Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-12-17
News Of the Day.

for not Fastening sugar trust irqoiry.
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot, chief forester,
denies that be will accept the presidency
Of the Uuiversity of Michigan.
The death list 10 the Southern Railway
wreck s,aIs ct IL, and oil the Injured
are expected to recover.
10 executive session, the Senate yes
terdsy confirmed the appointment oil
Aulick Palmer as United States marshal
for the District Of Columbia.
A will hiss been found 10 which the
late George Sailing, the eccentric art
collector OF London, left his art collec-
ton valued at $4,000, 600, to the
British nation.
1t is reported that tho presidency OF
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, to suc-
coed Oscar G. Murray. had been offered
to Daniel Willard, second vlcs.president
and general mspsger Of the Chicsgo,
Darlington & Quincy.
Senator Foster his introduced reso'
luton directing the return to the stste
OF Louisiana OF the original ordinance oil
accession OF that state, captured by fede'
raj troops during the civil war and nov
10 possession of the War Department.
A total of 2, 999 steersge passengers,
the largest number that has ever arrived
on one vessel from Earope, arrived IL
New York yesterday, when the Ham.
burg American liner President diso'
docked q. Hoboken. The greatest pre-
vious number was 2,763.
The proposition to change the date OIL
the inauguration of the president and
vice.presIdent OF the United States was
considered by the House committee yef-
terday. A charge was made that visitors
to the Inauguration we're charged ezorbi'
lant prices while 10 Washington.
Mr.. Chang, new Chinese minister, az
rived In Washington last night with bis
daughter and suite OF 80 Chinese IT,
cludlng dczsn students. he was met
at the station by DR.. WI Tiog'faog,
whom be succeeds. DR.. VIZ will return
to China shortly.
Representative Robert F. Bousssrd,
Of New Iberia, La, was badly burned
Yesterday morning OF the home OF bis
mother 10 New Orleans as q result oil
his dressing robe catching 6le from an
open CRATE. Physicians that Mr.. Brous'
sard probably would recover.
During the delivery OF bis speech 10
the House yesterday Mr.. Hitchcock de-
manded that the Committee on rnlts re-
port on his resolution for So invesliga'
ton OF the general land flee, and de-
nounced The officials of the government
printing Office aud the Interior Depart
ment.
| State Senator john Raines died yes
terdsy ct Osnandsigus, n Y. He had
been chief OF the republican forces on
the floor Of the New York Safe Senate
since 1902. Some OF bis most impor'
tant corporation bills in the state were
Introduced by him HE most con-
splcuous legislative work was the elec'
ton Law of New York state and The
famous liquor tax Law, known as tht
"Raines law" passed in 1895.
| The three sisters who held the life o.
| Ocey Snead In their HANDS have one By
one come within the eich Of the Law, IN
I'll last night separate cells held then
all, charged by the authorities OF Eis
| Orange, N. j., with the murder OF lhei
niece and daughter. OF the girls i'm
mediate relatives only her bedridder
grandmother, Mrs. Martha Wardlaw, 81
years old, and Fletcher Suesd, th'
cousin she married, are sill a. large.
Mrs. Horace Dutton TAFT, sister iu'laV
OF President Taft, died early this morn
log at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bait
more, following second operation
About elk weeks sgo Mrs. Taft va
operated on at the hospital. She RI
covered 50 iiciently to start for Floridi
TO recuperste, but she was taken Ill sgsil
and returned to the hospital, where
/, few days ago q second operation was per
: formed. Her husband is principal o
the Taft School, at WATERFOWL, Conn.
Ia confirmation OF recent dlspatche
that the pope is seeking to establish
diplomatic relation between the Vatican
. aud the United safes government, tn
London Globes Rome correspondent
sends bis paper the following: I'll en-
Z able to state tba! the pope Is exertiu
! himself personally With q view to To
, liustitulion of the diplomatic relation
between the United States aud the Vail
s can. He recently took this step, I'D
d dressing 80 autograph letter, yer
q courteous 10 ils nature, 10 Preslden
$ Taft on this subject"
A ceremony Of unusual Interest an
o loo ssiveness, the first OF Its kidd j
= the history OF the institution, was vii
messed yesterday at the Catholic poI
j. geisity Of America, 10 Washington, whe
|. Cardinal Gibbons invested the rector
:. the Very Rev. DR.. Thomas j. Shahsr
u With the robes of o monsignor 30
o presented to him the papsl brief crestin
, him q domestic prelale Of The pontihci
y household. The ceremony followed ID
1t celebration OF low mass By the he'
Francis NJ. Dumont, s. 81 and was er
!. acted In the presencs OF the Most Rev
y Diom,de Falconlos the psPsl delegate
e other dis,iug uished prslstes OF the OAtf
Ie Ollie Church, and congregation
!. priests and lsymsn the! more than nlie
ie the university ebspal.
;. A TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS.
lie The msDgIsd body Of Nine. GOuiI