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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Finger Grated Upon Other woman's
Hand.

New York, March 10.-For the first
time in the history of medical science a
finger was transferred today from the
hand OF one person to that of another.
1t was the last step in the grating opera
ton undertaken twenty-five days ago by
DR.. Andrew L. Nelden. The principals
we're two women--one of them 40 ac-
tress-who met for the 6rst time day
before they were bound together. They
have been living like Siamese twins.
The second finger of one woman's right
hand was grated to the stump of the
second finger OF the left hand of the
actress. She lost all Of the finger up to
the second joint in a shooting accident
several years ago. She paid the 6rst
woman $500 for the digit that's now on
her hand. For twenty-feur hours the
actresses hand on which the digit was
grated will be kept in q strong saline
solution. Then the flesh on top Of the
finger will be stitched to that of the
stump. 1t will be kept in splints two
weeks. Another woman called at the
hospital to day, and, showing hand
from which one finger was missing,
offered to pay $500 to any woman who
would sacrifice finger.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Suicide of a Banker.

Suffolk, Va, March l0--Augustus
P. Cobb, banker, and half owner of
the Suffolk Knitting Mills. sent bullet
through his brain just before noon today,
as he was sitting in his private office Of
the Suffolk Banking Trust Company, Of
which be aud his brother, w. L. Cobb,
were the principal stockholders. When
the shot was heard, the employees rushed
10 and fonnd him dying, lying in a pool of
blood. The cause of suicide isnot clearly
known. The deceased was quite wealthy
and had an income Of some SO, 900 a
year and his domestic relations have al
ways been happy. The cashier of his
bank skipped town few months ago.
but the shortage did not impair the in-
stitution's finances. Mr.. Cobb is ma
tive of Brunswick, Maine, and came to
Suffolk, about 10 years ago, when he
started the Suffolk Knitting Mills, in a
small way and made money rapidly.
He was about As years old.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
FRIDAY EVENING, MAR. 10, 1905.

The STRUGGLE over the Santo Do
mineo protocol began in the Senate yes
terday, and the fight promises to be the
most determined waged over any treaty
since that which concluded the war with
Spain and involved the possession of the
Philippines. The Senate committee on
foreign relations, as stated in the Gazette,
agreed by strictly party vote to report
the treaty favorably as amended
Whether this division of the committee
means similar division of the Senate
itself when the treaty comes. to be voted
mon is the cause Of considerable specu-
lation. There will be long debate.
The republicans are unlikely to consent
to the taking of a vote until they, by
counting noses, feel sure that they have
the necessary strength to succeed, The
belief Is general that the amendments
made in committee to the treaty have
disarmed much of the opposition. The
administration is working hard to save
the treaty from rejection in the first
place and then from amendment in par
ticulars which would render.it useless
for some of the purposes for which 1t
was framed. Republican Senators known
to be lukewarm in their support of the
treaty and democratic Senators supposed
to be lukewarm in their opposition TO it
are being earnestly appealed to by men,
bers Of the administration, with view
to getting them in line for ratltica-
ton and against the amendments to
which the President and Secretary
Hay most strongly object. The sug-
gested amendments are those seeking to
embody in the treaty declaration that
the Monroe doctrine is not involved in
the Santo Domingo affair, and that the
course to be pursued by the united
States in efiecting a settlement OF the
Dominican external debt shall not form
a precedent for action with regard to
any other Central or South American
country. The reason for this is that the
administration has from the first in
tended TO use The Dominican treaty as
warning to President Castro, of Venez-
uela, Of what might happen to him and
his government if he persists in refusing
or neglecting to settle the asphalt con-
troversy with the United States and the
debts owed by Venezuela to several
European nations. 1t was the further
purpose of the administration, it is un-
derstood, to use the Dominican treaty
as a precedent for forcible action
against Venezuela in case Castro failed
to heed the warning involved in its ne
gotiation and ratification by the Senate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
COURT OF APPEALS.

The following is a summary of the
work of the court Of appeals Yesterday:
Virginia Passenger and Power Com
pany, ct al, vs.. Commonwealth Of Vir
ginia. From the State corporation COM
mission. Affirmed.
Adams vs.. Jennings. From the cir.
cult court of Campbell county. Reversed.
Interstate Coal and Iron Company, vs..
Commonwealth. From the circuit court
of Wise county. Affirmed.
Stevenson VS.. Levinson. From the
circuit court of city Of Newport News.
Affirmed.
Virginia and North Carolina Wheel
Company vs.. Harris. From the circuit
court Of Henrico county. Affirmed.
Gates & Son Company VS.. City Of
Richmond. From the hastings court OF
city Of Richmond. Reversed.
Prison Association of Virginia VS..
Russell's administrator. From the
chancery court, of city OF Richmond.
Reversed.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany VS.. Harris. From the circuit court
Of Fluvanna county. Affirmed.
Lynchburg Telephone Company vs..
Booker. From the Corporation Court OF
city of Lynchburg. Affirmed.
Johnston. trustee, VS.. George D..
Witt Shoe Company. From the Circuit
Court of city of Lynchburg. Affirmed.
Lewis VS.. Apperson. From the
Circuit Court of Prince William county.
Affirmed.
By Judge John A. Buchanan
Drivers administrator vs.. Southern
Railway Company. From the Circuit
Court OF Prince William county. AT.
firmed.
Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Com
pany VS.. Roberts ct ais. From the Cir
cult Court of Wise county, Reversed in
part and affirmed 10 part
By Judge George NJ. Harrison
Norfolk and Western Railway Com.
pany vs.. Fritts. From the Circuit
Court of Warren county. Affirmed.
Chadduck VS.. Burke. From the
Circuit Court of Culpeper county. Re-
versed.
By Judge Stafford G. white:
Worrell & Williams vs.. Kinnear Mfg.
Co. From the court Of law and chancery
of city of Norfolk. Affirmed.
Virginia Passenger and Power Com
pany VS.. Fisher and others. Fully argued
and submitted.
Next cases to be called
Norfolk and Western Railway CON-
pany vs.. Cromwell, administrator.
Davis's administrators and others VS..
Davis and others and Wright VS..
AgelastO trnstee being Nos. SO, go and
Ga on argument docket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10

u. s. SENATOR WILLIAM BRINAGE
BATE, of Tennessee, who, as stated
yesterday, died in Washington that day,
aged rs years, was twice Governor of his
State. and a veteran of both the Mexican
and civil wars. He was born near Cas-
talon Springs, Tenn, October 7, 1926,
and received an academic education.
He served as a private throughout The
Mexican war in Louisiana and Ten
nessee regiments. He wssa presidential
elector in 1860 on the Breckenridge
Lane ticket and was private, captain,
colonel, brigadier general and MAJOR
general in the Confederate service, sur
rendering with the Army of the Tennessee
in 1865. He was three;times dangerously
wounded. At the close of the war he
returned to Tennessee and resumed the
practice of law. In 1882 he was elected
Governor Of Tennessee and reelected in
1884 without opposition. In January,
1887. he was elected to the United States
Senate and on Saturday last entered
upon his fourth term in th t body.
While not brilliant speaker, be was a
deep thinker, and his opinions always
received due consideration from his col
leagues. He was democrat Of the old
school and devoted to the interests of his
State which has lost all able son ana
faithful representative of class of
statesmen who labored for the welfare OF
The people who sent them TO Congress, as
well as of the States collectively.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Virginia News.

Fire early yesterday at Winchester
destroyed the Vienna Bakery, owned by
the Miller Supply Company. The loss
is 81 900.
Fire, supposed TO have been of incen-
diary origin, destroyeda row Of six three.
story frame residences in Newport New
yesterday. 1t is estimated that the loss
will be about 5000.
Mrs. Sarah White, widow Of Charles
White, died Wednesday at her home,
near Woodburn, Loudoun county, Of
cancer, aged 62 years. Three sons and
one daughter survive.
Judge Nicol, of the Loudoun Circuit
Court, has ordered special corporation
election to determine tile question OF
granting liquor licenses in the town Of
Leesburg. The election will be held on
Tuesday, April IL.
I. Landon Gill. IL years old, clerk
and messenger in the Southern Railway
ticket Office in Richmond, disappeared
Wednesday, and no clue has been Sc
cured as to his whereabouts. He left a
note for his father, saying he was all
right.
In the Corporation Court Of Lynch
burg yesterday Mrs. Sallie Hanna, alias
Haley, was sentenced to five years in the
peniteutiary by Judge Christian for
having poisoned, with rough on rats,
Mr.. and Mrs Hamilton Faulkner and
four others on February IL. Mrs.
Hanna had no counsel, and had waived
her right Of trial by jury, leaving her
fate to be decided By the judge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10

The SUDDEN collapse of the strike OF
the subway aud elevated railway opera
tives in New York was surprise to
most people, as such movements are
generally alleSed more or less time in
which to run their course. The prompt
action, however, of the national asso-
citation of railway employees in repudiat-
ing the strike and the more drastic
measure when the charter OF the New
York division was revoked, has virtually
left the strikers nothing upon which to
stand save an insane desire TO please
labor agitators, who have boldly stated
that the strike was inaugurated III order to
revenge themselves upon certain official
OF the subway. Many of the operators
are now loud in their denunciation of
the action of the leaders in calling the
men out and are equally severe upon
themselves for Oteying the order. An
old Arabic proverb admonishes US 10
closely consider the outcome ere we en-
bark in any enterprise; it would have
been well for the New Workers to have
needed it. The prompt action of the
grand body in repudiating certain dis
turbOrs Of the peace will be hailed
with delight aot only by people in New
York, who have been so seriously in
cOnvenienced, out by well-d;sposed folks
everywhere.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
GIGANTIC STRUGGLE.

A dispatch from Mukden dated last
night says midnight closed the tenth
day Of the titanic struggle for the pos
session of Mukden and the mastery of
vast empire; the tenth day of unceas-
ing conflict under exploding shrapnel,
the roar of cannon and the whistling of
bullets; the tenth day without sleep and
without food. The combat is fast reach
ing point where it is question not so
much of turning columns, of tactics and
of strategy as Of whose strength, energy
and cartridges will last tue longer.
Gray coated Russians, patient, un-
complaining, strong of soul, chung dog
gedly to positions against an enemy
whose attacks go to the very point of
insanity and desperation. For 4S hours
the Japanese have not eaten. They
are starving and exhausted, but Field
Marshal Oyama himself has told them
that the city will fall and the slaughter
stop on Friday, and their confidence in
their leader increased their strength
tenfold.
On Wednesday, when the Russians
took Ushuntun, few japanese chung
to the thick-walled temple and refused
all overtures to surrender.
Cannons were broughtup and preached
the walls, but the daredevil courage Of
the defenders continued under the fire,
and finally, when defense was hopeless,
they blew themselves skyward with the
ruins Of the temple. One survivor,
rather than surrender, threw himself into
stone-rimmed well and persisted.
And yet the rank and file and in.
ferior leaders, stern in the sense Of duty,
are as unspadng of themselves as OF the
men whom they lead to death. Stern
Oyama drives and drives his troops
northward to encircle the city. With
every fresh hanking movement the iron
band closes nearer and nearer the rail-
road, and under this menace the first
and third armies were forced Wednesday
night to abandon the mighty forti6ca-
tons on the Shakhe river, give up the
impregnable Poutiof Hill and retire to
the liue of the Hun river.
Yesterday the japanese were pushing
their columns north and northeast, bonn
harding villages which are keys to the
defense, and hurting men, some of them
veterans of the years campaign, and
others middle aged reserves fresh from
Japan, against Russian positions. Often
they are repulsed and sometimes they
master the advanced line, but at enor-
nnnus cost
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10

Senator Mitchell being the person
indicated) one for Offering bribe to
u. S. District Attorney Hall and nine
for obstruc ing the administration OF
justice.
The President today sent to the Senate
the nomination Of Col. Allan Smith,
9th Cavalry, to be Brigadier General,
retired.
Postmaster General Cortelyou today an.
nounced that there was no statement to be
made at present relative to the Investigation
that has been ordered into certain files Of the
Bristow report of the postoffice investigation.
The inspectors are going over the. papers re-
lating to the Bundy time recorder. II has
been charged that Mr.. Bristow shielded. j..
NJ. Masien, who was chief clerk under First
Assistant Perry S. Heath, and who is now
connected with the railway mail service.
Masten was engaged with Mr.. Bristow in the
Cuban postal fraud investigation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Mr.. Bryan Loses Suit.

The Supreme Court of Connecticut
yesterday handed down a decision in
the Philo s. Bennett will case in
which William J. Bryan has figured as
possible beneficiary to the extent OF
$50, 900, as provided ina "sealed letter"
left by Mr.. Bennett, and finds no error.
The decision upholds the Superior Court,
which rendered judgment to the effect
that the clause in Mr.. Benefits will
containing the paragraph in regard to
the $50, 900 to be left to Mr.. Bryan is iu-
operative, and that the said fund is a
part of the residuary estate.
Mr.. Bryan appealed from this decision,
and the result is as previously stated.
The Superior Court having held that the
''sealed letter" was no part Of the will,
the only question to decide on was its
contents as a testamentary document.
Clause II Of the will leaves $50, 900 to
Mrs. Bennett in trust with no purpose
while the sealed letter says that the
money is left to William J. Bryan.
The Supreme 0suh holds that the Su-
perior Court is right in deciding that the
clause is imperative. In its decision the
Supreme Court yesterday saysin part:
mo effect can be given this sealed let
ter as a part of the will, even if evil
dence was offered TO prove that ii was in
existence and known TO the testator at
the time the will was executed. To treat
this letter as an operative declaration of
trust would be in effect to hold that
testamentary disposition of property
could be made by an instrument not
executed in conformity with the statutes
regulating such transfers of properties"
The opinion goes into the history of
the will case in detail, reviewing it frsm
the first contest ever the admission of
the sealed letter. in New Haven be-
fore the Superior Court.
Counsel foe Mr.. Bryan, when asked
last night if the case would be taken any
higher, said that it would not be.
The dispatch from Hartford, Conn,
announcing the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Philo S. Bennett will case
was read to Mr.. Bryan over the tele-
phone late last night at the conclusion
OF his lecture at Milwaukee. Mr.. Bryan
said he had not received any direct no.
tice Of the courts decision, and had no
comment to make further than that he
presumed the decision ends the contest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be plea ed to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able TO cure in all It's
stages, and that is Catarh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation Of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature 10 doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in It's curative powers that they offer
one hundred dollars for any ease il fails to
cure; Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address.
+; J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by Druggists, 76c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10

THE FATE of war is still against Rus
STA in her conflict with Japan, and Gen.
eral KurOpatkin is coming out second
best 10 his test of military skill with
Field Marshal Oyama. From the dis
patches received today from the far East
it looks as though the Russian army is
in danger of capture or annihilation, as
the advices (even from St. Petersburg)
show plainly that Kuropatkin has been
worsted, and that bis position is pre-
carious. 1t is positively asserted that
the japanese have cut the railroad and
there is reason TO believe they will OBJ
tain possession of the pass in the noun
tsins. The fighting during the past few
days has been from a nguinary stand
point almost unparalleled in the worlds
history, and the heroism displayed by
beth armies is alm0st unprecedented.
One dispatch places the losses at l00,-
600 another states that 5000 dead
Russians we're left on the field, St.
Petersburg bulletin admitting that
1000 were left stark and stiff in death.
The occupation of Mukden by the
Japanese has been accomplished. This
bloody conflict has been going on for
over year aud, so far as can be seen, it
islikely 10 be continued tor some time
yet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Railroad Accidents.

Buffalo, Ny, March l0.-A dis
patch received here from Warren, Pa,
says a wreck occurred there this morn
ing on the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad.
a branch of the Pennsyl ,snia railroad.
and that FIVE persons are reported killed
and many injured.
Cory Pa, March lO.-Pennsylvania
passenger train No. 6, Eassbound, the
Harrisburg day express, collided head
on with freight train at Horn Siding,
10 miles east of here, at 10 o'clock this
morning. Both locomotives were de-
molished and Engineer Martin Nc
Laughing and firemen Fred Moran, Of
the passenger engine were badly
scalded. None of the passengers was
badly injured. The freight train crew
reside in Erie.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Lined in a Lutte Cyclone.

PleasantyiIle, N. j., March, l0.-Dur-
ing slight fall of hail at Bakersville
yesterday morning a small cyclone sud
denly developed and swept with great
velocity through one of the principal
streets. A pedestrian was picked up,
lifted about seven feet in the air and
then dropped as gently as a cat drops a
kitten. No ether point reports the sp-
pearance of the cyclone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
parrot saves Woman.

New York, March 1O--While asleep
in an armchair in the kitchen of her
home, in Avenue V. Sheepshead Bay,
last night, Mrs. Mary Mclaughlin,
seyenty-nine years old, Que Of the
oldest settlers on Long Island, fell over
on an almost red hot stove, and was
being slowly roasted to death when the
screams of parrot aroused the neigh
bors, who forced open the kitchen door
and rescued her from being burned alive.
The old old woman, who has no rela-
tiyes, has lived alone more than six
wears.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
DISORDERS I'M RUSSIA.

A dispatch from Kieff to the London
Daily Mail says:
can army OF 800 peasants from the
Orloyka district is advancing southwest
erly. Burning and loOting of estates is
in progress. Eighteen estates have al.
ready been sacked. A strong military
force has been sent 10 suppress the up
rising"
Col. Progoulbitsky, governor of the
PROVINCE Of Kutais, has been the object
Of an attempted assassination by two
men at Sukhum. The would.be muir
derers fred six shots from revolyers at
the governor. but he was not struck.
The motive of the attempt is believed to
have been political.
A telegram from Ekaterinoslav, South
Russia, says that Eve miners have been
killed and fifteen wounded in a conflict
between strikers OF the Shoerbinof' mines,
and soldiers in the district Of Bakhmut.
The strikers started looting, and the
troops threatened to shoot. The former
thereupon fired 1.-THE soldiers with re-
volvers, and also threw stones at them,
whereupon the troops fred yolley and
order was restored.
Revolutionary disorders have broken
out at Smolensk, middle Russia. Bands
OF demonstrators are marching through
the streets carrying red flags.
The Baltic provinces, the classification
Of which was regarded as practically
completed, have been encouraged by re-
cent developments to again demand the
restoration Of some OF all Of their ancien.
rights. Awell-developed moment, backed
by the nebles and intelligent classes, is
now openly demanding that the teaching
Of German in the schools be revived, and
that native officials conduct the admins
tratien of provincial affairs.
A report which reached Warsaw that
Mukden had fallen was received with i'll
concealed pleasure. The newspapers
wished to publish the report, but were
peremptorily forbidden by the csnsor to
do so. 1t was quickly circulated, how
ever, and was the subject Of almost
jubilsnt comment in the cafes and else
where. One of the assistant commissioners
of the police was fatally shst at o clock
Wednesday evening by anunknewn as
sailant who escaped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Co.e DIS Guests at Dope Party.

Chicago, March 10.-Professor Fred
erick Starr, the versatile anthropolsgist
of the University Of Chicago, has achiev-
ed the "dope party" He gave one
yesterday for students and co-eds. and the
principal attractions were cigarettes COM
pounded from "dope" used by the an
clients, the wonderful Mexico jsg-pro-
ducers. sort Of clay that one smokes
and Immediately has yari-colored dreams;
the skull of a unacceptable idiot.
freak with extra fingers aud thumbs on
all hands and feet, and unlimited guam
titles Of ice cream. Ia addition to all
the attractions enumerated, the professor
produced his 1000 plaster skulls, but as
they had seen service at former banquets
they were not included in the new fea-
lures of the ''dope party" FuIly half
Of the 80 students present sampled the
''dope" weed from South America.
Some Of the girls declared that, accord
ing to their belief the marihumana was
no better than the ordinary ''dope" in
cigarettes. and declined to 'ihit it up"
Those who did smoke saw double or
quadruple and thought John ID. Rookie.
feller looked like wooden money.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-10
Verdict in Death OF Mrs. stanford.

Honolulu. March 10.-The coroner's
jury last night returned verdict that
Mrs. Stanford died of strychnine poison
ing, the poison having been introduced
into the bottle of bicarbonate of soda,
with ielonious intent by persons unknowD.
The fact that Miss Berner and May
Hunt, the maids, will not leave Honolulu
on the steamer China today, but will
remain until the sailing of the Alameda,
is due to police instructions to the two.
women. The end of the inquest with
the verdict of murder leaves the Homo.
lulu police as much without clue as
when Mrs. Stanford died.