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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The application of the Western Union
Telegraph Company for an injunction
restraining the Philadelphia, Baltimore
aud Washington Railroad from remov-
ing its wires along the line of the road
between Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington has been set for hearing
in the United States District Court in
Baltimore on June IL.
At Newport, r. l., yesterday Mrs.
Kemp, wife of Arthur Kemp, of New
York, was granted divorce on the ground
of "non-support''. Alfidayits from Mrs
Kemp and her mother, Mrs. Fred Neil
son. the mother of Mrs. Reginald C..
Vanderbilt, were read. The proceedings
occupied less than five minutes.
Seven of the nine persons who have
passed for the degree of doctor of civil
law from the school of Comparative
Jurisprudence and Diplomacy of Column
bian University, in Washington, an
nounced yesterday that they would not
take part in the commencement exercises
because Mrs. Emma Reba Bailey will
also receive the same degree. They say
she is not grounded sufficiently in the
basic principles of the law to obtain such
an advanced degree.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Wants Damages.

Chicago, ILL.,, May ga damage
suit for SIC, 600 as a sequel to the sensa-
tional attack of Mrs. Elizabeth V. Cronk,
Of Omaha, Nebraska, on Mrs. Cora
Lothrop Patterson on train at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, a week ago last Saturday,
has been filed in the Superior Court.
A deputy sheriff served the notice as
Mrs. Cronk was going through Chicago
with her husband on their way home
from Virginia. Mrs. Patterson is the
divorced wife of the son of millinaire
tobacco manufacturer of Richmond, Va,
She secured divorce from her husband
in Omaha last fall. According to Mrs.
Patterson, Mrs. Cronk attacked her as
she was about to enter the train. The
former was accompanied by her nine
year-old son. 1t is ayerred that Mrs.
Cronk saw the plaintiff as she was step
ping onto the platform. Rushing to the
doorway, it is alleged Mrs. Cronk &C
cused the concert singer Of being the
cause of family troubles. Violence was
resorted to by the defendant, it is assert
ed, and Mrs. Patterson was forcibly
compelled to leave the platform of the
car. Mrs. Patterson says blows were
rained upon her and that the performance
was completed by Mrs. Cronk flourish
ing revolver and threatening her life.
George Parkman Cronk, the husband of
the defendant, is the Supreme Exalted
Ruler of the Order of Elks, and, ac-
companied by his wife, was on his way
to Bedford City, Va, to attend the dedica-
ton of the Elks' Home. Mrs. Patter-
son says she did not know that Cronk
and his wife were on the train. The
meeting was purely an accident, Mrs.
Patterson says. New York, she says,
was her destination. Cronk, who is the
guardian of Mrs. Patterson's son, is said
to be wealthy citizen of Omaha.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
Reliance Wins.

Glen Cove, n. Y, May 26.-Every-
thing this morning seemed to favor a
good contest between the Reliance, Col
umbia and Constitution. The tests have
hitherto been inconclusive and unsatis-
factory. There was seven knot breeze
early this morning but twelve to fifteen
knot breeze, with fair sea is hoped for
at noon when the yachts will be sent
away, and then decisive test will be
made of Reliance in smooth water. Sandy
Hook next month will tell the story Of
her ability to beat to windward in the
face of battling sea. There was equal
activity on all three sloops early this
morning. Sail coverings were taken of
the big mainsails and the canvas was
made ready to be broken out at
the word. A small feet of steam yachts
moved about the harbor entrance wait
ing race time while myriad of small
row boats and launches lowered about
the rival yachts The wind kept freshen-
ing till it got to nine knots an hour at 10
o o'clock.
The starting gun was fired at 1915
and the yachts crossed the line. Reliance
finished at 3:l2:97 Constitution, 3:l5:-
90. Columbia was forced away TO the
northeast by tug with long tow and
was delayed ten minutes, which practi-
ca.ly put her out of the race. Reliance
beat Constitution by 2 minutes and q
seconds in actual sailing time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26

DEVELOPMENTS IN the investlga-
ton of the naturalization certificate
frauds in various sections of the country
reveal the fact that Philadelphia, next
to New York, is the city in which the
cOnspirators piled their trade most in
dustriously. Thousands of foreigners
there were supplied with papers which
enabled them to vote and assume the
other rights of citizenship without COM
plying in any degree with the require
ments of the naturalization laws. Cor
rupt politicians were largely interested
in the scheme and derived the greatest
benefit from its operation. The neces-
sity of obtaining voters who might be
manipulated to the advantage of the
politicians in the municipal campaigns
impelled them in Philadelphia, New
York, st. Louis, Providence and other
places to enter into the conspiracy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
Will Abandon Richmond

New York, May 26.-The Clyde
Steamship Company has decided to aban-
don Richmond, Va, as the terminus OF
its Philadelphia, Norfolk g. Richmond
service. After June LIST, next, the ves-
sells in that service will stop at Newport
News, where arrangements have been
completed with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad for the trans-shipment of
merchandise. At the Office of the line
it was said today that the change will be
made because under the arrangement
with the Chesapeake & Ohio, Railroad
considerable time will be saved in the
forwarding of merchandise both to the
South and to the West.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
cyclones in Nebraska and Missouri.

Cyclones in Nebraska ana Missouri.
Omaha, lNeb., May 26.-The storm
that has been raging in Nebraska for
three days in the Eastern part Of the
State, has reached the proportions
of a Cyclone in Lancaster county.
Archer. town of half a dozen
houses near Lincoln, is reported demol-
ished and seven persons are reported killed
One man was fatally hurt at Lincoln by
the wind. In this city no one was in
jured, but roofs were blown from houses
and trees were torn up. The tracks in
the depot yards we're washed out and
nearly all roads, especially the Union
Pacific, have much trackage washed
away west of the city. Few trains are
moving.
Omaha, Neb., May 26.-Since the
disastrous tornadoes which visited
Adams county Saturday night and killed
fourteen persons, Nebraska has been
suffering from cyclones and cloudbursts
which have caused additional loss of life
and great damage to crops and property.
The total loss of life so far as reported,
including the Adams county district,
is %.
st. Joseph, Mo. May 26.-Great dam
age was wrought by an electric storm
accompanied by high wind that passed
over this city last night. In south St.
Joseph, many houses were unroofed and
new buildings are wrecked and pedes-
TRANS were knocked down by the flying
debris.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, May ga cy-
clone struck the town of Buxton last
night, destroying two dwellings and
several light buildings. Georgia
Blakely and Herbert Rhodes were killed
and thirty other people were injured.
Omaha, Neb., May 26.-It is reported that
the same tornado that visited ON aha and
killed seven at Archer this morning has de-
stroyed Valparaiso and Raymond, north Of
Lincoln. Many are reported killed. All
wires are down.
Des Moines, Iowa, May GA cyclone
struck the home for feeble minded at Glen
wood last night. The roof of the girls dor
mitory was broken in, crushing a number
Of inmates in the debris.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
FOREIGN NEWS.

A dispatch from Berlin says Caland-
rely, the famous sculptor, is dead.
Yvette Guilbert, the celebrated con-
cert hall singer, is very i'll at Berlin as
result of three operations which she
has undergone for cancer of the stomach.
1t is rumOred that Russia and Austria
finding the former measures insufficient,
have submitted to the porte a new re-
form project for Macedonia and the
other Turkish provinces.
1t is announced at the Vatican that
Mgr O'COnnell, rector of the Washing
ton University, will be in Rome shortly
to ask the assistance Ofthe church against
the hostility to his work shown by the
German element in America, including
the German clergy.
A French trawler which arrived at
Plymouth, England, today landed the
crew of the Peruvian gunboat LoretO,
which had sprung leak forty miles
north of Scilly and sank an hour later
The Loreto was a new boat which left
Liverpool for her home port ON May 23.
The automobile catastrophe during
the race from Paris to Madrid, on
Sunday, was up for discussion in the
French Chamber of Deputies today.
The Chamber voted that in the future
the existing law prohibiting highway
automobile racing should be strictly en-
forced.
1t is feared in London that Sir Will
liam Vernon Harcourt who has at diff
ferent times held the posts of Solicitor
General, Home Secretary and Chancellor
of the Exchequer, will not be able to
actively participate in politics again.
He has been i'll for some time, and now
complications have set in which are
likely to disable him for life.
A dispatch states that the massacre at
the village of Banitza near Sores, on
May 10th in which Deltchef, the Mace
DOMAIN chief, lost his life, was much
greater than previously reported. The
entire population of the village with
the exception of fifteen persons were
killed by Turkish troops. There were
1900 families in the village.
Sir Thomas Upton entertained the |
city council of Gourock at luncheon to-
day. The affair was in the nature of a |
farewell before he should cross the
for the cup races. Upton |
addressed the members of the council, |
great hope that he would |
bring the cup back with him. He limited |
broadly that this would be his last
attempt,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26

THE READING public of two CONT
nents has been interested in the latest
deliverance of Mr.. Andrew Carnegie.
In London interview he told the Eng
lish people that they had been outdis-
tanced by the United States in every
way but one, and said that Washington
was the proper capital Of the English
speaking world, while Canada's only
chance of a future was to throw in her
lot with the Americans. He conceded
that as "the land of the spirit, the land
Of Shakespeare and Milton" the Ameri-
cans did homage to Great Britain. In
another interview Mr.. Carnegie rebuked
someone who referred to him as "the
pillar of the smart set by saying that
the smart set in America makes itself
ridiculous by playing at caste and aping
the European aristocracy. He added
that in America more than elsewhere it
is "three generations from shirt sleeve
to shirt sleeve"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
COMMUNICATED.
DISSERTATION OF THE SABBATH

DN~CA@OaN~A AAOAf VI AtAi%
Replying to the article headed Obese
Grafton of the Sabbath" and signed
'Reader' which appearedin the Gazette
of the 10Th instant, 1 would like to ask
this question. Could not some of the
good people be prevailed upon to use
their Influence with his honor Mayor
Simpson whom | know to be a church.
going man, and willing to do what is
just, to take some action and try and
have this evil remedied? am sure they
can. | am not little surprised that
some of our ministers have not given this
subject more thought ] fully agree with
Reader that if it is wrong to sell fruit
on Sunday it is equally so to allow cigar
stores to throw wide open their doors
and drug stores to sell soda water and
soft drinks. l think this a great re-
Election upon dear old Alexandria and
should not be tolerated any longer. We
are taught to observe the Sabbath day
and keep it holy. Let us see if it can
not be done.
OBSERVER.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26

A NOVEL movement for the further
ance of woman suffrage has been started
by Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, of Wash
ington, editor of the WOman's Tribune,
and Rev. Olympia Brown, of Wisconsin.
A political organization is to be formed
in Wisconsin to endorse candidates of
either party who declare themselves in
favor of woman suffrage A census OF
woman taxpayers will be used as the
basis Of protest to the Legislature
against taxation without representation.
When 10, 900 women have pledged them
selves to join in a protest to the Legisla-
ture against being denied, the right to
vote legal action will be taken by the
women taxpayers, probably beginning
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
Indicted tor Murder of sfarcum.

Jackson, KY, May 26.-The grand jury at
six o'clock last night returned an indictment
against Curtis Jett and Tom White for the
murder Of James b. Marcum. The news
spread like wild6re and throng gathered
at the courthouse. However, there were no
indications of trouble. A bench warrant was
issued for the arrest of White and Charles
very heart of the mountains and his home is
reached by a narrow PERCEPTIONS trail. The
special deputy was given detail of soldiers
and on horseback the men started for Perry
about eight o'clock. White and his brother
Shelf were also indicted for the murder of a
man named Davidson in this county, but
were acquitted. He is known as a game man,
but the soldiers anticipate no trouble in eff
fecting his capture.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
AIleeed plot 10 Kill President.

Walla Walla, Washington, May 90
Joseph Becker, a Swiss socialist, was ar
rested yesterday on suspicion of having
determined to kill President Roosevelt.
While at Pendleton Oregon, last week,
Becker said to his partner that he had
one bullet for President Roosevelt and
another for Emperor William of Ger
many. When the prisoner left Pendle-
ton his partner followed him, and in
formed the local police of Becker's state
ment. Becker was found working in a
butcher shop. A loaded rife belonging
to him was found hidden in barn along
the line which the President would pass.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
courts.

THERE are now nearly 100000 idle
workmen in New York city because of
strikes and lockouts. There is a daily
loss of 500, 900 in wages. 1t is esh-
mated that nearly $500, 600, 900 in CAPT
tai are tied up by the stoppage. The
banded employers are organizing SYM
pathetic iockouts as a means Of antagoDi-
zing sympathetic strikes. In the mean
time business is paralyzed and the pros
perity of the country threatened. Similar
conditions are reported in many Of the
other cities, and this induces many to
believe that should the state of affairs
continue much longer the prosperity OF
the country will come to sudden end.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26

THREATENED BY A MoB.-Reports
from Middetown, Frederick county,
which gained considerable nOtoriety on
account of series of disastrous incen-
diary fires, indicate that trouble is brew
ing again. A mob of men visited the
home of ex-MayOr David E. Edmondson
who was acquitted of arson at the April
term of court and after firing a number
of pistol shots, cut up a lot of agricul;
tural implements belonging to Jas,i
Williams, a colored man, who rents a
tract of land from Edmondson. The
reason assigned by the mob for the de-
struction Of the property is said have
been a determination that Edmondsons
land should not be titled. The people of
Middletown are greatly excited over the
new trouble and none are inclined to
say much on account Of fears of the
mob.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
Victims of the Auto Race.

Paris, May 26.-Several of the in
iured in the Paris-Madrid auto race, on
Sunday, are still in precarious condi-
ton. The recovery of Barrow, the
German autoist, is in doubt. Marcel
Renault, whose death was reported
from Poitiers yesterday, is still alive,
but is in most critical condition. 1t
is feared that NJ. Tourand, whose car
caused the death of three persons, will
lose his reason. NJ. Stead seems to be
the least seriously injured of all the
victims. All the cars which reached
Bordeaux, the end OF the first stage of
the fatal race, were locked up, and
special permission is required before the
machines can be removed. The casual
ties at present reckoning are three
chaffeurs, and six spectators, including
two soldiers, dead, four persons serious
ly injured and ten slightly hurt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
Charged With Poisoning Husband.

Gainesville, Ca, May 26.-Wedded just
six weeks ago Mrs. Clara Tanner is under ar
rest, charged with killing her husband by
poisoning. There was dinner party at the
Tanners, attended by several guests. Soon
after the ice cream was served all became
violently i'll except Mrs. Tanner, who ate
none of the cream. Her husband soon died
and two of the guests may die. Physicians
examined the cream and found that it con-
tanned quantities of strychnine. Mrs. Tanner
was arrested 1t is said she lived unhappily
with her husband, having been forced to
marry him by her parents, when she loved
another man. Mrs. Tanner is nineteen years
old. Her husbands age was sixty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
TUESDAY EVENING. MAY 20. 1908.
THE MEMORIAL DAY exercises yester-

THE MEMORIAL DAY exercises yester-
day, while not on as elaborate scale as
those of some previous years, were i'm
pressive and earnest from start to finish,
and those who participated manifested
the fact that their hearts were in what
they were doing. Four members of Lee
Camp had dropped out of line since the
last gathering at the monument, and
while their ranks are necessarily becom-
ing thinner, their enthusiasm has, as it
were, been transmitted toyounger gener-
tions. The great mass Of those who
followed yesterdays procession, and
who gathered around the silent figure at
Prince and Washington streets, were
unborn while the thrilling scenes OF
the civil war were being enacted, but
Judge Duke struck the key note and
sent a thrill through them all when he
said that, although he was too young to
be a soldier during the great conflict, he
had made the cause of his progenitors
his cause, and the applause which fol-
lowed showed his audience had done
likewise. The fact that yesterdays cere-
monies were brief and the participants
comparatively few impaired additional
interest. Those who took the promi-
nent parts as we'll as those who gathered
at the historic spot, were not deferred
by the ominOus clouds nor the suspicion
of rain, and when Judge Duke had fin
ished his mastery Grafton, all felt that
it was good for them to have been there.
His remarks were logical, pathetic and
abounded in touching passages, historic
facts and original thoughts. The Judge
is renowned speaker, and yesterday he
spoke from his soul and was at his best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
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
iCostiyeness, Palpitation of the Heart,
Heart burn, Water-brash, Gnawing and
Burning Parns at the Pitof the Stomach,
Yellow Skin, Coated Tangue and Dis
agreeable Taste in the Mouth, CT '7g
up of Food after Eating, Low EfAis,
etc. Go to your Druggist and SIT a
bottle of August Flower for % or IS
cents. Two doses will relieve you.
Try it,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
ROOSEVELT ON HIS CANDIDACY.

ROOSEVELT ON His CANDIDACY
Mr. Loeb, Secretary to the President, yes
terday afternoon gave out the following
statement from Walla WalIa, Wash. "1n
speaking of the sudden political develop
ments in Ohio, the President yesterday
afternoon said: Il have not asked
any man for his support. | have had
nothing whatever to do with raising the
issue as to my Endorsement. Sooner or
later it was bound to arise, and, inasmuch
as it has now arisen, of course, those who
favor may administration and nomination
will indorse them, and those who do not
will oppose them.1 'The President
also said>he was deeply touched by the
action OF President McKinley's home
county within which Canton is situated,
in ipstructing so heartily in his favor.
Nothing could have pleased him more. "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
Jones Attacks Cleveland.

Washington, May 26.-Ex-Senatol
James X. Jones, of Arkansas, is of the
opinion that Mr. Cleveland never was a
democrat. 81 have talked the situation
over with leaders from all parts of the
country" said he, "and with the ex-
ception of those from New York and
some of the other eastern States, all
have united in the belief that Mr..
Cleveland is out of it. He is not a
regular democrat. He did not support
the ticket in 1896 and 1900. In fact,
he never was thorough democrat. 1t
is my belief that to succeed the demo-
Gratis must nominate a man who is
acceptable to both factions of the party,
and | am of the opinion that Senator
Arthur p. German, Judge Alton B.
Parker, or Edward NJ. Shepard, If
New York, would do. also believe
that platform can be framed that will
be acceptable to every genuine and
earnest democrat. With such a plat
form | believe the democrats will sue
ceed.v
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-26
The Market.
Georgetown. May 26.-Wheat 77aS2.
The Wastes of the Body.

Every seven days the blood, muscles and
bones ola man of average size loses two
pounds of wornout tissue. This waste cannot
be replenished and the health and strength
kept up without perfect digestion. When the
stomach aud digestive organs fail to per
form their functions the strength lets down.
health gives way, and disease sets up. Kodof
Dyspepsia Cure enables the stomach and di-
gestiye organs to digest and assimilate all of
the wholesome food that may be eaten into
the kind of blood that rebuilds the tissues
and protects the health and strength of the
mind and body. KodOl cures Indigestion,
Dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. 1t is an
ideal spring tonic. Sold by E. S. Leadbeater
q Sons.