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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
THE TRIGG COMPANY.

Philadelphia investors are making a
great many anxious inquiries about the
affairs of the William r. Trigg Shipbuild-
ing Company, of Richmond, Va, which
few days ago was placed in the hands
of receiver. Half million dollars OF
the first mortgage bonds of the company
are held in Philadelphia.
The Commercial Trust Company, an
offshoot of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
floated the mortgage bonds of the concern.
These bonds SOLIDS for 80, and the 81 900,
900 issue netted the company $500, 600.
The second mortgage bonds, which were
nearly all taken in Richmond, brought
$3.50, 900 on a 81 900, 900 issue.
A financial statement ofthe company :
condition recently showed that it owed
s4OS. 900 to Richmond banks, Sl26, 600
for material and S20S, 900 on commercial
notes given to its creditors. To offset
this were asset items, including $4,000 IN
cash. S22, 900 in accounts receivable ana
about $50, 600 on amounts due on ships
under construction. Government claims
aggregating $3.50, 600, two-thirds ofwhich
amount must be secured by an act OF
Congress, are also counted as assets.
The Trigg yard has secured great
deal of work at low prices in competl-
ton with other plants. Among the
work now uncompleted is a large tank
steamship for the Standard Oil Company,
duplicate of the one now on the stocks
at Cramps shipyard; ferryboat for
the Pennsylvania Railroad; large tug
for the New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk Railroad; the cruiser Galveston
and a large dredge for the United States
government
There was an adjourned meeting OF
the creditors of the Trigg Company in
Richmond yesterday. The proposed
plan of reorganization was further dis
cussed, but nothing definite was done
further than to decide upon holding a
general meeting in New York city shortly
for the purpose of putting the proposed
reorganization plan into effect. 1t was
stated after the meeting that a satisfac-
tory adjustment was in sight.
1t is expected that the Trigg Ship
building Company will soon be re-
organized. A telegram from New York
quotes Mr.. Lewis Nixon, the president
of the United States Shipbuilding Com
pany, as saying that when the Trigg
Company's affairs are settled it would
be acquired by his own corporation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
RAILROAD WRECK.

Engineer Wesley Bailey, one OF the
Oldest men on the Norfolk and Western,
was instantly killed near Greenville on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad about
II o'clock Sunday night. The train
was running about 25 miles an hour
when the engine jumped the track and
rolled down an embankment, burying
Bailey beneath the locomotive. His en-
tire body, from the beast down, was
mashed perfectly fiat. His skull was
also crushed. Fireman j. w. Under
wood was thrown out on the opposite
side and escaped uninjured.
The wreck occurred on curve on q
steep grade along the mountain and is
believed to have been caused by miscre-
ants removing the plates that held the
rails together. The engine jumped the
track, pulling the express car with it,
and both fell down steep embankment.
The engine careened on its side and was
badly damaged.
Evidences of the cause of the wreck
were found on investigation. The tool
house near by had been broken into and
crowbar and moEkey-wrench stolen,
with which the bolts and plates were re-
moved from the track.
Two young men were found near the
scene of the wreck, and, being suspected
of the affair, were arrested by railroad
detective who was on the train.
When Engineer Bailey left the dis
patcher's Office Sunday night, he remark
ed to Dispatcher Waddy that it would
not be long before some one would be
killed. and his actious indicated that he
had some premonition of his impending
doom. He was oneof the oldest men on
the road, having come to Roanoke with
the completion of the Shenandoah Val
ley in 1882. Out of nineteen engineers
that started with the road only two re-
main alive, Engineer S. L. Mayo, of
Roanoke, and Mulleneux, of Hagers-
town, Seventeen of them met tragic
deaths on the rail.
Bailey leaves a widow. He was fifty
seven years old and universally respected.
Bayard Commandery, Knights Templars,
and the local Masons will have charge
of the funeral. Bailey was driving en-
CINE No. y, which jumped the track on
the Bluefeld division a month ago, kill
ing Engineer Pate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
THE VENEZUELAN AFFAIR.

Gen. Won Boguslauski, a leading
military writer of Germany, says he III
dorses the late Prince Bismarcks express
sion that the Monroe doctrine was a
"great piece of impudence " He declare:
"there must be no talk of even an
apparent recognition of the Monroe
doctrine as an international law principle
on the part of European nations"
United States Minister Bowen has
been charged to arrange the details OF
the protocol, which will precede the
submission of the foreign claims to The
Hague tribunal. He will likely come
to Washington as Venezuela's represen-
tative on the commission.
The acceptance of arbitration after
the blockade has been begun is not re-
ceived with popular favor in Germany.
The German government is completely
silent as to when the blockade will be
raised, or whether it will be raised at all
until every question concerning arbitra-
ton is settled. The acceptance OF arbi-
tration after the blockade was begun is
certainly not received with popular favor
in Germany.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
No winnie Davis Tablet.

Philadelphia, Dec. S0.--The PROPOSE
ton to erect memorial tablet to Miss
Winnie Davis, the Daughter of the Con-
federacy, in the Grace Baptist Temple
was Withdrawn last night. The matter
was disposed of by unanimous vote OF
the congregation. Word was received on
Sunday from the two southern women
with whom the idea for tablet origlnat-
ed. that in view of the opposition they
thought it best to withdraw their appli-
cation. This resolution was passed;
THAT the request of the Christian ladies
to withdraw their offer to insert tablet
to the memory of Miss Winnie Davis IN
the decorations on the walls of the tenn
pie be granted, but that the committee
be instructed distinctly that no such APP
plication to insert tile or tablet to the
memory of any respectable man or wo-
man shall ever be declined for political,
parental or social reasons, nor because OF
the locality in which the deceased may
have been born or dwelt." The money
that has been contributed TO the tablet
fund will be returned to the subscribers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
FOREIGN NEWS

Judge Samuel banks Waddy, who
has been recorder of Sheffield, England,
since 1894 and who was for 20 years
liberal member of parliament, died to-
day. He was Y years of age.
Doctor George Bull, an American
oculist, practicing in Paris, has discover
ed that by performing slight painless
operation certain classes of astigmatism
can be cured without the use of glasses.
The Vienna Tageblatt says that the
Crown Princess of Saxony, Princess
Louise and her brother, the Archduke
Leopold, who accompanied her when she
left Salzburg, have exhausted their ready
money and are in serious financial diff
culties.
Affairs in Morocco are assuming a
crisis, and from present. indications the
capitulation of the imperial forces to the
pretender seems inevitable. The sultan
is endeavoring to rally his followers.
The water supply Of Fee has been cut of
by the rebels.
In an interview the Crown Princess of
Saxony, in the presence OF M. GirOn,
said an. Giron is the only man |
ever met whom felt could love, whom
must love. 1t was question of mu-
tual love and affinity which made my
life impossible without him. )"
The situation in Morocco has become
so acute that the Italian government has
manifested fear that armed protection for
Italian subjects there may be necessary.
Cruisers have been ordered to be in
readiness for immediate departure, while
%, 900 soldiers will be held in reserve.
In London Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has
offered $50, 600 for the erection of a
memorial to James Watt, practically
the inventor of the steam engine. If
this offer is not accepted, Carnegie has
offered to head a list in America with
the object of world wide scheme for
the erection of memorial to the Scotch
inventor
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee declares that the
report that he was considering re-enter-
ing Virginia politics is unauthorized by
him.
A dispatch from Richmond says Jere-
miah Gieeson celebrated his lO9th birth
day yesterday. He fought under An
drew Jackson.
DIR. Lewis Wheat, one of the best
known physicians of Richmond, died
Yesterday after an illness of one day.
from an affection of the heart. He was
46 years old.
High mass was sung in st. Peter $
cathedral in Richmond this morning to
commemorate the anniversary of the
election of Bishop Van de Vyver to the
Richmond diocese. 1t is required in all
the tioceses of the Catholic church to
celebrate the anniversary OF the election
Of bishop with mass.
Two brothers, Leonard NJ. and James
T. Coneherd, were skating on Broaddus'
mill pond in Caroline county on Satur-
day evening when the ice broke under
the feet of the elder young man. In at
tempting to rescue his brother the other
also broke in and both were drowned.
| Their bodies were soon recovered and
shipped to the home of their parents at
Grafton, w. Va.
The Upper Rappahannock telephone
line from Tappahannock to Frederlcks-
burg has been completed and connection
made in the Office ofthe Rappahannock,
Fredericksburg and Piedmont Tele-
phone Company, which furnishes the
local service. At Tappahannock thi'
line gives communication to a large
number of other points, putting the en-
tire south side of the Rappahannocs
river in telephone touch with Freder
| icksburg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
Openinp East Indian Exhibition.

Delhi, India, Dec. 3O.--Viceroy
Curzon opened the Indian fine arts exhi-
btion at II o'clock this morning. The
exhibition consists of the finest collection
of priceless art works ever combined in
the East. The Duke and Duchess Of
Connaught, who are representing King
Edward at the Durbar, and brilliant
assembly of native princes, together with
crowd of the general public, were
present at the opening. Lord Curzon
made an address to the assembly. The
ruling chiefs in gorgeous costumes were
grouped about the hall, OIL raised daises,
After the formal opening Lord Curzon
passed about the hall greeting the
princes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
CAUTION.

This is not a gentle word-but when
you think how liable you are not to pur-
chase the only remedy universally known
and remedy that has had the largest
sale of any medicine in the world since
1868 for the cureiand treatment of Con-
sumption and Throat and Lung troubles
without losing its great popularity all
these years, you will be thankful we call
ed your attention to Boschee's German
Syrup. There are so many ordinary
cough remedies made by druggists and
Others that are cheap and good for light
colds perhaps, but for severe Coughs
Bronchitis, Croup-and especially for
Consumption, where there is difficult
expectoration and coughing during the
nights and mornings, there is nothing
like German Syrup. The % cents size
has just been introduced this year.
Regular size IS cents. For sale by Els.
Ieadbeater az Sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
TUESDAY EVENING. DEC. 80, 1902

THE NORTH winds blow keen and the
frost bites with an indiscriminate tooth
but coal is taxed, and why, only the
coal trusts can tell. The passage OF one
Of tire simple resolutions to remove the
tariff on coal introduced in Congress
during its recent three weeks session,
and which could have been done in five
minutes. would have increased the sup
ply of coal and lessened its cost ma
terially, but Congress is so completely
controlled by the protectonists and the
trusts that each and every measure look
ing to such relief of the people was
Dioeonholed and will so remain. The
demand for more coal and at lower
nrices is now universal, even the papers
published in Pennsylvania, the State
which produces the largest quantity OF
coal and which it is enormously claimed
bv the protectionists is benefited by the
high tariff on that fuel, joining IN the
demand for relief from the extOrtions
and inconvenience to which people are
subjected from the coal trusts. One Of
these papers, the Philadelphia North
American, demands the repeal of the
duty on coal and says:
at is now certain Mr.. Baer and his
brother operators cannot redeem their
promise that there will be no coal famine
this winter, and many large consumers
are looking to the British market for
supplies. 1t is not likely that any great
amount of foreign coal will be brought
to this port, for Philadelphia and the
vicinity are being far better provided for
than other sections of the Atlantic sea-
hoard. New York and Boston are al
ready drawing on Great Britain, and be-
fore the winter is over their orders
promise to reach large figure. AT pre-
vailing prices the best grades of Welsh
and English coal can be brought to the
dock in this country, after all charges,
including the tariff of 81 cents ton,
have been paid, for something less than
$3.50. Allowing 1925 for unloading,
handling and delivery, this coal can be
retailed at fair profit for IS. This is
much less than the consumer is paying
in many other cities, and isapproximate-
ly the price charged in some parts of
Philadelphia. Whatever the price, there
is an appalling shortage of fuel every
where. The conditions for the next few
months will be full of peril to the health,
comfort and prosperity of the country.
In this emergency one simple means OF
securing partial relief exists. The repeal
of the duty on all coal would encourage
imports considerably, and by so much
temper precarious situation. 1t is a
poor time for hide-bound protectionists to
triAe with the patience of people who
are deprived Of needful fuel"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
Fun ON stock Exchange.

New York, Dec. 30.-Arrangements
we're completed for the Notification on
the produce exchange tomorrow after
noon, commenting at p. m. The stock
exchange members have been invited to
participate. and feature of the fun will
be tug Of war. The Seventh regiment
band will furnish music while members
will endeavor to carry out little musical
programme of their own with the aid of
SIX hundred tin horns, flutes, and
crickets. Ten professional cake walkers
will be on hand, and six hurdle races
are scheduled. To make things still
more interesting 100 bags of confetti
will be provided.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
From Richmond.

Especial dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette.l
Richmond, Dec. S0.-C. Lee Moore
is likely to land in a nice position with
the corporation commissioners: de is
the leading candidate for chief clerk
with a salary of 50, 500, and friends say
if he doesn't get this they will press him
Tor insurance commissioner at the same
salary. His appointment will give great
satisfaction here with the business men
and all others. An insurance bureau
will be created, with the commissioner to
be elected by the legislature.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
Train Robbers Fooled.

Louisville, KY, Dec. 3O.-A single
armed robber early this morning attempt
ed to hold up the Louisville & Nashville
train from the north which is due here
at 2:3O a. m. The attempted hold up
was within the city limits four blocks from
the residence portion of the town. Just
as the conductor had started to go
through the train the man jerked him
by the shoulder, whirled him around
and said: "Holdup your hands" The
conductor threw up his hands, but in
doing so, struck the robber in the face.
The robber then fired. The bullet struck
Keen on the top of the head, but made
only flesh wound Keen ducked and
rushed into the baggage car, where he
grabbed Winchester from rack and,
returning to the smoker fired at the flee
ing robber who threw up his hands and
the beliefs that he was killed but when
daylight came no trace Of the man could
be found.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30

You frequently hear mention Of dead Ian
guages. Well, some facts are even deaderr
but these are not the kind The New York
Tribune Almanac deals in. By way Of verify.
ing that, just take cursory glance over the
issue for 1903, which is now on sale. 1t Is not
an Almanac in the dictionary sense of the
word. but is really a ready reference and
guide book, containing everything that such
a compilation ought to have, And the ma,
terial has been garnered and slfted and tested
with the utmost care so as to secure absolute
accuracy, or at least get as near to 1t as
honest. painstaking endeavor will bring. one.
Herein viii be found perfect mine OF infor-
nation on topics Of interest, not only to every
American. hut likewise TO all who care to
know about rs our laws, population, officials,
and soforth. There isn't anything missing in
the way of records which the average man
will want 10 tnow about. In fact.i is really
not an e1ag q to say that of the hundred
and one things sane person wants to know,
at least ninety-nine will be found IN The
Tribune Almanac.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30

OPPOSITION to the Cuban reciprocity
treaty is increasing among Senators and
in view of the fact that it must be rati-
fed, if at all, before January 3lst,
President Roosevelt is manifesting
anxiety over its fate. His inquiries
among Senators has developed the fact
that an effort is being made to effect a
coalition between the beet-sugar Sena-
tors who oppose the Cuban treaty and
the New England Senators who oppose
the Newfoundland and French treaties,
together with the Florida and Cali
fornia Senators who disapprove of the
importation of cheap fruits from the
British West Indies with which treaties
are also pending The argument is
being made that if the Cuban treaty
should be ratified, it would Immediately
result in demands from Germany and
other sugar producing countries OF
Europe for similar concessions on their
beet sugars, under the most favored ma
ton clause. This proposition has
aroused the protection sentiment in the
Senate which objects to any lowering OF
the schedules, even through reciProc-
ity treaty and it is not at all improbable
that they will defeat the treaty. This
is but another instance of the power
exerted over Congress by the trusts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
Southern Freight Traffic Changes.

The following changes in the freight
traffic representatives of the Southern
Railway have been made, to take effect
January l: J. r. Mock, commercial
agent, Columbus, Ga; G. E. Bell, COM
mercial agent, Augusta, Ga, vice NJ. B.
Hutchinson, resigned to accept service
with another line: G. A. Emerson, COM
mercial agent, Savannah, Ca, w. A.
Turner, travelling freight agent, Augusta,
Ga; T. r. Barlow, travelling freight
agent, Columbus, Ca, Ernest Schauble,
travelling freight agent, Chicago, HIS;
NJ. b. Henry, travelling freight agent,
jacksonville, Fla, S. c. Black, COM
merciaI agent, Mobile, Ala; J. ID.
Bowling, travelling freight agent, Dallas,
Tex.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30

DISPATCHES from Louisville, Ky,
state that soft coal is selling in that city
at $3.50 per ton and that the people
there are not interested in the hard Goa
situation in this section of the countryl
The Louisville people are much to be
envied, but why coal which sells in that
city at 81. so per ton shoald cost from
IS. so to Sc. so in Alexandria and Wash
ington is a question that only the dealers
can answer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs

Owing to the illness of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the Vanderbilt house party
at the Biltmore House, n. c., has been
abandoned.
Neue Erie Presse today says that
Premier Won Koerber has handed in his
resignation as a consequence of the hitch
between himself and Hungarian premier
De Sell, in the arranging of renewal of
the Ausleich. The resignation, the
paper says, has not been accepted.
A through freight train on the Monon
Railway, ran into an open switch at
Quincy, Ind, and rolled down an IS
foot embankment today. The engineer,
fireman and brakeman were killed.
Eight or nine ears were completely torn
up and many he'd Of cattle were killed.
Hundreds of tons of coal were wrecked
in collision on the SchuylkilI Valley
division Of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
near ShoemakcrsvilIe, early this morn
ing A northbouud freight train ran
into a coal train while the latter was
making for siding and about fifteen
cars loaded at the mines yesterday were
wrecked.
In terrible street ear accident at
Marion, Ind, this morning, thirty
people were seriously injured. A street
car filed with passengers was running
at lively rate of speed, when suddenly
it struck an obstruction and jumped the
track. The car plunged down steep
EN- bankment and was reduced to a
shapeless mass. The passengers were
pinioned in the debris and many re-
ceived dangerous injuries.
In a fight at Balsom. n. c., few days ago
Rufus Jones was struck in the head with
knife by Mont Dsncan. The blade penetrat-
ed into the mans brain one and fiye-eighths
inches. where it broke off and remained until
last night, when doctors removed il and tre-
pinned Jones's skull Jones is said to have q
fair chance for recovery.
BeIated Christmas festivities last night in
the French Methodist Church at Chicago were
attended by an accident which caused the
death of Mrs Peter Under, 80 years old, and
injured two men. An explosion Of gas with
which .stereopticon tank was being filed,
partly wrecked a side room Of the church.
Benjamin Phillips, one of number of
strikers eyicted six weeks ago, committed
suicide at Hazelton, Pa, last night by drink
ing carbolic acid. He suffered from asthma
and this combined with dependency over fails
ure to secure work led him to suicide.
Peter A. Lentz, II years old, and James
Lurhuft, 10 years old, employed in a pack
ing house at the Chicago stock yards, quar-
relied while at work today and Lentz stabbed
Lurhuft between the ribs. Lurhuft died in
few minutes.
Miss Estella Ewing, one Of the two sisters
known as the "Ossified Women" died in
Rome, ~ Y, today. For ten years she has
been unable to move, her muscles having
practically turned to bone.
Ex-Congressman Henry Lee Morey died
suddenly at Hmilton, o., this morning. He
was elected TO Congress in 1880, and again in
1888. He had always been an active repub
lican.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-30
Beware of Ointments for CatarrlI
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely deange the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used ex
cept on prescriptions from reputable physi-
clans. as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by f. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, o., contains
no mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine. II is taken
internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.
J. Cheney and Co Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price zoe per bottle.
HALLS Family Pills are the best.