Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-18

a.
The cruiser New York may be renamed
Troy. Schenectady, Rochester, Syracuse
or Utica, there already being cruisers
named Buffalo, Albany and Brooklyn.
This would permit the naming OF the
other big battleship after the Empire
Stale.
Rafel Aultnap, the fifteen year old
slayer OF his play mate, Ernest Langley,
has not yet been located by the police.
The two met late yesterday afternoon
near their homes, and from boyish
scrap which ensued, the affair became a
genuine fight. Aulman, the smaller
boy, drew Bis penknife and stabbed
Langley in the side. The latter died on
the way to the hospital. Young Ault-
man is supposed either to be in hiding
sbout the city or to be trying to reach
his father in Rockville, Tennessee.
The full text OF the SaEto Domingo
treaty, as ratified by the congress OF that
country, has been brought TO this city.
This is the first time that the State De-
partment has been in position to
examine the explanatory notes which
were attached to The treaty by the Dc
miDican congress for the purpose OF as
certaiping whether or not they in any
manner affect the principle of the orig.
inal document, as ratified by the United
States Senate. So far as cursory exam
inalion made today discloses, they are
not of this character, but are merely In
the nature OF reservations tending to 10
dictate the Interpretation which the Do
minican government will place upon the
various clauses of the treaty.
People here today from the Eighth
Virginia congressional district have diff.
ferent views as to who will be nominated
for Congress in the democratic primary
to be held in that district on June 18Th
next The friends of each candidate
claim that their man will be elected, but
some of them seem little uncertain.
The concensus Of opinion is that Judge
Nicol is growing stronger. Loudoun
county it is said is not solid for Mr..
Ryan, but that county never unites on a
candidate, nor will the farmers unite
when they have chance to do 80. Mr..
Gordon, it is said, will carry practically
solidly Louisa and Orange and will
have considerable strength in Culpeper,
Fauouier and Stafford. Mr.. Carlin, it is
claimed, is holding his own and many
consider him the leading man in the race,
and say his election is certain if the four
candidates remain in the field till the
end. =, ,
The Department of Justice has filed
in the Supreme Court of the United
States its petition in opposition TO that
of Stanley Francis, asking that the Su-
preme Court review The judgment of the
federal courts of Philadelphia, which
sentenced him to five years in the PEN
itentiary and to pay fine of So, 600 for
alleged conspiracy to use the mails to
defraud. Francis was connected with
the Storey cotton company, which Is
charged with converting to its own use,
more than 100000 of the money OF
the depositors,
Appointments of thu secretaries and
attaches of the American delegation te
The Hague peace conference have been
made at the State Department, and they
will sail for Holland within the next few
days. The list contains the name OF a
woman, Miss Margaret A. Hanna, pri-
vate secretary TO Second Assistant Sec
retarv of State Adee, who has become
known as the woman diplomat of the
government. 80,
The statue of Christopher Columbus,
to be erected in this city, and for which
Congress appropriated $780, 900, will
probably be placei on the Plaza, in
front of the new union station.
John J. Barry, a well-known mer-
chant of Fourteenth street, died at 4:SO
O. clock this morning al his residence,
2l00 l4th street.