Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-11
News of the Day.

William ]. Bryan, it is said, will be
candidate for the United States Senste
to succeed Elmer ]. Burkett, OF Ne
hrssks, whose term expires In March,
1911.
Bishop Harding, of Washington, act
ing 10 place Of Bishop Psret, who lie III,
ordained six ministers at the Church OF
S.. Michael and Ali Angels in Baltimore
yesterday.
The house Of delegates of The Ameri-
can Medical Association in snnual SEES
sion at Atlantic City yesterday elected
DR.. William II. Welch, Of the Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, presi-
dent, without opposition.
In the Senate yesterday Senators Dol
liver and La Toilette proposed numer-
Gus amendments for lower rates on
wooden goods, but all were voted down
and the high Aldrich rate sustained.
Senator Owen called attention to the
fact that all-wool blankets will be taxed
$50 per cent
A monument OF marble or granite to
cost about So, 500 is to be erected by the
u. S. government In the Confederate
section OF FinDs Point National Gene
terry st Salem, N. j., to mark the rest
ing place of 3, $50 officers and men of
he Confederate army and navy, who
died ss prisoners of war at Fort Della
ware, between 1862 and 1865.
An effort was made in London today
to get statement from Alfred GTynne
Vanderbilt regarding the intimation that
Mrs. Ruiz took her life when his visits
to her in her beautiful Grosvenor street
house ceased early in May, but the
Young millionaire, who has been having
The time of his life at the horse show and
with his coaching trips, refused to be in
tervieVed.
With damage of nearly 81 +, 900, 900 al
ready done by floods and large rivers
still rising, Colorado faces the greatest
destruction ever known by the state
from spring freshels. The streams nov
en- he'rsmpage are the Grand river, the
largest in the state, on the western slope,
and The Cache la Poudre, the third in
re, on the eastern slope of the Con-
tinentsl divide.
Governor Conner, Of Alabams, Was
with Preside 1T Taft, yesterday, discus
ing southern matters. The president
referred to the recent impeachment Of
an Alabama sheriff for not defending
negro against mob and the action Of
Alabama troops in defending a negro
sgainst a moo. He told the governor
he VAS pleased to see Alabama aud
other southern states leading the way
! in breaking up the mob law.
The Virginia Carolina Chemical Com
psuy's statement, for the year ending
June lat, has been made up and is now
10 the hands of the printer. After pay.
log all charges, including interest on
bonds and dividends on preferred stock
snd considerable "chsrge of" for de-
probation, the statement, it is said,
shows a profit to the common stock be-
tween six and seven per cent. The
company may at an early date declare
dividend on the common stock, though
this cannot be sisted definitely.
Considering that it was impossible to
get quorum, Representative Crum-
bscker, who has charge of the census
bill, did not call up that measure in the
House yesterday, and the House sd-
i0Urned after a ten-minutes session. MI.
Crambacker has reached the conclusion
that il will be impossible tot get aqu0rnm
I for the consideration OF the bill, which
hss been passed by the House and am
mended by the SENATE until the Senate
passes the tariff bill and the meas1re Is
sent back to the House for final action.
The statue of Gen Stephen Dill Lee,
by Henry Hudson KitsOu, Of Boston,
was unveiled in the Vicksburg National
Park, today, and many Of the Oonfede-
rates veterans attending the Memphis
reunion we're present, az well IS num-
Der of notable men. Msj. Gen. Fred
ericks Dent Grant, of the Department
Of the Lskes, was delegated by the
secretary of war to receive the statue
on the part of the United States, which
wac officially presented to him by Gen.
Evans Col. G orge 4. Peck, Of
Chicago, wss orator OF the day, and
Dol. Henry Wstterson was master of