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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-12
k|LL THE JEWS
HANG W|TTE X
Orators OF the League Of the RUS
sian People Thus Appeal to the
Black Hundreds.
IN WITH THE COURT CLIQUE
-----------.
Editor McstcherslSy Charges the
Bureaucracy With OPPOSE
ton to Cabinet.
IN WITH THE COURT CLIQUE
lRy Associatod rress !

~
ST. PETERSBURG, March 1i.-som.
of the reactlonary organizations are
pushing the agitation against tic radical
clements to a dangerous point. To-day
"Lnague of the Russian People, held
% service in the A1exandorevsky Monas-
terry to celebrate the manifesto of March
Sth, as Il victory for the old regime.
Later. ut the Horse Guard mcnage, the
fighting society of the same orSanlza-
tion held . public meeting and listened
to innummatOry speeches by DR.. Doubro-
YIN and Professor Nikolsky. two extreme
list leaders, in which tho orators openly
summoned their followers the black
hundreds, to kill the Jews and hang
Count Witte.
Prince Mcstchorsky, editor OF the Graz
DAMN who supported the Wltte section,
charges the bureaucracy with having
sympathy with the court Clique which
is opposing the plans of the cnbiTlet and
With melting class hatred and strikes,
with the purpose of making the national
assembly failure.
He quotes Professor Nikolsky as de-
clarEiS that friends OF tile autocracy
should see that a. number of revolutions
aries arc elected in order to furnish an
excuse for dispensing the national as
sembly with bayonets. AS proof of tho
completely of the bureaucracy, Prince
Mestchersky prints proclamation
against the Jews which. he asserts was
printed in the Typography OF the police
master with the approval of the censor
and widely distributed
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mot ALLOWED TO WEAR
/. HER ENGAGEMENT RING
London Teacher, Dismissed on
This Account, Appeals to
Law.
tspenjal Ia The Tlmea-pisuatc,,

iopeDltbi 10 Inc lllUcS-DlSpdtVN.t
LONDON. Mnrch l0.-The question
whether 81 teacher may wear an engage
ment ring while In school is likely to be
fought out In tho law courts. Miss Daisy
Turner. of Rothcrl1am recently became
engaged to n London schoolteacher, and
the betrothal received the consent of her
parents. She then wore an engagement
ring. and two days later 1t attracted the
attention of Miss Hodge, mistress ut
the Teachers Center. and Miss Turner
was informed that she would not be
allowed to wear the ring. Tile girl said
she would consult her father, and the
following day she informed the mistress
that she could not submit to tho order.
She was thcreupon reported by Miss
Hodge for INSTRUMENTATION, and was af-
forwards dismissed.
Miss Turner and her father were seen
last evening. Miss Turner stated that
previous to this incident she had never
had any trouble with Miss Hodge, and
he saw no reason why so trifling n thing
should have been made the basis OF so
serious a matter Her father intended
TO contest the Legality of the dismissal,
and an action for defamation OF char
actcsr would probably be entered
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CONGRESS MAY BE SMALL.
Several Nations Not to Send Dele
gates to Rio Ianeiro.
special to The Times-pispatch.l


WASHINGTON. d. C.. March 11.--Aluch
speculation is rife in government and
diplomatic circles just now as to the
personnel of the Pan-American congress
at Rio .Ianeiro this summer. Tho coun-
stricsI In South America are making ar
engagements for the sending of delegates
and it is thought by the nature of some
OF their discussions that only three
fourth of the countries will be rerrc
sontcd
Several OF the smaller Central Amer
lean States cannot stand the expense of
sending n delegate. although they would
be glad to do so. Venezuela. on account
of the position of Castro In regard to-
American interferences In South America.
will not be represented. Colombia is
still at outs Will, the United States over
the loss OF Panama, and will probably
not be represented.
I The republic of Panama will take ud-
vantage of her first chance to be repre-
sented at conference Of nations.
Whether Peru will send n delegate Is
not settled. as is the case of Hayti and
Santo Domingo, although the latter
country is strongly inclined to be repre-
sented.
+ 1t is known. however, that tho follow
ing countries will be represented: United
States. Mexico, Cuba. Ecuador, Bolivia,
Brazil. Argentina, Uruguay and Para,
iguay.
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Complicated Transaction.

The grand settling of accounts In
which Mrs. Compton and her mother in
dulge at the close of a day spent in the
city shopping, is an entertainment which
Mr.. Compton never misses If he can
help 1t.
Nov. mother said Mrs. Compton,,
when one OF these occasions was draw
ing to a close, can YOU give me the
sevcnty-hve cents for that little pin
cushion? Then we shall be all straight
once more
No" said the old lady. after an in
spection of her cash assets."1 can't. /
have only sixty cents in change.
Mrs. Compton loked worried. and. as
sometimes happened her husband en-
deavored to lend a helping hand
.Ysur mother has a two-dollaN bill
there he said, indicating one of the old
ladys assorted piles. why doesn't she
give you that, and you give her that
SIPS over there?'
william and his wife turned an ini-
ploring and reproachful face toward him.
don't mix us all up! That two dollars
is what l paid mother ten minutes ago
for my share of Cousin Lucy's down
puff And this s1.a5 is her share of
Cousin Edwards ash tray! If we turned
and twisted things back and forth IN
the ways you suggest we should never
know where We We're. AS 1t Is. mother
has the fifty cents / gave toward kathe-
rines dolls tea set all mixed in with
the money Lucy gave her, and we don't,
know how it happened. with all our exact
methods,"-- Youths Companion.
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RESENT THE SERMON.
Churchrnen Divide and Pastor
Will Seek Another Pulpit.

Special to The Times Dispatch,
iEoRGEfOWN. DEL. March H.
Bribery and the illegal use of money ut
election has caused ~ big stir in tile
Methodist Episcopal Church of this
town, and the pastor, Rev. Fl. T. ouigg,
who came here some time ago from
bethlehem. Pa. does not desire to be
returned by the conference that meets
ut Pocomoke City. Md. next week. Mr..
Quigg, at a Sunday service. took the
aiiti-bribery pledge of Robert c. Hous-
ton as the text of II stirring discourse
and scathinsly denounced tho buyer and
seller Of votes. He pleaded with his con-
gregation, az Christian citizens, TO abate
the evil traffic.
After the sermon former Sheriff Short
protested against the pastors sermon
ana declared political conditions in Sus-
sex county were not such as had been
pictured from the pulpit. Mr.. Quigs be-
came Indignant with the result that Mr..
Short was deposed as a member of the
official board of the church. The con-
sregation is divided between the friends
OF Short and those of the pastor, and the
matter may be taken to conference
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Brides Of the White House.

Apropos of the wedding Of the Presi-
dents daughter. it is interesting TO re-
call other affairs OF a like character that
have taken place in the Executive Man
sion. one of the leading articles in the
March Delincator is Brides of the White
House, by MRS. Schuyler Crowninshield.
n is illustrated with Il handsome portrait
of Miss Roosevelt never before published.
Miss Todd, IL niece of tile lovely Dolly
Madison, was the first bride to pronounce
her VOWS beneath the ancient ROOF,
writes Mrs. Crowninshield. She married
Congressman jackson. of Virginia. Little
is told in history about Miss Todd, but
III SHE was MS charming her distln-
snshetl relative. the fascinating Dolly,
Congressman Jackson was a lucky man,
indeed. One may in fancy sec Miss Todd
Watching from the windows of the Old
Executive Mansion. which was aftcrward
burned by the British. for the arrival of
her lover: and the lovely Dolly hereself,
hardly less excitea, peerins over the
shoulder OF the girl hy her side. Con-
gresham Jackson would presently ar
rive in one of the old Virginia coaches
driven by n yellow or black boy. his body
servant sitting With the conchman,
anxious to attend upon his master in this
the most interesting and vital moment
oil his life, One can fancy Congressman
jackson approaching in knee-brecches and
hucklou shoes taking his sip OF negus
OF teddy in the great hall before lejng
ushered into the presence of his beloved
and from the accounts of the times one
may imagine the brilliant nuptial cere-
mony, which, historians say. was attend-
ed by every one who had any claim to
social distinction.
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A Remarkable Code.

Fcarfuly and wonderfully made as is
the American Express Geographic code
for the use OF European travellers. it
hardly seems as ingenious as tho Armour
Companies code for communication with
agents regarding relates quoted by Ray
Stannard Baker in his article on Rail
reads on Trial in McCure's Magazine.
a copy OF the code was given in testj-
rony ut Chicago in May. 1908:
Jercniy--Fignre get lowest beef rates.
kinslcS-shadn rates little rather
than lose business.
Iaughsome--Rebate.
Lnunch--,Better arrange rebate there
Misunderstanding the stick at both
ends.
Launching Gan make rebate
Laundry-Force payment of higher re-
bate.
Laura Handle rebate matter very care
fully,
Lnurus--Pay rebates
Iava-PaN relates from cash on hand.
Lavello--Rebate must be confidential
And so following, AS Mr. Baker says,
"nnd rebates. of course. are criminal"
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.sHO? WIFE IN HEAD;
THEN MADE HIS ESCAPE
lsnecial "a rhc Tlmes-pispatch.l

(SpGctdt 10 y IL is'P'''N ~
.PHlA. PA. March ll.-En-=
,,aacd nj his wife Mary. from whom lie
had hecn separated for some time George.
johnson. n Norwegian sailor, last night
sought her at the home of Mrs. Annie
Nickel in the rear OF GIG Richmond
street ana shot and probably fatally
wounded her as she sat talking to
.neirhbors Without 4 word of warning
the man entered the house and fired a
bullet into his wife's head. The leaden
missile entered the neck, and taking an
inward course, shattered tile iuw-bone
and penetrateds the brain, causing Il
wound from which physicians say she
cannot recover,
After the shooting Johnson fled. He
was followed by a crowd of boys but
when he saw that lie was being pursued
he turned and Threatened to shoot the
boys who then gave up the chase and he
escaped.
Mrs Johnson WAS taken 10 ST. MARY $
Hospital in nm unconscious condition and
the police were unable to- secure amy
statement from her. johnson, though u
sailor had recently neen employed as 4
rggnr ut Cramps Shipyard.
Just what /, lle3 trouble between him
and his wife was the police do NOT know.
'rhesroliple lived in the ncighbothooa Of
the shooting until tlley separated when
Mrs Jhnsons went To hoard at tho Nickel
house. rlfe wounded woman IL 30 Years
old.
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RECTOR Wants TO RUN.
AMERICAN PUBLIC HOUSE
Says the Plan Would Be Emf
nently Successful in London
Town.

LONDON, March h.--Rev. a. Tupper
Carey, the rector of Lowestoft, Is another
clergyman, who is anxious to become
publican. THE greatest desire of my
life for the last few years has been to
take public house and run It," he told
q meeting oc licensed victunlers at
Lowestoft. II feel | could really do
very good business aud make 1t pay IL it
was run on different lines. Though our
houses are called public houses. they ca
ter for only limited section of the pub
lie. can 20 into half the public houses
in Lowcstoft and always find some of
my friends there, but feel that can
not sit down and enjoy myself. Public
houses should be houses where q man can
take his wife and daughter. and where
there Is a band. the same rs on the other
side of the water. | would have a band,
hall, a restaurant and cafe attached
and make 1t pay hand over fist, attract
ing great many men. women and every
body"
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.REVOLVERs ARE CARRIED.
IN. THE WOMEN's MUFFs
Police Protection in Chicago In
adequate = Women Are
Taught to Shoot.
Especial 10 The Tlmcs-Dispatch.


CHICAGO. ILL. March ll.-Despair-
Ing OF any protection by the police. Chi
cago women are now carrying shors-
barreled revolyers of the bulldog variety
in their muffs. Dealers report unusually
heavy sales of these weapons TO women
within the last two weeks.
The suggestion was made by business
men who employ many young women
and instructions are being given in many
establishments on how to use the re-
volver. shooting through the muff and
not taking any chances with rowdies or
thugs For these weapons a cartridge
loaded with a spread-nose bullet is pro-
vided, and ut short range 1t is guaran-
teed to put down the toughest sort of ruff
fin. even the Chicago brand, admittedly
the toughest in the world.
A young woman who is the credit
man for big shoe house said to-day
she knew of hundreds of women CO.
workers who were carrying revolvers in
side their innocent looking Inuffs or
handbags and that all of them had been
instructed in the use of tho weapons.
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Prornpted.

One afternoon n sunday school was
about to be dismissed, and the youngsters
We're already IN anticipation They re-
llNed their crampcd little limbs after the
hours Of confinement ON straight-backed
chairs and benches. Then the superm-
tendcnt arose, and Instead Of the usual
dismissal, announced: .And now, chilr
dren, Ter me Introduce Mr. l.---, Who will
give MS Il short tnllS.
Mr.. l. smilinsly arose, and after
gazing inpresslvely around the class
room, hogan: - hardly ~iow what To
SAY when tho whole school was COLI
Nused to hear 4 snail, thin Voice in the
rear OF the cluss lisp.
54 NrhuS amen and thlt deWn. ri lliladel-
.lhia Public Ledger,
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his lawyer regarding the matter, but
left his wife at the hospital.
IN CLUTCH OF TRUST.
Expert Says U. S. is Gouged BY
Powder Trust

''1rhe United States navy has just
enough smokeless powder on any one OF
Its warshIps for thirty minutes In ac-
ton" declared Robert s.. Waddcll OF
Peorih, ILL.,, before the Senate Appro-
prlations Committee yesterday. The
committee was discussing the bill for
der plant.
SOLD THEIR PATENTS.
he patents, which arc now owned by
the powder trust. were invented by two
naval officers, who experimental Mt gov
ernrncnt expense ut tho todpedo station
ut Newport, and, 1t IL said, sold their
pntents to the trust for $4,000" said
Mr.. Waddell.
Mr.. Waddell told the committee that
the country was wholly dependent in
times of peace and war on ono ss,.andc
trust that had an absolute and exclusive
monopoly on the manufacture of all tho
powder that the country required for
offensive and defensive use.
He said the Du Pont trust owned and
controlled the Latin and Rand, 1ntcrna-
tional and California powder companies.
COSTS IS CENTS a POUND.
Mr.. Waddell said the powder WIS made
under the inspection of army and navy
officers, stationed at the plant. who knew
1t WIS composed of cotton saturated with
nitric and sulphurlc acids. then washed
forming gun cotton that cost from 70 to
22 cents n pound. The gun cotton. he
said. was then gelatipiZed. and when
completed. with all salaries and expenses
added, cost 20 to IS cents pound. The
Navy and War Departments. he said.
paid the Du Pont trust 10 cents a pound
for all the government consumed.
Mr.. Waddcll said that for several years
the departments paid the powder pool IS
and 90 cents q pound. but the Interna-
tional plant was built and reduced the
price through competition. Finally this
was bought by the trust. He argued
that the remedy was to be found in the
government establishing it's own plant
Washington Post.
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FOR FITz LEE MONUMENT.
Mrs. Randolph Writes to Ask
Contributions.

Ladies of the Fitzhugh Lee Monument
Association have addressed the follow
ing communication:
To the Confederate Camps of Virginia:
Resolved. That in the demise of
General F'itzhugh Lee, this Grand
Camp of Confederate Veterans has
been deprived of one of its most
beloved and cherished comrades. the
State of Virginia of son. who de-
monstrated that his first allegiance
was to her. and who made her glory
greater by his courage and brilliancy
as "A soldier on her soil in her de-
Tense. and the country of Il citizen
eminent for wisdom in all ordeals of
his numerous responsible trusts.
The foregoing resolution was adopted
by the Grand Camp at Petersburg Octo-
Der. 1905. Veterans, it will be ono year
the Goth of April since General FitzhuSh
Il .ee died VIII you not make that day
81 memorial. ;tnd send not from your,
treasury. but from those in your county
who would give if you asked a contri-i
button TO erect a monument to his mems
Dry? He died IN the service of his State.
as president OF the jamestown EXPOSE.
ton. we can erect n monument to him,
at tho time of the EXpositie+t-.if your Will
at once. not only send your own contri-
button, hut ask some other comradc to
do tho same. Don't walt but send now,
no matter how small the slft in.
Very truly.
MRS. n. VI. RANDOLPH,
President.
MRS. EDGAR d. TAYLOR,
Treasurer I'itzhugli Lee Monument,
Richmond VA
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CHILD IS DEAD.
One of Mammoth Eggert Twins
Victim Of Diphtheria.
(Sneclal to The Tlmes-nisnaich /

ISptclaT TO The TImes-DfspatchD
SPRINGFIELD. MASS, March IL
Minnie EEgert. only four.-years old, and
yet Weighing 1E pounds, died here yes-
to-day of diphtheria. She was the daugh-
Ter St of, Of Nj and Mrs Lewis Eggert. of
moth Eggert twins brought here three
weeks ago and exhibited at the Military
Carnival. The other child. a boy, weighs
Mr.. and Mrs. Eggert were unable to
return home after the carnival, as Min
III. Clune, undertaken. understanding that
four-year-old girl had died sent a
small coffin 10 the house. This had TO
a woman six feet in height was substi-
tuted. The body could not be crowded
into this. and one of the largest collins
in the establishment was used. Mr.. Egg
CERT weighs about 100 pounds and his
wife 10 pounds.
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SISTER OF MuRDEREss
TAKEN FROM mother
Is Now in Hands Of Society for
Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children.
Especial to The Times-Dlspateh.)

NEW YORK, March 1l--1rma Claiche,
the thirteen-year-old sister of Berthe
Claiche after being taken from her
mother, Mrs. Louise Deon, by agents of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, was arraigned by them in
the Children's Court to-day, and was
remanded to the rooms of the society for
examination Wednesday,.
Tile girls mother started to rage about
her rooms on the top floor of 81 Barrow
Street. where she has been liviEg since
the trial of Berthe Claiche, vixen the So
lciety's agents came to take the girl away
.from,her. Finally Mrs. Deon3 became hys-s
5tercal.
Latter she followed her daughter to the
Childron's Court, There she said that
she had heen working for her living ever
since tho killing Of Emile Gerdron, and
was IA proper guardian for heridaugltcr,
i'm spite or tho declaration of the chill,
l,lrens society that SHE was not, an, that
Her surroundings in Barrow Street Mcres
bud for the girl.
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PROGRESS SLOWER
THAN ANTICIPATED
Greene and Gaynor Trial Enters
Upon It's Tenth Week
To-day.
{Ry Associated Press. j

SAVANNAH, GA, March 1.-THE
trial of Greene and eiaynor which enters
Tomorrow upon It's tenth Week, will
doubtless sse the conclusion of the
States case within the next two or three
days This prediction was huzarded by
District Attorney Marion Erwin week
ago, but an unexpected delay arose. and
the progress WIS much slower than lie
had ANTICIPATED.
I National Bank Examiner o.. j. johnson
will continue on the stand Tomorrow to
make clear as an expert accountant the
mass of documentary evidence submitted
by the government to show the financial
operations IN which Gresne and GnSnor
and Carter were concerned, and the di-
vision of the spoils they are charged
with having secured by conspiring against
the government.
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IN 1905. Though this was 10t years ago.
and she WAS in her sixth year tlicn, she
is stil sufficiently well and strong to see
visitors and carry on an animated con-
vcrsatIon; and. still more remarkable. to
take occasional trips to points In Con-
necticut, In which State most Of her de-
scendants are found, as there practically
all her married life was spent.
II don't want to die till all my chill
dren are dead = she told her Interviewer.
FOR I'd like to take care of them as long
as they live"
Though glad to see visitors Mrs. Hunt
Is ~ bit inclined TO be suspicious Of
strangers. rs several years ago she was
imposed upon by one of the agents Of n
certain proprietary medicine firm, and
under n pretcnse, was induced to sign n
paper, In consequence of which she was
advertised far and wide as ''nttrbuting
her long life to the fact that she had
for years used a certain whskey'-when.
in fact. she never used liquor OF any
kind.
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LETTERS LOST A YEAR.
Twas in the Postmaster Wash
Basket.

a letter was received at the postofficc
department recently from a patron in
a tiny town In Mississippi bewaiing
the fact that there had been a years
delay in the delivery of letter to him.
The postmaster who seemed to he at
fault WAS called upon TO make a report.
He looked into the matter and then wrote
the department as follows:
That letter must have dropped in my
waste basket year ago. because dis
covered it there n few days ago. which
was the first time the basket had been
cleaned ont In II twclvcmonth. will
clean out the basket oftencr hereafter
The department. will probably issue an
order that waste baskets to kept out OF
mailing rooms. or that they be emptied
OF their contents every fortnight.-Wnsh-
ington Special in New York Sun.
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Her Method of Dancing.

''N'he worst case of II hen-pecltcd man
ever saw" said the travelling man,
lis mp in my little native place among
the Berkshire hills. The hen In this case
is n smart woman Who runs u farm and
keeps everything ship-shapc except her
husband. She Is content to let him get
along in any old fashion, so long as he
does not interfere with her work. One
day he asked her apoogetically II she
wouldn't darn at least one pair of his
stockings, for every pair he owned had
holes.
she gave him n crushing glance. and
said; If every pair has holes, wear two
pairs, and the good places In one will
cover the holes IN the other And she
made him do it, too. New York Press,
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RICHARDSON WINS.
No Merger of Land Office With

The bills offered in the Senate by Sem
ators Keczcll, st. Clair and sadlor, hav-
ing as their object the abolition of the
land Office, by merging 1T into that or
the Secretary OF the Commonwealth. etc..
was called from the Senate Finance
Committee and passed by the Senate late
in its session Friday night. and sent to
the House. was by the Speaker refcrked
to the Committee on officers and Offices
n; the Capitol, which committee. after
due consideration. decided unanimously
10 pass them by indefinitely. thus killing
them. and thus leaving the Register OF
the Land Office.