Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-16
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Correspondence of the AlexaudriA Gazette. ]
Washington, Oct. l6.

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, Oct. l6.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
today continued the hearing of the ship
pers' and commercial Interests on the
uniform bill of ladipg. The railroads will
be heard last, after which the commits
sion will take the problem under advise
mem. Direct intimation that the au-
thority of the commission will not be
recognized in case an unsatisfactory con-
clusion is reach has already been made.
The banking interests, which loan
81, 500, 900, 900 annually on bills OF lad.
ipg, have announced that they would
appeal TO Congress 10 safeguard their
interests, believing the commissions
authority inadequate. Henry &. Gun.
ningham, couns for the Southern and
other systems, has declared his doubt OF
the authority of the commission to es-
tablish a uniform bill of ladiDg at all.
Henry w. Furniss, American minis
ter TO Haiti, reports TO the State Depart
ment that five political prisoners were
shot there today. There are number
of other prisoners who participated IN
the recent revolutionary attempt and
who are now awaiting trial. There are
no foreigners involved, 30 far as is known
here.
Discovery has been made by Mrs.
Edward f. Oualtrough, wife of Com
msuder Qualtrough, U. s. N, super
visor of New York Harbor, that theil
home 10 this city has been stripped dur
ing the last two months OF broDza stsiu'
ary, pedestals, vases and bric-a-bra
worth $40, 900. The house was closed
this summer, except for these occssionsI
visit of thieyfs, who entered by tn:
kitchen windows. The house was form
erly the French Embassy.
The Continental Tobacco Company
has abandoned its fight in the U. s.
Supreme Court against the constitution
slity of the Massachusetts statute, max
ing it criminal off.tss for person Il
make, ss condition of sale, provision
that The purchaser shall not sell or des
In the goods of any rival concern. Upon
request of attorneys, the court DISMISSED
the case, which arose out of trsnssciior
at Brockton, Mass.
The fact that Senator La Toilette, Of Wis
consin, HIS taken big attractive house on
Washington Heights for the winter has lee
gossipers TO wonder whether be is to follow
the Fairbanks entertainment pan OF cam
paign for del gates to the next republican
presidential convention. The tlrst winter th'
Senator was in the enate he and Mrs. La
Toilette had small apartment. Last wintrl
Mrs. La Toilette remained in Madison an
the Senator hibernated at Chevy Chase, jus
outside tha city. The leasing of big house
for the coming Sc .sOn ia, therefore, regarded
as somewhat significant.
The most violent earthquake rec0rl e'er
made on the seismOgraph at the Weather
Bureau started at 9:l4 this morning. The
vibrations of The n edle were even greater
than those caused by the San Francisco
earthquake. Weather Bureau officially ali
momenta- lily expecting news that somewhere
in the world an unusually severe disturbance
has oc urred. The Coast aud Gef die Snr
vev's msgnatic obseryat ry, at Che'tenham
| Nd, also recorded the earthquake.
The fall convOcation of George Washington
University was held this morning in Belasc'
Theatre. when an address was delivered b!
Chancellor ". B. Andrews, of the Uaive
sity of Nebraska, on THE United States as
Pacific O.ean Power"
Catherine Dean, q years old, of lC5 Four
and-a-h.k street. drank dose Of carboli
acid a. 2 o'clock this morning. She was re
moved to the Emergency Hospital, where sh
lied later