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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-02-20

A Swiss cavalry officer has invent
ed a method of horseshoeing by fast
ening the shoe to the hoof with met
allie bands.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-02-20
POLICE JURY PROCEED INGs.

AuS oi1tS "b'J Va
ish met this day in regular session.
NJ. L. Eldredge President, in the
! chair, and Mcssrs. G. Harrington
Eraste Broussard, Thos Hoffpaair,
BabiIas LeBlaace, Jos. Tbeaii aud
j. n. Foutz a new member represen-
ting tne SIN ward present. Abs ent,
P. Dupre Leblanc,
The minutes Of the previous meet
were approved after due reading.
The following report from the
Road and Bridge committee was re-
ccived and ordered spread IN the
minutes:
Abbeville, La. Feb. 5tb 1904.
To the Hon. President and men,
bers Of the Police Jury OF Vermillon
Parish.
Gentlemen
The undersigned, your road and
bridge committee met this day in
regular session, and beg to report
as follows:
We recommend the appointment
of Messrs. Walter Hartman, Avlt
Guidry, Cloemere Vincent, Jules
Bourque, F. |. Broussard and G.
Perrin, a jury Of freehoIders TO trace
a road commencing at public road
near lands of Cleomere Vincent.
extending south through lands of
Messrs Jules Bourque, Lastie <Brous-
sard and F. I. Broussard to public
road near Roger Hartman's. ..
E. NJ. Lawton, of Rushmere plan
~tation, requested a change in the
public road leading west from Alex
andre Dartez, TO another road made
TO traverse lhe "Rushmere'' prop
erty and the Dartez property and
the corner of FerreoI Lemaire's
lands.
Messrs. Donat 'Primeaux ct ais,
presented a request o have the
public road opened where the same
crosses the lands of T. I. and LasLie
Broussard in the 9Th ward.
Mr.. f. d. Lege requested that
action be taken by your body to
cause the opening the public, road
recently established by your body,
across lands of Messrs. Lie Tou-
chett and Hortense Nunez ct ais,
in 5rd ward.
Respectfully submitted.
j. N. Williams,
Babilas Leblanc,
Eraste Broessard.
On motion duly seconded, Messrs.
Walter Hartman, Avit Guidrv, Clio
mere Vincent, Jules Bourque, F. d.
and G.. Perrin were ap-
pointed a jury of freeholders to trace
road leading from public road near
land of Cleomere Vincent to intersect
road near lands Of Roger
On motion duly seconded, Mr.. E.
NJ. Lawton be and is hereby anthor-
ized to advertise for a change in the !,
road near lands, pertaining to
.tRushmere" plantation. ]
On motion duly seconded the road ;
o7erseer Mr.. Donat Primeaux be and
s hereby instructed to cause the
road to be opened where the ]
same crosses the land of Messrs.
.astie and E. ]. Broussard in the J
,th ward. ]
Or motion duly seconded Mr..
.odolpe Lormand Road Oyerseer be ]
is hereby instructed to open the I
road where the same crosses
I
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-02-20

The Baton Rouge Advocate has
charged from a morning to an even
ing paper.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-02-20
Ialpal Ser Diaeatan

Means iess aaI Tisioasnl il eansas..
loss vitality Wac. the liver sa sasl
Eeefysf ole, i}la elta,d becomes 'l ~ q
vita oilinns properties, the ai ,.aaaa
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st'pate3. iieTbine will reetifv sh,. eoa ].
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altstiat 5, strengthens the ann.. s.la
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fuses new life and Yigor to fbs N.Y.. Y
system. % ea;sfs I bottle at Goa aap,p
Fi'e Bulgaria. commercial sss,I
was detained Al Airianople b Tn.
isil officials, gl,isis Interpreted |.
the R~nlgas;s'ls as an effors, I'll 1.
part q The nofte 10 hasten ! IN.
fict.
Big Bargains N lumber. EN
Stebbins & Co.
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-02-20

France was requested to hasten her
reply with regard to the reciprocity
~qreaty with the United States.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-02-20

Statisticians say that nearly one
half of the worlds population SUBJ
ssists chiefly on rice.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1904-02-20
aUM Der
BAER GAINS
To Everybody in need Of Lumber:

To Everybody in need Of Lumber:
and sec us-get our
prices before you place
your bill. We can give
yoa better bargains than
and body else.
We have had a liberal share ef the
trade. VIC flatter ourselves that our
customers .ntfe past will be ours ID
the future, We are going to do just
rs We say and ne believe you will
believe Us when We say it, and VA
will be doubly sure when goa ges
the prices By calling at Our place y
business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

William ]. Glover, jr., Baltimore's
long-distance swimming champion, IS to
attempt to swim the English Channel.
Swift & Co., of Chicago, yesterday
certified to the Secretary Of State OF Hi
nois the increase in capital stock from
s25, 900, 900 to $50, 900, 600.
Fifteen churches we're closed in Chi
cago, yesterday, for violations OF the
building ordinances, and were placed
under police guard until alterations are
made.
DR.. William James Morton, of the
New York Post Graduate Hospital, in a
recent lecture asserted that he had cured
three cases of cancer out of five by
means of radium. The other two are
in a most promising state.
Ex.G Governor Smiths friends in the
MARYLAND legislature yesterday scored
the first point in the senatorial fight
A call issued by them for a caucus Mon
day night next was signed by 81 OF the
80 members of the two houses.
Mr.. John Quincy Adams Holloway, a
pioneer in the fertilizer manufacturing
industry i n the United States, and for
many years head of n of the Oldest
firms of that character in the country,
died Yesterday at his home in Baltimore,
aged rs wears.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
FOREIGN NEWS.

A dispatch from Constantinople says
that the Pennsylvania Steel Corporation
has beaten the steel trust and the Car
negie Companyfor the contract for fur
nishing material for the Turkish Hedjaz
Railway. Engineer Joseph, a represent
alive of the Pennsylvania Company, has
signed a contract for 20, 900 tons of rails
for the railway.
The Exchange Telegraph Company's
Rome correspondent says that NJ. Sarafoff,
the Macedonian leader, has been granted
a secret interview by Papal Secretary OF
State Merry del Val, regarding assistance
which the Vatican is prepared to offer
the Macedonian insurgents if they will
abandon the Greek orthodox Church for
the Catholic faith.
During the freezing of the Baltic recently,
the new Russian cruiser Gemtchugs, which
is not fully completed, broke from her moor
ing chains, drifted some distance and lodged
in the ice. The government is eager to COM
plete her equipment for use in case of HOSTILE
ties, and 400 men are engaged night and day
blasting the ice about the vessel so as TO en-
able her to reach a crane and have her boilers
and guns hoisted aboard and put lin place.
The work is expected to cost $4,000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15

ANOTHER RAID on the public treasury
is contemplated. There was introduced
in Congress today a service pension bill,
backed bv the Grand Army Of the Re
public, which, if enacted into law, will
give a pension of $12 a month to every
soldier who served 30 days in the Union
army during the civil war, who was
honorably discharged therefrom and who
has attained the age of 62 years. a
like pension will be given to the widows
of such soldiers in all cases where the
marriage took place prior to June q,
1890. The introduction of the bill IS
the result of the meeting in Washing
ton of the committee on pensions of the
Grand Army. The committee had an
extended conference with the President
yesterday and the latter assured them OF
his entire sympathy in their undertaking
OF course he wants the G. A. r. vote
aud what the G. A. Il. do esn't want no
one else does.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Mr.. T. G. Leake, ST., a widely known
and highly respected citizen of Richmond
died yesterday.
Miss Lulu Nay Titus, of Lucketts,
Loudoun county, was married on Tues
day to Mr.. Thornton B. Titus, of Thur
mond, w. Va.
William Daniel Branch, aged eighty
four, died in Campbell county yesterday.
He was mayor of Lynchburg during the
wal and for fourteen years before.
The New River Mineral Company, OF
Wythe county, one of the Oldest iron fur
mace concerns in Virginia. has been
placed in the hands of a receiver.
Miss Cecilia Mckinney, living near
Lovettesyille, Loudoun county, and
Henry George, of Loyettesville, were
married at the residence of the brides
father yesterday evening.
The Roanoke Knitting Mills, recently
put in operation here have closed down,
and the management announce will not
be ~reopened until the price of raw cotton
is materially lowered. Seventy-fye opera
tiyes are thrown out of work.
The six large dry kilns and a half mil
lion feet of rough lumber of the Camp
Manufacturing Company, at Arringdale,
near Suffolk, were destroyed by fire yes
terday. The loss is between $1S,O 600
and 500, 900, with slS, 900 insurance.
Humphrey Potts, of Hillsboro, is be
ing tried in the County Court at Lees
burr on the charge of killing John Virts,
his cousin, by stabbing him with a knife
at Hillsboro on Saturday night Novem-
Der IA. The trial began yesterday and
will last several days.
G. L. Lake, of Greensboro, while
washing his hands in a bowl at Hotel
Carroll in L~ynchburg on Wednesday
night, let a 5000 diamond ring slip from
his finger. 1t disappeared in the pipe
leading to the sewer. The sewer leading
under the street was dug up, and the
ring was found in the main city sewer,
where it had caught in the joint OF a
pipe. ,
Clifton Bryant, colored, who lived
near Bluemont, Loudoun county, was
convicted on Tuesday in the County
Court for an attempted rape on Mrs. Re,
becca Anne Roberts, of that town, aged
about IS years, and was sentenced to four
years in the peuitentiary. Bryant is
about 16 pears of age. The ofense oc-
Cured on December "a in the store
owned by the intended victim on the
public road near Bluemont.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
COURT OF APPEALS.

Inc OOuTL VI APPCaio JSNJ
ed down the following opinions:
By Judge James Keith, president
Fidelity and Deposit Company vs..
Beale, Judge. Circuit Court of West
moreland county. Affirmed.
Wicks vs.. Scull. Corporation Court
of city of Newport News. Affirmed.
Savings Bank of Richmond VS.. Pow
hatan Clay Manufacturing Company.
Chancery Court of city OF Richmond.
Reversed.
BY Judge r. H. Cardwell-
Richmond Taaction Company VS..
Williams. Law and Equity Court OF
city of Richmond. Affirmed.
Carson Lime Company VS.. Ruther-
ford's administrator. Circuit Court OF
Warren county. Reversed.
Annie NJ. Smith VS.. A. Moore, jr.,
trustee. Circuit Court of Clarke county.
Affirmed.
By Judge John A. Buchanan
Fulkerson VS.. Taylor. Circuit Court
of Lee county. Reversed. in part.
Dooley & Bayless VS.. City OF Bristol.
Corporation Court of city of Bristol.
Reversed. .
House VS.. House. Circuit Court Of
Russell county. Reversed.
Tompkins, receiver, VS.. Dyerle. Gir-
cuit Court of Montgomery county. Re-
versed, Judges Cardwell and Harrison,
dissenting. o..
Flanary Ell al. VS.. Kane ct al. Circuit
Court of Lee county. Aft rmed, as
amended.
By Judge George NJ. Harrison
White Hall Company VS.. Hall. Cir
cult Court of Buckingham county. Al
irmed. ,
Washington National Building and
Loan Association VS.. Vending. Circuit
Court of city OF Alexandria. Reversed.
Tench VS.. Gray. Circuit Court OF
Sussex county. Affirmed.
Turner vs.. Barraud. Circuit Court of
Norfolk county. Affirmed, Keith p, not
participating.
By Judge Stafford G Whittle-
HdDCOC VS.. HlJC IAN tODHNSc
Warehouse Company. Circuit Court
of Buckingham county. Affirmed.
A number of petitions for writs of err
ror we're disposed of, but none from this
circuit.
Southern Railway Company VS.. Wash
ington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon
Railway Company; argued by B. B.
Munford for appellant and R. Walton
Moore for appellee, and submitted.
Richmond Passenger and Power Com
pany VS.. Gordon; argued and continued.
Morien VS.. Norfolk and Atlantic Ter
minal Company; passed to the March
term.
Southern Railway Company ct al. VS..
Glenn's administrator ct al; passed to
be taken up with case No. 81.
Next cases to be called:
Johnston & Cheek VS.. Green, trustee,
ct al. Berkeley & Harrison VS.. Green
trustee, ct al; Fisher, trustee, VS.. Sea-
board Air Line Railway Company, being
Nos. sc, 81 aud 80 IN the argument
docket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
New York stock Market.

New York, Jan. Is, II a. m.-The
hesitation which the stock market show
ed at the opening of business in response
to depression in foreign securities did
o last much beyond halt an hour.
These vas an entire absence of selling
pressure at the small initial declines
which we're scored and the room traders
found little difficulty later on bidding
prices up. Through the railway list
the advances were generally confined to
fractions. U. s. Steel stocks continued
to show strength on further advance in
the industry. Amalgamated Copper
was sluggish but fractionally higher, al
though it did not hold its gain well.
The market after the first hour was
somewhat irregular but continued to
show a satisfactory undertone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
Caught in Burning Building.

New York, Jan. 15.-Four men were
injured this morning in the big depot
of the Brooklyn and Coney Island Rail
road in Williamsburg. Theinjured men
we're painters, fifteen of whom were
hemmed in by the flames. which were
started by an explosion and which spread
with great rapidity. What caused the
explosion is not known, but it came from
a part of the third floor where a lot of
paints were stored. As the flames spread
the workmen rushed for the only exit
left for them, but found it barred be-
cause a spring lock had been closed on
the outside of the door. They tried to
beat the door down but failed, and then
ran to windows on the Stockholm street
side. There were no fire escapes on the
side and the men stood yelling for help
on the window lodges. In the meantime
some one had sentin an alarm, but before
the fremen arrived, the four men jump
ed. They were picked up and taken to
a near by drugstore where ambulance
surgeons attended them. Later they were
taken to hospitals. When the 6remen
arrived fire nets were spread and the other
men Jumped into them in safety. The
flames spread quickly through the big
barn-like structure, bounded by DeKalb,
Myrtle, and Central avenues, and Stock
holm street, and soon all the trolley wires
running into the place we're cut of. This
paralyzed trolley traffic in that part OF
Brooklyn. The building was Quilted.
When it was seen that the stables and
repair shops which contained about $50
cars, could not be saved, the firemen
directed their sole attention to the power
house, and by aooding its walls, and
roofs with water saved it. Had it been
destroyed, the only competitor Of the
Brooklyn RSpid Transit would have re-
ceived a knock out blow which would
have caused it to suspend for several
weeks, ifnot months. President Reinsa,
of the Brooklyn and Coney Island Rail-
road Company said that the loss might
amount to $500, 900.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
Striving TO Avert War.

London, Jan. 15.-Diplomatic circles
are this morning discussing more than
ever the apparent efforts of the British
government 10 mediate between Japan
and Russia, and eventually bring about
a peaceful settlement of the difficulties
between those two countries. This COM
ment has been accentuated by a late
visit which Count Backendorff. Russian
Ambassador to London, paid to the
foreign Office yesterday evening. he
STAYED for an hour and a halt, and al
most Immediately upon leaving sent a
code message to st. Petersburg. 1t is
clear that King Edward and the govern
ment officials are keeping in closesttouch
with the situation and the two powers
interested. The belief is stronger than
heretofore that their efforts will be crown
ed with success, and that war will De
averted. A most hopeful sign today is
that heavy orders for textiles have been
received in England from Hong Kong
and Shanghai. This indicates strongly
that the feeling of optimism is prevalent
among the traders of the East and that
they believe their business will not be
interrupted by hostilities.
London, Jan. l5.-The st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Central News
wires that the japanese reply to the Rus
sian counter proposals has been received
in st. Petersburg and is now under con-
sideration at the foreign Office.
London Jan. 15.-An unconfirmed re-
poot has been received recurring during
the last few days, says the Toxic cores
pondent of the Central News, that Great
Britain has been informed by Japan
that decisive action will be taken
if the Russian Black Sea squadron
attempts to pass through the Darda-
nelles. The report is not confirmed.
The Odessa correspondent of the Stand
ard says the Porte has returned a "non
possumus' to Russia's application for
free egress for the squadron through the
straits. The correspondent adds that
the demand will be reiterated, and, rely
ing on Germany's friendship, Turkey
may ignore the British veto in the mat
ter. Two cruisers and four battleships
are said to be held in complete cOmis-
sion at Sebastopol, awaiting the oppor.
tunify to pass out.
Washington, Jan. l5.-News received
by the State Department this morning
from Japan was of a more pessiristic
character than that for several days past.
Several dispatches were received, but
nothing Of their contents was given out
other than the statement that prepare
tons for war were being pushed with
vigor by the japanese government. A
dispatch was received also from the
American Embassy at st. Petersburg
confirming the press advices that the
Car at yesterdays reception in the
Winter Palace had given his assurance
that he would do all in his power to pre-.
serve peace in the Orient.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
Robbed and BEATEN

Chicago, Jan. 15.-The first real hard
luck story of the year came from Oak
Park, last night, and concerned J. w.
Saxon, a junk dealer. He was standing
on a street corne when a man alighted
from a covered wagon and asked him the
time. "Quarter past six, said Mr.. Saxon,
just as the man grabbed his watch and
ran. Saxon followed and overlook the
thief, onlyto be beaten into inseusibility
and loaded into the wagon, where the
thief took $27 ftom his pocket, carted
him to Forty-eighth avenue and Madison
street, a mile from his home, where he
was dumped out OF the wagon, and re-
NAMED in a snow drift until discovered
by a motorman of a passing car.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15

nally assaulted Miss Jessie Mizell, a
fourteen year-old girl, while she was on
her way to school The matter was
soon reported to the authorities and
Immediately a posse went in search OF
the offender. He was captured seven
miles from High Springs. Clark was
taken TO High Springs and made to con-
front his victim, who identified him.
Officers lett with the prisoner for
Gainesville, the county seat, but they
were overtaken seven miles from the
place aud the prisoner was taken from
them. He was hanged to an oak tree
and his body riddled with bullets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
BREvITIEs.

Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland have given
to the press a statement expressive of
the kind sympathy extended them in
their late bereavement.
Mayor Wynkoop, of Severance, Kansas,
has proclaimed that all bachelors Of that town
who do not take advantage Of leap year here.
after must pay a tax. G.. E. Mitchell, OF
Douglass county, offers to perform free all
marriage ceremonies of couples where it was
necessary for the woman to make the pro-
pOsal of marriage.
Three fremen were injured, one perhaps
fatally, in a fire which destroyed the malt
house at the brewery Of Hinchliffem Bros, in
Patterson, N. j., today. The loss is estimated
at $500, 000.
Edward K. lands, aged 45, a prominent
and wealthy manufacturing chemist, shot and
killed his wife, aged 43, this afternoon and
himself at their residence in Philadelphia.
The British four-masted ship Simlax is re-
ported wrecked off Vancouver City.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
Jews Leaving Roumania.

Bucharest, Roumania, Jan. 15.-In
less than two months one thousand pick
ed men have been sent to America by the
Jewish colonization society. 1t is estima-
ted that at least 40, 900 have left Rou-
mania in the past few years driven to a
freer country by the hardships to which
the Semitic classes have been subjected.
The government has become alarmed by
this weakening CT the population, and
the persecution of the Jews has been
greatly relaxed in a hope of stemming
the tide Of emigration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
FRIDAY EVENING, JAN. Is, 1904.

WITH AS good grace as possible 'nf
House Yesterday upset its action OF
Wednesday in cutting off the approPrla-
ton for the Civil Service Commission.
1t declined, by a vote of SS TO liz, to
uphold the amendment adopted by the
committee CT the whole striking out the
paragraph. Many Congressman are
afraid to go on record, but why they
sbould be so on the civil service ques-
ton is passing strange, as it is admit
tedly a most unpopular law, and lis
humbugery and fraud were clearly
shown during the debate on Wednesday
when it was denounced by republicans
and democrats alike. In his speech
Mr.. Hepburn declared that he was not
inclinedt to c%riticise the heads of the COM
mission. but said the civil service as 1t
is administered is a fraud and ahumbug.
Mr.. Hepburn said that if the republican
party was responsible for the administra-
ton of the affairs of the government, the
friends of that party should hold all the
available places. He referred to an In
teryiew with the head of a department
having over five hundred clerks who had
said that he had fifty clerks who could
not get to their desks if the elevators in
the building were not running, and that
should he be permitted to select his own
force he could do all the business with
two hundred clerks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-15
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate yesterday listened to
speeches by Mr.. Newlands and Mr.. De-
pew on the Pana ma canal question, and
to a speech by Mr.. Latimer in advocacy
of the adoption of plan for the i'm
pro vement of the public wagon roads Of
the country. Mr.. Newlands spoke in
criticism of the course Of the President
in Panama, declaring that it was an act
of war and in contravention alike OF the
treaty of 1916, of international law, and
of the Constitu ton of the United States.
Mr.. Depew, on the other hand, praised
the Presidents policy as patriotic, and
justified it under precedent and law.
He reviewed the history Of Panama and
detailed the facts connected with the ne
gotiation of the Hay-Herrsn treaty,
contending that Colombia bad over
reached herself in her rejection of that
agreement.
The House passed the legislative, ex-
e~cutive, and judicial appropriation bill,
carrying an aggregate of s29, I'll, 700,
and then adjourned until Monday next.
This is the second of the big supply
measures to pass the House. The House,
by a vote of IS to 1872, also refused to
sustain the action of the committee of
the whole, which Wednesday adopted
an amendment striking out the para
graph providing for the salaries and ex-
penses and the Civil Service Commission,
thus restoring the item in the bill.
Amendments adopted in committee in
creasing, in D instance, the salaries OF
territorial officers in New Mexico and
Arizona, and reducing the salary OF the
director OF the census in another, met
similar fates in the House. An amend
ment to the bill was adopted restricting
the use of government horses and car
riages to the President, his secretary,
and Cabinet officers.