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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Voluntary Petition in bankruptcy

Milwaukee, Wis. April p. = volun-
tary petition in Bankruptcy has been
fled In the United States District Court
BY Frank G. Bigelow, confessed default
ing president of the First National Bank.
In the petition Bigelow stated that his in
~debtedness to banks and commercial in
slitutions and estates Of which he had
charge will aggregate between 81, 000,-
600 aud So, 600, 600. The petition con-
tains the names of as many of Bigelow's
| creditors ~ he can remember, together
with q list OF assets on which Bigeiow's
| valuation is Sl,4l9, 900.
According to the bill, his creditors ex-
tended all over the United States. So
far as could be as~certained Bigelow had
no system of keeping a record of his
| financial transactions, and the schedule
of liabilities and assets had to be made
up from u list made in pencil on a half
sheet of note paper in Bigelow's hand
writing. The filing of the petition in
bankruptcy will necessitate the with
drswal OF the securities which were
turned over by 'Bigelow to the First
National Bank, as, being made within
four months of filing of the petition in
bankruptcy, it constitutes an act of pref
erence of creditors and the amount
which was estimated at about $500, 900
will be equally divided among all the
| creditors of the defaulter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Shot by a Mob.

After working three hours with sledge
hammers and pickaxes, a mob oftwenty-
five men broke in the parish Jail at
Homer, La, seysnty-fve miles northeast
of Shreveport, yesterday, and shot Dick
Craighead, inficting wounds which will
probably prove fatal. Craighead was
charged with the murder of Mrs. Ike
Mckee, wife of his half brother, and her
little son.
The authorities were unaware Of the
design to mob the prisoner until it was
too late to protect him. Every telephone
and telegraph wire out of Homer was
cut and the rifles ofthe Claiborne Guards,
the local military company, were seized
before the move was made on the Jail.
So quietly did the mob work that scarce
ly any one in the little town was aware
of what was taking place at the Jail.
Having dug a hole through the brick
wall, the lynchers crawled through the
opening, but on reaching the steel cell
in which the prisoner was confined, found
it impossible to break the lock. They
then began shooting at the covering
prisoner through the bars Of his cell,
more than twenty shots being fired and
nearly every one taking effect. The
mans legs, arms, and portions of his
body were literally riddled. Believing
that Craighead was dead, the members
of the mob left the prison and quickly
dispersed.
When Sheriff Kirkpatrick and citizens
Of the town reached the Jail they found
Craighead still alive. 1t is stated that
he told the sheriff the names of three of
the lynchers, aud another prisoner in
the Jail told the name of another man
whom he recognized. The names have
not been diyulged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Broke Up Wedding With Pistol.

A rejected sutton, with q pistol, broke
up a wedding in the midst of the cere-
mony at the Methodist Church at Camp
bells, Isle of Wight county, Tuesday. A
man was shot in the arm and a woman
received a flesh wound in the face from
bullets fired by the BRIDES former
sweetheart. The somewhat meager re-
ports of the affair received at Suffolk
fail to give the name of the swain who
did the shooting.
The wedding which was 50 rudely in
terrupted was that of Martha Bunkley
to William X. Davis. The officiating
| clergyman was the Rev. Mr.. Duckins.
The wedding party and friends crowded
the little church, and the ceremony was
about half completed when the girls
former sweetheart, b~randishing a pistol
in his hand, strobe down the aisle to-
ward the altar just as the minister, fol-
lowing the words Of the service, asked II
there were any present who knew any
reason why Martha Bunkley and Will
liam X. Davis should not be made man
and wife.
Raising his pistol in threatening GEES
lures, the neglected sutton ordered the
ceremony to be stopped, but the Rev. Mr..
Duckins paid no heed to The interruption
and calmly proceeded with the service,
while the bride, almost fainting, hung to
the arm of the groom.
Euraged by the refusal of the minister
to obey his command, the rejected rival
began to shoot. One bullet whizzed I'M
comfortably close to the head of the Off
ciating clergyman, who dropped his
book and precipitately fled, leaving the
couple at the rail half married.
AT the first shot there was a wild rush
for the doors and windows on the part of
the spectators, who fell over one another
in a mad struggle to get out OF range.
Before the crowd was all out two more
shots were fired, one of the bullets strik-
ing a man in the arm and the other cut
ting open a woman's cheek.
tits stated that the rejected sutton, who
was formerly Miss Bunkley's sweetheart,
had threatened to prevent at all hazards
her marriage to Davis.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Wedding i'm Berryyine.

At Z O'Clock last evening in st. James
Episcopal Church, BerrYville, Miss Mar
garetta Mccormick, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Marshall Mccormick, and Mr..
Charles Fenton Mcclure, OF Hoboken,
New Jersey, were married by Rev. Mr..
Edward Wall, the rector of the church.
The color scheme of the wedding was
developed in pink, the church decora-
tons being in apple blossoms and the
bridal party passing under arches OF the
blossoms lighted with pink and white
wax tapers on their way to the altar.
The ushers, Mr.. Palmer Campbell, Of
New York DR.. Mckenzie, Of Newark T;
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Arthur Jones. Of
New York, led the way, followed by
little Misses Halle Mccormick. sis
ter, and Lucy Harrison, cousin of
the bride, carrying baskets of pink
tulips and wearing pretty white frocks.
The bridesmaids-Mi Rosalie and Miss
Gertrude Northumberland next, in
white lingerie gowns, trimmed with lace,
and worn with pompadour sashes and
wreathings of pink roses. Their flowers
were pink tulips. The matron of honor
was Mrs. Jet Mccormick, of Norfolk
in a pretty costume of white accordion
plated crepe de chine and Irish lace
with a wreath of white roses, The
bride walked into church with her
father. She wore plated liberty
silk and point lace. Her veil was
caught with orange blossoms. She was
met at the altar by the groom, with his
best man, Mr.. Louis Hardie, of New
Orleans. The brides mother who will
be remembered by many Alexandrians'
as the beautiful Miss Rosalie Taylor,
daughter Of the late l.. Il. Taylor, Of this
city, wore a black spangled net gown.
Mrs. Cox was in black net, relieved with
point lace, and Mrs. w. L. Lewis. the
groom's sister, in white lace. After the
ceremony a reception was given the
bridal party aud they Immediately left
for the south.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Nan Patterson's Trial.

New York, April 27.-Nan Patterson
was ~radiantly happy today over the
prospect of her acquittal Of the killing
Of Caesar Young, aud her confidence was
shared not only by her counsel, but by
the spectators in Recorder COTS court.
The failure of Hyman Stern, the pawn
broker, to identify j. Morgan Smith as
the purchaser of the revolver, with
which Young was shot. was a heavy
score Tor the defense. There are the
letters said to have been written by the
accused girl to the Smiths to be pro-
duced in court and their contents may
disclose damaging evidence concerning
the purchaser of the revolver. Mrs.
Margaret Young, the widow ofthe book
maker, and John Millin, racing partner
of Young, we're in court today, to testify
for the state. The prosecution will prob
ably complete its case today. Abe
Levy, counsel for the actress, said after
coming into court this morning: "When
the state concludes its case | shall prob
ably ask for an adjournment for a day to
determine whether | will put ia a de-
tense. There seems to me little necessi-
ty at present for putting in a defense.
There is, however, little likelihood OF
calling Nan or any of the Smiths to the
witness chair" Bernard McKeon, a
brOther-in-law of Caesar Young, was
again on the stand this morning. but
was excused from further examination
until Mrs. Young had testified.
j. d. Millin, racing partner Of Young
told of Young and Miss Patterson being
in California together two years ago.
Mrs. Young testified that she knew OF
the relation 'hip existing between her
husband and Miss Patterson, She also
told of the dinner party which she at
tended with her husband the night be-
fore the shooting
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL 81, 1905.

The German government, as stated
Yesterday, preparatory to excluding the
United States from the privileges OF the
new reciprocity treaties signed recently
with seven European powers, has Tor
mally notified the American government
that the tariff agreement between Ger
many and the United States of July 10,
1900. will terminate March |, 1906, the
day the new treaties 60 into effect; but
that Germany stands ready to negotiate
a reciprocity treaty with the United
States. The German view, as naturally
held at the foreign office and al the
Ministry of the Interior, in Berlin, Is
that the United States cannot reasonably
expect to share in special benefits given
by Germany to certain European States
in exchange for their specific tarlh re-
dnctious. Should the United States
have the same advantages without giving
ANYTHING in return, the treaty countries
could Justly complain that they were IN
effect, Disseminated against because from
them certain things were exacted by bar
gain which were freely given the United
States. But if the United States desires
to take up the general tariff question
and arrange a reciprocal agreement,
Germany will be very glad to do so.
Otherwise, Germany's new general staff,
which also goes into effect March ],
1906, will be applied to imports from
the United States. The action OF Ger
many may result in a tariff war, but
this country has no right to complain Of
Others erecting tariff walls when that
in the United States stands so high.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Discovered His Mistake.

The reason DR.. Francis Brauneis, a
Fifth avenue New York dentist, killed
himself is, so his most intimate friend
said last night, that, having reached the
Osler stage of life, 'he wa afraid he
could not make his young wife happy"
But his wife, in her apartments at 10
east One hundred and Sixth street, is
crying her pretty eyes out over the casket
containing the old mans remains.
DIR. Brauneis was 90 years old. Mrs.
Brauneis is young enough to have been
his granddaughter. DR.. Brauneis was
most fond of the ~sedentary pursuits
suited to his years, but for the sake of
the happiness of his young wife he tried
to live over again his departed youth,
which was such a strain upon him hat
he at last decided to cast down the bur
den OF life rather than live to have his
wife discover that she had selected too
old a man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
The Fleets.

Saigon, Cochin China, April 2I.-All
the Russian transports and the hospital
ship Orel, which were left behind when
Admiral Rojestyensky's main squadron
left Kanrauh bay, left the inner bay yes
terday. The vessels now form an i'm
mense arc outsii e the harbor, extending
from Cape Varela to the head of the
Kamranh peninsula. Torpedo boats arc
kept busy steaming 10 all directions.
Apparently, the squadron is waiting for
rear Admiral Nebogatoff. The French
cruiser Descartes steamed around the
Russian fleet and then returned to this
port. Only. four German ships now re-
main il the inner bay. The vessels
captured by the Russians bearing car
goes as charged for Japan, were flying
tie German flag. Z
Tsingtau, Shantung Peninsula, China,
April IA private telegram received
here says Admiral Rojestyensky's squad
ron has Joined with the attachments OF
war vessels under Admiral NebogatOff.
London, April 27.-The markets are
weak on the reported cutting Of the
Hainan cable, and unconirmed rumOrs
of a great naval battle in which several
of the japanese wan vessels are said to
have been lost.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
TriDIe Execution.

Pittsburg, Pa, April 27.-The frs
triple execution in the criminal records
Of Allegheny county occurred in the jail
yard this morning. Walter Obey, Chas.
Jackson and Charles Miles, negroes,
we're hanged for the murder of Ivan
Kluzor, May 18th, last, at Leetsdale.
Obey and Jackson were hanged together.
Miles followed his companions to death
within a few minutes. The men had
written confessions of their lives, and
gave the details ofthe shooting OfKluzor.
Miles and Jackson were haptised, ac-
cording to the custom OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, yesterday, and this
morning Obey received holy communion
from Father Littenberger. The crime
for which they were hanged, was a most
brutal one. They held up Kluzor and
another Hungarian on a county road,
near Leetsdale. After robbing them
they shot Kluzor, who vas taken to the
West Penn hospital, where he died. No
special incident attended the execution.
Jackson died of strangulatiOn. The
necks of Obey aud Miles were broken.
The bodies were turned over TO the re-
puted wives of the men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Explosion of Dynamite.

Philadelphia, April 27.-One man
was killed and eleven others injured by
an explosion of dynamite, at Downing
town, last evening. Four of the injured
will die. The Pennsylvania Railroad is
making a new low grade freight line and
employed a big gang of Italians to blast
rocks aud dig the road bed. A blast
was prepared but before a number Of the
workmen could reach a place of safety,
it exploded, prematurely. The man
who wa killed outright IA literally
blown to pieces and all the others were
manned, cut and bruised all over their
bodies. The force of the explosion was
felt for miles around. Ia houses near
by, windows were shattered and dishes
broken.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
News Of the Day.

The Atlantic Coast Line Is reported
to have leased the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad.
The question of constructing a canal
10 connect the Black Sea with the Bal
tic has again been taken up BY the Rus
sian Minister of Finance.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
notified the postmaster at Louisville that
postal employees must avoid political
activity or give up their places.
Because he knelt so much in the
services of his church. the Rev. Hubert
Wells, of Wilmington, Del, has had
his left knee in a plaster cast and for two
weeks has been under the care OF a ply
stefan.
According to a director of the First
| National Bank of Milwaukee, Frank u.
Bigelow, the defaulting president, will
be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law. Henry c. Coll, the assistant cash
Ter, is still missing.
David Stuckel, a farmer, cut the
throat of Newton Fields, q years old,
at Morgantown, w. Va, yesterday, kill
ing him instantly. The trouble was
caused by a friend of Fields taking
Stuckel's daughter buggy-riding.
Negotiations between the United
States and China for a treaty restricting
the immigration of Chinese to this coun-
try have practically been abandoned. 1t
has been found impossible by the repre-
sentatives of the two governments TO
reach a common ground of agreemen: as
to many of the terms of the proposed
treaty.
The dismembered bodies of a woman
and her twin daughter aud son were
found yesterday in a trunk in London
aud are believed to be the remains OF
the wife and children of a man now
under arrest. The discovery was made
at Ia furniture repository. The bodies
had been 'dismembered and incased IN a
thick covering OF glue.
The eighth annual conference for edu-
cation 10 the South began its session at
Columbia, S. G., last night. The con
ference was opened with an address OF
welcome by Gov. d. G. Hayward, follow
ed by the annual address of the presi-
dent of the conference, Robert G. Ogden,
of New York. DIR. George II. Denny,
president of Washington and Lee Uni
y%ersity, then made an address on "a
Southern Interpretation of the Confer.
nece."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Russian Cruisers Ordered.

Berlin, April 2T.--A dispatch from
st. Petersburg says that the Car has
ordered the immediate construction Of
three FIRST class cruisers of the Bayan
type, four gunboats, ten river guubOats,
three submarine mine transport ships.
thirty-one torpedo boats and ten coast
defense vessels.
The resignation of NJ. Bouligan, as
Minister of the Interior, is expected.
General Trepofi, Governor General of st.
Petersburg, is regarded as the most prob
able candidate to succeed him.
The position of Governor General of
Moscow has been established. Gen.
eral Kozloff has been appointed to the
DOsitiOu.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Russia's Financial Loss.

st. Petersburg, April 27.-The Risky
Sloyo says that financial experts have
calculated the financial loss sustained
by Russia owing TO the war with Japan.
Russia has 81, 500, 600, 600 of state funds
on which there has been a fall of seven
teen per cent on account of the war,
making the approximate loss $3.50, OOO,-
900. The shares of twenty-five munich
pal banks have decreased $l10, 900, 900.
The shares of rural banks have decreased
to the amount of $40, 900, 600. Nobil-
ity and peasant banks have dropped
500, 900, 900 and the decrease in rail-
way securities has reached $3.50, 900, 600.
Proportionste losses on other securities
have brought the aggregate financial loss
to Russia, up to the enormous figures OF
81, 900, 900, 900. This loss will increase
steadily, the experts declare, as long as
the war continues.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27

THIRTY THOUSAND tons of British
pig iron have just been imported by the
Pennsylvania Steel Company for use at
its Sparrows' Point works, Baltimore, in
the manufacture of steel rails for South
America. all told, the company has
export orders for 60, 600 tons Of steel
rails. This is conclusive proof that
steel rails can be made cheaper in this
country than abroad, Notwithstanding
the fact that the republican leaders claim
that the tariff on steel rails must be kept
at the highest notch to protect American
steel industries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
TOday's ~Telegraphic News
Transfers Strike in Chicago.

Chicago, April 81 Teamsters' unions
and Chicago employers of labor renewed
their struggle this morning, and Mayor
Dunno is trying to preserve order with
500 patTolmen. Two hundred and fifty
officers are detailed TO accompany wagons
which carry goods to and from proscrib-
ed houses and $50 more are watching
the stores and freight houses. Two Of
State streets big department stores will
become the center of the strike today.
The wholesale districts mere brought
within the battle zone late yesterday
afternoon, and employers and union
drivers have clashed arms in a desperate
struggle for the mastery. The labor
storm began when the teamsters in the
wholesale houses of Marshall Field q
| Co., Carson, Pirie, Scott x Co., and j..
V. Farwell & Co., left their work be-
cause three of their number had been
discharged for refusal to deliver goods 10
| Montgomery Ward & Co., and burst
| with menacing force last night, when a
| strike was ordered OF the drivers in the
| retail stores of Marshall Field Il Co.,
and Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., and the
teamsters of the A. NJ. Forbes leaning
Co. With the spreading of the strike
this morning, there will te 597 union
| drivers either on strike or locked out.
BY night, according to union leaders,
the number will be 800 and all of State
street will be threatened with a tie-up.
President Shea 0fthe teamsters announc.
ed that he "has bis coat off" He pro0he-
sizes that 1000 leamsters will be in the
struggle by tonight. The Employers
| Association, meanwhile, with unlimited
resources and plans carefully laid, stands
ready to meet the issue squarely. The
leading business men of the city who
have been moving slowly during the last
two weeks in full expectation ola big
strike, said they had been awaiting the
bursting of the storm for some time and
had nOdoubt of the outcome. In case OF
distractions or violence beyond the ca
pacity OF the police TO handle, the asso-
citation is prepared to secure, on a mo-
ment's notice, a federal injunction. Be-
hind such a court order would be the
United States troops and the employers
say they would not hesitate to appeal to
martial law should Developments war
rant such n step. 1t is possible applica-
ton 10 the federal courts for protection
may be made today. A petition was
prepared as soOn as it was learned that
two attacks, nearly resulting in riots, had
been made late yesterday upon wagons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Virginia News.

The barn belonging to ID. Carpenter
in Orange county, waj burne1 recently
with three horses, two COWS and farming
implements. Loss over $1,000; no In
surance.
The Easter Sunday collection at ST.
Paups Protestant Episcopal Church,
L~ynchburg, amounted to $l2, 600, which
will be appropriated towards wlplng out
The debt of $14, 900 on the building
fund.
A fine barn belonging to Murray Wi.
son, near Mountain View, Stafford
county, was burned Tuesday night, with
two mules, corn snd farming implements
No insurance. The fire is thought to be
of incendiary origin.
At the meeting yesterday of the Con-
federate Memorial Literary Socity In
Richmond, a letter was read from Mrs.
Margaret Davis Hayes, daughter OF JET
ferson Davis, denying the story told by
one of the guards that Davis had a glass
eye.
James Delay, 60 years old, keeper Of
a lodging house on CampbelPs wharf,
Norfolk, was held yesterday by the
United States authorities, on the charge
OF conspiring with John Mcbride, no"
in the penitentiary, and Others for the
robbery of the Port Norfolk postofice Of
$500 on June IL, 1904.
The barn belonging to Mrs. Mamie
Turner, neaF The Plains. in FauquleI
county, was destroyed by fire at an early
hour Tuesday night. Four horses and
a colt, with a quantity of hay, corn and
farming implements we're also burned.
The insurance amounted to $1,000,
which is a small part of the loss.
Messrs. Davis Il Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this State, of the
following patents: Lloyd w. Brabble, OF
Deepcreek, for potato-digger; Jarard W.
Lytton, of Portsmouth, steam-trap;
Thomas II. Pace, of Richmond, match
box; Charles Mohring, of Charlottesville,
for railroad system.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
Professors Roll Down Stairs.

Chancellor Andrew Sled, of the Uni
versity of Florida, and Professor Marion,
of the preparatory department of the
University, engaged in a fist tight of the
most picturesque character Wednesday.
Continuous misunderstanding between
the two led to the demand by Sled for
Marion's resignation. Wednesday Mar
ion called on Sled in the latter's private
Office and requested a leave OF absence.
Words OF a sulphurous type are said to
have passed, and soon the two emerged
from the room struggling. The two
rolled down the steps and landed with
Marion, the larger man, on the bottom.
Students rushed in and separated them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-27
suniva. Addresses Convlcts.

Marquette, Mich, April 27.--John
L. Sullivan, who is en- route to Seattle,
Washington, addressed the conyicts in
the State penitentiary yesterday by their
special request and consent Of the war.
den. "'You are down and out now"
he told the fellows in stripes, ''but most
of you will get another chance. Get
ready and make the most of it." Sulli-
a talks of his coming match with Nit
chell as though there vas something in
it and says his hackers will deposit the
forfeit when they reach Seattle. "I'm
the only man in the United States who
has made a million dollars honestly"
was one of John LIS mod st cracks.