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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1904-01-28

The Gillette sisters Of Leon formerly
from Des Moines, have bought Brown
& Culvers Millinery store taking
possession last week. They had a con-
siderable stock at Leon and have moved
it here and placed it with the stock
bought of Brown & Culver, thus
making an exceptionally large stock for
Garden Grove.-Garden Grove Express.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
News of the Day.

1t is believed no service pension law
will be enacted this session.
There are $50, 900 cases ofgripin Phil
adelphia, is the assertion of a physician
who has penchant for statistics.
William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill enter
ed suit in Denver, Col, yesterday against
his wife for divorce, on the ground OF
cruelty.
The cost to the State of rebuilding
county bridges in various parts OF Penn
sylyania that have been swept away by
floods and ice this winter will exceed 81,
900, 900.
Admiral Walker told the House COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce yesterday that unless drinking
saloons be provided it will impossible to
obtain laborers on the Panama canal.
A cut in the wage scale has just been
made by the Window Glass Workers As
ISOLATION, Pittsburg Assembly No. 300,
Knights of Labor, and as a-result over
l, 900 former members have been rein
stated.
Attorney CritchlOw told the Senate
committee yesterday that Reed Smoot
announced his candidacy for the Senate
against the wishes ofthe Mormon Church
authorities. A number of women repre-
senting different organizations adopted
resolutions requesting a general petition
ing of Senators to vote against the reten-
ton of Senator Smoot in the Senate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
Virginia News.

A strong effort has been made to pro-
cure the establishment of the new State
normal school in Loudoun county.
Mrs. Mary Moore Rowzie died at her
home near Limeton, in Warren county,
March 4. She was a daughter of the
late George Moore, of Fauquier county,
and is survived by her husband and two
children.
Congressman Swanson has written the
committee on arrangements accepting
their invitation to respond to toast at
the banquet of the Virginia Bankers
Association which will meet in the
Chamberlin Hotel, at Old Point, on
June 16.
Rev. James w. Morris, d. d., who
has recently returned from the Brazilian
mission field, where he has the distinc-
ton of having been the first who went
out to organize the missionary work oil
the Episcopal Church in that distant
land has accepted the rectorship OF st.
James Episcopal Church of Leesburg.
Capt. w. H. Allison, senior member
of the firm of Allison q Addison, died in
Richmond yesterday, aged sixty years.
Death was due to apoplexy. Captain
Allison served in the civil war as a men,
Der of Elliotts Battery, and was cap
tured at Sailors creek. He was promi-
nent inj social life as well as in business
circles.
John Clements, colored, was hanged
Yesterday at King William Court House.
A singular feature Of the execution was
the fact that the condemned man was
baptized in the jail in the tox afterward
used to ship his remains to the medical
college at Richmond Clements killed a
white man named George Eobough at
West Point.
The barn and surrounding Outbuild =
ings of Dorsey De Haven, at Gaines
boro, Frederick county, together with
all their contents, were destroyed by fire
Thursday night. Eight hundred bush
els of wheat and other grain, horse and
two calves were consumed. The origin
of the fire is not known. There was no
insurance on either the buildings or con-
tents.
Charlottesville will soon have large
chemical company located there which
will manufacture fertilizers of all grades,
sulphuric acid, sulphur and other chemi-
Gals. Members of the company own
about 900 acres OF valuable mineral
land in Orange county, which shows a
large deposit of sulphur bearing ore.
The mines have already been opened up
to a depth of 60 feet. There is also on
the property graphite clay, soapstone
and copper veins.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

In Trenton, N. j., today George Jag
gers was sentenced to be hanged on
Tuesday April 22nd, AID the murder of
aged Mrs. Mary E. Pevans in Hands,
ton township on October 10th last.
Arnold Gamor, aged %, of No. 402
Bay street, Baltimore, fell under train
at Edgemoor near Wilmington, Del,
this morning, and was so badly injured
that he died later in the Delaware
hospital.
The jury in the cases of Harvey Van
dine Gustav Marx, and Peter Neider-
meier, the Chicago car barn murderers,
returned a verdict of guilty of murder
and fixed the death penalty this morning.
The defendants received the verdict in
stoical silence.
A reduction OF profits of nearly GO
per cent. is shown in the annual state
ment of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, made public today. The surplus
for the year ended December 9lst, after
interest, dividends and other deductions
was Sl2, 9O4, 9l7, against S34, 253, 69f
in 1902.
The Pennsylvania authorities have
estimated the losses sustained through
the sweeping away of the State bridges
at $50, 900 and the floods and general
conditions will furnish a topic for dis
cussion BY the next legislature. The
losses in Wyoming valley are estimated
at 1900, 900.
What the New York police believe
to be murder and suicide was dicover-
ed this morning, when Lizzie Gray was
found dead in bed, with her skull
crushed in, and her husband Robert j.
Gray, was found asphxiated by gas in
the bath room of their home, at 3O5
East 10th street. The police believe
that Gray killed his wife and then took
his own life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. u
Washington, March II.

rCorrespondence of the Alexandria Gazette.l
Washington, March y.
The senatorial inquiry into the Of
fetal conduct of Senator Dietrich, OF
Nebraska, relative to the postmastershlp
at Hastings, Neb., was resumed TINS
morning. The examination OF jacob
Fisher the postmaster, who, 1t had
been charged, had agreed to pay the
Senator 81, 500 was continued. The
witness said that while Leopold Hahn
visited his place of business up to the
time of the appointment, the previous
Friendship between them had long be-
fore cooled. He denied the testimony
of Hahn that he had had any converse
ton with him relative to the revenues OF
the postoffice or the payment OF any con-
sjderation to the Senator. The witness
declared that Senator Dietrich did not
know that he had taken the extra room
adjoining the postoffice until he had re-
turned from Washington, that it was his
(the witness's) idea, and that his deputy
i. A. Francis joined him in the proposed
restaurant partnership that never
amounted to anything. Francis, ne
said. had paid $40 toward the 500 a
wear rental, but when the project fell
through Senator Dietrich returned the
money. E. A. Francis, deputy post
master at Hastings, Neb., testified in
confederation of Fisher, relative to the
room deal. He denied that he had ever
been required to pay bonus toward his
appointment n
With the hearing today it is probable
that the investigation into the Reed
Smoot case will end temporarily. a re-
cess of several days, perhaps two weeks,
will likely be taken this afternoon IN
order to await the appearance OF addi-
tional witnesses and the receipt of books
and documents that have been called for.
The examination of Critchlow will be
concluded today and Ogden Hiles, a
lawyer of Salt Lake, will be heard.
A subcommittee of the House commit.
tee on WAYS and means today authorized
a favorable report to the full committee
on the Tawney bill which deprives manu-
features of tobacco, snuff, cigarettes, etc,
of the privilege OF enclosing prize cards,
or any other article besides the tobacco
itself, in the packages containing the
tobacco.
Bills were favorably reported to the
Senate today from the committee on
public buildings and grounds, appropri-
ating $1,000 900 for public building
at Atlanta Ga, and appropriatlng
1926, 900 for the purchase Of site and
$3.50, 900 for public building, at Los
Angeles, California.
The nomination of Charles II. Robb,
of Vermont, to be assistant Attorney
General was sent to the Senate by the
President today Mr.. Robb is now AS
sistant Attorney General for the Post
Office Department and was active in the
investigation and prosecution OF the
postal frauds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
CONGRESSIONAL

The Senate went into executive SEES
sion yesterday soon after converting.
The propriety of considering in open
session the Carmack resolution calling
for the papers in the Wooley case was
discussed Ultimately vote was reach
ed and it resulted against taking the
matter up in open Senate. Soon after
ward the confirmation of Gen. Leonard
Wood was taken up and occupied the
Senate for most ofthe afternoon. Messrs.
Scott and Blackburn opposed the con-
frmation on the ground that Gen.
Wood has not earned promotion. The
House induled itself yesterday in nearly
seven hours of explanation, accusation,
and vituperative denunciation, and then
ordered, with only two negative votes, an
investigation of postal affairs so far as
members of the House are concerned by
special committee of seven members,
to be appointed by the Speaker, who
likewise are to examine into the origin
of the Bristow report, so far as it con-
Germs members of the House. The de-
mand of the minority for sweeping in
vestigation of every branch of the Post
office Department was not granted. The
test on this question came on a vote,
which resulted 144 to 125, a strict party
vote. The climax of the day was
reached when Representative William
Alden Smith condemned every exec
utive department Of the government
'or its arrogant treatment of the
ynly branch Of the government in direct
touch with the people of the country
the House of Representatives-and
shouted out the nomination of Speaker
Cannon for President of the United
States. The House thunderea its ac-
quiescence members rose to their feet
and fairly shrieked their assent demo-
Gratis waved whatever was in their hands,
republicans pounded their desks, and
the packed galleries took up the enthu-
siasm and echoed the applause. When
the Speaker bent low over his desk and
welded his gavel vigorously for order,
his raps only served as an impetus for a
fresh outburst of enthusiasm. A reso-
luton for an investigation OF the con-
nection of members with the department
offered by Representative Mccall, OF
Massachusetts, then vas agreed to, only
Representatives Lind, democrat, Of
Minnesota, and Gillespie, democrat, of
Texas. opposing il.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
SATURDAY EVENING. MAR. 70, 1904

Mr.. ROOSEVELT was plainly shown
Yesterday that he is not the choice OF the
republican Congressman for the next
presidential candidate, for during the
debate in the House on the postof1ce
investigation resolutions, when Mr.. Will
liam Alden Smith, of Michigan, sug-
gested Speaker Cannon for the nomina-
ton the entire body went wild. Men
sprang to their feet and cheered, while
the whole House rang with prolonged
acclamadons. The outburst was one OF
feeling against the executive branch OF
the government. Still it meant nothing.
Mr.. Smith had not the faintest idea OF
proposing Mr.. Cannon as an opponent
of the President in the coming national
convention, nor did the members accept
his speech as suggesting such an infer
ence. Then the members quieted down
and did exactly what the republican
leaders had planned they should do.
They decided not to investigate the en-
tire postal service, but to investigate
themselves. To investigate the postofice
department on the eve of a presidential
election would never do-no, never.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
Fifty-Eighth Congress.
Washington, D. c., Mar. u.
SENATE.

The Senate today, Immediately after
the routine business took up District OF
Columbia business.
HOUSE.
After Yesterdays storm the House
presented scene of peace when order
was called at noon today.
Pursuant to the resolution adopted
Yesterday, Speaker Cannon announced
the committee of seven which is to in
yestigate the Bristow charges against
members of Congress. IT is composed
as follows;
Mccall, of Massachusetts,, chairman;
Hit, of Illinois; Burton, of Ohio, and
Metcalf, of California, republicans; Nc
Dermott, of New Jersey; Bartlett, OF
Georgia, and Richardson, of Alabama,
democrats.
None of the members named on the
committee are mentioned in the Bristow
report.
Chairman Mccall says he will call the
committee to meet today to organize and
after a room has been assigned him he
will pursue the inquiry without delay.
Mr.. Maynard presented an invitation
to the members of the House to make a
pilgrimage to jamestown, Va, on March
10, to view the site of the proposed
jamestown exposition.
The conference report on the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropriation
bill was submitted.
The conferees had previously amend
ed the provision restricting the use of
government carriages to the President,
his secretary and members of his cabi-
net, by allowing the carriages to be used
for personal as we'll as official purposes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
Macedonians and Armenians

Sofia, Bulgaria, March 12.-Seversl
Armenian leaders have arrived here and
are endeayoring to arrange for joint
rising of Macedonians and Armenians
against Turkey in the spring. The
Armenians have large supply of money
and dynamite, while 5, 900 men are ready
to take up arms at moments notice.
The leaders of both Armenians and
Macedonians are meeting daily. NJ.
Zonttchef, the Macedonian leader, who
has been travelling through Europe on a
secret mission, has returned. He says
he has arranged that dynamite and am
munition be delivered Immediately. The
Bulgarian government has private news
that Turkey intends to enter eastern
Roumelia at the end of March. There
will be no declaration of war, but Bull
garian officials are taking strenuous
measures to meet the emergency. The
Minister of War today stated that Bull
garia will not strike first, but he believed
that Turkey will make the attack at the
first favorable opportunity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
Plight Between Torpedo Boats

The adyices received in London from
Port Arthur through Russian sources Of
the engagement outside the harbor be-
tween Russian torpedo boats and Japan
csc warships, supposedly torpedo boats
or destroyers, in which Russian torpe-
do boat destroyer and Japanese torpedo
boat were sunk, seems to bear out the
opinion of experts that the Russian stu-
alton at Port Arthur is becoming des-
perate.
The continued japanese attacks are
having the intended effect upon the town
and the Notifications. Viceroy Alexieff,
in his report to the Gar, while stating
that 'the results of the bombardment
were Insignificant" admits that people
in the town were killed and wounded
by the exploding shells.
Admiral Markaroff, who has just as
sumed command of the Russian feet at
Port Arthur, is apparently making bold
attempts to enable some OF his vessels,
including torpedo boats, to escape. The
fight yesterday, however, was futile.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
FOREIGN NEWS.

Five highwaymen yesterday evening
boarded the Andalusian express near
Granada and held up the passengers.
They obtained considerable money and
jewels aud escaped.
Count Czaky, related to Jan Kubelik,
the violin virtuosO, by marriage, and
secretary of the Hungarian ministry of
the interior, shot his wife and COM
mercial traveller, yesterday evening in
Buda Pesth. Both the injured persons
are in serious condition. Both deny
that they were acquainted with one
another. The motive of the shooting is a
mystery.
The newspaper Rappel, of Paris, today
asserts that the Mad Mullah OF SOmali-
land. who has been causing the British
forces in that country great trouble for
mouths past, finds he is unable to con-
tinue his campaign and has offered to
surrender to the Italian government, on
condition that he is not handed over to
the English. The Italian authorities, says
the Rappel, have refused to accede to his
request.
1t is generally believed in Halifax that
the steamer Propatria which left st.
Pierre, Miquelon, February 2Sth, has
gone to the bottom. A few weeks ago
She struck bottom. She made temporary
repairs but probably not sufficient to with
stand the ice jam. The vessel had on
board sixty passengers, in addition to the
crew. Many of the passengers were
wealthy people and were bound for
Paris. There were also on board the
captain and the crew of the French cable
5 teamerPouvier Quarter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
Typesetting Machines In G. P. O..

Public Printer Palmer indicated to
the House committee on appropriations
yesterday that this year will begin the
equipment of the Government Printing
Office with typesetting machines. He
said he did not think any legislative au-
thority necessary to introduce labor-sav-
ing machinery in his Office, aud believed
the typesetting machine is now out of
the experimental stage. The committee
understands that the purchase of ma
chimes will begin out of the appropria-.
ton to be made in the pending sundry
civil bill. As no legislative authority
is needed the committee will not grant
further hearings 10 the matter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
Regains Her Speech when Daughter
WEEDS.

Mt. Carmel, Pa, March, II The
marriage of her daughter, Della, was the
indirect means ofrestoring speech to Mrs.
Lewis Brown, of this place. For two
years the brides mother was unable to
utter word, having been stricken with
paralysis. Ever since she became an in
valid she was bedfast, and she was re-
duced in weight to fifty pounds. On the
day of the marriage Mrs. Brown was, as
usual, in bed, and, following the ceremo-
ny, sat up in her couch to shake hands
with the newly married pair. As she
clasped her daughters hands she suddenly
began talking as fuently as before her
afiliction. She Immediately grew strong,
and it is thought the excitement of the
wedding events was of so much good to
her that she will soon be as hale and
hearty as she ever was.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12

THE House of Representatives yester-
day evening adopted the Mccall substi-
tute for the Hay resolution, directing an
investigation of the charges in the post
Office report The Hay resolution pro-
posed a general investigation of the
Postoflice Department. The Mccall sub
stitute provides for an investigation OF
postal affairs so far as members OF the
House are concerned, the investigating
committee of seven members to be ap-
pointed by the Speaker. The democrats
demand for a sweeping investigation OF
the Postoffice Department was defeated
by vote of 144 to 125--a strict party
vote. The democrats, however, are
much better pleased with the situation
than the republicans. They were not
able to broaden the investigation so as to
take in the whole Postofice Department,
but they know that whatever the out
come of it may be it will benefit the
democrats more than the republicans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12

PENSION Commissioner Eugene +.
Ware has given the President an ultl-
matum tc the effect that if Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Melville W.
Miller does not cease to turn down de-
cisions from the Pension Bureau, he,
Ware. will throw up his position and 60
back to Kansas. The Assistant Secre-
tary has frequently Inundated the Com
missioner, it is said, by reversing his
action on important pension cases, and
with each buffet of this kind the Com
missioner has grown more wrothy 1t
is said that Commissioner Ware gave the
President his "ultimatum" yesterday
afternoon. The latter it is said, did
his best to appease the Commissioner s
anger. but it is understood that the
latter refused TO be placated. he had
suffered too long, he said, to remain
longer in position which ONLY served
TO humiiiate him in the eyes OF the ola
soldiers and his own pride OF course
the old soldiers must get all they want
and no one must stand in their way
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
Mr.. APneW.

The Valley Virginian, the leading re-
publican paper in the State and anti
organization, in its report of the recent
republican State convention held in Nor
folk says:
Probably the most noticeable fea-
ture of the convention was the uni
versally kind feeling expressed for
Mr.. Agnew. 1t was as fully present
with the reorganizers as it was with
his followers. The writer mixed free
ly with forces of the reorganizers
and, while much bitterness was ex-
pressed at times to members of the
other side, he did not hear single dele
gate express an unkindly feeling towards
the chairman, Hon. Park Agnew. While
all of them thought that he had not made
successfully chairman and that his
course as such been quiescent and mac
tive, they all recognized his high charac-
ter, his love for the republican party and
his kindly disposition. That his forces
recognized that he was the man who gave
strength to their weakening cause was
shown by the fact that he was made
prominenton all occasions. He was made
temporary chairman, permanent chair
man, state chairman and delegate at
large.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
The Market
Georgetown, Mar. 12.-wheat 95aSl.O2.
More Riots.

Disturbances of strikers are not nearly as
grave as an individual disorder of the sys-
TEN. 0yerwork. loss Of sleep, nervous ten
sion will be followed by utter collapse, unless
a reliable remedy is Immediately employed.
There's nothing so efficient to cure disorders
of the Liver or Kidneys as Electric Btters,
It's wonderful tonic and effective neryine
and the greatest all around medicine for run
down systems. Itdispels Nervousness, Rheu-
matism and Neuralgia and expels Malaria
germs. Only SOC, and satisfaction guaran-
teed by Z. s. Leadbeater & Sons, druggists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12

How THE mighty have fallen. The
block of bonds and stock of the United
States Shipbuildiug Company advertised
for sale at public auction a week age
and then withdrawn were sold in New
York oa Wednesday and new record
price for the stock at least was establish
ed. The common brought 2 cents a
share and the preferred stock 10. There
were SlSS, 600 of the first mortgage .
per cent. bonds, 500 shares of the pre-
ferred stock and 500 shares of the COM
mon stock. When the United States
Shipbuilding Company organized few
years ago men almost went wild to pur-
chase the stock, believing that the organ
izers were almost capable If performing
financial miracles Now the organizers
are fighting among themselves have
forfeited the confidence of the people
aud many of the stockholders have been
ruined.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
COURT OF APPEALS.

Nottingham Coal and Ice Company vs..
Preas argued and submitted.
Rhea ct al. VS.. Shields ct al ; continued
until the next term.
Morien vs.. Norfolk and Atlantic Ter
minal Company argued aud continued.
Next cases to be called: Gaddess ct al
vs.. Norris's executor ct al, Lynchburg
Cotton Mills Company VS.. Stanley, by,
&C., and Green's administrator vs.. South
ern Railway Company, being Nos. Ga,
65, and 81 on argument docket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-12
ruined

JAMES c. CARTER, distinguished
iurist in New York, demonstrates in a
published interview that it is impossible
to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors
on Sunday. In pointing to the numer-
Gus attempts and their failures in that
city he says it is an error to believe that
every law which the legislature chooses
to enact can enforce itself Atthe same
time he is convinced that the Sunday
laws will be maintained as long as the
ruling party believes it has an interest
in maintaining them. The situation is
much the same in all other cities.