Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-13
News Of the Day.

Gen. Frederick Funston aIIlVeu ~
Gold6eld With troops yesterday bat mar
tisl law has now yet been declared.
Governor Glenn's plan to have the
North Carolina rate cases compromised
failed because the Southern Railway
would not consent to trial of the new
law.
Representative Sims, of Tennessee,
was informed yesterday that there was
no chance of bis bill for temporary
street railway service to the Union sta
ton In Wilmington coming before the
House for definite action until after the
District committee has been appointed.
The Standard Oil Steamship Baku,
from Roueu for Philadelphia, has ar
rived at Queenstown, Ireland, badly
Damaged ia the recent heavy gales.
Captain Frazer had both legs broken 10y
fall on the deck, the third officer had
one leg broken and nearly every member
of the crew suffered more or less serious
cuts aud bruises.
An officer of the Old Dominion and
Great Falls Railway Company confirms
the report that active steps are being
taken for the building Of hallway from
Frederick City through Frederick aud
Montgomery counties in Maryland to
the Potomac river, short distance south
of Leesburg, and thence by bridge across
the river to connection with the road at
Great Falls.
Prince George oil Greece and Princess
Marie Bonsparte we're married at Athens,
Yesterday. The Princess rode to the
church in carriage drawn by eight
horses, with the King and Prince George
mounted on either side. The people
showed the utmost good will to the
couple. The most elaborate entertain
ment the country has ever seen is being
given in their honor.
The granting of complete indepen-
dence to the people of The Philippine
Islands by the United States some time
during the next ten years is provided In
resolution introduced ia the House
Yesterday by nobody knows who. Be.
cause no member of the House attached
his name to the bill it was sent to the
House "morgue," where all such I'M
identified measurers lie.
Senator Frey, of Maine, was indicted
into office IS president pro TEN. of the
Senate yesterday. Senator Frey, On
taking the chair, said: "HaVing held
this position 80 many years, my present
reelection was wholly unexpected; but
as an expression Of your confidence in
me, appreciate the compliment very
highly. The fidelity of the Vice Presi-
dent, who is our presiding officer, is
such that my duties will be light In
deed"
A dispatch from Washington says a
Cabinet crisis is almost sure to follow
upon the return of Secretary of War
Teft next week from his trip around the
world, and from present indications it
looks as II not only Secretary of the
Treasury Cortelyou may lose bis place
10 the Cabinet, bat ss II the Secretary
of War, fs well, will be given a gentle
hint that he would relieve the admins
tration from great embarrassment by
rendering bis resignation.
The Pope yesterday received in pri-
vate audience Don Carlos Of Bourbon,
the pretender to the Spanish throne.
Don Carlos expressed the hope that the
Pontiff would assist him TO regain the
throne of Spain, but the Pope, although
saying that his friendship was unaltered,
indicated plainly that for political rea-
sons it would be impossible for him to
change his present attitude toward King
Alfonso. Don Carlos enjoyed the most
intimate relations with the present Pope
when the later was patriarch CT Venice.
General Kuropatkin at st. Petersburg,
yesterday, gave evidence before the court.
martial favorable to General Stoesssl.
He declared that the Japanese could
have taken Port Arthur by assault in
the early days of the war. The defenses
we're than so incomplete, General Ku-
ropstkin went on, that the fortress must
have fallen ct the first vigorous attack;
but the slowness OF the Japanese and
the resistance made by the army in the
field gave the Russians time to impro-
wise defense work which had withstood
the Japanese for month.
Miss Annie Burkhsrt, twenty years
old, of Pensacola, thought she was en-
tertaining a psuper in Thomas Caldwell,
an sged recluse, who went TO Pensacola
from Chicago two years ago with stock
of groceries in trunk and who eked
out a miserable existence by peddling
fish and food. Miss Burkhart ministered
to the man when he was i'll, and he
often said she had saved his life. The
girl has just received information that
she had been made the sole heir Of the
estate OF Caldwell, valued at $40, 600,
and that CaldwelPs four sons had been
cut of with 81 each.
Frederick Z. Romer, an undertaken of
Orange, N. J. o., was found murdered in The
Park Hotel today. His skull had been
crushed in by blow from some blunt wagon
Richard Walton, negro, confessed slayer OF
Mrs. Lilliona White Grant, kindgarten
teacher, was hanged in Chicago Jail today.
Don Carlos. the Spanish pretender, yester-
day sought the sid Of the Pope IN his efforts
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