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

| Ciark nR0e speech crltlclslnS OonRlese
for not Fastening sugar trust Inquiry.
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot, chief forester,
denies that be will accept the presidency
of the Uoiversity of Michigan,
The death lis! 10 the Southern Railway
wreck s,a1s at II, and all the injured
are expected to recover.
Ia executive session, the Senate yes.
terdsy confirmed the appointment oil
Aulick Palmer as United States marshal
for the District of Oolumbia.
A will hiss been found In which the
late George Sailing, the eccentric art
collector of London, left his art collec-
ton valued at $4,000, 900, to the
British nation.
It is reported that tho presidency of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, to auc-
coed Oscar 6. Murray. had been cffsred
to Daniel Willard, accord vics.president
and general msnager OF the Chicago,
Darlington & Quincy.
Senator Foster has introduced reso.
luton directing the return to the stste
OF Louisiana of the original ordinance OF
accession OF that state, captured by feds-
raj troops during the civil war and now
10 possession of the War Department.
a total of 2, 999 s,eerags passengers,
the largest number thst has ever arrived
on one vessel from Earope, arrived IL
New York yesterday, when the Ham.
| burg American liner President Gran!
docked q. Hoboken. The greatest pre-.
vious number was 2,783.
The proposition to change the dale OF
the Inauguration of the president and
vice. president OF the United States was
considered by the house committee yer
! teriay. A charge was made that visitors
to the Inauguration were charged e1orbi.
| Lant prices while 10 Washington.
Mr.. Chang, new Chinese minister, al.
! rived in Washington last night with bis
daughter and a suite Of so Chinese ir-
Guiding dczsn students. He was met
at the station by Dr.. WI Tiog.faog,
! 9hom he succseds. DR.. WI will return
| to China shortly.
Representative Robert F. Bnussarj,
OF New Iberia, 'Ls., was badly burned
yesterday morning at the home OF his
mother in New Orleans as result Of
his dressing robe catching fe from an
open CRATE. Physicians that Mr.. Brous'
sard probably would recover.
During the delivery of his speech In
the House yesterday Mr.. Hitchcock de.
uanded that the committee 90 ralts re-
port on his resolution for an invesliEa-
ton OF the general land tffice, and de-
nounced The officials of the government
printing Office and the Interior Depart.
ment.
State Senator Johu Raines died yes
terdsy at Osnandsigua, 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 we're
Introduced by him Hie most con.
spicuous legislative work WAS the cleo.
ton law of New York state and The
famous liquor tax Law, known as the
"Raines law" passed in 1895.
The three sisters who held the life Of
Ocey Snead In their hands have one BY
one come within the res ch of the law, un-
til last night separate cells held them
all, charged by the authorities of East
Orange, n. j., with the murder of their
niece and daughter. OF the girls i'm.
mediate relatives only her bedrddeD
grandmother, Mrs. Martha WardIaw, SO
years old, and Fletcher Snead, the
cousin she married, are still q! large.
Mrs. Horace Dalton TAFT, sister.iu'law
OF President Taft, died early this morn.
Ing st johns hopkins Hospital, Balti.
more, following second operation.
About six weeks sgo Mrs. Taft was
operated on at the hospital. She r.
covered SO FL GENTLY TO start for Florida
to recuperste, but she vas taken i'll sgain
and returned to the hospital, where a
few days ago ssoond operation vas per.
formed. Her husband Is principal of
the Taft School, at WATERFOWL, Conn.
In confirmation OF recent dispatches
that the pope lie seeking to establish
diplomatic relation between the Vatican
aud the United Satss government, the
| Loudou Globes Rome correspondent
| sends bis paper the following: 81 am
able to state that the pope is exerting
himself personally with view to the
Institution of The diplomatic relations
between the United States aud the Vail
esn. he recently took this step, ad.
dressing an autograph letter, very
courteous Ia It's nature, 10 President
Taft on this subj .ct."
A ceremony of unusual interest and
iupressiveness, the first of its kind In
the history of the institution, was Wit
messed yesterday at the Catholic Uni.
se,slty Of America, in Washington, when
Cardinal Gibbons invested the rector,
the Very Rev. DR.. Thomas ]. ShRhao,
With the robes Of monsignor and
presented to him The papal brief creating
him domestic prelale of the pont!hcal
household. The ceremony followed the
celebration of low mass By the Rev.
Francis NJ. Dumont, 8. S.. and was en-.
acted in the presence OF the Most Rev.
Diomcde Falconio,, the pspal delegate;
other dis,iBg uished prelates OF the Oath.
Ollie Church, and. congregation OF
priests and layusn tba! more than dlled
The university ehsps.
A TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS.
The maugled body OF Nine. GouiD,
! uhnsa hushand vas The late Jules EdOE.