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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
FOREIGN NEWS.

The advices received in Paris, from
Ambassador Jusserand summarizing
the status of the Venezuelan
negotiations at Washington, lead
the officials to express more confident ex-
pectations of and adjustment OF the
difficulties that at any time previous.
William Redmond, who was sentenced to
serve a Jail sentence of two months in October
last. was released from KIlmainham prison
this morning. Redmond's sentence was for
two months, and after that three months IN
default of bail for good behavior. This bail
has not been paid. His offence was making
incendiary speeches.
President Ballestre of the Reichstag today
exhibited in the lobby new great naval
plan, presented to the Reichstag by the
Kaiser, showing line of English and German
ships and cruisers prepared for the front.
The plan demonstrates especially the pre-
dominance of the English navy.
Herr Won Prollin, first secretary Of the
German legation at the Hague, has been ap,
pointed Minister to Caracas: IL Is regarded
as probable that Won Prollin was appointed
at this time merely that he might proceed to
his post as soon IS diplomatic relations are
resumed.
The Manchester Dispatch today learns that
the Kaiser intends to accompany the first
German squadron to the Mediterranean in
May. The paper adds: "He wants to show
the German flag there in state; some say as
an admiral of the Atlantic"
The French wireless telegraphy society has
asked permission 10 erect station at Saint
Pierre, Miquelon. The society will under
take to equip all fishing vessels with sigma
instruments, to be used in case they are IN
distress.
Regarding the report that the French Allan
tic squadron has been ordered to Martinique
the foreign office today states that iftrue 1t is
mere coincidence and has no bearing on
the Venezuela trouble.
Two women, Amelia Sachs and Annie
Walter, were hanged at Holloway jail in Lon
don, today for killing babies on a baby farm
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Virginia will share in the S78, 007,-
929 carried by the sundry civil appro-
priation bill.
Miss Charlotte Trenary died near
Boyce, Clarke county, on Sunday, after
a weeks illness of pneumonia, aged 81
years.
The dwelling house of Lewis Rector,
at Turnbull, Fauquier county, was totally
destroyed by fire at an early hour Sun
day morning, together with all the
household effects. Mr.. Rector and family
barely escaped with their lives.
Rev. E. H. Ingle, rector of st. Bar
tholomew's Episcopal Church, Baltimore,
has decided to accept the call extended
him by the vestry of Christ Protestant
Episcopal Church, Wildwood, Va, to be-
come rector. He rendered his resignation
to the vestry of st. Bartholomew Church
last night. 1t will take effect March 2.
Representative colored men at meet
ing held in Richmond last night adopted
resolutions condemning the recent Wash
ington speech of James II. Hayes and
appointed committee 70 secure a hall
and arrange for big mass-meeting to
voice the sentiment of the negroes of
Richmond on the incendiary utterances
of Hayes. Giles b. Jackson, the
democratic negro lawyer, is at the head
of the anti-Hayes movement.
Richmond society is preparing for n
big bazaar attraction for the benefit of the
Confederate Home for Needy Women,
beginning March 16, which will be under
the immediate supervision of Mrs. A. j..
Montague. A special feature will be a
drill by 20 of the most attractive girls OF
Richmond society, who will be put
through the military manoeuvers by Col.
Joe Lane Stern. They will wear short
skirts and patent leather boots. They
will be drilled in the mansion.
Suffering from mental strain, brought
about by what he believed to be mali
cious reports about him, |. j. Kimball,
on Saturday, while on his way home
from church, in Manchester, made two
unsuccessful attempts to end his life.
He drew a large knife and started to cut
his throat. Several persons struggled
with him and the knife blade was broken.
Believing he would make no other at
tempt, they turned him loose and he
drew a second knife. This was also
snatched from him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate yesterday had the army
appropriation bill under consideration.
1t was about to be passed when MIR.
Pettus, of Alabama, requested that 1t go
over until today to permit some
amendments to be offered. During the
reading of the bill Mr.. Hale and Mr..
Cockrell got into a discussion over the
general staff provision, the former con-
tending that it was general legislation
and had no place in the bill. Mr. Cock
rell insisted otherwise. Mr.. Quay, dur
ing the discussion, interected the re-
mark that the provision was properly in
the bill.
Mr.. Berry criticised as remarkable a
defense made several day ago by Mr..
Proctor, of Vermont, of Capt. Brownell,
said to have been connected with the
death of Father Augustine, in the Philip
pines.
The statehood bill was up for short
time and Messrs. Bard and Quarles
spoke in opposition to it. After brief
executive session, the Senate adjourned
until Yesterday out of respect to the men,
ory of the late Representative Rumple,
of Iowa.
The House passed about forty bills
under suspension of the rules. The most
important of them was bill to authorize
resumption of the negotiations with
Great Britain for the preservation of the
Alaska fur seals, and to give the Secre-
tary of the Treasury authority, if modus
videndi is not concluded prior to the
opening of the pelagic sealing season
this year, to exterminate the seal herd
on the Priblov Islands, except 10, 900 fe-
males and 1000 males.
The bill appropriating 81, 500, 600 for
new Department of Agriculture build
ing was passed Among the other bills
were a number to restore to their former
rank in the army or navy, and then retire,
officers who resigned years ago. One bill
advanced Brig Gen. H. c. Merriam, re-
tired, to the grade Of major general on the
retired list
The House will meet at noon today
and take up one of the appropriation bills.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
ALnxe-Crazed Waiter.

New York, Feb 3.-The mansion of
Bernard Beincke, well known whole
sale butcher, at No. "a West rs street,
was thrown into turmoil this morning
by a love crazed waiter who shot SER
want in the Beincke house, and then
tried to kill himself. The waiter is
Robert Beidelich, 80 years old, and his
victim is Mary Garlin, widow, 40 years
of age. Beidelich called shortly after
9 o'clock this morning and asked to see
the Garlin woman. When she appeared
he advanced toward her in threatening
manner, saying: You havegot to marry
me now. will no longer be deceived. "
Mrs. Garlin started to run, when
Beidelich fired two shots at her with a
revolver. Both shots took effect one in
the breast and the other in the back.
When the woman fell Beidelich walked
out in the area way and fired a bullet
into his head. He succeeded in shooting
out his right eye. Failing to kill him
self the man drew from his pocket
bottle containing carbolic acid which he
drained. Ambulances removed Mrs.
Garlin and Beidelich to Roosevelt
hospital in a dying condition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mrs. VIM. III. White, of Bridgeport,
Conn. sued for divorce, withdrew the
netition, became reconciled and went
hack to her husband all in one day.
A bill has been introduced in the Kan
sas Senate making the dancing OF the
shoochy- koochy" or dance dn yentre In
Kansas a misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine.
Senator Nelson yesterday offered an
amendment to the sundry civil appro-
priation bill, appropriating 800, 900
for home for aged colored people, 10
be built in Washington.
Mr. ]. Pierpoint Morgan when IN n
Washington last week made social cal
on Secretary Root and it is said asked the
Secretary to become his chief counsel
when he leaves the Cabinet.
Arthur d. Wheeler, a university in
structor, who had just been discharged
from the Wisconsin University for gam
bling. saws that the students in Yale
college gamble ten times more than IN
the Wisconsin college.
A congress of negroes from all over the
South who are opposed to antagonizing
the white people by seeking political pre-
ferment, will be held at Birmingham,
Ala, in May. The congress, it is ex-
pected, will adopt resolutions to the ei'
feet that the white man of the South i:
the negro's best friend.
The Senate judiciary committee yes.
tcrday voted to recommend rejection oil
the nomination of William Nj. Byrne,
an Addicks man, to succeed himself as
District Attorney Of Delaware, but de-
layed its report in order to give the
President an opportunity to recall the
appointment The committees action
was intended to be direct blow at Ad-
dicks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
WANTED.

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thing more serious is the matter with
you. The 25 cent size has just been
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
Fatal Accident at a Ball.

Vienna, Feb. ga dispatch re-
ceiyed here from st. Petersburg this
morning tells of the strange death OF
Mile. Veronine, the heiress of a million
aire land owner. Madamoiselle was one
of the dancers at a ball held in the
theatre last night. The occupants OF one
of the boxes, sixty feet above the dancing
floor, accidentally tipped over cham
payne bottle. The bottle fell. striking
the heiress on the head, and killing her
instantly. The father, the dispatch says,
is in half demented condition. His
vast wealth will go to distant relatives.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
rELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs

The physicians in attendance upon
ex-Secretary Long, in Boston, say that
his condition is about the same as yes
terday.
Ex-senator Henry L. Dawes, who has
been suffering from an attack OF grippe,
for fortnight, past, is dying at his home
in Pittsfeld, Mass
The fog which settled over Waterbury
Conn, last night and furnished cover
for the stoning of cars and other depred-
atoms against the property of the Trolley
Company, cleared away with morning,
but the stode throwing and disturbances
of the night continued spasmodically.
Bars were started out on all the lines
this morning as usual, and the first trips
were no productive of any trouble.
A fast wrecking train crashed into the
rear of freight train on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad at Easton, Pa, early
this morning. The engine of the wreck
ing train ploughed through caboose on
the rear of the freight train and into a
car lOdl Oh COKE. luC ItdOh was PiiON
high with debris which Immediately be-
gan to burn. Conductor Miles, in charge
of the freight train, was burned to a
crisp. An unidentified flagman was
burned and may die.
Efforts in the direction of the long delayed
merger of the leading railway equipment
houses throughout the United States have
been resumed in Chicago. The amount
generally suggested as the capitalization OF
the merger is $40, 100000.
Fire loss of between $4,000 and $500
vss caused in West Harvey, Chicago, last
night. when the foundry Of the Chicago Kail-
yay Supply Company was destroyed. with
in an hour nothing but the walls Of the build
ing remained standing.
The government of Honduras declares that
there is nothing in the reports Of grave politi-
cal disturbance in Central America, and that
Americans we're fleeing from Honduras;
The country, it is claimed, is tranquil and
prosperous.
There is prospect for light vote in Yer.
mont today at the polls, as it is expected that
the snow which fell over most Of the State last
night will tend TO keep at home the rural
voters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
The Kings Condition.

London, Feb. 9.-Although no official
bulletin as to the kings condition was
issued this morning, it is reported on
good authority that his majesty passed a
good night. His condition, however, is
not such as to permit his going to the
Duke of Devonshire's seat at Chatworth
today. The Central News says there is
no likelihood that the King will be able
to be out this week. Sir Francis
Knollys, King Edwards private secre-
tary, today issued the following state
ment regarding his majesty illness:
ssThe King is suffering from a mild
attack of influenza. His Majesty's pro-
gress is quite satisfactory" The King
has definitely cancelled his proposed
visit to Chatsworth. He will probably
stay at Windsor until the opening OF
parliament next week.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03

THERE Is little wonder that the think
ing men of the country are growing
alarmed at the, changed conditions OF al
fairs, for they can but see danger ahead
Once the military company in any city
in the United States was the pride OF the
community, for it was looked upon as
the right arm of the law and the con-
servator of the peace in time of trouble
but this is not the case now. In Water
bury, Conn, on Saturday riot broke
out as the result of street car strike
and the governor called out the troops to
preserve order. Dispatches from New
Haven say that as the military com
panies of that city marched through the
streets on their way to the train for
Waterbury they were jeered, hooted and
hissed; that at Waterbury the soldiers
were given 'knock out drops" and that
trouble is feared between the soldiers
and the strikers and their friends. This
all tends to show a growing disregard OF
law and when law is set aside anarchy
will reipn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
Trouble with Aglipay.

Rome, Feb. 3.-The Vatican is seri-
ously concerned regarding the growth of
the ssschism" church in the Philippines
founded by Aglipay, the renegade priest.
News received from Manila states that
Aglipay has secured the support of
Aguinaldo and is receiving converts all
over the archipelago. The Vatican has
been in communication with Aglipay to
determine how his PROSECUTING can be
stopped. He replied that the only way
is to recall all the friars. The Pope is
unwilling to do this. The only differ,
ence between the Catholic Church and
the new Philippine church is that the
latter does not recognize either the Pope
or the friars. All the clergy are natives.
The form of worship is the same as that
of the Catholic church.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
TUESDAY EVENING. FEB. 8. 1908.

REV. DIR. PARKHURsT, VINO Is o'''"
before the public in one role or aho'nei'
in making his announcements IN MS
church in New York Sunday morning
gave vent to the following in stating that
a missionary of the Freedman's Bureau
would deliver an address tomorrow night
at the prayer meeting services; The
missionary, he said, was endorsed by
Booker Washington;
Gwen at this day, so long after the
proclamation of emancipation, there Is
in many parts of the South condition
of veritable slavery. Although we
claim to be civilized people, there is
degree of barbarism in our treatment OF
the black race that is not exceeded IN
any part of the world. And although
we send out missionaries to Christianize
other lands, there are communities III
the South as unchristian as any part OF
heathendom.
At the close of the service a souther-
ner waited in the lecture room, with a
number of Others who wished to speak to
Dr. Parkhurst. The stranger said he
was from Arkansas but did not give his
name. He declared there was no SUCH
thing as a NEGRO question" in the South,
and told DIR Parkhurst he was mlsln-
formed as to conditions in that section.
The negroes were treated properly, he
asserted, and no credence was be gwen
to sensational reports of their systema-
tic ill-treatmeut. During the colloquy
which followed DR.. Parkhurst said IN
reply to the rebuttal testimony OF the
southerner:
81 wish to be fairminded in this mat
ter and / will say to you, what nave
often said before, that in some respects
the negroes receive worse treatment IN the
North than in the South"
DR.. Parkhurst, it will be seen, cor
roborates what southern people have as
serted for the past third of century
that they, after all the afiectation OF those
of the northern section, have ever been
the true friends of the colored race, and
the stranger who took issue with the
doctor was well versed in his subject.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
STAND BY BOWEN.

Sir Michael Herbert, British Ambassa-
dor at Washington, yesterday presented
to Minister Bowen, representing Vene-
zuela, counter proposition from the
allied powers providing that two-thirds
of the 80 per cent. of the customs receipts
at the ports of La Guayra and Puerto
Cabello be turned over to the allies and
that the other claimant nations content
themselves with the remaining one third
10 per cent.-until their claims are
satisfied
In reply to this proposition Sir Mi
chael received an emphatic refusal from
Mr.. Bowen, and was informed that Vene-
zuela is willing to submit the question
of preferential treatment to The Hague
tribunal.
The new proposition of the allies, it
is estimated, would hold them together
six years. Mr.. Bowen expressed SUR
prise that Great Britain would desire
this.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03

BLooDsHED IN MACEDONIA. = A
Vienna cablegram says: "Well-inform-
ed politicians are coming almost unani-
mously to the view that the oft-threaten-
ed trouble in the Balkans is much nearer
realization than the public has hitherto
believed. Consular reports confirm the
continued occurrence of sanguinary en-
counters between the gendarmerie and
Bulgarian marauders in the yillayet OF
Monastir, and generally can be traced
more or less directly to the activity of
the Macedonian revolutionary committee.
Nervous disquietude prevails among the
officials at COnstantinople. No fewer than
seven conferences were held by the chief
military commission at the Yildiz Kiosk
last week for the purpose of considering
measures to be taken in Macedonia in the
event of the threatened revolutionary out
break occurring. The Porte is doing its
utmost to provide commissariat for
possible operations on large scale. 1t
is buying arms and war munitions and IS
seeking by complaisant acts to remove
the possibility of friction with neighborlng
Governments. The Porte has dismissed
the Governor of Ipek at the demand OF
Russia and has suspended the differential
tariff against Greece and Servia. Mean
while the Bulgarian newspapers are
urging the Government to arm and accu-
mulate stores before it is too late. 1t is
stated that Servia has already placed ian
immense order for arms and ammu-
milton"
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FROM WASHINGTON.
,orrespondence of DIE Alexandria Gazette. }

Correspondence OF the AleAahuiia NaDe'e'J
Washington, ID. c., Feb. 3.
The failure of the latest efforts to
reach an agreement with the allies on
Venezuelan affairs is a disappointment
to the administration. Actual anxiety
exists in official circles over the possible
Developments in view of the insistence
of Germany and Great Britain on pref
erential treatment of their claims.
Some of the pessimistic predict that it
will not be long before all of the ports
of Venezuela are in the hands OF the
allies. While the situation does not
apparently warrant this extreme view at
the present time, it is regarded as GER
tain that recent events are making 1t
more likely that the United States will
take hand in the settlement of the
difficulty. Without making any re-
spouse to Minister Bowen's proposition
TO give the allies 80 per cent. of the
customs receipts at Puerto Cabello and
La Guayra for period of one month,
after which all claimant nations should
be treated ON an equal basis, the allie:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03

RUNS THE NATIONAL HoUsE.-The
right-hand man of the Speaker of the
U. S. House Of Representatives is called
"clerk at the Speakers DESK" and is
one Of the most useful men in the House.
1t is his business to know things-all
things; in fact, everything connected
with legislation. He must know parlia-
mentary law, precedents of the House,
and must have them ready at a seconds
notice, so that they may be cited by the
Speaker or by the chairman of the COM
mittee of the whole House whenever
point of order is raised or parliament
airy point is to be decided. He must
know all the members of the House,
and from what State they come, in
order to tell the Speaker or chairman
how to recognize them when they adj
dress the presiding officer. He must
know all the secretaries of the President
and clerks of the Senate, so as to tell
the presiding officer when there is a
message from the President or the Sem
ate to be received by the House. He
keeps the time on men who are address
ing the House, and the "hammer" falls
when he says that man has consumed
his allotted time. Of all these tasks
the greatest is to be well informed upon
parliamentary law. There is no index
to parliamentary rulings, and many
points are found by the man who will
delve and dig and study the subject all
the time. Such a man is the present
'clerk at the Speakers desk" Asher
C. Kinds, of Portland, Me-, who came
to that place in the Fifty-frst Congress,
being selected by Thomas B. Reed. He
will probably remain as long as he de-
sires, as he has gained knowledge of
the duties of the position attained by
very few men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03

MAYOR FISHER, Of Wilmington, DEL,
is unwilling to sign the new cocaine
ordinance passed by the city council and
is holding conference with City Solicl-
tor Reinhardt. The ordinance provides
that cocaine, opium and similar drugs
cannot be sold except upon the pre-
scription of a physician. The Mayor
wants clause inserted in the ordinance
providing g penalty for any physician
who Unfortunately gives prescriptions
to persons who are addicted to the use OF
the drug and he should insist upon his
suggestion being adopted by council. A
law restricting the sale of drugs which
poison both body and mind is dead
letter prescriptions are indiscriminate-
ly given for the purchase of such drugs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03
Him Crow Law i'm Missouri.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. S:-The
bill introduced in the Missouri legisla-
ture providing for "Jim Crow" cars on
all railways does not meet with the ap-
proyal of the colored people. Prayer
meetings were held in nearly every ham,
let and town in the State last night, the
object of which is to supplicate God that
the bill may meet defeat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-03

CHARITY BALL.-The annual ball of
the Southern Relief Society at the Ar
lington Hotel, Washington, last evening
brought to that hotel nearly seven hun
bred men and women, all eager to help
in the work of the society, and the great
majority also eager to participate in the
pleasures of this happy occasion. Mrs:
Howry, wife of Judge Howry. received
the guests, assisted by the following
members of the society, of which she is
the president; Miss Mary Gusts Lee,
Miss Virginia Miller, Mrs. Benton, wife
of Representative Benton; Mrs. Claude
Swanson, and Mrs. Fox. Ex-Secretary
of the Navy. II. A. Herbert, president
of the Confederate Veterans Union,
made the introductions to Mrs. Howry.
A buffet supper was served from IL
O'Clock in the dining room of the hotel.
Among those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
r. w. Hunter, of this city, and Mr.. X.
f. Lee. of Fairfax.