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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-08-20
BLOOD POISON is NO
RESPECTER OF PERSONS

rash, ulcers break out in the mouth and
groins, the hair and eyebrows fall out,
disease are checked at this stage, more
appear in the form Of deep and offensive
terrible pains in bones aud muscles, and
stem.
lgious Blood Poison and the only remedy
and makes a radical and complete cure OF
hold it in check so long as the system is
ne medicine is left off the poison breaks out
Besides, the use Of these minerals bring
hlcs Of the worst kind, and frequently pro-
the gums and decay Of the teeth. S. S. S.
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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-08-20
1908.
WcemS Steamboat co.
Rappahannock River Route
On and after sunday July 5 MlDDLkSEX LAECASIhk ala
Street Bmcre Tuesday ana ay
Feler ihe lHiunh r'
at de pemung Monday AID thursday @ea"p -"
Friday for baltimore ,,,r,,,o. sn, m for
whav VIII appa
Sa IN Nednei day 10,
lhpr"hnh'h
Thu "A Bowie WeloldS T., ,u.r.o,,,
steamer
Bay Port either day
Received p M Oh a ''N
NORFOLK ROUTE

win not call at Bay Port on either day
No Freight Received for out going Steamers after p
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1903-08-20

Wholesale Massacre, Torture, incen'
diarisn. pillage and General oppres-
sion Exposed in Memorandum to
Powers.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19

alton, an endowed library. nm increasing
fund. and distinguished professors, offer
site and library permanently. and the
use Of 1ecture-rooms, apparatus, etc,
while tho school Is weak ana formative,
is such an offer to be hastily re ectcd? I?
WILL SAVE HUNDRED THOUSAND.
This Offer will save the projected en-
terprlse 100000 or more. To have tho
chairs OF physics mathematics, chemis-
try. modern languages and English al
ready provided will save the raising OF
n capital OF 100000 or more. unless the
tuition fees or annual subscriptions be re-
lied on to supply tho teaching These
things provided. the school Of technology
will only have to build at convenience.
buy necessary apparatus, etc, and
employ the special professors and lnstruc-
tors.
1t Is objected that Richmond College,
which makes this generous offer, is a
denoninational college. Well, that is tr,ie
when we contemplate its origin. Its bcne-
factors, It's endowm ent, and q majority
OF It's trustees and faculty of instruc-
tion. That being said, all Is said. The
college Is not run on literal denomi.
natlonalIsrn nor is theology taught, nor
Is there In the instruction the slightest
tingc Of sectarianism. The charter pro-
vides for the INSTRUCTION of youth In
the various branches Of science and lite
rature.'
"Richmond College is no more denon,i-
national than Brown, Princeton. William
and Mary, Harvard, Yale, and Columbian.
and no one has ever objected to schools
Of applied science in the last three be-
cause they were denominntlonal.H
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
No Question, Says the Judge.
Thatit's Within Sherman Act
TRANSACTIONS WITHIN
INTERSTATE COMMERCE
Case Of Combination in Restraint of
Trade Under the Sherman Act Is
Fully Made Out, Declares the
Judge, and He Overrules
Demurrer ofthe Packers
and Grants lnjunct'n
(By Associa ted press.)

(By ASSOCIATED Press)
CHICAGO. ILL.,, February B.-The So
called beef trust case was disposed of to-
day by Judge Grosscup In the United
States Circuit Court. the demurrer OF the
packers being overruled and temporary
injunction granted. The attorneys for
the packers make no announcement OF their
intentions. They have uatil March 4th
to discuss the matter with their princi-
pals. II they deny the facts upon which
Judge Grosscup based his decision the
matter will go before a master in chan
Gerry, who will hear the evidence, and the
case will again be argued before Judge
Grosscup.
An appeal may be taken in order to
hasten the final adjudication Of the case.
1t is not believed likely that the pack
ers will let the matter go by default, thus
making the Injunction permanent.
Judge Grosscup, In his opinion, after
defining interstate commerce, says:
For the purpose of clear exposition the
facts set forth in the petitions should be
separated into two gloups--those that are
intended to bring the transaction within
the body of interstate commerce, and
those that are intended to fix upon such
transaction the character of unlawful
combination and conspiracy. The first
group may be stated as follows:
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
.The defendants, controlling sixty per
cent. of the trade and commerce in fresh
meats in the United States. buy in the
course of their business live stock shipped
from points throughout the United States,
which, having been converted into fresh
meats, IS sold again by them at the plac es
where prepared to dealers and consum-
ers in other States. or is sold through
their agents, located in other States, to
dealers and consumers in the States
where the agents are located. The ship
ments in the first class Of sales are made
directly from the places where the meat
is prepared to the dealers and consumers
in other States, and in the latter class
to the agents in the other States, who
upon sale deliver directly to the dealer
and consumer.
'.What may be called the body Of these
transactions IS two-fold. 1t reaches back
ward to the purchase Of cattle that come
to the defendants from States other than
those in which defendants manufacture.
ond 1t reaches forward to the sale of the
meats after conversion to parties dealing
WITH respect thereto from other States
followed by shipments into other States.
Each of these transactions constitutes
In my Judgment. interstate commerce"
UNLAWFUL. COMBINATION.
The question whether the averments
set up In the petition constitutes the
character of unlawful combination.
Judge Grosscup answers in the af1lrna-
tive, saying:
mo one can doubt that these aver
ments state case Of combination
Whether the combination be unlawful or
not depends on whether 1t is in restraint
Of trade.
''The general meaning Of that term is
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
COMING MARVELS
IN MEDICAL WORLD
DR.. William Osler. of Balti-
more. Conducts a Clinic
at University College.

DR.. William Osler, head professor Of
Practice Of Medicine In Johns Hopkins
University. and one OF tho most distin-
guishcd physicians In the country vis-
tied the University College Of Medicine
in this city yesterday and conducted a
clinic for the benefit of the students.
Tho clinic was held at II o'clock in the
morning In the clinical amphtheatre
Glasses We're suspended, that all might
be present DIR. Osler, who wns intro
duced by DR.. William S, Gordon, went
thoroughly into the matter of splenic
leudoemia and diagnosed the case before
him. The patient. who was a woman,
was present.
At the conclusion of the clinic Dr. Os-
Ter delivered short address, in which
he commented npon the opportunities of
medical students In this present day as
compared with the opportunities of their
tathers, He predicted as many discoveries
during the coming fifty years as have
startled the medical world during the
past flfty years, He remarked upon the
tact that many OF the leading physicians
IN me united States are Vireinlans and
Southerners. In the University of EdIn
boro, 1T one time, he said, there were
l23 medical students OF this number, "A
We're Ylrslntans. TWenty-three came
from South Carolina.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
AFTER LONG DELAY
THE BRIDE CAME.
And Then Mr.. G. A. Rosen
berg and Miss Gertrude
Shdpsleigh United.

The wedding of Miss L. Gertrude
Shapsleigh. OF Boston, Mass. to Mr.. c.
A. Rosenberg, also of Boston. but at
present the Southern representative OF
the American Newspaper Association In
Washington. D, c., was scheduled to take
place in the home of Mr.. r. w. Gary,
No. sol East Marshall Street. at 1880
o'clock last evening, the Rev. Mr.. James
Morris to offlclate.
Owing to late train, however. Miss
Shapsleigh missed connection in WASH
ington and failed to get to Richmond un-
til after 10 o'clock.
Tho bridal party. however. waited pa
tiently, and the wedding, which took
place at II o'clock, was Il most attrac-
tive ceremony, Mr.. Herman Hertz, a
friend of the groom, was best man, and
Miss Lola Gary, tho charming daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Gary. was maid
Of honor.
After the marriage refreshments Were
served, Mr. and Mrs. Rosenberg will
make their home at the residence OF
Mr.. Gary,
Miss Lola Gary and her grandmother,
Mrs, Mary S, Mallory, leave to-day by
way of the Norfolk and Western and
Southern Roads for Memphis and Now
Orleans, to be gone about two months,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
TORTURED BY
CRIMINALS
Startling Revelations in In.
surance Fraud Cases.
MAY REVEAL MURDERS
MAY REVEAL MURDERS
Sara Weber Said She Was Starved and
Slashed With Knives to Force Her
to Aid Those Engaged In the
Diaboical Conspiracy.
nv Associn,ed pre..,

NEW YORK. February 1S.-AssIstant
District Attorney krotei said to-day that
the insurance fraud case now under In
vestigation In this city promised to de-
yelop into one OF the most startling ever
known in the criminal history OF the city.
Before the District Attorneys office
has finished Its Investigation OF the as
founding and extraordinary New York
insurance frauds" he said. II should not
be surprised II 1t were proved that the
conspirators even went so far as to mur-
der in cold blood to get bodies for the
purpose Of collecting policies. We have
found that twenty-three substitute bodies
We're passed off on the Hancock Insur-
ance Company alone. and as soon as the
plotters are indicted these will be ex.
humed. The investigation into the re-
lnarkable plot has already begun.
The fate of Sarah Weber, who, it Is
alleged, died from the effect of brutal
treatment. which, 1t Is charged, she re-
ceived at the hands of the conspirators
Mr.. krotel said. was but single instance
According to stories told by her relatives,
Sarah Weber was tortured in order 10
compel her to aid in tho Insurance. frauds
When the girl left home she had rosy
cheeks and was the picture Of health
When her family found her she was a
shadow of herself She told her brother
that she had been beaten. starved and
Slashed with knives to force her to help
those engaged in the cOnSpiracy
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
HIS
ARE LOSERS
Report Of General Laws Com
mittee is Adverse.
KELLAMPEOPLEEXEMPTE
Others, Such as osteopaths, Christian
Scientists and Healers. Must Un.
dergo an Examination "A
Lengthy Session Held.

The General Laws Committee of the
Senate late last night reported favorably
the bill which seeks to compel osteo.
paths. Christian Scientists and Healers
to undergo an examination before the
State Medical Board. It was amended so
as to exempt the management of the kel-
lam Cancer Hospital. Of this city.
Before the matter was gone into. Hon.
Joseph T. Lawless, of Norfolk, called
attention to a reccnt decision OF the
United States Court in which it was de-
cided that literature of faith curists was
not improper matter for the mails.
Hon. c. V. Meredith and Hon. John Gar
land Pollard We're present for the ISellam
Cancer Hospital, but did not speak.
Former Governor OF'errall was the
first speaker. and he made a strong APP
peal on behalf of the osteopaths, whom
he said should not be required to stand
examination before an adverse board boz
fore permitted to practice their profess
sion.
In closing. he offered an amendment.
providing that the BILL If passed. should
not apply to osteopaths who shall have
been Spracticing osteopathy in Virginia
on the first day of January, 1903. pro-
vided they shall hold diplomas from repu-
table osteopathic colleges.
number of letters and testimonials
were read by Governor O'Ferrall. and he
was followed by Dr.. w. S. Gordon, of
Richmond, who spoke for the bill in an
able and eloquent manner. DR.. Gordon's
speech was an extended one, and he was
often loudly cheered. He did not abuse
the os teopaths or Christian Scientists,
but paid a high tribute to his own pro-
fession. and declared that it was in the
interest Of humanity that his people
sought the passage of the bill
Dr. George Ben. Johnston closed for
the BILL and his speech was an eXcep-
tionally strong one. Like DR.. Gordon,
Dr. Johnston appealed earnestly on be-
half of the people and his profession and
his remarks We're listened to with great
interest by the committee and all those
present.
The committee then held long execu-
tive session, with the result given above
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
When President of T rustee
He. Worked for it Tirelessly.
THE TRUSTEES MEETING
IN SPECIAL SESSIONS
Committee Considers Means of Raising
S5Oo,ooo This Afternoon-WiIl Re-
port to the General Body To-
Morrow-His Friends viii
Be Glad to Honor Or.
Curry Thus.

Richmond College may soon have estab.
School Of Technology to be named in
honor OF DR.. j. L. NJ. Curry, who sug-
gested such thing as early as 1880.
The trustees OF the college began
movement in this direction yesterday at
special meeting. Their idea Is that to
have such an Institution conducted as a
part OF Richmond College, with which
DR.. Curry was associated, first as pro-
fcssor, later as trustee and president OF
the corporation. for thrty-five years,
would be the most fitting and. could he
know of IT. the most acceptable memorial
possible for his friends to erect.
Put to do this at least $4,000 would be
needed for endowment. This money is to
be raised. and will be raised. among the
friends and admirers of DR.. Curry and
those who appreciate the great value to
community a training school is. Just
In what direction to look for this money
and how those who are willing to give
cali be reached Is yet to be determined.
For that purpose a committee. cpnslsting
Of President Boatwright, Governor Mon
tague. Hon. j. Taylor Elysol, Ro S.
Eoshcr and DR.. Charles H. Ryland, was
appointed. This body will meet at the
Governors Mansion th.a afternoon at 4
O'Clock. and the matter will certainly be
handled with the utmost dellberation
The Board of Trustees will meet again
Tomorrow to receive and consider the
report OF the committee.
MOVEMENT MOST TIMELY.
The movement on the face of it, is
most timely one. DR.. Curry was one OF
the greatest apostles Of popular education
that ever lived in this country. He has
many friends, North and South. who hon
oreo and admired him for his great work
for education, and would gladly give to a
ftnd which sought to perpetuate his name
through great school for the training
OF that class of citizens who make their
living with skillful hands and enduring
Drawn.
Dr.. Curry long wanted Richmond COL
icse to have department of technology
IN connection with its academic schools.
ears ago, when he was president of
the trustees he brought the matter before
the body and secured their unanimous
support OF 1t. In the issue of The Times
OF December IS, 1890, DR.. Curry, after
discussing fully the value to the nation
OF such training as the technical school
gives. says of tho proposition to have one
at Richmond College: "To establish a
technologica, school. such as we need and
should have. is no child's play, and cannot
be accomplished by mass-meetings and
trumpet and drum and banner 1t will
require combined effort and the concen-
tration of much capital. talk, energy,
wisdom and administrative capacity.
Grounds, buildings library, laboratories.
apparatus. materials. teachers. will cost
money, and much of it. If college of
established reputation. doing as broad
and thorough and comprehensive work
as any college in the United States. with
commodious buildings. a magnificent situ-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19

no longer open to inquiry. 1t has been
passed upon carefully by tho Supreme
Court In the freight association case and
in the traffic case. 1t Is clear from them
that restraint OF trade is not dependent
upon any consideration of reasonableness
or unrcasonableness, In the combine aver
red; nor Is 1t to be tested by the prices
that result from the combination. Ind eed,
combination that leads directly to lower
prices to the consumer may, within the
doctrine Of these cases even as against
the consumer, be restraint OF trade and
combination that leads directly to higher
prices. may, as against the producer, be
restrain Of trade. The statute thus In
terprcted has no concern with prices, but
looks solely to competition and to giving
competition full play by making illegal
effort at restriction upon competition.
Whatever combination has the direct and
necessary effect Of restricting competl-
tlon is, within the meaning OF the Sher-
man act as now Interpreted, restraint
Of trade.
NO DOUBT.
"Thus defined there can be no doubt
that the agreement Of the defendants to
refrain from bidding against each other
In restraint Of trade; so also their agree
ment to bid up prices to stimulate ship
ments, intending to cease from bidding
when the shipments have arrived. The
same result follows when we turn to the
combination Of defendants to fix prices
upon and restrict the quantities OF meat
shipped to their agents or their consum-
ers. Such agreements can be nothing
less than restrictions upon competition.
and. therefore, combination In restraint
OF trade. and thus viewed the petition, as
an entirety. makes out case under the
Sherman act.
1T may be true that the way OF en-
forcing any decree under this petition
is Ibeset with difficulties. and that a lib-
eral enforcement may result In vexa tious
interferences with defendants affairs,
but in the inquiry before me am not
at liberty to stop before such considera-
tions. The Sherman act. as Interpreted
by the Supreme Court, Is the law &c the
land, and t. the law as 1t stands both
court and people must yield obedience.
"The demurrer Is overruled. and the
motion for preliminary injunction
granted"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
STATUE OF STUART
ON THE SQUARE
Site Selected South Of the
Capitol Building and Over
looking Custom House.

At the meeting on Tuesday night OF
tho Finance Committee OF the Senate
and House with the committee of the
Stuart Monument Association, it was
understood that the exact location OF the
site In the Capitol Square for tho monu-
ment to General Stuart should be deter
mined by the Governor Register OF tho
Land Office. who, by virtue. of his Of
flee, had charge OF tho public grounds
and buildings, and the committee OF the
Stuart Monument Association.
Accordingly Governor Montague and
Colonel Richardson, Register of the Land
Office, on the part of the State, and Gem
eral Fitzhugh Lee. Major A. r. Ven-
able, Captain Marion ]. DimmoclS, Mr.
Joseph Bryan and Mr.. Joseph w.
Thomas assembled at the CAPITOL yester-
day morning and, after looking over the
ground, determined TO recommend that
tho center of the Stuart equestrian sta
tue be placed upon the ground covered
by tho intersection Of Franklin Street,
extended with q line extending north
and south through the center OF the Cap
itol building, and that q space not ex-
ceeding tifty feet radius from the center
bo dedicated for the site
This will place the statue about lao
feet from tho southern side Of the Cap
ltol, and upon the knoll overlooking
Capitol and upon the knoll overlooking
the Custom House, It is very COM
mandng situation. and with some ter
racing can be made All IDEAL location for
the statue.
The gentlemen who examined tho
ground We're unanimous In the choice OF
the sltS,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
Average
MINIATURE ALMANAC
RICHMOND.

Ladies to testify in the Campbell case;
defense object to questions asked; In
vestgation TO proceed to-day--Osteo-
paths and Christian Scientists lose their
rase before Senate committee-'Tratn be-
hind time delays a bride three hours.
Ehile the wedding guests wait-Slte for
the monument to General Stuart--Chair
In honor OF DIR. J. l.. II. Curry to be es-
iabllshcd at Richmond College-Time of
meeting of Epworth Leagues-Anderso
corporate extension bill cngrossed by the
esnate---New liquor measure Is to ne
Parkhurst--Funeral OF Mr.. W. r. Trigg
More pay for street-cleaning. force.
Of paupers--Anniversar Of John Wesley
"A strange occurrence in connection
with a morumcnt--Reward offered for
snlashers OF fire-alar1n boxes---Banquet
Of r. NJ. G. aluTnni--Interchang
mileage-book system adopted by c. e. O..
road--Dcath of Mr.. Littell wilson
Probable action In regard to the Shafer
buflding--Report concerning Rev. W. 7.
Hundley not correct--Strange action OF
the river OPTICIANS to meet
to-day--Romantic marriage at Lexing-
Ton Hotel-Great medical discoveries
predicted by a leading surgeon. MAN
CHESTER--Business men for increase
OF police torce-The poor OF the city
being aided---Death of Mr. Joseph Brown
Mrs, w. w. Hatcher passes away
Entertainment for Bainbridge-Street
Church---Benent for the tiremcn-AIr.
B. W. Howard injured--NIll shuts down
Silver tea to be given.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19
They Fought the Admission
of Certain Questions.
THE WHlSKEY SOLD BY
DIFFERENT DRUGGISTS
Mr.. kerfoot Disposed Of Twelve Gall
Ions in Ten Years; MIR. Day Had
Number Of Gallons Shipped to
Him in Three Months
Ministers Of the Gospel
to Testify-FuI List.

- + ~ ! =
Exceptional interest centers in the
Campbell investigation to-day from the
fact that for the first time since the
hearing began the witness chair will in
all probability be occupied by two ladies',
who will appear in behalf Of the prose-
cution.
AS yet 1t cannot be stated positively
that these ladies, whose testimony is
awaited with the greatest eagerness, will
so on the stand this morning or this after
noon, or at all. They are both here and
are included In the list of twenty wit
nesses summoned by the petitioners on
rebuttal. but 1t was stated last night
that conference had yet to be held with
reference to their appearance. One of
them is Mrs. Otto L. Evans. wife of the
Commonw ealth's Attorney OF Amherst,
who has figured SO prominently in the
proceedings. The other is Mrs. j. e.
Bowman. wife Of the cashier of the Bank
Of Amherst. Both are exceedingly well
known In a. large. circle OF friends and ac-
Quaintances.
Along what line the two ladies will tes-
That their statements VIII be interesting,
however, cannot be doubted Mrs. Evans
was present throughout the trial Of Judge
Campbell in Amherst, anu she may have
something to say in this connection.
SESSION, YESTERDAY.
Owing to the absence OF Mr.. Strobe.
the illness Of Judge Loving and the ina
bility of the committee to decide without
executive, session as to the proprey Of
certain questions propounded to witness
es by the prosecution. the hearing last
night was very brief. Such as 1t was,
however, 1t was interesting. There We're
several squabbles as to the line Of exam
ination pursued.
Three witnesses were placed upon tho
stand-NIr. j. r. Bowman, cashier Of the
Bank Of Amherst, who testified that Bur-
ford, the man who denied the aftidavits.
had sworn to him as notary that they
were correct; Mr.. ]. G. Kerfoot, the drug
Bis: at Amherst, who made a most inter-
esting statement about the amount Of
W'hiskey he had used In the past ten
years in prescriptions. and the Rev. Geo.
Fl. Ray. Presbyterian minister, who
said nothing, because Major. Conrad
stopped hin, before he could begin. Over
the questioning of Mr.. Ray quite dis
crssion arose, and finally Judge Loving
refused to proceed further until the COM
mittee could decide. Pending decision
In tho matter the session was adjourned
Until to-day.
When the committee reassembles this
morning it will request the House Of
Delegates to stand aside and give the In
vestigation a clear field. II the House,
which Is on the important tax bill. can
soc Its way clear to do so. the hearing
will proceed without delay. Should this
not be the case. however. there will be
no alternative but afternoon and evening