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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-27
Official.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

At a regular meeting Of the Board OF Al.
derman Of the city Of Alexandria, Va, held
June 26 1906, there were present;
j. T. Sweeney, esq, President, and Messrs
Hill, Burke, Marbury, nallenger, Simpson.
Curt and W. II. Sweeney
The report Of the Committee on Streets
recommending an appropriation Of 81. 800 for
the purpose of constructing pipe sever on
Columbus street from Wilkes TO Duke street.
received from the Common Council June II,
1905, and laid over. was adopted by unani-
nous vote.
The report of the joint Committees on
General avs and Streets recommending the
adoption of an act of the Legislature Of Vir-
gina regulating the running Of automobiles.
was laid over until the next meeting.
The petition Of Charles Beach for perDis-
sion to erect frame shed at the southwest
corner Of Cameron AMI Patrics streets was
received from the Common Council, that
board having granted the same. The Alder
men nOn-cOncurred and granted the petition
providing adjoining property-OWners urged
no objec' ion.
The following were received from the Com
mon Council and their action cOncurred IN
by unanimous votes:
Message from Fred. ]. PAT, Mayor, in ref
erence TO injunction proceedings concerning
the Henry street railroad track.
Report OF the Committee on Streets on a
resolution to appropriate 500 for the employ
ment Of person 10 interview property
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News of the Day.

The Senate committee on interOceanic
canals has decided not to go to the
Isthmus of Panama and take testimony
in the canal investigation.
While King Haakon was on board the
Dutch warship Tromp at Trondbjem
Yesterday cannon exploded, killing one
man and injured three.
The Senate in executive session yester-
day ratified the treaty with Mexico
concerning the division of the waters of
the Rio Grande river for irrigation pnr'
poses.
The Philadelphia Bureau of Health
has directed the owners of 81 slaughter
house in that city TO abandon their es-
adjustments because of unsanitary CON
ditiOns.
The House yesterday adopted the
conference report on the bill to restrict
tho use of the waters of Niagara Falls
in order to preserve the scenic beauties
of the falls.
The French financial budget submit
ted to the Chamber Of Deputies yester-
day shows a deficit of $50, 000.0 900 in
consequence of the extraordinary mill
tary preparations during the Moroccan
crisis.
Having taking laudanum with suicidal
intent, George Barrett, IS years old, died
late Monday night at his home, near
Washington Junction, Frederick county,
Md. Barrett a number of years ago
married widow, a Mrs Walker, of
Virginia, who had four children, among
them daughter, Of whom Barrett be-
came very fond. Recently the girl
married in Washington and since then
Barrett had been respondent,
Alex Shields Halifax, carrying ll9
pounds, made a new worlds record
for seven furlongs on circular track
when he won the Swift Stakes at Sheep.
shead Bay yesterday. He was quoted
at to in the betting, and stepped the
distance in "a As, which is one-fiilh
of second faster that the Musketeer's
time made at Saral' ga in 1902, and
Aeronaut's time made this wear at Bel
mont Park,
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The Governors Appointments.

Governor Swanson yesterday named
the following members of the board OF
directors of the Stanton Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Institute George w. Kin.
sey, of Washington; Burnet Lewis, of
Richmond; 5. H Miller, of Lynchburg
Mr.. Miller has been member of the
board for several years.
The Governor appointed r. E Black
well, of Ashland, and Judge Asa d.
Watkins, of Farmvile, members OF the
board of the Virginia Industrial and
Normal School.
Governor Swanson yesterday also an
nounced the following members of the
board of visitors Of the Virginia Military
Institute, Lexington, for the full term
of four years, beginning July A; Col.
Francis L. Smith, Alexandria; DR.. Raw
ley NJ. Martin, LyDcbburg; A. A. B.
Low, Warsneck, Gloucester county; Maj.
Thomas ]. Nottingham, Norfolk; Sena-
tor Thomas L. Tat, Drap'r. All the
appointees are new men, with the ex-
ception of Colonel Smith, who is a men,
Der OF the present board.
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Fatal Fail.

New York, June 27.-Dr. H. H.
Welding, well-known in Newark, n. j.,
and member OF the old and wealthy
corporation, the Cooper Chemical Com
paDy, was killed last night, according to
advces from St John, n. B., by either
falling or jumping from window of the
Royal Hotel, in that city. His dead
body was found on the sidewalk, under
meath the window OF the room he occu-
pied at ll:1O a. m. today. 1t is thought
Welding fell from his window, distance
Of thirty or thirty five feet, to the ground.
DIR. Welding went on vacation for q
much needed rest. He leaves wife and
several children. lie was forty years
of age.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-27

TEE democrats of Indiana at their
late convention adopted an admirable
platform, which deserves success by the
support of all honest citizens. The
following plank is especially worthy OF
careful attention by democrats and indie
pendent voters in every state as fair
statement of the conditions imposed on
the people through republican legislation
and the remedy proposed when the demo-
Gratis are entrusted with power - the
platform said "For nearly ten years
the republican party has been in abso-
lutte control in all departments in the
national government, with power to
change unjust conditions and to rectiiy
evils. Yet during that time colossal
combinations of capital have dominated
the people and have sGhed competition
and unfairly limited the opportunity of
the individual citizen Wealth thereby
illegally obtained has been unspariDgly
used to control legislation and corrupt
elections. No honest effort has been
made or is being made by republican leg
islation to cure or eradicate these evils.
We denounce the hypocrisy of the re-
publican party, which, while pretending
TO legislate against these conditions,
deals only with the symptoms and no,
with the disease. The unfair, tyranni.
cal.features Of the so called protective
tariff have made these things possible,
and no permanent relief can be secured
until its obnoxious features are removed.
We demand that this lie dene by tariff
for revenue only. The growth Of the
trusts and other inOrdinate and danger
Gus combinations of capital, the tremen-
dous and rapidly increasing absorption
and Capitalization of the wealth of the
country in the hands of chosen few, all
due 10 premeditated and systematic leg
islstion in behalf of special interests by
the republican party. demand change
in the politics imposed upon the country
by that party and make the passage of
restrictive laws an imperative neces-
sity."
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ing room. White, it is alleged, made an
audible aud uncomplimentsry comment
regarding Mrs Thaw. Harry Ihaw
overheard it, and, shaking his finger IN
Whites face told him that he would
get even with him for his words. de
kept his word few hours later.
Mrs. Thaw at 1915 drove up to the
Tombs in an electric hanson. She was
dressed quietly in white shirt waist,
brown skirt, and brown hat. A brown
veil covered her face. Mrs. Thaw was
accompanied by Josiah Thaw, OF Pitts
burg, brother of the prisoner, and to
many this indicated that the Thaw fam
lily would stand By their erring relative.
After having been searched she was
escorted to her husbands cell where she
remained a short time.
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owners on upper King street concerning pro-
posed street improvements.
Report Of The Com hitee on Ii h, on pc
tition Of the Alexan Irla Light lnflntry Tor
an abatement of gas bill.
Petition of sundry citizens for a sewer IN
the alley on Royal street north OF Prince
street.
Report of the Committee on Streets on a
resolution appropriating 500 for sewer from
King street TO leadte eaters alley.
Petition of Jos. F. Rodgers for permission
to reshngle the roof Of house No. 2l7 north
Royal street
An ordinance to sell certain property and
authorizing the Mayor to execute deed for
the same.
Resolution looking to the paving with Wit
ri6ed brick Of Fairfax street, between King
and Cameron.
Petition of the Reliance Fire Company for
an appropriation OF SI0t to help d. fray the
expenses of the company's visit To Richm nd
in August next.
Communication from the State Auditor of
Public Accounts regarding the city's appor-
tonment Of the salary of the Judge of the
Circuit Court.
Report OF Thomas w Robinson, City Treas
urer, for the fiscal year ending May 81, 1906.
Auditors statement for the tis al year end
ing May 81, 1905
Report of the operations OF the gas works
for the yer ending May 81, 1906.
Resolution requiring the Washington, Al
exandria aud Mount Vernon Railway Com
pany to repair its track and overhead con
struction where needed.
The unfavorable report Of the Committee
on Streets on petition of the trustees of the
NJ. +. Church South for exemption from the
sewer tax was received from the Common
Council and their action cOncured in-ayes
5, noes 3
The Aldermen procee led 20 the chamber OF
the Common Council for the purpose Of par
ticpating in the election of Physician 20
the Poor and upon their return adjourned.
j. 4. SWEENEY, President
fro,,o. I IrTUEp III THOMPSON Clark
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There's Hill at Bowie, Tex, that's twice
as big as last year. This wonder is W. l.
Hill, who from a weight Of 80 pounds has
grown to over 80. He says: 81 suffered with
terrible cough, and doctors gave me up to
die Of Consumption. ! was reduced to 90
pounds, when / began taking DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. Now, after taking Y bottles, / have
more than doubled in weight aud am COM
pletely cured" Only sure Cough and Cold
our. Guaranteed by Z. S. Leadbeater 4
; on. Druggists. soc and s1OO. Trial bottle
Tree.
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Divorce Granted.

New York, June 27.-George E..
Loyett, whose divorce case has been oc-
cupyilg the attention of Brooklyn for
the past two weeks, was granted a de-
cree from his wife, Grace, by the jury
today. The disposition Of the two chill
dren of the pair will be determined
later on. The jurors found that Mrs.
Lovett was guilty of adultery with Harry
Alfred Grant, at Jacksonville, Fla, on
April 10, IL, and II, 1905.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-27

WALTER WELLMAN, who will seek
to discover the North Pole by means OF
an airship, has arrived at Trondhjem.
He ssys il will be quite impossible for
him to start on his expedition this sum-
mer. Possibly a vision of Andre has
arisen before Wellmsn's eyes and he
hesitates to take the sail into the never,
never land
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Virginia News.

Mrs. Leroy Herndon, aged y years,
died Monday night at her home, near
Stafford Store, Stafford county.
Mrs. Mary Towles, widow of DR.. Will
liam B. Towles, lecturer on anatomy in
the University of Virginia, died yester-
day at her residence, near the univer-
sity.
Josiah Robinson, a prominent and
wealthy retired farmer and frui. grower,
died yesterday at his home, near Win
chester. He was in his eighty-iOurth
year, had lived in Frederick county all
his life and was leading member Of
the Society of Friends.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-27
Earthquake Shocks in Wales.

Cardiff, Wales, June 27.-Earthquake
shocks were felt throughout the southern
portion of Wales this morning. At
Merthyr Tydvill school children became
panic stricken and rushed from the
school into the street Although there
was a great crush to leave the building,
none OF the pupils was injured. All
the big buildings in Cardiff were shaken.
So far no damage has been reported.
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King Edward and the Jews.

London, June 27.-The decision of
King Edward to hold court tomorrow
instead OF Friday, so as to give an OPP
portunity for the leading Jews to attend
the junction, has aroused the greatest
interest Although it is known that
King Edward has thus long wished to
honor the Jews, yet it is thought that
he has taken the present opportunity to
show his sympathy for the plight OF the
Jews in Russia, and that the Gar can.
not fail to take the pointed hint.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-27
WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 81, 1906.

THE MURDER OF Stanford White by
Harry Thaw in the Madison Square roof
garden in New York last Monday night
is the sensation of the hour, and the
newspaper accounts of the affair are be-
ing read with eagerness by millions from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, as we'll as
by almost as many more in Europe,
where the parties are well-known. From
a superficial view it would seem that
deliberate and premeditsted murder has
been committed under but few extenust'
ing circumstances, White having been as
fascinated amid scenes of gaity and under
conditions where he was given no op-
portunity to defend himself. The latter
may or may not have been the model oil
a man who appeals TO the conservative
portion of the world, but that his MUIR
derer was of the Count of Monte Christie
stripe is apparent. Probably both had
adopted "Dum vivimus vivamus" as
their motto. 1t is certain that Thaw
had ever been animated by it. The
history that led up to this bloody scene
is suggestive. A woman figures before
the world as its cause. She appeared
before the foOtlights few years ago
with a capital consisting of a beautiful
face and a symmetrical figure. She
realized her possessions and banked ex-
clusively upon them. She attracted the
attention of two Opulent men. One OF
them, whose eyes are now sealed In
death, had a wife. The other was free
of marital entanglements, and 10 lltlle
while he and the artists model were
traversing the globe to the disgust OF the
mother and sisters of the woman's com
paniOn. The relations of the coup lie be-
came a universal scandal by reason OF
their exclusion from hotels, until finally
a marriage ceremony was performed.
Then, it seems, came hereaction. Thsw's
mind went back to the early career OF
the woman he had made bis wife, his
Tory he seems to have had no disposition
TO examine previously, and his brain,
added by years of epicurean living, was
set on fire by jealousy toward a man he
supposed had previously enjoyed the
fayOrs of the beautiful model and flower
girl. He brooded over it until he COM
mitted murder. The widow of his vic
tim is now weeping over the remains OF
him who had vowed to love her only,
the murderer is in shackles and the
woman, the cause of all the trouble, with
her nervous system shattered, is prison
er in a hotel beset by newspaper men
and others. According today's dis
patches, White, after the woman had
become the wife OF Thaw persisted in
following her around. This may or may
not be so, and Whites lips being closed,
he cannot contrOVert these assertions.
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Automobile Race.

Lemons, France, June 27.-Seisz, the
French driver, driving Rena Renault
machine, today won the grand auto
mobile prize race over the Sarthe course.
Seisz was six hours, fourteen minutes
and seven seconds Nazaro, an Italian,
driving a Fiat car, finished second, and
the French driver Clement, was third,
in Bayard
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear. There is only
one way 10 cure deafness. and that is by
constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused
by an in1amed condition ofthe mucous lining
Of the Eustachian Tube. When this tnbe Is
in1amed you have rumbling sound or i'm
perfect hearing, and when it ~ entirely
closed, Deafness is the result, and useless the
Inflammation can be taken out aud this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing will
Le destroyed forever; nine cases out OF ten
are caused by Cstarrh, which is nothing but
an inhamed condition ofthe mucous surfIces-
We will give you One Hundred Dollars
for any case Of Deafness Caused by catarrhl
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Core,
Send for circulars free F. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo O. Sold by Druggies, Zoe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Summersprices on coal. See our advertise
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Four OUT of 10 applicants for yscau-
cies in the force ofappreuticies employed
in the various trades at the Norfolk
navy yard we're rejected by naval sur
geons yesterday because they smoked
cigarettes. The edict has gone forth
that the government wants no cigarette
smokers in its skilled force. The Nor.
folk and Western Railroad Company has
issued an order forbiding their employees
10 using cigarettes gnnder penalty of dis
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From Richmond.

Especial Dispatch to the Alexandria Gazette
Richmond, Va, June 27.-Gov.
Swanson today fatty refused to pardon
A. Chadwick Burton, the Epworth
League faker now in Jail.
The Corporation Commission resumed
the freight rate hearing today and L.
Green, traffic manager of the Southern,
took the stand. A. II. Plant was ex-
cused from further testifying for few
DAYS.
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Cars soldiers and socialists.

st, Petersburg, June 27.-The men
composing the Preobraieusky regiment
are holding meetings daily where the
sympathy of the socialists is freely ex-
erted. The agitation is also spreading
among the members Of the Semeuof
regiment which is stationed in 81 Peters
burg.
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Killed Bride and Attempted Suicide

Comfort, Tex, June 27-ln the
presence of large number of guests as
sembled for the wedding, Joseph Rein
hardt, the groom, last night shot and
killed Miss Ernestine Kuber, the bride,
and then fired two bullets into his own
breast. Reinhardt will probably die.
so far no reason for the crime has been
discovered
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-27
Three Men Drowned

Waterbury, Conn, June 27.-Tnree
men we're drowned this morning in a
vat of crude petroleum in the plant of
Holmes, Booth Il Hayden Company.
They were each overcome in turn by the
fumes Of the oil, and fell unscOnsciOus
into the vat and were drowned. All the
bodies were recovered.
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Now York Stock Market

New York. June p. II a. m.-Outside Of
inter.metropolitan the stock market showed
a hard firm tone, all through the first hour,
nearly all the stocks traded in making ins
ranging f ON half TO u points, at the open
ing and taking realizing sales later in good
shape and wthou, any * essive reaction. 81.
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dismissal from the serviceo the company
The baneful effects of cigarettes have
often been get forth by medical men,
and the time has come when those using
the same are debarred from securing
positions thereby, as they are believed to
impair the responsibility, especially Of
Young persons.
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partment by two prominent citizens Of Nor
folk having summer cottages at Willousb
Beach, who claim that their lives and PROF.
erty were endangered during the recent
target firing from Fort Monroe when pro
iectiles struck the Beach l ear their cottages
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Fifty-ninth Congress-.
Washington, June 81.
~w-n~ A ~

SENATE,
A bill was passed in the Senate today
creating the "United States Court of
China" and fixing its place of meeting
at Shanghai, Canton, Tseutsin and
Hankow.
Mr.. Cullom made faux pas of great
significance in the Senate this afternoon,
when he sent to the desk for immediate
consideration resolution, which he said
be had been directed to report by the
committee on foreign relations.
1t recited that the committee had by
unanimous consent agreed to report the
Algeciras treaty, aud that it asked the
Senate to unanimously agree to vote
upon it December II. There was i'm
mediate confusion. Several Senators
were on their feet demanding recogni-
ton. Finally, it having been called to
Mr.. Cullom's attention that the question
was one for secret consideration, he
withdrew the resolution.
1t will come up again later.
The Senate this afternoon without OPP
position, passed the naturalization bill
which has already passed the House,
after amending it so as to put Porto Ric-
ans into naturalization status. 1t also
makes it clear that the exclusion from
the United States of the believers in
polygamy extends only to those who be-
lieve 10 the practice of polygamy.
HOUSE.
The House today, on motion OF Mr..
Hepburn, took the Senate bill providing
that the Isthmian canal shall be lock
type canal from the Speakers table,
and passed it, 1t was done without de-
bate The bill now only awaits the sig
nature of the President to become law.
The entire proceedings occupied less
thar two minutes.
The House this afternoon, by vote OF
l5l to 81, adopted a rule declaring as
germsne to the general deficiency bill,
the paragraph yesterday eliminated on
point OF order, legalizing the collection
of customs of duties in the Philippines
between April IL, 1899, and March 9Th,
1902. These duties were collected un-
der an executive order by President Me-
Kinley, and the legislation in question Is
desired to prevent the recovery of duties
thus paid, which aggregated Sl2, 900, 600.
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BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

Mr.. Simpson submitted favorable
report of the joint committee on general
laws and streets on an act of the Gen
eral Assembly regulating the running of
automobiles, and spoke in favor of the
adoption of the same.
President Sweeney was avelse to the
adoption of the State law, and thought
Council should pass a municipal ordi
nance regulating the running of such
machines.
Mr.. Simpson said The act embraced
everything necessary for such law.
There was, he admitted, certain yerbage
in the act prepared by the Legislature
which could have been omitted in city
ordinance, but the Councils of other
cities in the State had adopted it, as re-
quested by the Secretary Of the Com
mOnweath.
Mr. Hill said some provisions in the
act appeared to him drastic
Mr.. Burke wanted 10 known if the
fines imposed would 60 into the city
treasury after the adoption of the act.
and was assured by Mr.. Simpson that
they would. The act was the State law;
when i. shall have been adopted by
Council it would apply to Alexandria
President Sweeney (Mr. Curtin in the
cham insisted that the city should have
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JOINT CONVENTION.

A joint convention then assembled,
the Aldermen coming into the chamber
of the Common C.uncil, and President
Sweeney announced that the object was
to elect physician to the poor vie DR..
w. r. Purvis deceased. DR.. Walter A.
Warfeld, Dr. LIeweIlyn Powell and DIR.
A. A. RittenOur were nominated.
Alderman Hill-We have not had a
physician TO the poor from the First ward
for long time. DR.. Warfeld ought to
be chosen
On the first ballot The vote stood War
field If, Rtteuonr 3, Powell f. and DR..
Wsr6'ld was declared elected.
The joint meeting then dissolved and
the board adjourned.
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City Council.

The annual statement of the Auditor,
the report of the City Treasurer aud that
of the Superintendent of Gas were sub
mifted at the regular meeting of the
City Council last night. There was
also joint meeting at which DR.. Wal
ter Warfeid was elected Physician to
the Poor to I'll The vacancy occasioned
by the death OF DR.. w. r. Purvis.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-27

The sworn statement OF the manufacturers
proiects yon from opiates in Kennedy's Laxa-
tive Honey aud Tar. sold by ". +. Creighton
q c., 40l King street.