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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Killed His Family.

What will prove to be triple murder
and suicide was the discovery made at
Shelbourne. Ont, yesterday by farm
err in the home of James Coulter, a we'll
TOGO farmer about 10 miles from that
place. Upon entering the house he
found Coulter lying dead on the bed.
while in other parts Of the house we're
found the dead bodies of his wife and
daughter, and in the barn the year
old son, dying. The crime, apparently,
was deliberate. The son was attacked
with an axe, after which the father went
into the house, shot his wife and daugh-
ter, retired to his bedroom aud turned
the weapon on himself. 10 shooting
himself he set fire to the bedclothing,
and the smoke of the fire was what at
tIacted the attention of the man who
discovered the tragedy.
Details of a terrible tragedy near shell
burne, Ontario, shoS that after James
Coulter, farmer, had with 40 axe killed
his wife, twelve year old sou, and IL
year old daughter, be set fire to a bed
after shooting himself.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Virginia News.


The Seibel iron mines near Fort
Royal are shipping from 10 to 10 tons
Of IRE day to the smelter in Shenan-
doah, Page county.
About thirteen thousand duckliogs
have been hatcbed at the Morgan duck
ranch in Richmond since the beginning
of the season, October l. The output
last year was about So, 900 ducks.
Bishop Alfred NJ. Randolph, of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Southern
Virginia, has been invited to deliver the
Shakespeare memorial sermon thiI year
at StratfOrd-on Avon, England, the sun
day after Easter.
Although Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd was
elected Bishop Coadjutor of the diocese
of Southern Virginia several weeks ago,
he was not officially notified Of the fact
till few days since, so ii cannot be said
thai he has unnecessarily delayed
making answer to the notification.
Mrs. Estelle Townsend Smith, the
Manchester woman convicted of beat
ing her young son Ralph to death
with a strap, was taken to prison by a
penitentiary gGard in buggy yesterday
to serve a fve-year sentence for the
crime, which was committed last May.
Fire yesterday morning, believed to
have been ofincendiary origin, destroyed
the large barn on the farm of Mrs. r..
NJ. Stribing, three miles from Berry
vile, Clarke county, causing .Oss OF
81, 500, partly covered by insurance.
Hay, corn, feed and farming implements
we're consumed.
William Burr Harrison, formerly OF
Leesburg, n civil engineer of the War
Department, and Miss Leila Virginia
Wheeler, daughter OF the late DR.. John
Wheeler, of Baltimore, were married
Tuesday. at noon, Rev. Robert P. Kerr,
pastor OF The Northminister Presbyterian
Church, officiating. They will reside in
Washington.
Seventeen men ilel notices yesterday OF
their candidacy for the Office of treasurer
of the city of Richmond, made vacant
by the death of Capt. Charles B. Phillips,
who was buried yesterday afternoon. The
salary attached to the Office is So, 600 per
year but there are fees aud emoluments
which increase the compensation to
81, 900 or SO, 900.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Antelopes Invade Ranch.

Lewistown, Mont. Dec. S.--A herd Of
at least six hundred sntelopes driven from
the mountains by snow visited the Sew
enty-nine Ranch in a body. This is the
largest herd seen in Montana since pio-
neer days. The animals we're so thick
that men rode through them as they
would through a bunch Of cattle. The
snow was crustod and this had cut the
legs of the antelOpes so badly that they
showed not the slightest disposition to
move on. The State game warden esti-
mates that the lives of ten thousand deer
and elk have been saved through the alb
sence of snow until the open season
closed on December LIST, since which
time antelopes may not be killed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
TOday's Telegraphic News
More Mutinies In Ruusia.

1t. Petersburg, Russia, via Eydt-
kuhnen. December 9--The marines and
sailors have mutinied and refused to
obey orders to 90 to Kronstadt. One Of
the sailors voiced the resistance of his
fellows and in addressing Admiral Med
ermiller said "You shou d be drown
ed in our blood. You want to herd us
together so that you can repeat the
Sevast0pol massacre, but we refuse to
obey" The sailors took refuge in their
barracks which have been surrounded by
troops.
A serious mutiny has occurred at
Schusselburg fortress, known as the Rus
sian Bastile, which is located on an is
land in the Neva river, twenty miles
east of St. Petersburg. The troops there
are deman ling the immediate release OF
all political prisoners and threaten to
carry the fortress by assault unless their
demands are complied with. Schussel e
burg, for the past nineteen years, has
been the tortue house of Russia for poit-
ical offenders. Many of the dungeons
in which the captiyes are confined are
below the high water level of the Neva
river, and the prisoners are half drOwn-
ed when the tide rises. Medieval tor
lures are inflicted upon prisoners and
many of them have been driven insane
as the result OF their sufferings in the
| fortress. At times sounds OF awful
shouting and insane laughter can be
heard coming from the fortress.
The food of the prisoners in the fortress
consists of bread, raw cabbage and water.
The government never grants permits
sion for any one to enter the prison
which conceals as many frightful secrets
as did the French Bastile.
The first act of General MaximOvitch,
former Governor General OF Warsaw,
who had been appointed the successor OF
General Sakharoff, to crush out the
peasant uprising, has been to issue the
following order to the COssacks under
his command
"Do not use the kn0ut on indictments,
but shoot wherever you meet with the
slightest opposition. Show the rebel
dogs you are not economical OF cart
ridges. The more political indictments
you kill, the higher will be the Gar .
estimate of yOGr services. Take care
that your actions create good impress
sion on the government"
The order is bound to result in awful
slaughter as the peasants have been
goqded into a fury by the notice to the
Cossacks. There are 10000 armed
peasants in General Maximovitch's dis
| friot
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Launch of BattIeship Idaho.

Philadelphia, Dec. 9.-Namcd by
probably the youngest sponsor ever Sc
lected to christen a ship of war, the bat
tleship Idaho was launched at Cramps
shipyard at l2:l7 p. IN. Miss Louise
May Gooding, the Is year old daughter
of Frank Fl. Gooding, of Idaho, had
the honor of breaking the bottle of wine
against the vessel prov.
In addition to Governor Gooding,
Idaho was well represented by delega-
ton of her citizens. Men of prominence
10 all walks of life were gathered on the
platform. Society, too, was out in force.
Mayor Weaver was there to represent
the city, while quite few of the mu-
nicipal department officials we're also
present. The Idaho is sister ship Of
the Mississippi. She is of $4,000 tons
displacement, is built on the lines Of the
Oregon and will have speed of II knots
and a battery which will make fair
match for any battlelhip allOat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Mad Cow Filled the Trees.

Freehold, n. j., Dec. "a mild
eyed COW that had walked peacefully on
its way to the slaughter from the farm
of Frank Wickatnnk, six miles from
here, yesterday took mad fit and chased
her driver up tree. Villagers, in
Guiding some nice girls, went to the
mans rescue, but the COW was full OF
fight and they were glad to take to other
trees and jump fences without regard for
decJrum. Two shots were fired at the
beast aud she fell. The people thought
it was all day with her, but she arose
and charged with fresh vigor. A third
shot settled the COW and the trees were
emptied.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
The Cnlpeper Tragedy.

The suicide and murderer, John j.
Vaughan, and the daughter-in-law he
killed, Mrs. Philip f. Vaughan, have
been buried in graves side by side at
Culpeper The unusual motive for the
murder was found out yesterday in
an interview with 13-year-old Daisy
Vaughan, the daughter, who pleaded
with her grandfather for her mother $
life, and who held to her when the mad
dened man threw her aside and then
shot her.
Daisy says Vaughan, her grandfather,
had proposed to his own sons wife that
she 90 with him away from her husband
to Alexandria, where he had arranged
employment for them both. If she re.
fused, The grandfather said he would
certainly kill her and himself that he
could not live without her Daisy says
her mother refused and this caused a
quarrel when her mother refused to ac-
cede to his request. Daisy says that
Just befJre Vaughan killed her he drew
her to him, telling her that vas the last
time he was going to be refused, and
that if she did not then consent to go
with him in few seconds she would be
dead woman. She still refused,
Vaughan al that time she wed the pistol,
Daisy says, and the daughter chung to
her mother, begging her grandfather
not to kill her. Vaughan threw her
aside, but she again chung TO her He
fired and her mother fell corpse. Daisy
states that he then said, Now it will
be DONE" and suiting the action to the
word shot himself dead.
Daisy says her father was not on the
lot at the time of the killing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Mr. Morean's Rival.

Berlin, Dec. 9.-Well informed ship
ping and financial circles expect that
the negotiations which are in progress
between the Hsmburg-American and
North German Lloyd steamship lines
will terminate in the complete fusion OF
both companies into the worlds biggest
combination. Herr BALM, Director
General of the Hamburg-AmeIican line,
is irving to coerce the weaker North
German Lloyd line to bis fusion policy.
The North German Lloyd intends to
resist, but its ultimate surrender is con-
sidered certain. Herr BALM is now be-
ing described as the J. Pierpont Morgan
of Germany, but he is more thorough
soldier than the speculative American.
If the fusion occurs, and the united
companies continue as membera of the
Atlantic shipping trust, it is expected
that the control OF the trusts operations
will be transferred from Mr.. Morgan to
Her BALM.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
The Insurance Investigation.

Mr.. Thomas +. Ryan was the prin-
cipal witness in New York yesterday
before the committee investigating life
insurance,
Asked to state what T.. II. Hartman
said to him on being refused participa-
ton in the purchase of the Hyde stock,
witness refused to answer on the advice
of his counsel. Ryan declined to answer,
when asked if Hartman had threatened
an investigation il not given an interest
in the Equitable. Ryan's reluctance TO
give information on the alleged Harri.
man threat caused the committee to send
for District Attorney Jerome, suggesting
that action may be taken against Ryan.
Refusal to answer before a legislative
committee i, misdemeanor.
He stated that he acquired control OF
the Equitable Society to avert what would
have been the "mOst tremendous panic
in the history of the country. That he
had given Cleveland and the other trust
ees the sole right TO vote his stock and
name the directors to restore confidence
and that he is willing to Derpetuate the
trust As long as he lives. That he paid 3d.
500, 900 for Equitable stock that paid but
7 per cent, as public service. That be
il the sole owner of the SOP shares of
Hyde stock, il under no obligation TO
any living man and will dispose of the
stock to only the Equitable Society.
Robert A. McCardy, ir., general mana
ger of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
many. resigned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09

SENATOR MITCHELL has been called
to his last account. The grave is bis re-
fuge from further human judgment; and
OF the dead it is becoming to speak well
or keep silent. He lived in yitiated
official atmosphere and was not strong
enough to resist the mephitical vaPors of
the era of graft. The pity of it that one
who had been raised so high could not
maintain himself at the altitude to which
he waa lifted. The abuse of official in
fuence for private gsin has been so long
regarded as a mere peccadillO that many
ordinarily good men fall into the vicious
habit of making their positions pay them
something beyond their legitimate Off
cial rewards. In this connection the
Philadelphia Record says "The fact
that high place no longer assures immu-
nifty to offenders of this class is the most
eloquent of the revival of civism in
this country"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 9. 1906

THE EXECUTION yesterday Of Mrs.
Mary Rogers at Windsor, Vermont, for
the murder of her husband, attracted
considerable interest throughout the en-
tire country. Thelpenalty of the law was
carried out against the protests OF thou
sands, the great mass of whom never
saw the unfortunate woman, but the fact
that she was a member of the gentler
sex brought forth expressions of SYM
patty in every quarter. The fact, how
ever. remains that her crime was pre-
meditated and brutal and was con-
ceived for the purpose of securing 500
insurance on her husbands life, and that
she nigh marry another man. The law
makes no difference between the sexes,
and many believe that this is proper.
Some women when on the down road to
destruction plunge headlOng from vice
10 crime, and many examples could be
culled from history to show what some
specimens of the feminine gender are
capable OF doing. Occasionally an ex-
ample has to be made in order to de-
ter Others who would commit murder
we're il not for dread of the cOnse-
quences. Jezebel many centuries ago
inbubed her hands in blood and received
the just recompense of her deed, and
later Herodas gazed at and glOated over
the head of man pronounced the great
et that had been born of women be-
cause he had denounced her adultery.
During the Christian era numbers OF
women have appeared in all countries
equally as blOodthirsty. While they
NAV not at all times have welded the
dagger or prepared deadly potions, they
were the originators of diabolical acts
and directed those who committed them.
The details in connection with the crime
for which Mrs. Rogers young and al
the threshold of wOmanhoOd) paid the
death penalty are revolving. There
never was more deliberate murder,
and her victim was her husband, whom
she had promised before God and man
TO love. honor and obey. Her lewd life
led her from one oveet act to
another until she determined to kill
her own consort to obtain the small sum
for which his life was insured, in order
TO spend the same with another man.
1t was sad judicial act to prepare her
for the gallows from the fact that she
was a woman. But had man, the rep
resentative of the deity, refused to carry
out a commandment not human but Di'
-, L. -o~II L--~ Lse-- -se-e~~t 10
his Creator. la antediluvian times we
are told that violence filled the earth,
and murder was doubtless common.
When the waters of the food subsided
the then representative of the entire race
was commanded to take the blood oil
those who shed mans blood. How,
therefore, could Governor Bell or anyone
else in authority in Vermont stand as a
bufler against the fiat of both God and
man?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09

The New York city local unions Of
housesmiths and bridgemen appealed to
President Ryan. of the International AS
ISOLATION of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers, last wees, to declare a ma
tiona strike on all contracts affecting
the New York Builders Association.
The strike at New York WAS due 10
the efforts of Post McCOrd TO force
an open-shop plan on three of the thirty
buildings they are erecting and strike
breakers were put TO work on these
buildings. It is feared that the new
year will be ushered in with many
strikes throughout the country and that
violence and much suffering will follow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Presidency of the Mutual.

New York, Dec. 8. --According TO a
story prevalent in the financial district
today William Ill. Truesdalc, presi-
dent OF the Lackawanna Railway, and
chairman OF the housekeeping COM
mittee of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, may be put forward at the
next meeting of the Board of Trustees as
candidate for the presidency of the
Mutual.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Killed by a Train

Huntington, W. Va, Dec. 9.-In
stepping from a Norfolk & Western
passenger train at Kenova, during the
darkness of the night, Frank G. Stewards
of Newport News, Va, was killed, and
H. W. Wods of Trout Valley, w. Va. A.,
probably fatally injured. They stepped
over a viaduct falling fifty feet. So
wards fell directly in front of CHEESE.
peake 4 Ohio train passing below and
was hurled sixty feet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Whole City To Chase Wolves.

Kansas City, Dec. "a mass meet
ing will be held today in Oak Grove, a
suburb of Kansas City, to organize a
wolf drive Wolves have become as
numerous since the bounty was taken
of that systematic effort is necessary to
get rid OF the pests. When the bounty
of SO head was paid the wolves were
destroyed while young. Since then
they have been allowed to increase with.
out restraint Many wolves have been
killed recently, but they are so numer-
Gus that a general round up is advisable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09

The annual report of Secretary OF
War Taft was made public yesterday
After reviewing the institution of the
new Panama Canal Commission and the
events leading up to the resignation OF
Chief Engineer Wallace, Mr. Taft says :
BY the lst of December we shall have
spent 500, 600, 600 in the cause of ac-
quiring trans lsthmian canal. The
Two questions which suggest themselves
are; /. Have we proceeded without
unnecessary delay? , Have we re-
ceiyed our moneys worth
1t won't take the average American
citizen long to answer yes to the first
question and no to the second.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09

tons extrolling his stand on the railroad rate
question. The committee was headed Dy +
p. Bacon, Of Milwaukee. lie TAXED WIN
the President regarding the progress OF ,hc
course of leg station. " ssid Mr.. Bacon. "and
feel certain that all the salient points demand
ed by the President will be incorporated IN
the bill which IS to become law.
According to the report Of the Secretary OF
the Interior one person in every eighty-tnree
In the United States is a pensloner. The
number on the roll at the end Of he hsoal
wear was 9o8 AL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Rlue Fire From Him For an Hour

Wilkes-Bar.e. Pa, Dec. 9.-Rigid in
death and emitting blue flames and
sparks for an hour, or until the 1900
volt current could be turned of, the
body OF Charles Healey, of New York,
an electrocuted linemsn, sat at the top
OF high electric light pole here yes
terday. Nearly everybody saw it and
shuddered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
sudden Death of a Sea Captain.

New York, Dec. 9.-John Larkins,
46 year old, Of Baltimore, died suddenly
early today in the Office of DR.. j. B
DJrgin, 100 Columbia street. Mr.. Lar
kins, who is captain of the steamship
Katahdin, OF the Atlantic Coast steam
ship company, went to the physicians
Office for treatment for a supposed slight
illness, and expired there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09

THE report sent ont from -.
Petersburg yesterday and published
throughout the world stating that Count
Witte had resigned as premier of Rus
STA and that the Gar had refused to ac-
cept the resignation, is today denied.
The reports published in this country con-
corning Russian affairs are as unreliable
now as they were during the Japanese
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Virginia COngressmen.

The Washington correspondent OF the
Richmond Neys-Leader says: 'The
statement having been made that John
Sharp Williams "has it in for Vir-
ginia members of the House and has not
considered any Of them for tie place on
the ways and means committee to be
made vacant by the retirement of Cover
nor elect Swanson, the News-L Leader
correspondent is in position to state that
the ways and means place was offered
to Representative Jones aud declined
by him. Mr.. Williams called Repre-
sentative Jones and stated that it would
give him pleasure to designate the
Virginian to fill Mr.. SwansOn's posi-
lion, if he desired. Mr.. Jones thanked
the Missisippian, but said he was sat
is6ed with his present committee
assignments, which are ranking mi
nority positions on the insu.ar affairs
committees and the private land claims
committee. II the democrats should ever
get control of the House, Mr.. Jones
would in all probability become chair
man of both these committees. Rep
resentative Rixey has also informed
Representative Williams that he is fully
satisfied with his committee assignments
and would not care to exchange his pres
ent places for ways aud means 1t is
understood that Mr.. Rixey was sounded
to see if he would like the vacancy to be
made by Mr.. Swanson's departure from
the house. He will in a few days 60 to
second place among the minority mem
bers of the naval affairs committee and
his chances are good to go to the head
of that committee with the democrats
10 charge of the House."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Reception TO General Kuroki.

Toxic, Dec. 9.-GeneraI Kuroki, ac-
companied by his staff made triumphal
entry into the city today and was well
coined with great demonstration on the
part If the people. General Kuroki vas
the winyer of the first great japanese
victory on land during the recent
war, The engagement of the Yslu
River, and the reception given him was
on an elaborate scale.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
For Cracked Hands

Rough skin and cracked hands are not only
cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, but
an occasional application will keep the skin
soft and smooth. Best for Eczema, Cuts,
Burns. Boils, etc The genuine DeWitt's
all forms Of Blind, bleeding. Itching and
Protruding Piles Sold by W. f. Creighton
d Co., 401 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
COURT OF APPEALS.

The following case was argued in the
Court of Appeals at Richmond yester-
day
HOback VS.. Commonwealth; argued
and submitted.
The next cases to be called Sands,
trustee, etc., VS.. Stage and Others ;
American Tobacco Company Company
Va. Polisc ., and Hall and others VS..
Halls administrators and others, being
Nos. IA, Is and l6 on the argument
docket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
Hanged Oh Hook Through Tongue.

Lancaster, Pa, Dec 9.-The box on
which Farmer Jacob Cruver stood to
hang butchered hog on a hook yester-
day tilted forward, so that Cruver's chin
caught on the hook. With the iron
penetrating his tongue and the roof of
his mouth, he groaned, utterly helpless,
and hung there ill his wife released him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09
A Bad Scare.

Some day you will get bad scare, when
you feel pain liz your bowels, and fear APP
pendicitis. Safely lies in DIR. Kings New
Life Pills. a sure cure for all bowel and
stomach diseases, such as headache, bilious
ness, costiyeness, etc. Guaranteed at r. ).
Ieadbeater 4 Sons drug store, only 25c. Try
them
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-09

The Spirit of the Valley, with It's
Thanksgiving number, sent out an in
dustrial write-up, in pamphlet form, Of
the thriving city of Harrisonburg,
which it designates "The Garden Spot of
the Far-famed Valley of Virgins"
The pamphlet, which is handsomely
illustrated with cuts of public and Pri-
vate buildings, pretty scenery and pic
lures of prominent citizens reflects credit
upon the Spirit.