Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-05-11

requiring the railroad to stop trains at
that point.
The burial of the late Rear Admiral
O. S. Cotton, retired, who died at Nice,
on February 10, will take place at
Arlington on Saturday May 10. There
will be q brief funeral service at the
grave. A firing party, abugler to souud
taps, together with eight body bearers
will be the only military escort.
After brief funeral services here this
afternoon, the remains Of Mrs. John
Dalzsll, wife of Representative Dslzell,
of Pennsylvania, will be taken to Pitts
ourg for interment. Services will be
held 10 the Third Presbyterian Church
in Pittsburg tomorrow. Of which church
she was q member. Mrs. Dslzsll had
been i'll for eight weeks from q compll'
cation of stomach and heart trouble. She
was 63 years old. President Taft will at
tend brief funeral services at the home
of Representative Dalzsll this afternoon
before the body put on the train for
shipment to its last resting place.
The Northern Pacific and the Bur
linRtou lines we're today ordered by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
establish and maintain rates on lumber
and othe; forest products from certain
points on the Northern Pacific to certain
specified points which are certain dif-
fereutials under the lumber rates from
the Spokane group.
1t was announced today by the insular
bureau that the MerchsDtile Trust Com
pauy. Of st. Louis, would be awarded at
least 1895. 900 Of the Manila sewer and
waterworks bonds, as its bid OF 1O2 70.
The remaining SIS, 900 Of the million dol
lar issue will probably go to Rudolph
Rohler, of Muir, Mich, a. bis bid Of
l05.
The shah of Persis has issued proc
lamstion restoring the constitution and
representative government, according
to dispatch received today from Minis
ier Jackson, at TeheIan. The new Cab
net has been formed.
Senator Depew, of New York, chair
man of the committee on Pacific Islands
and Porto Rico, today introduced in the
Senate a bill to carry into effect the
recommendation made by President Taft
in his recent message on Porto Rico.
The bill provides that whenever the
legislature fails to appropriate money ioI
the support of the government an amount
equal to that appropriated in the last
APPROPRIATION bills for that purpose,
shall be deemed 10 be appropriated.
President Taft will play game OF
golf tomorrow afternoon with Walter
!. Travis, the American champion
General Clarence Edwards aud f.
Oden Horstmsn of Washington. Just
how the partners will be lined up has
not been decided, but in all probability,
Travis will play with the president.
The State Department, 10 o message
to the Panama government, expressed
the sympathy of department over the
daa'h of the minister of foreign affairs
Of Panama, Jose Arango, who was late
minister ofPansms to the United States.
More than a hundred representatives, OF
leading srt societies and institutes from all
parts Of the United States are assembled here
today to insugurate movement for the pro
motion Of the study of art, the cultivation Oh
public taste, and the application of art to the
material conditions Of the country. Addresset
were made at the opening session today by
Senator Root, of New York, and Newands
Of Nevada in the absence of j. PierpOnt
Morgan. president Of the National Academy
of Art, Charles Hutchinson, Of Chicago, Isl
vice-presdent, presided. This afternoon tbs
delegates we're received by President ano
Mrs. Taft at the White House.