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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

In Shenandoah county, the apple crop
is so large that the distilleries are not
able to handle half of it, and many
thousands of bushels are falling and are
left to decay on the ground.
Sheriff Steenburgh has just returned
from Malone, n. Y, the scene ofthe MUIR
der of Orlando p. Dexter, at Santa Clara,
and says the reports that the assassin
was known and would be arrested this
morning are false.
A powder magazine at Soa Sebastiao,
Portuguese, East Africa, exploded today
and many casualties arc reported. The
fire, at last reports, was spreading in the
direction of a second magazine, which,
it was feared, would also explode.
The charge of Chief Justice Loree, of
the Supreme Court of Delaware, to the
grand jury assembled at Wilmington,
DEL, today at the fall opening eff the
courts, was principally made up of a
ringing declaration against lynching.
A heavy Southern Railway freight
train filled with freight colided at
Boone's Station, about six miles from
Portsmouth, Virginia, today, and was
burned. G. T. johnson, agent and telegraph
operator, and a brakeman are reported miss
ing, and Engineer Jewett was badly injured
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, says a
general strike OF the Amalgamated Asso-
ciatiou OF Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
against the United States Steel Corpora
ton, is now not improbable. The Ma
iional Tube Company, subidiary concern
of the Steel Combine, having refused to
T cognize the Amalgamated Association.
Chicago trade unions will refuse TO
bind themselves with agreements in order
that sympathetic strikes cannot be call
ed at any time ifa recommendation made
by organizer John Fitzpatrick, ofthe Fed
Grafton of Labor, yesterday is adopted.
The recommendation is the most sensa-
tional ever introduced in any central
labor body, and if carried out as planned,
will revolutionize the local labor move
nent and permit the calling of strikes,
sympathetic or otherwise, whenever a
union sees fit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
MEDICINAL.
Keeping Promises.
Alexandria Appreciates
Always When Promises
Are Kept.

Every time you read about Doan's Kidney
Pills you are told they cure every form of
kidney ills from backache 70 urinary disord.
ers. How are our promises kept? Ask any
citizen who has tried the treatment. Ask the
lady who makes the following statement:
Mrs. J. B. Parker, wife of J. B. Parker,
fireman on the Southern Railway, residence
POI Cameron street, says: 81 have the best Of
reasons for stating that Doan's Kidney Pills
are a very reliable remedy for the back. OF
late the pain across my loins was often so Sc
we're that was in misery and unable TO do
any homework with any degree of ease and it
made me restless at night, so could not sleep
comfortably in any position and as a conSe-
quence arose in the morning tired and poor
ly prepared TO commence the days duties.
Willing 10 try almost anything 10 get relief,
when a friend of mine advised me 10 use
Doan's Kidney Pills, as they were never
failing cure for such symptoms. followed the
advice and went TO L. $. Leadbeater 4 Sons
drug store for box. To say | was suTpri ed
at the results of the treatment after a day or
two very mildly expresses the fact, and TO say
that was pleased when the last attack disap-
peared, feebly states the truth"
For sale by all dealers. Price 90 cents
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y,
sole agents for the United States. Remember
the name Doans and take no substitute.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
Lansburgh & Bro,
42O to 426 Seventh Street,
WASHINGTON. DC.

vors the British shipbuilders collectively
producing the next challenger. Amer
lea, he said, had improved upon the
British design, thus producing the racing
wonder Reliance.
The Berlin Preussische Correspondent
today quotes Herr BALM, head of the
Hamburg-American steamship line, as
stating that both his line and the North
German Lloyd had been injured through
their connection with the Morgan steam
ship trust. Morgan" Balhn is quoted
as saying, succeeded in buffing the
German companies. American smart
ness oyercame German caution. Morgan
literally mesmerized the leaders of the
shipping industry, at Hamburg and
Bremen, and the German government at
Berlin. His fascination even extended
to Potsdam. The German companies
out ought to have penetrated Morgan's
bluff, Immediately"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
To Make Forests OF Waste Places

Omaha, Neb., Sept. 21.-Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson spent yesterday in
Omaha, returning from the irrigation
convention. While in Nebraska, he
investigated the results obtained in
planting and raising pine trees in the
sand hill district Of the State. He says
eighty acres of fine young timber of this
class is now growing on thevery worst of
the sand hills, and there is no doubt that
the means of making forests Of these
waste places has been found. He said
there was ne doubt that the cutting of the
forest at the head waters of the Ohio and
its tributaries was responsible largely for
the floods in that stream.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
EOREIGN NEWS

King Edward today unveiled monu-
ment of Queen Victoria in the church
a. Crathie, Scotland.
The newspaper De Peche at Toulouse,
France, today publishes dispatch from
Algiers, stating that three French col
umns have been ordered to be ready to
march on Fee.
A committee has been appointed con-
sisting of representatives of the Clyde
shipbuilders, the admiralty and the Gu
nard Steamship Company to investigate
the practicability of turbine engines for
the two mammoth Cunard liners about
to be built.
The German metal manufacturers to-
day decided to crush the strike of 3, 900
workers which has teen in progress for
some days by locking out the remaining
1000 employees until the others resume
work. One hundred ard seyenty-three
factories are Idle as the result.
William Fife, jr., designer of Sir
Thomas Lipton's shamrock III, arrived
at his home in Glasgow today. He IA
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Mrs. Mary McCarty, widow OF Lam
don McCarty. died at her home at Fred
ericksburg on Saturday Of typhoid fever,
aged fifty-six years. She is survived by
seven children.
Mrs. George Bailey died at her home
near the Fauquier White sulphur
Springs on Friday, after having been Ill
a month with typhoid fever. She leaves
husband and several children.
The summer home of President j..
Edward Cole, of the Chesapeake Transit
Company, at Cape Henry, was totally
destroyed on Saturday by fire, and Mr.
Cole and his family had a narrow es-
cape from death.
Lumbermen state that the supply OF
cut timber on hand at the various mills
throughout the Norfolk section exceeds
the demand and that the trade is very
inactive. Business is unusually dull
and most of the mills have yards full OF
unsold timber.
A stubborn fire, at o'clock yesterday
morning, totally destroyed the lroquois
restaurant, on east Main street, Char
lottesville, and did much damage to the
adjoining storerooms occupied by Jarman
& Stevens, bookdealers, and Coyington
& Peyton, china merchants.
The County and Circuit Courts OF
Northumberland county have been ex-
ceptionally freeof criminal cases, there
having been only one criminal case OF
importance during the past six or seven
years. The jail has had within its walls
but one criminal in the last eighteen
months.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21

HAzINe Is again in full blast at the
Naval Academy, despite the assurances
given last ilall by the midshipmen that
all molestation of underclassmen should
cease. These assurances we're given by
the class. which last year was the third
and is the second this year, to Superin-
tehdent Brownson, but the pledges o.
the cadets have been broken and no re-
lance can hereafter be placed in their
word. Every one of them caught in the
cowardly and brutal practice should be
shipped at once and their places given
to others. The country is full Of young
men willing and anxious to secure the
appointments aud even wholesale dis
charge from the Naval Academy would
MT iniure the country a particle. a
new superintendent should also be ap-
pointed, for man given the power OF a
commandant of a naval school who Is
not fully able to stop hazing should be
made to stand aside for one who can.
This haziug, besides heing brutalizing,
has had a most disastrous effect upon
the conceptions of honor which exist at
the academy. Every midshipman takes
an oath when they enter the academy to
abide by its regulations, yet they vii
fully disobey the plain rule against haz-
ing. They persist in the statement that
there is no hazing, when, as matter OF
fact, simply the name has been changed.
The GROWING act Of insincerity, how
ever. is found in their treatment OF the
pledge given to the superintendent last
fall to stop all molestation Of underclas'
men. This promise, they state, was
under compulsion, and so not binding
The fact of it is that Naval Academy
affection hangs to this practice of hazlne
to such an extent that most of those at
tached to the academy have their views
entirely perverted by it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
Devastated by Fire and Plague.

st. Petersburg, Sept. 2l.-Word was
received today OF destruction by fire aud
locusts in several of the provinces. A
report from the Government ofVolhynia
states that the town of Ostrog was dam
aged by fire to the extent Of 500, 600,
and that 500 persons are homeless. The
two villages of Sergatchs and Kokshar-
oqoi were also badly damaged by fire.
At Sergatchs 400 houses were destroyed,
as well as large quantities ofgrain. Eight
persons were killed. At Koksharogoi
eighty houses and large stores of grain
we're consumed. Reports from Askabad,
the capital OF the district Of Transcaspai,
state that locusts have destroyed the cot
ton crop amounting to 10000 bales.
The locusts also destroyed 60, 500 pools
of wheat, 745 pools of rye and 20, 900
fruit trees in the Dessiatines territory.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
EIoned with Nfotber-in-Iaw.

Chicago, H., Sept. 2l.-'I found af-
ter had married the daughter that |
had made mistake in not marrying the
mother. She and are Of the SAME tenn
permanent. / intend to secure divorce
and then marry my present wife's
mother" This was the statement OF
James Allen, of Allegan, Mich, when
he arrived in Chicago in company with
Mrs. Mayme Johnson and was arrested.
The woman begged the police to release
Allen. "Neither of US has done any
thing wrong" she said; che would have
secured a divorce from my daughter and
then we would have been quietly mar
RED. Such things are done every day"
Allen married Mrs. Johnson's daughter
a year ago. On the wedding day, Allen
declares, he was half-inclined to change
his mind and be welded to the mother
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
TiIIman Arraigned.

Lexington, S. c., Sept 2l.-The first
step in the trial of James II. Tillman
for having shot and killed n. G. Con
zales, editor of the Columbia State, was
taken today, when he was arraigned in
court for the purpose of entering plea
to the indictment charging him with
murder. The trial proper will begin
on Wednesday or Thursday and Judge
Gary will preside. Tillman says he
is confident that a verdict of acquittal
will be rendered. He will be
defended By nine lawyers, among
them the best criminal practitioners in
this State. More than 500 witnesses
have been summoned by the prosecution
and the defense Solicitor Thurmond
will have charge of the prosecution and
be will have four assistants.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21

As STATED in the Gazette's Wash
ington correspondence on Saturday H..
Smith Wooley, a former bishop OF the
Mormon Church, has been appointed by
President Roosevelt assayer of the mint
AT Boise. Idaho. 1t is regarded as GER
tain that the nomination will be fought
in the Senate aud Senator Dubois, Of
Idaho, is expected to make an attack on
the President for making the appoint
ment. The appointment Of former
Bishop Wooley is claimed to have been
in payment Of political support given by
the Mormons Of southern Idaho to the
republican ticket in 1902, the elections
resulting in the choice OF a republican
legislature, which elected w. B. Hey
burn, republican, to succeed Senator
Heitle.dt, democrat. Senator Hepburn
gave his endorsement to Wooley. 1t
will be remembered that when Mr..
Roberts, a democrat, was elected to the
House from Utah, he was not allowed
10 take his seat because he was a Nor
mon, but since then, through political
deals Mormon apostle has been elect
cd to the Senate from that State, and
now a Mormon bishop has been appoint
ed assayer of a mint in Idaho. Politics,
like circumstances, alter cases.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
Saloon Keeper Defeats Bandits.

Chicago, Sept. Elm pistol battle
with three hold-up men, who tried to
rob him in his saloon, in west Division
street, last night, William Jasinki
MORALLY wounded one of the bardits
and forced the other two to flee for their
lives. The man shot is Stanley Dettmer,
2l years old. Shortly before visiting
Jasinksi saloon the bandits visited a
saloon, in the same street, and
placing pistols to the proprietor's
head forced him to hand over his
revolver and $40. In Jasinski's saloon
there were half dozen men seated at
tables, drinking, when the three men en-
tered. Two ofthem covered the customers
with pistols and the other, Dettmer,
told the saloon keeper to throw up his
hands. Insead Jasinski dropped to the floor
back of the bar and when he arose was
sending bullets in the direction Of
Dettmer. The latter returned the fire
but only succeeded in smashing the mir
ror, while he received a bullet in his
head and another in the body. As the
two men ran from the saloon the police
commanded them to halt, but were an
swered with volley of bullets. The
fire was returned and although no one
was hit, the police captured the men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21

If the story told by certain stock
holders Of the National Salt Company
he true one of the most remarkable cases
of trust wrecking ever brought before
the public is to be aired in the courts.
The company is an 81 600, 600 corpo-
ration, and yet at the sale of the assets
they brought only 1897, 800, and it now
develops that there is a claim of $780,
600 against the proceeds Of the sale In
bill of complaint filed by Charles T.
Terry. Of New York, who represents
several Stock Exchange houses, besides
private investors of the National Salt
Company, he charges directors of the
old National Salt Company with deliber-
ately wrecking the company for their
own benefit and profit. The second part
takes up the thread when new party
boards the helpless craft and practically
acquires control Of the assets Of the COM
panv for S37, 800. "At this time" says
a stakeholder, eve wanted to commence
bankruptcy proceedings, but found that
every avenue was closed Claim after
claim had been transferred and the notes
given to the Ohio Salt Company were
not considered tangible evidence on
which to begin a suit. 1t was found
that those who had profted by the wreck
of the old company were attempting to
obtain control of what was left Of the
ship and had acquired all the claims"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21

10 Stlmuldtc ASthfisJ III aSh'd
Baltimore, Sept. 2l.-Soon after the
arrival Of Cardinal Gibbons from Europe
it is expected that the brief issued by
Pope Plus X. in favor of the Catholic
University will be promulgated. The
brief was issued by the Pope at the
instance of Cardinal Gibbons and is in
tended to stimulate the interest and
activity of American Catholics in the
United States toward the university,
especially in the particular of giving it
substantial support. Pope Plus states
that he will grant special partial and
plenary indulgences to all who will
assist with gifts and. offerings in extend
ing the sphere of work undertaken by
the founders of the institution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
Cahinet Xncnncies FILLED

London, Sept. THE St. james
G azeite today announces that King Ed
ward has approved the appointment OF
the following men to posts in the
cabinet made vacant by designations
Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor Of the
Exchequer Lord Selborne, Colonial
Secretary Arnold Forster, Secretary for
War; w. st. John Brodrick, Secretary
for India. The Gazette adds that it has
also on good authority that Lord Stanley
will be made Postmaster Gen eral to sue
eeed Austen Chamberlain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
nRusiness NIinister' in Trouble.

Chicago, Sept. 2l.--Rev. DR.. George
F. Hall, pastor of the Bush Temple of
Music, whose latest enterprise, the
Chicago-Texas Land and Lumber Com
pany, is described as "a snare for the
unwary," by the official organ and the
lumber trades, is known as a
business minister. Recently he launch
a company with a stock capitalization of
%, OOG, 600, incorporated under the laws
of South Dakota. The acquisition of
II, 900 acres of timber land in Texas and
Louisiana, is the object of the company
Ministers all over the country are asked
to invest their savings in the deal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21

The GIRLS CANE BACK.-The four
masted schooner Massachusetts, arrived
at Norfolk yesterday practically bare Of
canvas. From her rigging so long white
streamers float. These were the re-
mains of the big sails after the hurri-
cane of last Tuesday got through whip
ping the canvas into ribbons. Aboard
The schooner, waving their hands to
.hcse aboard ferryboats passing as the
Massachusetts, came to anchor, were the
two young women, Hattie Story and
Blanche Montgomery, who three weeks
ago sailed from Norfolk to New York as
The guests of Capt. n. V. Lane, COM
mander Of the Massachusetts,. After the
urls sailed their fathers threatened to
have Captain Lane arrested, but as the
mothers of the adventurous young women
came forward and said they bad given
their daughters permission to make the
voyage prosecution was abandoned.
The girls said they had had ''the time Of
their lives" They visited many places Of
amusement in New York, went aboard
the Yacht Shamrock, were introduced to
Sir Thomas Upton and received calls
aboard the Massachusetts from Mr.. Ar
buckle, the coffee magnate, and Edward
smith. the millionaire owner Of the yes
sell The girls were in their cabin asleep
when the hurricane hit the Massachusetts,
last Wednesday morning about 3 o'clock
They said they were thrown out of their
bcrths to the floor and lay there seasick
until the blow was over. Captain Lane
saws his sails were old and the loss Is not
great, as he saved his anchors, and the
spars and hull are uniniured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
CHARGED With Murder.

Suffolk, Va, Sept 2l.-Uharged
with the murder of Peter Winborne
Odom, who one night last week, was
called from his home in Southampton
county. and shot to death, Ida Odom,
his widow. 0. A. Alley aud Grover
Blow. all white, were arrested yesterday
aud put in prison at CORTLAND. The
warrants we're sworn out by the victim 5
brother, Berry Odem. Alley is accused
of being the principal, the dead man S
widow and Blow being held as accom-
plices. Alley is accused of intimacy
with Mrs. Odom.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

General Macarthur, commanding the
Department of California, says there Is
no justification for the many desertions
from the army.
Lord Balfour, of Burleigh, Secretary
for Scotland, and Arthur r. d. Elliot,
Financial Secretary to the British
Treasury, have resigned.
DIR. K. o. Austin. of Chicago, was
found dead in his Office, yesterday, his
death resulting from the use Of poisonous
drugs with which he was experiment
ing.
At a Robert Emmett commemoration
meeting in Chicago yesterday, reselu'
tons we're adopted declaring that moth
ing short of absolute independence
would satisfy the Irish.
Robert Fulton Cutting, the multimil-
lionaire, has announced his candidacy
for the Board of Aldermen Of New York
in the district in which Charles +. Muir
ply, the Tammany leader, lives.
Nathan Swift, son of Louis F. Swift,
the Chicago packer, died yesterday from
the effects of blow on the temple with
a polo bail, at Onwentsia field, in the
progress of game. The accident was
at first thought to be trihing.
John J. Ryan, who has demonstrated
repeatedly that he is the heaviest plunger
on the turf, won $50, 600 at the Graves
end race track on Saturday. 1t came to
him in three piles-SS5, COCOON Caughna-
waga, S25, 600 on McChesney, and $780,
900 on Irene Lindsey.
The building occupied by the William
Koch Importing Company, 322 West
Baltimore street, Baltimore, was Quilted
by fire on Saturday evening, involving Il
loss to the stock and building and to
surrounding properties Of approximately
a quarter of a million dollars.
During the performance Of a street
carnival company at East st. Louis,
ILL.,, on Saturday, an angry lion sprang
upon Keeper Ricardo. who was in the
cage, and tore off his right hand. Only
the prompt work Of attendants, VIII ,
beat oil the lion and dragged Ricardo
from the cage, save the keepers lie.
The lion has killed three keepers.
Z. r. Lewus died at his home in Bal
timore yesterday, from blows received in
a fight with Frank p. Lanehart, on
Thursday night. Lanehart was exon
Grated by a coroner's jury which met at
the Northwestern Police Staten. The
testimony showed that Lewns bad at
tackled Lanehart and his wife while they
we're returning home.
A great stir has been created at Bar
Harbor, Me, by the discovery that one
of the social lions Of the season, who
came under the guise of titled for
eigner. is no other than a former seryan
in the Gerry household, New York, and
at one time waiter in the Cafe Ritz, in
Paris. Society is now seeking to learn
who introduced him, but he was picked
dp so quickly and universally that the
blame cannot be fixed.
Judge Russell, Mayor Of Cans, l. T.,
on Saturday morning shot and instantly
killed two gamblers Of Cherokee blood,
named Huck Martin and Jim SPOTS,
who were advancing upon son OF the
Mayor with knives, and with the ex-
pressed intention Of cutting his throat.
Mayor Russell intorfered, and the men
threatened to cut his throat and adj
vanced upon him, when he fired, Both
men fell in their tricks dead
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
a DISPATCH FROM Charlottesville

a DISPATCH FROM Charlottesville
says
General Superintendent Collins, of
the Southern Railway, accompanied
by prominent officials, arrived here on
Thursday from Salisbury, \. c. The
object oi their visit Was TO plan improve
ments lor the union station. The build,
Jog is 20 be enlarged aud repaired
new reception parlors furnished, the
sheds extended and new tOilet-rooms
added. When the work is done Char
ottesulie viii have one of the most at
tractive railway stations in Virginia.
Mr.. Collins should lose no time in
having the depot property of the South
ern road in this city improved, for the
present building is disgrace and would
be condemned in every other city but
Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-21
The Genuine " Counterfeits.

The genuine is always better than coun-
terieit but the truth Of this statement is
never more forcibly realized or more thor
oughly appreciated than when you compare
the genuine DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
with the many eounterfeits and worthless sub
stltntes that are on the market. W. ), Led
better OF Shreveport, La, says: AFTER
nsing numerous other remedies without bene-
nj, one box Of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye
cured ne For blind, bleeding, itching and
Rlr,9iruding piles no remedy is equal 70 DE,
druggists.