Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-17


or the Der OF these meetings. or 81
the session Of some committee of one o.
them, the men who arranged the pro.
grams have beea unsble to hnd 1t.
Among the myriad manifestations Of The
conferences Is eu International confer
euce of all government board oil medi-
stiou which opened today. Osusda and
Mexico we're represented ct ibis co.,
ference. The meeting will effect PSF
maoent Organization for arbitration be-
tween capital and labor. The sessions
will last three days. The executives oil
lorty.iour states will be 90 hand for the
tp,niDg session of the Governors Con.
gress tomorrow. A series OF social
events including diuner a. the White
House, snd The White House reception
tomorrow night, ss well as a score Of
private functions, will mark the con-
feTences.
John R. Wslsb, The Ohlcsgo mil
lioDalre banker, will have to serve bis
sentence OF FIVE year Ia lhe Lsavep.
worth psniienliary. TIE Snprema Court
of the United States today denied his
petition for 8 review of the case. Since
January IS, 1908, Walsh has employed
every legal weapon 10 bitter struggle to
avoid prison term.
For different reasons than those upon
which the Circuit Court OF Appeals ar
rived at the same decision, bat which
are in fffec. an affirming Of the lower
courts decision, the Supreme lOourt oil
The United States today held against the
Mason Grocery Company and several
score or more dealers in the south 10
their litigation against dozen or more
southern railroads. The merchants ell
legged exorbitaut rates, but Instead Of
complaining bsfore The Interstate Com.
merce Commission, filed bill in the
Uoited States court. The Court OF APP
pesls held that the Interstate Commerce
Com mission sIoue has jurisdiction over
such a complaint, aud dismissed the bill.
One more contribution to the liters.
ture OF the TAT! administration 10 the
shape Of al executive massage on the
public htalth Ia likely to go to Congress
within few weeks. The main feature
Of the message will be The recommends
ton that all of federal officials whose
duties relate TO the public health 10 cry
way be consolidated under c single
bureau. This would include the mllitsry
lud marine hospital service, the pure
food bureau, the bureau OF vital stalls
tics aud all the other bureaus and egsn.
cies whose duties touch the public
heath.
The Standard Oil dissolution suit will
ne heard by the Supreme Court OF the
Uolted 8 ates during the week begluiog
March IA. This assignment Sai todsy
announced BY the chief justice In graft
ing the governments motion 10 advance
tbs csss.
William Sorrell, twenty years old,
who was accidentally overcome By L.
lamIuating gas yesterday 10 his home at
426 Seventh street, southwest, did this
morning 10 the Emergency Hospital.
A motion to a)Ds)lidste aGd adVinte
the three appeals nov pending before
The U. 8 Supreme OJurl growing our Of
the fsmcul Bucks Stove & Range Com
psny's Injunction against the Amtr.can
Federation of Labor, was today prescott
ed to the highest CONT The motion
was taken under hdvisemeut. Attor'
ueys do mot believe the case will be
heard before middle Of the next term,
which begins In O;iober.
A Aa9rspt case Of bleeding people by
the old eohems OF cure for a chronic
disease was uncovered today by the issu-
auce OF fraud order by the PostOftice
Department against the Toxo AbsoTsspt
Company, Of Rochester, n. 7. F. FL
Warner, the proprietor and chief para
site of the concern, advertised the cure
Of cancer for ten dollars, Analysis OF
the "medicines" which we're sent 10 ef-
feet the cure showed their poul!ice pads
to be a mixture of sand, clay and Char.
coa'. The cancer and Iumor tablets were
n Ade frcm sugar of milk With a little
sliffeping, and The ointment was COM
binstion Of vsssliue, oil Of Tar AID
powdered witch htzsl leaves. Yet War.
ner did q thriving business.
Material for the next democratic congress.
sional campaign is to be extract f'om toe
hearings held last year by the ways and
mans committee of the House on the tariil
Mr.. Champ Clark, minority leader. sid
today that he expected soon to set "a good
ha t,h ~ c1ipvfOn ont
likely bits # testimony 10 be incorporated
later into pamphlet for distribution among
the plain peopls. "TheIs is good hot cam
paigu stuff in that testimony, "said Mr. Clark,
and il would lie burning SHAME to have 1t
All lost. RI p sentative Payne, who knows
more probably than any other living man
about imports and exports wishin the last
twenty years, was frequently very great aid
IN us 10 drawing fOrtn frst.class democratic
material from unwilling repubi lean WITNESSES.
Whenever they attempted 10 fool the com.
mittee on the amounts Of their Imports and
exrarts Mr.. Payne would call then down
hard and they would be forced to back wster. Il"
The President, Governor A f. Williams,
If Kentucky: former Mayor : th Low, Of
New YORK, aud Judge Alton B. Parker,
advocates on the part OF the nation, the state
and the people, insugursted movement to.
ward uniform state laws at the initial meet
ing Of the eminet me and women represent
ing every walk Of life and all sections of the
country, called for three-days conference at
the Bslaseo Thsatsr, under the auspices Of
the Nstio al Civic Federation.
Ambassador Nsbuco, Of Brazil, died SUD
denly to-day as result of an epelectle
stroke. He was dean Of the Latin American
CORPS in Washington and was one Of the most
distipguiehe5 members OF that body. Embas
sador NabucO visa born in Recife, Brazil, in
1870. and was the son Of Senator Nabuco
chief Of the liberal party during the reign Of
Don Pedro I'd. de came to Washington In 1876
az sttache ct thel Brazilian legation. Being at
Tackled to the imperial dynasty when the re-
public was proclaimed 1889 he was through
With public eff irs snd devoted himself to
literarv work He returned to tbs diplomatic