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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Cardinal Herrero y Espinosa, Arch
bishop of Valencia, was yesterday Great
cd a cardinal by Pope Plus x.
At Charlotte, n. c., the grand jury
and the board of county commissioners
will investigate the circumstances sur
rounding the death OF Oliver Clark, q
Young negro. at one Of the county con-
Wet camps Tuesday. There are rumors
to the effect that his death was the result
of an unmerciful beating administered
by Mr.. Henry G. Little, superintendent
of the convict camp.
The Christian Orient, German mis-
sionary paper publishedin Berlin, prints
correspondence from Teheran alleging
that the leaders of the Persian Moham-
medsn Church served notice on the
Shah that unless he purges the country
offoreign religious commercial influences,
especially British and Russian, the
church will precipitate a revolution.
The church leaders also demand that the
Shah restore the religious and economic
conditions which prevailed in Persia a
century ago.
The expulsion of the Redemptorist
Fathers from their monastery at Les
Stables d'Olonne. Department OF Ven
dee, France, was carried out Yesterday
after an exciting experience. The bar
ricaded building was surrounded at 3
o'clock Yesterday morning by soldiers,
police and fremen. The monastery
bells summoned crowd of people to its
defense. Missiles were thrown out OF
the windows and several of the besiegers
were injured. After four hours siege
the barricades were forced and the
fathers retreated to the rock, where they
continued their defense until dislodged
by streams of water Many arrests were
made.
The Brooks comet has just returned
to view and is now in constellation
Capricornus, with slow motion west
ward. The comet was discovered by
DIR. w. r. Brooks, professor of astron-
omy at Hobart College, at the Smith
Observatory, in 1889. 1t was soon
found to be moving in an orbit
with period of seven years. The comet
was seen again in 1896, and now makes
another visit, being found in exactly its
predicted place in the heavens at the
time of discovery. This comet was at
tended by four small companion comets,
and this, with its periodic character,
makes it one of the. most interesting in
astronomical annals
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.


The Murder Of Consul Magelssen.
Berlin, Aug. 2S.-Authentic inior-
nation received here states that the
American vice Consul Magelssen who
was murdered at Beirut excited the
hatred of the Turks by his energetic pro-
lection of America subjects of Armenian
birth residing in the districts of his con-
sulate. He also unearthed number OF
Turkish outrages. and hunted down the
cnlnrits. He became q thorn in the side
of the authorities. His assassination,
according to the dispatch, was Poliu-
cal crime and was welcomed by Official
dom. The Vice Consul was an en-
thusiastic golfer and for lack OF players,
PLAYED alone in the Syrian desert. he
was returning from game, when ne
was waylaid. In semi-otficlal circles
here, it is regarded as possible that the
event will drag America into the tur-
MOL in the near east.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 2S.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Hay are
in conference today over the "interna-
tional incident precipitated by the muir
der of the American Vice Consul at
Beirut, Syria. The President is terribly
in earnest in his determination that Tur-
KEY shall make amends for the outrage
and that the assassins of Consul Magelssen
shall suffer for their crime. If the Porte
shows an ugly disposition in the matter,
Admiral Cotton's warships will drop a
few shells among the Beirut mosques.
The feet is expected to steam into the
harbor of that city within week. Secre-
tary Hay is the only visitor at Sycamore
Hill TODAY
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
institution.

THE TALK of establishing daily
newspaper as a republican organ in Wiz
ginia seems to have died out. A few
months since it was stated that the re-
publicans would make an active canvass
and determined fight in the State this
fall with view of securing large rep
resentation in the legislature and that to
this end a daily republican paper would
he nrbiisned either in Richmond OF
Roanoke When the republican State
committee met early last month the
organ proposition was Endorsed and
federal office-holders were urged to sub
scribe to the capital stock of the pro-
posed paper. This seems to have been
its grace stroke to the project, for these
are practical times, and men who sub
scribe for stock expect at least some divi-
dends. But with government employees
in Virginia the idea of receiving returns
from an investment in republican
newspaper is too remote to be entertain
ed, so on the principle that their money
is safer in their own pockets than in the
treasury of newspaper company, they
have, so far as advised, declined to in
vest in such an enterprise. The pub :
LEGATION of daily newspaper is an
expensive undertaking and the ten
dency of the times now is to diminish
rather than increase their number. Ger
tainly the number Of papers which now
succeed is infinitely less than the num-
Der that fail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
WESTERN FLOODS.

The Missouri river valley from Mis-
souri, Valley 20 miles north to Pacific
Junction, 10 miles south of Council
Bluffs, is almost lake for the entire dis
lance, and,of the five trunk lines running
east from Council Bluffs only one-the
Illinois Central-is able to get train in
or out of the city. Two persons, II. H.
Larue, of Corning, and A. R. Fash, a
Clinton Iowa horseman, lost their lives
while attempting to rescue number of
persons from the fair grounds, which
we're suddenly flooded. Larue was cleo.
trocuted while pushing boat under an
electric light wire, and Fash was drown
ed. Three. others are missing and are
thought to have lost their lives on the
flooded fair grounds. Tho flood was
caused by a sudden rise in the Nodaway
river early yesterday which submerged
the grounds before those having charge
of exhibits knew of their danger, some of
them being asleep. The water reached
depth of 81 feet on the grounds and
washed away a number of buildings.
The railroads are the heaviest sufferers
from the food. The Burlington east and
south has half dozen bad washouts and
its track is under water at number of
other points. Its bridge at Malvern was
washed out entirely and traffic is badly
blockaded. The Wabash road, which
runs south, has several washouts.
The northwestern tracks between this
city and Missouri Valley are nearly all
under water, and no trains were
run over them yesterday.
At Red Oak, Hastings, Villisca, Glen
wood and Malvern from four to seven
inches of rain fell, and the entire country
is flooded. The Rock Island road has
been unable to get trains farther west
than Atlantic, and the Milwaukee is
blockaded at Nicola.
At Kent the engine and II cars of a
freight train on the Burlington road
went through a bridge that had been
weakened by the high water, carrying
down with it the engineer aud fireman.
Both escaped by swimming to shore.
Two and one-half inches of water fell
over Creston and vicinity in six hours,
washing out tracks and destroying much
stacked hay and grain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. IS. 1908.

THE PERPETUITY of the Marine Band
is now menaced by labor leaders, and
should they succeed in their endeavOrs
the people will in large measure, at
least, be deprived in future OF
the soothing strains Of that organiza-
ton. Organized labor, in the shape OIL
the American Federation of Musicians,
backed by the American Federation OF
Labor. has declared that the Marine
Band shall not be employed outside the
government service. Boycotts have
been declared and others threatened IN
Washington against the band and
theaters or hotel proprietors and amuse-
ment resorts engaging members of the
band. But the success OF the labor
leaders in preventing the band from OBJ
tanning engagements in other cities has
drawn attention to the proposition TO
be presented to Congress at its next
session, that the Marine Band shall be
prevented, by law, from accepting out
side engagements. By preventing It's
appearance in public, except when Or
dered by the Secretary of the Navy, the
labor organizations propose to deprive
the people of the country of an oppor-
Unity to bear the band, unless ordered
to perform by the Secretary ofthe Navy,
and, by limiting,the members to small
paw, to reduce the quality of the band to
such an extent that it will no longer
hold first rank among the bands of the
country. Confined to open-air concerts
in Washington and at White House
receptions the Marine Band would cease,
after an honorable history Of 100 years,
to be national institution, so that all
parts of the country are interested IN
the efforts of the Federation OF LABOR 10
make the band merely local military
institution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
Save the Children

Ninety-nine of every one hundred diseases that
children have are due to disorders of the stom.
ach, and these disorders are all caused by in
digestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is just as
good for children as III for adults. Children
thrive on it. II keeps their little stomachs
sweet and encourages their growth and deyel-
ment. Mrs. Henry Carter, 705 Central street,
Nashville, Tenn, says: 'My little boy il now
indigestion ever since he was born. | have
had the best doctors in Nashville, but failed to
do him any good. After using one bottle OF
Kodol he is well baby. / recommend il to
all sufferers" KOdol digests what you eat
and makes the stomach sweet, Gold by f. S.
Leadbeater & Sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
Match Race For Rio Four.

Chicago, Aug. 2S.-The Harlem
Jockey Club, will, in all probability, try
to get on a four cornered match during
the forthcoming meeting at the Proviso
course, between Dick Welles, African
der, McChesney, and Hermis. The
clubs secretary says hs will give an
added purse Of $1,000 for a sweep
stakes for Dick Welles, Africander,
McChesney and Hermis, provided the
owner Of each puts up purse of S., 600
each, making the total of the purse
$40, 900. Such a contest would be
par excellence the turf event of the
year. The conditions of the race would
be weight for age, with a fast track,
and all to start,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
Sir THOMAS Still Hopeful.

Highlands Of Nayesink, N. j., Aug.
2S.-The yachts Reliance and Shamrock
III. lay in Sandy Hook bay this morn
ing, while driving southeaster with a
heavy rain ratified and hammered in the
rigging. There is still some hope in Sir
Thomass breast that he may win race
and he said this morning that the call
ing off of yesterdays contest when
defeat was certain, was an omen
of good luck to come. SirThomas's dis
appointment over his present failure to
lift the cup is intense, and those close to
him say he will probably never challenge
again. The Irish knight was profuse
in praises Of Reliance's work Of yester-
day. The yachts will sail fifteen miles
to windward and return tomorrow, and a
smart breeze is promised. The bowling
southeas.er of today will probably blow
out and the weather men say the wind
will come out of the northwest with
snap tomorrow
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
Boy Cured OF Collie After Physicians
Treatment Had Failed.

My boy when four years old was taken
with collie and cramps in his stomach:
/ sent for the doctor and he injected
morphine, but the child kept getting
worse. / then gavehim half teaspoon
full of Chamberlaiu's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, and in half an hour
he was sleeping and soon recovered
F. L. Wilkins, Shell Lake, Wis. Mr..
wilkins is bOok-keeper for the Shell
Lake Lumber Company. For sale by
Richard Gibson, druggist.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
The Western Floods.

Kansas City, No., Aug. 2S.-The
Kaw river is rising again. During the
night its depth increased about three
feet while this morning the rate of in
crease was two inches an honr. The
temporary bridges are endangered and
the work of replacing those twice swept
away this summer has been stopped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

swindlers, who have scared 81, 900, 900
from merchants and have been all over
this country and Europe. Geist IS
charged with having obtained money by
false pretences from FIVE local firms.
The officers declare that Geist's doings
are connected with those Of James Fall
lon. arrested in New York last Septem-
Der, and of Arthur Hubbard, arrested in
Washington about the same time on
similar charges.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
THE BALKAN WAR.

The eastbound daily express from
Budapest to Constantinople was blown
up near Kuleli Burgas, about twenty
five miles south of Adrianople, early
yesterday. Seven persons were killed
and fifteen were injured. Dynamite
bombs were used.
Fights are reported from several dis
tricts around Adrianople. The insur-
gents are now besieging the town OF
Malkoternovo. The Autonomic states
that at Kiknishor, near Malkotanervo,
after an engagement lasting seven hours,
the revolutionists killed forty Turkish
soldiers and also burned the village of
Hodgetalashman because its Bashi-Ba-
zook inhabitants had terrorized the
Christian population in the neighbor-
hood.
The revolutionary committee at Ad-
rianople has issued manifesto, the
Turkish beys assuring them that they
need have no fear of attacks on their
property, as the committee is only fight
ing for freedom from a government,
which has become insupportable to
Christians and Mussulmans alike.
Private kilograms from Constantinople
state that the Porte is greatly alarmed at
the revolutionary outbreak in the yilayet
of Adrianople, its proximity to the Sui
tan's capital occasioning much more
concern than the extensive instruction
in the more distant province of Monas-
tir. The Turkish guards along the
Bulgarian frontier have fed before the
revOlutionaries, who are now in posses
sion of all the villages around Mako
ternovo. The Turkish government is
making the utmost efforts to suppress
the rebellion in the vilayet Of Uskub.
Every available man has been called out
from the last lines of reserves to the
rawest recruits, indicating the most COM
plete mobilization possible.
The bomb which wrecked the train
near Kuleii Burgas was thrown by a
third-class passenger who was in the
buffet car. Only two cars were destroyed,
The dead include two Mussulman women,
two children, and three trainmen.
The telegraph wires, OF course, are
not open to correspondents except for
news satisfactory to the Turks, and let
tsrs are opened and suppressed if con-
sidered undesirable
1t is reported from Sofia that the po-
lice have discovered a tunnel leading
under the Komak of Prince Ferdinand.
1t is thirty yards long, and, it is be-
lieved, was constructed with the inten-
ton of blowing up the palace.
The rumor published yesterday to the
effect that an attempt had been made to
assassinate the Russian Ambassador at
Constantinople was entirely unfounded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
Charged with DIsorderly Conduct.

New York, Aug. 2S.-A man who
gave his name as Gustave Rousch, was
arrested today for disorderly conduct and
sent to Bellevue Hospital to have his
sanity inquired into. At one O'Clock
this morning Rousch was seen trying to
push a show case off the sidewalk on
Broadway. He was told to move on.
Rousch was next seen attempting to lift
the marble steps of the Guarantee Trust
Company's building, and was again
driven away. Later, he tore down a
screen at the entrance to a cigar store
and was then placed under arrest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

Berlin, Aug. 2S.-Baroness Lowen-
held, the widow of German nobleman,
has raised money to pay her gambling
debts at Monte Carlo by selling the
family vault in the cemetery at Munich.
rhe baroness is but SO years old, but
has succeeded in running through large
fortune at the gambling table.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
Caleb Powers's Argument.

Georgetown, KY, Aug. 2S.--Prompt-
ly at nine o'clock this morning, before
an audience of several hundred persons,
Caleb Powers resumed the argument
begun last night in his own behalf.
He will occupy the time of the court
until noon. Commonwealth Attorney
Franklin will begin sthe closing argu-
ment at 1:S0, speaking for three hours
and ten minutes. The case will then
go to the jury. Powers in opening
discussed the evidence of the wit
ness Cecil that he had told Cecil that
man was to come the follow
ing day and kill Goebel. He said it
was the place of commonwealth to have
brought Henry d. Ha Paynter and j.
F. Matthews here to corroborate Cecil.
He then took up the fact that he was
not acquainted with Youtsey thirty days
before the shooting, and argued that he
would not have selected a man almost a
stranger TO him to do the killing, and to
do it from his (Powers) Office. He
argued that Golden and Youtsey could
not have been believed when they told a
story of the giving of the key to the
private Office to Youtsey because they
were strangers practically, to John
Powers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

AFTER going slightly above 81 for
the first time since 1898 lastweek, wheat
experienced a sharp decline. There was
also break in the price Of corn. The
estimated yield of wheat in this country
this year is 649, 900, 900 bushels, a large
increase
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
If Your Physician

prescribe milk diet, for its easy digestibility
Il will be we'll TO use Borden's Peerless Brand
Eyaporated Cream to get a rich, deliciously
favored milk food. perfectly sterillzed, ae-
cording 20 latest sanitary methods. For gen.
eral household uses. Prepared by Borden's
Condensed Milk Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. - James A.
Allen was accidentally shot to death
yesterday morning near Staunton.
Young Allen is the third and youngest
son of Col. s. Brown Allen, United
States marshal of the western district of
Virginia. Yesterday morning, in COM
paDy with his cousin. Guy Hamilton,
Allen went out hunting near his fathers
farm, about four miles from town. They
had finished their hunt and were on their
way back to the farmhouse on Colonel
Aliens place. Allen had one cartridge
in his gun, which Hamilton advised him
TO remove, but he failed to do il. II APP
pears from the wound that the gun was
resting on the bottom of the buggy and
was held close to the body with the left
arm on the muzzle of it, when it was ex-
ploded by lurch of the buggy, causing
the horse to run off. A wound as large
as mans fist was made just above the
heart. The muscles of the left forearm
were torn to pieces. In this condition
young Allen said: 81 am shot, but will
be all right" and he lighted a cigarette
and smoked few whias. He died in
few minutes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

As MIGHT have been expected, the
assassination fthe United States Vice
Consul at Beirut has caused considerable
excitement in diplomatic circles, and
the dispatch of the Mediterranean fleet
to Turkey has produced a grave condi-
ton of affairs. There isasy yet no telling
what the outcome is to be, but all may
rest assured that energetic steps will be
taken toward having the assassins pun
ished.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

FAVORS LYNCHING. bishop III. y.
Morrison, of Louisville, KY, who is in
Helena, Mont, presiding at the annual
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, said on the subject of
lynching:
"When negroes quit criminal assaults
we will quit lynching, and not before.
Another thing, If the newspapers of the
country would give as much space to
horrible crimes which invariably precede
a lynching as they do to the details of
the lynching, it would serve to place
sympathy where it belongs. Take an
illustration. A negro assaults woman
and in the hope of preventing detection
he cuts her throit. Her body is found
and the fend is pursued, captured and
lynched or burned. Next day the papers
give full account of the lynching,
with its horrible details, but little or
nothing is said of the victim who has
first suffered far more than death. II as
much were said concerning the greater
crime as there is of the less the effect
would certainly be more beneficial.
In regard to the possible solution of
the race problem Bishop Morrison said:
81 hold the same views as are held by
Bishops Turner and Kelsey, two very
able members of the African Methodist
Church. Bish Up Turner maintains that
it was by the providence of God that the
negro was brought over as a slave, eman-
cipated and Christianized, and that it is
the providence of God that he should be
returned to his native land to aid in the
development and teaching of his own
race. think that he is right"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
A srprrr fair held at Elmwood, Ind,

A STREET fair held at Elmwood, Ind,
brought out the fact that there is a
town in this country where negroes
would not be allowed within its limits.
Owners of horses entered for the horse
show who had colored grooms were told
by the latter that they had been warned
by employees of the factories not to
enter, and an appeal to the authorities
was unavailing. Yet there is talk oil
colonizing southern Virginia to the
North and Middle West.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28
swindIer Arrested.

Louisville, KY, Aug. 2S.-In the ar
rest Of Jacob w. Geist in this city yes
terday, local detectives assert that they
have one of 8 gang Of "fake directory"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

Divorced from his young wife, to whom he
had been devoted, Herbert r. Shaffer took
dinner with her and her present husband in
Chicago last evening and then took from his
pocket bottle of carbolic acid and drank it
in their presence. As he raised the bottle TO
his lips ne told his former vic that she had
caused his death and made threatening mo-
ton toward her. She fed from him and be
followed her as far as the door, where ne fell.
He died few minutes later.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-28

WAR AMONG GAMBLERS. Warfare
among the gamblers Of Chicago, carried
on with the desperation of pirates and
total disregard of consequences, promises
to drive the handbook and poolroom out
of Chicago for the first time in many
years. Ill feeling and bitterness that
years of sharp competition have en-
gendered are displayed in the present
strife. Trade secrets are becoming pub
lie property and the mysteries of race
track burning and bomb-throwing in
gambling-houses on the past are likely
to be cleared away if the disclosures
continue. One of the secrets disclosed
Yesterday was an iron-clad contract to
keep pool selling out of Cook county.
"Jim'' O'Leary's enemies says he
violated this. Three combinations, in
Guiding practically all the boss gamblers
of Chicago, are includedin the legal and
physical warfare. At the headquarters
of each secret gatherings an unwonted
activity characterized yesterday which
opened with the announcement of the
issuance at Harvey of 100 warrants for
handbooking as its earliest development.
Operators came thick and fast, including
preparations for an attack upon "Jim"
O'Leary's fortified clearinghouse on the
drainage canal and equally strenuous
preparations for its defense at any cost.
OLeary's place is surrounded by an
eight-foot fence, inside Of which are
number of bloOdhounds and detectives
armed with Winchesters. These men
are instructed to shoot any constables
who attempt to serve warrants. 1t is
not thought the constables will get be
yond the Winchesters, but if they do
the blosdhounds will prevent them get
ting inside the betting inclosure.