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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09

HOMICIDE IN acknowledgements
tive statistics of murder should teach us
some lessons of national humility, be-
cause blink as we may, crime, and es
pecially that of homicide, is a pretty ac-
curate measure of the attainment of
civilization There are about 10000
murders year iii the United States.
Mr.. Robert Anderson, of London, has
lately astonished his readers by stating
that in the 6, 900, 600 inhabitants of Lon
don there are annually on the average
only about Is murders. In sermon on
crime clergyman of one of our small
Ter American cities recently stated that
in his city (of about 200, 900 inhabitants)
there were in the last five years, an ay-
erage of nearly 80 homicides year, says
American Medicine Surprising, therefore,
that these people would not become far more
criminal when massed together by millions,
it follows that if the clergyman's city were
as large as London there would be nearly
900 murders year in il, instead Of Is. Bat,
worse is yet 10 come: Out Of the l45 muir
ders in five years there were only % c0nyic-
tions, and the very worst Is the fact that not
one of these convicted murderers suffered the
death penalty. Upon one side, surely, the re-
tort no longer holds that the doctors put their
bad work beneath the ground and the lawyers
hang it mp above it. $50 much hemp grown,
so little used, may be pertinently quoted
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09

IT HAS been some years since any
person has been caught in the act of fir
ing building in Alexandria, although
there have been many fires which bore
every evidence of having been incendary
in their origin but the proceedings Of
the Police Court yesterday morning
brought to the front two young men
against one of whom a clear case of in
cendiarism was proven. His partner in
crime was later arrested and both sent
on to the grand jury, James (alias Bar
ney) Richards has often been in the
meshes of the law, but so far nothing
serious had been proven against him.
Rodier, the young man who is implicat-
ed with Richards, though thoughtless at
times, had previously been guilty of
misdemeanors and then only when under
the influence of liquor The sad specta-
Gle is presented of a father and son both
in the same Jail awaiting an examination
before grand jury, the elder Richards
having been sent on several months ago.
The lesson should be an efiectual one to
many young men, not only in this city
but in other places, who, despite the
sound of church bells, the remonstrances
of friends and relatives and the interest
shown in them by good people, pass from
one degree of crime to another until
their offenses become glaring felonies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09
Monetary and Commercial.

New York, Oct. 9.--The stock market
today was fayorably influenced by the revived
rumors Of negotiations looking to a settle
ment Of the anthracite coal strike and by the
expectation Of favorable bank statement.
Alter the first half hour there were fractional
reeessions but The undertone Of the sptcula.
ton remained strong.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09


ALEXANDRIA was visited again today
by many survivors of the war between
the States. The weather was fine and
the strangers enjoyed reveries at the his
toric spots in the city and places with
which they were familiar during the
four years war; Most of our citizens
upon whom they looked forty years ago
when they passed through our streets
with bristling bayonets have long since
joined the great majority and their chill
dren and grandchildren, unborn at the
time, are answering the queries of the
visitors. Occasionally two individuals
well advanced in life met-one an old
citizen and the other soldier whose locks
have been bleached by the SHOWS of many
winters. Their interchange of greetings
and "reminiscences of scenes in Alexan-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09
GATES PREDIcrs THE END. Join

GATES PREDICTS THE END. John
w. Gates, who, with Mrs. Gates, sailed
from London for New York yesterday.
"Long before the Oceanic reaches New
York." said Mr.. Gates, ''the strike will
be settled 1t has reached its culmina-
ton, / think" ''Do you think J. p.
Morgan is having much to do with
settlement of the striker" 'Most GER
tainly," replied Mr.. Gates. 81 tell you
this affair has grieved Mr.. Morgan. He
really cares nothing for money, except
for the power it brings. When he forms
a syndicate ne gives 80 per cent. Of it to
his friends, He is one of then kind
hearted of men. think his efforts will
have much to do with the settlement of
the difficulty"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09

In collision today between the Clyde
Line steamers Apache and Iroquois,
the first named ship was so badly
damaged that she had to be run ashore.
No one was hurt The collision oc-
cured off Sulliyan's Island, FIVE miles
from Charleston, S. G.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09

NEGROES LYNcHED. Garfield Bur
ley and Curtis Brown, two negroes, were
hanged at Newberne, Tenn, last night
by mob of 500 persons. Burley, on
Saturday, killed d. Flat, well known
young farmer, near Dyersburg. Flat
had traded horses with the negro and
the negro demanded that the trade be
declared off, Flat refused to accede to
this proposition, and while on his way
home was shot down by Burley. A
posse had been hunting the murderer
and Tuesday night located him in anegro
cabin at Huffman, Ark. While being
brought to Dyersville, Burley confessed
the killing, duplicating Curtis Brown as
an accessory. Both men were lodged in
Jail at Dyersburg yesterday. A mob
soon appeared at the Jail and demanded
possession of the prisoners. Criminal
Court Judge Maiden made strong plea
that the law be allowed to deal with the
case, saying that he would instruct the
grand jury to find indictments at once
and that the negroes would be placed on
trial today. The mob would not listen
to the judges reasoning. They took the
men to Newberne, reaching there at $50
p. m. Ropes were procured and the
negroes were taken to a telephone pole,
where they were securely tied face to face.
At given word they were swung up and
in a few minutes both were pronounced
dead. The crowd afterward quietly dis
persed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09
rELEGRAPHIC BREvIrIEs.

Charles Dean kimball was nominated
for Governor of Rhode kland by the
republicans at Providence today. A full
State tiaket was nominated. The plat
form says trusts should be regulated.
The Philippine policy is commended and
the organization of working men advised.
Annie Edison Taylor, the New York
State woman who shot Niagara Falls and
the Rapids in barrel, appeared this
morning before Justice Mills, in Tren-
ton, n. j., and swore out warrant for the
arrest of William A. Banks, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, who she charges that Banks
has stolen the barrel in which she made
her famous journey, and also her ex-
hibition paraphernalia. Miss Ia lor also
found a woman in Trenton named Kaplin
representing herself as one who shot the
Rapids.
While scalding canned lima beans at a
Bridgeport, N. j., canning factory today,
Joseph Blossom fell headlong into the vat
and was scalded to death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-09

THE SUGGESTION of the Gazette re-
Gently that inasmuch as it has become
impossible to obtain satisfactory help
from the colored race, people living in
this city and other places in the South
would soon be compelled to employ
white women in their houses, is about to
be acted on by large number of house
keepers in this community. 1t was
stated recently that the colered women
had formed an association, the members
of which would in future work when
they we're good and ready, and that all
labor performed for white people would
be only in accordance with the rules OF
the society. This action has caused UNI
certainty in many households and forced
people TO devise methods by which
houses can be run without being de-
pendent upon the colored race. The
movement is assuming shape, and hopes
are entertained that in short time
Young and middle-aged responsible
white women will supplant the colored
race altogether in domestic occupations.
The northern part of the country found
the negro failure years ago and substl-
tuted white help, while in England,
France and other European countries
colored people are never seen In resi-
dences or hotels. The southern part Of
the United States is about the only place
where white women are not generally
engaged in domestic employment.
They work in factories and in Other
places, and with proper inducement:
will eventually take places in families.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05
GLORY ENOUGH.

Yesterday was Republican weather
in Connecticut, and the Democratic
landslide that some sanguine souls
thought was lin the air. stayed there.
The land of steady habits has appar-
entity added to it's steady habit the habit
of voting the Republican ticket. There
was no comfort for Democrats in yes
terday's voting in Connecticut and they
may well feel this morning that there
is never going to be any comfort for
them in the voting here. They are poor
critters and while they are not more to
be pitied than censured, as the woman
in the sentimental song was, their woes
are certainly long, wide and deep
enough to draw a sigh of compassion
from those who feel obliged to walk
on them.
The Republicans of Connecticut yes
terday elected their governor by plu-
rality Of over $1,000 votes, thus doing
better than they did two years ago.
They elected their four congress-
men. They elected congressman-at-
large, thus making a good beginning in
that matter. They elected Is of the "a
members of the State senate and 1871 Of
the 255 members of the house. This
| insures the return of Senator o. H.
Platt to the United States Senate. They
also did some interesting feats in elect
ing sheriffs.
But the New Haven division Of Con-
necticut Republicans did the most re-
markable things that were done yester-
day. They wrested Ga good word by
the way) the city from the Democrats,
and they gave such a vote for Judge
| CIeaveland that he was enabled to have
an abundant entrance into another term
as judge of probate. They also elected
their senator and two representatives.
Glory enough for one day, and glory
enough for ali, as Brother Schley said
when he licked the Spanish Democrats.
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USSE4 IN Il EDER

The United States isn't going to be al
lowed to ''feed the world" without COM
petition. The news comes that Russia
is about to begin the shipment Of re-
frigerated meats to English ports,
principally London. A number of
months ago dispatches from England
told Of the visit of Russian industrial
agents and factors to England with the
purpose of inquiring into the market
for meats. At places the commission
announced that in short time the Rus
sian government would send shipments
to England. Our consul at Manchester
says that Russia's refrigerator ships
are already built. Slaughter houses,
meat cars and trains of special con-
struction have been built in con-
junction with the refrigerator ships.
and railroad connections have been
finished which make Libau, on the Bal
tic, the export point for the new indus
try. 1nenCe the steamships Will steam
through the Kiel canal, putting down
cargoes in London on the third day.
Animals can be slaughtered and deliv-
cred at London docks in three days,
whereas no American meat can be land
ed in England except after at least a
two days journey by land and a seven
days ocean voyage.
Humillating as it may be to confess
it, it will have to be confessed that
Russia can do something in the world
feeding line if she wants to. Russia s
cattle number 81 1000, 900 head. The total
number of these animals in the United
States is but 27,0OO,OOo. The Cars
subjects own 100000 sheep, against
Al, 100000 in this country. For the last
twelve years much attention has been
given to the animal industry in every
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05

BY the new constitution of Alabama
only those can vote who are able to
read and write in manner satisfactory
to the registrars, or who, being unable
to read or write, were either legal vot-
ers before and up to the end of the
civil war or are the direct descendants
of such voters. As no negro can meet
this last qualification, the effect of the
provision--known as the grandfather
clause-is to disfranchise all illiterate
negroes and many others besides, as the
election boards may desire, while pre-
serving the franchise to the ignorant
whites. Some time ago an action was
brought in the United States district
court for northern Alabama, by a ne
gro, to compel the local election board
to register him as a voter, which the
board had refused to do. The petition
of the Alabama negro came before
Judge T. G. Jones, recently appointed
by President Roosevelt. He was a
member of the Alabama constitutional
convention and there offered the grand
father clause. He refused to grant the
writ Of mandamus asked for on the
ground of lack of jurisdiction, but GER
titled the case directly to the Supreme
court of the United States, before which
court it was brought on Saturday.
| 1t will probably soon be known
whether the grandfather clause is con-
stitutional. If it isn't perhaps some
other way Of DISTINGUISHING the negroes
| in the South can be found.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05

Prof C. S. Grimes Of
Evanston, Ill, now "a years Of age
carried policy of $1,000 for many
years and when he reached the ad-
vanced age Of 20 he despaired Of its
ever becoming a claim. so he compro-
missed with the company on the basis
Of an annuity Of $40 per year for the
rest Of his life. During the past "A
years he has received his annual pay
ments with regularity and great equan-
unity of mind and. having already
drawn $3.50. he has come to the con-
clusion that he has found the elixir Of
life in an Annuity.
At age 70, $1,000 deposited in The
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New
York will yield an annuity of $1S4.77
for life.
This great corporation is the most
wealthy moneyed institution in the
world and mora than $10,G00.0O0 in
claims has been paid in this state
through the under signed.
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by Dnmnanua Gnte.

Oft-times when The days are bitter, and the
pulse Of life is low.
And the wheels Of toll ia their dusty course
drive heavily and slow.
When the meaning Of all is blurred, anu the
joy Of seeking pals,
Outlines In my desert places a miracle
brfal!s
Is it trick o the blood, clearing clot in
the brain:
Sudden the 1l,asd Of being flows free in my
veins again.
Some far-0f shower unguessed has filed the
choking stream;
Some rift in the gray horizon let through
a crimson beam.
Once more for me the sky is blue; l guam
the wine OF the air.
And taste the fierce tang Of the sea, and
find the wild-rOse fair:
Once nore | walk the allotted round with
unre!uctauT feet.
And daily bread has SAVIOR, and love and
labor are sweet.
o! once in centuries oldcn, before Damascus
Gate.
Journeyed one with holden eyes and a
dreary heart Of hate:
When glory shown round about him, and
in one wOndrous hour
He had passed from death into life. Then
knowledge and grace and power,
And new word filed his lips; and Joy
and COuTagti and love
Were born hencefOrth in his heart with the
vision that fell from above.
And still when days are bitter, and life Is
clogged with care.
And the heart is salt with unshed tears and
leaden with despair.
An angel stirs the staGnant pool and 10!
there is healing there.
Once more my song is lO0sened, and life
and labor are sweet:
Once more in the tangled weft the pattern
shines complete;
And know that the Self-same grace on my
soul has been outpoured:
My spirit, by Damascus Gate, has heard the
voice of her Lord.
George MPaSOn Whicher in Scribner S.
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JOHN MITCHELL,
AS Estimated by a Conservative Penn
sylVania paper
man..

AS estimated by a conservative REM
sylvania Paper,
To estimate Alright the real worth
and weight of yesterdays tribute to
the president of the mine workers, it
must be considered who and what he Is
or who and what he is not He is not
a great statesman, soldier nor sailor,
whom his countrymen delight to hon.
or because of the patriotic services he
has rendered the state. He is not a
man of enormous wealth, who has
achieved fame by the building of
churches, school houses and libraries,
or by the endowment of hospitals,
homes and asylums for the INDECENT.
He has made no great invention;
written no great book for which the
world is richer. He has not builded
palaces for himself and filled them
with priceless works of art that the
mass may see and admire. He was
not born great, nor rich; he came up
fought his way up, from the soil of
the farm and from the depths of the
mine. He made his own inheritance
of usefulness. power and fame.
President Mitchell may not at all
times and through all the difficulties,
perplexities and severe ordeals of the
prolonged contest with his adversaries.
have spoken and acted with the wis
dom of Solomon, which is only to say
that, being human, he was not always
infallible. But who of those among his
powerful opponents exhibited as
shrewd generalship in the field or as
great tactfulness in council as he?
| They were experienced men of the
world, of broad and general knowledge
and experience, armed by their col
leges, universities and attrition with
| the more active world Of thought and
endeavor, with finer, sharper weapons
| of offense and defense than this I'M
| tutored graduate of the farm and
mine, yet when the contract, at any
time, at any crisis of the strike, is
made between his adversaries and Mr..
Mitchell. and especially as they re-
spectively appeared at either of the
| White House conferences, it must be
I confessed, even by those in contention
with him, that his bearing. speech and
acts won greater respect by the COM
| parison. Throughout the protracted
| struggle many were opposed to the
one in those crucial trial scenes, and
yet it was not he that showed the
| lesser judgment, Usefulness and dis
erection. At the last Of those meet
/ ings, the day of the assembling of the
! commission, when prominent opera
| tor objected to Mr.. MitchePs pres
ence as the president of the mine
workers association, with what wise,
frank repression and courtesy be
waived the objection aside and ac-
cepted the lesser post Of representa-
| tive Of the miners.
! It was a hard fight that he fought
| for nearly half year against one of
| the most powerful bodies of men in
the country. But his loyal. admirng
| followers followed him unfaltering to
the. enc, through poverty, suffering and
| distress. Their high faith in their
leader failed not by the way. and at
[ last they reached the prize for which
| they so stoutly cont Observation-Disclosures
| Whatever great or good qualities may
| be denied John Mitchell by his OPP
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05
DM Tilted.

She-I wish I We're a bird.
He-So you could fly to my arms?
She-No; so couldn't have the tooth
ache.-Chicago News.
Has Cholly any occupation-does he
condescend to work for money!"
"Oh, yes! He's counting Miss Mill
yons. Detroit Free Press.
O'Lafferty-Now will yez be up at
Pat Doolans place this avenin'?
O'Hoolihan-Faith, OF will. If Dim
not there, yez kin bate me black and
blue avn tn spot, begorry.-Ohio State
Journal.
do you think Brown really likes
magazine poetry, or is 1t all pose?"
Il think he actually does. l have
known him for more than twenty years.
The first time / saw him he was trying
to work the 13-15-14 puzzle, and he does
not seem to have changed particle. -
Exchange.
The beggar had notice up, Deaf
and Dumb" and the passing philan-
thropist stopped In front of him.
'1'd like to give this man something"
he said to his companion, but how am
l to know that he is deaf and dumb?"
Read the notice, SIR" whispered the
beggar, cautiously
Mrs. Gotham-Isn't your husband aw-
fully tired when he gets home at night?
Mrs Church-No.
Why, he has to stand up, doesn't
he?"
"Oh, yes; he never gets seat in the
cars, but he's Christian Scientist, and
he imagines he does ''-Yonkers States
man
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ponents, they and all men must admit
that a man who has contended so long
and so well against such powerful
forces as he encountered in field and
council is one who. as an influence and
factor in our economic and social
life, must be reckoned with. A man
who can win and hold the confidence,
admiration and gratitude of vast
armies of men, such as the 100000 mine
workers of our bituminous and an
thracite coal fields. is not of ordinary
mold. President Mitchell has proved
himself TO be a man of extraordinary
force of character, will and power. and
as such he must be carefully consid-
cred and respected in all movements
in which he may either lead or play a
part,-From the Philadelphia Public
Ledger
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ST. Louis hotels cannot accommodate
more than ten thousand guests IN all
Yet it is expected that in 1904 there will
be seventy-five thousand guests to be
provided for each day while the "orlo >
fair is going on.
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part Of "Au the Russias," and the re-
suit has been a large increase in the
number of all kinds of useful quadru-
Deds
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/ attribute the happiness of women
nowadays, says Vice President seiiar
Lake. of Lady Margaret College OK
ford, "to the university and the bicy-
Gle" Where does golf come in?
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According to the Philistine, which IS
nublished in East Aurora, New York,
man recently visited the Roycrott
shop there, and, seeing grizzled old Ali
Baba working on the lawn, approached
him and asked: who is that dam fool
over there?" And Ali Bahia answered.
(which one?"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05

More than fifty girls are studying
scientific farming in the Minneapolis
College of Agriculture. The course
they take includes botany, chemistry,
physics and geology, requiring in the
first two years two terms Of each.
They pay special attention to cooking,
laundering, household economics, fur
nishing houses and social culture. They
learn to plan buildings arH to lay out
grounds. By this means It is hoped
that farmers can be provided with
wives who will know enough about
making life in the country attractive
to keep the boys from emigrating to
the towns and cities.