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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
Hotel Burned.

Elizabeth City, N. c., July 81
Mays Head Hotel, situated at Mays
Head, Dare county, so miles east OF
this city, was destroyed by fire last night.
Nearly all of the guests saved their
effects. During the excitement caused
by the fire, Mrs. Lowe, wife of the
proprietor of the hotel, John u Lowe,
of Norfolk, Va, dropped dead. Her re-
mains will be taken to Norfolk for inter-
r.nnnf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27

RECEIVED News AT SEA.-The Gun
arder Umbria, which landed her passen'
gers in New York yesterday, received
the first news of the Pope's death by
wireless telegraphy from Nantucket
lightship at a. M, Saturday. This
bulletin was posted in the main COM
panionway and published in the Mar
conf newspaper with black lines "Pope
Leo passed away quietly on Monday,
July 20, at 4:O4 p. M, officially declared
dead on Tuesday" The Cunard bulletin
published at sea the news of the stock
slump, the heavy drive against steel,
the Taylor failure and the relieved mar
ket. The ship was in wireless commun-
ication either with shore or other vessels
on every day, with the exception of the
interval from the afternoon of the goth,
until a. M, of the 22d. On July p
she carried on conversation with the
Etruria for four hours and a quarter.
The ships were from 40 to l2O miles
apart.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
A Surgical Oneration

is always dangerous-do not submit 10 the
surgeons knife until you have tried DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salye. IL will cure when every
thing else fails-it has done this in thousands
ofcases. Here is one Of them: / suffered
from bleeding and protruding piles for
twenty years. Was treated by different
specialists and used many remedies, but OBJ
tanned no relief until used DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. Two boxes of this salye cured
me eighteen months ago and have not had
touch Of the piles since.---H: A. I1sdale, Sgm-
merton, S. C.. For Blind, Bleeding, Itching
and Protruding Piles no remedy equals De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salye. Sold by E. $.
Ieadheafer Il Sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27

A SECRET citizens alliance was formed
at Birmingham, Ala, last week, the OBJ
iect of which is to fight labor unions
which have given much trouble in that
city. The organization will take up
prosecutions against labor unions for
firms, corporations and others. The open
hostility between employer and employee
seems to be on the increase throughout
the country which bodies no good for
either class.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27

SERvIA AND BULGARIA.-The Uni
yersaI Bucharest publishes sensational
story of plot to bring about union of
Servia and Bulgaria, which involves the
deposition of Prince Ferdinand and the
substitution of the Karageorgeyitch dy-
nasty, and which would also, according
to the story, incidentally result in the
settlement of the Macedonian question.
According to the report secret meet
ing was recently held at Belgrade Of
Bulgarian parliamentarians, prominent
Servians and Macedonians at which the
details of the scheme were agreed upon.
They are said to include military con-
vention and a customs union. The
plotters also are said to have resolved to
carry out their programme if possible by
legal means, includinga vote of the Bull
garian Parliament The plotters are
said to have argued that such united
kingdom could overthrow Turkey and
the Macedonian troubles and guarantee
a greater future both for Seryia and Bull
garia. The story is discredited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
searcbIiobt on Fair Batbers.

Bristol, Pa, July IA searchiight on a
river excursion steamer was thrown on the
Burlington Island bathing beach last night,
and surprised score Of romping girls from
this and neighbOring towns who were bathing
in the moonlight. There was an instant STAN
pede for the shore and the sheltering trees and
bushes on the river bank.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
TRIED TO LYNCH DErECrIvE.-An

TRIED TO LYNCH DETECrIvE.-An
attempt To lynch John Peel, a Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Company de-
tective, was made Saturday night at
Foster, Pa, by crowd of the villagers,
who were inturiated upon learning that
he had gained evidence which would
connect a score of the families of the
village with wholesale thievery of brass
and other junk from the company's
property. Peel was attacked at hotel
while waiting for a train. When the
mob made its attack with cries of 'lynch
him." the detective drew his revolver
and began pulling the trigger, but there
was something wrong with the mechan-
ism of the hammer, and the cartridges
we're not exploded. Peel gained the
waiting-room while the mob was shirk-
ing before his leveled revolver, and he
locked himself in. Word was tele-
graphed to Scranton and force OF 20
officers was hastily recruited to be sent
TO the detectives rescue. In the mean
time passenger train arrived and the
crew, acting under telegraph orders from
Scranton, quit the train and after hard
fight succeeded in getting the detective
on the train. The ringleader of the mob
is said to be one of the leading citizens
of the town, and it is alleged that be-
cause the detective had gained evidence
in connection with the thieving which
would disgrace him and his son forever,
he gathered the mob and led them in the
attack
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
To Select a Defender.

Newport, R. l., July 27.-The first
race oft trial series to select a de-
fender for the Americas cup was
held here today between Reliance, Con-
stitution and Columbia. Reliance
crossed the starting line at ll:3O:lO
Constitution at 11:S0:9l; and Columbia,
at 1l:32:00.
The outer mark was rounded as fol-
lows: Reliance, 1:10:12; Constitution,
1880, Columbia 1:15:46.
Reliance crossed the finishing line at
3:04:10; Constitution at 9:O9:25 and
Columbia at :3:10:10.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
IF YOur Physician

prescrbes a milk diet, for its easy digestibili-
ty it will be well 10 use Borden's Peerless
Brand Evaporated Cream TO get n rich. deiic-
iously favored milk food, perfectly sterilized,
according to latest sanitary methods. For
general household uses. Prepared by Borden's
Condensed Milk Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
WoMAN's BODY IN A SEWER. witt

WOMAN's BODY IN SEwER.-With
a shoe lace tied tightly around her neck,
the body of a woman was found in a
sewer at Mount Vernon, n. Y, yester-
day by a boy, whose curiosity was
aroused by coming upon a break in the
sewer. The body appeared to be that
of German woman, thirty years old,
five feet eight inches tall and weighing
l45 pounds. 1t was too large to have
been forced through the break in the
sewer, and must have been dropped into
a manbole 800 feet away. The coroner
said the woman had not been dead "a
hours. Although viewed by many per-
sons at the mOrgue, the body has not
been identified, and it is believed the
woman did not live there. The police
have searched in vain the lonely neigh
borhood where the body was found for
evidence of struggle.
The body was identified this afternoon
as Gussie Slote, married woman, who
lived in Mount Vernon. The woman's
husband is missing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27

JUDGE Colt, of the United States
Circuit Court, at Providence, R. l., made
an address recently which is attractin 6
wide attention. 1t dealt with the prin-
ciples of organized labor While the
laboring linen were loyal, he thought,
they we're to some extent idealists, in
that they ignored the great natural law
that men are born with unequal energy
aud ability, and that wealth is founded
upon labor and sacrifice. He did not
believe that organization could cure in
equality Of economic conditions, and he
might have added that we have Biblical
authority for the statement that we will
have the poor always with us.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27

DECLINING TO-DAY and continuing I'M
D iii the end of the month will be in my
office in the Market Building to test the
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES in use By
merchants and others Of this city Hours,
from a. m. till u m. and 10 p. m.
L. ID. LYT
ily23 Ct Sealer of Weights and Me
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27

Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter Of President
Roosevelt, arrived at York Beach, Me-, this
morning. She will be the guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27

Frederick ]. Kimball, President of the
Norfolk & Western Railway, died in Phils-
delphia this morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-08
Personal NOTES.

Last Sunday was a great day for visiting.
King Edward was In Paris, Emperor Will
liam in Rome and President Roosevelt at
Sharon Springs.
The opening Of the Indian territory to
settlement will find Henry C. Frick and
John w. Gates on the ground floor as own
ers of the principal part Of the coal lands.
With tears in HIS eyes, the sultan begs
the powers to see that Bulgaria keeps the
Macedonians In order. Like the small
boy who said: Mamma, make Johnny be-
havel Every time ] hit him he hollers."
II the RothscAilds mad increased and
multiplied after the manner Of many fami-
lies there would by this time have been a
prodigious number OF the English branch,
let alone the rest. bu: after more than 100
years the descendants of Nathan Meyer
Rothschild, founder OF he English Roth
schilds, only amount to between thirty and
forty persons.
Prof. Walkhon Of Munich has discovered
from exhaustive study Of a skull that pre-
historic man could NOS talk; and he is said
furthermore to 1ave been very much vexed
by the fippant proposition OF ore Of his
colleagues, who is lot a contributor to File
gende Blaetter, but who has urged that
a similar study be made OF the skull OF a
prehistoric woman.
Leopold de Rothschild has spoiled the
tradition that his grandfather got news of
the victory of Waterloo in a highly roman
tic manner. He received the news from a
sea captain in his employ, who brought a
newspaper to him from Brussels. All the
Rothschild captains had orders to collect
newspapers wherever they were, and this
was not the only tip which the family got
in this way.
F. p. Baker, for forty years one of the
institutions of Kansas, has resigned his
subpostmastership at Topeka. He has al
WAYS been a wheel horse in republican poll
tics and was a red-hot woman sufiragist
in the Kansas struggle OF the late SOS.
! Father" Baker has been connected with
several newspaper enterprises. He is now
we'll over so years OF age and retires from
his position because OF falling health.
A Young wife who went with her husband
TO ST. Louis for The worlds fair dedication
writes home that they had to psy 81 apiece
for sandwiches and that the waiter stole
the ham from one and put II into another
sandwich, getting The same iushtime price
for that. Coffee-'and such conee'-was %
cents per cup. 9Th only interesting
things / saw we're two men-the governors
Of North and South Carolina. They were
going into a saloon"
Here is a story about Kubelik that did not
come from his press agent: The violinist
was once asked to play at a lunatic asylum
He chose a brilliant slav composition and
the audience seemed delighted. One Of
the regular boarders came up and begar
TO talk with him. Kubelik asked him how
he liked the performance. The lunatiC
stared at him for a while and then said.
'Well. TO think OF the likes Of you beinG
ouowed out while / am Kept in here"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-08
MARRIED. WOMEN TEACHERS.
Concession Granted by the New York
Board of Education.
Boston Transcript.

Married women have been given a con-
cession by the New York City Board OF
Education, which has amended its bylaws
governing their case, to the following et-
feet. "No married woman shall be APP
poInted TO any teaching or supervising
p~osition in the day public schools unless
her husband is incapacitated, from physical
or mental disease, to earn a llVellhood, OF
has consecutively abandoned her Tor not less
than three years prior to the date OF her
appointment provided, that PROOF satls-
factory TO the board OF city superintend-
ents is furnished to establish such physlcal
and mental disability OF Abandonment.
Thus II seems there may be extenuatlng
circumstance which work a suspension OF
penalty for women teachers who have been
so presumptuous as to marry. II they are
in sufhcient distress they may be forgiven
and reinstated. Several members OF the
hoard we're asked to explain why the limit
OF desertion was fixed at three years in
stead Of one or two, and the reply was
that women might not really know lhat
,bev were abandoned. but think they were,
IN less time than three years. As good an
answer would have been that three years
we're none too long a time in which to ex-
Mate the crime OF matTimony. Looking at
n purely as a matter Of public policy and
e6irient service, we cannot see why a
married woman with a husband incapae-
lated by physical or mental disease from
earning a livelihood, on her hands, is likely
10 be more acceptable as a teacher thar
one whose husband is able TO do his share
Of the breadwinning. 1t looks like proyid'
ing for charity at the expense OF educa'
ton. The whole policy seems to be a tbs
sue OF absurdities. incapable Of a logica
analysis. The Board Of Education OF New
York bids fair to become as distinguished
for the s~aplence Of its decisions as The
hoard OF magistrates whose decisions wer'
voiced by the immortal Dogberry. II is tn
same board which has undertaken at thi
age OF the world. TO suppress the popula
circulation Of Uncle Toms Cabin
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-08
FAME's GENTLE TOUCH.
~InventO~ of n New Drink Hailed as a
Benefactor.
News.

Indianapolis News.
In the News the other day there was a
brief paragraph announcing the death OF
Colonel Joseph Kyle Hickey, inventor Of
the famous drink known as the gin hickey.
The name of the drink has a wicked
sound. but really 1t is not so bad. A dash
OF gin, a little Ice and settler and a bit of
lime-and there you have a tipple that
on a hot day, with the blinds drawn and
the sun shut out and the rugs and the
heavy drapery packed away against the
time when the colder winds begin to blow,
makes one feel as though life. after all,
were not a barren wilderness. The great
dean. Jonathan Swift, in his savage satire,
"Gulliver's Travels" said:
"And he gave for his opinion that who
soever could make two ears OF corn, or
two blades Of grass, TO grow upon a spot
Of ground where only one grew before
would deserve better OF mauki and do
more essential service to his country than
the whole race of politicians put together"
How true the judgment Island how
slight the praisel May not something of
the same kind be said OF the inventor of
a new drink? Having in mind the tenn
p~eFance, and even the prohibition pro-
o~livltles OF many Of our readers, We hasten
to observe that the question is not one
solely of alcoholic drinks. We use the
word drink In its. widest sense. For in
stance, the man who first devised the soft
drink, known as the horses neck, must
also be hailed as a benefactor OF his race.
II simply happens that the death We
chronicle is that Of the inventor OF the gin
rickey, and not of the inventor Of the
| horses neck. Both are innocuous wheI
used in moderation, though 1t must be
| frankly confessed that perils Turk in the
hickey. We would by no means ommenC
It to the very young, or to those who have
not entire command over their appetites
Indeed, we commend It to no one. We
freely admit that perhaps 1t would have
been better II the colonel had directed hi
inventive genius into other channels. Blu
at the same time there are hundreds o
thousands Of men all over the world WHIT
will lament the death OF Colonel Hickey a
that Of a personal friend. oliver Wendell
Holmes, than whom a nobler and NOR
temperate man never lived, wrote as fol
lows OF an old punch bowl:
l tell you, there was generous warmth Il
good, old English cheeri .
/ tell you, twas a pleasant thought I
bring its symbol here,
IT'S but the fool that loves excess has
thou a drunken soulH =,
Thy bane 10 In thy shallow SKULL not i
my silver how'll
I love the memory of the past-its presse
yet fragrant flowers;
The moss that clothes It's broken walls, tn
Ivy on its towers.
Nay, THE poor bauble II b~equeathed-m
eyes grow moist and dim,
To think OF all the vanished Joys tina
danced around It's brim.
But this Is DR.. Holmes argument-no
ours. We make no argument. We simpl
chronicle the achievement and the title I
fame OF a man who made the world haT
pier-and no doubt more wretched, too
by his genius. Possibly his title to fam
is slight. but Il is all that he had sha
we not acknowledge Il? Coloney Ricke
has gone TO meet the author Of the mir
iulep. Peace TO his ashesl
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-08
TALK ABOUT CLEVELAND.

Detroit Free Press (dem); II is not
necessary to have a formal denial from Mr..
Cleveland to know that he is not a candi-
date for another nomination and would not
accept another nomination.
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph rep):
The recrudescence Of Cleveland is merely
the present form Of the rebellion against
Organism and is interesting but not imme-
dlately important to republicans.
Boston Globe (dem.). II ex-President
Cleveland should receive the Democratic
nomination next year, II will be against the
wishes Of Mrs. Cleveland, who does not
want to see hin in the White House again.
Philadelphia North American (rep): II
the democratic party we're a united political
body, with clearly defined principles and
policies. Mr.. Cleveland probably would be
the most formidable candidate available at
this time to lead a straight-out fight
against the republicans.
Minneapolis Journal (rep.): The talk OF
nominating Cleveland is the last effort OF
the moribund element in a demoralized
party TO seek to obtain national power with
nothing but a great name. Traditional de-
mocracy is a mere she'll. It has no relation
to the problems Of the day.
Portland oregonian (rep.): The third
term tradition will hardly lie against a man
who has been out Of the presidency for
eight years, ami Cleveland is evidently
more vigorous at 66 than most men at 10.
The elder Harrison was inaugurated at IS,
and hve presidents were over 60 at the be-
ginning Of their terms.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem): Only q
dominating issue or candidate can effect a
restoration Of old-time democracy. Looked
at in that light Mr.. Cleveland would seem
TO be the only figure to size up to the stu
alton. But will not the suspicion that he is
merely a stalking horse Tend to discourage
the voters and prevent the realization OF
the purpose which his candidature is ex-
pected to achieve?
Charleston Is. c. News and Courier
(dem.): We wish 1t we're possible to place
Mr.. Cleveland at the head Of the party In
the next campaign. That is where he be-
longs, that is where he stands in fact, and
there is none other who can take his place.
The true business interests of the country
would be promoted by his election, the pub
lie credit would be safe under his admins
%tration, fitness would be the sole test OF
appointment to office and the south would
have a firm friend at the head OF the gov
eminent in Washington.
Springfield (Mass) Republican (ind.)
There can be no question that the people
of the United States are coming into a re-
newed appreciation Of the character and
public service of Grover Cleveland. 1t is
now being seen, as 1t could not have beer
seen so clearly five or six years ago, tina
he was right in taking the stand he did
during his second administration for the
preservation of the public credit, at all
costs Of popularity and party unity. But
above this and other great public services
stands, in the popular appreciation, the
stalwaTt character Of the mantle infexi.
BILE will, the conscientious purpose, the
dauntless courage, the fearless devotion e
principle, and the unsuitable loyalty t.
any public trust that has been committed
to his charge.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-08
PUTTING TIE CART BEFORE THE Hons

PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
The state board of railroad assess
ment opened It's session Tuesday with
an informal hearing Of the complaints
of the railroad tax commissioners and
railroad attorneys, who appeared with
complaints on behalf of the ~overvalued
and overtaxed railroads Of Nebraska.
This may not be an unusual proceeding
with Nebraska boards of assessment,
but 1t has no parallel in proceedings of
assessment boards Of any other state
north or south. east or west.
The usual method Of procedure of
state boards of assessment is first to
adopt rules governing their proceedings
and second, setting apart specific days
for the hearing and presentation of
testimony and arguments of each of the
various railroads, telegraph and bridge
companies, with opportunity afforded
for the rebuttal to the people along the
respective lines.
Take for example the state of Mis-.
souri,. In the published journals of its
proceedings for 1901 will be found the
following:
Board met ON April IS. During the
first week of its continued session
adopted rules and carried on informal
discussion as to methods of proeedurr
with railroad, telegraph and bridge as.
sessments and on April % passed this
resolution:
Resolved. That the board meet on III,
following named days 20 hear testimony
arguments and suggestions with references
to the valuation and assessment of rail,
road telegraph and bridge property in thii
state subject to taxation, viz:
May s, Atchison, Topeka & Santa F,
system.
May s, Kansas City. Fort Scott & Mem
phis system.
May 10. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
May 10. Missouri Pacific system, etc.
County officials and all citizens who ma,
be interested IN the assessment Of railroad
telegraph and bridge property, or who hav
information in regard thereto, are re
quested to appear before the board an.
present their statements. testimony an
arguments, and the officers OF the railroad
telegraph ana bridge company are asked {
take notice Of the dates for hearings an
in order to expedite the work OF the boar
to conform to the same. Be II
Resolved, further. That the secretary {
the board be, and he is hereby directed
in addition to giving a copy hereof to III
daily newspapers, to mail a copy hereof /
the clerk Of the county court in eac
county OF the state and to the presiden
or chief oficer. OF each railroad. bridge an
} telegraph company whose property
wholly or in part in this state.
Now. why should not the Nebrask
state board make a new departure an
for once and forever put an end to II
f~arrical methods heretofore pursued
the assessment of railroad and tel
graph properties. which constitute on
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-08

convinced himself that the race was be-
tween him and Benson. Many demo-
Gratis, satisfied that Howell could not
make out, doubtless voted for Moores
in preference to Benson, but many other
democrats, in the same belief as to
Howell, must have voted for Benson in
preference to Moores. But that Howell
or his managers ordered or advised
their democratic followers to vote for
Moores is the veriest piece of fiction,
with not the slightest shadow of
foundation.