Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-17
News of the Day.

There was a report in Wall street yes
terdAy that the Southern Railway lnlenc
ed 10 issue bonds or notes for many mill
ions to carry out needed improvements
Rear Admiral Charles ID. Sigsbee, who
was captain OF the Maine on the night
of the destruction Of the vessel in Ha
yana harbor, has been placed on the retlr'
ed list, having reached the age limit.
Supervising inspectors of the Steam p
boat Inspection Service from all stations
iu the country assembled in Washing
ton yesterday in their annual meeting to
consider such changes as have been pro-
posed in the regulation of the service.
Commissioner of Corporations Gar
| field, while before the House committee
on Interstate and Foreign Com nerce
yesterday Endorsed the Townsend bill,
providing for an investigation by presi-
| DENTAL direction of all labor and capital
disputes
Speaker Cannon, in speech 10 a de-
egation OF the National Foreign Com
merce Convention, which waited on him
in the lobby OF the House yesterday de-
clared himself 10 favor of MAXIMUM
and minimum tariff and Of the i.it!aner
compromise ship subsidy bill.
After animated discussions al both
sessions of the National Board OF Trade.
the organization put itself on record in
Washington yesterday as being opposed
to any Liquidation for the establishment
Of parcels post and refusing to adopt
a report recommending revision OF the
tariff customs.
The executive committee OF the Ma
tional Reciprocal Demurrage Convention
laid before the President yesterday a
memorial 10 amend the law so as 20
penalize the railroads for refu5 al 10 fur
nish car when requested by shippers or
failure to move cars when they have
been loaded
A cable dispatch from Bremen TO
Charleston, S. C., Gays that The steam
ship Wittekind sails from that port today
for Charleston, bringing the second lot OF
immigrants direct to that section OF the
county. The first lot, which reached
Charleston last fall, has been distributed
through the manufacturing and milling
centres of several Of the South Atlantic
State,
In the Senate yesterday the chiei speech
on the Brownsville affair was made 10y
Mr. Carmack, OF Tennessee. Other
speeches we're made by Messrs Knox,
Money, Hepburn, and Stone. Senator
Foraker offered bis modified resolution
aud began his concluding argument.
He concluded today, when 1t ia hoped
the vote vii be taken. In the House
Mr.. Foster, Of Vermont, supported the
Presidents position in regard to the
japanese in San Francisco.
\ lad was hauling a carboy containing
ammonia from the basement to the floor
Of No. 10 Suffolk street in New York
yesterday, when the csrboy slipped from
the rope, fell several feet aud exploded
with such tremendous force that the
building rocked to its foundations. The
fumes OF the ammonia spread through
The building, rendering unconscious
more than a dozen men. Three Of them
we're 80 seriously aiiocted that they were
taken to Gouverneur Hospital.
Rev. Laurence j. kaVanaugb, 5. IA
professor in st. Joseph College, Phil
adelphia, and a prominent Catholic edn-
Gator, is dead, aged 81 years. He was
born in Newfoundland and studied theo-
logy at ALI Hallows College in Ireland.
He came to America and entered Wood
stock College, Maryland, where he took
a course 10 philosophy and theology, aud
was ordained TO the priesthood there in
1898. Following his graduation Father
Kavanaugh taught in St. Francis College,
New York; Woodstock College and at
the Georgetown University. He vert
to Philadelphia two years ago from 81.
Peters College, Jersey City, and became
attached to the church OF the Gcsu,
-L:ok oo.1t.oI, 81 Toaarhia CtnlinWa