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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07
OLD MATCHMAKER
DIES BY OWN HAND
Thomas J. Thompson Ends
Life by Hanging.
LOST SIGHT AND BUSINESS
Lifeless Body Found by Son in Kitchen
at Early Hour of the
Morning.

Threatened with eviction ard in
aightened financial condition. Thomas
J. Thompson, matchmaker, sixty-four
years old, committed suicide at his
horle, 1235 | street northeast, scme time
this morning by hanging himself from
WateTpipe in the kitchen. Rigid and
Iifeless the body was found b. his son,
Lloyd, shortly after O'Clock this morn
ing a new sash cord was wound
around his neck, and the head had al
most been severed from the body. Cor
oner hewitt viewed the remains and
gave a certificate of death by suicide
Born in England, Thompson, a watch
maker by trade, came to America and
started in business. About ten years
ago he met with reyerses and moved to
the Northeast section of Washington,
where he lived until his death. He had
a small matchmaking establishment in
Rockville. Md, and when his business
was prospering he went 10 that town
every day, returning TO his home in l
street at night.
Sight and Business Failed
About six months ago his sight began
falling him and his work was not as
good as in former days, His business
/ fell off and he got behind in his rent.
| Unable to pay the money he remained
| at home and brooded over his lot He
| is said by Coroner hewitt to have at
/ tempted suicide on several previous oc-
| casions by hanging.
At Il O'Clock last night his wife and
| children retired. His Wife asked him
! to go to bed. but he said he was not
! feeling well and preferred remaining
/ in the kitchen About 4 o'clock Mrs.
| Thompson went to her son Lloyd and
/ told him she had a pFeSentiment tha I
| all was not right with her husband.
| The son went TO the kitchen where he
Made Sure of Death.
| The matchmaker had purchased about
! twenty feet of sash cord and cut off
enough to make moose with which to
! hang himself. The remainder he tossed
under the stove. lie then stepped upon
/ a small chair and thence 10 table.
| Fastening the end OF the rope on tC
| the pipes leading from the stove to the
| hot water boiler, he stepped off the
| chair. kicked it from under him and
| then drew his knees UP near his chin
| 1t was in this position that he was
| found b. the son.
Probably Took a Drug.
| DIR. l.. d. Walter, who attended
| Thompson for various ills throughout
! the past ten years, said he recently
/ Strengthened out a financial matter for
/ Thompson. The mans health was good
/ but his sight was impaired, From the
| appearances Of the body, Dr. Walter
son had taken a drug OF some sort tx
| deaden the pain. The neck was no
/ broken, death having resulted from
! strangulation
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07
Probably Took a Drug.
APPEAL FOR SHAFFER
I'M Mr.. MOODY'S HANDS

The papers in the case of Augustus
Shaffer, who is condemned 10 be hanged
next Friday, were sent % Attorney
General Moody this morning. Shaffer is
asking for life imprisonmcnv instead of
the death sentence.
Attorney General Moody stated today
that it would likely not be necessary
for him to look into she papers as the
President had agreed to hear personally
this afternoon, Henry e. Davis, Shat
fer's attorney.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07
CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.

NORFOLK. va E@h- 7.-Florence
Lassiter, eight years old. of Scot tsv!!!e.
was burned to death while heating milk
on kitchen stove. Her mother and
sister were badly burned attempting to
save her.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07
Improvement Coming Slow
" on Mt. Vernon Road.
GRATEFUL TO THE TIMES
Attorney for Commuters Association
Gives His Views on the Situation.
Bettez Times Ahead.
DAILY BULLETIN.
W. A. 6 Mt. Y. r r

Another heater was installed on one
of the trains today. No windows
were broken in the rush for seats on
the Departmental Special yesterday
afternoon. Commuters are hopeful
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07
Kaiser Advises Gar to
Make Terms With
Japan.
GRAND DUKES FAVOR IT
Government Control of Tele-
graph May Indicate Nom
Pursuance of War.

LONDON, Feb. Reports from all
continental capitals support the belief
that peace in the Far East Is an early
possibility.
1t is understood that the Russian gov
ernment's control of the Siberian tele-
graph wires is partly due to the unrest
among the railway workers, but is also
and more especially due to the pressure
of urgent messages to kuropa tkin.
What these messages are is not
known It Is thought they have an i'm
portant bearing on the question of the
further pursuance or non-pursuance of
the war.
Kaiser Advises Peace.
1t is further stated this morning that
Kaiser William of Germany has ad-
vised the Gar to arrange for settle
ment of the differences between his
country and Japan, in view of the many
troubles which now assail Russia al
every point at home.
One of the most hopeful signs. in Rus
sia itself, is the growth of sentiment
1t has long been known that the great
mass of the Russian people are opposed
to the continuance of the fight This
sentiment has now taken hold on Rus
sian officialdom.
1t is stated on good authority that
many of the Russian government Off
that peace is by far the great necessity
Of the hour.
Grand Dukes Favor It.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Chronicle asserts that Gripenberg's
reverse and the apparent impossibility
Of gaining a victory over the japanese
have caused the grand ducaI party to
review the situation, with the result
that 1t has decided in favor Of peace.
The announcement that Kuropatkin
might be recalled was really started in
border that negotiations to terminate the
war might be facilitated.
To Insure Favorable Terms.
The correspondent says he knows
that Russian representatives in Paris
have been instructed to take whatever
steps they deem advisable to secure thu.
| good viii of Great Britain, with the
| object OF obtaining the most favorable
/ Count Benckendorff, the Russian Am
| bassador at London, was in ST. Peters
| burg last week in connection with tt
| situation. and he was similarly III
| structed.
For the first time since the war con-
! menced the Russian government on
/ Monday stopped overland telegraphEc
| communication with the Far East.
Government Controls Wires.
Ship owners who teIegraphed TO VIadi-
vostok making inquiries concerning their
| steamers had their messages returned
| marked, Wires under the control OF
! the Russian government
The lines affected are the Great North
ern Company.s by way of Siberia and
| ges for the East have been transr1 =
/ ted by this line from st. Petersburg fer
| several hours.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07
FREER POST M0RTEM
Is NOT COMPLETED

DR. Hird, District Chemist. has not
completed his investigation of the con-
tents of the stomach of DR. James A
Freer. whose body was found at the
Willows. on the Tenleytown road, neac
the District line At noon Sunday.
It IS said the investigation Will re-
Guirc some time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07

Leo p. Harlow, attorney for the Com
muters' Protective Association. Of
Alexandria. reports this morning a
slight Improvement in conditions on
the Washington, Alexandria and Mt.
Vernon Electric Railway cars. White
the service is not by any means what
it should be, some evidence is being
shown on the part of the officials Of
the road to accede to the demands of
it's patrons which have been given
widespread publicity through the col
umns of The Washington Times.
L came to Washington on the car
due to leave Alexandria at 80 O'Clock
this morning" said Mr. Harlow to a
Times reporter. which did not leave
until $50, by the way, and there was
some improvement to be noted. The
trailer was warm, but the motor car
was as cold as d barn
Six Heaters for Twenty-One Cars.
lat the hearing we had, it was
brought out that the company had ap-
paratus to heat but five cars, while they
use ten motors and eleven trailers on
the road 1t was also shown that these
five heaters have laid in the barns
since November /. The railroad Off
cials have promised to put these heat
ers in as quickly as possible with the
men they have at their command to do
the work, and also TO procure hea tcrs
for the additional six cars as soon as
they can.
fit we have derived from the attitude
of The Times on this question. Through
the columns Of The Times we have
reached many persons we could not
have reached without its valuable aid
All the support we get from The Times
is most gratefully received, and / feel
confident that, with this paper at our
backs, we will, in the end, get the
service we are entitled to-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07

Clasped tightly in the arms Of Stella
Yates, d handsome brunette, twenty
four years old, who was cold in death
as the result of a bullet wound in her
heart, the IifeIess form OF Theodore
Fisher, bartender, thirty-ffve years
old, was found by a sister of the
young woman about 10 o'clock this
morning at 101S Twelfth street south
east.
The mans death resulted from q
caliber bullet wound in his left eye, the
Ieaden missile evidently having pene-
trated his brain.
Whether Fisher first killed the wou1-
an and then turned the weapon on him
self, or the woman first killed the man
in a scuff1e and then shot herself, is q
matter of conjecture
Withholds Certificate.
Coroner Nevitt, who visited the scene
of the double tragedy and made an
inyesti CATION lasting several hours, has
not yet given his certificate. He said it
would be withheld until a searching
police investigation had been concluded
II IS believed that subsequent develop
ments may lead TO a solution OF the
mystery surrounding the death Of the
two persons.
Many theories as to how the tragedy
occurred have been advanced. me
strongest seems to be the one
which poiuIs- u {. murder by the woman
and her suicide The ownership of the
pistol which was found lying on the floor
beside the bodies is relied upon to fur
nish q solution Of the double killing.
InpenetTa bic mystery surrounds even
the time ef the enactment of the trag-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07

Public Speakers use Pisos Cure to strength
en- the voice and prevent hoarseness,-Adv. :
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TIDE TABLE.

Sun sets today, ..........,....,........5: 2
Sun rises tomorrow. W..............-.......7: 7 :0(
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07

Low tide today y......,...........,..4:4 :43 ?. m
High tide today. OPS IN
Low tide tomorrow, sol am, 5:22 pm
High tide tomorrow. .I0:49 am. II :02 p. n.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-07

Fair and cold tonight.
Minimum temperature 12o.
Tomorrow cloudy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Claims cure Tor AppendIeItIs.

DR.. Pond of Liverpool, England, has
advanced a new theory with Difference
20 the origin of appendicitis and other
disturbances of the digestive organs
He calls attention to the fact that
such ailments can often be attributed
20 antimonial poisoning, and the
source of the anthony taken up by
nan is said to be the rubber rings
which are frequently used to close all
sorts of bottles.
DR.. Pond has established the fact
hat such rings consist of almost one
;hird their weight of anthony. The
antimony is not only dissolved by the
mineral waters containing alkaIis and
organic acids, but these rubber rings,
as daily observation shows, soon be-
come brittle and some of the com
pound falls into the contents of the
vessels.
DR.. Pond claims to have found that
1 frequently repeated Introduction of
antimony can become the source of a
series of disturbances of the nutritive
and digestive system, especially
through continued weakening of the
muscles of the stomach and intestines.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
plvlnn ReII Of zoo years Aao.


1t was nearly 200 years ago that
Edmund HALEY constructed what is
often referred to as the first diving
bell, although the apparatus must
have been much like that which was
used in the presence of Charles V.
The principle of the diving bel is
simple An inverted jar sunk in the
water retains air at it's top, and if
there is enough air men may live and
breathe and work there, and keep dry.
Dr. Halley's diving bell was large
wooden chamber, open at the bottom
and loaded there with lead to prevent
it from turning in the water. Pieces
of glass set in the roof furnished light.
Air was supplied by an ingenious
method; for loaded casks full of air
were sent down, bung downward. Tip
ping the BARREL water would rush into
it and drive out the air to the man in
the bell chamber.
At the depth of thirty-three feet the
air is compressed to half its former
bulk, and the bell is therefore at the
depth filed full with water; and as
the depth increases, SO do the com
preston and the pressure.-Technical
World Magazine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
"stnI sweeter Sings NY Darling"

"StilI Sweeter Sings My Darling"
The bell-bird fills Australian shades
With songs like bubbling fountains;
The redstart thrills the river glades
Beneath Virginian mountains.
The oriole, that soul afire,
Paurs forth a storm of singing
To the rapt mate of his desire,
In soft gray hammock swinging.
BY night, by day, on topmost spray,
Or where the covert bushes.
Plays Natures weirdest orchestra
The mock bird, king of thrushes-
But all the words of all the birds
Ay. cen the songs, magician
All sweetest notes from singing threats,
Fade. as at dawn a vision.
When, be it catch or lullaby,
Or songs of battle ringing,
Love lays or hymns of liberty,
l hear my darling singing.
For song each bird hath times preferred
When winter winds are gnarling
Each tender tree the chickadee
Outsings the housed starting.
But whether blows the summers rose.
Or winters winds be snarling,
Be spring abloom, or fall in gloom
Still sweeter sings my darling.
Henry Austin in Century.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
WILL LIVE IN HIsToRTs PAGES.
Famous Highway to the Southwest
Built Only Century Ago.

A hundred years ago the eyes of
America were on the southwest. We
were on the edge of the war with
Spain over the closing Of the Missis
sippt, and under orders from Washing
ton, Wilkinson, in command of Fort
Adams, held solemn conclave with the
Indians who owned the east bank OF
the big river, and by treaty establish
ed a sacred postroad through theiI
country.
1t left Nashville on the old Buffalo
trace, crossed the Tennessee at Col
bert's ferry below the Mussel shoals
and, striking the hills back of the Big
Black, came down to Natchez and OIL
to New Orleans, with branch to the
Walnut hills. The road was more
than military necessity, for so many
pirates infested the Mississippi thai
merchants returning from New Or
leans needed safer route home with
their money.
After it was opened it became all
things to the southwest. Methodism
went down that way in the person OF
Tobias Gibson; later Lorenzo Dow fol
lowed him with the camp meeting
spirit. Old Hickory marched his army
down to Natchez over this route in
1913 and marched it back again next
spring. And from that day till nearly
our own it has been the great center
of that country's activity. Now the
railroads have come, the settlers have
moved down into the valleys and
opened up poorer roads in the beds OF
branches and through swampy low
lands. But the Trace is still there
upon its ridges, the best road of them
Everybody's Magazine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Nothing Wrong.

There is nothing at all the matter, my
boy,
The world goes plugging along.
IT. the same old way from day to day,
Singing her good old song.
Maybe her songs grow old to you.
And maybe your hopes grow dim;
But there's nothing at all the matter, my
boy
It's only your foolish whim.
There is nothing at all the matter. my
You have only lost your hold
Get back to the life and back to the
strife,
Get back to your works enfold.
There is work laid out for your hands to
do,
So stick to your task with vim;
There is nothing at all the matter, my
It's only your foolish whim.
There is nothing at all the matter. my
boy
Stand by till your task is done;
It's the way for place in the worlds
mad race
It's the way that the end is won
There place at the top, but the way
is long,
Don't rail if your star grows dim;
Don't say that the worlds all wrong, my
boy
It's only your foolish within.
w. F. Griffin in Milwaukee Sentinel
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
HEALTH AND STRENGTH
RESTORED BY
PE-RU-NA.

Mrs. Emma Fleissner, 1412 Sixth
Ave-, Seattle, Wash, Worthy Treasurer
Sons of Temperance, writes:
az suffered over two years with ir-
regular aid painful periods. MY health
was In a very precarf0uS condition and
Twas anxious to find something to re-
store my health and strength.
81 was very glad to try Peruna and
delighted to find that it was doing me
good. continued to use it little over
three months and found my troubles
removed.
al consider Ii a splendid medicine
and shall never be without II, taking a
dose occasionally when IfeeI rundown
and tired.
Our files contain thousands of testi-
monials which DIR. Hartman has re-
ceived from grateful, happy women
who have been restored to health by
his remedy, Peruna.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Careful of STRANGERS.

They're very careful at the Boston
beaches" said man who visited the
New England metropolis few weeks
ago. 81 went down to one of the
watering places one hot day. There
had been storm and the surf was
rough, and the man in charge refused
to let me go in bathing. l left in nc
very pleasant frame of mind, and
complained to the cabman as drov
away.
ooh, WELL" said he, in consoling
tone, you see they don't like to have
strangers come down here and gel
drowned. 1t hurts the beach,"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
The Age of Slang.

THE way you New Workers address
one another is still strange to me
although l have been coming here fol
years" said a visiting New Highlander
zone would judge that you had nc
Christian names. / seldom hear one
used, except formally. It's old man,
or old fellow and even in speaking
to your wives it's little one, little
woman or some other silly diminu.
tive. The women don't seem to be
much better, with such terms as boy
and hubby The children are like
wise misnamed and seem to under
stand only such appellations as kid
and little rascal My daughter came
here with the good old New England
name of Priscilla, but l hear her call.
ed 'Prissy.' and some even make it
'Cilly.' This is certainly an age OF
slang. New York Sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
STRENGTHEN THE STOMACH
DR.. Williams Pink Pills Really Cure
Indigestion Instead of Merely
Relieving Symptoms.

There are plenty Of remedies by which
you can relieve for the time heartburn,
pain and gas on the stomach and can
smother nervous sensations and induce
artificial sleep. You can humor your
stomach by giving it predigested foce.
But when you take your next meal all
Jour trouble begins afresh.
There is only one sensible thing to do.
Strengthen the stomach and do away
with the necessity for drugs and arti-
fetal foods. The best remedy ever found
for this purpose is the one that was used
by e. e. Strong, of Capleyille, Shelby
county, Tenn.
"For years." he states, 81 suffered
greatly from indigestion. / tried many
differens remedies and some of them
would relieve me for a time, but the
trouble always came back. About six
months ago | had an unusually severe
attack, and while / tried everything /
had ever heard of, found that none of
the ordinary remedies would reach the
difficulty this time,
Zone day / read i'll Memphis paper
how DIR. Williams Pink Pills had cured a
Michigan woman, a sufferer from chronic
dyspepsia of most stubborn type. l
then tried the same remedy and it
proved Just as successful in my case.
took only three boxes, and was cured.
have not had this slightest symptoms of
indigestion since.
The tonic treatment has sound prin-
ciple as its basis, and abundant success i'll
actual use. Multitudes of cases that had
defied all other remedies have been cured
by DIR. Williams Pink Pills. The pills
actually make new blood and strike at the
root of all diseases caused by bad blood.
They contain no harmful stimulants or
opiates. Every dyspeptic should read,
What to Eat and How to Eat" Write
the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenso-
tady, n Y. for free copy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
His First Misit

Look here, Halton, why in creation
did you lure me into buying a ticket
for that lawn fete?"
Why, did you pay out much?"
Much Why, they charged me so
cents for lemonade and 81 for ice
cream"
THAT was exorbitant"
"Then / was lured through the
maze of mystery witches caldron,
etc, and by the time they finished
telling my fortune l didn't have a
penny"
THAT was tough"
20, could have recovered from
that, but it was the sequel When 1
reached home dead broke my wife &C.
cused me of playing poker and hasn't
spoken to me since. Chicago News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
ALCOHOL IN MOST MEDICINES.
indispensable Requisite In Compound
Ing Of Some PrescrIptIons

ivy VI some prescriptions.
IL Is Of course true that some pro
prletary medicines contain alcohol and
nearly all liquid medicines prescribed
Dy physicians contain it. No honest
man VIII defend the sale OF intoxi-
cants under the guise of medicine: but
every honest man should nrotest
against system of wholesale denun-
clation born of malice, or Ignorance
oi pharmaceutical principles, and fos-
tered by selfish interests. It is as
sumed that alcohol is the cause of in
temperance; but there is a great diff.
ference between alcohol and whisky.
IL a substitute for alcohol could he
found for use in the manufacture oi
medicines, its discoverer would render
a great service to the profession of
pharmacy and the science of medi.
cine, for alcohol is a very expensive
ingredient and a cheaper substitute
would be gladly accepted. Unfortun-
ately the word alcohol, in the minds
Oh many people is associated exclu.
siyely with bar-rooms, drunkenness
and all forms of degradation and vice.
fhls is due to lack of knowledge
by the general public of the fact that
alcohol is an indispensable requisite
in drugs, tinctures and fluid extracts.
All fluid extracts and tinctures on the
druggists shelves contain from 20 to
80 per cent of alcohol; and of all
liquid medicines prescribed by ply.
sicians more than rs per cent contain
1t in large proportions.
Alcohol is required to preserve or
ganic substances from deterioration
and from freezing, and it is also re.
quired to dissolve substances not solu.
BILE in water, while it contributes to
their preservation when dissolved
Diluted alcohol is largely employed in
1uid extracts; and whenever a greater
strength of alcohol is required as a
solvent flor extracting medicinal prin.
ciples) the medicine is of such a char.
acter as to preclude large dosage;
and for this reason preparations, even
if containing so per cent or more OF
alcohol, are practically less intoxicat
ing than beer. In such cases the
character of the medicinal constituents
Is such as to absolutely forbid the
taking Of the medicine in any way
except in very small doses and at
stated intervals only. To assume that
any great number of proprietary med
icines are used as beverages is the
veriest MISUNDERSTANDING.