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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Marries Man in Jail.

Mrs. Lillian NJ. Roth, a handsome
young widow Of Baltimore, has been
married in the Richmond city Jail Ia
Thomas f. Grady, otherwise known as
Burns, who is awaiting trial on the
charge of having been one of band Of
yeggmen who not long ago cracked the
safe of the bank at Manassas. Mrs.
Roth, whose husband has been dead
four years, went to Richmond from Bal
timore with her little daughter, pro-
cured a marriage license and got Rev.
DR.. w. f. Evans, of Monumental Epis-
copal Church, to perform the ceremony.
Two deputies were witnesses. The
bride said that she would await her hus-
bands release in Baltimore, that no
case could be made again-t him, for he
was at her mothers house at the time
the bank was broken into.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29

THE ESCAPE of Hoch from the gallows
Yesterday was one of the many instances
where money delays justice and some
times thwarts it. This modern Blue
beard was dressed for the scaffold and
was in its shadow when the announce
ment was made that the necessary where
wifhal had been raised to take his case
to the Illinois Court of Appeals. While
Hoch was being prepared for his jour
rey into eternity he gave vent to his OBJ
lections to American justice by observing
that if he bad money be could avoid bis
fate, and referred to recent case in New
York where filthy lucre, it is supposed,
is about to allow a murderer to die Of old
age. Hocb, among other things, said
the State should furnish money for i'm
pecunicus criminals in order TO allow
them to carry their cases from court to
court.
No rogue e'er felt the halter draw
With a good opinion Of the law
was an ancient observation, and Hocb
is a specimen OF the creatures who for
felt their lives to the communities in
which they live, and when they fall into
the meshes Of the law and justice is about
to overtake them, imagine that the laws
are defective aud strangely suppose they
should be liberated and allowed to con.
tinue their careers. Hoch's history j.
stranger than fiction, and yet, marvelou:
as it may seem, people impelled by some
strange motive, have opened their purse.
and contributed 10 fund which the con-
demned murderer hopes will purchase a
miscarriage Of justice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
OIdTime Mormonism.

Frederick w. Smith, grandson of the
Prophet Joseph Smith and the son OF
Joseph Smith, the present head of the
reorganized church of Latter Day Saints,
has started a propaganda to convert the
MOrmons of Utah to the former princi-
pies of the church as enunciated by the
prophet. As the initial step in his cam
paign Mr.. Smith has issued an open let
ter to the Mormons of Utah, appealing
to them to abandon poIygamy, CONNER
cialism and political interference. Au-
thoritIes are quoted to prove that Brig
ham Young led the people away from the
teaching of the prophet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Refused to Aid His Son.

John Martin Speyer, sentenced to die
on the gallows in Kansas City, Mo, for
the murder of his five-year-old son, lost
all hope of life yesterday when he learn
ed that his father, prosperous Dutch
farmer in Worcester county, Nd, would
not aid him financially. The condemned
mans attorney needing money for the
appeal wrote to the old man asking for
some, and yesterday received this an
swer: 'The death sentence is the visi-
tation of the hand of Almighty God upon
my son for engaging 10 the circus bust
ness. cannot help him." When the
condemned man saw The letter he was
heartbroken. That's inal," he said,
"his mind is made up. He will never
change his opinion" Speyer was con-
victed of murder in the second degree.
and sentenced to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary at the first trial, but he appealed,
the decision was reversed and the case re-
manded by the Supreme Court, and at the
second trial he was convicted of murder
in the first degree and sentenced to be
hanged. Two weeks after his last con-
viction his wife, in New Orleans, secur-
ed divorce from him. Speyer pleaded
insanity at both trials.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Woman Burned 10 Death.

Miss Fannie Anderson, aged So years,
poured coal oil from a can upon the
smoulderiug embers of kitchen fire at
Charles Summers home, near Jefferson,
Md, Thursday, and met horrible death
AS a result of her carelessness. The can
exploded and before aid arrived Miss
Anderson was burned to a crisp. Mr..
and Mrs. Summers, the former neph-
ew of Miss Anderson, who lived with
them, were at a house several hundred
yards from their home when the acct
dent occurred They heard the explo-
sion, but as there had been blasting in
the neighborhood paid no attention TO it
until smoke was seen issuing from the
house. Mr.. Summers ran home and
found the kitchen ablaze. With the aid
of neighbors the flames we're extinguish-
ed and Miss Anderson's body was found
near the stove. A young child OF Mr.
and Mrs. Summers was sleeping in a
room on the second floor of the house at
the time of the accident.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
To Stop POolselling.

Boston, July 29.-Chief Joseph Shaw,
of the state police, has issued an order
to his deputy, George C. Neal, to stop
pool selling at the race track throughout
the state. That Governor Douglas is
behind this latest and unexpected move
is not to be denied. The executive de-
partment is entirely reticent on the sub
ject and will not discuss the matter of
''inspiration," but those in close touch
say that Chief Shaw entered upon this
crusade at the instance of Governor
Douglas. Deputy Neal says his men
will be present at the tracks from now
on, and all yiolators of the law will be
brought before the courts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29

THE YELLOW FEVER mosquito has
been found in Baltimore This means
that if one single case of yellow fever
should be brought there from Panama or
New Orleans and escape the gantlet OF
the quarantine officers an epidemic OF
yellow fever could speedily spread
throughout the city. Baltimore should
at once be quarantined against the yellow
fever mosquitoes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
The Panama Canal.

New York, July 29.-Panama Cana
Commissioners Haines and Harrod were
among the passengers who arrived here
today on the steamer Segurance from
Colon. When seen at Quarantine MIR.
Harrod said "We have been ten days
on the isthmus looking over the work
and preparing details and reports to pre-
sent to the advisory board on September
1. The principal work occupying Our
attention at present is the establishment
of quarters for the employees and food
supply. This week we expect to have
all our employees from the outside post:
and hamets and bring them under super
vision. We had / 800 employees under
charge in the month of July and had
only three cases of yellow fever there. "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29

THOSE goody-good people of Rich
mond who have been so persistent in
their advocacy of the "prinary plan, -
have given the people of the rest of the
State full ground for suspecting their
honesty, for now it is admitted that the
recent primary held in that city was a
fraud from start to finish.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29

THE discovery of COW in the third
story of house of an Italian in the in
fected district, in New Orleans, which
had been raised from little calf, and of
woman milking goat at the foot of
a bed on which her husband was dying
of yellow fever, are good examples of
why the yellow lever has spread with
such remarkable rapldity in that city.
Italians who have been living i'll the dis
infected districts near the French markets
are fleeing to all parts of the city. 1t is
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Railroad Wreck.

Van Buren,, Ark, July 29.-Ihe
worst wreck in the history OF the west
ern division of the Iron Mountain Rail
road occurred near Ozark, forty miles
south of here, when Little Rock and
Kansas City passenger train No. LOG
was wrecked at a. N. today. Every
physician from Van Buren, and Fort
smith was sent on a relief train. The
number killed is not yet known. Forty
are reported injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Pawnbroker Robbed and Murdered.


Joseph Meyer, a pawnbroker, was at
tackled in Detroit, Mich, yesterday
evening and fatally injured by thieves,
who caught him alone in his office.
The thieves got away with about 5000
in money and probably 81, 900 worth of
diamonds. They left Meyer unconsci-
GUS in his place of business with his
head terribly crushed and battered, and
with diamonds and jewelry scattered
around the floor. Meyer died at St.
Mary's Hospital without having recov-
cred consciousness. He was about sixty
years old. The tragedy was discovered
by psssersby, who noticed the disord-
cred condition of the display windows.
Meyer was found lying on the floor OF
his private Office, just gasping in the
throes of death, and the room was spat-
tered with blood. The thieves had
gained access to the cash drawer by TAX
ing the keys from their victims pocket.
The affair occurred within block OF
police headquarters. Several suspects
have been placed under arrest. Meyer
assaiants had evidently snatched some
trays of jewelry from the show windows
after telling the pawnbroker with a
heavy cane or bar of iron. 10 their des-
perate hurry to escape they had scatter
ed some of their plumber around the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
SpoiIed Her Beauty.

Harriet Howard, Of 2O9 W. 34th St., New
York, at one time had her beauty spoiled
with skin trouble. She writes: 81 had Salt
Rheum or Eczema for years, but nothing
would cure it, until / used Bueklen's A.nica
Sslve" A quick and sure healer for cuts,
burns and sores. 25c at Z. 5. Leadbeater &
Sons drug store,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Kimonas Cor HIs Nudes ON Sunday.

Banker John FsrsOn. of Chicago, who
is having plans drawn for his magnifi-
cent hanging gardens covering six blocks
of ground in Oak Park, will drape the
statues of Venus and other female figures
with kimonas on Sundays. His club
friends are suggesting that be also adorn
the statues with sunbonnets when sus-
ceptible visitors are visiting the gardens,
and the suggestion may be adoped on
Sundays. The hanging gardens wi be
the most costly and unique feature of the
kind in the West.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
The Gar I'm Paris.

Paris, July 29.-The Shah of Persia,
who is visiting in Paris, was indisposed
again this morning, and unable to leave
bis rooms. Early in the week, the Shah
was overcome by the heat while making
tour of the large stores of the city, and
had to be carried to bis apartments ip
the hotel where he is stopping
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
A Smooth Article.

When you find it necessary to use salye
use DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye. Il is the
purest and best for Sores. Burns, Boils, Ec-
Eema, Blind. Bleeding. Itching or Protading
Piles. Get the genuine DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve. Sold by W. +. Creighton 40l
King street, and corner Queen and Patrick
street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29

generally known that these people are
scattered in all directions. They don't
think about their household effects.
Just few clothes and little bedding
for them to rest on is all they take with
them, but the continuous moving of the
half crazed people, it is believed, may
spread the fever.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Good for Stomach Trouble and
Constipation.

"Chamberain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets have done me a great deal OF
good" says O. Towns, of Rat Portage,
Ontario Canada. being mild physic
the after, effects are not unpleasant, and
| can recommend them to all who suffer
from stomach disorder" For sale by
Gibson and Timberman and w. F.
Creighton & Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
New York Stock Market.

New York, July 29.--There was a continued
exhaustion of the stocks in sight around cur
rent quotations on the floor of the exchange
during the first hour. Some Irregularities de.
veloped during the last fifteen minutes Of
trading. but the closing tone was steady.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29

s. n. Crawford, a Philadelphia trav-
cling man, was found dead in Wyoming
Villa Hotel, at Wilkesbarre, Pa, this
morning. He had committed suicide,
as his room was filled with gas, death
being due TO ssphyxiation. Two notes
addressed to relatives found on his dress
err were taken in charge by the coroner.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
Strikers and strikebreakers Fight

Strikers and Strikebreakers Fight.
Two men have broken heads aud one
of them probably will die as result of
hand-to-hand fight with crowbars and
pickaxes between half hundred strikers
and strikebreakers in New York yester-
day. While the strikebreakers were at
work excayating, party of strikers who
had been displaced by them made con-
eerted attack on the workers. The Bat
tie which eusued continued until large
body of police from two stations arrived
to restore order. By that time two men
had been so badly used up that they
were taken to a hospital, and several
others were arrested. Another fight, arts
ing from the same strike, in which re-
volvers played prominent but harmless
part, started in the same vicinity few
minutes later. No one was severely in
jured, however, and no arrests were
made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29
NAV Cost His Life.

Mrs. Elizabeth Sanford, the wife OF
Captain Sanford, who shot George
Wright to death last week in Rome, Ga,
because he believed that Wright and
Mrs Sanford were unduly intimate, de-
lends her honor in a statement made
Thursday, although it will in all likeli-
hood send her husband and the father
of her three children to the gallows. In
her statement Mrs. Sanford says: "This
is a terrible situation for me. have to
defend my own honor, yet TO do that
means probably the hanging OF my hus-
band and the father of my children. |
am absolutely alone in my defence. |
have not a soul in the world to whom |
can turn for help, and feel | must
gather all my forces to the task. AS to
the charges Mr.. Sanford makes, they are
false am not and never was an I'M
faithful wife" All those concerned are
socially prominent, and Sauford's trial,
which will begin August l, is expected
TO be sensational. Mrs. Wright, the
wife of the slain man, gave birth to
twins Thursday, but they died in an hour.
Mrs Wright is expected to die, not
having recovered from the shock OF her
husbands death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-29

Capt. Sanford, soon TO be tried fer the
murder of Wright, said in Jail in Rome
last night regarding bis wife's declara-
ton of innocence: 81 would go to the
gallows with a light heart and a smile
could only DO so with the knowledge
that she is as pure aud innocent as she
claims. For her sake, and for my child
ren's sake, | should be glad that she
might prove her innocence, but this
great satisfaction will never be vouch-
safed. She is guilty. She knows it,
and ! know it, and it will be established
by overwhelming proof"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-31
p. 0. ROBBERY.
John D. Hyatt of the Minneapolis
Postof1ce is Arrested for
Robbing Mails

Minneapolis, May 27.-John D.
Hyatt, whose residence is 926 Four.
teenth avenue south, for the last
twenty-three years an employ of the
Minneapolis postoffice, and for manv
years one of the clerks at the receiyino
window, was arrested for stealing let
tiers from the mails
The arrest was the result of a six
weeks work on the part of Postoffice
Inspectors H. O. Smith, of Owatonna.
and Howard c. Fry, of Fargo. Per-
sistent complaints of valuable letters
lost in the mails led to the assignment
of the inspectors to ferret out the thief
or thieves.
The arrest of Hyatt was made bv
United States Marshal W. Fl. Grim
shaw IN person at just about the time
when the heavy evening deposits of
mails have been made In his pockets
when arrested were found twenty five
letters, all with stamps uncancelled.
and evidently just distracted from the
thousands of letters passed over the
counter. Among the letters found
On Hyatt's person was a decoy letter
addressed to a fictitious person in Wi
mona, containing four marked one
dollars bills.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-31

To Help Prosecute.

Mankato, Mimi, May ga man
from New Ulm who has been more or
less prominently connected with the
Koch case, was in Mankato and stated
that it is the general wish of the peo-
pie there that either Pierce Butler of
st. Paul, Frank Nye or A. H. Hall of
Minneapolis be secured to act as as
sistant for Mr. Childs at the third
trial OF che case There is a general
feeling that the third trial will be the
last, no matter what the outcome.
County Attorney Wilson, acting as at
torney for Philip Liesch, editor of the
Brown County Journal in the contempt
of court proceedings resulting from the
Koch case, when he was fined $3.50, has
secured a writ of certiorari to Judge
Cray from the supreme court, and the
case will be reviewed in October
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-31
HAS NO AUTHORITY.
President Roosevelt Decides That He
Cannot Probe Insurance Com
panies' Affairs.

Washington, May 27. = President
Roosevelt, as heretofore noted. has
been urged to take steps looking to a
government inquiry into the opera
tions of life insurance companies, and
especially the Equitable Life Assur-
ance society of New York concerning
which embarrassing complications
have developed during the past few
months. After careful consideration
of the subject and inquiry into the
legal phases of such a suggested in
Vestigation. the president has deter
mined that under the circumstances
the government has no authority to
take up the matter, either through a
special commission or through a bu-
reau of corporations. .~
Investigations may be instituted and
carried on by the state governments in
the states where the companies do
business. These inquiries may be
made as rigid as is deemed H-.essary
to develop the facts. Upon state in
vestigations, therefore, the government
officials are of the opinion that the
people must rely for information as to
the conduct of the insurance business.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-31
SLAIN BY GIRL.
Young Woman Kills Her Lover in
Minnesota and Attempts
Suicide.

Wheaton, Mimi, May ga young
man named Herman Speff from Coka-
to, working near here for Mrs. Deal,
and young girl about Is years old,
named Sidensticker, whose father re-
SIDES near here, were found three miles
south OF here near the railroad tracks
Thursday afternoon, the young man be-
ing dead, having been shot in the
mouth with a revolver, and the girl
seriously wounded, with two or three
bullets in the abdomen The girl is
still alive and claims that she had
killed the man and shot herself and
that she wished to die as they had
planned to die together. She borrowed
the revolver from hardware store here.
1t seems to be complicated love af-
fair.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-31
SOLVES A MYSTERY.
Man Suspected of Assassination of
Dan Berry, at Savanna, Ill,
Commits Suicide.

Savanna, ILL.,, May 26.-The mystery
OF the murder of Daniel S. Berry was
cleared away Thursday by the bullet,
fired by his own hand, which blew out
the brains of Boutwell, Pulford, Sa-
vanna's wealthiest citizen, whose name
had been connected with the Berry as
sassination.
Pulford hid in the hayloft of a barn
which he owned in the center of the
town and sent bullet into the center
OF his forehead, which ended life in
stantly. His wife, whose rumored re-
lations with Berry had been assigned
as the cause of Pulford killing the
lawyer, became hysterical when in
formed of her husbands fate.
No one in Savanna, which has been
stirred more deeply than ever before
by the second act of the heartrending
tragedy in which the two most promi-
nent families of the town have been
the performers, now doubts that Both
we'll Pulford shot down Dan Berry and
then ran into his drug store below
Berry's office, where he bore himself
WILL duidA1uS cdlm ana Q0aTQ the news
OF Berry's death with expressions of re-
greet.
The suspicion which has been whis-
pered openly since the murder, has
been confirmed beyond doubt in the
minds of Pulford's neighbors by the
suicide. The theory of insanity, which
was urged for Pulford in the first
place, is now accepted as the true one.
Stories of the relations of Mrs Pull
ford and Dan Berry, which had been
told in this town for years. produced
bitter enmity between Berry and
Pulford and made tragedy such as
mas occurred a climax to be looked
for. Brooding over his wrongs is said
to have wrecked Pulford's mind.
Savannah, ILL.,, May 23.-Daniel s.
Berry, who was prominent as a LAWYER
and who was an eX-member of the
legislature, was shot and killed Mon
day at the door of his Office. Mr..
Berry had just come from home and
was unlocking the door Of his Office
when he was shot from behind. one
bullet striking him in the arm and the
other penetrating his brain. He died
instantly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-31

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