Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-25
News of the Day.

prison today. IL was on the evening OF
June %, 1906, that he shot Stanford
White in New York.
The extensive plant of the Utica, n.
Y, Drop Forge and Tool Company was
partially destroyed by fire early today,
entailing loss of about 500, 600. The
explosion of forge started the fire.
The trial of Carlos Waddington, SON
of Senior Louis Washington, who shot
and killed the secretary of the Chilean
Legation because he had Tilted his sister,
began in Brussels yesterday.
Dan X. Hanna, son Of the late Sena-
torHanns, was married yesterday to Marie
Stewart, divorced wife Of Frank Sicily,
a hotel clerk, of Cleveland and New
York. Dan Hanna's second vile
divorced him Friday.
United States Senator Philander O..
Knox, in addressing the Law school at
Yale yesterday, declared that the federal
power can regulate but not prohibit
commerce between the states except to
maintain equality and safety in trans
portation.
Msrcelin Albert, leader of the wine
growers revolt 10 Southern France, yes
terdsy returned to Argelliers, where,
sfter a conference with the committee,
he announced that it had been decided
10 continue the strike movement 10 a
peaceful manner.
The government in Washington yes
terday concluded the presentation OF its
case against E. S. Holmes, jr., after
which counsel for the defense began argu-
ment to secure the dismissal of the case
on the ground that no law spplies to
the otfense of giving out departmental
information.
Eleven persons are dead and many
prostrated IS a direct or indirect result
of the warm weather experienced in the
Pittsburg, Pa, district within the past
"a hours. A peculiar feature of the
present warm spell is the fact that the
heat has FASTENED death in several cases
of heart disease.
A rigid quarantine against all persons
suffering from tuberculosis in an ad-
vanced stage will be issued by State
Health Officer Brumby, of Austin, Tex.
lie places tuberculosis in the same cate
CORY With yellow fever and smallpox and
will take steps to bar all such health
seekers from Texas.
Ia the Washington Police Court yester-
day Judge Mullowney declared unconsii-
tutional the police regulation, put into
effect few months ago, compelling per-
sons who keep chickens or pigeons to
get a permit. Judge Mullowney decided
that the law made class discrimination
in that it did not affect commission mer-
chants.
The snapshot photographer in Ger
many is threatened with extinction after
July l, owing to the great risk he will
run of being mulcted in heavy fines I'M
der the new act which goes into force on
that date. The right of all persons to
the exclusive reproduction of their own
portraits or those of their houses or be-
longings is by the new enactment made
absolute. The law, however, permits
the granting Of permission by anyone to
a photographer, to take his photograph
or that of his landscape or of his cattle
or horses.
An informal meeting was held yester-
day afternoon by the delegates from the
Chambers of Commerce of Toxic, Osaka,
Kobe, Kyoto aud Yokohama. A resc-
luton was drafted indicating the grave
danger to the commercial relations Of
the United States and Japan, owing to
the anti-Jspanese sentiment on the Pa
cifc coast. The necessity Of resortiug
to speedy measures to remove this OBJ
s!acle to the development OF trade rela-
tionship was pointed out. At the next
meeting, to be held within a few days,
the resolution will be given official form
and then wired to the principal cham
bers of commerce in the United States,
asking their cooperation.