinking-water well
On the estate of Mr.. E. Stanley Gray, at
Clear6elds, near Gainesville, Md, and
had it not been for the gardener who
accidently discovered the poison in a
glass of water, ii persons would have
been in grave danger and some Of them
might have died as result of partaking
Of the poisoned water.
The annual deficit in the Postoffice
Department for the last fiscal year, &C.
cording to a statement just issued, Was
81, 055, 5SS less than last year. The re-
ceipts showed an increase Of $15, 600, 900.
The total receipts fox the fiscal year 1906
we're $187, $50, 1888. THIS was an in
crease of 81, LOG, 1913 over 1905. The
total expenditures during the year 1906
were $17S. 449, IT'S SO, an increase OF
sll i, $50, COG sc over 1905.
In a mountain camp, seven niles from
Arboles, Colo twelve children, most of
them waits, are said to have been starved
to death, as q result of the teachings OF
the Brotherhood OF Light, of which O.
G Rose, loug-hsired eccentric, is the
ostensible head. The children are given
only vegetable diet and compelled to
work at onerous tasks. None of the child
rem are more than len years old and they
look like little old men and women. All
the boys had long hair, and none OF them
we're clean. They sleep in tents. The
Brotherhood was founded some years
ago 10 New York by Franklyn P. White.
For time il maintained home in north
Denver, where there we're several scand-
ais over the death of infants. Then it
removed the home to Arboles.