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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
OPENING AND CLOSING OF MAILS.

Northern mails week days, close at 7 30,
80 and 10 20 a. M, and l ID, 240 6 40, 8 %
and 10 As p. m. Open at 800 a. m, 1900 m.
and 4 80 D. m. On, Sundays Northern mails
close at 30 p. m. and Z 20 p. m.
Southern mails via Charlottesville close at
80 and IL 20 a. m, and | 40 and 10 40 D. m.
Open at 90 a. IN. and 80 and 30 p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, close at
10 20 a. m, and $50, $50 and 10 As p. N.
Open at a. NJ. ard and 4 p. m.
Manassas Division mails close at 7 50 a. m.
and 3 45 p. m. Open at II 90 m.
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close az
80 a. IN. and p. IN. Open at 90 a. m. and
800 p. m.
Chesapeake and Ohio mails close at As p.
M. and 10 40 p. m. open at sos a. m. and
4 80 p. m.
Washington mails close at 730, $50 and
II 20 a. M, and 10, 240, 6 40, 8 % and 10 5
p. m. Open at 90 q. m, IL 90 m. and p
m. and 4 30 p. m.
Office Hours-Open at 500 a. m. Close at
800 p. m.
Sunday Hours-Oyen at coca. m. Close
at 10 90 a. m.
Carriers Schedule-Collection made on in
side routes-6 80 and 10 90 a. m. and 500 and
o 30 p. m. Full route-6 80 q. IN. and 0 30 p.
IN. Sunday collection 500 p. m. Carriers
window open Sunday 900 a. m. and close
1000 a. m.
Deliveries made s 90 a. M, p. IN. and AIS.
p. m.
All mail should be in the Office ten minutes
before our indicated time for closing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
FOREIGN NEWS.

Jan Kubelik, the violin yituoso, has
been ordered to play at Sandringham on
Sunday evening, during the celebration
of King Edward birthday, by the royal
family.
The Pope today received Archbishop
Chappelle, formerly of the Philippines,
in privateEaudience. The Pontiff studi-
ously avoided any mention of Philippine
and American ecclesiastical matters.
The Vienna Tageblatt's famous st.
Petersburg correspondent Viedomosti
Jurkiewitz, who held almost Ambassa-
dorial rank in Russia was today assassi-
mated at Srabinovo, Bulgaria, by Russo
phila Macedonian.
The Hohenzollern, with the Kaiser and
his escort aboard, passed the mouth OF
the Elbe at s O. clock this morning. The
Kaiser is en- route for England, where he
will visit King Edward at Sandringham,
remaining there until November Is.
A dispatch from London says the
French brig Gabrielle struck on the
Minquiers Rocks, off the Island of Jer-
sey, this morning and went down. Six
of her crew, including the captain, were
drowned. Six were saved, and landed
Mt Jersey
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07

WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS and magazines
often contain advertisements which cast
thoughtful people into reveries and
cause them to wonder if there are any
specimens of the human race silly
enough to answer them. Love powders
charms and pictures of fu ture wives ana
husbands have for many years been Oh
fered for sale to credulous people, and
now some enterprising individual IN one
of the New England States claims to
have discovered a treatment by which a
negro can be made to pass through a
certain metempsychosis into white
man. Full particulars will be sent
upon the receipt of one dollar. Ihls
will afford many of the colored race an
opportunity to merge themselves into
the ranks of the lily whites who are now
attempting to GUST their black conieres
from the republican camp and keep the
federal patronage among the descend
ants of the Anglo-Saxon race. That
there ARE many silly people left IN
the world is attested by the fact that the
people who advertise such things can
afford to keep standing announcements
in the papers. That they find many
customers must be apparent to all.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
The Presidential situa ton.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. John
w. Kern, who was the democratic
nominee for Governor two years ago,
sees nothing in the recent election that
throws any light on the presidential
situation. $50 far as HilPspart in cut
ting down the republican majority in
New York State goes" said Mr. Kern,
cit was in Hills pant of the State that
Odell got his biggest majority. AS for
Roosevelt, he can have the republican
nomination if Mark Hanna does not
want it. If Hanna wants it, however,
Roosevelt will not be in it." Secretary
Riley, of the State Central Committee
also sees nothing in the result in the
east that points to Hill as the nominee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07

INTHE campaign which closed with
the election on Tuesday, the tariff was
the chief issue and on this issue the
democrats made considerable gains
which shows that the question of tariff
must remain before the people for the
next two years at least. But the Sec
tons of the country in which the demo-
Gratis lost Oh the tariff question cause the
average reader much surprise. In the
great west, where there are comparative
" few manufactures and where the
people must feel the burdens of taxation
the greatest, the republicans won, while
in the manufacturing centers in the east
the democrats not only made gains in
the popular vote but won several con-
gressmen. The division on this ques-
ton in the large cities was also strange,
as the democrats carried New York by
over 100, 900 majority and lost in Phila-
delphia by as many. This only shows
that while the American people may be
one as the sea, they are nevertheless as
distinct as the pillows.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

The steamer Chaalotte of the Chesa-
peake Bay line was libelled in Rich
mond today for $4,000. The steamer
ran into and sunk the schooner Annie
NJ. Harris mt West Point last August,
drowning U. L. Robins and Elvin Ran
dali.
Ten thousand dollars worth of jewelry,
has mysteriously disappeared from the
home of George II. Sheffield and his
son-in-law, Emanuel Jacobson,
lawyer, both of whom live at 1925
Madison avenue, New York. The rob-
berry occurred while the family was at
dinner last evening.
A dispatch from Hazelton, Pa, says
that three boys, while returning from
work at the Highland colliery of G. Il.
Markle & Company last night, were set
upon by mob of Hungarian strikers,
and brutally beaten, knocked down with
clubs and jumped upon. One of the
bows is in a critical condition while the
two Others are confined to bed, their
bodies being mass of bruises and cuts.
Those who have watched the dealings
in sugar in New York, say that selling
is by traders and by operators generally
who wish to depress the market. The
price has yielded easily because there is
almost no buying now. There is
throughout the floor Of the exchange an
unusual number of those who want to
depress the market regardless OF their
feeling what the course of the prices
should be. The general list has stood
remarkably well and on the whole has
advanced. There is a little better dis
tribution of business and the bond crowd
presents an unusually busy scene.
A mulatto answering closely to the descrip-
ton Of the man who is alleged to have pawned
the watch of Clara A. Morton, the murdered
Wayerly. Mass, woman, was locked up last
evening, as a suspicious character. AT enc
o'clock this morning second mulatto was
arrested and locked up. He is said to live
in the vicinity of Waverly. Beth men were
afterward released.
Joe Miller, a negro, escaped convict from
the Chatham county, Ca, chain gang, con-
fesses that he was employed by white man
named Sapp to murder Gugie Bourquin and
his aged negro servant. They were shot to
death on Sunday last, Miller says he was
promised $25 for the shooting but that he was
not paid.
The secretary of the treasury today rejected
an sites offered for the public building at
Portsmouth, Virginia, and holds.up his de-
cision in the matter until q committee OF cit
liens decides upon where it wants the build
ing located.
Thirty-iye hundred trainmen in the en-
ploy of the Chicago traction and consolidated
lines receive an Increase of wages Of over ten
per cent, dating back to September. 10Th, ac-
cord to the findings. Of the board OF arbitra-
ton which made its report last night
President ELEPHANT, of the Delaware &
Hudson Company, authorizes an emphatic
denial in reference TO an alleged sale of the
delaware 4 Hudson properties.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Government Finances.

Washington. d. c., November Z.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw re-
turned to Washington from Iowa tins
morning, and the first thing he did, after
consultation with assistant Secretary
Allies. was to decide to accept no more
State or municipal bonds as security TOT
government deposits. He regard the
emergency in the monetary situation as
having passed, and that there Is no
longer any necessity for taking any
other than government bonds as COZ
lateral for deposits. Secretary Shaw ex-
planned that the policy of accepting
State and municipal bonds was adopted
only as temporary measure to relieve
an immediate pressing financial situa-
ton. He considers that the needs Tor
that relief has ceased to exist. AT the
beginning he intended to release only
about slS, 900, 900 of the two per cent.
bonds. accepting those other securities IN
their place. The limit has now been
reached. There are now on the books
of the Treasury Department in round
numbers SIT, 900, 900 Of State and city
bonds, and applications now pending
and to be accepted will bring thatamount,
up to about lS,00O,0 900. The effect OF
the Secretarys policy has been to in.
crease the circulation to the amount OF
sf2. OO0. 600 or sl3, 900, 900 in the last
mouth. An official order will be issued
dated today revolving the circular OF
October |. in which the Secretary made
his first offer to accept other than gov
eminent bonds as security for govern
ment deposits. simultaneously with
the revocation of the offer to accept
State and city bonds, the Treasury
Department has stopped the deposit oil
government funds in national banks.
Every dollar that has been received from
internal revenue taxation during the last
two months, making an average OF hall
a million day, has been turned over to
the banks designated as government
demonstrates and have been used by them
in meeting the demands of their Gus
toners. This policy has now been
stopped and all receipts will hencefortb,
until after the first of the new year be
turned directly into the treasury
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Allies, in discussing the reason for this,
said 'The fact i the Treasury needs
every dollar it can get from now on.
Our cash working capital has been re,
duced by the various measures ordered
by the Secretary to relieve the money
stringency and by expenditure to only
s55. 900, 600, which is a very small
margin. We can not afford to let oul
any more money. The Secretary ma;
done all he could for the market, anc
the market must now take care ofitself.
This statement means that the Treasury
cannot be relied upon to furnish any
further assistance to the money marke
even if rates go back to the high figures
of A couple of weeks ago. 1t is also be
Iieyed to foreshadow at All early date tn
calling in ofsome ofthegovernments fund
now on deposit in national banks. Thes
now amount to $40, 500, 900. Secretar,
Shaw. it is said, anticipates heavy de
} mand for money from mercantile IN
: terests as the end of the year approaches
and he is disposed to favor these interest
rather than the speculative ones of Wal
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07

THE CONVICTIONS of most OF the
sober-sided people of this country that
Spain unloaded elephants upon the
limited States four years ago by the
terms of the Paris treaty becomes more
and more apparent as time goes on
Hardly had the ink become dry on the
signatures to the treaty when 1t was
found that thousands OF Porto Ricans
were on the verge of starvation and mil
lions of dollars worth of produce had to
he sent from this country to prevent
most of the inhabitants from starving
Since that time many of the natives OF
Porto Rico have been looking up to TINS
country in the same manner as did 'ne
liberated negroes of civil war times 70
the Freedmen's Bureau. And now IL
appears that several millions of dollars
worth of the necessaries of life are need
Oh IN keen thousands in the Philip
pine Islands from furnishing. bao
crops, cholera and other distresses nave
made the Filipinos dependent upon
the United States. This country paid
two dollars a head for the natives o.
these far-away hornets nests. When
they are not fighting the invaders O
their country they will be mendicants
Either condition is bad enough.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
The Woman in Black.

Lynchburg, Va, Nov. IA few
months ago in the towns of the south
west from Roanoke TO Bristol, inclusive,
strange stories were told of tall, slim
figure in black, supposed to be yelled
woman, who at late and unseemly hours
suddenly emerged from dark corners and
chased those men who were delayed by
business, the club, or some other reason
from reaching their homes in good
time. All kinds of weird stories were
told of how men had narrowly escaped
being clasped in the long and bony
arms Of the spooky stranger;
how shots had been fired at her without
effect and how she had always disap-
peared when her capture seemed certain.
For weeks past nothing has been heard
of the woman in black, but few nights
ago it is said that in the neighborhood
of Fourteenth and Fillmore streets the
uncanny creature was seen by youth
who hastily ran to a colored man to help
him give chase, but when the colored
ally reached the spot with the boy the
figure had disappeared. The police
have heard nothing of the woman in
black but they have heard rumors of a
supposed "headless' woman who has
been, it is claimed, seen in the suburbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A garden map of the United States, to
cover two acres, will be a unique feature
of the st. Louis Worlds Fair.
Jobbers in bottle glassware have been
informed of a combination of mauufac-
turers, and the consequent elevation OF
prices all along the line Of from % to 60
per cent.
The fact that marriage syndicate
provided the money for the Baron Won
Muenchausep's trip to America to hunt
a rich wife has been brought out in Ber-
lin court.
At the Molineux trial in New York
yesterday Mrs. Stephenson, of Brook
Ign, testified that she saw man,
whom she identified as Cornish, mail
package in New York postoffice
addressed to himself and containing a
wrapper with the words 'Knickerbocker
Club" on it.
According to a decision of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, promul-
gated at Richmond, yesterday Mr.. Joseph
H. Ching, well known resident of St.
Marys county Nd, will spend the next
two years in the Baltimore city Jail I'M
der the sentence imposed by Judge
Morris, of the United States District
Court in June last, upon his conviction on
the charge of conspiracy in connection
with the alleged census frauds in st.
Marys county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07

Salt Lake, Utah, Nov. Although
Apostle Reed Smoot, who expects IN. "a e
Mormon church to land him in the
United States Senate, denied that he is
polygamist, an investigation is now in !,
progress. High Mormon officials admit
that an unwritten law of the church re-
quires any member of the church to be
polygamist in order to be an apostle.
Apostle Shoots father had five wives,
and it is charged that he is no exception
to the rule. In spite of overwhelming
majority, Smoot appears to have in the
Legislature, there is a prospect that a
strong fight will be made on him by the
members of his own party. They may
force the election of a compromise candi-
date like Governor Wells. The COVER
nor is Mormon, but he is acceptable to
the non-Mormon element.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
The NIolineux Trial.

New York, Nov. If yesterday was
an important and sensational day in
the trial of Roland b. Molineux, today
will undoubtedly be as momentous. 1t
was a crowded court this morning when
Harmon Vutte was called to the stand.
He said he was a professor in Columbia
College. He was asked to tell of his
connection with Molineux on the day
that the poison package was mailed.
Vutte testified that he met Molineux at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
and that they went to the new university
grounds. He told in detail of all the
buildings visited after which he left the
defendant about quarter of five. He
said he fixed the time because it was
after sunset and he vas able to catch a
certain train. 1t will be recalled that
the poison package was mailed about 4
o'clock at the general postoffice that
same day.
The defense has rested its case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07


IT Is broadly limited in Washington
that the annual report of General Miles
which, after being held up for month
was made public yesterday, was carefully
and severely edited by the Secretary of
War. As is it appears, the report is as
colorless and as uninteresting as a childs
primer. 1t is the last annual report
General Miles will make and the sur
prise of his friends at its character bor-
ders on amazement. General Miles is
in the Philippines and may not be back
for several weeks. In the meantime it
is not known whether the document
given to the world is as he wrote it.
The only recommendations made are in
line with the general policy of the War
Department which policy he is known
to oppose, and call for increased ap-
preparations for additional barracks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
THE LEGISLATURE.

Pursuant to adjournment last July the
General Assembly will reconvene next
Wednesday, the 18th. 1t will probably
be in session six months.
The new constitution practically re-
constructs the judicial, executive and
other machinery of the State, and the
legislature is instructed to remain IN ses-
sion until the laws are framed necessary
to carry the new programme into effect
as outlined by the new instrument.
The legislature is forbidden to take up
any private bills, and, therefore, in Vir-
ginia there will be Legislature without
a lobby.
Governor Montague will probably not
communicate any formal message to the
body. as it is an adjourned meeting OF
an extra session, and his views on pub
lie questions have hitherto been laid be-
fore it.
HIS chief message will be the nomi-
nation of the three members Of the cor
poration commission This is one of
the most important subjects to come be-
fore the legislature, and that body is
likely TO spend the first months OF Its
session in framing laws suitable 10 this
branch of the State government. The
commission will 60 into force April l.
There will be two members to take
oath when the legislature meets-Don
P. Halsey, elected to the Senate from
Lvnchburg to succeed the newly elected
congressman, Carter Glass, and sue
cessor to f. NJ. McPeak (republican), OF
Carroll county, who recently resigned.
His successor was elected Tuesday,
but no official report of the result has yet
been made.
The Houss will also have to pass on
the case of DIR. f. p. Mclean, republi-
can member from Mecklenburg, who
refused to take the oath to support the
new Constitution. The election COM
mittee will probably make report on
the matter.
However, it will probably not be on
this question that the House will settle
the matter, but on another, about which
there can be no doubt. DIR. Mclean
holds salaried office under the United
States government, being clerk in the
internal revenue collectors Office in this
city which is in direct conflict with the
Virginia constitution, so the member
from Mecklenburg will clearly not be en-
titled to his seat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07

A PECULIAR ELECTION The cleo
ton in Warwick county was peculiar
affair, according to prominent democrats
who were in Newport News yesterday.
The election board, it is stated, appar-
emily forgot that an election was to be
held, for not until the judge of the
county court called the attention OF one
of the members that he had ballots to
stamp was the order given for printing.
1t is said that no regular judges or clerks
were appointed. In some of the pre-
cincts, it is said, copies of the regi1tra-
ton books could not be had. The Total
vote was 131, the smallest in the history
of the county, which has seen some OF
the most famous political battles ever
recorded in the State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
Charged With High Treason.

Vienna, Nov. IA Pan-Servian con-
spiracy has been unearthed at Ragusa.
The conspiracy aimed at melting rebel
lion in the Austrian provinces, inhabited
by Servians, with the object of eventual
" joining them to Servia. Five OF
the most prominent conspirators have
been arrested at Ragusa on charge OF
high treason. 1t is stated that extensive
correspondence between the conspirators
and the servian government has been
seized, and that trauble between Austria
and Seryia is likely to ensue.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
/. TpIpIrTE FROM AN OLD READ
Err OF THE GAZETTE.

Last evening, after returning to the
home of my brothcr-in-law, MIR Johu
w. Emmert, from my lecture at the
First Baptist Church, | saw, IN his
library. the afternoon issue OF the Alex
andria Gazette. / seized the copy with
ayidity, and, asking permission to take
II with me to my room, read every
inch of reading space, and, in addition,
some Of the advertisements.
was glad to greet the old friend,
400 oga;n and to note that, although il
has attained to its one-hundred and
third volume, its brightness and fresh
moss are undimmed and its natural force
unabated.
am glad that the good old journal
still retains its familiar identity, and its
UNIQUE individuality. A change from
this would not be any improvement.
While pastor in Alexandria, some
wears ago. / had occasion to note, in my
pastoral visitation, the loyalty of families
to the Gazette. In the honor Of the
rich and in the dwellings Of the
humble / found the Gazette. Men
women and children read the paper
The Gazette was helpful to me in my
work. Its columns were open to church
announcements, and plans for church
work. Being fond of newspaper work
myself, picked up many local items, IN
nv rambles over the city, and fired them
off in my own way, incog. That Wash
ington Correspondence, by DIR: Harold
Snowden, was a column OF freshness,
variety, and, sometimes, startling reyela-
tons. Often have | boarded the ferry
steamer with DR.. Snowden, return
ing to Alexandria on the two
O'Clock boat, and watched him
sharpen mis- pencil and proceed to prepare the
make up" of that readable column. Some.
times | would give him hint Of things had
heard. political and otherwise, and when the
Gazette came out that afternoon, my items OF
news were dressed up in almost unrecognlz,
able shape. and often much more published
than had reported to him in casual CONVEX
sation. | must visit the Office before ] leave
the city. Long live the venerable Alexandra
Gazettel All hail to the "Art preseryatlye OF
ali arts'n o. +. FLIPPO.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-07
sh;nments of Anthracite.

New York, Nov. chairman
Thomas, of the Erie Railroad, in an in
terview today, denied the story printed
Yesterday that hard coal will be scarce
all winter He said that the shipments
of anthracite are increasing daily, and
that there is no reason why every repu-
table dealer cannot have enough coal to
get along with. A decided improvement
in the supply of coal is expected within
a week, as 100, 900 tons of coal a day are
now being mined in the Lackawanna.