Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-07
News of the Day.


year.
By the Presidents direction, search
ing investigation shall be made into the
Valencia disaster BY special commits
sion.
Mrs. Tola has been reprieved 10
March IL. She was tc have been hang.
ed in Trenton, n. j., in few days on
charge of murder.
The Ohio House Of Representatives
yesterday by vote of lO4 to l passed a
bill providing FOR maximum railroad
fare of cents a mile.
The Isthmian Canal Commissions re-
port for lock canal was yesterday pre-
sented 10 Secretary Taft. Admiral
Endicolt fled a minority report for a
sea.level canal.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte lest
night gave his official dinner 10 President
Roosevelt aboard the Msyfower, which
was bower of flowers and was brill
liantly illuminated.
Count de Castellane denies the story
of his too warm friendship for dis
tinguished French woman. and it is not
likely her name will be mentioned in
the divorce proceedings.
On the eve of the date set for her mar
rage to William Libby, OF New York,
Lena Markositz discarded him and mar
ried his wealthy, gray-haired uncle, Ru-
doph Libby. The bridegroom is jew
eler and is the reputed heir to fortune
of more than a million 10 Russia.
William J. Clothier, a well-known
tennis expert, while taking horseback
ride, near bis home, in Philadelphia, to-
day, was thrown 10 the ground and sus-
tanned severe, but not necessarily fatal
isjuries. While carrying Mr.. Clothier
up stairs, the head gardener collapsed
from heart disease.
Nearly the entire session of the SEN
ate yesterday was given over to de-
bate between Mr.. Bacon and Mr..
Spooner ou the question of the pre-
negatives, respectively, OF the Presi-
dent aud the Senate 10 the matter of
making treaties. The discussion was
made spirited at times by lively col
loquys on side issues between Messrs.
Spooner and Tillman, which provoked
roars of laughter from the galleries and
the floor.
Billiard tables, heavy steel safes, desks,
chairs, lounges, carpets, canceling ma
chimes, typewriters, letter files, book
cases, and dozens of other articles, with
out regard TO bulk or weight, are ship
ped through the United States mails at sll
times Of the year. according to testimony
given yesterday by Edwin G. Madden,
Third Assistant Postmaster General, be-
fore the House committee on postofiices
and postroads. The weight OF this mat
ter runs up into millions of pounds an
nually.
The elections for the Russian Ma
tioual Assembly will be held April T..
Because of his vacillating policy, Count
Vorcntzoff- Dashkof has been removed
as Viceroy of the Caucasus. General
Grodekofi, who is noted for his cruelty,
will be made Viceroy of the far East.
The estate of Minister of Justice Aky-
mofi, in Ssrstof, was pluudered and
burned BY peasants. Further details
are published of the importation of arms
into Finland. The false Emperor who
has been stirring up the people in the
Volga region has been arrested.
John f. Wallace, former chief en-
engineer OF the Isthmian canal, was
again before the Senate committee on
interoceanic canals yesterday. He gave
a minute account of the conditions he
found there and the difficulties he en-
countered in getting material and sup
plies and the delays that occurred in fill
ing acquisitions. Mr.. Wallace said to
the committee that he did a years work
and that bis successors had no benefit OF
his analysis or recommendations, "be-
cause" he said, "the Secretary of War
told me he did not want it and had no
use for me except on the isthmus as
directing engineer. He was so angry
in his treatment that he all but cursed
me-"