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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-11
OLD NASSAU, ADIEUI
SAYS CLASS OF 1908
Cleveland Conspicuous Figure at
Princeton Commencement.

PRINCETON. n. ]. June 11.-Assem-
bling on the steps of Nassau Hall. just
as a hundred classes before them have
done, the members of the class of 1903,
Princeton University, last night joined
in singing ''Old Nassau"
AS the strains of the old song foated
across the campus, the air was picked
soon the chorus sweiled till it could be
heard blocks away. This was the last
formality of commencement day at
Princeton. and. as was remarked, was
the last time the 234 members of the
class of 1908 viii join in singing the
Princetonians.
The graduates formed in a circle on
the campus and were seated for the
loving cup ceremony, one of the his
toric formalities. They drank to each
OF the 234 members individually, call
ing them by name This parting scene
was pathetic in the extreme and
caused tears to come even from the
eyes of bystanders.
The annual commencement, the 156th
in the history of the university, was
held in Alexander Hall in the fore
noon. Former President Grover CIeve-
land was a conspicuous figure in the
academic procession, walking side by
side with Woodrow Wilson, president
of the university, and wearing the hood
of doctor Of laws.
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STRIKERS CAPTURE
CIGAR TRUST PLAN

KINGSTON, N. Y. June 11.-Six hun
dred striking employees OF the American
Cigar Company marched to the factory
yesterday, broke into the building and
compelled fifty employees who refused to
strike to quit work. The strikers march
ed through the building. shouting dea
ance- The police were telepkoned ror,
but were unable TO clear the building
The sheriff refused to interfere until
the police were unable TO cope with the
strikers. The latter were finally induced
to leave, but later returned. After two
hours the police drove the strikers from
the building and established strong
guard The strikers took possession un-
der legal advice that they had a right
to stay until the company paid TO them
their back wages. The company says it
cannot finish the pay rolls before
Friday.
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WILCOX MUST SERVE
THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON

RALEIGH, y c., June Thames
Wilcox, the murderer of Nellie Cropsey.
of Elizabeth City, will have TO serve his
sentence of thirty years in the State
prison here. On his first trial he was
sentenced to be hanged, but the supreme
court gave him a new trial, because the
spectators at the trial made a demon
stration when Wilcox's lawyer arose TO
speak. On the second trial. in different
county. he was convicted of murder in
the second degree and sentenced TO serve
thirty years. This judgment the supreme
court yesterday affirmed, in a long
opinion, embracing thirty typewritten
pages.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-11
LIGHTS NOT SIGNALS
FROM THE MARTIANS
Local Scientists Laugh at the Recent Projection
Theories.

The projection on Mars, recently dis
covered by Prof. Percival Lowell, at the
Lowell Observatory in Arizona, AMI
thought by some persons to be a Mar
tian signal to the earth, was probably
due to some cloud formation in the at
mosphere Of the planet. This is the ex-
PLANTATION given by the scientists at the
United States Naval Observatory here.
The skies in the region about Washing
ton were not favorable at the time for
observations OF the heavenly bodies, and
the projection was not observed.
Similar spots have been observed upon
Jupiter and Saturn and even upon Mars,
but this projection was one OF the
largest ever observed upon that planet.
The patch OF light, Prof. Lowell says,
was 200 miles long and 20 miles high
at its highest point. Owing to the rota-
ton of the planet it gradually approach
ed the rest of the disk and finally van
ished at $50 a. m. During this time the
NE assures suggested that it was travelling
north upon the planets surface.
On May q it was carefully searched
for at the, proper time and place and.
though the atmospheric conditions were
as good as on the preceding day, moth
ing certainly could be seen. although
tue remnants of it were suspected about
5 degrees farther north than they had
heen the day before.
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GIRL SEEKS DIVERSION
AFTER D00MiNG MOTHER

MIDDLETOWN, y. Y. June I1.-Tda
May De Kay. whose testimony convicted
her mother, Mrs. Kate Taylor. of murder
in the first degree, seeks diversion from
in the death house at Dannemora by
all means possible. Last night, in com
pany with Miss Johnson New York
private detective, and Mrs. James Tay-
lor, the girl witnessed the drama, Wife
for Wife" She enjoyed it heartily. Miss
De Kay had her fortune told by a gypsy
fortune teller. who predicted for her
good future and said she was soon 10
receive present of gold.
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Suggestions have been made that the
bright patch was due to an Illuminated
peak on Mars and intended as sign 10
US This theory is held in contempt by
most scientists. 1t is impossible today,
they maitain. TO determine whether the
Martians, fthere be any, are signaling
20 the earth.
What the cause OF the cloud is and of
what the cloud is composed. is at pres
cit merely guessed at by astronomers
II has been suggested that the cloud
was due 10 a volcanic eruption such as
that of Krakatoa Or Mont Pelee.
If it was due to volcanic eruption,
it is argued that since volcanic erup-
tons cannot occur without the coop
Grafton OF water in the form of steam,
there must be water upon Mars. and
gases and atmosphere. If there be
water and atmosphere upon Mars, it is
very probable that there is animal life
existing on the planet perhaps beings
similar TO man.
Most astronomers say that these
projections or clouds seen upon Mars,
Jupiter, and Saturn, are probably of
yapor formation and aerial origin.
However, this theory would also tend
TO show that there is water and atmos-
phere somewhat similar to that of the
earth upon Mars.
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.PITTSBURG'S MAYOR
UNDER INDICTMENT
Accused of Illegally Diminishing Old
Soldiers.

PITTSBURG, June 11.-WiIiam B.
Hays, mayor of Pittsburg, is under in
dictment, charged with a misdemeanor,
and has furnished bond in the sum of
$500
The Indictment was found by the
grand jury and the specific offense al
legged is the discharge of Samuel Moore
from the city employ while Hays held
the title of recorder. Francis J. Tor
rance, president of Allegheny select
council and member of the State board
of charities. is foreman of the grand
jury.
Moore is an old soldier and was an
official of the ordnance bureau of the
city. On March 81. 1908. he. with num-
Der of others, was discharged from the
city employ by Hays. The matter was
taken up by the old soldiers of the coun-
ty and a test was made of Moore's case.
Information was entered before Alder
man S. J. Toole on April 80, and Hays
was held for court in $500 bond
The allegations in the suit are that
the mayor violated the act of assembly
of May 20, 1898. which forbids the dis
charge of old soldiers for political rea-
sons
The suit is being watched with keen
interest by ali veterans and their friends
throughout the city, as there were more
veterans than Moore who fell under the
swing OF the ak of the chief executive of
the city. and on the outcome of this
case those OF other discharged soldiers
hinge.
Mayor Hays defense Will be that the
act is unconstitutional.
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WOMAN is SUSPECTED
Of ELEVEN MURDERS
Killed Her Brother, His Wife, and
Others.

KALKASKA. Mich, June u-Mrs
Mary Mcknight has confessed to the
murder of her brother John Murphy. his
wife. Gertrude. and their three months
old baby. The detailed confession of the
woman made to Prosecutor Smith is as
follows:
Il didn't intend TO harm any of them
I did give the baby the strychnfne. It
woke up and cried while its mother was
gone and I mixed up little strychnine
in glass with some water. and gave a
spoonful TO the baby. I didn't mean TO
harm the little thing at all.
81 confessed all to the Lord this after
noon and I feel that he has forgiven
me. I really didn't mean to harm any
of them. When Gertrude came home
and found the baby dead. she got aw-
fully nervous. She came to me and said:
Mary. can't you give me something to
quiet me. something that you take your
self?' I said that I would. and I really
didn't think that it would hurt her if
gave her one of the capsules. She had
spasms right after that, and suppose
that it was the strychnine that killed
HSl- really uluu mean 10 nuTL neT
though.
Then John seemed to feel so bad
about 1t. so broken up, that I often
thought after Gertie died that it would
be better if he were to go. toe. John
was feeling bad one night, couple of
weeks after Gertrude died. He came to
me and wanted something to quiet him
! had two or three of the capsules on
my dresser. and l told him to go and
get one of them 1 didn't mean TO hurt
him, but thought that it would soothe
him. and then I thought that it would
be for the best if be were to go, any
way. He helped himself. / don't know
whether he took one or two Then he
went 10 bed. and by and by he called me-
Mother came. TOO. and he began to have
those same spasms. suppose that the
strychnine was working"
Eight other persons, beside the three
to whose murder Mrs. Mcknight con-
fessed. investigation shows. have died
in the past sixteen years under circum-
stances that. in view of the woman's
confession today. are now thought to be
suspicious.
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FAT MEN AND WOMEN
MUST PAY A TAX
Swedish Cities Decide to Augment
Treasury Receipts.

STOCKHOLM, June 11.-Several com
munities in Sweden have decided to in
troduce tax on corpulence.
according to expert investigation. -
say the city fathers. "a full-grown man
or woman should weigh no more than
l2o pounds. Parties exceeding thar
weight furnish proof triumphant that
they are luxuriating too much in the
good things of this world, that they eat
and drink more than the average good
citizen should
1t is therefore decided TO tax super
huous flesh on progressive scale. An
excess of ten pounds over the normal
weight costs 10 kroners per annum. 20
pounds cost 25 kroners, 30 pounds more
than the limit so kroners"
Needless to say there will be an exc
dus of Swedes to Marienbad this sum-
mer, for the tax goes into effect next
January, when all taxable persons will
be weighed on the city scales.
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REPORT OF ANOTHER
TURKISH MASSACRE

SOFIA, June HIT is reported that
the village of Enidge, in the district of
Adrianople, consisting OF five hundred
houses, was attacked on June . by
Bashi-basouks. and the entire popnla-
ton. with the exception of two hundred
men, massacred. The village was pill
aged and the loot carried off to neigh
boring Turkish villages. The Bulgarian
government has just contracted for the
delivery of forty thousand rifles to make
up the existing deficiency OF arms. The
sobranje will be asked TO vote the neces-
sary credit.
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Lafayette-Berger Stock Company in
"Dr. Jekyl1 and Mr.. Hyde"

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
The Berger company will next week
present DIR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
This play is an adaptation from the
story by Robert Louis Stevenson. of
The Strange Case of DR.. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde" published in 1885, and is
work of much originality and power 1t
is replete with incident. cumulative Of
action and significant in meaning The
play was planned and sketched by Rich
ard Mansfield and made by Thomas R.
Sullivan.
1t is best known as one of the most
successful vehicles of Richard Mansfield,
and his Interpretation was such as will
always live in the memory of those
who have seen it. Mr.. Mansfield was
able to interbIend the angel with the
demon, and thus to command lasting
victory.
It is to the assumption of this dual
role that John T Sullivan will next week
bend his energies. and since he has
already given evidence of distinctive
merit in the portrayal of heavy parts.
his Forthcoming impersonation of Jekyll
and Hyde has additional interest. The
management has promised that the pro-
duction will be commensurate with the
best standards of the organization.
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Lyceum-French Folly Company.

The attraction at the Lyceum Theater
next week will be the French Folly
Company whose reputation for girls of
the Gibson style" and artists of merit
has done so much to popularize this
company The performance opens with
the laughahle sl1it entitled, Wanted
a Room" which is claimed by the man
agement to be out of the ordinary. In
the olio Will be found such known
people as William Collins, parodist;
Eizier and Webb, coon shouters; the
Baydells. in "Clarence's Reception; A."
Bartel and Buckley, duettists. and the
Spencer Brothers, Irish comedy enter
tainers. The performance will conclude
with a burlesque entitled, "A Trolley
Party"
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SHIPYARD MEN VOTE FOR
NINE HOURS Or STRIKE

NEW LONDON. Conn. June 11.-Near-
ly seven hundred employees of the East
ern Shipbuilding Company assembled in
A. o. U. w. Hall. at Groton. last night.
10 hear the report OF the committee re-
Gently appointed to wait upon President
Charles r. Hanscom. and ask that the
schedule of working hours be changed
from ten to nine, with ten hours pay.
The committee had reported that the
company would not grant the nine-hour
schedule. and vote as 10 a strike was
taken. SCI voting in favor OF striking
and l6 against
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MATOS, CRUSHED,
ESCAPES BY SEA

CARACAS, Venezuela, June 11.-Gen-
e-al Matos, the revolutionary leader,
vas obliged to fly the country after his
disastrous defeat near Coro. Generals
Riera, Penalosa. Salagie and Perdomo
He'd with him. They left Venezuela in a
small rowboat and landed early yester-
day on the island of Curacao in a state
Of restitution impossible 10 describe.
after having been four days in reaching
that island. The government troops cap
tured nearly all Matos' army This is
he end of the revolution
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Columbia-Columbia Stock Company
in "An American Citizen"

The second offering of the Columbia
company. beginning next Monday even
ing, viii be the comedy in which Nat
Goodwin and Maxine Elliott made their
first combined success, AN American
Citizen" The plot of this play Is filed
with much that is interesting. and it
is relieved at times by broad, irresisti-
BILE comedy. If AN American Citizen"
did not already bear the stamp of pub
lie approval. the fact that II was writ
ten by so clever playwright as Made
leine Lucette Ryley would in Itself De
an assurance OF merit sufficient to at
tract the attention of theatergoers.
II should prove a worthy successor to
Lord and Lady Algy."
IAN American Citizen is another
play that Is we'll remembered by the
Washington patrons of the theater. 1t
IS in four acts, the story leading the
characters from New York TO Nice, dur
ing the Flower Carnival, and then TO
London. There is much patriotic senti-
ment intermingled with the plot. but II
is never treated in a trifing melodra-
matte spirit The comedy will give the
Columbia players opportunities for
their best efforts. and the cast will in
clude all the principals, Mr. Ormonde.
Miss Cortelyou. Mr. Godfrey Stein. Mr..
Ferguson, Mr.. Clagett, Mr. Leach, Mr..
Post, Miss Atwell, Miss Butler, and
Miss Sawyer
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WEIGHS 25O, FELL so
FEET, NOT HURT A BIT

SYRACUSE. June 1O.-Mrs. Anna Jen-
ney who weighs $50 pounds. fell fifty
feet. crashing through a roof to the
ground yesterday morning. and when
picked up was uninjuTed. It required six
men to lift her into the ambulance and
she was taken 10 the hospital. But
when she arrived there. not a scratch
could be found upon her.
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COMING TO THE THEATERS.

the other novel comedy part of Giacomo,
the companion rogue of Beppo. The
other principals will give the remaining
roles careful and pleasing interpreta-
ton. New scenery and costumes will
give the beautiful opera a modern look.
and it is expected the forthcoming week
viii be one of the most interesting OF
the current season.
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ARMED HiGHWAYMEN
ROB STAGE COACH

REDDING. Cal. June IA stage
travelling between Weaverville and Red
ding has been held up and robbed by two
masked and heavily armed highwaymen.
who secured about $500 and some valu-
able watches. The robbers lined up the
passengers and driver and searched them
carefully Vaiises were slashed open and
two express boxes smashed TO bits. The
robbers were abusive.
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TRIBEsMEN GIVE UP.

PARIS, June 1.-THE operations Of
the French military expedition TO Mo-
rocco were practically concluded yes
terday, when word was received at BENZ
Ounif. Algeria. that the headmen of
the seven villages composing the Tiguig
oasis had made full submission.
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DESIGNING CUPID GETS
DESIGNER WATSON

LONDON. June 11.-George L. Watson,
the yacht designer. was married at Put
ney yesterday TO Miss Lovebond. Lord
Dunraven and Sir Thomas Upton were
among the guests.
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TWENTY MAY HAVE DIED
BY A CL0UD8URST

BISBEE, Ariz., June l1.-News
reached here late last night of a cloud
burst near Clifton. wall OF water
eight feet high rushed down Chase
Creek. without giving the inhabitants
warning. Several bodies have already
been recovered. and it is believed the
number of drowned will reach twenty
Wires are all down to Clifton
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Every mother feels q
great dread of the pain
and danger attendant upo-
the most critical period
of her life Racomipn
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Bat 1t Has Many of the AdJunets of
Modern CiviIizatIon-Hard Work to
Get Things Up There Nobody in u
MISUNDERSTANDING Around the
Place
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LAUGHING GAS FOR STOCK.

May be Given to Cattle Before They
are Killed.
Henceforth there is to be no guinness
in the minds of steers. sheep and hogs
marked for death in the slaughterhouse
hooms at the stockyardS if the plans of
a Chicago man find favor with the mag
mates of packing town. Laughing gas
is to rob death of it's pangs and hilari-
Gus animals will cavort down the run
ways to meet the deadly knife. Samuel
Fox, of Summerdale, former editor,
now scholar author, machinist, scen-
fist and inventor, has devised a system
by which doomed animals, first dazzIed
by glare of electric lights, are to poke
their muzzles into a bag of laughing
gas-nitrOus oxide, as science has it
breat the deeply of the fumes and get
last mirthful moment before big, red
armed men slash them across the
throat with their long knives. Mr.. Fox
takes pride in the reflection that the
idea is distinctively Of Chicago and for
Chicago.
Sara Bernhard furnished some of the
inspiration for Mr. Fox's plan, though
he admits that he had a more humane
system than the present one in mind
for years before the divine Sara ever
saw the stockyard>. The great actress
wanted the packers to use chloroform,
This was a good idea as a starter, Mr.,
Fox thinks, but it would be expensive
and slow-and there wouldn't be any
fun in it for the hapless steer and
sheep. So he hit on laughing gas as
calculated to give live stock a cheap
quick and jolly send-off.
He explained the plan recently with
the aid of diagram.
THE essential features of my plan,'
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he said, ARE means Of getting the ami
mails to the place where the gas is to be
administered and then a device by
which they will readily submit to the
fumes. In the first place, there will
be runway. as il present, but instead
Of leading directly to the slaughterers
il will lead to a turntable. This will be
provided with numerous exits, each
leading into an asphyxiating room.
On circular platform inside the turn
table men will stand armed with goads.
by which they will direct the animals
into chutes leading to the place where
the gas is TO be administered.
Suppose the animal to be a steer.
1t will be sent from the turntable into
small room filled with strong electric
lights. 1t will be dazzled by the glare.
After few moments the lights will be
turned off. This will confuse the ami
mai still more. The side walls of the
room will be drawn together by spec
ial device which l have in mind, and
right in front of the steer will be a
small opening, through which it will
stick its head. A man concealed there
will place over the steers head tight
fitting rubber bag, into one end of
which the laughing gas will be led by
means of a rubber tube from the big
tank of gas previously prepared. A
steer Os a pretty large animal, and it
will take longer to bring it under the
influence of the nitrous oxide than it
does a patient in dentists chair, but
think what pain it will be spared! The
animal will yield, and then will be
dragged through a door into the killing
room. There it will be slaughtered in
the ordinary way. 1t will feel no pain.
The turntable and other machinery will
be operated by electricity. "-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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THING.


ABOUT AN EVEN THING.
A well known member of the Detroit
bar tells this story: Some years ago
attended a session of the circuit court
up in the state A pro confesso divorce
case was called and it is so happened
that the judge was very much opposed
to divorces especially those which were
unopposed, After the attorney for the
complaint in this case had announced
himself as ready to proceed, the Judge
asked him if any one appeared for the
defendant. There was silence for a mo-
ment, and the judge depeated the ques-
ton. At one end Of the lawyers table
sat an attorney who had acquired the
liquor habit and who was at the time
considerably under the influence of
stimulants. He was noticed struggling
to get on his feet, and on observing
him, the judge seized the opportunity
to ask:
" Do you appear for the defendant.
Mr.. Blank
No your honor. l merely rose to
remark, as friend of the court" that
with Brother Doubleblank as attorney
for the complaint and no one on the
other side it was about an even thing. ;
Then Blank resumed his seat while
the whole court roared with laughter. -
Detroit Free Press.