Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Alexandria Gazettel

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Correspondence OF Alexandria Gazettel
While an audience of 1000 persons
were emerging from the Academy OF
Music in Washington Wednesday night
BENJAMIN Johnson, New York negro,
near the playhouse entrance, whipped
n revolver from his pocket and fired
several shots into the body OF a woman.
The crowd was thrown into a panic,
and in the stampede many were
tramplcd under foot. Johnson was ar
rested. The woman was taken to the
hospital. Jealousy is supposed to
have caused the crime.
Congress will be asked next winter
to amend the immigration laws so that
the officials OF the Department OF Com
mcrcc and Labor may issue certificates
of Identification to every Chinese now
in this country, according to state
ment made by Commissioner of 1mmi-
grafton Keefc today. Although the
officials realize that this would give GER
tifcatcs to thousands who are not
legally entitled to the privilege of per-
mancnt residence the department is
willing to make the sacrifice in order
that those not possessing certificates IN
the future may be deported.
Amor Smith. surveyor OF the Port OF
Cincinnati, o., visited the Treasury
Department today and conferred with
Assistant Secretary Hilles regarding
the case OF Frank Couden, cashier IN
Smiths office. who is under suspension,
rs the result OF one phase Of the famous
Warrincr defaIcation case. Assistant
Secretary Andrew is in Dublin, n. H.,
today, having gone there to present the
Coudcn case of Secretary MacVeagh.
Army officers who have government
autos for their private use must pay
for their keep and repairs, " accord
ing dcIision of the Comptroller of the
Treasury Tracewcll today. Tracewell
said that every officer is entitled to a
mount" and forge, with bedding and
shcttch and horse shoeing but that ne
Could not find that any OF these pro-
visions applied to an automobile.
The Navy Department issued orders
today for the withdrawal OF the marines
from Bluefelds, Nicaragua, where they
have been stationed since the attack on
the city by the Madriz FORCES several
months ago. More than one hundred
men were on shore. They will be re-
turned TO the Canal Zone where they
were previously stationed. Conditions
| in Nicaragua are reported today to the
State Department as being quiet and
orderly and it is probable that within
few days, the American naval forces
will br entirely withdrawn.
The Pacific mail liner, Manchurla,
with Prince Tsai Hsun, a brother OF
the regent OF China and head OF the
nava! commission, Ell route for the
United States, on board, was quaran-
tined today al Yokohama, according to
adviccs received at the State Depart
nncnt from Ambassador O'Brien at
Tokyo. The period during which the ship
will be kept under quarantine is not
known, but it is believed that the Man
churia will be held for from five to
ten days.
The National Red Cross Society to-
day announced that it will come to
the aid of the fire fighters injured in
the northwestern forest fires and will
pay all hospital bills. e. p. Bicknell,
the national director OF the society,
after consultation with the Forestry
Bureau said that the charges probably
would he about 81 900 and that they
would be paid from the contingent
fund of the society. The government
had no money available for the pur-
pose.
Thirty-four applications to organize
national banks were received by the
comptroller OF the currency during
August. or the applications 20 were
approved, 4 rejected and the others are
pending. Twelve National banks with
a total capital OF So, 105, 900 we're au'
thorizcd to begin business. There arc
7.1S4 National banks with authorized
capital Of 81 .021 ,GG7 135.
President Gompers OF the A. f. OF L.
will leave here this evening for kansa:
City. where he will deliver Labor
Day address. On September Z, he vii
confer with officials ofthe Bucks Stove
& Range Company in st. Louis, regard
ing the recent settlement of the long
standing war between that firm anC
union labor.
The Interior Department today let
contract to the WarrenWebster Com
panp, of Camden, N. j., for the con
struction Of central heating plant tt
supply the various buildings OF the de
partmcnt, which will cost $2l 800.
The comptroller OF the currency
today issued call for the condition
of national banks 1T the close o
| business ON September /.
will Question R0oseyelt's Republic
| niSm.