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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
The Iamestown Bill.

Government participation in the ex-
position to celebrate the first permanent
settlement of English-speaking people
on the western hemisphere, in the vicin-
ity of jamestown, was provided by the
House yesterday, when by vote OF 1872
20 81 the bill for that purpose was pass
ed under a suspension of the rules.
The bill was also rushed through the
Senate. The amount. appropriated is
$3.50, 900.
The members OF the Virginia dele
CATION during the roll call mingled among
their colleagues and personally appealed
to them to cast their votes in support OF
the measure. An interested spectator
was Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, president Of the
exposition company.
The bill was brought up by Mr.. May
nard, who moved a suspension Of the
rules for the passage Of the substitute
bill providing for an international naval,
marine, and military celebration to be
held on tie waters OF Hampton Roads,
begin ming May IS, and ending not later
than November ], 1907.
Mr.. Tawney in favoring the bill gave
description Of the plans andpurposes OF
the exposition company.
Vigorous opposition came from Messrs.
Littlefeld, Burkett, and Hepburn. The
whole plan was described by Nc. Bur
kett as ridiculous from beginning to
end"
Mr.. Swanson denied that the money
was intended for government exhibit.
He emphatically asserted that the ex-
position company had at its disposal
81, 200, 600 for the undertaking.
The bill was finally passed, by vote
of 1879 to 81.
While the general deficiency bill was
under consideration in the Senate last
evening Mr.. Martin called up the House
bill appropriating $3.50, 600 fora celebra.
ton, 10 1907, of the first settlement of
English-speaking people in America,
and it was passed. The bill will now go
To the President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
Virginia News.

Mrs. J. B. Trenary died at Front
Royal Wednesday, aged So years.
Mr.. w. w. stearns died at his home
near Catletts on Tuesday morning
February 18th.
Mr.. Joshua Fletcher has purchased OF
Mr.. II. Rozier Dulany, 400 acres oil
the Oakly farm. near Upperyille, Ar.
Dulany reserying the dwelling house
with the land adjoining.
Mr.. Thos. Ellis Gravatt, Of Port
Royal, died Tuesday Of Brighrs dis
ease at the home of his brother, Mr..
James Gravatt, at Bowling Greer, in
Caroline county, aged 65 years.
Mrs. Dickinson, wife of NJ. II. Dick
inson. a member of the legislature from
Spot,sylvania county, died suddenly
Tuesday of heart disease at her home.
near McHenry. She was daughter ti
Michael Robinson.
Mrs. Kate Louise Compton, aged
fOrtytwO, wife of Houston n. Compton,
died at her home, two miles west Of
Front Royal, Wednesday evening. She
was a daughter of the late John Mad
dOx, of Warren county.
William Mercer, son OF Nathaniel
Mercer. formerly OF Clarke county, and
Miss Mamie l.. Hof, daughter OF john
f. Hoff, of Loudoun county, were
married Wednesday evening in Lees
burg by Rev. w. l.. Dolly, pastor OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, of that
town
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate yesterday passed the sun
dry civil appropriation bill, carrying
about s6S,OOO,OOO. There also was
discussion of the pure food bill, and Mr..
Dolliver made brief speech in support
of his resolution providing for the APP
polntment of joint congressional
commission to investigate the question
of railroad rates. The resolution was
referred to the committee on interstate
com nerce.
At the night session the general
deficiency appropriation bill, the last
of the supply measures, was considered
by the Senate.
When the general deficiency appropri-
alton bill was reported yesterday to the
Senate the House item providing for the
payment cfmembers for the mileage grab
had been stricken out. Last evening the
deficiency bill was passed by the Senate,
minus the House provision, and goes in
10 conference in that form. IL is GER
tain that the Senate's objection to the
$3.50, 900 appropriation will prevail.
In the House the naval bill was sent
back to conference, and conference re-
ports were agreed to on the notifications
and agricultural appropriation bills.
The bill authorizing the Secretary Of Ag-
ricuture to establish and maintain quar-
antine districts in the several States and
to permit aud regulate the movement
of cattle was passed. A number of mi
nor bills were passed, the House taking
recess at $3.50 oc clock until 8 o'clock
p. m.
At the night session bills we're taken
up under suspension Of the rules, and a
number of measures were passed. The
House refused to suspend the rules to
pass resolution providing for the APP
pointment Of committee to investigate
the Panama Railroad and canal during
the recess, and declined to suspend the
rule to pass a bill to establish a leprosa-
rum in one of the territories. A new
auti.smoke bill for the District of Co
lumbia was passed, amending the Senate
bill, and the House declined a conference
with the Senate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
State BOARD of Education,

The State Board of Education met in
Richmond Wednesday night and sat
until 1890 a. M, adjourning until 10
a. III. yesterday, when the work before
il was resumed. City Superintendent E.
G. Glass, of Lynchburg, aud John I.
West, of Norfolk county, division
superintendent, whose terms as members
of the State Board of Education expired
by Limitation, were reelected by the
remaining members of the board.
The board received tentatiye re-
port of committee, consisting of DIR.
G. w. Kent, Messrs. W.. A. Bowles
and John I. West, recently constituted
to report on the feasibility Of reducing
the number of superiptendency divisions
by consolidating. two or more of the old
divisions, where deemed advisable, last
night submitteda tentative report. The
board declined to give this out for pub
LEGATION a. this time, saying that the
matter would be recommitted to the
same committee for further consider
alton and amended report. Just how
many consultations this report proposes
was not announced. The board heard
several gentlemen in opposition to the
proposed consolidation of the Alexan
dria and Fairfax divisions last night,
because the gentlemen were in the city
to be heard, but did not dispose Of the
case. 1t was finally determined to
receive and take up the final report
on the work of redivision March 2Ist.
Webster's Worcester and the Stand
ard were chosen as dictionaries for the
high schools
The board yesterday completed its
work by adopting for the high school
list Williams and Rogers system Of
bookkeeping. Morris's commercial arith-
metic, Lewis's elementary Latin diction-
airy, and course in Eoglish history
and general and advanced American
history
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
FRIDAY EVENING. MAR. 8. 1905.

The SENATE last night very properly
knocked from the general deficiency bill
the amendment which the House insert
ed Wednesday night approprlatiDg
$50. 600 for mileage of members during
,ba so.called constructive recess at the
beginning of the last session of Congress
Senator German called the matter up
when the amendment was reached. Sen
ator Hale said the Senate committee
reporting the bill had taken the stand
squareiy on the proposition that no
SPACE of time interviewed between the
first two sessions of this Congress.
The Senate had also taken a similar
stand by adopting the report OF the
judiciary committee, denying that
anything like a constructive recess
could exist. 1t was not contended by
members of the House who had voted
6or this mileage grab that time had
been spent by Senators or members oil
the House travelling on the road
during the so-called recess, or that any
space OF time actually interviewed be-
tween the two sessions, but they acted
upon the ground that there was a
chance Of pocketing Sl9O,OOO and
they would have done so but for the
timely action of the Senate. Had this
"constructive mileage" been allowed the
Porto Rican aud Hawaiian Delegates
would have received as mileage several
thousand dollars each, although neither
travelled mile during the so-called
recess. and the other members would
have received smaller amounts according
to the distance they lived from Wash
ington. Those who voted for the 'grab"
should be remembered should they ever
again come before the people for re-
election.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
Lansburgh s Bro,
AGO to 428 seventh Street.
WASHINGTON. DC.
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.
Hanged Wrong Man.

"My God That's my brother! He
neye- killed that woman. | am the
murderer. | should have been hanged
instead of Eugenep cried Adolph j.
Bloch yesterday in frenzy of remorse,
iuterrupting companion at the steel
mill in Canonsburg, Pa who was read
ing to him an account of the hanging Of
Eugene Bloch at Allentown on Tue sdsy.
He was in the Washington county Jail
last night awaiting a hearing on the
charge of the murder to which he has
confessed, and for which his innocent
brother has been executed. He is a
German Jew, twenty-six years old, and
formerly lived in Philadelphia. His
brother was hanged for the alleged muir
der of Mrs. Kate FslEinger on August
6, 1903. Adolph Bloch declared to the
authorities yesterday, after the item had
been read to him, that he himself killed
Mrs. Falzinger, and that the brother
who had been hanged was guiltless.
Bloch is a mill worker, reads newspapers
but little, and says he knew nothing OF
the trial, conviction and execution OF
his brother until yesterday.
The murder of Mrs. Fslzinger was a
brutal one. Her throa. was cut, and
her dead body was found hours atterths
crime. Eugene Bloch was arrested.
He asserted that Mrs. Falsinger had
been attacked by stranger, add that he
was trying to defend the woman when
she was killed. Adolph Bloch says his
brother knew him to be guilty and
suffered death rather than betray him..
When brought to the Jail in Washing
ton, Pa, last night, Bloch was in .
state of collapse. He gave out the
statement in which he acknowledged bis
guilt, and expressed the hope that no
mercy would be shown him for the TERRI
bic crime he committed.
The Allentown officials, who were
communicated with yesterday evening
over the long-distance telephone, said it
was impossible that an innocent man
should have been hanged for the Falzin-
ger murder.
Late last night Bloch recovered his
nerve to some degree, and declared to
the Jail officials that the whole story was
joke. Later, however, he repudiated
this, and reiterated his guilt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
COURT OF APPEALS.

McNaboe, substituted trustee, VS..
Holhelmer. Fully argued and sub
mitted.
Southern Railway Company VS..
Backs administrators. Continued.
Taylor vs.. Taylor. Argued and
submitted.
Brammer's administrators VS.. Nor
folk and Western Railway Company.
Partly argued and continued until to-
day.
Next cases to he called Postal Tele.
graph Cable Co. VS.. Umstadter City OF
Newport News VS.. Stocks admins
traitor; and Ackoss's executors VS..
SatchelI ct ais, being Nos. "a, IS and 90
on argument docket.
The Court refused to grant new trial
to Robert Bowels, negro who killed a
white fireman at Clifton Forge about
year ago. Ii was an strocious crime and
Bowles narrowly escaped lynching. He
has been tried twice, the verdict bein G
death in each instance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
Renort ON the Beef Trust.

Washington, d. c., Mar. 3.-The report of
the Commissioner of Corporations upon the
beef industry, submitted in compliance with
the resolution Of the House of Representatives
adopted March 7, 1904, was submitted to Con-
gress today by the President. Among other
things The report says:
THAT six packing eompanies--Armour q
Co., Swift Co., Morris Il Co., the National
Packing Company, the Schwarzschild q
Sulzberger Company, and the Cudahy fsck,
ing Company, frequently designated in the
trade As the THE Big x'-siaughtered, in
The year 1908, 5,52l ,697 head of cattle out OF
total indicated slaughter in the United States
of IL. 800, 900 head, or about 40 per cent.
After showing the fluctuations in prices OF
beef for several years past, the report con-
tinues:
THAT the six leading packing companies
especially discussed are apparently not over
capitalized. That the percentage OF proht on
the gross volume of business, including hog
and sheen products and other minor COM
moditics is comparatively small. That the
profit of private car lines In the packing in
dust.y on mileage is very liberal one, APP
proximate computations indicating net re-
turn of from Ia per cent. to about IL per cent.
Reckoning on the basis Of dressed beef trans.
ported. however, this profit would ada but
little to the cost of such beef 70 tne con-
sumner. the net profit from the mileage Pri-
waite ears being computed at not more than
4 cents per hundred pounds Of beef, or, say,
25 cents per head Of cattle"
The report concludes as follows AS
stated. the results Of the bureau's inyestiga.
ton indicate that the larger packing COM
panies especially considered are not overcapi,.
talized. Presumptiye evidence in favor OF
capitalization is found in the very concen-
trated holdings of the stocks Of these COM
panies, nearly all of which, with the excep-
ton Of Swift & Co, are held by the packers.
themselves and their families. In the case Oh
swift a Co the entire $S5, OOO, 600 capital stock
and s., OO0, zoo bonds were paid in cash and at
mar
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03

sador. Its contents were not made
public and no one knows in just what
manner the kings fluctuations were
expressed except the President and the
writer of the royal missive.
The conferrees on the Indian APP
preparation bill came to an agreement
today.
The Senate this afternoon unanimously
nassed resolution extending for another
wear the powers conferred upon the
President by the Spooner act with refer
ence TO the construction OF the Panama
canal and the government of the canal
z,ne Under this resolution, if passed
by the House, the President will be able
to make any changes he sees fit in the
composition of the Panama canal COM
mission.
On what was in effect test vote, the
pure food bill was displaced by vote
of % to 20 in the Senate this afternoon.
A special federal grand jury which has
been sitting here for the past week today
returned an indictment against Repre-
sentive Binger Herman, OF Oregon,
charging violation of the revised statutes
54OS in that he nnlawfully and fraud
ulently destroyed on January 30, 1904,
while Commissioner of the General Land
Office, 50 letter press copy books OF the
office with their entire contents. Bee
retary of the Interior Hitchcock was one
of the witnesses against Herman before
the grand jury.
TIE President has decided to appoint
Col. James Linn Rogers, of Columbus,
Ohio. 10 be Consul General at Shauhal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
Russian Workmen Deliver an Ulti.
matum.

A dispatch from st. Petersburg says;
"Unless the government Immediately
grants the workmen's demands today
and tomorrow will mark gigantic stride
in the labor troubles and revolutionary
movements in Russia. The strike at
Moscow has been resumed on large
scale, anarchy reigns in the Caucasus
and at ST. Petersburg the meager meas
ures which the government advanced TO
quiet discomfort and restore good rela-
tons between masters aud men appear
to have failed, with the probability OF
causing the storm 10 break anew. Dis.
turbances in Warsaw are increasing. A
comb was thrown among a group OF
soldiers, but failed to explode. An
armed suspect claiming to be nephew
of General Fock was arrested near the
Cars palace. The labor delegates rep
resenting the whole of the industrial
population OF st. Petersburg, and who
we're elected to choose 80 members Of
sas Schidloyski reconciliation commits
sion, met again yesterday and reafiirmcd
the resolutions adopted the previous day
which threatened, not only to refuse to
elect labor representatives TO the conf
mission, but to order resumption OF
the general strike. A practical ultima.
tum was delivered, calling for an answer
today. There is little expectation that
the government will grant the conditions.
demanded. The strike already has as
sumed large proportions here, about
so, 900 men being out. Among those
who struck yesterday were the can
pIoyes of the st. Petersburg shops Of
the Warsaw Railroad. The strike has
not yet extended TO the trainmea, but
the leaders may decide tn order them
out 10 order'to paralyze one Of the NEST
important railroads in Russia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
News Of the Day.


Mr.. Kehoe (Keutucky) introduced A
concurrent resolution in the House yes
terday to annex the republic OF Panama
to the United States.
The celebrated Polish poet Andreas
Niemojevski bas been expelled from
Warsaw and ordered to reside perma-
nently under police supervision IN a
small village near Lublin.
Mrs. Ridley Watts, the widow Of the
great-grandson of the Earl of Sterling,
died suddenly al Nice yesterday. Mrs.
Watts was the daughter of Henry
Grinnel, the New York scientist.
Gregory Potanin, the most eminent
contemporary Russian scientist, has
been arrested at Tomsk, on the eve OF
his SEVENTEEN birthday, according to
dispatch to the Berlin Tageblatt, on the
ground that he is suspected of sympathy
with the progressive movement among
the peasants.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg states
that a well authenticated report is cur
rent there that war council will be
held at st. Petersburg about March 8,
to decide whether Gen. Kuropatkin will
be recalled, and who will succeed him
in case of his recall. The dispatch adds
that Mirsky, former Minister of the
Interior, is i'll at Kharkoff.
Judge Anderson of the District OF
Columbia Court yesterday issued an
order granting an injunction to the
Brown Bag Filling Company against
James l.. Drohen, who has the govern
ment contract for packing the seeds
sent through Congressman throughout
the country. The injunction does not
take effect until March Is, so Drohen
may until that time use the device OF
the Brown Company.
DR.. John Holden, Washington dem
fist, attempted suicide yesterday after
noon at his home, 500 X street south
west, by shooting himself in the fore
head, inficting gaping wound. his
injuries are not necessarily fatal. DR..
Holden has been in i'll health for some
months. and as a result Of several surgi-
cal operations he has become a phys
ical wreck. His condition caused him
to become respondent.
After protesting his innocence through
out two trials of his case. DIR. T.. b.
Dawson, the young Baltimore dentist,
pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court in
that city yesterday morning to the fourth
count of two of the indictments charg-
ing him with common assault upon
little girls who live at the Kelso
Home, and Judge Wickes sent him to
Jail for five years in each case, the
sentences to run concurrently. This
will confne Dawson for ten years.
The Senate committee on foreign
relations has determined that it will
meet on Monday, March 6, to begin the
consideration OF the Santo Domingo
treaty, and that it will continue its
Sc sions from day to day until it is pos
siIle to report the convention to the
Senate. There is great and growing
opposition among democrats in the
Senate to this treaty, some Of them going
so far as to declare that it is the worst
proposition that has ever been submitted
for ratification by any executive. The
result will probably be long debate in
the extra session OF the Senate, with the
ratification Of the treaty doubtful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
alo0 Reward. SlOo.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all Its
stages, and that is Cstarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the emily positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being con,
stitutional disease, requires a 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 in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that they offer
one hundred dollars for any case Il fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address:
F.. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hal.'s Family Pills for constipation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03

PARIS hears that the secret of the
manufacture of the famous chartreuse
LIQUOR brewed by the Carthusian monks,
who were expelled from France, has
been sold to an English syndicate for
SO. 900, 900, the monks becoming inter-
ested in the syndicate so as to remain
virtually in control of the business. This
syndicate will carry on the manufacture
of the liquor at the old stand at Gren-
oble, France, thus relieving the distress
of numerous families which depended on
employment in the factory.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
TOday's Telegraphic News
Governor Montague.

Especial Dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette
Richmond, Mar. 3.-Governor and
Mrs. Montague and a large number of
Richmond people left at noon today for
Washington to attend the Inauguration.
Others and the military will leave to-
night. The staff officers will go tomor-
row morning aud fear they will be late
for the ceremonies. The Governor will
ride horse belonging to Judge Norton,
of Alexandria, kindly rendered for the
parade tomorrow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
Suspected of Poisoning Mrs. stanford

San Francisco, March ga dispatch
from Honolulu announces that Miss
Bertha Berna, Mrs. Stauiord's secretary,
has named Chinese cook employed by
Mrs. Stanford as the man suspected Of
poisoning his mistress. This man with
three other servants were inmates of the
Stanford mansion Oh Mob Hill, in San
Francisco. Acting upon this suggestion
from Honolulu all members of the
household are under guard. A watch
man is stationed at the gate, warned not
to permit any one to leave or enter the
house.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-03-03
election.

THE Supreme Court decided last week
that local Boards of Health. en- the au-
thority of State legislatures, had the
right to compel persons TO submit to
vaccination in an outbreak of smallpox.
The case was that of citizen of Cam
bridge. Mass, woh was fined for refusing
to be vaccinated. 1t was justly, properly
and sensibly contended that the law was
contrary to the constitution that vacci-
nation did not protect, and that it was
dangerous. Notwithstanding that Justice
Harlan in delivering the opinion of the
court said that one person or a minority
in any community should not have the
power to dominate the majority in mat
tiers affecting the public health. Justices
Brewer and Peckham dissented, but the
courts decision was as severe a blow at
personal liberty as was ever inflicted.