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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Breach in Cabinet Healed.

Paris, Nov. 1.-The healing of the
breach in the Rouvier Cabinet, for the
time being, at least, has been accom-
plished by the acceptance by NJ. Eth
enne, former Minister of the Interior,
10 principle of the war PORTFOLIO to sue
coed NJ. Bertesux, who resigned yester-
day, following an exciting scene In the
chamber. Deputy Trouillot has ac-
cepted the position Of Minister of the
Interior, thus filling the vacancy in the
Cabinet he held theposition of Minis
ter of Commerce 10 the COmbes Cabinet
in 1902. The portfolio of the Minister
of the Interior was first offered to Deputy
Sunien, but he declined TO accept the
Office Later in the day NJ. Etienne def
initely accepted the position of Minister
of War.
4 great deal of confusion reigns in
ministerial circles caused by the dis
covery that the unexpected action of NJ.
Berteaux in resigning yesterday, was
the result of scheme to surprise the
ministry into resigning collectively. The
socialists expected then to form new
Cabinet with Berteaux as Premier. The
plan was miscarried, however, as the
other ministers did not follow the lead
of Berteaux in resigniDg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
School Moneys.

The apportionment Of funds for the
public schools of Virginia has been com
pleted on basis OF 80 cents and mills
per capita of the school population, and
the figures were made public yesterday.
The whole amount to be expended is
s199, 324. "a, and it goes to 578, Sl6 Ju-
yenile renefciaries. This appOrtion'
ment is made on account OF the appro.
prialion by the General Assembly under
act approved March II, 1904, and the
accunul ted interest on investments of
the literary fund. From the gross
amount accruing from these sources are
deducted tie salaries OF the superinten-
dents of schools, the expenses of the GEN.
trail Office, the salaries and travelling ex-
penses of the State Board of Examiners
and Inspectors, and the appropriation for
summer normal schools.
The attention of school officers is
called to the fact that this money is to
be applied exclusively to the pay OF
teachers OF primary and grammar grades;
The following table shows the school
population OF the counties and cities in
this section, and the amount of money
apportioned to each:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Contest for the MayOralty.

New York, Nov. lin the even
of the courts not having made an ad
Indication of the mayorality contest in
this city by the first of the year, it is
said hat VIM. r. Hearst has reached a
decision to take the oath of office and
present himself at the City Hall and de-
mand possession of the office. In that
event New York will have two mayors.
Mr.. Hearst would send message to the
Bard of Aldermen, as would Mayor
Mcclellan. Under the law applications
for a recount must be made within TWEEN
ty DAYS after an election, and there re-
mains still fifteen days for the Hearst
counsel to present afidavits of fraud
and non-count of sO-Called void and
protested ballots. limitations are made
TODAY. but are not confirmed, that
at conference last night between
counsel for Hearst and John Nc
Culagh that enough evidence has been
obtained to secure warrant for a
well-knOwn district leader in this city.
The identity of the leader is withheld.
None of the indictments ordered drawn
yesterday by the grand jury involve any
election officials of prominence. They
are indictments for illegal voting and
fraud. These indictments will be re-
turned on Monday, and the arrests will
follow. The canvass of the vote will be
made by the Board of Aldermen on
Tuesday and a riot is expected to de-
yelop when the Tammany people ask
that the envelopes containing the pro-
tested and void ballots remain sealed.
Previously the envelopes have been open
ed and the Hearst people say they will
90 into the courts to secure an order to
have them opened. A mass meet
ing of the Citizens Protective League
will be held tonight at DurlaDd's
Academy to protest against the prosti-
tuition of the ballot.
Albany, n. Y, Nov. ll.-William
Randolph Hearst, the municipal owner
ship candidate for Mayor Of Greater New
York, has petitioned Governor Higgins
to order all ballot boxes placed in an
armory in New York city, and to be
guarded by State militiamen 1t is
understood that the places now used for
the storing of the ballot boxes are not
fire or burglar proof, and much appre-
hension is felt as regards their safety,
hence the petition of Mr.. Hearst and
his followers to place them where they
will be absolutely safe and closely
guarded by troops. Governor Higgins
declined to interfere in the mayOralty
fight, with regard to the petition of
WIN. R. Hearst to place ballot boxes in
armories.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11

SINCE Tuesdays election in New
York the followers Of Mr.. Hearst have
been denouncing Tammany and making
all sorts of charges against that organiza-
ton, including stealing ballot boxes;rob-
bling ballot boxes, throwing ballot boxes
overheard, &c. Such reports reached
the Office of George W. Morgan, Slate
snperintendent OF elections, Thursday.
They were mostly transmitted through
agents of the municipal ownership
league. They were investigated by Mr..
Morgan's deputies, who report that no
voted ballots were lost and that while
some negligence was found, there had
been no criminal intent. Still, there
are some who are ready to believe any
charge made against Tammany.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11

here this morning for West Point, where
they will visit the military academy.
After the reception at the Acs deny the
party will witness a football match be-
tween the cadets and the Carlisle Indians.
The rank and file and junior officers wit
messed football match at the American
League Park this afternoon between a
picked eleven of the British feet and a
local association football team. The
alumni association of Annapolis enter
tanned the officers of the British feet at
Delmonico's last night. There was a
demonstration over Miss Helen Gould
when Commander Aaron Wade spoke OF
the Christian work she had done for the
man behind the gun in the United States
navy. Her health was drunk, and she
was yisibly affected by the scene in her
honor while she looked down on the
banquet hall from the balcony. At the
close of the banquet, with hands clasped
across the tables, the American land
British officers sang "Auld Lang Syne. "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11

SECRETARY BONAPARTE and Acmiral
Sands. superintendent Of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, bad long con-
ference Yesterday afternoon at the Navy
Department in Washington in regard to
the death of Mdshipman Branch, who
died after fight with Midshipman
Meriwether. After the conference Sec
rotary Bonaparte, when asked if the de-
partment had decided upon any plan to
break up the practice of fighting among
the cadets, said:
The practice is very Objectionable and
the department will do all in its power
to discourage il, but exactly what steps
will be taken will have to be decided.
Discourage it! What is the matter
with abolishing it? If it we're known
positively that prize fighting or bazlng
Of any kind would be followed by the
prompt discharge of the superintendent
of the academy and all concerned, such
practices would never be heard Of No,
never more.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Charged with Nine Murders.

A dispatch from Dayton, Ohio, says
With nine murders charged already
against him, DR.. Oliver c. laughs case
bids fair to rival That Of the famous
Emil Hoch. His alleged crimes, though,
are unique, in that all the supposed vic
tins died of poison, which, it is be-
lieved, was administered while DR..
Haugh was under the influence of NOR
phine. When confronted with the
charge last night that he WAS the
slayer OF nine people, DR.. Haugh said
II might have killed them when my
mind was blank" The cor ner believes
that he married women in Chicago, Mil
yankee, Toledo, Lorraine, Ohio, and
other places, and that all of them died
of poison. His arrangement on the
charge Of numbering his father, mother,
and brother at the family home Sunday
morning last and the burial of the char
red bones of the victims took place yes
terday. If the theories concerning the
accused murderers and his motives are
true, DIR. Haugh simply murdered in Or
der to get money to satisfy his appetite
for morphine. While the funeral was
in progress, DR.. Haugh fretted in his
cell because OF the slowness of the turn
key in furnishing him with the hourly
allowance of morphine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Prince Louis in New York,

New York, Nov. 1.-THE programme
of social festivities in honor of Prince
Louis of BatteD berg and his feet proceeds
with unhagging enthusiasm, and it is
now announced that President Roosevelt
will come from Washington on Tuesday,
to pay the Admiral Prince formal visit.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, who is visiting
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, here, will meet
her father and will attend the ball given
on the flagship Drake on Tuesday even
ing. She will dance with Prince Louis,
as a matter of etiquette. The deck of
of the Drake will be covered With 1000
yards of canvas, stretched taut, covered
with stars and stripes bunting, all OF which
has been prepared by tue handy men OF
the warbip for the occasion. Prince
Louis Of Battenberg and his party leis
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Steamer Aground.

New York, Nov. 1.-THE Hamburg
American line steamer Graft Waldersee,
which sailed early today from Hoboken,
for Hamburg, lost her bearings in the
upper bay, and ran her nose deeply III
the mud fats of Red Hook, about oppO-
site Forty Second street, south Brooklkn.
A fog prevailed at the time. Tugs were
rushed to the assistance OF the vessel. but
they failed to move her. On the next
high tide, about 1880 this evening, an
other attempt will be made to clear the
vessel. Her officers state that her hull
is not damaged and she will proceed on
her journey as soon as she could get free.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11

That the private hospitals OF New
York are extrava ant in the use OF costly
drugs and dressings; that great econo-
mics are possible; that the hospitals do
not receive the support from charitable
persons that their work deserves are the
findings of the committee on hospital
needs aud hospital finances which has
been at work since March Of this year.
one of the remedies the committee pro-
poses is a uniformity in keeping &C
counts and making reports of work
done which, it is believed, will tend
to economy in hospital administration
increased public financial sup
he committee suggests that less
e methods and materials than
mmonly in use would bring
about a great saving without lessening
efficiency The findings OF the New
York committee will apply to most OF
the hospitals throughout the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Virginia News.

No election was held at 0ccoquan on
Tuesday. The judges and clerks who
were appointed declined to serve.
Mrs. Zunda L. Beasley, aged SS years
wife II. L. Beasley, died ut her home,
Ezera, Caroline county, yesterday.
There has been a smallpox scare al
Gainesville but it has about subqided. A
colored man went there with 1t from
QUAINT co.
]. NJ. Jordan & Co., ship gamblers,
filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy
in Norfolk last night. The liabilities
are s34, 1853 and the assets s26, 4OS. go.
Mr.. Alvin Kincheloe. living neal
Clifton, and brother to DR. J. G. Kinch.
eloe of Manassas. died on Monday
night last from typhoid fever. The de
ceased was about 35 years of age.
There being four cases of diphtheria
in Manassas last Saturday, the Mayor
in conference with the board of health,
ordered the schools closed and the prem
ises where the disease existed placed
under quarantine, the schools to remain
closed for two weeks.
At a meeting of the Richmond How
ilzer Associate on of the Confederate
Veterans held Thursday night, Rev
William NJ. Dame, d D., rector of Me
mortal Protestant Episcopal Church.
Baltimore, was elected president. Rev
DR.. Dame served in the artillery service
OF the Confederate army.
That farms in Frederick county are
now bringing good prices as result o
the big apple industry near Winchester
shown by the sale of Perry PurcePs 6ne
apple farm, containing LOG acres, for
SlS. 900. An Ohio man is the purchaser
The farm is in the heart of the apple
raising section, on Apple Pie Ridge.
John Biggs, night clerk for the West
ern Union Telegraph Company at Nor
folk. has been dismissed because he re-
fused to accept an unpaid message iron
President Roosevelt to his wife at Wash
lngton. sent to the Norfolk navy yarc
from battlesbip by wireless telegraPhy
and telephoned to the telegraph office by
some one unknown to the clerk.
No report has yet been made by the
board of visitors OF the Virginia Military
Institute, which is in session at the in
sti'ution investigating the complaints
against the commissary department. Th'
general impression is that the thirc
class, which offended by threatening t.
withdraw, will be expelled. Most o.
the members of the class who hold State
appointments are now willing to retrac
their ullimatum and apologize, but the
other members will refuse to apologize
to the end.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Conditions in Russia.

st. Petersburg, Nov. ll.-Forty thOus-
and workingmen held meetings here to-
day and decided that they will press their
demands for an eight hour working day,
Notwithstanding the threats which have
been made by the employers that they
will close down their factories and places
of business Immediately if this is done.
The workingmen also took steps to pre-
vent the threatened massacre of Jews
and intellectuals, which it has been re-
ported is set for tonight or tomorrow.
The workmen resolved that they would
protect the Jews, students. and intellec-
tuals themselves. They have organized
themselves into attachments to fguard
the various sections of the city in the
event of outbreaks in this city similar to
those which have occurred in southern
Russia.
The Holy Synod has issued an appeal
addressed to all believers of the orthodox
church not to take advantage of the
privileges which have been granted them
to bring about civil war but 10 show a
peaceful and loving disposition to The un-
orthodox fellow subjects of the empire.
The industrial associations of Khar-
kof and Riga have telegraphed to Count
White that the workingmen are prepar
ing to renew the strikes at both those
points. If the strikes are renewed, the
associations SAY, it will mean absolute
ruin. Count Witte answered that be is
powerless to do anything TO avoid the
strikes. There are constantly increas-
ing signs of a panic in St. Petersburg.
Warsaw, Nov. 1.-THE Hebrews OF
this city have been thrown into panic
today by the appearance this morning Of
strange marks on their doors and win
dow shutters. They believe that the
presence of these marks is proof of the
stories that fresh anti-Jew riots are
being planned and that the marks indi-
cate which houses have been selected for
attack. The Governor-General has as
sured the Jews that he will maintain
order, at any cost, but his promise has
not treasured the panic'stricken lie.
brews. A deputation of twenty-five
aristocrats he selected TO go to St.
Petersburg TO lay before the Gar the de-
mand of Poland for autonomy left here
today for the Capital.
Crondstadt, Russia, Nov. 1.-THE
city is still under military control.
There have been no fresh disturbances
today.
Odessa, Nov. ll.-Adyices received
here today from Kishineff tell OF a
mutiny on the part Of prisoners in the
Jail there, and the subsequent killing
and wounding of many OF them by SOL
diers after tue mutineers had set fire
to the Jail. The prisoners last night
demanded that they should be set free
and when the request was refused,
fired the building. Troops were hurried
to the spot and fred volley into the
mutineers, killing %, and wounding
many others.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
The Susan Geary Murder Case

Boston, Nov. ll.-Three men and
one woman were indicted on the charge
of completely in the death of Susan
Geary, the victim of the suit case
tragedy by the Suffolk county grand
jury today. TIE male defendants are
those already in custody in this city and
New York-Dr. Percy Mcleod. Lewis
Crawford, and William f. Howard,
alias Hunt. Mrs. Mary S. Dean, who
is fugitive, is the fourth defendant.
No bill was returned against Morris
Nathan, the girls lover. The indict-
ment charges Mrs. Dean with being the
principal in tie crime and Crawford and
Howard as accessories before the fact,
and Crawford, Howard and Mcleod as
accessories after he fact. Howard and
Crawford are charged with abortion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Court Martial Ordered.

Washington, Nov. ll.-Secretary
Bonapsrte, of the Navy Department, to-
day ordered court-martial for the trial
of Midshipman Meriwether, jr., Sd class
Naval Academy, on such charges as
may be preferred against him, based up
on the fist fight in which he engaged
Sunday night last with Midshipman
James r. Branch, from the effects of
which Branch died Tuesday. In his
memorandum attached to the order, Sec
rotary Bonsparte says that the depart
ment sees no necessity for court Of in
quiry, and that it is clear from the re-
ports received on the case that offenses of
such gravity are reputed to Meriwether
that his trial by court.martial is indis-
pensible. Continuing, he cites section
534l of the U. s. Revised Statutes, read
ing as follows: every person who ua-
lawfully and wilfully, but without NAL
ice, strikes, stsbs, wounds, or shoots at,
or otherwise Injuries another, of which
striking, stabbing, wounding, shooting,
or other injury, such other person dies,
either on land or sea, within or without
the United States, is guilty of the crime
of granddaughter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
A Terrible Ordeal.

While fresh hecks of gray hair about
his temples as the perm nent record of
nerve-racking experience, Daniel De-
laney, shipping clerk for brewing
company in Chicago, appeared at his
desk Thursday, safe and sound, after
having been hurled by a misstep from
the north abutment of the State street
Bascule bridge, into a 35-foot concrete
lined pit that forms part of The sub
structure, and had fought for almost an
hour in impenetrable darkness against
death by drowning or by being crushed
by great counterweight that sll but
fills the pit in its descent.
Immersed in icy water almost to his
lips, Delaney heard the grinding and
clanking of the machinery as the l5-ton
weight brushed slowly past him as it as
cended to the place where it poised the
structure The bridge was being low
cred. His shouts for help were muffied
by roof of metal and wood which had
closed about him aud he sought in vain
for a foothold in the lower pool of water
that had d splaced the counterweight.
He clawed at the smooth and Shiny con-
crete walls which rose for so many feet
above him.
Then, in the utter darkness, Delaney
lost his bearings and was unable to locate
the corner in.o which he had fallen. the
only spot that the weight would not oc-
cupy. AS the moments passed and no
answer to bis shouts were heard, he real
lied that the next descent of the weight
would crush his life out.
The records of the bridge tend
al exceptional lapse in -
vtsse s during that hOu
factor in the miraculOu as
man. Forty minutes 1. ia
had been lowered with / o
pit, Patrick Cunningham ,
structure and heard distan,
Believing some person had
the river. he notified the tri
Finally the source of the SCUM
termined and the doors leadii
pit from underneath the struct,
unlocked, Lanterns and rope
lowered TO the man, who throu
cold and exhaustion was unable
himself He was lifted to the street
two minutes later the pit again had
filed by the masses of metal that
threatened him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11

SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE de-
liyered an Grafton yestt rday at Brookline,
Mass. on the celebration Of the two hun
dredth anniversary of the incorporation
of that town. The Senator pointed out
that this country had been built upon the
principle established by our forefstherS
that the government should be as limit
ed in its functions as possible. He said
Let us beware how we depart from
those principles. say this because 1t
is seriously proposed to extend The
sphere of governmental action in Stale
in nation and in town, in ways which are
not ali inevitable, but which are advocat-
ed openly for the purpose Of destroying
our old system of restricted government
Joined to large individual liberty, and re-
placing it with another and totally diff
ferent arrangement The socialists would
have the government everything, the au-
archists would destroy all government
Should one of these factions carry out its
dreams we would have an oligarchy cou-
posed of few officehOlders, despot at
their head and all below on one sordld
level.
The Senator sees things through The
proper lenses.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Beware of 0intments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable ply
sicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
by L. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., contains
no mercury. and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying HalPs Catsrrh Cure
be sure you get the genuine. II is taken in
ternally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. j.
Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for cor stipation
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Cured OF Her Broken Spine.

Nine months in a hospital in Wash
ington with broken back, John Bris-
SOD, an ironworker, left there Thursday
practically cured. He fell 95 feet from
building, and was unable TO move q
muscle below his waist for months. A
few weeks ago he found he could bear
the weight of his body on one leg. Sur
geons advised him to keep at this exer-
else, and the Improvement was rapid.
He still uses crutches, but surgeons say
that within year he will be as strong
az ever. The doctors say Brisson's
spine was broken at the eighth dorsaL
Veriebra.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Protests Against Dancing

Stroudsburg Pa Nov. 1l-This town is
pastor of the Methodist Church. Addressing
meeting of church members, Pastor Ben
nett paid particular attention to dancing
classes. and declared that some parents found
it necessary for the proper education Of child
rem to send them to such gatherings. He
declared that these same parents were wilt
ing to pay 81 lessen for this privilege and
yet were not willing to pay anything toward
the coal bin of The church. He also de-
nounced playhouses as the Fairgrounds OF
the devil -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11
Warrant Refused

New York, Nov. ll.-Magistrate
Crane today refused the application for
warrant for the arrest of Ingersoll
Lockwood, the lawyer who has fgnred
in the case of Mrs. Margaretta Todd.
The application for the warrant was
made an affidavit Of p. W. Radcliffe,
an undertaken, who claimed the lawyer
wanted to have the body .Of Mrs. Todd
cremated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-11

of house and relation of mistress to maid'
Such a course of training should be es-
tsbIished in schools throughout the coun-
try for certain it is that the majority
of Young women are now growing up in
utter ignorance of anything that pertains
10 home-Inaking.