Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-02-06
News Of the Day.

Preliminary reports OF the naval
academy examinations showed that SO
midshipmen failed in one or more
branches.
The King of Sam lighted the funeral
pyre at Bangkok which consumed the
body Of f. II. S.robel, American advisor
Of the government.
Estimated earnings OF the Southern
Railway for the fourth week in JaDusrY,
according to a statement issued yesier-
day by Comptroller Plant, show so
increase OF $10,S4 as compared with
the corresponding week Of last year.
Tom Longbost, the Indian, defeated
Alfred 5hrubb, the great distance runner
of England, in the big Marathon run OF
&c miles 385 yards in Madison Square
Garden New York last night. The
Briton collapsed in the tWeniy.fourlh
mile, and tottered off the track into the
arms of his trainer.
During the six months of April to
September In 1908 the total membership
10 the labor unions of the state OF New
York decreased from 39S, 5S2 to 372,-
459, 8 loss OF 26, 1913 members, accord
log to the quarterly bulletin issued
by Commissioner John Williams Of
the S ate Blresu Of Labor Statistics.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga, ssys:
"The Georgia division of the United
Daughters OF the Oonfederacy has been
called TO meet at Atlanta. March IL, for
the purpose Of reconsidering Its action,
ct Savannah, In ordering the Wirz
monument located a. Richmond VS..
Americas and Macon will each make
az effort to secure the monument.
The omnibus claims bill, which CON-
tsins q great many war claims, WAS
practically killed yesterday In the House
when objection TO its consideration was
made BY Representative Mann, Of Hi
nois. The bill, it wss pointed out, will
have no other chance of consideration
on the floor of the House this session, aud
hopes of hundreds OF claimants were
shattered by the action.
Speaker Phillip A. Stanton took the
floor in the California House yesterday,
and secured unanimous consent OF the
assembly to postpone further action on
the japanese school segregation bill un-
Ill next Wednesday. He declared he
bad information, which be could not
reveal, tha. proved the assembly was
treading upon dangerous ground 10
passing the auti japanese bill yesterday.
At the conclusion Of the speakers ad-
dress, Grove L. Johnson, author Of the
measure, asked that the matter Of re-
consideration of Thurday's vote be put
over until Wednesday, and his motion
carried without dissent.
The Senate yesterday passed the Dis
triot OF Columbia appropriation bill,
Carrying an aggregate of about $ll $780,
600. A conference report on the urgent
deficiency bill was agreed to. This ap-
propr'ates $1,000 for the purchase,
care aod msintainence of automobiles
for the president" and $3.50, 900 to en-
able the secretary OF agriculture 10 con-
tinue TO combat the foot.aDd-mouth dis
ease iu horses and cattle. Ia executive
session, in answer to direct question
from one of The republican Leaders,
democrats made it plain that the con-
firmation of Or. Crum to be collector
of customs at Charleston, S. g., wss not
TO he permitted at this session. Mr..
Tillman and others more than intimated
that a real flIbusler would be ipaugur-
ated If no other means availed to pre-.
vent confirmation.
Mrs. Emily wa,On, ninety-four years
old, one of the first nurses of the Con-
feders army, is i'll at her home, 2S05
p street northwest Washington. Mrs
Msson is the daughter Of Gen. John
Thompson Mason, a descendant OF the
Virginia Mssons of G1BstOn Hall, and
was born In Lexington, KY. She enter
ed the service of the Oonfederacy as
nurse at the beginning Of the civil war,
and established the first hospital
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, w
Va. She spent most OF her time, how
ever, nursing at Libby prison. After
the war she went to Psris, where she
taught in a school for young Anne rican
woman. Last fall she went to Detroit
to attend the unwilling Of the statue Of
her brother, Stephen 7. Mason, the first
governor OF Michigan. Shortly after
she sustained u stroke OF paralysis which
is responsible for her present illness.