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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-29
OPINION ON TAXATIt

Theater open at saltair this
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Union to Take Action.

Iuceused over the suspension of Alvin
J. Tanner, a bookbinder at the govern
ment printing Office, the members OF the
bookbinders' union are up in arms. A
special meeting of the arbitration board
of the union has been called for Saturday
afternoon when it will be decided what
action will be taken.
Tanner was temporarily relieved from
duty on August Is because of an alleged
failure TO comply with the orders Of act
ing Foreman Asbiou. The charge was
Investigated with the result that yester-
day Public Printer Stillings sustained
Foreman Ashton by suspending Tanner
for thirty days, TO date from August l 8.
The members OF the union are en-
phatic n their denunciation Of Ashton,
upon whom they pace the brunt of the
blame. They consider him an enemy to
their organization. aud contend that be
has misinformed the Public Printer SIS to
the actual state Of affairs in the bindery.
They say that his charge sgainst Tan
ner is absolutely unjust, and that be is
trying TO do everything be can TO dis
rupt any pleasant relations between Mr..
Stillings and the employees OF the govern
ment printing Office.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Carriagemakers EDjoined.

Fifteen wsg IN and carriage manufac-
lures of Washington took legal steps
yesterday to prevent members of Wash
ington Lodge, No. ~, Carriage and
Wagon Workers International Union,
from further interfering with them in
the carrying on of their respective bus
nesses or from molestiug their employees
by threats OF personal violence or of pc.
cuniary injury. The litigation Is in the
form of an injunction.
The manufacturers In their petition
claim that the scale of wages proposed
by the union for ratification was unjust
and impracticable in that 1t required
that an inefficient workman should be
paid the same compensation as the most
skillful laborer. 1t is stated that the
union was notified that the scale would
not be accepted, and that after this
notice had been served on the union the
complainants declared "open shep."
The strike committee, it is alleged, after
receiving the netice attempted to COM
pei and coerce the complainsnts into
meeting their demands, first by pur-
suading their employees to leave them
and next By waylaying and illuminating
their wOrkmen. Ii is also declared that
the defendants picketei the places OF
business of The manufacturers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Death of Mrs. Lee.

Mrs. Elizabeth Blair Lee, widow OF
Rear Admiral s. p. Lee, died at her
home, at Silver Spring, Md, yesterday,
in her eighty.ninth year. She is sur
vived by her only SOD, State Senator
Blair Lee, of Montgomery county. Mrs.
Lee was the last to survive of the family
of Hon. Francis p. Blair. sr., whose
close personal and political relationship
TO President Andrew Jackson and long
active participation 10 public affairs give
him an important place 10 history. Mrs.
Lees mother was Miss Gist, daughter
of Nathaniel Gist, and granddaughter OF
Christopher Gist, the early Kentucky
explorer, who informed Daniel Boone Of
that country. On hef mothers side
Mrs. Blair, ST., was descendant from
the Howards of Maryland and Careys OF
Virginia.
Mrs. Lee was sister of the late Mont
gomery Blair, formerly judge in st.
Louis, Mo-, and afterwards postmaster
general in President Lincoln's cabinet.
Another brother was James l.. Blair, q
lieutenant in. the United States navy
who resigned his position, went TO Cali
fornia and placed the first steamboat on
the Sacramento river aud laid the foun-
dation Of good fortune, but died at
the age of 80 years from the result OF ex'
posure occssioned by the Wilkes Ant
arctic expedition. Her youngest brother
was the late Francis p. Blair, ir, the
free soil leader of Missouri, who was also
a member of Congress. general command
ing the Seventeenth Corps of Sherman 4
army, and afterwards democratic nomi-
nee for vice president on the Seymour
ticket.
Mr.. Lee was born al Frankfort, KY ,
June 20, 1918, and went to Washington
as child with her father, Francis P
Blair, sr., editor of Andrew Jackson's
political orgsn, the Globe. She had
much of her fathers and mothers talent
and sympathy, and soon became a great
favorite Of ''Old Hickory"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Murder and Attempted suicide.

Driven to desperation by Jealousy, Jo'
seph Paoleucchi, aged thirty.two years,
a shoemaker at 1916 Fifth rect north
west, Washington, shot and killed Lucy
Dodge, seventeen years old, daughter
of Mrs. Elizabeth V. Dodge, of 437
Fifth street northeast, aud Immediately
afterward attempted to end his own life
yesterday.
Paoleuccbi fred three shots at the girl,
two of which took effect. One bullet
penetrated the right breast, while ar
other entered the heart, the last missil
causing almost instant death. Psoleu chi
then turned the weapon upon himself,
the bullet penetrating the right thoraclc
region, between the fourth aud fifth ribs
He was removed to The Casualty Hospi-
tai, where 1t wss said last night that the
wound is serious and may prove fatal.
The tragedy occurred at 4:40 O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon on the sidewalk
within q short distance of the Dodge
girls home. The girls mother witnessed
the tragedy, having hurried into the
stree. when she heard the shots, reach
ing her daughters 81 just as she
bteathed her last.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Leper i'm Wincester.

A man, well-dressed and afflicted with
leprosy, reached Winchester yesterday
afternoon on a south bound freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Local police were notified by Train Dis
patcher w. Wray Smith, and acting upon
orders issued by acting Mayor w. P.
Mcclure they refused to allow the leper
to get of the train. The man would not
give his name, but stated that he had
boarded the train a; Piedm ont, w. Va,
and was on his way TO Richmond, Va.
Ugly looking sores we're found on bis
face and one arm was carried IN sling.
Railroad men were afraid TO go near
enough to the leper TO put him of the
train, and he lief, Winchester yesterday
afternoon travelling in an open freight
car and going south. According TO the
police, the man is not Rachid, the Syrian
leper. His identity is a mystery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Panic-sfricken Sicilians.

Rome, Sept. l4.--Carrying scores of holy
images in their ranks and stopping frequently
By the roaisides to pray for deliverance from
the prevailing earthquakes, long professions
of panic stricken Sicilians are marching
from their homes toward the sea. The
whole country in the region Of Palermo has
been thrown into a state of great alarm owing
to the continuance of the shocks and there has
been general exodus from all the villages
toward the coast. The pilgrims are already
suffering for want OF food and famine is
threatened. Numerous bakers and provision
deslers have followed the example Of their
neighbors and closed their shops TO join the
marchers. la some of the villages IL is almost
i'm possible to obtain food. Relief is being
hurried t. the island by the government
All that is needed to complete tie panic Of
the people is an eruption from Stromboli, but
so f,r the volcano has remained inactive.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
MYSTERIOUS Murder.

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept IA -Philadel'
phia detectives working on the mystery
surrounding the murder of Mrs. Maurice
Lewis, the Allegheny girlin her boarding
house in Philadelphia last Monday, are in
Pittsburg, searching for man relieved to
be the murderer today. They had long
conferences with superintendent John
Glennie and Assistant Superintendent 7. C.
johnson of the Allegheny force The officers
arrived today, on the same train which carried
the husband Of the murdered woman and the
body of the victim. Mrs Lewis body was
taken to Simpsons undertaking establish.
ment, on Sixth avenue, from where the funeral
will be held tomorrow
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
News Of the Day.

After three days Of strenuous sessions,
the democratic State convention oil Cob
orado last night adjourned after naming
ticket with Alva Adams, OF Pueblo,
fer governor.
The Susqueharna plant of the Ameri-
can Agricultural Company, located al
Clinton street and Ninth avenue, Lower
Canton, Baltimore, was destroyed by hre
yesterday morning; loss $50, 600.
Chairman Knapp created sensation
yesterday by reading at the Interstate
Commerce Commission hearing a letter
from western railroad president. de-
nouncing railroad men who asked that
the 30-day rule be suspended in export
rates.
The firemen's psrade in Baltimore
Yesterday WAS the feature Of the jubilee,
aud one OF the NEST complete dsmonstra-
tons of the kind ever witnessed in this
country. Nearly all Of the Maryland
companies were in line, while Pennsyl-
yaDia, Delaware, aud Washington sent
the pick of their fire fighters. A dele
CATION OF Alexandrians was also in line
No word from the steamer Brewster,
of the United Fruit Company, which Is
more than six days overdue, from Port
Antonio for Boston, was received yester-
day by the officials of the company in
that city. The Brewster is commanded
by Capt. Frederick Hintz, aud has a
crew of thirty-three men, almost all OF
whom are Germans. She carries no
passengers.
Intense excitement was caused on Lex
ington street, near Howard, Baltimore,
Yesterday afternoon about 4:25 O'Clock
by the breaking of temporary footpsth
10 front of 229 west Lexington street,
and the subsequent PRECIPITATION into the
cellar beneath the sidewalk of about 30
people, 80 of whom were known to be
injured. The accident occurred just
after the jubilee parade had passed, and
when the street was smmed mass oil
humanity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
White Cal,s.

AZ has heretofore been stated in the
Gazette, it is said that farmers in this
vicinity have organized baud of White
Caps for the purpose of experimenting
and lynching horsethieves who have been
operating in the northern countries OF
Virginia on the wholesale scale.
Several of the msrsuders have been
arrested, but none has been punished,
and the thieving is still in progress. The
White Caps have openly declared their
intention of taking the law into their
own hands. Horses have been left stand
ing on the road TO entice the ''rustlers"
while the White Caps hid in the woods.
When the White Caps receive word at the
crossroad store that a stranger has been sen
they inquire the direction be took and start
out after him. The White Caps have a
leader, who is su horized 10 make arrests,
but under the saddle Of one Of the riders, it is
said, rope is carried, and if thief is caught
with a horse the rope is intended for use.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Girl kidnanned.

Philadelphia, Sept IA While " kin
on Mount Carmel avenue, Gienside, with
two young men last night, NJ ;. Agnts
Mulroouey, Is years old, guest at tia
home OF Eugene Csrdlno, Glenside, WAS
kidnapped by three men and carried off IN
an automobile. ".'he y Jung woman was
accompanied in her walk BY Frank Car
dino AN man named Ere z. They
notified the Chel,euham police. Tbe
friends of Miss Mulrooney are at loss
TO account for the kidnapping, slthough
it is iutimsted that the act was inspired
by member OF they Jug womsn's lam
lily who is sctuated BY motives of re.
veDge.
Charged with having abducted his
pretty sister-in.l law in an automobile, Charles
i'ardino, wealthy New York merchant. is
under arrest here today. The abducted girl is
Miss Agnes Mutronry, eighteen years old,
whose sister married Carcino several years
ago. They had separated nd the police al.
lege that he seized the girl 70 revenge him
self on the wife. Later the girl was founi IN
an apartment at the Bellevue -Stratiord Hotel.
She refused to make any statement. Ca iino
also had apartments at the same hotel
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Monument Unveiled.

Columbus, o., Sept. IA statue
erected to the memory OF President Wal
liam Mckinley BY the people of Ohio,
was unveiled today in this city where the
dead executive bad made his home dur
ing the four years he served as Governor.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daughter
of President Roosevelt, did the unveil-
ing, while Senator John w. Daniel, of
Virginia, representing the South, and
Supreme Court Justice Day for the North
delivered the principal addresses. Judge
Day reviewed McKinleys life. Senator
Daniel paid tribute to McKinley's men,
DRY and said: "History has already lifted
to q plane higher than these material
memorials could ever rise, his name and
his browning works. We believed that
its fiual work will confirm its contem-
porsneous Judgment. We also believe
that his fame will grow, as grows all
good fame well planted.
al do not seek to canonize him as n
saint, or to exalt him as demagogue.
He was neither. Such ranks do not be-
long to men. He doubtless had his
faults, at least that assume, and this |
think, for he was a man, and there Is
none perfect, no, not one. He was chris
tisn and gentleman. He made mistske
and errors as have done the great and the
small, the good and the bad, the wise
and the foolish, but beuignity beamed
in his countensnce; charity was in his
heart and in his hand, and if none
threw stones save those VINO had lesser
faults than he, stones would lie still and
hands hang down. There was in the
sum of his qualities noble aspect, q
genial influence, 3 friendly attractive
ness, and an upward and onward exhor-
tation. And there was a'so certain
subtle uameless magnetism that drew
men to him and made good women honor
aud love him. He loved his fellow
men. Alb, there was the inclination
of his nature. He said all be could to
cheer them, be did the best he couid to
serve them, and this is, to my understand
ing, what is meant by true glory"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
The ThaW Case.

New York, Sept. IA New counsel
in the Thsw case appeared today when
John II. Iselin, former assistant district
attorney, called at the Tombs and regis
tered as associate counsel for Harry K.
Thaw, the murderer OF Stanford White.
Mr.. Iseliu was closeted with Thsw for
an hour.
Mr.. Isclin is a partner of Howard s.
Cans, who until the FIRST Of this year,
was chief of staff in Mr.. Jerome's Office.
This firm represents the district attorney
in the petition he presented for The remov.
al OF Justice Duel from the bench and
likewise represents Mr.. Jerome in seve-
raj civil suit. The new attorney is 9
member of the well-knOwn Iselin family.
Employment OF firm standing SC
close to Mr.. Jerome in the defense Of
Harry Thaw mas excited considerable
comment about the criminal courts build
ipn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Girls In q Panic.

Hundreds of men and women who we're
dining late yesterday afternoon in Psbsts
big Harlem Gale we're driven panic
stricken into One Hundred and Twenty.
6flh street, New York, when fire from a
millinery store next door broke through
the walls into the great auditorium
shaped dining room. Forty girls were
overcome in the millinery store, and
were carried down ladders from the up
per stories by fremen.
The fire started from defective iDsula-
ton in the cellar, aud spread so quickly
that in few minutes il was burning the
woodwork of the stairwsys and had cut
of that means of escape for the girls em-
ployed 10 the finishing and trimming
rooms, on the upper stories of the shop.
The alarms were turned 10 and the
department quickly responded, Cap
tain Lawlor leadings squad of 6remen
up the ladder TO rescue the girls, many
of whom were hanging from the windows
and screaming for help. A great crowd
collected and number of would-be
volunteers started fights with policemen
10 their endeav1r to break through
The lines.
The firemen managed to take down
all the girls who were, at the front oil
he building, and then started search
through the rear rooms. They found
eight girl unconscious from smoke aud
several more we're found later in the
hallway of the third floor. TIE girls
we're removed 10 the hospital The fire
damaged property to the extent OF $780,
900 before il WAS controlled.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14

THE PHILADELPHIA papers of today
state that but 8S men Of the ], 200 who
in 1861 formed the SSth Pennsylvania
regiment are now living. The survivors
met yesterday to hold their fortieth re-
union when officers were elected, etc.
This is the regiment which together with
the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, in Febru'
airy, 1862, sacked and burned the Ga
zette office, though up to the present
time not one of the members of either
regiment has had the msnliness to adj
nit the wrong. But war is hell.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Virginia News.

The Piedmont ConvocatiOn will con-
vene in Iced. Parish, Fiuquier county,
September 1928. Couvocstion preacher
Rev. r. w. Micou, d. D.; essayist, Key
j +. Coleman; speaker: Rev. ). W.
Ware and Rev. ]. j. Clopton.
Rev. David Harris, one Of the oldes
ministers of the Baltimore Conference,
Methodist Episcopsl Church South, was
parslyzed at his home, 10 Middletown,
Frederick county, last Sunday morning
He died yesterday, aged 20 years. Dc
was native Of Berkeley county, Wes'
Virginia.
Miss Ida Dulsny Beverley, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. @. Beverley, Of
Essex county, will be married to Mr.
Harrison Wexford, sou OF Mr.. ane
Mrs. r. Garter Wexford, of "Sabin'
Hail." Richmond county, Oct. 10. al
Oakley" the home of the BRIDES uncle,
MIR. II. Refer Dulany, 10 FsuquieI
county.
A special grand jury in Winchester
on Wednesday returned Indictment
against Charles A. Fisher for conspiracy
against his wife to secure separation
from her and against Frank Orndorft,
charged with completely in the conspi
racy and With criminal assault upon
Mrs. Fisher. Judge Harrison announced
that he will summon special term o.
court next weet at Woodstock to try
Orndorff, while Fishers case is act fol
November. 81
William A. Stith, committed suicide
at his residence, in Petersburg, YESTERDAY
by shooting himself through the head
with pistol. Mr. Stith was 40 years
old, very happily married and leaves
widow and two bright little children
No cause can be assigned for his act be-
yond the fact OF bis health. Stith babe
his wife goodbye to 60 to work, but be
fore leaving his home he told his wife
that the children wanted her upstairs
After Mrs. Stith had gone upstairs h'
Invested himself of bis coat 10 his sitting
room, laid down on lounge, placed 6
pistol to his head and discharged the
weapon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Nude In Art Saved BY Age.

A propos of his latest aesthetic order
creating an cart squad" Chief OF Police
Kohler, of Cleveland, Ohio. had some
thing to offer Wednesday evening on the
old masters. A postal card agent brought
in buuch of vari-colored pictures re-
produced from the originals. "Them
obscene?" asked the agent, slapping
the reprint masterpieces down on Kohl.
er's desk. The chief let ont his belt and
tucked his kercbief in his collar, then
Michael Angelo, Titan, Fireuze, Raph'
ael and Werner certainly got theirs.
The cards showed Aurora dishabille, with q
retinue of Cupias and nymphs wearing less
than Aurora herself, and other pictures
equally as shocking to the unartistic
"t'retty raw" commented the chief, "hut
what's fellow going to do? Here's ls
centuries of public approval behind that.
That's where the old masters score on me
Can't pinch 'em for that. Court wouldn't
hold EN-"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14

Col. ALBERT CLARKE, of Boston,
president of the Home Market Club,
is so pleased With President Roosevelt
position against tariff revision that he
declares "it is just the position OF the
Home Market Club" That ought to SET
tie the question of the extreme protec'
tionism of the President, when it is re-
membered that the Home Market Club
is an appendage of the protective tariff
league and these two organizations be-
lieve the tariff protection to the trusts is
a sacred contract that should not be
tinkered with.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Bull In Big store a Terror.

Pottstown, Pa, Sept. IA Running
away from the rest of the herd, big
bull bounded into the dry goods store of
Ellis Mills here yesterday and bad every
thing his own way. The customers aud
score of girl clerks vsulted to the top
of the counters aud tried TO look brave,
while the beast charged up and down
the aisles and made scatteralion Of
things ia general. A red petticost Gu
one OF the counters particularly excited
bis Ire, and he made bee line for it, to
the peril of the girls, who barely had
time to get out OF his way. The owners
of the animal then arrived and got him
into the street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14

SO "RoAsT BEEF"-in cans-is real y
boiled beef, and it may continue TO bt
thus labelled, provided the label explain;
that the name is false one and that the
stuff was prepared in pot an d not in an
oven. 1t will then be easy, says the
New York Tribune, toanswer the cOnun'
drum, "When is roast beef not roast
beef?" When it comes out of can,
stupid But, then, it is proverbisl that
veal pie is kittens, and what's the odds,
so long as you're hungry?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
From Washington.
Of the Alexandria Gazette.
IUaah;noton Sanf IA

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Washington, Sept. IA
"a continuation of the difficulties in
Cuba for any length of time will have p
serious effect on the sugar crop" says
the Bureau of Manufacturers of the
Department of Commerce aud Labor to-
day in the Daily Consular and Trade
Reports. The scarcity of labor, owing
10 the enlistment Of men both for the
Government and for those opposing 1t,
has already had detrimental influence
in the sugar plantations, according to
the bureau. A number ofplsnters oper-
stiDg on credit have found it impossible
longer to continue business even when
not afraid that the veyolution will
destroy the result of their lsbors, for the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Ninety Years old. Seeks Divorce.

Omaha, Neb., Sept. IA "A sensation
al petition for divorcewas filed at Allan
tic, Ia, yesterday, by David NJ. James, of
Anita, who seeks separation from his wife,
Marie James, en- the ground of cruel
and inhumsn treatment, intoxication.
threats against his life, desertion and
Numerous other offenses. James is
nearly 80 years old, wealthy and one Of
the pioneers of Csss county, while his
wife, with whom he became acquainted
aud to whom he paid court through a
matrimonial agency, is yet in her teens.
James relatives aud friends protested
strongly against the marriage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-14
Letter to p T Harrington
Alexandria, Virginia.

Dear Sir: There's twice as much horse IN
one horse-it may be mare-as there Is 10
two or three others together.
So with psiRts too If painter can do
your job with ten gallons Deyoe for 500; It'll
take IL, is or 20 Of other paints; and the cost
Of a job is about S. gallon, whatever the
paint may be.
There are paints adulterated three,quarters
--only one quart Of paint in a gallon-he
got to paint four gallons Of rubbish to get one
gallon OF paint. The worst horse you've got
is a. good as that paint. and he'll go as Tar.
The less-gallons paint is the paint, as the
most-horse horse is the horse.
Yours truly,
F W bEvoE & Co.
New York
p. S.-E 8 Iladbeater d Sons ss'i our
paint