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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
RREYITIEs.

William L. Cohrs, aged %, a commercial
traveller, of Jersey City, shot and killed him.
self in his room at the Kenmore Hotel, al
Albany, n. Y, last night. COhrs left a letter
stating that he was made mad by being sepa-
rated from his wife, whom he married three
months ago.
The little steamer Siaolin, for the past five
years operating on the mail route between
Juneau and Sumdum, is believed to have been
lost with all on board. At least half a dozen,
passengers were on the Staolin when she left
Winham Bay, Alaska. Her crew numbered
six men.
His excellency, Ali Asghar Atabek Asam,
Grand Vizier of Persia, with his son and five
other Persian officials, passed through Chi
cago last night on a tour around the world
pilgrimage to Mecca.
All the Roman Catholic societies of Apple
ton, Wis, numbering nine or ten. with a
thousand or more members, have formed one
society, the object of which is to refrain from
profanity.
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train No. II
was wrecked this morning at Cherry Run, W.
Va, 80 miles east Of Cumberland, Nd, by
sidewiping a freight. Several persons were
injured.
A steel derrick used in the construction ofa
building at the corner of Fifth avenue and
37th street. New York, fell to pieces this morn
ing and one man was killed.
II is now generally believed that all efforts
to identify the murderer of Mabel Bechtel at
Allentown, Pa, will fail. Interest in the case
is waning.
Eighty-six bodies have been recovered from
the Harwick, Pa, mine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
CONGRESSIONAL.

The proceedings of the Senate yester
day included a speech by Mr.. Simmons,
of North Carolina, on the Panama canal
treaty, and the passage of a number Of
bills and resolutions. Nj. Simmons
spoke in support of the treaty, being the
first democratic Senator to take that
position on the measure on the floor OF
the Senate. He announced his disap-
proval of the Intervention of the United
States in the Panama revolt, but said
that az the revolution was an accom-
plished fact and was such before the
treaty was made, he could not accept
The theory that the treaty itself was in
valid.
Among the bills passed wss one grant
ing to citizens of Porto Rico and the
Philippines the right to take advantage
of the naturalization laws of this country,
but Mr.. Spooner entered a motion to
reconsider the vote. thus leaving the
question undisposed of.
General debate in the House on the urgent
deficiency Dill dlgressed 10 q discussion OF
political topics, the race question and aerial
navigation. Mr.. Burkett, Of Nebraska, led
off with a discussion Of the political situation
from a republican view point, and Mr.. Coch-
ran, of Missouri, spoke for the democrats.
Mr.. Hardwick, democrat, Of Georgia, made
an extended address on the race problem.
Mr.. c. b. Lands, of Indiana, closed the
day in a political speech lasting an hour. He
declared that Mr.. Roosevelt will be nomina-
ted. with the record of his administration for
his platform.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Richard Cox Barlow, commemorative
attorney of Portsmouth, died late last
night, aged 80 years.
Among this years graduates at the
U. ). Naval Academy at Annapolis are
J. j. McCracken and H. A. Stuart, OF
Virginia.
Gov. Montague left Richmond last
night for Ormond, Fla, where Friday
he will deliver an address before the
National Good Roads Association.
James Harris, colored who murdered
a white man named. Ellis, on the South
ern Railway, near Midway Mills, Nelson
county, last August, will be hanged at
Lovingston on Saturday.
Philip James Afleck, a prominent
business man of Berryville, died Tuesday
night from cancer of the stomach, aged
67 years. He was a native of Winches-
ter, and was a son of the late Alexander
G. Affleck.
w. FickIen White, a well known farm
er of the Salem Church neighborhood, in
Sp~ottsylvania county, died suddenly OF
heart disease on Tuesday aged fifty-three
years. He is survived by a widow and
ten children, two brothers and one sister.
The safe of the agricultural establish
ment of r. =. Harris & Co., in Char
lottesville was blown up by burglars
Tuesday night about IL o'clock and
robbed of its contents, which consisted
of a small amount of coin and a gold
watch.
James G. Cassell, formerly general
superintendent OF the Norfolk and West
ern Railway, and at present assistant to
the generallransger, has been appointed
to the position of assistant to the presis
dent. J.. II. Riton succeeds Mr.. Cassell
as assistant to the general manager.
The effect now being made by Peters
burg peanut spectators to corner the
market in Spanish nuts. will be met by
the Norfolk dealers by the importation
of the Spanish goods. The duty is so
low that at the present price of 81 a
bushel, the importation of the nuts will
be profitable.
The GIG feet leviathsn Mongolia, built
by the New York Shipbuilding Company
at Camden, n. j., for the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, arrived in Hamp-
ton Roads Tuesday night, and yesterday
went to sea for a trial spin. The Mon
golia is the largest ship that has ever
passed into Hampton Roads.
Governor Montague has refused to
commute the sentence of John kennedy,
of Augusta county, whom be recently
respited until February II. Kennedy
was the principal in a plot to wreck a
train for booty. The train was wrecked
and the engineer killed. A boy and a
woman, who were the mans accomplices,
are serving terms in the %penitentiary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
War Prenarations

st. Petersburg, Jan. 2S.-A dispatch
to the Newspaper Sviet, from Shanghai,
says that so, 900 Chinese are held in
readiness to protect the frontiers in the
event of war between Russia and Japan.
The Sviet also asserts that japan already
has an armored train manned with quick
firing guns, on the railway between Seoul
and Chemulpo, Korea.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 2S.-1he council
of ministers will meet with the Car to-
day and the terms of Russia's reply to
Japan's last note will be considered.
London, Jan. PA dispatch from
Berlin to the Pail Mall Gazette today
says "Only today does Russia COM
mence the drafting of the answer to
Japan's latest note. All sinister reports
are, according to the best information,
untrustworthy. Official circles continue
to consider that the two powers will
eventually come to terms"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 28. 1904.

SENATOR DANIEL in his speech before
the State legislature yesterday on the &C.
casion of his fourth election to the u. :.
Senatorship in a straightforward and
manly manner gave his reasons for OPP
posing the Panama canal treaty now be-
fore the Senate. Senator Daniel tavors
the construction of the Panama canal,
but opposes a treaty witha government
formed in a night in IN u%nderhand way
through revolution and collision, and the
recognition of which does a great wrong
to a friendly but weak sister republic
which, under treaty, the United states
had agreed to support and maintain. Well
did Senator Daniel say:
The reasons why | cannot support this
measure have nothing to do with It's au-
thors or its promoters. The United States
in 1916 entered into a treaty OF peace
with the government of Colombia. 1t Is
a treaty which provides that notice shall
be given before any hostile attitude is
assumed towards her. 1t is a treaty from
which the United States herself derives
the right of transit through the lsthmus
of Panama. 1t is a treaty in which, IN
consideration ofthe grant of that transit
of the United States, we, on our part,
are pledged fnithfully to this government
to support and maintain the sovereignty
of the Republic of Colombia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
Deaths From suffocation.

New York, Jan. 28.-Three children
were burned to death in a fire which
broke out at 9 O'Clock this morning in
the basement of a tenement on Madison
street. The blaze started in the apart
ments of Hanna Cohen, probably from
an overheated hue. The three Cohen
children were in the rooms at the time,
their father and mother being out, and
all were suffocated and partially burned.
After the fire had been put out their
bodies were found.
Jersey City. n. j., Jan. 2S.-When
the fremen responded to an alarm from
a four story frame house on Twelfth
street, early this morning, they were told
that every member of the nine families
of the building had escaped, and no
search Of the various apartments was
made until the flames had been extin-
guished. In a bedroom ON the top floor,
where the fire started, one of the fire.
men stumbled oyer the PROSTATE form
of Mrs. Mary Hamilton, a widow, aged
so years. Death was due to sufioca-
tion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28

GERMANY, like other countries that
maintain colonies, is having adoleful ex-
perience. The attacks upon the Germans
by the natives of southwest Africa have
caused sorrow among many OF the for
mer's relatives and friends in the old
country. Sixteen Germans have been
killed and seventy are missing, including
thirty women and children. Herr Kron-
field, commander of the garrison, has
been killed, leaving thirty-four leaderless
colonists to defend the place. England
will ever remember the horrors of the
Black Hole of Calcutta, the sanguinary
scenes at Khartoum and many other
places where Britons have had experien-
ces with aborigines, and Germany is now
suffering from similar outbreaks upon the
part OF those she desires t. subjugate.
The United States now has possession, and
this country will find sooner or later that
it will have the same disagreeable features
to mar its progress after it was placed
yOkes upon others.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
SIX-ROUND FIGHT.

Jack O'Brien and Tommy Ryan fought
one of the fastest six-round bouts ever
seen in Philadelphia, last night, and the
former had a slight advantage.
OBrien clearly outfought Ryan in the
first four rounds, and in the fifth dropped
him with a hard blow to the jaw. Ryan
took the count of eight and anne up
groggy. He saved himself by clinching
until be had regained his bearings. A
moment later Ryan drove a vicious left
to O'Brien's stomach, which sent the
Philadelphia to his knees. Ryan
seemed to regain his wind as the round
progressed, and landed repeatedly on
O'Brien's stomach with vicious let's.
1t was only the gong that saved O'Brien
from being knocked out. Ia the sixth
round honors were about even, both
men having received severe punishment.
When the gong sounded ending the fight
both men were in very bad shape.
Near the close of the fifth round, while
O'Brien was on the floor, one of his
seconds threw a sponge full of water
upon him. Many persons were of
the opinion that this meant the termi-
nation of the fight, but the referee said
it did not.
Both men are talking fight again to-
day and there may soon be another
meeting between them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28

SENATOR MARTIN through i%ndeiatiga-
BILE work has succeeded in having passed
by the Senate the memorial bridge bill.
1t will now 90 the House where it will
meet with formidable opposition, and
may fail of passage, as Mr.. Cannon, who
has always opposed the bill and who is
now Speaker, may prevent its being
brought up, but if its passage can be
secured, Nj. Rixey may be relied upon
to accomplish that object, for he has
labored in and out of season for the
bridge and will succeed in having it
erected if any one can. This bridge
has now become an absolute necessity
and its construction should be no longer
DELAYED. The route now from Washing
ton to Arlington and Fort Myer is long
and circuitous and the time required foi
going between these points is too great
for this age and generation. The gov
eminent owns a large and valuable
reservation on this side of the Potomac
and a bridge from the national capital to
this reservation would not only be OF
great use and benefit to the government
but to thousands of persons living on
both e.1og Of tho rivar
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
Dislocated Her shoulder.

Mrs. Johanna Soderholm, of Fergus
Falls, MIMI, tell and dislocated her
shoulder. She had a surgeon get it back
in place as soon as possible, but it was
quite sore and panied her very much.
Her son mentioned that he had seen
Chamberlain's Pain Balm advertised for
sprains and soreness, aud she asked him
to buy her a bottle of it, which he did.
1t quickly relieved her and enabled her
to sleep which she had not done for sew
eral days. The son was so much pleased
with the relief it gave his mother that he
has since recommended TO many others.
For sale by Richard Gibson.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
Fired on by "Highwaymen.

Fairmont, W. Va, Jan. 2S.--Last
Saturday Frank Blackshire, one of the
wealthiest oil men in this county, re-
ceived a letter signed by five men, say
ing that unless 81, 500, divided up into
five packages, was dropped by a horse
man at a certain lonely place between
Warrington and Glover's Gap, on We'd
pesday night, Blackshire would be shot.
He turned the letter over to detectives
and Mr.. Blackshire's son late last night
provided himself with five worthless
packages and started to ride over the
road on which detectives had been
picketed. Before young Mr.. Blackshire
reached the portion of the road where
he expected to be held up a mar accosted
him and he dropped the packages. He
was Immediately fired upon by the five
men, but escaped serious injury. The
highwaymen escaped as the detectives
were farther up on the road.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
Suicide.

Hopkinton, Mass, Jan. 2S.-Fear of
an impending action for divorce is said
to be the real reason for the suicide of
Mrs. George n. Swallow, wife of the
we'll known republican politician and
late candidate for Mayor of Boston, at
the home Of her parents here, yesterday.
Mrs. Swallow died from an overdose Of
morphine, taken with suicidal intent.
Since the early summer Mrs. Swallow
had lived apart from her husband in Sc
clusion in this little town. She was not
only a very handsome woman but was
extremely %populor in society' 1t is said
that she became addicted to the use of
morphine and was contented only when
under the effects of the drug.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28

u. S. SENATOR BURTON, of Kansas,
was, in St. Louis, yesterday admitted to
$1,000 bail to answer in the United
States Circuit Court, March 7, for trial on
the indictment charging him with ac-
cepting money for the alleged use of his
influence with the postal authorities to
prevent the issuance of a fraud order
against the Rialto Grain and Securities
Company. How notifying such things
are to the real friends of a republican
form of government, but they only go
to show that the greed for gain per-
meates all the departments of this gov
eminent and that the standard of men
formerly sent to the U. S. Senate has
sadly deteriorated in these latter days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
MAYOR HARRISON RELEASED.
Mavor Cartar IT Harrison of

Mayor carter III. HarrlSOn, Oh
Chicago, was yesterday afternoon order
ed by Judge Richard 5. Tuthill to be
Immediately discharged from custody in
connection with any responsibility for
the wholesale loss of life 10 the Iroquois
Theater fire. On a hearing for a writ of
babeas corpus the judge declared that
the Mayor was in no way whatever
guilty o. liable, and hat the coroner's
jury, in ordering Mayor Harrison held
for the grand jury, had put an unjust
stigma upon the mayor, who had failed
in no particular whatever, either in
omission or commission.
The Mayors course yesterday was
SAID to establish a new precedent in the
use of the writ of habeas corpus, as his
arrest while in Office was unusual,
equally with the great captastrophe
back of it all. The reading of the YER
dict Of the coroner's jury was that the
Mayor and the others accused Of respon-
be held ''until discharged by due
process of law"
A writ of habeas corpus is regarded
as the speediest method of discharge
It's application in acase previous
10 action by a grand jury is said to be a
distinct novelty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
The Maryland Senatorship.

Annapolis, Nd, Jan. 29.-On alleged
orders from Senator German, the demo-
Gratis in the legislature met in caucus
last night, but adjourned without action.
Friends of Ex-Governor Smith are boil
ing with Indignation, claiming it is
another move by German to violate
pledges he is alleged to- have made to
Smith. They declare that they will
now do anything to defeat Germans
plans. If Smith car hold his men to-
gether he can thwart any move German
can make, as a nomination is impossible
without some of Smiths votes. The
vote today was unchanged; Rayner, 81
Smith, 80; Carter, IL; Jackson, 81;
Miles, 4, democrats. McComas, republic
can. 81.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28

FAMOUS ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY.-The
county of Rockbridge boasts Of an honor
probably without a parallel in the his
tory of any county in any State in the
American Union. This is the giving to
the general government of eight of her
sons as United States Senators. These
Senators are
Gen. Sam HOuson, president of the re-
public of Texas, governor of the States of
Tennessee and Texas and United States
Senator from Texas.
Gen. Andrew Moore, member of the
Virginia convention of 1888, member of
Congress for ten wears, and United
States Senator from Virginia.
James Brown, governor of Louisiana,
United States Senator from the same
State, and United States minister from
this country to France for seven years.
Col. John McKea, member of Con-
gress for six years and United States
Senator for six years from Alabama.
John Brown, member of the Cont
nent Congress, and United States Senator
from Kentucky for thirteen years.
Robert H. Adams, United States Sen
ator from Mississippi.
William Brownlow, governor of Ten
nessee and United States Senator from
that State.
William Lindsay, late United States
Senator from Kentucky.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
NEWS.
From Richmond.

Especial Dispatch to the Alexandria Gszette.l
Richmond, Jan. 2s.-Mr. Lion offered en-
important oyster bill in the House today al
lowing non-residents to lease and plant in
Virginia waters.
A bill was offered in the House to provide
for the confinement of all dogs between May
LIST and October LIST. 10 prevent the destruction
of game also one allowing the searching of
persons suspected of carrying concealed
weapons.
General appropriation bills were offered in
both houses.
An error in printing the acts has been found
to repeal all laws on the subject of social
clubs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
F~ifty-Eighth Congress.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 2S.
SENATE.

A joint resolution was agreed to ac-
cepting a bust of Washington, from
certain citizens OF France, and rendering
the thanks of Congress.
MI. Culberson called up the resolution
introduced some days ago, after having
received the endorsement of the demo-
cratic caucus, directing the President to
send to the Senate in executive session
any official correspondence or notes, not
already sent between the Department of
State and the legation or any American
officials bearing upon the canal negotia-
tons or the Panama revolution. 1t was
agreed that the inquiry should not extend
beyond June %, 1902, but the Senator
from Texas objected to an amendment,
offered by Mr.. Cullom, giving the Presi-
dent discretion if he deemed the sending
of such papers incompatible with the
public interest.
This afternoon the regular order OF
business was made the Culberson res
o%lutiOn.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Van Duzer tried to force inn
mediate consideration of a resolution
calling on the Secretary of War for a
report on such goods purchased by the
department as are made by contract
labor, but it was referred to acOmmittee.
Mr.. Driscoll from the elections ON
mittee No. 3 announced that a week
from Tuesday the Connell-H Howell cleo
ton contest from Pennsylvania would
be called up. The decision is in favor
of Cornell, republican.
The House then went into committee
of the whole to resume considerati on of
the urgent deficiency bill, time for de-
bate having been extended until 5 p. m.
Mr.. Benny opened the debate. He
attacked President Roosevelt and the
republican eulogies of him, saying:
"You brag and blow here about the
great courage of the man who is o the
President of the United States. The
man who is a courageous man is a man
who dares to do right. A man who
shoots q lion or a Spaniard in the back
does not necessarily have to be courage
ous."
Mr.. Thayer, asked Mr.. Benny for an
explanation of why the republicans had
indicted former Congressman briggs, a
democrat and Senator Dietrich a republi-
can, for the same o%fiense, but under
different statutes. briggs, Mr.. Thayer,
said, had been convicted. But Dietrich
went free. That's the way the re-
publicans do it, replied Mr.. Benny.
They stand together to protect their
friends, but they are hot after all demo-
Gratis"
Mr.. Bede made a political speech that
furnished both sides with amusement.
He said that if the democrats would quit
abusing Cleveland, he would have the
republicans stop abusing Bryan, as both
Bryan and Cleveland were working in
the interests of the republicans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28

an important decision, holding that the
city cannot collect the $500 license tax
it imposed last summer on the social
clubs chartered there after the passage OF
the legislative act authorizing their
existence and making provision for
taxation. Judge Barham holds that the
construction of the act makes the 81
assessed for each member in lieu ofall
other taxation, and, therefore, the city
ordinance is void. The social clubs re-
fused to pay the license tax, secured an
injunction restraining the city from en-
forcing payment, and have finally won
their fight. The city will lose $4,000
by the decision.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-28
Cured After sufrerine 10 Years.

B. F. Hare, Superintendent Miami Cycle
and Manufacturing Company, Middletown,
o., suffered for ten years with dyspepsia. He
spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and
With doctors without receiving any perma-
nent benefit. He says, zone night while
feeling exceptionally bad, | was about to
throw down the evening paper when | saw an
item in the paper regarding the merits of Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure. / concluded to try it
and while / had no faith in it | felt better
after the second dose. After using W bottles
| am stronger and better than | have been in
years, and | recommend Kodol Dyspepsi,s
Cure to my friends and acquaintance suf-
fering from stomach trouble. Sold by ALI
druggists.