Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-01-30
News Of the Day.

Statistics show that more tDan o,OVV,-
600 cigars were produced iu this coun-
try last gear.
Representative Lsmb, Of Virginia, in
troduced bill to require all railroads
engaged in interstate commerce to abol-
ism all grade crossings Within FIVE years.
Joseph T. Volkmsn, who shot and
killed negro burglar in suburb OF st.
Louis, No., was yesterday given a gold
medal by the jury that acquitted him.
The German governments naval pro-
gramme, providing for the expenditure
Of 800, 600, 900 annually for ten years,
passed its frat reading in the Reichstsg
yesterday.
A bill aimed at the abolition Of bet
ting on horse races In the District OF
Columbia was introduced in the House
yesterday by Representative Achesop,
OF Pennsylvania.
General Stoessel introduced at bis
court martial letter from General Kon-
dratchenko, in which the writer urged
negotiations for peace with japan be-
fore the fsll OF the fortress.
At 8 meeting Of coal operators Ia
Pttsburg yesterday it was decided that
unless the mioets accept reduction in
wages OF 10 cents ton, every mine In
the Pittsburg district, producing 3d.
900, 900 tons q year, will be closed.
For.y-two per cent. of the cattle slaugh-
tered throughout Germany are affected
with tuberculosis, according TO The stats
tics gatheredby Nathan Stratus, the Amer
lean mulii-millionaire, in the course of
bis campaign for milk pasteurization in
the fatherlsnd.
The approval OF ''trisl marriage"
attributed yesterday TO Minister oil
Justice end Worship BRAND of France
has aroused 80 violent a storm Of protest
That BRAND repudiated the interview
today. Bot be still insists it represents
bis review. Similar laws, he asserts,
should regulate labor and matrimonial
contracts.
Proposals were opened at the Navy
Department yesterday for the delivery
OF 4, 900 finch and 5000 6-inch srmor
piercing steel shells, The lowest bidder
was the Firth-Sterling Company, OF
Geisboro Point, Md, near Washington,
who agreed to deliver the shells OF the
former class at $50 each and the
latter class at s26. so each by October l,
1909.
The North Carolina senate last night
passed, by vote of 80 to IL, the Ora
ham railway rate bill, after it hsd been
amended so as to plaza the execution Of
the law under the control of the cor
poration commission after January 10,
| 1909. The act is made effective April
l next. 1t fixes a rate of u cents on
all roads over 100 miles long, allowing
roads under the length, which are in-
dependently owned and operated, to
charge 3 cents.
"Uuless the people Of Pittsburg take
steps to conserve the forests at the head
waters of the grest streams which how
by their city, food will come which
will sweep awsy every trsce OF the
homes and buildings now there" With
this prophetic illustration of the imme-
date necessity for forest preservation,
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson yester-
day In Washington opened the twenty
seventh annual meeting OF the American
Forestry Association.
Announcement of his conversion to a
belief in the right of imperialism, so
called, aud the crediting TO William Nc
Kinley of the position Of the United
States in world sfairs which, he said,
gave Theodore Roosevelt opportunity to
make himself so great factor for inter
uational peece, marked the address Of
Secretary TAFT, candidate for the re-
publican presidential nomination, before
the Tippecanos Club and its guests at
Cleveland, Ohio, last night.
Gov. Charles E. Hu ghes WAS strongly
Endorsed for the republican nomination
for the presidency and the administra-
ton OF President Roosevelt was COM
mended 10 a resolution unanimously
adopted by the republican county COM
mittee at a meeting in New York last
night. The resolution furtier favored
an instructed delegation to the Chicago
convention from New York for Governor
Hughes, which shall use all honorable
means to obtain his nomination until
"he is either nominated or directs the
withdrawal Of his name from the con-
sideration Of the convention"
Fire starting today in the Wholesale paint
and oil house of P. D. Dods Co., at Mon
treal, swept through a large part OF the
wholesale district and caused loss Of $780,
900. With the mercury 20 degrees below
zero intense suffering vas caused among the
fremen and their efforts were greatly ham,
pered. In several instances frenen playing
streams on the blaze from ladders were frozen
fast and had to be chopped loose before they
could move.
Virginia News.