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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
The Trial Races.

Peacock Point, Glen Cove, R. l., May
21.-The cup yacht Reliance makes her
maiden race today when she meets the
Columbia, twice defender of the Amer
ica's cup. Today's contest is the first
of a series of five races off Glen Cove,
and while the accident to the Constitu-
ton prevents her from being at the start
ing line, yachtmen hope to get a far
line on Reliance's possibilities as a cup
defender in her race with Columbia to-
day. The regatta committee have sche-
duled thirty-four races for the Reliance,
Columbia and Constitution, and there
will be many bitter contest sailed and
won before the best yacht is selected to
deferd the emp. 1t was anything but a
promising race day this morning, but the
wind picked up little shortly after 10
O. clock, coming in light, streaky puffs
from the northwest. Reliance was the
first to get to the starting line. She car
ried her large No. topsail. Columbia
arrived twenty minutes later. She car
ried her Ratsey club topsail and her
new Ratsey jib. AT :40tne commitIee
boat, Privateer, fired the preliminary
gun. The Columbia Immediately broke
out her head sails and the two yachts
began to jockey for the start. A little
breeze had sprung up and the Columbia
seemed to move more briskly than the
Reliance, as the two boats went to and
fro to get their positions for the start.
Ten minutes later, however, the com.
mittee boat signalled that the start would
be postponed until later. The wind was
so streaky that the committee wished to
wait for a steadier breeze. As the two
yachts stood together, the Reliance, with
her immense high rig, lowered far above
the Columbia.
AT las o'clock the preparatory signal
gun was fired and the yacht started.
The Reliance was about 500 yards
ahead of the Columbia at 2:5O O'Clock.
There was almost a dead calm on the
Sound and the yachts had not gone
three and a half miles. 1t seems as il
the race must be call off before long.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
EPISCOPAL COUNCIL.

The first business session the one hun
dred and eighth annual council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia
began in Winchester yesterday with Bish-
CD r. A. Gibson, of Richmond, presid-
ing. On roll-call 70 delegates answered
after which the presiding officer annonnc-
ed the standing committees.
A resolution was introduced and re-
ferred to the finance committee providing
for the sale of the Bishops residence and
the building of a new home for him in
Richmond, to cost not more than $l2, 600.
A resolution providing for the APP
pointment Of committee to stimulate
interest in the establishment of the
Bethany Institute at Richmond, as a
memorial to the late Bishop White,
was made the order of the day for this
afternoon. Bethany Institute is to be
used as home for women.
The greetings of the council to Bishop
Peterkin, of West Virginia, and the con-
gratulations of the diocese upon the
twenty-ffth anniversary of his consecra-
ton, were forwarded, as was also greet
ings to the council of the diocese of
East Carolina, which is now in session.
f. c. Massie and Judge r. Carter
Scott, of Richmond, were proposed as
members of the board of trustees Of the
invested funds of the diocese, and in
connection with this nomination Judge
Scott moved that the council go into
secret session. The entire afternoon was
taken up with the matter. A resolution
was adopted acknowledging the Church
Of the Holy Comforter in Richmond, and
admitting that church into regular stand
ing as a regular independent parish of
the city of Richmond, the pastor of the
church, Rev. John H. Dickinson, and
the delegate, DR.. Edward Mccarthy,
and alternate, William McKim Mar
riott, being granted seats on the floor of
the council.
In the diocese the clergymen number
90; parish, missions and chapels 1914;
candidates for orders, 6; ordinations
deacons 9, priests 3; baptisms, 7S9; con
firmations 567, communicates 1929,
marriages 900, burials 499, Sunday
school teachers 900, Sunday school schol-
ars 1879, total of contributions $685.
60S.77.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
SENATOR SIMMONS made some sensi-

SENATOR SIMMONS made some sensi-
BILE observations on the negro question
at the banquet of the North Carolina
Society in New York last night. Among
other things he said;
The South is extremely anxious 10
see this race issue settled once and for
all, not, however, in the interest of
partisanship or sectionalism or race
antipathy, but settled righteOusly in
the interest of both races, for the COM
mon veal, and in consOnance with the
equities aud exigencies of the situation.
The emancipation, enfranchisement and
the permanent presence in our midst of
thenegro present three problems; namely,
a social problem political problem, and
an industrial problem. The social prob
lem thus presented is one which the
South can settle for ITSELF indepen-
IDENTIFY of the rest of the country, and it
has settled it, so far as it is concerned,
and settled it irrevocably. One and all,
now and at all times, they refuse, as
they have always refused, to even so
much as consider the suggestion of social
equality or social intercourse with the
negro The South has attempted to
settle the question of political equality
in way reasonably satisfactory to it.
self, and in a way which, ifundisturbed,
we believe will prove reasonably salts
factory to the North also. BY one de-
vice or another we have taken the ballot
from the illiterate negro, not, as some
times charged, for political or race
advantage, but as we believe, for his
good and for the country's good, and,
speaking broadly, for our own salvation.
x Why should lour representation
in Congress and the electoral college be
reduced on account of the disfranchise-
ment Of the ignorant negro? Under our
present plan, and fundamentally, repre-
sentation is, and should be, based upon
population and not upon votes. When
all adults vote, there are, upon an aver
age, four nOn-vOters TO every voter.
These nOn-voters are as much subject to
the law as these voters. Their lives, their
iipClt.s NhNh PiVFSAtS, thS PlOuuSlS vi
their brain and muscle are as much sub
iect to its operation as his. For these
reasons these non-vOters are rightfully
given representation, both in the making
and execution of federal laws.
In his reference TO the impractical
dreams ofsome philanthropists and rep
resentative colored individuals as to the
possibilities of the negro Senator SIM
mons said:
With more or less intimate acquaint-
ance with the character, adoption, and
capability of the negro, am profoundly
convinced that he can best work out his
destiny, whatever that is to be, upon the
farm, and that nowhere in the world are
the conditions and environments so IA
yorable to his development along correct
lines as upon the southern farm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
The Market.
Georgetown. May 2l.-Wheat 77aS2.
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
Costiyeness, Palpitation of the Heart,
eart-burn, Water-brash, Gnawing and
Burning Parns at the Pit of the Stomach,
Yellow Skin, Coated Tangue and Dis
agreeable Taste in the Mouth, Coming
up of Food after Eating, Low Spirits,
etc. Go to your Druggist and get a
bottle of August Flower for 20 or IS
cents. Two doses will relieve you.
Try il.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
Explosion and Fire.

New York, May 2l.-Shortly after
noon today an explosion occurred in the
gas house in the Motthaven yards of the
New York Central Reilroad. Fire fol-
lowed, and extended rapidly, endanger-
ing much valuable property. One hun
dred men were at work in and about the
gas house, and not all of them escaped.
There was a wild rush to escape from the
building. Many workmen were injured
by flying missiles. The force of the ex-
plosion was felt for blocks away and
caused great excitement. Windows in Q
radius of four blocks were broken.
The fire was under control at q clock.
The damage was confined to the gas
house and some freight sheds and the loss
will not exceed $40, 200. No bodies
were found in the ruins. An Italian la
borer, who was injured, died in the Lebi
anon hospital, and so far this is the
only loss of life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

At Yesterdays session of the COnfeder-
ate reunion in New Orleans, the MEM
orial services were opened promptly at
2 O. clock by General Gordon, and then
General Young, of Kentucky, delivered
a prayer. He was followed by Gen. j..
A. Chalaron, who reada eulogy on the
late adiutant-g general of the United Con-
federate Veterans, General Norman, of
New Orleans. General Cabell followed
in brief address, in which he paid a
warm tribute to the late adjutant-gen-
eral. The resolutions were adopted by
silent rising vote.
The Rev. j. j. Finley, of Fishers
vile, Va, delivered the annual mem
orial sermon.
Prior to the memorial exercises the
financial report of Adjutant General
Mickle was presented and approved,
showing for the fiscal J ear the following
receipts:
Camp dues, Sl,2l2; commissions and
certificates of membership, $3l; dona-
tons, 1888. Total, S2,OSl.
Disbursements were 81, 300, leaving
balance of 1914
The report of the historical commit.
tee was read by Gen. j. j. Homer and
Gen. S. d. Lee by turns. 1t dwelt ex-'
haustively on the efforts of the commit
tee to secure an impartial historical
record for the South, and made a series
of recommendations regarding various
publications, praising some and con-
demning Others. 1t was adopted with
out dissent.
w. P. Lane, of Texas, member OF
the Sons of Yerterans, presented the
greetings of his organization to the
older body.
Gen. c. I. Walker, of Virginia,
moved that a committee of five be APP
pointed to arrange for a closer relation
ship between the Sons of Veterans and
the parent organization. General Gordon
appointed as members Gen. G. /.
Walker, Gen. b. II. Young, Gen. W.
p. larry.
~ move, Mr.. Chairman" said Cen
eral CabelI, rising to his feet, "that the
trans Mississippi department be repre-
sented on that committee. We have by
far the largest camp Of Sons of Veterans
in the South, and | think we should be
represented"
Geaeral Gordon at once named as ad-
ditional members General Vanzant and
Gen. Felix Robertson, of the trans-Miss-
issippi department, and when an Ala
bama delegate wanted a private on the
committee offered to appoint one, but the
delegate could suggest none.
Miss Lucy L. Hill, of Chicago, daugh-
ter Of Gen. A. P. Hill, was enthusiast
cally welcomed by the convention when
introduced.
The Sons of Veterans listened to the
reports of various committees.
Last night ball was given under
their auspices to the sponsors and maids
of honor in the Auditorium.
Today's session of the veterans organi-
zation will be taken up by the reports Of
the committees on credentials and reso-
luti ons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
Crusade Against the Jews.

Berlin, May 81. Dispatches received
today show that a violent anti-semite
epidemic has resulted from the Kishinefl
massacre and is spreading throughout
eastern Europe. In the district of
Dorogoi, Roumania, Prince Moruzzi,
the former Governor Of Bucharest, is
reported to be melting the pOpulace
against the Jews by stories of ritual
sacrifices by the latter. From the
district of Putna comes report that
the women there have taken hand in
the trouble and are preaching bloody
crusade against the Jews. A Bucharest
dispatch states That general massacre
of Jews in Roumania has been planned
for today, and that the government is
encouraging the feeling against the
Jews. Minister of the Interior Lascar
has, it is said, announced new repres-
siye legislation against the Jews. A
Riga dispatch states that the Jews there
have taken measures for self protection
in view of the rumors of approaching
persecution. The Tageblatt asserts that
the massacre of Jews has been planned
in many Russian towns similar to that
which occurred at Kishinef, probably
at Whitsuntide.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
TELEGRAPHIc BREy,r,rs

The stock exchange firm of f NJ
Tucker & Co., of Boston has assigned
Fire last night destroyed the six story
building in Chicago, occupied by Strans
x Eisendrath, as a wholesale Clothing
establishment causing loss of $500, 600
The Vatican is taking measures to
facilitate the emigration of several hun
dred Italian priests to America for the
Italian population of that country, which
is now estimated at 5000, 900 and in
creasing by 200, 900 every year.
Washington Seligman, the New York
banker, attempted suicide last night at
the Hotel Rossmore where he had dined
with woman. His condition was re-
ported to be satisfactory today, and his
speedy recovery is looked for.
In attempting to recover a coat which
his companion had thrown across
ttohey wire, under the elevated railroad
ss,uS.u5e in Chicago, Joseph Lowe
S;a h"ua one Of the supports and putting
the ground dead. "'' i "
because OF the slump in cotton ,,,;oos =,
Liverpool due to realizing, the ono ptces IN
the New York Cotton Exchange wsro s', on
ed at the opening but on demand %Gr sr smash y,
shorts quick rally followed. Julv '' o,a .lls
g. August rs and September 20 points Ic,ne.
October sold off TO 9.34, but at once rose ten
points, and soon the near months as we'll were
advanced on support assumed to come from
bull leaders.
A big waterspout is reported few mile
west of Omaha, Neb. Five hundred feet @
railroad track is said TO have been washe'
out There was heavy rain fall Throughout
eastern Nebraska and southern Iowa las
night and waterspouts reported at severa
points.
The ll5th general assembly of the Presby
terrain Church Of the United States, convene'
at Los Angeles, Gala, this morning. Dele
gates from every part Of the world are in al
, tendance. Rev. Hugh X. Walker, pastor
delivered the invocation.
The failure is announced at the New Yor
Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchang
offs. b. Fitzgerald. He was unable TO max
good his margins on stocks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bulgaria has notified Turkey that any
attempt to cross the frontier would be
repealed by force.
Bankruptcy proceedings against the
Porter Brothers Company, one OF the
largest fruit commission houses in the
country, were begun secretly in the U.
S. District Court in Chicago yesterday.
The explosion of lamp in the engine
room of the steamer Pfohl, in the middle
of Lake Huron yesterday, started a fire
which, after an eight hours fight, caused
the crew of the vessel to take the life
loats. The Pfohl sank within an hour
afterwards.
Mr.. Abel G. Kelly, II years old, a
prominent farmer of Onancock, Va, and
Mrs. Levenia B. lie Cato, just GO years
of age, of Baltimore, we're quietly mar
ried by Rev. H. H. Sherman at the
home of the brids yesterday. Both had
been married before.
Rev. Henry Storey, Baptist minister
of Richmond, Mich, was burned 10
death and his wife so severely burned
that it is feared she will not recover, in
fire that destroyed their home early yes
terday morning. Mr.. Storey had been
i'll, and it is supposed that he arose in
the night to get some medicine and
dropped lighted lamp. His body was
terribly burned.
The cancellation of the promo
tons of over 5000 postoffice clerks
throughout the country, recently author
;zed by the Postofice Department, and a
formal notice to former Assistant Post
master-General Perry S. Heath, OF the
charges made against him by ex-Cashier
S. w. Tulloch, of the Washington city
postoffice, constituted yesterdays de-
yelopments in the pOstoflice investiga-
ton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

1 Mr.. Park Agnew, chairman of the
State republican committee, states that
he has issued a call for meeting IN
Richmond June IL.
B. Corson Macoy, for many years in
the retail grocery business at Culpeper,
died yesterday quite suddenly. MIR;
Macoy had been in i'll health for seyert
years.
Walter +. Hibbs and Miss Mary
Wenrich, both of Manassas, were
married at the Luthern Church yester-
day morning at 10 O'Clock. They left
for tour in the North.
Judge Waddill heard argument in
Richmond yesterday in the litigation to
keep the Trigg Company out Of bank
ruptcy. Upon his decision depends the
existence of the Trigg Company.
Joseph r. Hill, of Bluemont, Loudoun
county, has sold his handsome estate
located near that place and containing
about 80 acres, to James G. Hooe, OF
Washington, for $4,000. Mr.. Hooe Is
native of Loudoun.
Mrs. David Brydon Tenant, of Rich
mond has issued invitations to the wedding
of her daughter, Miss Anne Tenant, to
John Stewart Bryan, to take place June
4 at Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church in Richmond.
Mr.. Robert A. Hutchinson, a young
LAWYER of Manassas, and Miss Bette
Holden were married at the residence OF
the bride, in Fairfax county, yesterday
evening at 5 O'Clock. The couple left
on the evening train for northern tour.
Mrs. Mary Smith, wife of the late
Rev. Dudley d. Smith, for II years
rector of Emanuel Protestant Episcopal
Church, Philadelphia, died Tuesday
night at the residence of her stepdaugh-
ter, Mrs. Edgar Woods, jr., in Char
lottesville.
Rev. Job Turner, who had world
wide reputation as the greatest of deal
mute missionaries, died Tuesday at the
home of his son in Mountsville, Lou
doun county, in the eighty-third year OF
his age. He had been i'll for some time,
suffering from the infrmities incident to
old age.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant this
week of the following patents to residents
of this State: w. NJ. Thompson, OF
Charlotte Courthouse, for a cloth
measuring machine; II, d. Smith, of New
bern for corn planter; E. R. Wright,
Of Richmond, for dental manikini
Mary Gerard, of Norfolk, for shoe
heater.
Walter Evans, who had been on trial
in West Point on the charge of having
set fire to a house and started the con-
hagration that consumed the business part
of the town, was acquitted yesterday, but
was ordered to leave the town and never
to return. He left on the 2 O'Clock
train. His two daughters were at the
trial. He had no counsel. The fact
that he was suffering from the effects OF
a protracted spree at the time the con-
fession was made, and that his mind
was apparently unbalanced by the
liouor. led TO his acduittal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21

CHARGES BROUGHT BY WOMEN. -
A sensational story came TO light in the
Washington police court yesterday, when
James w. Hendley, an elderly man,
with officers at 105 Corcoran building,
was arraigned on three charges of as
sault, preferred by Miss Daisy Butler,
Miss May G. Moreland, and Mrs. Lelah
Taylor. All three women stated that
they had, on different occasions, entered
Hendley's Office on the recommendation
of an employment agency to secure a
situation as stenographer and typewriter.
In each case, they say, Hendley made
advances and essayed to take liberties
with them. Hendley was arrested on
the complaint of Miss Butler, and after
his arrest the other women preferred
charges. Hendley denied his guilt on
each count, and demanded jury trial.
The cases we're therefore continued, and
Hendley was released on 5000 bond in
each case. Hendley was recently horse
whipped by the mother of another young
woman to whom, it is alleged, the man
made advances.
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again become dominant. AS the IN
quiry nears its close it is becoming more
and more apparent that the Irregular
ties. the extravagant expenditure OF
public money and the evasions, if not
violations of law we're due in most in
stances to what were regarded as politl-
cal exigencies. 1t may not he proven
that there was any general policy to
make the postal service an adjunct to
auy political machine, but there was a
system, constructed and developed, from
which the republican organization as a
whole derived no little benefit. ASIDE
from the charges of corruption made
against George w. Beavers, former chief
of the salaries and allowances division,
and against A. w. Machen, chief of the
free delivery service, it is generally
known that the greater portion OF the
doubtful transactions of which both
have been accused were urged by politi-
clans and were carried through to aid
candidates for Congress in carrying their
districts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-05-21
A Grievance.

Reading, Pa. May 2l.-Since the dis
coyery of the internal machine on board
the steamship Umbria, together with
the announcement that the principal part
of the machine was cigar-lighter made
by w. F. Price, of this city, Mr.. Price
has received two communications for
similar machines. One Of then is from
Baltimore and is as follows: 81 under
stand that you are the patentee and sole
manufacturer of the Price Electric lgni-
ter which is thoroughly adapted for
blowing up a steamship. Now, if you
thiuk it would answer just as well for
blowing up a Catholic church, please
quote me your best price f 0 B cars,
factory, for the necessary igniter electric
batteries, clock work, and dynamite suit
able for landing a Catholic church in
hell, and obligeone who has grievance. "
Mr.. Price also received postal card from
Paterson, n. j., the headquarters of an
archists in America. The postal was
signed ''The Mafa". 1t read ave see
that you furnish machines designed to
blow up steamships or anything else.
Please tell us what our society can
get your machines for in quantities. "
Should &c. Rosseauo," the man who is
suspected of placing the machine in the
Umbria, be caught, Mr.. Price could pro-
badly identify him as one who purchased
a lighter from him last February.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. j
Washington, ID, c., May q.

Correspondence OF the Ale1aHuIld oaNe''t'j
Washington, d, c., May q.
Postmaster General Payne this after
noon made the startling announcement
that there is at this time dehcieny OF
s227. 467 in the appropriation for the
free Delivery system. OF this SlO5, 900
is in the free delivery lewiston proper
and 1922, 900 in the rural free delivery
division. Mr.. Payne expressed himself
as both astonished and grieved OYER the
magnitude of the deficit. He says he
deprecates deficiencies. While he knows
that it has been the custom to call upon
Congress for aid, he pointed to the fact
that $500, 900, had already been received.
He saws he cannot immagine how the
present condition was brought about
unless through negligent balancing OF
accounts.
Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate Com,
merce Commission, today officially confirmed
the story that Attorney General Knox mas
instructed District Attorney Burnett, OF New
York TO 90 into the Circuit Court and ask for
an order compelling the presidents OF the
various coal companies to answer questions
put to them at the recent hearing OF the
Hearst charges before the commission.
The name Of the unfortunate soldier who is
confined at Tybee Island, near Savannah,
suffering from leprosy, and which has been
withheld by the army surgeons, is First
Sergeant Chas. C. Mix, of the 9TH Co. Coast
Artillery. He was admitted to hospital at
that place January 29 of this year..
BY a decision of the Comptroller of the
Treasury the State Of Iowa will be reimbursed
in the sum of $1,000 which it expended in
preventing the spread of smallpox from the
Sac and Fox Indian agency, in Tama county,
Iowa.
Minister Dudley, at Lima, Peru, cables the
State Department today that the quarantine
in Peru is not against San Francisco, as was
at first reported.