Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-05
News Of the Das

ia expected to prove acceptable to the
Senate has been signed.
A dispatch from Boston says that Mrs.
Geo. G. Lee, grandmother Of Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longw 1rth, lies seriously i'll
at her home in Chestnut Hull, and the
members OF her family are greatly
alarmed over her condition.
A delegation from Cincinnati, iuclud-
ing republicans, 10 protesting to he
President against The proposed appoint
ment Of Ralph Tyler, colored, as sur
veyor Of the port Of Cincinnati, told him
it wonlS. ruin the political chances Of
his son-in-law.
After having thoroughly aroused the
little hamlet OF Forrestviile, Md the
portion Of human arm, which was
found nailed to telegraph pole at that
place Sunday afternoon, was proven to
be nothing more than dissected speci-
men from some medical school.
In the case OF DR.. James W. Simp-
ron for the murder of his father in-law,
BARLEY T. Homer, the prosecution
flashed at Riverhead, l.. | Mrs Simp.
son gave her testimony against her bus
band. Her voce trembled as she spoke
the words that may send DR.. Simpson
to the electric chair In tones scarcely
audible she said she loved him, and then
gave information against him.
Representatives of the Honduras Lot
terry Company have assured that govern
meut. it is said, that if the impending
prosecutions of its officers and stock
holders for violation of the lottery Laws
is abandoned, it will wind up its Affairs,
90 ont of business and promise to be
good. The government, however, is de-
termined that the prosecutions shall be
pushed to their logical and Gual conflu'
sion in the courts.
Testimony in the trial OF Mira Jennie
Nav. charged with assault with in'ent
to kill Lucien Conen. who died over n
wear after the shooting, took o decided
turn for the defense in Washington yea
terday, VII o experts test lied that 10
their opinion Ms. May was at times Of
unsound mind. Their testimony tended
to show that Mrs. May Was subject to
epileptic seizures, and for some time
after such attacks could hardly be con-
s:'lered perfectly sane.
The war talk Of the American press
has been received in Toxic with great
surprise and sincere regret Several
leading men both in and out of tho Japs
nese government concur In the opinion
that the United States is the last coun-
try with which Japan would go TO war.
Besides, both nations ore unaggres-iVe
10 their trade rivalries. which seldom
lead to war unless territorial acquisition
Is intended by either rival. Even those
inclined to be causric ridicule the idea
OF war with the United Siatss. The
japanese press has been silent 80 far,
apparently considering the matter un-
worthy OF comment.
A fire involving loss's estimated at
from $3.50, 600 to $500 900 occurred yes
terday evening in the most dangerous
fire scctiOa Of london --Damely, that
block Of narrow and tortuous strett'
which is the bone of the Manchester
trade. The fire destroyed several build
ing3 on Wond street, stocked with silks
and other merchandise The whole city
was brilliantly illuminated by the flames,
ind the towering dome Of ST. PanPs
Cathedral presented striking spectacle
silhouetted against the sky All the
traffic in the noighborhood was stopped.
Tbs Gremen soon got the flames under
control, however.
Tho Bsvarian newspapers publish al
edict OF the Archbishop of Bamberg to
the clergy Of his diocese, in which he
said that no one could expect any Cath
Ollie Iayman or priest to vote for the
anti clerical social democrats in the sec
oud balloting for elections TO the Reich
stag. The Archbishop of Munich has
made similar statement and the a,tl-
tude Of the two arch bishops, which, it is
believed was influenced by the Vatican,
has elected the fact that the Bavarisn
center party has caused it TO be known
that 10 the second bslloting members of
that party should support the social
democrats in the districts where secoud
ballots arc necessary between social
democrats and the candidates of other
parties. The stand taken by the Arch
bishops of Bsmberg and Munich has
rendered the position OF the social dtmo-
crats m ire difIicult.