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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
V. M. /, COMMENCEMENT ENDS.
Graduates Receive Their Coveted
Diplomas.
DIV Associnted Press. }


LEXINGTON, VA. June 27.-The
final commencement exercises of the
Virginia Military Institute, presided
over by General Scott Schipp. Super
intendent, took Elace today. when for.
ty-seven graduates received their di-
nlcmns, the largest class to graduate
In a numbr of years.
The valedictory address was by Ca
Diet K. A. Saunders, of Richmond, Va.
after which the diplomas and degrees
were conferred. The address to the
graduating class was by Charles D..
Mclver. LID, of North Carolina.
The exercises concluded in the hall
with the delivery Of the Jackson Hope
medals to graduates, Richard Gaarns
Dobson, of Norfolk and William Rob-
ert Nicholas. of Petersburg, Va, re.
spectively. The battalion then was
marched to the parade grounds where
the promotions and appointments in
the battalion for the next session
were read. The final military ball
was held tonight in the gymnasium.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
NEWPORT NEWS VA, THURSDAY, JUNE %. 1906

inquest tomorrow and 1t was said
today that in all probability she
would not be required to appear be-
fore the grand jury, in which case
her testimony will not be taken I'M
til the trial. In the meantime tn.
district attorneys Office will prose
cute Il most searching investigation
into the habits and movements Of
Thaw and White.
No less than twenty witnesses
were examined in connection with the
case by the district attorneys office
today Among the most prominent of
these was Thaw's valet. William
Bedford, who has been in his SER
vice for six years, and is believed
to be conversant with the events
which are supposed to have been the
immediate incentive to the crime.
White Made Insulting Remarks.
1t was announced at the Office
of the district attorney that Mr.. Gar
vim, who is preparing the case
against Thaw today discovered wit
ness who alleged that he overheard
White make derogatory remarks con
corning Mrs. Thaw, while in the cafe
Martin, Il few hours before he wag
shot. According to the witness,
whose name is concealed for tho
present, he heard the remarks of
White. who was seated two or three
tables away. and evidently was not
Whispering. At that time Mr. and
Mrs Thaw were in the cafe dining. II
is believed that this witness will not
appear before the coroner, but tina.
he will he reserved for the trial.
Another important witness who was
examined by Mr. Garvin today was
Nellie Leahy. Mrs. Thaws maid.
The funeral of Mr.. White will take
place tomorrow from his home at -.
James, l.. l.
Thaw Quit His Wife.
In the course of todays investi-
cations as to Thaw's recent move
ments, in the search for immediate
motivc for the killing of White it
was learned that Thaw sailed for Eu-
rope on April "A, last after stormy
scene with his wife with the avowcd
purpose of never returning to her.
On the same boat with him was
his sister. the Countess of Yarmouth.
The sister was not aware that her
brother was passenger for he ap.
parently took pains that his presence
Concluded on Page Ski.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28

resentatlve Hepburn, Of Iowa. took
the Senate bill providing that the
isthman Canal shall be a lock canal
from the speakers table and passed
ii. 1t was done without debate.
The bill now only awaits the sigma
ture of the President to become a
law. The entire proceedings occu-
pied less than two minutes.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28

KILLED BY AUTO.
Two other Men Are Badly Hurt in
Accident.
fBv Associated Press,

COLUMBUS. o.. June 27.-Frank
e. Stoneman, president of the North
American Lead Company was killed
and Joseph G.. and George w. David
son, were painfully Injured in an auto
mobile accident at Alton. Ohio. today,
The machine was going at high
speed when the tire on one of the
rear wheels burst and the automobile
was overturned. Stoneman was caught
under the brake wheel and his skull.
was fractured. He died in ten minutes.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
NATURALIZATION BILL PASSED
Porto Ricans Can Now Become Citi-
zens Of the United States.

zens OF the United States.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 27.-
The Senate this afternoon without
opposition passed the naturalization
bill, which has already passed the
House. after amending it so as to put
Porto Ricans into naturalization
status.
1t also makes it clear ;hat the ex-
clusion from the United States of the
believers in the poygamy referred
only to those who believed in the
practice of polygamy.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
Congressman Thomas RenomInated

RALEIGH, N. c., June 27.-Con
gresham c. II. Thomas. Democrat,
was renominated from The third
North Carolina district today amidst
great enthusiasm for the fifth term.
The convention was a large one and
the denomination was unanimous.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
NO TRUTH IN THE ARTICLES
In Discussing Charges Made in Cos.
mopoIitan He Says That They Are
Not Worth considering-Fair Mind
ed Men Do Not Hold Views Which
Are Based on Perjury He Says.
fpy Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON. d. c.. June 81
The first reply in the Senate to the
series of articles the Cosmopolitan
Magazine under the head CT 1.-The
Treason of the Senate" was made to-
day by Senator Bailey, of Texas, who
on the attack upon himself and the
attacks upon other senators.
beginning with the statement that
he did no make it practice to take
notice of criticisms, he said that the
fact that the Cosmopolitan is owned
by member of Congress. takes this
case out of the general rule.
He then SPOKE of the published mat
ter as false and offensive" but said
that he did not propose to consider
/ it from II personal standpoint, "be
cause matters of such kind dealt
with in that way, require a different
place"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
CANAL BILL PASSED.

House coneurs and the Measure Goes
to President.
WASHINGTON, D. G.. June ~
The House today, on motion of Rep.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
Hearst the Owner.

He then said that he had been in
formed that several months ago the
Cosmopolitan had been sold to w R.
Hearst, and that Immediately after.
wards. 1.-The Treason in the Senate"
articles had begun to appear. He
then declared that instead of baing
written with care and with regard to
truth those articles have been so man
ifestly designed to perjury rathau
than to inform the public that intelli
gent men have laid them aside in dis.
gust
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
Not Worth CONSIDERING.

Indeed. If considered it purely
and only from a personal point of
view. ! should not regard it as worthy
Of any notice; for nothing which this
magazine can say will injure me with
my constituents or In the estimation
of those with whom l have served in
either House of Congress. but "he
went on, 81 cannot free myself from
the belief that owe to the American
people to show them what manner OF
men these are who are striving to de.
stroy popular faith in the integrity of
all public servants.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-06-28
Texas Case Explained.

Mr. Bailey then discussed at length
the charge in the magazine article
that he had lent himself to a scheme
whereby the antitrust law of Texas,
had been evaded by foreign corpora
ton. OF this he said that it had been
thoroughly investigated by the very
legislature which elected me to the
Senate, and 1t was shown TO be so en-
tirely unjust and absurd that the de-
scent men among my most implacable
enemies in Texas no longer discussed
it,"
A committee appointed by the Tex
as legislature, he said, had made a
report unanimously generating him
and the state officers from every
shadow of offense.
Records Tell the Story.
Mr.. Bailey said further: 81 have
been five times elected to the House
OF Representatives and once to the
Senate and In all these elections. 1
spent less money than the man who
owns this magazine spent in one ward
in his race for mayor of New York.
his affidavit shows that all told his
expenses were 100000, forty times as
much as have spent in politics all
my life. Yet he talks about corrup-
tion and machines"
Mr. Bailey spoke in praise of news
papers and magazines and compared
the Cosmopolitan to the outcasts OF
society. Such publications as this"
he said, Should be scouragel from
the company of we'll behaved men and
women; they-should be outlawed by
the united contempt of honest Ten."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
LABOR Poll T|C|ANs NOT
I. FOES OF PRESIDENT
Commissioner Sargent Praises Ma
tons Chief for Eight
Hour Law Action.
New York Herald Special Service,

Now 4VEA 3Ao1AlO 0peC1al service,
Washington. Sept. 1.-Organized la
Dor has no tight with President Roose-
welt. The entrance of the American
Federation of Labor into the political
arena is not due to any opposition to or
criticism Of President Roosevelt in any
OF his official acts. This was made
known today by Frank P. Sar-
gent, commissioner general of labor.
Commissioner Sargent is identified
with organized labor and is the
president Of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen, Of which or
ganization President Roosevelt is an
honorary member, =. 80. =
The protest is against certain con-
gressmen who, in the opinion of the
American Federation of Labor, have
displayed an Indifference to the cause
OF labor said Mr.. Sargent. -
1.-The fight in Congressman Little.
tleld's district is personal one and
in no sense of the word does it mean
that the president has lost any of his
popularity with organized labor. We
cannot forget that the president has not
once advocated legislation Endorsed by
labor, but he has given us the benefit Of
his large influence in these matters. His
recent order to those charged with en-.
forcing the eight-hour law to prosecute
violators Of the law is the best of proof
that he is a stanch supporter of one of
the cardinal principles or organized la
bor, the eight-hour law. Labor does
not hold the president responsible for
the shortcomings Of any congressman
who, in the Judgment Of local organ
izations, has been derelict in matters
of interest to such organizations.
NThere are some men in congress who
will fail this time to receive labor g
vote, and these are the men who will
be defeated. - -> . .,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
.FR|cH DECLARES WAT.
ON TRAMP AND THUG
N. D. Attorney General Calls
Upon States Attorneys to
Do Their Full Duty. -.
Special to The Journal.


Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 1.-The nu-
robberies rthruout the state have re-
suited in a letter being written by At
torney General Erich to the various
states attorneys, which, in part, is as
follows: -
"Reports Of the commission of many
crimes in different parts of the state
make it necessary, if we would give
to every citizen that protection which
the law guarantees, that every state g
attorney, sheriff and police officer ex-
ert his uttermost energy in the enforce
Idle and profigate persons who
come into the state with no visible
means of support, AMI who prefer loaf
ing and pilfering to honest work, should
be gotten rid of as soon as possible.
By taking hold Of the matter energeti-
cally, we can rid the state of this I'M
desirable class, who commit most Of
the crimes, before the honest laborer,
now aiding in the gathering Of the
him of.
~ believe the failure to enforce the
statute against vagrancy is responsible
for large number of crimes commit
ted. Let not the consideration of ex-
pense stand in the way of a suppress
sion of crime. If we would preserve
the good name of the state we must
check with an. iron hand any indica.
zens will obey the law; bad ones should
be made to do SO. ~
Begin campaign against the ho.
boes and criminals, and if any assist.
ance is needed it will gladly be fur.
nlshed by this office and the governor. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
LIBERALS AND LABOR "a
OF BRITAIN AT WAR
Gauntlet Thrown Down by the Master
Of Elibank Speedily Picked Up by
Organs Of Socialists.

New York Herald Special Gable Service. Copy.
right 1906, by the New York Herald.
London, Sept. 1.-The cleavage be-
tween the liberal and labor parties in
this country is widening. The recent
intervention Of the labor candidate at
the Lockermouth election which re-
suited in conservative capturing the
seat from the liberals, has caused verv
sore feeling among the members of the
latter party.
The master of Elibank, speaking on
me authority OF the junior whip, the
other day, declared war on the indie
pendent labor or socialist party, and
expressed the conviction that liberal
ism which had never thriven upon So
clallsm had now got to stand upon it's
own legs.
Peir Hardi, the leader of the labor
party in the house of commons, has
taken up the challenge in an article
IN the current number of The Labor
Leader. He says Lockermouth is but
the first of long series of contests in
erals and conservatives.
Labor must 20 on fighting for it's
own hand, careless of whether it's enc
my wear one or two heads, for all who
oppose a labor candidate are enemies
Of labor whether. they are known as
liberal or conservative, says Mr.
Hardl. "Socialism, too, is bound to
grow. The struggle is between God
and mammon.'
Justice, the organ of social demo.
Gratis, also picks up the gauntlet thrown
down by the master of Elibank. II
charges the liberals with never hav.
Ing lost an opportunity to stab the So
cialists in the back, and makes pleas
ant allusion to liberal "humbug and
hypocrisy''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
FORECAST OF THE. NEWS; I.
EVENTS OF THIS WEEK
held on the Potomac river, Washington,

. 4 q -. . Y. -
held on the Potomac river, Washington,
Monday.
Another sporting event of Labor Day
will be the opening of the race meet
ing at Louisville. under the auspices Of
the new Douglas Park Jockey club.
The; western amateur golf champion
ship tournament will begin at the Glen
Echo Country club, St. Louis, Tuesday
and continue thru the week.
A general primary election will be
held in Wisconsin, Tuesday, to decide
upon candidates for governor and other
state officers, members of congress,
etc. s. - >,
The rifle contests at Sea Girt, N. j.,
will continue during the week.
Vermont IS state election takes place
Tuesday. The election of Fletcher D..
Proctor. republican candidate for gov
ernor, is assured. ..-2,.5..'. - -
+. A national conference to discuss the
election Of United States senators by
direct vote Of the people will assemble
Wednesday at Des Moines, Iowa.
A world s congress of biologists will
assemble Friday in the City Of Mexico
On Saturday the much-talked-of boat
race between the crews Of Harvard and
Cambridge universities will be decided
over the Thames course, from Putney
to Mortlake. Dt.-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
PUZZLE FOR FRANCE /.
IN THE sIX-DAY LAW
Endless Confusion Results From
Measure Granting Employees
Weekly Holiday.
New York Herald Special Gable Service. Copy

New York Herald Special Gable Service. Copy
right, 1906, by the New York Herald. =.
Paris Sept. 1.-The law instituting
3 six-day working week passed by the
French parliament last session, is
threatening to be the cause of an end
men and employers. -
According to the law, whenever pos
Hble the day of rest is to be Sunday.
but in trades and professions where
it is not possible for all the EMPLOYEES
to rest that day another day of the
week is to be chosen, or they are to
rest in sections vacation proportion a
day. - :
This law was no sooner promulgated
than trouble began and strange to say,
1T gave no satisfaction either to EN-
ployees or employers to decide to close
on Sunday or for syndicate employers
to declare in favor Of Monday.
BARRIERS declared that half Of the CITY
shaved and cut its hair on the first day
OF the week, and therefore Sunday
closing spelled ruin. The master bak-
e ess decided that Sunday should be their
'dles non, which means stale bread
for the capital on Monday.
Endless Confusion.
Then the actors, singers, scene shift
ers and machinists asked where they
came ina question to which theater
managers could or would not give a
reply.
But the chief difficulty has been with
the cafes, wineshops and hotels, pro-
prletors of the establishments declare
that the law as it stands is impossible
OF application and if forced will spell
ruin for their business.
Chief of the arguments put forth is
one that the employers do not all be-
long to the same category and it is not
possible to treat them all alike.
In cafe or restaurant it would be
possible to give a free day to the wait
ers. cooks, cellar men and other sub
ordinate employees, but not the cash
1ers. head cooks, head cellar men or
maitres d 'hotel
To Attack the Law.
It is proposed by cafe, hotel keepers
and restaurant men to attack the law
by the mathematical form of demon
stration known as reductio ad alb
surdum. 1t is proposed to simply
carry out the law by shutting ND all
cafes and wineshops on Sunday and
thus bring the life of the capital, or at
least great part, to complete stand
still
IT the theaters, musichalls, cabmen
and omnibus drivers should follow suit.
it is declared the city would be given
such an excellent imitation of the Eng
fish Sunday that the public would re-
volt and insist on reform ofathe law.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
VALLEY CITY. SLAYER
TRAPPED in. St. PAUL.
Northern Pacific Detective Force
Declares It Has Murderer
FAM. of Personals. ~
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. 4,
Valley City, n D., Sept. is. M.
Shorthing, alias Blackie,'' wanted for
the murder Of Marshal Personius, Of the
local police force last Tuesday morning,
has been arrested and his identity eB
tablished, according to information
given out here this evening by Special
Agent Batten of the Northern Pacific
detective. force. Shorthing was arrested
In St. Paul.
S. ID. Shorthing is about rs, whose
parents live in a claim in the Little
Missouri country. He has been employed
for some months in the roundhouse
restaurant at Jamestown, N. D. He
acquired the reputation there Of being
sober, industrious and inoffensive. He
said he was a prizefghter, but did not
show any pugilistic tendencies there.
1t is believed that he accompanied
Tom Connors. now in the county jail
here, to Sanborn and went on spree,
taking the names by which he was
known there. Of clone Star Kid or
'"Texas Kid bought a gun and began
a wholesale holding s3up stunt. It is
thought he was under the influence Of
liquor when he. committed the crime.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02

Special to The journal. 50 S$si
Washington, Sept. 1.-The usual OBJ
servances Of Labor Day will be held
Monday in cities turnout the United
States and Canada. ~ Va
William J. Bryan, after four strenu-
GUS days in the vicinity of New York,
will start for his home in Lincoln. En-
route he will speak in ST.. Louis and
Kansas City. The big demonstration
in Lincoln in honor of his return home
is slated for Wednesday. .'....,,.,:
More than score of pugilistic CON
tests are scheduled for Labor Day in
different parts Of the country, but most
interest centers in the fight at Goldfield,
New, between Joe Cans and Battling
Nelson for the lightweight champion
ship. as g..
. At Boise, Idaho, Vice President Fair
banks will take part Monday in the
opening Of the annual meeting of the
National Irrigation congress, the SEES
sions of which will last thru the week.
Two thousand delegates are expected to
attend. = -
The largest fleet of battleships, ar
mored cruisers and torpedo craft ever
assembled under the American flag will
pass in review before President Roose-
welt in the waters off Oyster. Bay next
Monday. ..... 80 :
The Middle States regatta will be
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
VETERAN HANGS SELF
IN HISTORIC DUNGEON

New York, Sept. 1.-Daniel Locke,
50 years old and veteran Of the civil
war, shabbily dressed and with a wood
en- left leg, committed suicide in the
southwest corner of Fraunces tavern at
Pearl and Broad streets, Manhattan,
where Washington took leave Of his
troops, by hanging himself to beam
with a leather thong.
The spot where Locke committed sui
eide was formerly dungeon where
American patriots were imprisoned in
the colonial and revolutionary days.
How the man clambered down into the
cellar with but one good leg is a mys-
terry. ',S
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
SEEK TO SAVE GUER|N
FROM DEVIL S ISLAND
Friends of Notorious Criminal
Enlist Two Governments
.. in Inquiry. ....
By Publishers Press.

Chicago, Sept. l.-Chicago relatives
and friends of "Eddie" Guerin, world
famous bank sneak and criminal. are
engaged in frantic endeavor to save
on DEVILS island.
Solicitor Simms of the British treas
ury department is in Chicago making
an investigation which will decide
whether Guerin, who was rescued from
Devils Island in "Monte Cristo''
fashion, will spend the rest of his days
on the scene of Dreyfus' imprisonment
or be protected in his stolen freedom
by the flag of England.
Officials of France and England are
engaged in an international inquiry into
Guerin 8 citizenship, the result of which
police authorities of the entire world.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
YANKEES PACK LINERS
Exodus from. Britain Begins, but Amer
+. -. -. leans Yet Pour In. -

-. - leans Yet Pour In.
New York Herald Special Gable Service Copy.
right, 1906, by the New York Herald. IS
London, Sept. Livery liner sail
ing for home is crowded and the re-
sources of the steamship companies are
taxed to the utmost. One day this
week 200 left Euston for Liverpool.
Americans, however, continue to form
q large percentage of the people Of
London: Hundreds are daily, making
nent. 7 q: E,.%5 - .,I.t...::,
The passenger list of the Oceanic
furnishes some. amusing samples of no
menclature. For instance, there are
Mrs. Sprout, Mrs. Budd and Mrs. Bios
som, Mrs. Moss, Mr.. Bush, Mrs. Branch,
Miss Wood and Mr.. Forest. In view Of
these it is certainly appropriate that
the passengers include Gardener and
Wells and Pond. The presence of
Frost seemed at first sight ominous, but
the prospect frightened when it was
discovered that there. was on board a
family Of Coales. az
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
FATHER AND TWO SONS
IS .:@,, KILLED BY LIGHTNING

Troy, n. Y. Sept. Newt Graves, a
county, and his two grown sons, John
and Bascom Graves, were instantly
killed by lightning. The three had
sought refuge from a storm in house
they were roofing, and while under shell;
ter, lightning struck the house. Two
other men were seriously but not fa-s
tally injured By the same stroke.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
THREW AWAY HIS MONEY
Why a Little Jap on the Oriental Linn
- tied Was Sore.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. -
Minot, n. D., Sept. l.-When the
Oriental Limited reached here yester
day there was on board an excited and
disgruntled little Jap, who was mourn
ing the loss of 1920 in American silver
and silver watch. It seems that the
Jap desired to dispose of a pair Of
trousers for which he had no further
use, and wrapping them ii a neat bun
die, threw them out Of the window.
Then he realized that he had forgot
ten to first remove his money and
watch. The train was stopped and a
search made, but the bundle was not
found.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
JAILBREAKER CAuGHT

New York. Sept. LA man said to
be John Cecil Oswin, alias John Oswell
who escaped from jail at Deer Lodge
today. q
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-02
ROCKWELL CITY ROBBERY

Special to The Journal. 49, -
Marshalltown, Iowa, Sept. 1.-Rob-
bers forced an entrance to the postoffice
at Rockwell City and worked the COM
bination on the safe, securing $500 in
money and stamps. No clew. =, ..-..>