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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
FOREIGN NEWS.

The American squadron, in command
of Rear Admiral Cotton, arrived at
Gibraltar today from Lisbon.
The Spanish Cabinet, has ratified the
Grant of 500, 900 pesetas, made by the
COrtes, for exhibits at the coming St.
Louis Exposition.
But little damage was done by the
earthquake shock of last night which
shook all Lisbon. The populace, how
ever, is in a panicky frame of mind fear
ing that other disturbances will follow.
A Vienna dispatch reports that the
advices received there today from
Salonica state that the insurgents last
night succeeded in blowing up the
customs house at Zibevche small
town on the Albanian frontier
The London Pail Mall Gazette prints
a dispatch from Berlin in which it is said
that the German government has been
assured that the Balkan situation is not
serious, and that the present situation is
the last Pickering of an extinguishing
candle.
A st. Petersburg dispatch declares
that robbers are causing a reign of terror
in the Caucasus and that the military
seems powerless to subdue them. The
latest outrage reported was the murder
of the guard and the stealing of a
quantity of valuable mail matter
King Peters three children, Prince
Helen and the Princess George and
Alexander, arrived at Belgrade today and
were accorded an enthusaitic reception.
The city was decorated prOfusely with
the national colors and will be illumi-
mated in an elaborate manner this
evening.
The minister for foreign affairs, Count
Lamsdorf, has sent telegram to the
Russian Ambassador at Constantinople
to demand the immediate punishment of
the Turkish sentry who shot and killed
the Russian consul at MOnastir on Sat
urday morning. The foreign office is
determined that it will exact every
measure due it in connection with the
murder of Consul Rostkovsti, and will
not be blinded by meaningless apologies
from the Sultan.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10

REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT BAKER, Of
BROOKLYN, N. Y, is no lingo. He not
only does not believe in war, but he
thinks the United States is degrading
itself by maintaining the naval and mill
tarv academies. Mr.. Bakers love OF
peace is so strong that his conscience
would not permit him to appoint cadet
to the Naval Academy. He was entitled
to one appointment, butrefused to make
it because he is opposed to having men
taught the art of war. In explaining his
refusal to make the appointment, he says
he believes that war is avoidable, and
that it is as cowardly to excuse the train
ing of men to the art of murder as it Is
for individuals to wipe out any trivial
aaront in blood. He declares that the
American people could do no better SER
vice to humanity than by openly con-
demning war and warlike preparation,
and stating that he wouldnOt be party to
any war unless an actual attack was
made on the United States by force OF
arms. This is the same member-elect
who declined Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road pass. Mr.. Baker is one of the few
men who nowadays practice what they
preach.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
Important Question Before L. o. o. f

Baltimore, Aug. 10.-One of the i'm
portant questions to be considered at the
meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
next month in this city is the admission
of male persons of mixed Indian blood
A resolution to that effect will be sub
mitted by a representative from the
West. At present only free white males
are eligible for membership in the order,
although repeated efforts have been made
to amend the constitution so that where
there is a person composed of Indian
and white blood the state, district or
territorial Grand Lodge or encampment
may provide for the admission of such a
class.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
Horrible Case of CannibaIism.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 1O.-A peasant
woman named Kasserchi, wife Of an
exile on the island Of Saghalin in the
Gulf of Tartary, has informed the police
that her husband had murdered three
men, and had eaten a portion of their
bodies, after which he had fed the rest
to the pigs. In proof of her story she
led the officers to a place in the garden
where the head of one of the men was
buried. Kasserchi when arrested, made
no secret of his crime, but admitted it in
a boastful manner. He declared that
he had never eaten anything that had
tasted better than human blood. He
also produced a jar in which he has kept
a quantity of human fat which he had
used to grease his boots.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10

The bishop and archbishops kissed his
foot and right knee, while the aboots
kissed only his foot. The Pope then
walked to the shrine of st. Peter for the
eliminating rites of the extreme iatlgulng
ceremony. The whole Sacred College
gathered about the Pope, singing pales,
trina's Corona Aurea Super Caput EJus'
while the choir burst forth into song
Cardinal Macchi then recited the
"Pater Noster" and offered prayer
Cardinal Segna then raised the Pom
t;g7s inter. and Cardinal Macchi placed
on the Pope's head the triple crown;
At this moment the church was filled
with the ringing of bells, the blowing OIL
silver trumpets, the triumphant strains
of the choir and the reclamation OF the
multitude, which could no longer be re-
pressed.
Pope Plus was quite overcome as ne
impaired the apostolic benediction. Gar
dinals Macchi and Segna granted a pie
nary indulgence to all present, and the
procession then reformed and lett the
Basilica in the same form as it came.
The officials of the Vatican refused
diplomatists accredited to the Quirina
any facilities for being present at the
coronation. Nevertheless, some of them
were there as private individuals through
the courtesy of their colleagues of the
French Embassy to the Vatican.
A majority of those who witnessed the
coronation, it is estimated, were on then
feet for ten straight hours five in wait
ing and five occupied in the ceremonies
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Oar Men Acquitted.

Especial dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette
Richmond, Aug. 1O.-In the Hust-
ings Court here today Lainmey, Jordan
and the two Kanes we're acquitted of the
charge of riot and the case OF OBJ
structing the tracks Of the Passenger and
Power Company in Fulton was nolle
pressed. The instructions OF the court
were sweeping and left the jury no al.
Tentative save verdict of ''not guilty
which was rendered upon the advice OF
Commonwealth Attorney Richardson,
the Jury not leaving the box. The men
were all bailed for their appearance at the
September term to answer the charge OF
throwing rocks and shooting at cars.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
GOOD ADVICE,

The most miserable beings in the
world are those suffering from Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint. More than
seventy-fve per cent. Of the people in
the United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effects: such as
Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual
Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart,
Heartburn, Water-brash, Gnawing and
Burning Parns at the Pitof the Stomach,
Yellow Skin, Coated Tangue and Dis
agreeable Taste in the Mouth, CominG
up of Food after Eating, Low Spirits
etc. Go to your Druggist aD', get a
bottle of August Flower FIR 25 or IS
cents. Two doses wil) relieve you.
Try it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
The Kaiser In q Rage.

Berlin, Aug. 10.-Emperor William
is expected to reach Potsdam on Thurs
day from his scandinavian tour and he
will hold a crown council Immediately.
A crown council is only summoned on
extraordinary occasions, and the present
case was caused by the Emperor's exas-
peration owing to the Prussian Minis
tery's huge blunder in refusing aid to
the population of Silesia who are in the
utmost distress owing to the devastation
wrought by the recent floods. The min
lister told the applicant for assistance to
rely upon private charity and then most
of the ministers started on their summer
vacation. Emperor Williams anger
when he was informed Of the action of
the ministery was unbounded. He
telegraphed the Empress to go to Silesia
and order the ministers to abandon
their vacations and to superintend the
State relief work. The Emperor is now
hurrying home to wreak vengeance upon
those notables whose action endangered
the monarch's popularity and has driven
thousands into the camp ofthe socialists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
MONDAY EVENING. AUG. 10, 1908.

SHORT AS was Saturdays session oil
the New York Stock Exchange, 1t was
long enough to enable new low records
10 be made in stocks. The opening
was inauspicious, first prices being, as a
rule under Fridays close; and little
or no support was interposed against inc
renewed liquidation and the confident
selling of the shorts. With the appear
ance of the bank statement, with Its
showing of nearly $4,000, 900 in loans
in spite of the heavy liquidation which
had been in progress during the week,
the decline became a rOut, prices break
ing with violence, and the general list
closed with serious net losses. The tone at
the end of the session was one OF anxiety,
and predictions Of further possible fail
ures were freely made. There was dis
trust where there had been confidence
before and encouragement where there
was unbounded hope. A feeling of I'M
certainty and foreboding pervades finan-
eial circles. Investors have drawn lnto
their shells and wait for other times;
spectators, badly hurt, are afraid, and
the belief is general that many corpora
tons have been organized with more
water in them than they could carry; that
many stocks have been inflated to the
bursting point and that new level will
have to be found before the market gets
fully settled
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
Fortune In a hustle.

St. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 1O.-Mrs.
August Vanclerke, of Shawnee, Kan,
has reported to the station authorities
that she had lost hustle containing
81, 800 on the way to st. Paul on a Rock
Island train. Mrs. Vanclerke, who is
we'll advanced in years, said that she
feared to leave her money in a bank,
and thought that it would be safe if she
sewed it in her hustle. This she did,
and then started on journey to Pierce,
Mimi, to visit her son-in-law. When
within thirty miles of st. Paul Mrs.
Vanclerke s&id she left her berth to
finish dressing. Shortly afterward she
missed the valuable piece of apparel,
and she thought that it fell from the
train window. A searching party has
been sent out.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Manassas Gap Copper Mines are
now preparing to install their smelling
plant.
Mrs. Mary Anderson, widow Of Peter
Anderson, died at Fort Royal on Satur-
day aged rs years.
Miss Alice Ogilyie Harrison, daughter
of Carter Harrison, Of POwhatan county,
and Mr.. John Werth will be married
in Richmond on August 10.
Charles w. Plunkett, well-known
resident of Newport News, committed
suicide yesterday afternoon by shooting
himself through the head with revolver
Two colored men we're killed and sew
eral others injured by the premature ex-
plosion of dynamite blast in the yards
of the iron furnace, at Bristol on Satur-
day.
Blackburn Smith has been declared
the democratic nominee TO succeed him
self as the member of the legislature
representing the counties of Clarke and
Warren.
Bert Walter, ship carpenter, shot
and killed John Bland near Portsmouth
yesterday morning. Shortly afterward
he surrendered, claiming that the deed
was in self-defense.
Hugh Ennis, son of Albert Ennis,
postmaster at Reams station, Dinwiddie
county, killed anegro on Saturday morn
about o'clock who was attempting TO
break into the Office.
1t is announced that the University
College of Medicine and Virginia Hospi-
tai in Richmond will hereafter be run
under one management, that of the
faculty of the college.
Rev. s. b. Dolly, a well-known min
lister of the Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, died
suddenly at his home in Fredericksburg
Saturday, aged eighty years. Mr. Dolly
was on the superanuated list OF the con-
ference.
DR.. William H. Amiss, died at his
home in Sperryville, Rappahannock
county, Saturday. He was seventy-fve
years of age, and had been in active
practice of his profession for about fifty
years, beginning in the town in which
he died.
The Blue Ridge Cotton Mills and the
Cockade City Mills, in Petersburg, were
transferred to the Virginia Consolidated
Milling Company by deeds recorded on
Saturday. The Virginia Company is
now the owner of five mills at Peters
burg.
The fifteenth annual meeting Of the
Virginia State Bar Association will be
held at the Virginia Hot Springs on
Friday, Saturday and Monday, August
DIST, 22d and Oath and will be followed
by the National Bar Association at the
same place.
While threshing wheat in Clarke
county on Saturday the engine used by
Mr.. c. K. Sewers to operate the thresh-
ing machine set fire to the straw, and
engine, threshing machine, wheat and
straw were consumed. This is the sec
ond machine Mr.. Sewers has lost in q
similar manner within a year.
The board of supervisors of Clarke
county has awarded the contract for the
erection of two steel bridges to span the
Shenandoah river at Castleman's and
Berry's ferries, in that county, to Nelson
& Buchanan, of Chambersburg, Pa.
These bridges will be constructed almost
entirely of steel, after the most approved
plan of modern bridge building, and
will be of great value TO the county.
The contract price was $50, 200.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Senator Platt and Senator Alger say
they do not believe there will be an
extra session of Congress.
1t is reported in Washington dis
matches that Gen. Nelson A. Miles IL
candidate for the democratic presidential
nomination.
The Secretary of War has issued an
order designed to prevent cruelty 10
horses in the military service, such rs
docking tails.
William E. Dodge, the New YORK
millionaire and philanthropist, died az
his summer home at Bar Harbor yester-
day, aged II years.
A gigantic corporation has been form,
ed in Trenton, N. j. to acquire and
operate department stores in all parts OF
the United States and Europe.
Richard C. Wright, colored, employed
as clerk in the Baltimore postofice, was
arrested on Saturday on the charge OF
pilfering letters from the mail.
Aristocracy, a twenty to one shot,
won the Saratoga special on Saturday
and Pitt.burg Phil is credited with win
ming forty thousand dollars on the event.
Cardinal Gibbons, after taking part in
the coronation of Plus X, yesterday, left
Rome for the American College, in
order to rest.
Shamrock III. had her last test of
Sandy Hook on Saturday. She will now
be drydocked to be finally groomed for
the races for the Americas cup, that are
to begin August 20.
The textile strike in Philadelphia,
which was inangurated 10 weeks ago,
has been practically declared of, 2,OOC
of the strikers, through their executive
board, deciding to return to work.
Another gale recently caused waves to
sweep over the Tuamotu group of islands
in the Pacific, causing loss OF life ano
property. One report says that 6,oOO
| inhabitants of the islands were drowned
The strike of trolleymen which began
thirty weeks ago in Waterbury, Conn.,
was settled yesterday, the Connecticut
Railway and Lighting Company agreeing
to take back part of the strikers at once
at the old wages, and give employment tC
the Others as soon as practicable.
Five hundred persons were thrown
twenty-five feet by the hanging gallery
of the Philadelphia baseball ground fall
ing to the pavement on Saturday even.
ing. As result eight people are deac
and two hundred victims were treated al
the various hospitals, and it is believed
that fully 100 more received attention a
various drug stores in the vicinity OF thu
ball grounds.
A tornado passed through the thichly
populated mining district north and cas-
of Pittsburg on Saturday destroyed hun
dreds of houses, mine tipples, ant
buildings of every description, level
ing to a mass of wreckage a larg
portion of every camp between tn
Devlin-MiIler shaft, north of Frontenac
and the Morgan shaft, on the State line
and covering into ruin strip of thickl!
populated territory eight miles long ant
two miles wide. At least two person
were killed and fully sixty were Injuries
in the storm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
THE BALKAN UPRISING.

Late dispatches from Hilmi Pacba,
inspector general of the reform move
ment, announce that insurgents in large
numbers in the district of Clisuri,
vilayet of Monastir, attacked the village
of Djivarck, near KastOria, massacred
the inhabitants, including woman and
children, and then furiously attacked
neighboring villages, taking many cap
tives, some of whom were burned alive.
Some Greek peasants were also killed
in one of the Kazas of the vilayet OF
Monastir, and in the vilayet of Okbrida
insurgents likewise attacked some Mus
sulman villages. They everywhere dis
played rage and ferocity and the Mus
sulman inhabitants were greatly
terrorized. The government is taking
every measure possible to suppress the
rising. NJ. Rostkovski, the Russian
Consul at Monastir, it turns out, was
murdered Saturday morning by Zaptie
"a member of the Turkish police,
who was on duty outside the consulate.
The assassin was arrested.
One explanation of the Macedonian
outbreak given in Vienna is that Hilmi
Pacha ordered the arrest of every young
Bulgarian suspect, with the result that
hundreds fed to the hills and forced
the hand of tho inner revolutionary or.
ganization.
A dispatch from Salonica says that
party of Bulgarians near Resna muir
dered the guard which was escorting the
mails to Monastir and captured large
sum of money.
The Macedonian insurgents declare
that nothing but liberty will quiet them.
A dispatch from Philippopolis dated
Saturday says: A dynamite explosion
occurred Saturday which wrecked a
number of buildings in the most thickly
populated section of the city. Up to
the present, portions of the remains of
three persons have been discovered in
the ruins. 1t is stated that the explos-
ion was the result of the police surpris-
ing band of Macedonian revolutionists
who, in their confusion, dropped the
bombs. One thousand Bulgarian in
surgents, half of whom are armed with
Mannlichter rifles and the remainder
with hatchets, are threatening the town
of Vodena, forty-six miles north Of
Saioniki. 1t is reported here that
10000 insurgents, divided into four
corps, are operating against the troops
in the villayet of Monastir, and that
10000 more are operating at Kastoria.
A military Gordon has been drawn
around Monastir, where all the shops
are closed. A number of workmen,
who have refused to repair the railways,
have been threatened with death. 1t j,
thought probable that all passenger
traffic through Macedonia will be
stopped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
Drugged Nurse and Robbed Dying
Man.

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 1O.--A crime
of the dime novel variety was perpetrated
about O'Clock this morning in Guys
Hotel, at Seventh and Chestnut streets.
Harry S. Newman, the proprietor, has
been lying at the point of death for sew
eral weeks. The night clerk, Thomas
Deerwood, is alleged to have choloformed
Miss Wells, the sick mans trained nurse,
and to have made off with about $500 in
cash belonging to Mr.. Newman. The
latter is raving in delirium, evidently
having some knowledge of the robbery.
He may die of shock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE

The State democratic committee met
in Richmond on Saturday and passed
resolutions unfolding the primary plan
as previously promulgated and fayoring
the viva voca plan of voting. The con-
test in the Tenth Senatorial district,
composed of the counties ofShenandoah,
Frederick, and the city of Winchester
was considered and the contention of S.
L. Lnpton, who is a candidate to sue
coed himself to the Senate, was upheld
and the primary as ordered by the dis
trict committee for August 5 is void and
cannot be recognized.
The following are the resolutions:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
State central committee that, except in
cases where no party nominations are
made for members of the General Assem-
bly, and for county and municipal offices,
and except in the case Of county and
municipal officers, where, for special
reasons, the local party authorities
should deem it expedient, it is the duty
of all local party authorities to cause all
nominations to be made by primary in
conformity with the regulations made
and provided in the primary plan adopt
ed by this committee.
Resolved, That we earnestly request
the local party authorities to do all in
their power to enforce the provisions Of
the primary plan TO the end that the
manner of making nominations Of party
candidates, as provided by the last con-
vention, may be duly recognized and
respected
The committee also adopted resolutions
condemning the primary plan in the
Tenth senatorial district, which admits
to the polls all white voters. The COM
mittee declares that only the democratic
voters may be allowed to vote in the
primaries.
The only business outside of the dis
cussion of the primaries was a resolu-
ton by Col. Joseph Button providing
that the plan of voting by proxy be
abolished and that quorum be required
TO be present before business can be
transacted. The plan Of voting by proxy
has obtained in the Virginia COMMITTEES
for the last 40 years. The resolution
was tabled. The attendance was small,
but those absent were represented by
proxy. For the first time in many
years the committee met in executive
session and excluded democratic re-
porters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10

ROME was the scene yesterday OF a
magnificent pageant. In its splendor
it was second to no kingly coronation,
and its significance, its associations and
its traditions make the coronation OF the
head of the Roman Catholic Church a
more imposing spectacle than the corona
of any king or emperor. The States OF
Europe as they exist today are young
compared with the Papacy, and their
subjects few compared with the millions
upon millions in every country of the
globe who bow before Plus y. as the
successor of St. Peter and the infallible
vicegerent of the Saviour Of mankind.
The ceremony of enforcement was at
tended with every feature sanctioned by
tradition and calculated 20 appeal to the
Imagination and stimulate devotion.
There was a large floating population in
Rome, probably more than at the cor
Onation Of any of Plus KS. predecessors.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10

Mr.. ROOSEVELT is playing for the
coloret vote in the States in the North
and West in which the negroes hold the
balance of power and TO this end he, it is
said, on Saturday withdrew permission
for the use of the White House grounds
for a picnic prepared by the Woman's
Rescue League for poor children of
Washington because colored children
were excluded from the feast. This was
a little piece of business and shows that,
despite his posing as a broad minded
President, Mr.. Roosevelt is narrow
minded man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-10
The Humbert Trial.

Paris, Aug. 10.-Madame Humbert
caused something of sensation in the
court room today, when the trial of her
self and her two brothers and her hus-
band was continued, by frequently in
terrupting the proceedings trying to
prevent witnesses testifying, and clam
oring for the floor. Judge Bonnet was
powerless to keep her quiet and con-
tented himself with frequently crying
MADAME Humbert, will you hush 7"
Her husband, Frederick Humbert, and
her two brothers Roman aud Emile
Daurignac, were examined but threw no
light on the swindle.