Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-30
From Washington.
Washington, Sept. 30.

Roosevelt will take the stamp vas the
sll.prevadiDg subject of discussion at the
White House TODAY. A report that the
president is holding in allegiance bis de-
cision on an invitation rendered him TO
attend The Trans Mississippi congress III
san Francisco, October 6, until he csn
decide whether to take the field for the
republican cause, has given az increased
interest to the question. Advisers who
have talked with the president today say
they find but little basis for the report.
They declare thst the president has
talked ireels with them as to the stump
ing proposition, but that be says he has
reached no determination. A leading
government official who has just come
q from the west conveyed the infOrma-
ton to the president that the demand
tha, he take the stump is rapidly growing
west of the Mississippi.
President Roosevelt will make no
reply to Mr.. Brysn's open letter OF TO-
day. The only announcement to be
made at the White House regarding the
matter was this: "Secretsry Loeb states
that the president feels that inasmuch as
Mr.. Bryan's letter is simply an attack
upon him personally, there is no reason
why be should answer it,"
Reports of three department army
commanders just received at the war
department sglee upon the injury being
done the army by the detachment oil q
large number of officers from their reg
ular commands. General Barry states
that OF " captains in seven regiments
OF infantry and cavalry In his depart.
ment, % are permanently absent, and
there are 7 vacancies. BE declares thai
the presence of the captains is necessary
for the best die pline. General Pot
also points out similar conditions ID
his department.
The yellow fever quarantine against
Havana and all other Cubsn ports ex-
cent those in Oriente province, in which
Santiago is situsted, was lifted today.
At the tuberculosis Congress today
ad 'resses we're made by Doctors Sachs,
Trudeau, Miller, Floyd, La Mote
Blair, Mohltr and Hess.
Beginning tomorrow, letters 10 Eng
| land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will
need only two cent postage stamp, To-
stead of a i've cent one, to ensure de-
LIVERY at their destination. This re-
duclion 10 rates has been agreed upon
between the two governments as the
best means of promoting commercial
and friendly relations between the
limited States and Great Britain. A
present the new rats of postage viii
apply only to the British Isles, bo
eventually it NAV be extended so as Z
include all The Brilish colonial posses
siops 90 we'll. If the result of the new
move sustsius sll that is hoped for IT.
lit is quite certain that before lont
Germany, France and Italy will be ask
| ipg for q similar arrangement " tn re
vsrd to lett mail to those countries
Until October let, 1907, just on
wear ago. the rste on lelte to England
vas five cents for very half ounce. VI
that date by agreement OF the po'ts
union. the rate was made five GERS to
a whole ounce. Now this has been still
| further reduced by more than a half
and it will, hereafter, be possible TO sent
letter weighing an ounce for only wv
cents.
F. E. McMilliu, chief postoffice in
|, ,oo,o, has receiyed a telegram 40
nouncing the murder OF Postoffice In
spector Charles Fitzgerald, at Clinton
Mics. while in the discharge Of hi
duties. Inspector Fitzgerald, who va
stationed at Jackson, Miss, went frou
that place to investigate the OlintoI
postofice. After checking up, he foun'
that the accounts were several HUNDRED
dollars short. As be was proceeding t
= the railroad station yesterday to return
to Jackson, to make his report, ne VS.
met by W. A. Sorsby, the deputy post
MASTER at Clinton, and the son-ln-lSw o
Mrs. Osbiness, the postmaster. eorso.
pulled a gun and shot Fitzgerald, 8
that he died short time later Thi
lis the frat case of the killing OF post
Office inspector while on duty. Ih
department will take steps to bring 10
SLAYER to Immediate justice.
Tuesday night frost formed 10 tn
3 Ohio valley, New York, PennsylvaniS
=, New Jersey, Maryland, the District O
Oolumbis, Virginia, western North Caro-
lima, and extreme ncrtheas' ern Alabama
1t was suthoritatively announced q
r the White House today that Presiden
] Roosevelt would not attend the trans
Mississippi congress in san Francisco OF
October 6. This statement grew out
an iuquiry whether the president hs'
? any tention OF making the acceptlnc
Of an invitation to be present the ossi
for a decision to take the stump.
Governor General Smith, Of the PHILIP
] | mines. reported to the Bureau Of lnsular A.
tails today that since his last report IS ne'
Q eases of cholera he'd developed.
{ Can't. Hugh LaF. Applewhite, OF the Coai
Artillery. was ordered by the President TO ?
. nlsced on a retired list today. Capt. Appl'
white was found incapacitated for active SCI
vice on account Of physical disability.
was horn in Missi. sippi in 1874.
a Archbishop Kelley, Of Australia, saw ID
President today. He is en- route to Boston o
: his way home.
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