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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-14
Virginia News.

Mack Miner, of Clinchport, was found
dead on the outskirts OF Gate City, al
daylight yesterday morning, with a bull
let in his head. When last seen alone,
Miner left a restaurant In Clinchport at
9 O'Clock. yesterday morning. The
police have found no clew TO the
murderer.
Franklin Garrett, seven years old, is
dead at the home of his father near
Mitchell, Culpeper county, as a result
of spider bites inflicted some time ago.
While the boy was asleep in the barn
be was bitten by the insects dozen or
more times. The poison from the bites
caused paralysis
While Robert Moore, IL years old,
son of Mallory Moore, OF Portsmouth,
was riding en- horse bareback, a
street car struck the horse at High and
Dinwiddie streets, hurting The horse 20
feet to the sidewalk. He fell on the boy
and on a baby carriage, but neither
young Moore nor the baby was hurt. The
only injury was 10 the horse, which had
its legs skinned.
BY a mistake in orders, head-on col
Ison between freight trains occurred
east of Newport, on the Ashevlle divis-
ion of the Southern Railway yesterday.
Engineer Blair Gibson was caught IN
der his engine and his right arm mashed
so that it was necessary to smputate ii
at the shoulder. Engineer Byars, Of the
other train, also was seriously injured.
A negro brakeman was killed. The
engines were wrecked aud the property
loss is heavy.
Miss Mary Lee, daughter of the late
Col. Richard Lee, of Clarke county, and
a great.granddaughter OF Richard Henry
Lee ("Light Horse Harry"), of revolu-
tionary fame, is in a critical condition
at the home of Mr.. Courtney Jones. in
Millwood, Clarke county, as the result
of runaway accident yesterday after
noon, in which she was thrown from her
carriage against fence. Miss Lee was
driving alone down steep hill when her
horse took flight and ran off. Her scalp
was torn completely from her head, and
she was cut and bruised about the face
and body. A message from Wildwood
yesterday evening stated tn t Miss Lee
bad recovered consciousness, aud had a
chance for recovery.
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Mccall in Extremis.

The last rites of the Roman Catholic
Church we're administered Yesterday to
John A. Mccall, former president of the
New York Life Insurance Company, at
Lakewood, n. J. where he has beeo
seriously i'll for some time. Father
Healy, of the Church of Our Lady OF
the Lake, which the Mccall family has
attended whenever at Lakewood Off
ciated. Mr.. Mccall had had a sinking
spell, and the doctor had been hastily
called. His condition was such that his
family was advised to be prepared for the
worst Subsequently Mr.. Mccall rallied
somewhat, but his condition remains
critical. Besides Mr.. Mccall, there are
now in constant attendance three ply
sicians and three nurses. DR.. E. Jane
way and DR.. John Vanderpool, of New
York, have been called in consultation.
Mr. McCalPs family refuse to make pub.
lie the exact nature of his complaint.
They say that Mr. Mccall expressed the
wish that there would he absolutely no
publicity 10 connection with his illness,
aud they are doing everything possible
to carry out his request.
Lakewood, N. j.. Feb. l4-At the Laurel
House, where John A. Mccall, former presi'
dent of the New York Life Insurance Com
paDy. ana his family are stopping, il was
state at $3.50 O'clock this morning that Mr.
McCall's condition continues critical. In adj
dition to liver treuble from which Mr.. Nc
Call is suffering, complications affecting the
kidneys and other organs have set in, TO
getber with dropsical tendency. HIS init
mate friends admit that there is scant hope
for his recovery. At ore o'clock this after.
noon 1t WAS stated that Mr.. McCalPs condi'
ton was practically unchanged.
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The eruption OF MountVesavius is as
Stunning alarming proportions.
City Council.

A considerable volume of routine
business was transacted ut the meeting
of the City Council last night. There
was, however, but little discussion.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
There we're but four Aldermen present
last night when the board was called to
order.
Mr.. George l.. Simpson, who was
elected member of the board AZ the
last meeting to Gil the unexpired term
Of Mr.. :. P. Fisher, was present and
qualified.
Mr. Marbury presented a petition of
the Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemical
Company for permission to place bridge
across Princess street, between Lee and
Union, to connect their warehouses.
The paper was referred to the committee
on streets.
The action Of the Common Council
Oh all the papers sent in was concurred
in by unanimous votes.
COMMON COUNCIL
The board was called to order at $3.50
p. m, with bare quorum present, but
others came in afterwards.
The street committee reported iayor-
ably upon the proposal to provide for
paving with vitrifed brick Lee street
between Prince and King; aud also OF
King street from Fayette street west 10
the corporation line Ordinances for this
paving we're reported aud referred 10 the
finance and street committees.
Mr.. Leadbeater said it was not neces-
sary that these ordinances be passed TO-
night. Mr.. Leadbeater said further
that the King street ordinance differed
in two respects from the paving ordi.
nances heretofore passed.
The first change was that no paving
would be done in front Of real estate
whose owners did not deposit their share
OF the cost, and that in case after the
other paving had been completed the
owners of the delinquent property should
desire paving, the entire additional cost
thereof must first be paid
Second, that the consent OF at least
two thirds of the aDuttiBg property hold
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Forced To Resign.

HeIsinford, Finland, Feb. l4.-The
Firms have forced the resignation from
the government of NJ. Oerstrom, who was
assistant to former Governor General
Bobrikon, who was assassinaed because
of his cruelty in dealing with Finland.
0erstrom also acted as assistant to for
mer Minister of the Interior Plehye.
Under the new regime in Fipland, he
retained the post of adjuct minister aud
continued to act as brake on the liberal
tendencies of the new administrators OF
affairs. The reactionaries are urg-
ing the Car to reinstaIe Oerstroem in
his position, arguing that the Firms in'
suited the Emperor by forcing Gers
torems resignation.
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WHILE THE fate of the Santo Domin
20 treaty still hung in the balsn.e, ow-
ing TO the. detection OF. certain members
of the Senate minority, attention was
called to a clause 10 Article |, carrying
the obligation to secure millions OF scrip
issued by the DOningOn revoIntionlSls'
The intention of the President, 1t Is
claimed, was that money collected IRON
the islands customs should be USED I'D
settlement of foreign claims only, and
the including of domestic obligations
would bring into the deal between 49,
600, 600 and 50, 900, 600 Of the deferred
debt, scrip which has been valued as
low as S cents on the dollar. 'Santo
Domingo democrats" is nov the title
bestowed upon such of the democratic
Senators as has been won over by the
Establishments of the administration or
the appeals of spectators in Dominican
debts or Dominican real estate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-14

IN THE Senate yesterday the Vice
President announced that Mr.. McCreary
had been selected to read Washingion's
Farewell Address on the Twenty-secOnd
of February. This farce is enacted every
year and the reading makes not the
slightest impression on the lew Senators
who remain to hear it. Why at the
present time the Senate is aiding the
President in sending men and ships to
China where they are ALMOST snre to be-
come involved in foreign entangIements,
against which Washington warned the
United States.
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News Of the Day.

The Senate Yesterday debated the
ship-subsidy bill, while the House de-
voted the day to Notifications appropris-
ton bill.
Since it is impossible to negotiate a
tariff treaty between Germany and the
United States before March 1, Ger
many hopes to arrange temporary
agreement.
A revolutionary movement has broken
out in the northern part of Sanio Do
mingo. General Neney, partisan Of
Jiminez, has attacked and captured the
town of Dajabon.
Rev. Geo. H. Simmons, the banker
preacher of Peoria, ILL.,, who killed him.
self, is accused By his wife of dissipat'
ing 80, 900 belonging to her and giving
her worthless notes.
A Washington dispatch says: -Four
hundred dollars is the price paid for an
invitation to the acknowledgement
wedding to speculative guest who, II
appears, needed the money"
The Venezuelan government has senl
note TO France contending that the
rench Cable Company did not fulfil III
contract and declaring that throughout
the controversy Venezuela has acted ID
friendly manner.
The war Of millionaires for the copper
mines of Montana, 10 which $50, 600, 0OC
and hundred suits were involved, hal
come to an end by F. Augustus Heinzt
selling his dozen mines to the Amalga
mated, North Butte and United Copper
Companies.
The anthracite mine operators and thu
presidents of the cOsI-carrying roads arr
of the opinion that the coal miners have
no grounds for complaint, and that they
will oppose the demands of the men
and stand pat" with 5000, 900 tons o
coal mined. 1.-THE miners will haye Il
strike or back down." said president
of coal-carrying railway.
That his wife "thres cat In hi
| face, which severely scratched MIN, wa
one of the allegations set forth in bill
for partial divorce, filed yesterday in tn
Circuit Court of Boston by lgnatiu
bragdonowilz, "slso known rs Brag
don against Francesca BragdonowiIz
of whom he likewise complains that che
conduct has been extremely vicious,
the papers of the plaintiff having beer
prepared by Attorney w. H. WeiSsager
Rev. r. G. Fillinghsm, Of England
who attained notoriety 10 New York
year or so ago by bis opposition to Ger
tain forms of worship in some of tn
Protestant Episcopal churches, whicl
drew Bishop Potter, of New York, init
the controversy, has been sentenced by 4
church court to deprivation of his posi-
ton as a clergyman of the Church o
England for defying his bishop, nnles
within a fortnight he apologies ant
promises to reform. Filling ham, VIII
is Vicar of HextoD, in the Diocese o
st. Adams, was ordained Nonconfor
mist ia an unconsecrsted chapel, despite
the commands of his bishop.
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Japan's War Debt.

London, Feb. IA The Times in a
edition prints dispatch from Toxic
which says that, according to the de-
tailed financial programme of the Cabi-
net, which has already passed the lower
House of the Diet, JapaD's war debts
which in 1907, will aggregate / 1922, 0C0,
will be completely paid of by 1909. The
programme calls for six operators for
converting the debt during this period.
The fiscal programme shows that domes-
tic debts growing out Of the recent wal
aggregate 575, 900 yen, and they
will be entirely discharged by 1912. The
upper Honse is certain to endorse the
Cabinets programme
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Official.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

AT q regular meeting Of the Board OF Al
derman Of the city of Alexandria, Va, held
| February Is. 1906, there were present:
j. 4. Sweeney, esq, President, and Messrs
Ballenger, Marbnry and W. II, Sweeney.
Mr. George l.. Simpson, who had been
elected at the last meeting member Of the
board from the Third ward to GIL the unex.
| PRED term of Mr. S. p. Fisher. was present
! and qualified by taking the required oath
Mr.. Simpson was placed on the COMMITTEES
on Public Property General Laws and
| Schools
A petition of George :. French, secretary
of the Alexandria Fertilizer and Chemical
| Company. for permission to erect bridge
| from the factory of that company on the south
side Of Princess street to the storehouses on
the north side of said street. was referred to
| the Committee on Streets.
The following were received from the Com
mon Council and their action concurred in by
unanimous votes
Resolution directing the Committee on
| Streets 10 present IN ordinance for the paw
| ing of Princess street from the west intersec.
ton of Columbus street to the east intersec-
| ton of Henry street with gravel or other suit
able material.
Petition of suudry citizens for the paving
of Patrick street. between Prince and Duke.
Resolution appropriating $500 for the con-
structiOn of q sewer on Lee street, between
King and Prince.
Resolution appropriating $4OO for sewer
on st. Asaph street, between King and Cam
erOn.
Communication from the Sanitary Redue-
tion Company concerning the disposition OF
garbage. dc.
Petition from Martin I.awler asking 10 be
relieved FROM penalty on an unpaid tax bill
and also to he allowed discOuat
Communication from the Board OF Fire
Wardens in reference to the purchase OF new
engine.
Resolution requesting the Southern Rail
way Company 10 pave north Union street.
Petition OF the Mutual lee Company for
permission TO erect frame building on the
wharf in the rear Of their factory at the foot
of Cameron street.
Inyit,tion to members Of Council TO parti-
ciplte in the 22nd of February parade.
Resolution apprOpriating $525 for sewer,
closets, &c, and paving alley at Columbia
engine house.
License law for year commencing june 1.
1906, and ending May 81, 1907
Law imposing taxes on p1rson,, &C., for
the year commencing June !, 1906, and end
ing May 81, 1907.
An ordinance 10 provide for the collection
of certain delinquent taxes in the city Of Alex
andrI8.
An ordinance requiring the Washington.
Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Com
pany to lay grOoyed rails and pave with yitri-
fed brick on King street from Fayette street
to the corporation line.
An ordinance to grade, curb and pave Lee
street from King to Prince street with yitri.
fed brick aud granite curb.
An ordinance TO grade, curb and pave King
street from Fayetle street west to the eorpo-
ration line with vitrifed brick aud granite
curb
The board then adjourned
J. r. SWEENEY, President.
Teste: LUTHER II. THOMPSON. Clerk.
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read the first time and referred to the joint
Committee on Streets and General Laws
An ordinance to provide for the collection
Of certain delinquent taxes was read the INST
time and referred to the Committee on FL
nance.
An ordinance for imposing and collecting
taxes for the year commencing June 1906
and ending May 81. 1907. was referred 10 the
Committee on Finance.
An ordinance for imposing and collecting
licenses for the year commencing June l,
1905, and ending May 81, 1907, was referred
to the Committee on Finance.
A resolution requesting the Committee on
Streets TO prepare an ordinance for paving
Princess street, from Columbus to Henry
street, was referred TO the Committee on
Streets.
petition from Grace Church and others
TO have Patrick street macadamized between
Prince and Duke streets and set curbs with
brick cutters was referred 10 the Committee
on Streets.
A resolution appropriating $500 to lay terra
Gotta sewer from King street southwark on
Lee street was referred to the Committee on
Streets.
A resolution appropristing 500 10 lay a
terra Gotta sewer from King street northwsrd
on ST. Asaph street was referred TO the Com
mittee on Streets.
A petition from the Sanitary Reduction
Company, Of jacksonville, Fla, for permis-
sion TO install plant for disposal Of garbage.
&c, was referred 20 the Committee on Poor.
A petition from Martin Lawler to be allowed
TO settle taxes for the year 1904 on house oil!
south Washington street without penalty and
be given the benefit Of the usual discount was
referred to the Committee ON Finance.
A communication from the Board OF Fire
Wardens inclosing recommendations Of go.
w. Pettey, Chief Of the Fire Department, for
the purchase of new third size fire engine
was referred 10 the joint Committee on Public
Property and Finance.
resolution requesting the Southern Rail
way Company 10 continue the paving on north
Union street, from Queen 10 Oronoco streets,
was passed
Permission was granted the Mutual lee
Company TO erect a frame freight house rnd
Office on the wharf, rear OF factory, foot Of
| Cameron street.
A resolution appropriating 1875 for oatside
closets, bins, benches and grade aud pave al
ley, &C., at Columbia engine house was rec
commended by the Committee on Public Prop
erty and passed-ayes IL, noes o.
An invitation from The executive committee
of the Washington Birthday Association to
| participate in the parade on the 2nd inst8nt
was received and accepted.
A petition from the Alexandria Fertilizer
aud Chemical Company for permission To-
erect bridge at their factory on the south
| side of Princess stree! was received from the
| Board OF Aldermen and their action concur
| red in.
The board then adjourned.
HUBERT SNOWDEN. President.
Teste DANIEL r. STASsBURY. Clerk c. G.
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From Washington.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, Feb. IA.

correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, Feb. IA.
That the United States is facing the
possibility OF a military campaign on the
other side of the world is practically adj
mitted by the authorities here. The
statement Of Secretary of War Taft in
explaining the recent movement OF
troops TO the Philippines, and the will
ingness of State Department officials to
admit the delicacy OF the relations with
China, are almost unprecedented. There
is, of course, the possible alternative
theory that Secretaries Root and Taft
have merely inaugurated a colossal
bluff, Tor the purpose of frightening the
imperial authorities at Pekin. If il is a
bluff, il will cost considerably more
money than the real thing" did IN
1900, when troops we're seut from the
Philippines 20 assist in quelliug the
Boxer uprising. Two regiments OF in
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klOpement.

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. l4.-Mrs. NJ. A.
Lsmond, of Westport, Ontario, eloped
TO Perry, o., taking her three children
with her. The husband located them at
Perry, but she would not return so he
brought two of the children back. He
charges Robert Atcheson, wealthy ell
derley resident Of Wesiport, who boarded
with them, with alternating the affections
of his wife, and has issued a writ for
81, 900 damages, as it was rumored
Atcheson intended to join the woman.
Atcheson was followed to Brockvllle and
arrested there. He is very prominent
in religious circles, and is 60 years old.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-14

ers be not required. The subject was re-
TERED after, Mr.. Leaibester had in
reply to Mr.. Spinks informed coun-
ell that the sewer work on these
streets would be done before the
vitri6ed brick was put down. The
King street ordinance carries an APP
preparation of $4,000, and provides
that the owners of abutting property who
wish the improvement made in front oil
their premises shall pay $2.lb a lineal
foot. The cost Of the Lee street paving
lineal foot to the property owners Will
be S2.10.
The public property committee re.
ported in favor of appropriating 1926 Tor
putting in bins, closets, &C., at the Co
lumbia engine house. The report was
adopted.
An ordinance requiring the Washing
ton, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Rail-
way Company to replace their rails on
King street, from Fayette to the corpo-
ration line, with improved grooved
rails, was referred TO the committee on
streets and eneraI laws.
The following proposals we're referred
For grsvelling Princess street between
Columbus and Henry streets.
Application for allowance of dis
counts, &c, on overdue taxes on the
late French residence on Washington
street purchashed by Mr.. Lswler.
A communication from the Sanitary
Reduction and Construction Company
was referred to the committee on poor.
The company offers to gather and Gre
mate garbage &C., at less than the pres
ent cost of garbage disposal.
A request for the erection of frame
building on the wharf at the foot Of
Cameron street owned by the Mutual
ice Company was agreed to.
The Chemical and Fertilizer Company
asked permit for another bridge across
Princess street near Union, and the ap
| plicat;On was referred.
A letter from the fire wardens urging
the purchase of third steam fire engine
was referred. Letters from Chief Pet.
tey, of the Alexandria department, and
Chief Belt and Chief Machinist Robin
son, of the Washington department,
calling attention TO the necessity fol
such an engine, were attached.
An invitation to the City Council t.
take part in carriages in the celebration
of the coming 22d of February, was re-
ceived and accepted.
The annual tax bill aud the license
law for 1867 were referred to the
finance committee. as was an ordinance
to place the overdue tax bills In th,
hands of the Corporation Attorney fol
suit.
A resolution that The Southern Rail
way Company he requested to continue
the paving of Union street from Prin.
cess to Oronoco, was agreed to.
The vestry of Grace Church anC
others asked for proper improvement
on Patrick street between Prince an6
Duke street and the matter was referred
IS we're,
An appropriation OF $4OO to lay
terra Gotta sewer on st. Asaph stree
from King and like appropriation o
$500 for similar sewer on Lee street be
tween Prince and King.
After waiting a short time for tn
Board of Aldermen, council adjourned
at $40, having held session of As min
utes and transacted large amount o
business.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-14

SIXTY THOUSAND bogus names were
stricken from the Philadelphia voting
lists last November. Now the police have
made another revision aud report %, 772
inelgibles on the assessors roll. by
and by Philadelphia will get back to the
good old method of one man, one vote,
and then the democrats will have a good
chance of elecling officers for that city.
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Fifty-ninth Congress.
Washington, Feb. Il.

The ship subsidy bill was taken up by
the Senate Immediately after converting
today. According to previous agree
ment vote is to be taken at five O'Clock.
A number of amendments were offered
to be acted upon later. They increased
ocean mail services Tn the Gulf of Mex
leo and the Pacific, to include New Or
leans and Lo BOca and Cristobel on the
Isthmus of Panama; limited the bene-
iciaries under the naval reserve clause
to 5000 at any one time aud included
a list seamen aud officers on vessels en-
gagged in the coastwise trade and on the
Great Lakes.
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Sick Headache,

This distressing silment results from
disordered condition of the stomach.
All that is needed To effect cure is Il
dose or two of Chamberlain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets In fact, the attack
may be warded of, or greatly lessened
in severity, BY taking a dose of these.
Tablets as soon as the FIRST symptom OF
sn attack appears. Sold by Gibson &.
Timberman and w. +. Creighton & Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-14

PROF. WILEY, chief of the bureau OF
chemistry of the Agriculture Depart
ment, in a speech in Washington last
week said "More babies have been
killed by soothing syrup during the past
so wears than the United States has lost
in men in all the wars in which it has
been engaged" Still the Senate will
not pass either a pure food or pure
drug bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-14

PACKERS and manufacturers are said
TO be strongly opposed to the power con-
ferred on DIR. Wiley's government btu
reau by the Hepbarn pure food bill. Ot
course they are, for they known that Dr.
Wiley, had be the power, would make
them sell pure foods or else stamp on
the packages they sell just what these
nackages contain.