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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Russell sage,s VILE

New York, July PA bitter contest
over the will of Russell Sage is expect
ed to develop when it is offered for pro-
bate in this county, after the funeral of
the fnancier in Troy, N. Y. Counsel is
already being Engaged by relatives to
smash the will should it develop that
Mr.. Sage has not remembered them
adequately. Until the will is probated,
however, no move can be made as the
provisions of the will are not known.
Statements, howeve~, purporting to be
authoritative as to the disposition oil
the enormous fortune are only surmises.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
News Of the Day.

French exports TO the United States
the last fiscal year broke all records,
totaIing s1O7, 24O. 547.
Four cargoes of bananas arrived at
Baltimore yesterday. Three were from
Jamaica and one from Sama, Cuba.
President Roosevelt has approved the
plans of the republican congressional
campaign, which will have Secretaries
Taft and Shaw present the stand-pat
tariff argument.
Dowie made formal demand yesterday
upon Voliya, the present head Of Zion
City, for written and detailed account Of
the charges against him. Vollva re-
fused TO comply with the demand.
James Spratt, farm hand, was in
stsntly killed and FIVE others we're in
iured, two of them seriously, by light
ming, which struck hayshed yesterday
on the Caperton ranch, near Louisville,
KY.
]. Edward Addcks sprung a senss-
ton 10 Wilmington last night at the
union republican city and county COM
mittee meeting by declaring that he in
tended to run for Congress on the union
ticket this fall.
A buffet cor on the Great Northern
r. o : -. 10 n l-r 90 de-
raitd Saturday evening Gu high trestle
at Beaver creek, near the boundary,
and crashed down the canyon, killing
four persons and injuring seven.
The commission appointed to form
rules and regulations for the enforcement
of the pure food law held its first SEES
sion IN Washington yesterday. Public
hearings to ell interested will be given
in New York, beginning in September.
Captain Samuel Donelson, WE'LL
known democratic politician of Tennessee
and once dOorkeeper of the House OF
Representatives, died suddenly at his
home in Washington, yesterday, aged
IS years. During the civil var he serv-
ed on the staff of General Forest.
A meeting OF women at Hloubocep,
in northern Bohemia, to protest against
woman suffrage was broken up by So
cislists. The women fought the men
who tried to stop their meeting and the
socialists resorted to the use of revolvers.
Twenty persons, including several women
were wounded.
The body of Lady Curzon was buried
Yesterday in the family vault in the viii
lage churchyard of Kedleston, in the
presence of only the immediate relatives.
Bishop Weldon, who was Bishop of Cal
cutta while the Curzons were in India,
oficisted. Among the masses of flowers
we're wreaths from President Roosevelt,
King Edward and Queen Alexandra,
Ambassador Reid and many other prom
inent persons.
Anthony White, 6 wears old, and bis
brother Frank. aged living at River
head, l.. l., have confessed that they
started fire in their fathers barn and
kept Julian Beck, aged 2, in manger
for the purpose fseeing whether the baby
or the hay would burn first. The barn
was destroyed and the infant lost its
life in the blaze. The boys are too
young to be prosecuted for the crime
and it was only when they we're told
they could not go to Jail that they re-
lated the story.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
PELEGRAPHIO BREVITIEs.

A warrant charging abduction was
sworn out in Quincy, Mass, this morn
ing against Duncan Cameron, %, Of
Elizabeth, N. j. 1t is charged that he
has abducted Rita Smith, IS years old.
The House of Commons has passed the
Irish laborer's cottage bill, carrying an
appropriation Of $22, 500, O0O The cost
of the cottages is estimated at $3.50, so
that between 25, 900 and 80, 600 will be
erected.
The democratic executive committee
of the Eighth Mississippi congressional
district held meeting at Jackson today
and formally declared John Sharp Will
liams the party candidate for Congress
from this district.
United States Ambassador, to Paris
Robert Mccormick, and Mrs. McCor-
mick, were passengers on the steamer
Kronprinz Wilhelm, which arrived at
New York today from Brennan, South
ampton and Oherbourg.
The building of the Franco American
Oil Company at Marseilles, France, has
been destroyed by fire. Five persons
were injured. Burning streams of oil
flowed from the building for two hours
into the surrounding streets. The
damage is estimated at 100000.
As result Of the great blockade the
Southern Pacific has given orders to
send no more freight to San Francisco
until that already there is unloaded.
Seven thousand cars, twenty per cent.
of the available equipment of the COM
pany, now are tied up in siding near
that city. 80.
The Imperial Laundry at Colwell, Pa, and
Vine streets, was damaged by fire this morn
ing TO the extent Of about $685. 600. The sew.
enty.6ye girls employees lost all Of their street
clothes, owing to their hasty exit.
In collision between trolley car aud
wagon containing crowd OF picnIckers near
Baltimore about one o'clock this morning,
one colored woman was killed and a number
Of others were injured.
A schooner foundered in the harb0r OF
Bombay today. Fourteen persons were
drowned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Eight Against Ice Trust.

Hartford, Conn, July 24.-Attorney
General Vim. II. King and Mayor I.
Hennis. scored and important point in
their fight against the so-cslled local ice
trust in the superior court today when an
order was secured from him giving them
permission to examine the books Of the
three local ice concerns. The attorneys
for the state today filed an answer to the
plesdings set up by the ice companies last
Friday. Attorneys Sperry complained to
the court that the answer contained new
matter and allegations, and requested
time to make reply TO these. The court
granted one week. :.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT.

To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette.
The machinery of our electric light
plant was set in motion at 1880 p. M,
September Is, 1889. The plant cost US
$l4, 900 for which we gave ten notes OF
81, 400 each, dated November 20, 1889,
payable at from one to ten years with
interest. Upon November 29, 1899, we
paid the last of these notes, making the
city's Observation-Disclosures $4,000,
interest 81, $50, total Sl8,SSO.
The contract with the Schuyler Co..
called for two dynamos each to supply
so arc lights with guaranteed reserve
of ten arc lights more.
1t also called for 90 arc light of 1900
can die power each, aud 100 incanGes-
cent lamps of % candle power each;
later 20 more arc lights were substituted
for the incandescent lamps. The fol-
lowing table shows the receipts and ex'
penditures of the electric light plant, in
Guiding cost of plant, and interest paid
upon the deferred payments from Sep
TENDER, 16, 1889, to May 81, 1906:
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Virginia News.

VIM. Tabb died at his home near
Charlottesville Saturday, aged fifty
eight years. %
Thomas Durrer was tried in Stanton
yesterday in the Circuit Court on the
charge of infanticids and acquitted.
Mrs. Emily Compton has sold to Mr..
Henry Garrett the Walnut Hill farm,
located near Middleburg, Loudoun
county, for 81, 500.
Mrs. Virginia Bloxton, wife of Mr.
Albert Bloxton, OF Stafford, died at the
Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericks'
burg, Sunday sfternoo aged SS years.
Leo Willinghsm, l6 years old, son of
DR.. w. Willingham, of near Berryville,
was thrown from his horse Sunday even
ing near bis home, receiving fatal in
juries.
Invitations have been issued to the
marriage of Miss Jean CIsrksou, daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs Henry Mszyck
Clarkson, Of Hsymarket, to General
Thomas Ross Robertson, OF the North
Carolina National Guard. The wedding
will take place Tuesday, August z, in
St. PauPs Church, Haymarket.
Sidney Smith Lee, it,, son of Capt.
d. NJ. Lee, of Stafford county, grand
nephew of General Robert E. Lee, and
the grandson of Captain Sidney Smith
Lee, OF the Confederate Navy, will be
appointed second lieutenant in the
United States Marine Corps. Young
Lee has successfully passed the necessary
examination.
At Appomattox Courthouse an oil
portrait of the late Hon. Thomas 5.
Bocock, who represented that district in
Congress for seven consecutive terms and
was speaker of the Confederate Congress,
was unveiled in the courthouse, 1t being
a gift to the county by Mrs. Bocock and
her daughter. Judge Hundley made
the presentation, and Congressman Flood
received the portrait On behalf of the
county.
Knights of Columbus from all the
cities of the state met in Stsunton, Sstur-
dsy evening, with 81. Francis Council
to confer three degrees on 80 or more
candidates. D. j. Callahan, of Wash
ington, d. c., the state deputy, con-
ferred the third degree; Richard II
Davis, of Portsmouth, Va, the second,
and St. Francis Council, the first. AT
the close there was an elegant banquet
with covers for 800.
The monument to the memory Of the
Confederate dead of Caroline county,
will be unveiled at Bowling Green to-
morrow and a large gathering is ex-
pected to take part in the ceremonies.
The orator of the day will be Governor
Swanson. Addresses will also be deliver
ed by Col. r. E Lee, jr., of Fairfax, and
by Mr.. A. B. Chandler, of Caroline, and
Capt. @. 4. Smith. Judge E. O. Mon
cure will introduce the speakers.
Roderick Watson, of Colonial Beach,
a nephew of ex- Mayor Watson, Of that
town, was struck by lightning and in-
stantly killed yesterday evening at War
saw. He had been walking en- the shore
of the Potomac at Cabin Point farm and
had just taken refuge under cedar tree.
His uncle was only short distance be-
hind when the fash Of lightning came.
The body was taken 10 Colonial Beach
for burial. The deceased was q grand
nephew of Thomas Perry Of this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
To Row with Cambridge Crew.

Boston, July 24.-The Harvard Uni
versity crew which defeated Yale at New
London, last June, will sail for Eng
land next Friday, and unless the date is
changed will on Saturday. September
10, row a race with the Cambridge Uni
Versity. The race will be rowed over the
regular Cambridge Oxford course, ex-
tending from Putney TO Mortlake on the
Thames. The distance is about four and
a quarter miles. The Harvard and Cam
bridge crews will be made up exactly as
they we're in the races against Yale and
Oxford, respectively.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
$1Ol.I77 90
Expenses oflighting the city with
electricity 10 May 81. l9O6.......

electricity to May 81, 1905. SlO9,33 90
Plant 10 operation Is years 81 months;
acreage annual cost, Sc, $50 81; number
of lamps in use, 81; average annus cost
per lamp, $75. 40; average annual cost
per lamp, excluding interest due city
upon cost of plant, $69.77.
According to the newspapers the joint
committees OF Council have decided 10
recommend the passage of an ordinance
accepting the proposition of f. E.
Mandeyille, Of Philadelphia.
"The Vaudeville bid was 700 tol
the franchise for thirty years, or s., SOC
for the franchise and old plant, the city
to use not less than SIS arc lights at 6
price not to exceed $75 per annum"
10 other words the city will get $1,000
per annum for franchise the earning
capacity OF which is absolutely unknown.
1t will get SO, 500 for a plant which cost
it $14, 900, and which the best an hority
in the city says can be put 10 first class
order for $500 or 5000. 1t will get arc
lights al s75 per snnum each which has
cost it during the past II years SO. 40
each.
1t will get per cent of the gross re-
receipts in lies of taxes.
AS the city will be the lirg' st con-
sumner the electric light plant will ever
have, does it get 8 per cent. off its bill',
or only per cent. off the bills Of other
consumers
On the whole it looks like selling our
birthright for mess Of potsge.
Yours truly
JAMES BAYSE.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Norfolk and Western Railway.

New York, July pat meeting OF
the Board of Directors Of the Norfolk &
Western Railway Company, held today,
w. Il. Barnes, director of the Penn
sylvauia Railroad Company, and John
B. Thayer, Vice President of the latter
company, resigned as directors. Henry
G. Frick, one of the largest individual
stockholders of the Norfolk & Western
Railway, and L. G. Weir, representing
large stockholders interests in the COM
psny, we're elected to fill the vacancies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Fatal Mistake.

New Brunswick, n. j., July "a
Mrs. Laura Vanderveer, who lived With
her brother, George Yenable, on Rsritan
avenue, Highland Park, rose at about
2 O'Clock this morning, and went to the
closet for medicine she vas to take.
Cropping about she found a bottle she
supposed contained a tonic. Instead,
the bottle contained carbolic acid. She
swallowed a large quantity and while
DR.. Gultman wSs administering anti
dotes ard using the stomach pump she
died.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Frehzied by YeIIowiackets.

South Bethlehem, Pa, July "a
Councilman Jacob Bingel, OF Fountain
Hill, is almost crazed with pain from
yellowjsckets' stings, and his arms, legs
and body are swollen to double their nat
ural size.
The yellowjackets infest lodge az
the entrance gate or the Bingel preEl-
ises, having supplanted hornets, which
colonized there last year, and stung Mr..
Bingel so badly that he was under the
doctors care for days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
TIE REPORT of the Joint committee,

TIE REPORT of the joint committees
on light, finance and general laws recon-
meDding the acceptance of the bid of E. E.
Vaudeville, Of Philadeiphia, for furnish
ing electricity to the city Of Alexandra
will be presented to the City Council
tonight. 1t is hoped by large majority
Of the people of this city that it will be
adopted and that as soon as possible
Alexandra may have a modern plant
capable of furnishing light and power
to Ill who desire it. The people of this
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
County Assessor WayIaid.

]. w. Coulter. Of Leslie s. D., Assessor o.
Stanley County, relates the following; !
vas waylaid by complicat on Of throat and
lung troubles, bronchitis, asthma and terri
bic cough. which had affected me for years,
when was persuaded to try DR.. Kings New
Discovery. Relief came almost Immediately,
and in short time a permanent cure re-
suited" No other medicine compares With
it as q sure and quick cure for coughs and
colds. II cures after all other remedies nave
failed. Every bottle guaranteed oy Z. =.
Leadbeater x Sons, drug store. Piice ooc
and q 90. Trial bottlssfrss.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
The Thaw Case.

New York, July 24.-Every effort
will be made by the prosecution in the
Harry Thaw murder case to obtain the
testimony of Mrs. F. E. Holman, mother
of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. The dis
trict attorneys Office will try to induce
Mrs. Holman ia come here from Pitts
burg and testify; if not the representa-
tive will seek to obtain a sworn state
ment. The publication of letters Of Mrs.
Holman to Stanford White have made
Mrs. Holman a much desired woman for
the state.
Mis-. Harry Thaw returned to the
Tombs at 1870 this afternoon and was
with her husband for half an hour.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Senator AIIisofl,s Condition.

Des Moines, Iowa, July 24.-In re-
spouse to the demand of the friends oil
Senator William B. Allison for an
authoritative statement concerning his
physical condition, his private secretary,
L. j. McNelly, has sent the following;
Newspaper reports not only exaggerst.
ed, but entirely incorrect. Senator AL
lison has absolutely no kidney trouble,
and is improving steadily"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
VIII Return Home.

London, July 24.-The Russian dele
gates TO the interparliamentary peaci
conference who take the position tina
as the Doums, BY which they we're ap
pointed, has been dissolved, they II
longer have a right to sit in the confer
ence as representatives Of that nation.
will return to st, Petersburg today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24

T. . DC ule-
hem Company, offered TO furnish it at
about 1892 a ton, making a difference OF
&47s ton. Of course, the Midvale Com
psny would, under the law, have got
thu contract for the entire amount re-
ouired, if it had insisted on it. But the
trust reduced its bid TO the level OF that
of the Midvsle Company, and was award
ID one half of the work, With the ap-
parent consent of its rival. 1t is now
said that an understanding Was reachsi
for efecting a merger with the Midvsle
Company, in order to avoid future COM
petition; and that it was this merger
proposition which brought about the
agreement to divide the present contract
between the successful aud unsuccessful
bidders. So that next year the new COM
bine will get all the work at the highest
price, unless the Law limiting the purchase
to domestic manufacture" should be re-
peaIed, 20 as to allow purchases abroad.
1t was clearly shown in the course Of de-
bates in the Senate several years ago,
that amor plate could be manufactured
In this country at a cost not exceeding
1926 ton. And yet, in 1900 and prior
years thereto, the government paid the
trust $546 ton; thus giving the trust a
clear profit of 1920 ton. In 1903 the
government paid the trust 1852 a ton,
leaving the trust profit of 1927 a ton.
This year it pays only $S45 ton, still
leaving a profit Of 1920 ton. And
now that the old monopoly has been re-
established by taking into the trust the
only Independent amor plate factory In
the country, the old price of $545 ton
will be restored. With the aid of the
republican party the trust has robbed
the people of money enough to build a
score of ships and will continue to rob
them until the party is driven from
power. When it comes to rewarding
the trusts that furnish campaign funds,
the republican party certainly "does
things"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
New York Stock Market.

New York, July "A. II a. m.-The stock
market has heen feyerish and irregular all
through the first hour. Early losses following
the unfayorable morning news from Russia
were recovered on the appearance of heavy
buying orders when the market turned again
and declined under the lead Of Brooklyn
Rapid Transit. The room .afers, after the
early advances turned to the bear side and
have since been vigorously hammering the
market.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Queen MiIhelmIna Ill.

The Hague, July 24.-Queen Will
helmina was taken i'll last night and the
announcement was made this morning
that as a result of her sickness the ex-
pectation of an heir to the throne will
not be realized at this time. All Hol-
land has been cast into gloom by this
nawa
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24

IN THE national campaign two years
ago Judge Parker took the position
"that ne have laws enough to stop every
corporate abuse; that all that is lacking
is an administration disposed to enforce
the W" This cruel puncture of the
Roo. | II 1t inferentisl claim that the
success of federal prosecutions of viola
lions of law by corporations are due to
new statutes is successfully made by
Judge Parker. he conclusively shows
that there is no excuse, at this time, for
the claim of Secretary Taft that his
(Patker's) assertion in 1904, that exist
ing law lie adequate to put an end to all
trust and corporate abuses, was inaccur-
ate. For SIS Judge Parker shows: 'Not
me Of the successful prosecutions for
Iii. Is based on any new
statue" The decisions of the United
States courts, both civil and criminal,
during the last year show this and con-
clusively prove that either the Taft
Roosevelt announcement was made care
lessly or for the purpose of partisan ad-
vantage. What troubles President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft is that il
is impossible for them 70 explain why
the Roosevelt administration for over
four years did not prosecute the trusts
aud corporations, although the laws
we're On the statute books then as now
and no prosecutions have occurred under
any new law. The railroad rate legisla-
ton, just enacted, is intended to regu-
late freight and passenger rates, but has
nothing to do with the prosecutions OF
trusts aud corporations for restricting
trade, which is fully provided for under
the interstate commerce law and, for that
matter, under the common Law. Why
did the Roosevelt administration sit su-
pinely by for four years and allow the
trusts and corporations that had grown
mp under the fostering of the protective
tariff to plumber the people with i'm
punityf The answer is plain and can
not be contrOverted. 1t was because the
republican political N achine needed aud
expected and did receive large contribu-
lions from the corporations to run the
campaign of 1904 of which Mr.. Roose-
Welt was the immediate beneficiary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Sewing Machine Factories Blown Up.

Sewing Machine Factories Blown Up.
A dispatch from KattOwiz, Prussian
Silesis, says that the Singer sewing
machine factories at SOsnowice and
Bendzin we're blown up by bombs at
about the same time Yesterday. At
Sosnowice six persons were severely
wounded, and at Bendzin four were
badly hurt.
Military cordons have been placed
around the factories. A state OF panic
exists at SOsnowiee.
Sosnowice and Bendzin are in Russian
Poland, near the Silesisn border. They
are factory towns, FIVE milesapart, With
population of about 2O,O people
each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,

LUCAS COUNTY.
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that ne is
senior partner of the firm Of +. j. Cheney
4 Co., doing business in the City Of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case OF ca,
tsrrah that cannot be cured by the use Of
HALLS Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn 10 before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day Of December, A. d: 1896.
A. w. GLEASON,
(sFAL) NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials
tree.
F. J.CHENEY& CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggies, zoe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Cans Victorious.

Seattle, Wash, July 24.-Joe Cans,
champion lightweight of the world, was
given the decision over Dave Holly, after
twenty rounds of clinching and might
ing at Pleasant Beach last night. II
was far from an interesting bIttle from
q spectators standpoint.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24
Fatal Accident 10 Young Woman

Williamsport, Pa, July 24.-At
Ellenton, yesterday afternoon, Miss Ethel
Dunond, aged II, carrying q bright
colored parssol, ate mPted to get into q
carriage that Was drawd by colt. The
latter frightened at the psrasol, jumped
to one side and Miss Dumond was thrown
out upon her head. She died in short
tina
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-24

UN ~ATUKDAYi A. mas agaiu auuOunceo
that the last of the 'fnsurgent' Fill
pinos bad surrendered. Yesterdays
dispatches told of an attack by several
hundred Fllipinos on detachment of
American soldiers in which fight lieu
tenant and dozen or more Americans
were killed. This 10 similar to SPANS
long experience with the Filipinos.