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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12

PEACE PROSPECTS, which yesterday
seemed to be assuming a more tangible
shape are not so bright today. The Jap
anese are suspicious, and naturally so,
as the MikadO was taught but few years
ago costly lesson by foreign interference
after China had been conquered. Japan
then. by the concerted action of GER
tain powers, was compelled to re.
linquish all the territory she had acquir'
ed by conquest. Russia, the principal
actor in that drama, later took possession
of Manchuria aud brought on the present
war. Toxic has calmly received the
news of American Intervention and pro-
spective peace. The absence of assur-
ance that Russia will accept President
RoOsevelts proposal, and the knowledge
that the final cOnsummatiOn of peace in
wolves the adjustment of series ofques-
tions of paramount importance, requiring
the most careful diplomacy extending
over weeks of negotiation coupled, per-
haps, with the recollection of a previous
experience in the thorny path of the
worlds politics, seem to create dispo-
sitiOn to await final results.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12

THE statement has been made in what
is regarded as a responsible quarter that
out of the charges made by Richard
Cheatham, secretary ofthe Southern Cot
ton Association, and now being investi-
gated by Secretary of Agriculture VIII
son. may grow one of the most serious
scandals in the history of the govern
ment What is said to be positive proof
has been submitted to Secretary Wilson
by Mr.. Cheatham that infOrmstiOn' OBJ
tanned from the department, furnished
by some officials or officials within it,
was used to influence the cotton market.
The intimation is given that a consplra-
cy may be unearthed, involving persons
in Washington and New York, which,
it is alleged, was formed for the purpose
not only of manipulating things so as to
influence the cotton market, but TO affect
the corn, wheat, barley and other cereal
markets as well. When Mr. Cheatham
first made his charges they were secuted
and ridiculed by the Agriculture Depart
ment, even Secretary Wilson denying
them fatty, but such proofs of cor
ruption have been produced as to make an
investigation imperative, and big sem
sation is promised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
The Transfers Strike.

The Chicago Teamowners' Associa'
ton, an organization employing 5000
union teamsters, has decided TO remain
neutral in the present labor struggle now
in progress in Chicago. Ever since the
commencement of the teamsters' strike
the reamowners's Association has been
anxious to have the question of making
deliveries to strike-bound houses sub.
milted to arbitration. The teamsters
by unanimous vote refused to agree to
the proposition, and for time it was
believed that the teamowners would
force a strike of these 5000 drivers by
ordering them to make deliveries to
firms involved in the strike.
In an effort TO learn the sentiment of
the members of the association regard
ing the matter it was decided to take a
referendum on the question. This vote
was completed and resultedin 155 OF the
members voting to remain neutral dur
ing the trouble and in three members
voting to compel the teamsters to obey
orders. The decision reached by the
owners means that there will probably
be no strike OF these men.
Negotiations Tor peace, which prom
Used for a time last week to be successful,
have apparently been abandoned, for the
present at least, as both sides are so far
apart on any plans of settlement by
mediation that further efforts in this
direction are believed by all concerned
to be futile.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
THE PEACE MOVEMENT.

Russia is waiting for the japanese gov
eminent to name the time and place for
the peace negotiations. 1t is reported
in st. Petersburg that the Car is already
cognizant of the chief conditions to be
imposed by Japan, and does not onsider
them too onerous.
According, however, to a report in
Paris, the conditions of peace to be I'M
posed by Japan include an indemnity of
$3.50, 900, 900, a japanese protectorate
over Korea and Manchuria, the cession
of Port Arthur and part of the trans
Manchurian Railroad to Japan, for
fixture of the interned warships, the
withdrawal of Russian warships from the
far East for a period of 20 years and the
occupation of Vladiyostok until all con-
ditions are fulfilled.
1t is believed in diplomatic circles in
St. Petersburg that Russia is prepared to
abandon the whole of her Manchuria
venture and give guarantees. She will
insist, however, on holding the railroad
to VladivOstok through northern Man
churia. Thegreatest stickler will be the
matter of indemnity.
The japanese people seem skeptical of
Russia's earnestness in the acceptance
of the Presidents suggestion and fear
that Japan will sacrifice the advantage
of Admiral Togo's victory as well as
Field Marshal Oyama's opportunity by
conserving to an armistice. The Japan
ese officials, however, have received as
surance of Russia good faith in the pro-
posed negotiation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Today's Telegraphic News
peace Prospects not Bright.

st Petersburg, June 12.-There are
many rumors in regard to peace today in
government circles, but it is notable that
hardly two officials have the same view.
The correspondent of the Publishers
Press on making the round of the offices
today heard at least seven different YER
sions of what Russia is prepared to ac-
cent in the way Of peace demands and
what'officials believe japan is willing to
agree TO. The fact is that the Russian
government does not know how the
negotiations, which are soon to be opened,
will end. One thing is certain and that
is that the bureaucracy is not agreed to
the peace at any price idea. If Japan
simply announces her terms with the
ultimatum that they must either be ac-
cepted or rejected the negotiations are
to come to an abrupt end. Russia Is
prepared to bargain for terms and that
is all. If she sees that the results OF the
bargaining will be comparatively advan-
tageous Russia will accept If not, the
war will 90 on. Russia does not con-
slider that she has been beaten down on
her knees. She believes that the posi-
ton of Linevitch's army entities her
to assume a strong attitude IN dis
cussing peace terms. Your correspon-
dent il informed that while The question
of indemnity will be one that will require
the most subtle handling on the part Of
the peace commissioners, there Is an
equal chance that the negotiations will
be wrecked over the future of Vladivos-
tok. Russia will not agree to the
abandoning of Vladivostok as a naval
base and will take the stand that Vladi-
yostok is now in an ideal condition to
resist japanese attack, and that the
Mikado's army cannot capture it with
out sacrificing half a million men. 1t is
believed here that if Japan forces the
issue that Vladivostok must be given up
as naval base the war must continue.
London, June 12.-The optimistic
opinion which prevails in America, as
shown by advices received here, that
the war is practically over and peace
assured finds no echo in Europe.
The attitude assumed today by the
reactionary press shows that there is
strong party in st. Petersburg working
against peace. The newspapers which
reflect the sentiment of this anti-peace
party, today published articles attacking
President Roosevelt. The declaration
is made that the President is openly
hostile to Russia.
London, June l2.--The correspon-
dent of the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany at St. Petersburg wires that the
outlook for peace is not as bright as it
was yesterday, owing to the reports that
the japanese have begun an offensive
movement in Manchuria.
st. Petersburg, June 12.-Russia's
formal answer TO President RoosevelPs
note in which he suggested the appoint
ing of peace commissioners to meet
japanese representatives to discuss
peace, was handed to Ambassador Meyer
today In this reply the Gar an
nOunces his acceptance of the Presl-
danf,a nrOnoaal
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
TELEGRAPHIO BREVITIEs

The little son of Mrs. Eva S. F. Ros-
seau, a common law wife of Charles
Broadway Rouss, OF New York, has been
awarded $50, 600 from the Rouss estate.
The pennsylvania Special" the new
IS hour train which left New York, at
1855 Sunday afternoon, arrived at Chi
cage at $3.50, this morning, three
minutes ahead OF the scheduled running
time. No accidents marked the trip,
but there was a delay of Is minutes due
to hot box.
Putnam Bradlee Strong, son of the
late Mayor Strong, of New York, who
gained much norotoriety by his marriage
to May Yohe the actress, and who is now
appearing with her on the vaudeville
stage, today filed a petition in bank
ruptcy in New York. His liabilities
are placed at 81 OBS OF with no assets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
EQUITABLE CHANGES.

At the sensational meeting Of the
directors of the Equitable Assurance
Society in New York on Friday the fol-
lowing results were accomplished
James H. Hyde sold to a syndicate,
headed by Thomas F. Ryan, his ma
jority of the stock, thus yielding the
"one-man control"
Paul Morton was elected chairman OF
the Board of Directors, with absolute
powers.
The majority stock bought from Hyde
will be placed in control of Grover
Cleveland, George Westinghouse and
Morgan j. O'Brien, as trustees for the
policy holders. They will have power
to elect twenty-eight of the ffty-two
directors. This is step toward mu-
tualizatiOr.
James w. Alexander. president;
James H. Hyde, first vice president;
Gage f. Tarbell, George T. Wilson and
w, H. Mcintyre, vice presidents, and
Henry Rogers Winthrop, financial
manager, rendered their designations,
10 be accepted if Chairman Morton 50
decides.
Mr.. Thomas F. Ryan is native of
Nelson county. Va. He is vice-presi-
dent of the Morton Trust Company, and
assumed direction because of the mfr
nifty of Levi P. Morton. The acquire
ment of the stock control of the Equita-
BILE placed control of 81, 900, 900, 900
ia hands of Mr.. Ryan and his friends
which gives them complete indepen-
dence of three large banking interests,
j. P. Morgan, Kuhn Loeb and Com
pany and the National City Bank.
With the payment of check by
Thomas +. Ryan to James Hazen Hyde
Saturday afternoon, the control Of the
stock of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society passed out of the family Of
Henry u. HYDE. its founder.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Naval Attack Repnlsed

Baltimore, June I'm the mimic
warefare in the upper part of Chesapeake
Bay last night the battleship Texas, two
cruisers and several torpedo boats were
''sunk" with all hands on board by the
forts guarding the approach to this city.
The boats had attempted to sneak past
the forts defending this city, but were
detected with the result given above.
Fortress Monroe, June l2.-Notwith-
standing the fact that powerful search
lights were playing on the bay all last
night, shedding their rays for distance
of seven miles, word was received here
this morning that "hostile fleet" had
attacked the defenses of Baltimore.
They had, however, been repulsed with
great loss TO the vessels o the fleet.
1t was however, incontestably shown that
it would have been possible for fleet to
have passed between the Virginia capes
in Chesapeake bay, without being dis
covered, at Fort Monroe. 1t is twelve
miles from the fort to the channel on
the Cape Charles side, where the fleet
could have proceeded up the bay, to
Baltimore or to the Potomac and Wash
ington. Officers declared feet could
we'll have come in the bay by hugging
the shore close to Cape Charles have
passed up the bay without the fact being
known at the fort. While nothing
is known of Admiral Dickin's future
movements, it is reported here that he
will next attack the forts ofthe Potomac,
and about Wednesday begin operations
here. The principal operations of the
exercises will be at Fort Monroe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
MONDAY EVENING. JUNE 70, 1905

THE BLESSING Of prosperity when mas
pervsded nearly every section OF the
limited States during recent years has
not been received generally with a thank
e,lspirit. not even by many whose prevl-
Gus experience, by reason of the dearth OF
employment, will long be remembered
Az soon as the wheels in the factories be-
oan to revolve and demand for work
men set in an era ofstrikes followed, whicn
is ,till in evidence. The present high
tide will not always prevail. Sooner or
later recession, as inevitable as the
coming and going of the seasons, Will
set in. when eaten bread will soon be
forootten. In the midst of the full and
plenty in the United States, it may be
proper to contrast our conditions to those
at present prevailing in the south oil
Spain, where a terrible famine is raging
Nearly 4, 600 ragged and starving labor
ers recently marched from the villages
of Colmenar, Casabermaje, Alfarnale'
Catur and Borge. Starvation had driven
them to Malaga to ask for bread and
work. They were led by landowners,
who not long ago were in afiluent cir
cumstances, but are now in as sad a
Might as their own tenants and labOrers.
At Montalban, in the province ofToledo,
rioting has taken place among the starv-
ing population. Landowners lodges
have been burned down, the payment OF
taxes has been refused and taxgatherers'
lives threatened.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Austrian Consul Murdered

A dispatch from Tangier says that
Moorish robbers entered the Austrian
vice consulate at Mazagan on Juns G
aud murdered Vice Consul Madden, a
British subject, who also represented
Denmark, and who had been established
there for many years. They also fred al
and wounded his wife. The assassins es.
capped. The Austrian and British au-
thorities have sent energetic protests To
the Sultan's foreign minister.
The rangier correspondent of the Lon
don Standard says that Vice Consul Mad
den was murdered by man named Ben
nanny, son of wealthy Moor, in revenge
for a supposed personal wrong. Ben
nanny and his slave, who assisted in the
murder, have been arrested.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
The Flood in the Subway

New York, June l2.-Through traffic
in the subway is still completely sus-
pended today as the result Of a break in
4S-inch.' water main yesterday after
noon, on Park avenue north of FOrtieth
street, which completely flooded the
tunnel for blocks. Trains are only
running this morning above Times
Square, and below Fourteenth street on
the local tracks. The flooding Of the
subway was followed by period of
terror to hundreds of passengers when
there was sudden stoppage OF trains,
immersion into black darkness, and a
succession of thunderous reports of ex
ploding fumes in the deep cut below the
Fourth avenue trolley tunnel. Scores
put their lives in immediate peril by
leaping from the trains to the tracks
and wading through the water that was
rising to the level of the deadly third
rail to receive a ground current of cleo
tricity. That none was shocked TO
death in this way is due to the margin
of few minutes they had before the
water rose above the rail and the action
of the train guards in preventing others
from leaving the cars. 1t was over five
hours before the water was turned oil,
no one knowing where the gate was
which cut the flow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Lansburgh & Bro,
ago to 426 seventh Street.
WASHINGTON, d. c.
Subway Flooded.

A break in the forty-eight inch-high-
pressure water main in Park avenue,
neal Forty-second street. New York,
yesterday resulted in the flooding of the
block just below the Grand Central sta
ton, the street car tunnel and the sub
way, the stOppage of traffic in the sub
way for many hours, serious damage to
the underground road, and great danger
to many passengers. Incidentally, it re-
suited in the caving in of Park avenue
over an area 20 feet by s.. from which
ran cracks that meant danger to adjacent
buildings, if, by the accidental appear
ance on the scene of man not connected
with the water department, who shut Oft
the terrific Niagara of CrotOn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Beaten and Assaulted by Italians.

New York, June l2.-Charlotte Lor-
enson, aged q, fell in with a gang of
Italians shortly before o'clock this
morning, and after being brutally beat
en- was criminally assaulted. The crime
was committed in a stable on east lOSth
street. One of the culprits, who gave
his name as Tony Latasso, is under ar
rest today. Lattasso's four companions
escaped. The woman is in the Harlem
Hospital. Miss LorensOn told the pO-
lice that she had been to a picnic aud
was returning home when she was at
tacked by the Italians. She said that
through a mistake she beaded Fifth
avenue car Instead of q Third avenue
car, which accounted for her being in
the Italian quarter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12

THOSE republican leaders who, year
or more ago, figured that Charles w.
Fairbanks would keep his hands out OF
Indiana politics if he was elected Vice
President are finding unexpected cOndi-
tiOns to meet in the recent interest he
has shown in the plans to EeOrganize the
Indiana republican State central COM
mittee. Since the Vice Presidents re-
turn from Washington, about month
ago, it has become evident that he will
have some influence in selecting a COM
mittee, the members of which will be not
only friendly, but enthusiastic, for his
presidential boom in 1908.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Hunting Educational Facilities.

St. Petersburg, June 12.-The attempt OF
General Trepoh. the new assistant Minister
of the Interior, to limit educational facilities
in Russia and bar the poorer classes from the
institutions of higher learning, is meeting
with success. Following the suggestion
made by General Trepoh, the universities
have raised their annual tuition fees TO 5000
roubles. This increase in the tuition will shut
out hundreds of poor young men, Of whom
great numbers have matriculated every year.
General Trepofi's demand for the increase in
the tuition fees was made for the purpose of
closing the universities to such students, his
argument being that when the poorer classes
become educated their eyes are opened to their
wrongs and they become advocates Of reforms,
thus endangering the bureaucracy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Found Guilty of Murder.

A jury in Liberty, Mo-, has found
Mrs. Agnes Myers, of Kansas City,
guilty in the first degree of the murder
of her husband, Clarence Myers. Death
is the penalty. Frank Hoffman, her
paramount, and Mrs Myers killed Myers
on May 10, 1904, so that he and the
murderess might be free to marry each
other. Hoffman is under sentence of
death. Mrs. Myers administered drug
to her husband to compel sleep and
Hoffman struck Myers with billiard
cue. This aroused Myers, and he
grappled with Hoffman, who was in
.oxicated. Myers was getting the bet
ter of the fight when Mrs. Myers struck
her husband with a bed slat and re-
peatedly cut his throat with a razor.
She then stabbed the dying man in the
back half dozen times with pair of
shears. Hoffman testified voluntarily
against the woman, and he was offered
no immunity by the prosecution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12

THE CHARTER company in Richmond,
chartered by the State Corporation Com
mission, has been so successful Though
it has brought scandal upon the commits
sion and the State) that another COM
pany has been chartered, this. time in
Norfolk. 1t is to be hoped that none OF
the stockholders of this new company is
in the remotest degree connected with
the State Commission.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
News of the Day.

Norton D. Tillotson, son of New
York millionaire, had summons in a
divorce suit served on his wife while she
was lying in sickroom.
Sidney Pagets Cairngorm, the l-to-2
fayorite. won the Brooklyn Derby, one
and one-half miles, at Graveseud Satur-
day. Migraine was second and Merry
Lake third.
The Milwaukee Journal prints a story
on the authority of John Heating, that
Peter Fl. Deacon, who died recently in
Chicago, had lived double life for
twenty years, having at the same time
families in SomervilIe, Mass, a suburb
of Boston, and in Milwaukee.
Harry Moore, chauffeur, and MIR.
and Mrs. Jerome G.. Kurtzman, of an
automobile party of FIVE were drowned,
when the machine, driven recklessly,
plunged into the river through the open
draw at Rush street, Chicago, at S:l5
Saturday night. The two others mar
rowly escaped:a like fate.
Mad with the delusion that he had
been Tilted by a girl to whom he had
never even told his love, Arthur Freu'
denfels, a wealthy young tea merchant,
committed suicide Friday by shooting
himself while sitting on a bench at One
Hundred and Nineteenth street and the
Speedway, New York.
More than score of people were in
lured, several fatally, in a head-on col
lision Saturday night about7 o'clock
when two big truck cars on the johnson
trolley line, each carrying more that lOt
passengers and travelling at the rate Of
twenty-five miles an hour, crashed into
each other on the track mile east o.
Lawrenceville, n. j.
William H. Wattley, chief engineer o.
the English steamer Ackworth, lying OF
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, was held
prisoner between two spiles Saturday
while the rising tide slowly crept owe
him, drowning him by inches. He wa
caught in such position that he wa
unable to help himself and too far away
for any one to hear his cries.
The mimic war between the army anC
navy was declared at IL o'clock las
night. The "enemy," in the form o
the large squadron of Admiral Dickens
will now endeavor to defeat the LIANT
forces defending the artillery districts o
the Chesapeake, Baltimore and Potomac
and the boom of the guns may be hearC
at any time at Fortress Monroe or at The
Baltimore Notifications.
King Oscar has finally accepted thu
address of the Storthing announcing tn
dissolution of the union, which he a
first refused. A member of the Nor
wegian Cabinet says the popular sentl
ment favors a republic. The Premier o
Sweden says his government will REFUSE
TO recognize the revolution in Norway
and he believes no foreign power will rec
ognize the new government.
Frank Ct. Bigelow, confessed defaulte
in the sum of 81 500, 900 of the funds o
the First National Bank of Milwaukee
while president of the bank, Saturday
pleaded guilty to an indictment of ter
counts, each count violation of the ma
tional banking laws, and was sentenced
by U. S. District Judge Joseph v
Quarles, a personal friend, to ten years
imprisonment at hard labor in the fed
eral penitentiary at Fort LeaveDworth
Kansas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Ten Times Easier.

1t is ten times easier to cure coughs, Group
whooping-cough and all lung and bron:
chal affections when the bowels are open.
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is the
original Laxative Cough Syrup, Gently
moves the bowels, and expels all cold from
the system Best for Coughs Colds. Group,
WhoOping- Cough, etc. Remember the name,
"Kennedy's," and see that the red clover
blossom and the honey bee is on the bottle,
Sold by w. +. Creighton, 40i'King street
and corner Queen and Patrick streets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Mrs Rogers to Hang

Rutland, VT, June l2.-All hope of
saving Mrs. Mary Rogers from the hang
mans moose has been virtually abandon
ed and the condemned woman will be
hanged at the Windsor prison on June
%, for killing her husband on August
II, 1900. An appeal to Governor Bell
fora reprieve until the legislature meets
in October is the only proceeding that
counsel for the woman can take, and the
Governor has indicated that he has given
the woman every legal right and the law
must take its course.