Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-05-23
From WASHINGTON
TCorrespondende Of the Alexandria Gazetie.I
Washington, May %.

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which included stop of al Chicago for
The purpose of sscertaing what prospects
there are, if there be auy, of tracing the
whereabouts of the $l7S, 600 stolen from
the countiDgroom 9th sub-tressury sew
ersl months ago. The chief is compelled
to admit that the chances look very Film
just at present for the government ey@r
recovering the lost money or landing the
thieves in Jail. Officials in the office OF
treasurer also take gloomy view
of the case. The bills wsre Of large de-
nomination and their numbers are not
known.
Admiral RObley d. Evans. commander
of the Atlantic fleet, is boiling mad
over the way souvenir iends looted the
Duke of Abruzzi's flagship Varese dur
ing a reception at Hampton Roads. The
admiral has officially reported the mat
ter to Secretary Metcalt and will make
every effort to find the persons who
walked away with the dukes gold toilet
set, presented to him by his royal cousin,
the king, and other vsluables that
we're unguarded in his state room
while the visitors bad the run of the
ship. 81 have had so much experience
with souvenir fiends," said Admiral
Evans today, chat | sm not surprised
that the Duke of Abruzzi and his officers
suffered from their vandalism. The
American souvenir hunter will steal
ANYTHING except cellar full of water.
know, for / have been the victim OF
their raids on more than one occasion"
Miss Isabel Emerson Case, who gain
ed notoriety at Oyster Bay last summer
by making persistent attempts to see
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, is
being held by the authorities for an
examination as to her sanity. She was
arrested last night near the Pennsyl-
yania station. She was evidently wait
ing for the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
TO return from their trip to Pine Knot
and it is assumed, intended 10 accost
them. Mrs. Case claims Boston as her
home, and says she is g. connection OF
a number of prominent families of that
city. She has imaginary wrongs which
she wants the President to right.
Ia the forthcoming number of the
Federationist Samuel GOmpers, Pres
ident of the American Federation Of
Labor, will discuss the present general
movement throughout the country for
increased wages, reduction of hours Of
labor and improvement of working con-
ditions. Although always opposed to
strikes in principle, President Gompeis
iutimstes that labor has been forced in
to position where the use Ofthis weapon
may become necessary.
The President has heard the plaiBtiye
appeal of little Mary Wagner that her
convict step-father be pardoned from the
Michigan state prison. He has set the
wheels of the pardon Office in motion,
but il is believed that the ofense is
wholly against The State, and that the
case is purely one for the Governor OF
Michigan to consider. 1t is another
Jean Vatican case. John Allison, a
bank robber, escaped after serving six
years of a seventeen year sentence. lie
married widow with one child ut Win
ons, and did not tell her of his crime
until their badly was born. With the
cloud of detection lowering over thsm,
Allison worked maniully, until he wss
recognized and re-imprisoued. The let
ter which the little s'epdaughter wrote
the President, in which che says her
papa sis not bad man, and has been
good to mamma and me-" hss been filed,
and a formal letter sent her by the par
don attorney enclosing blank upon
which to make her petition for pardon.
It requires the signatures of two Or more
credible witnesses, in addition to neces-
sary facts relating to the prisoners
lite, crime, and trial.
All the stories of friction between the
White House and Albany may be put
down as the malicious creations OF the
enemies of either the President or Gov
ernor Hughes. Congressman Cooks, the
representative of the Presidents home
district, called at the White House to-
day to tell the President about a coufer-
ence he held with Governor Hughes a
day or two ago, and to assure him that
the Governor feels very friendly, indeed,
towards the administration.
w. II. Fehsenfeld, Of Baltimore,
President of the Rcd G. Oil Company
startled the members of the interstate
commerce commission today by charg-
ing that the Standard Oil Company had
"big stick" in the form Of coercion
which it has successfully welded in its
efforts to drive the Independent oil con-
Germs out Of business. The disclosures
were made during the inquiry into the
charges of the National Refining As
sociatiop, of Cleveland O, that the
leading railways of the middle west were
discriminating against the independents
in favor of the Standard Oil in oil ship
mems. Fehsenfeld told of an increase
OF rates by all southern roads. except
the Seaboard, on oil shipments in
South Carolina in iron drum or steel
barrels, used for that purpose. Upon
the refusal of the Seaboard to act, he
said the Standard ceased shipment.
Half a dozen railway attorneys were
on their feet in an instant, protesting
against the admission Of the testimony,
on the ground OF its irrelevance. The
commission sustained them, holding that
while the testimony was sufficiently i'm
portant for special complaint, it could
have no bearing upon the present COM
plant of reasonableness of rates in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.