Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-27

a legal adjustment OF present dill
fereuces have not been abandoned.
| From All authoritative source it ia
learned that the government is prepared
to act decisively when the breach comes
if peaceful Overtures are finally rejected.
A belief is gaining grcnnd that deputy
marshals will not be sent 10 Judge
Pritchard's aid. 1t is not believed a
crisis can arise before next Tuesday.
Upon reports received from institu-
tons at which officers of the army are
detailed as professors of military science
and tactics, the following named insti-
tutions OF learning, arranged alphabet
Cally, are announced in army ORDERS to-
day as the six whose students have ex-
hibited the greatest application and pro.
6ciency in military training and knowl-
edge; Culver Military Academy, Culver,
Ind; Norwich University, Mortified,
Vermont; Pennsylvania Military College
Chester, Pa. st. Johns School, Man
illus, n. Y. Sbsttuck School, Faribault,
MINI. and the Virginia Military In
stitute, Lexington, Va.
Bids were opened today at the Navy
Department for the construction of the
big concrete and granite craving dock
which was authorized for the navy yard
at Puget Sound, Wash, ty the last
Congress. ALI of the five bidders were
from the Pacific Coast except one and
only two of the bids submitted to fall
within The sum of 81, $50, 900 which
Congress appropriated for the work.
The announcement from Guatemala
that the Supreme Court OF that State
has confined the death sentenced passed
upon sill of the prisoners detailed as &C.
completes in the recent attempt upon
the life of President Cabrera was sntici-
psted at the State Department. 1t is
not, believed, however, that the
sentences will be put into execution.
Because Of the appearance of four
cases of tuberculosis within a compare
lively short period among the employees
of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, the
rooms of that Bureau in the War De-
psrtment, second floor, north wing, are
being iumigsted today.
TIE department of State is advised by
the American CorSnl General at Canton
of the execution, by the order OF the
Viceroy at the place, of the Chinese who
was previously convicted Of the murder
of Mr.. Mschle, member of the Ameri-
can Presbyterian Mission at Lienchow,
China. The Culprit on. appearing for
trial before the proper authorities
confessed his guilt. The execution
of this Chinese now makes total
OF four murderers who have expiated
their crime by decspitation.
That there will be little more than a
two-thirds crop OF wheat in the United
States, and that wheat will reach 81. rs
bushel this fall, is the prediction of
George G. Howe, Of Duluth, Mimi,
one OF the largest wheat growers of the
great northwest.
Telegraphic advices received at the
Department of State from the American
Consul at Hardin are to the effect that
the cereal crops throughout northern and
Central Msnchuris are very badly in-
jured owing to a severe drought.
1t is said at the War Department that
the charges against Col. VIM. F. Tucker,
made by bis wife, the daughter of the
late General Logan. Of improper relation
with school teacher 10 Manils, have
been proved unfounded and the case will
be dropped.
1t is said on good authority that Pub