Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-30
News Of the Day.

nlgDl, out WA III NUN iH' PiO'N~ W.
dition today.
A dispatch from Caracas says that
President Castro is preparing for visit
TO the United States 20 confer with Presl-
dent Roosevelt about affairs efecting the
two nations. From Washington he will
20 10 Europe to complete his course at
some health resort.
The memory of Patrick Henry was
honored at the Jamestown Exposition to-
day. The day will be officially known
as Patrick Henry Day. The principal
address waI delivered by William J.
BryaD, whose subject will be "Taxation
Without Representation Is Tyranny"
By the explosion Of several hundred
pounds OF powder at the storage house OF
the Farnsworth mine, near Sullivan,
Ind, yesterday afternoon, two boys were
clown to pieces and three others were
seriously hurt. The cause of the explo-
sion is not known. 1t is supposed that
the boys accidentally set the building on
fire.
The United States scout cruiser Biz
mingbam designed to be The fastest ship
in the navy, was launched yesterday at
the works of the Fore River Shipbuild-
ing Company at Quincy, Mass. The
vessel went into the water without any
mishsp. This ship, of type new to
the United States navy, was given her
name by Miss Mary Campbell, OF Biz
minghsm, Ala.
A yellow fever quarantine has been
laid in the southern States against Ha-
vana. While but q few cases of yellow
fever have developed in Cuba, and these
removed from Havana, it is pointed out
that persons may easily come from the
infected districts to Havana and take
passage on vessels for the United States
10 order to escape the ravages of the dis
ease, or, for other purposes.
10 bis Memorial Day address at Steu-
benvile, o., this afternoon, Senator
Foraker took occasion to defend those
who differ with President Roosevelt as to
the proper methods of regulating trusts
and railroads. The senator insisted that
great care should be taken to enact no
legislation that would confuse or inter
miugle the powers of the three separate
departments Of the government, the leg
isIative, the executive, and the Judicial.
"What is succotash % is the question
over which the board of food and drug in
spection of the Agricultural Department
has been wrestling. So far it has only
been able to decide what it is not. An
official statement was promulgated yes
terday to the effect that succOtash is rot
soaked berns or soaked corn mixed to-
gether, and manufacturers are told to
govern themselves accordingly If they
desire to comply with the pure food
laws
Niue-year-old Johu DeLucci wss in-
stsntly killed in BoundbrOok, n. j., yes-
terdsy, by graspipg the loose end of a
telephone wire which dsDgled from a
pole of the New York and New jersey
Telephone Company. The wire had
fallen across an electric light wire and
became charged. The boy, ignorant of
his danger caught hold of the wire,
which coilad around his body. He fell
to the sidewalk, and was dead before his
playmates could summon aid.
Governor Guild and Governor Hughes
spoke this afternoon at the unwilling OF
the New York and Massachusetts tablets
in the Hall of Fame at New York Uni
versity. The tablets unveiled are in
honor Of Emma Willard, Mary Nut
chell, John Paul Joneg, Alexander
Hamilton, Louis Agassiz, William Te-
cumseh Sherman, James Madison, John
Quincy Adam9, John Whittier, and
james Russell Lowell. A bust of Horace
Mann was unveiled under the auspices
OF the National Association.
japanese Consul Matsurkbara at San
Francisco yesterday talked for the first
time about the attack on the japanese
restaurants 10 that city, and gave out a
statement. He declares the attack was
an exhibition of race prejudice and he
intimates that the japanese government
has made strong representation on the
subject of these attacks, at his request
and advice, through diplomatic channels
at Washington. 1t is considered almost
certain that the japanese government
will ask for an indemnity to repay the
losses of the local Japanese for the al
legged wrongs they have suffered as a re-
suit Of the violence.