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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
The Paris Tunnel Disaster.

Paris, Aug. ia rumor is in cir
culation today to the effect that the
authorities are deliberately concealing
from the public the extent of Monday
nights disaster, and that there is still a
passenger coach in the tunnel containing
a number of bodies. Color is given to
this report by the fact that several en-
ployes of the company are still missing,
including an engineer and conductor.
Various people have also called to look
up missing relatives, but have failed to
find them, as all of the bodies recovered
yesterday have been identified. The
officer commanding the troops who are
on guard at the Couronnes station de-
clares that he has personally explored
every foot Of the subway, where the
accident took place, and that there are
no more bodies in the tunnel.
The funeral of Sc victims of the holo-
caust took place today. The city auth
orites were represented at each of them.
The transportation company has ordered
10000 francs distributed among the
families OF the victims.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

AT THE "mob conference IN session
at Chautauqua, n. Y, yesterday, MI
John Temple Graves, of Atlanta, TOOK
q practical view of the matter in his
speech defending lynch law as remedy
for the crime of rape, holding that
though lynching is a crime it IS Justified
by the crime which provokes 1t, and
will never be discontinued until that
crime is eliminated. The remedy for
lynching, he held, must be the elimina-
ton of the crime of rape, and all sensi-
sible people know that the efforts to pre-
vent lynchings, to be successful, must
be coupled with as strenuous ones to
eradicate the cause. Conferences may
be held and protests made against
lynchings, but it has become the I'M
written law of the country now that
when a white woman is assaulted by a
negro the penalty shall fit the crime
and that without delay.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Before Secretary Root sails for Lon
don to sit with the Alaskan Commission
he will place his resignation in the hands
of President Roosevelt, but it is not
likely to take effect until after Congress
meets.
From Germany comes the statement
that negotiations with American capital-
lists are under way looking to the INTRO
duction here of system of rapid cleo
trical transit by which a speed OF loo
miles an hour is possible.
Flour is now selling in Baltimore al
an advance Of so to rs cents per barrel
over its usual price at this season, while
at the close of the local market yester-
day wheat was cents per bushel higher
than on the same day Of last year.
Mr.. Thomas Cissel, lifelong resi-
dent of the District, and a member OF
the Veteran Firemen's Association, died
at his home in Washington yesterday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock of paralysis
after an illness of nearly three years
He was sixty-seven years OF age.
John r. De Grafeureid, 81 years old,
nephew of the late Representative DE
Gaffenreid, of Texas, and Miss Maggie
Willing, formerly of Culpeper, Va,
were married last light at the home OF Rev:
A. w. Pitzer, pastor of the Central
Presbyterian Church, in Washington.
Princess Radziwill, who was sentenced
to two years imprisonment by the Su-
preme Court in Cape town, April 30,
1902, for forgery in connection with
notes purporting to have been Endorsed
by the late Cecil Rhodes, has beer
liberated from prison and has started
for England.
On Wednesday, July go last, Rev.
George F. Kettell, recently assistant
minister at Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church, Baltimore, obtained license tc
marry Mrs. Bessie Broughton Frankel
of Pocomoke City, Nd. The marriage
ceremony was performed the same day
by Rev. Charles A. Hensel, rector Of thu
Protestant Episcopal Chapel of the Ad-
vent. All the events Of the wedding
were kept as secret as possible, and i'm
mediately after the ceremony the couple
left Baltimore. Mrs. Frankel was the
divorced wife Of Rev. Clarence Frankeli
now rector Of an Episcopal church IL
Leesburg, Fla.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
Bats Turn out Churchmen.

Chester, Pa, August l2.--Three bats broke
up the official board meeting at the South
Chester Methodist Church last night. One OF
the birds of the night made a dive for the
shining head Of the pastor, Rev. S. W. Smith,
who was presiding, whereupon Sunday School
Superintendent Samuel b. Pennington picked
I'D chair to defend the preacher, and nearly
knocked him out, the minister lodging be-
hind the table to escape the legs Of the chair.
Hymn books, chairs and hats were used IN an
effort 10 kill the bats, which successfully
eysded all the blows, and the board was COM
PEELED to adjourn TO another room 10 finish
lie hueinega
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
Save the Children.

Ninety-nine Of every one hundred diseases that
children have are due to disorders Of the stom-
sch, and these disorders are all caused by in
digestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is just as
good for children as il is for adults. Children
thrive on it. Ii keeps their little stomachs
sweet and encourages their growth and deyel-
ment. Mrs. Henry Carter, 705 Central street,
Nashville, Tenn, says: MY little boy is now
three years old, and has been suffering from
indigestion ever since he was horn. / have
had the best doctors in Nashville, but failed 10
do him any good. After using one bottle of
Kodol he is well baby. / recommend it 10
all sufferers" Kodol digests what you eat
and makes the stomach sweet. Sold by f. S,
Leadbeater 4 Sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 70, 1908.

THE VISIT of the delegates to the
international Typographical Union to
Alexandria was an event long to be re-
membered by the workers in the art pre-
servat;ve of arts as well as by their hosts
and guests. The delegates were received
and entertained in the true old Virginia
manner and mingled for hours in happy
intercourse. The Mayor of the city ana
other representative citizens were among
the number, and the flow OF soul was
marked Seven hundred and fifty per-
sons were in the party, large percentage
of whom we're ladies, and they repre-
sented yevery State in the union, and
never was company made to feel more
at home. There were no burdensome
formalities, everything seemed 10 DC
conducted in an impromptu manner, yet
all passed off without confusion
The committee had anticipated every
thing necessary for such an OCCASION
and the company being composed OIL
sensible and practical people, they ENJOY
cd their surroundings much more than
had the event been trammeled with
unnecessary formalities. The scene at
Armory Hall, where the assembly to0k
1
Mace and where the buffet lunch was
served was one long to be remembered,
while the visit of the delegates to
the various places Of historical N
terest in Alexandria will be equally
indelibly stamped upon their mindS'
During recent years, or since the COM
DIetion of the electric railway, many
strangers have come to Alexandra VINO
,vopld doubtless a decade ago have gone
mast rs via the Potomac river. ii
Hung Chang and Prince Henry have
been among the notable ones to pass
through the city during the past Few
wears. while representative bodies from
various parts of the country who have
come to Washington have visited Alex
andria as place of interest. The In
ternational Typographical Union, how
ever, will doubtless give Alexandra a
more colossal advertisement than any
other organization that ever came here.
A large percentage of the members OF
this body can handle the quill as readily
80 the stick and rule. Most of them Will
write up their impressions Of their trip
and old Alexandria will afford one OF the
prominent pictures. The delegates were
much pleased with their visit, and their
hosts we're glad of an opportunity to
meet with the representative printers OF
the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
And Still She Slept.

Williamsport, Pa, Aug. I'm q
somnambulistic state, 12-year-old Mil
bred Bardo leaped from second-story
window atMontgomery and broke herarm.
Even then she did not awake, but went
to the home of neighbor and rang the
doorbell. She entered the house and
felt her way along the walls until, her
condition becoming apparent, she was
aMakened.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

REV. DIR. 5. ID. MCCONNELL, Of New
York, proposes to solve the negro prob
lem by means of a compulsory labor
law. He calls the negroes ''grown-up
children" and says that if the truant
officer of a city has a right to take a
child of ten and put him at his books,
why has he not right to put the
child of twenty at hoe or pillow? He
suggests that kind-hearted men be put
in charge of the work and scale of
wages and conditions be fixed and main
tanned by law. Rev. McConnelps ideas
are most practical. COlored people who
have learned to work aud thus become
provident, have become useful and re-
spected citizens, but the others are
drones in community and in many
instances a menace to law and order.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
GALLONS TO END WILD LIFE.

w
With the execution of the sentence of
death on September rs of Clifton Bran
ham a remarkable career will end. He
has just been tried and convicted in the
Wise County Court on a charge of muir
dering his wife. Branham is only 40
years old, but in that time he has been
farmer, a trapper, a woodsman,
preacher and twice a murderer. lie
was sentenced at one time to serve 80
years for murder in Kentucky, but was
pardoned by Governor Beckham. About
20 years ago Branham shot and killed
"Long Henry" Hanover in Letcher
county, Kentucky, for trivial otfense.
He was tried and got the limit sentence
in the penitentiary. He served dozen
years and professed repentance and be-
gan evangelistic work inside the prison.
He had influential friends, who took an
interest in him, and Governor Beckham
pardoned him conditionally. Return
ing to his home in Wise county,
Virginia, Branham found that one OF
his daughters had welded David Flem-
ing, and almost the first thing that hap
pened was row between the two men.
Branham pulled a gun and shot lock
of hair from the head of Fleming, when
Mrs. Branham, who had become blind
since her husband had been in the Ken
lucky penitentiary, interceded for her
son-in-law. Branham turned around
and fred at his wife and Mrs. Branham
sank to the ground, dying in a few min
utes. Branham escaped to Kentucky
and made his way to the home of his
brother near Lexington. He was ar
rested and brought back to stand trial,
with the result as told. The convicted
murderer is physically fine specimen
of manhood. While in Jail in Dicken-
son county, KY, he collected all the
straw mattresses in the Jail, placed them
in his room. called the jailer, showed
him box Of matches and declared if he
was not released he proposed to set fire
to the Jail and burn it down. The iailer
told him to go ahead. But Branham
considered the matter and the Jail is still
standing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

Mamie De Crisis statement that War
den Allgood made improper advances to
her and that she was whipped because
she repulsed him, is generally discred-
tied in Atlanta, Ga. The Warden bears
good reputation throughout the State.
He is 65 years old and recently married
one Of the handsomest women in the state
Warden Allgood strenuously denies in
sulting her and claims the light whip
ping was given on account of her in
subordination and impudence to his wife.
1t is believed that Miss De Girls is
partially crazy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
White Insects Flutter In Moonlight

Lewistown, Pa, August l2.-The
beautiful Juniata river was covered with
a mantle last night which resembled fine
old lace. 1t vas a living, futtering
breathing mantle that rose and fell in
gentle fluctuations like soft, rich gar
ment, the plaything of gentle breeze.
1t was a mantle woven of billions and
billions Of tiny white flies; ephemeral
creatures born to die in the hour, which
huttered on delicate, transparent wings,
intermingling with each other so closely
that they took on the appearance of a
gossamer wool sparkling undera summer
moon. The insects were perfectly harm
less, but so numerous that boating was
impossible, and persons who had planned
a trip on the water felt more than COM
pensated as they stood on the shore and
gazed at the extraordinary spectacle.
Nothing of the kind has ever been seen
here before. Men of a scientific turn Of
mind attribute the phenomenon to the
unusually wet season.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
Mistook Mans Beard for Beast.

Rockville. Pa, August 12.-Thaddeus
Hall, s. years old, whose long brown and gray
whiskers were mistaken for a grounding,
was shot and killed yesterday in Knox town
ship. William Carey had chased ground
hog into thicket and followed il with gun.
Hall was in the thicket picking berries. Carey
only saw his bread through the leaves Of the
bushes and, believing it TO be the grounding,
fired at short range. The full charge entered
the old mans head and be died within fifteen
minutes. Carey was arrested, but was subse
qUently released when the shooting was shown
to have been purely accidental.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
Je1ries and Corbett.

San Francisco, Aug. 12.-With little more
than forty-eight hours intervening between
the date for the second championship en-
counter between Jeffries and Corbett, the
great influx of sports from all parts of the
country can be said to be on in earnest.
While rumors have not affected the betting,
which reaches 2 to /, with Jeffries the
fayorite. much cognizance is taken Of the
lethargy exhibited by the champion. That
he is not doing himself justice in training
there is no doubling Not only has he ignor-
ed his advisers, but he has dispensed entirely
with the services of Fitzsimmons, who, in
stead of lending his valuable aid toward put
ting the champion into shape for the fight,
has been devoting the major portion Of his
time to reducing FriscO's supply of liquor.
On the contrary naught but good is heard
from Corbett's camp in Alameda. George
Siler, the veteran referee, and one Of the best
Judges Of fighters ever known. publicly ex-
pressed the belief that COrbett not only is in
greater condition that when he last fought
Jeffries, but is in even better shape than
when he wrested the championship from
Sullivan. While Siler's opinion has not af-
fected the betting on the surface, there is a
growing feeling Of uncertainty regarding
Jeffries' ability to retain the championship.
At best it can be said in all fairness to both
sides that Corbett stands the better chance OF
regaining the laurels he lost to Fitzsimmons
than he did in the first encounter with JEFF
fries. That at least, is the belief now readily
finding many followers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

THE INVESTIGATION of immigration
Commissioner Sergeant into the matter
of undesirable immigrants becoming pub
lie charges has revealed the fact that of
the foreigners that landed at New York
during the past year, no less than 600
are now inmates of the penal and chart
table institutions of that city and State,
and 500 have been sent back. Then the
question naturally arises as to how many
such undesirable immigrants are in the
State institutions throughout this coun-
try. But the Chinese who would make
good and efficient farm hands-a class Of
help so much needed now-are not al
lowed to land at all.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

IT is now practically conceded
by both employers and employees in
the building trades in many of the
the northern cities that so far as the
business for the current years. concerned
there is no hope of recuperation. The
damage resulting from stoppages cannot
be made good. In slang phrase, says the
Philadelphia Record, "the goose is cook
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
FOREIGN NEWS.

Pope Plus x. felt much better today,
and his physicians, when they called,
could find no i'll effects as result of yes
terday' weakness. The doctors counselled
the Pope to rest and obstain from work.
His Holiness took a walk in the Vatican
gardens this morning.
A dispatch to the Vienna Presse from
Salonika states that severe fighting is re-
ported at various posts and villayet in
the territory near Monastir. Seven vii
lagos are reported to have been burned.
A force of 800 insurgents has surrounded
Ekshishn, a village of Monastir One
hundred and thirty wounded soldiers
have reached Salonika.
The Vossiche Zeitung in Berlin today
prints a dispatch from its st. Peters
burg correspondent in which he gives
details of the torture of political prison
ers in the Kreuge prison at st. Peters
burg. The torture, he says, is authorized
by the Minister of Justice, who in GER
tain cases has personally superintendent
its infection. All sorts of medieval
cruelties, says the dispatch, have been
practiced, the details of which are un-
printable. Among the victims have
been a prominent editor of Teplof,
south Russia, and Baron Tachebotareh,
the owner of large estates.
The high court at Berlin has adjudged
Tolstoi's "Thou Shalt Not XIII" pernieious
book, on the ground that it insults the Ger
man Emperor. Ii is directed that all of the
copies that can be found be con6scated and
destroyed.
Vladiyostock is full Of fraternizine German
and Russian sailors who are enjoying them
selves as only seamen can. This big gather
ing of war ships, in striking distance Of the
China coast, is arousing great interest.
The German sailing vessel Isabella and the
Norwegian steamship Theodore were in col
lision today of the mouth Of the Elbe. Both
vessels sank and the % seamen are reported
drowned.
The entire island Of Jamaica suffered severe
" from the hurricane which swept over it
yesterday and last night, and the resultant
damage will be enormous.
King Edward left London today for Mar
ienbad, Bohemia. where he will take the
baths.
1t is reported that King Msnelik, of Abys-
sinia, is seriously Ill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
Boy Cured OF Colo After Physicians
Treatment Had Failed.

My boy when four years old was taken
with collie and cramps in his stomach.
/ sent for the doctor and he injected
morphine, but the child kept getting
worse. l then gavehim half a teaspoon
full of Chamberlaiu's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, and in half an hour
he was sleeping and soon recovered
F. L. wilkins, Shell Lake, Wis. Mr..
wilkins is book-keeper for the Shell
Lake Lumber Company. For sale by
Richard Gibson, druggist
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

THE CONTEST for constable in one OF
the Hanover county districts will be
decided by the candidates in foot race
Well, probably the choice between men
that would agree to such settlement
could be as we'll determined by a foot
race as by any other method.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
Infants Thrive

on cows milk that is not subject 10 any
change Of composition. Borden's Eagle
Brand CONDENSED Milk is always the same II
all climates and at all seasons. AS general
household milk it is superior and is always
available.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

If REPORTS from Milledgeville, Ca,
are true, then the quicker the warden of
the Jail there is put in a cell and given
the same punishment which he had in
ficted upon a woman prisoner the bet
ter it will be for the reputation of the
CITY. The warden's victim is a criminal
confined in Jail for grand larceny, but
she il woman and entitled to every
protection that a prison afords-es-
pecially at the hands Of the keeper.
Libertines in authority should be held
strictly to account for their acts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12
LAND BILL PASSED.

The third reading of the Irish land
purchase bill was passed yesterday in
the House of Lords. The measure now
goes back for final ratification to the
House of Commons, where it originated,
having been introduced by the Irish
Chief Secretary, Mr.. Wyndham, and
passed by a large majority. Several
amendments were made to the bill
in the House of Lords, but it is not
expected that the Commons will
reject them and thus endanger
the final passage of the measure.
Abiding to those amendments, the
Duke of Devonshire said in the House
of Lords yesterday that, while he was
unable to forecast the action Of the House
of Commons on the landlords amend
ments adopted by the House of Lords,
he was confident that the position of the
government in the lower house would
not be altogether irreconcilable.
Lord Abercorn, on behalf of the land
lords, thanked the Duke for his recep-
ton Of the amendments, and said he
believed the bill would benefit the whole
of Ireland. He trusted that the amend
ments would be received by the House
of Commons in the same spirit as they
had been passed by the Lords.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

Miss Marie Albes, the well-known German
actress, was killed in Berlin today by a fall
while attempting to alight from moving
tram car.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

REV. B. NJ. RANDOLPH DEAD.-Rev. B.
NJ. Randolph died at his country home near
Casanova. Fauauier county, yesterday at II
O'Clock, after a lingering illness Of several
weeks. He was brother Of Bishop A; NJ:
Randolph. Mr.. Randolph served throughout
the war with great distinction and .gallantry
as captain Of the Fauquier Guards, Forty:
ninth Virginia Infantry. After the close Of
the war be studied for the ministry, and at
the time Of his death was rector Of an Episco-
pal Church near Richmond, in Hanover
county. He was in his sixty-third year. The
funeral services will take place Thursday
afternoon q; o'clock from Grace Episcopal
Church, near Casanova.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

Two more deaths have occurred among
victims of the Philadelphia baseball park
catastrophe Of Saturday, thus bringing the
total death roll 10 eleven.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

ANrI-TRUsT MEETING. - An anti
trust mass meeting is to be held at the
National Theatre in Washington, on the
night of Thursday August lS. Henry
George, Representative F. E. Shober, Of
New York; ex-Represeatative William
NJ. Springer, formerly chairman of the
ways and means committee; Owen j.
Kindelon, ex-delegate to the Interna-
tional Typographical Union; @. @.
Kizer, ex-organizer of the International
Typographical Union, and organizer Of
the Virginia Federation Of Labor; John
H. Brinkman, of the International
Bakers Union; Robert S. Tharin, coun-
sci of the National Antitrust League,
and other opponents of the labor move
ment will address the meeting.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

ed, Itwould be a task Of difficulty to ind
ANYBODY, with the possible exception OF
walking delegates and professional agi-
tators who has profted by the cooking.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-12

Rear Admiral Bankers squadron is
preparing to leave Bar Harbor, Me-, en-
route to Oyster Bay where his squadron
will be reviewed by the President Mon
Il ay.