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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.

Forty prisoners confined in the jail at
Cananea, Ariz., overpowerd the jailers
and escaped.
Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of the
colonies, received Generals Botha and
De Larey at the Colonial Office in Lon
don today and had long conference.
They assert that their visit to the Colon
ial Office was unofficial.
An engine crashed down an embank
ment at the Hickston Run dam, north
of Johnstown, Pa, shortly before noon
today, into a crowd of Slavish workmen,
killing two of them and fatally injuring
another, while several workmen were
seriously hurt.
A. A. Schrah, & Company's plain
ing and moulding mill, in Newark, n.
j., four story frame building, was
totally destroyed by fire with large
quantity of lumber, at an early hour
this morning. 1t was what was left of
the main portion of the plant destroyed
three weeks ago. Two scores of families
nttC QilNcu " lilC SbiCCb IiSuO
clothes from the tenements which sur
rounded the mill and which were
damaged. Loss S35, 900.
The Pope today received in private audi
ence Bishop O'Calaghan, of Cork, who re-
ported that there was great discomfort among
the Catholics of Ireland with the repressive
laws in that country as well as over the bad
condition Of the tenantry. The Pope coun-
selled him to have patience, expressing con-
viction that the just cause would ultimately
triumph.
Arch Jones, who was indicted last week at
Erin, Tenn, on the charge Of, bigamy, is said
to have nine wives scattered through Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Three of
his alleged wives appeared before the grand
jury last week Jones is now in Jail. 1t is
said that each of Jonesis nine wives has
boy child.
Charles c. Goven, secretary of the Chicago
Provision Dealers Dispatch, is missing, and
is charged with the enlightenment of $4,000.
Ii is said that he lost the money at faro
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Virginia legislature will reconvene
tomorrow.
On Sunday the ladies bath house and
the bottling works, the property or the
Virginia HotSprings Company, at Heal
ing Springs, were destroyed by fire.
Mrs. salIie E. West, wife of Capt.
William T. West, superintendent OF the
Southern Railway in Richmond, died
Yesterday morning after an illness Of
some weeks.
Bishop Van de Vyver has gone to
New York to award the contract for the
cathedral to be erected in Richmond at
a cost of $3.50, 600, the gift of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, of New York
city.
The Board of Visitors of the Univer-
sity of Virginia have granted DIR. James
A. Harrison's request for permission to
90 to Europe in February. The request
was made on account of the doctor 5
delicate health and his greatly impaired
eyesight.
The pigskin grated to the back of
Sarah Tomkins, colored girl in Rich
mond on Saturday will apparently take
hold and grow. 1t is expected the pork
skin will in time partake of the nature
of her own skin and become soft and
smooth.
Miss Mary Lewis, daughter of Mrs.
Fielding Lewis, of Marmion, King
George county, died on Sunday evening.
Miss Lewis, who had been ill for some
time. was well known in this city, and
was one of the most popular young
ladies of her county.
Ingles & Simpson, civil engineers and
railroad contractors of Radford, have
secured the contrrct for the location and
construction of the Virginia Anthracite
Coal and Railway Company's road from
Christiansburg Depot to Blacksburg,
passing directly through the coal com
pany's valuable mines in Prices Noun
tain. The grading will begin at once.
This road will run through the richest
section of southwest Virginia and will
do much for the growth of Blacksburg
and the development of Montgomery
county.
Rev. T. II. Walker, one of the most
noted characters within the borders OF
Virginia and North Carolina, died at
Pelham Yesterday. The deceased could
probably claim the distinction of having
married more couples than any other
one man in the United States. The
little village of Pelham is situated just
across the line in the old North State
and became recognized as the southern
Gretna Green for lovelorn lads and lass
es. During the past 25 years he is said
to have married 1000 couples. Mr..
Walker was in the 18th year Of his age.
He is survived by his wife (his second
wife) one son, and l2-months old in
FAINT
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
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 cure and 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 rs cents. For sale by Els.
Leadbeater & Sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11

SHOT BY MoToRMAN.-Capt. Win
field Scott Tooker, of the Merritt & Chap
man Wrecking Company's service, who
had charge of the expedition which at
tempted to tow the captured Spanish
cruiser Maria Theresa from the southern
coast of Cuba to Hampton Roads at the
close of the Spanish-Amsrican war,
resulting in the stranding of the cruiser
on Cat Island, was shot three times in
the body and fatal y wounded in Norfolk
yesterday by J. NJ. Cahoon, motorman
of the Norfolk and Atlantic Terminal
Company, in the depot of that line on
City Hall avenue Capt Tooker had
been on bad terms with Cahoon for some
months. The latter had boarded with
the Tookers at Lamberts Point previous
to the beginning of the trouble, which
resulted in the victims separation from
his wife. 1T 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon, as Cahoon was bringing his car
into the station, Tooker was standing on
the depot platform. ''There is the man
that ruined my home," he cried out to
Constable Ferguson, of Princess Anne
who was with him and, at the
same time he drew pistol and started
toward the car. Cahoon was too quick
for him, however, and before Capt.
Tooker had gotten his weapon from his
pocket the motorman had fired the first
bullet into his adversary's throat. Two
others entered lockers stomach and
arm. Cahoon was arrested and Tooker
was carried TO st. Vihcent's Hospital,
With DIR. James G.. Riddiek, mayor of
Norfolk, attending him en- route. He
cannot live.
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Mason Discouraged From custody.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 11.-Alan
Gregory Mason, the rich society man,
who for some days was believed to be
Boston's slugger of women, is free. The
State admitted when he was called for
trial this morning that there was not
sufficient evidence to hold him. When
the prisoner was arraigned the district
attorney asked that he be discharged.
Judge Amy Immediately granted the re-
quest. The spectators attempted APP
plause, but it was suppressed. AS
Mason left the court he was warmly
greeted by number of society friends
who had been in court. George L.. y.
Perry, the negro suspect, was also ar,
raigned. He pleaded not guilty, and
was held without bail for trial No
vemher 10
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No MATTER what hopes people living
in the southern portion of the United
States may entertain of President Roose-
velfs course towards the trusts of this
country, that there is nothing to hope
from him concerning the negro element
in the South must be apparent after his
action yesterday in removing Julian III.
Bingham from the collectorship of in
ternal revenue of Alabama and appoint
ing in his stead Joseph A. Thompson,
who was backed up by Booker Washing
ton, colored. The ofense which cost
Mr.. Bingham his head was his participa-
ton in the movement to weed out of the
republican party in the South large
percentage of ignorant and shiftless
negroes. He was the choice of the
white people Of the party, but the Presi-
dent stopped his ears to their appeals in
Mr. Bingham's behalf and opened them
wide to the persuasions of Washington.
In fact Thompson is considered the
practical appOintee of this colored indi-
vidual. Southern blood may course
through the Presidents veins, but that
the cross has developed a stronger flow
of another hue seems apparent. The in
fuence of the negro upon many men,
bers of the Anglo-Saxon race has been
remarkable in by-gone years. 1t was
an epidemic in this country in the days
of Greeley, Garrison, Helper and others,
and developed in virulent form in the
person of John Brown. The cases now
are mostly sporadic, but that they DO
exist still is self-evident to observing
people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11

A REPORTED CONFESSIONAL dis
patch from Frankfort, KY, says that
Henry E. Youtsey, convict in the peni-
tertiary serving life sentence for the
Goebel murder, has signed confession,
giving the details of the plot, and this
is in the hands of the States attorneys.
This is the information that leaked out at
Frankfort through guard at the prison
Yesterday. The confession will not be
made public until the trials of those
indicted or yet to be indicted, although
il was made nearly two months ago.
Commonwealth Attorney Franklin,
when asked about the matter, declined
70 talk. and said: 81 refer you TO
Judge Cantrill" Another attorney con-
nected with the case admitted the con-
fession. but declined to talk. Justice
Goebel is at Frankfort ferreting out new
evidence, and other indictments will be
filed at the January session Of court.
Chief Justice Gutfey says both the
Powers and Howard appeals will be
passed upon before the January term.
The court is now composed of four re-
publican and three democratic judges.
On recognizing in January the court
will have five democratic and two re-
publican judges.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
The hypocracy of the Yankees would

The hypocracy of the Yankees would
be amusing were it not provoking, 1t Is
a matter of history that after owning
slaves and finding that they could not
proftably use them, they sold them to
the southern people and then set up
a sanctimonious howl to 'set the negro
Free" Now in their newspapers and
magazines, in prose and in poetry they
are inveighing against "child labor IN
the South" For nearly hundred years
the manufacturers in the North have
been employing child labor and it has
been almost the rule in that section,
when the whistles blow in the morning,
for the head Of the family to lock up the
house and take his wife and children
with him to the mills or factories where
the entire family is employed all day.
In this way they all earned money and
the manufacturing cities and towns be-
came thrifty. In Pawtucket, K. l.,
alone, of the 1000 boys between IA and
30 wears old all but 600 are wage carriers
mostly in factories. Recently numbers
of mills and factories have been started
in the South and in the manufactures
children are also employed, but their
employment in most instances is under
laws which govern the age and hours Of
work for children. These mills and fac
tories are now becoming such formidable
rivals of those in the North that the own
ers of the latter seeing they can notmuch
longer compete with them, are endeavor-
ing to devise ways to crush out opposi-
ton. so to this end are inveighing
AGAINST "child labor in the South" and
in the public prints are depicting its
horrors in the grossest and most ex-
aggerated manner. But the southern
mills are here to stay, and to compete
successfully with those in the North
must be run on as economical plans, so
will employ men, women and children,
as is done in the North Creating them
much more leniently), and let the hypo-
critics continue to rage and imagine a
vain thing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11

CAsTLEMAN's FERRY BRIDGE.-One
of the most important obstacles to be-
overcome in the construction of big
steel bridge across the Shenandoah river
at Castleman's Ferry, which carried at
Tuesdays election, is to secure a right
of-way at that point. Mr.. Decatur Os-
borne has the franchise, and it does not
expire for a long time. His property
there is understood to be increasing in
value every day, and when the time
comes to build the bridge it is not easy
to say how much the property will be
worth. 1t is expected that litigation will
follow, and in order to have his interests
protected, Mr.. Osborne has employed
Mr.. Marshall Mccormick as his counsel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
AFFAIRS IN THE COAL REGION

The strike of employees Of the G. B.
Markle Company ended yesterday and
last night some of them returned to
work. The mines at Jeddo, Highland,
and Eberyale we're working today.
They are in good condition, having been
kept dry throughout the strike by the
Emerdale tunnel and without the aid OF
nOn-union men.
Mr. Markle withdrew his request that
the strikers individually promise that
they will accept the finding of the com
mission. Instead, they met in their
local as a body and passed resolution
to that effect, which was satisfactory.
Mr.. Markle also insisted that the men
he has discharged shall not be taken
back. The strikers agreed and will care
for these men until they obtain other
positions. The firm employs 2, 800 men
and the mines last year produced l,O62,-
900 tons of coal.
The output of coal is now but little
over 200. 900 tons a day, owing to the
fact that it is impossible to get as much
work out Of the men as was done in the
same time and under the same conditions
before the strike. They have not over
come the five months idleness and their
hands and muscles are not in working
shape. The output is increasing daily,
however, and although the operators be-
lieve there will be scarcity of coal all
winter, they think that within six
weeks or two months it will be at the
normal figure for this time Of year.
President Mitchell and Secretary Will
son have decided to reduce the strike
from 81 to so cents a week
on all wages earned after November /.
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Col. John Murphy Hurt.

Richmond, Va, Nov. IL. = While
out driving this morning Col. John
Murphy, of Murphy's Hotel, with his
son and daughter, and Miss Katherine
Wilson, of Philadelphia, were struck by
street car and thrown from the trap.
Colonel Murphy received severe wound
in the side and his hand was hurt. Miss
Wilson is believed to be fatally injured,
being caught under the car after being
thrown from the trap. Miss Murphy
had her wrist and face cut, while John
Murphy, jr,, is hurtin the hip and back.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11


THE MORE that is heard of the cleo
tions recently held in Porto Rico under
the auspicies of United States super
visors, the more apparent becomes the
outrage that was perpretrated upon the
people of that country. 1t has hereto
fore been stated that the federal party
in that island would prepare manifesto
and send a committee to Washington to
protest against the methods used by the
republican party in the election. In
reference to this matter dispatch from
San Juan says:
President Palmer was asked concern
ing this plan. He said "The idea
of the committee is to call a meeting in
San Juan shortly, and then to choose
four delegates, two of whom are to be
Americans, to go to Washington and lay
the party's grievances before President
Roosevelt and ask redress. Our princi-
pal complaints are that the laws are
made for the republicans and admins
tered in their favor; the outrages and un-
disguised action of the executive council
in turning over the elections to the
republicans; the general Partially of the
government the crimes of the insular
police in countenancing lawlessness and
mob force, intimidating and driving the
best citizens away from the island, gross
election frauds and the shutting out of
members of the federal party from the
elections, and failure to take measures to
right wrongs"
1t would appear that the republican
methods of carrying elections have
already extended to the COLONIES.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, :,

FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is
senior partner of the firm of +. J. CHENEY q
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
county and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum ofONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of CATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. d. 1886.
f A. W. GLEASON,
SEAL. Notary Public.
49,
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials,
free.
F. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, 0.
Sold by all druggists, Zoe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
Molineux Trial Ended.

New York. Nov. 1.-THE jury in the
trial of Roland B. Molineux for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Katharine Adams will retire
for their deliberations late this afternoon.
A legal complexity was brought about
Yesterday by former Governor Black,
counsel for Molineux, who accused Cor
nish of the crime. District Attorney
Osborne concluded about noon. The
jury will hear Judge Lamberts charge,
then they will become the sole arbiters
of the case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
Tilted Gambler Bankrupt.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 11.-Count
Poklevsky Kczell, Russia's champion
card player, is bankrupt, after a series
of unprecedented losses. Last week
alone he lost $3.50, 900 at baccafat. He
was compelled to sell his ancestral
estates valued at 1925, 600 and besides
sacrificed his entire fortune to pay his
debts He is now destitute and intends
to emigrate to America and start afresh.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
The East River Bridge Fire.

New York, Nov. lit was stated
here this morning positively that no
lives were lost in the fire which played
havoc with the new East River bridge
last evening. All of the bridge work
men have been accounted for. If any
of the four great cables are seriously
damaged, as is feared, it will put the
bridge back more than a year. The
total property loss is estimated at $751;
900 which will fall chiefly upon the
John A. Roebling Sons Co., the con-
tractors.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
EAST RIVER BRIDGE ON FIRE.

An insignificant workshed on the
south side of the New York pier of the
new East river bridge caught fire, just
how nobody knows, at dusk yesterday
evening In three hours the blaze had
spread across the top of the tower and
through 5000 feet of lumber stored
there. Three of the four main cables,
which have been in process Of construc-
ton since August, 1901, were damaged.
They will have to be rebuilt in part, at
any rate, delaying the completion Of the
bridge. Under the main cables the
temporary bridges were suspended from
four small cables and these were burned
off and fell. With the fall of the cables
and the foot bridges there was dropped
tangle of wreckage from the New York
pier half way out over the river, like
yarn hanging from clothes line. This
constituted so much of a menace to
navigation that at one time the harbor
police shut off all traffic under the
bridge. Later boats were allowed to
pass so long as they kept within four
hundred feet of the Brooklyn shore.
AS far as could be learned at midnight
there were no men missing. One fire.
man, jeremiah Haggerty, of the fireboat
William L. Strong, was struck in the
back by bolt of red-hot iron and he
will probably die of his injuries. The
damage to the tower, the materials and
tools on it, and the foot bridges is esti-
mated at S75, 900, but this is probably
only small part of the total. The fire.
men faced almost insurmountable diff
culties in attempting to extinguish the
fire. Sparks, blazing oil and timbcrs
and of white-hot iron and steel fell for
an hour or more down through the
structure. What made it spectacle of
imposing grandeur for everybody in sight
of the great structure in Brooklyn and
Manhattan along the East River water
front was constant menaceof horrible
death to the men who were trying to save
the bridge from total destruction.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11
THE NINTH DISTRICT.

Congressman w. +. Rhea, democrat,
of the Ninth district, who was opposed
in last weeks election by Colonel Slemp,
republican, yesterday issued the follow
ing statement, in view of the legal ques-
tons that have arisen about the cleo
ton and which defines his position:
81 have not been in position until
now to make any detailed statement las
to the result of the recent election, nor
am now able but partially to do so.
The only definite Information | have
received as to the grounds upon which
any returns have been rejected has been
as TO the precincts of Austinville and
Pattison, in Wythe county, and Men
dota, in Washington county.
"While am sure that the board Of
commissioners in each of said counties
were perfectly honest and conscientious
in their belief that said returns should
be rejected because of legal technicali-
ties and that they had no legal right to
count said votes, yet believe that the
votes at the two precincts of Pattison
and Mendoza properly belong to my OPP
ponent, and would probably elect him
and entitle him to the certificate.
"Thus believing, if certificate Of
election were issued to me by the State
Board of Canvassers based upon the ex-
clusion of the precincts mentioned, ]
would decline to accept it."
Private advices from Richmond
received at Congressman Rhea's head
quarters last night state that the face
of the official returns from the Ninth
Virginia district show Rhea reelected to
Congress by $50 majority.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-11-11

ANOTHER MAN GONE WRoNG.-J.
Sherbourne Singer, paying teller of the
Mutual Alliance Trust Company of
New York, was arrested yesterday on
the charge of having stolen 81, 100 from
the bank. Singer has a wife and sew
eral children living in Philadelphia,
there is good reason to believe that the
man has left them without support.
When his desk at the bank was search
ed, letter from his wife was found,
in which she begged him to send her 81
at least, so that she might buy a pair of
shoes for one of the children. 1t was
also learned that Singer had been
spending all his leisure time and all the
money he could obtain on a strange
woman. For a whole month he spent
every evening in her company at thea
tiers and restaurants, and every night
he made her present of $40 bill.
He obtained the money, explained, by
drawing checks on the Mutual Alliance
Trust Company, and, as the paying
teller, was able to honor them when they
were presented for payment. The short
age in the days cash he made good with
money taken from bags of silver kept as
a reserve in the banks vaults. He
would only take a small amount from
each bag, thus delaying discovery. Sus-
picion against him was not aroused I'M
til about week ago, when he failed to
report for duty. The police were in
formed, and Singer was tracked to Phil
adelphia, Baltimore, Washington and
back to New York.
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A Notable Event.
Astoria.

Berlin, Nov. 1.-THE German
American club dinner to Ambassador
White, tonight, promises to be nota-
bic event. 1t is said that several OF
the cabinet members will be present.
From the standpoint OF elegance the
affair will also be notable. 1t is stated
that the dinner will cost 1925 a plate,
which is an unusually high price here,