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Card of Thanks.

We, the undersigned, wish to thank
the neighbbrs and friends who so kind
ly assisted during the illness and death
of our beloved wife and mother.
John w. Ward,
James j. Ward.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTES

News Of Interest In and About the State Cap
itol.
As the automobile bill passed the
ouse II did not look much like the
printed copy, The main features OF
the bill are not changed, the speed
limit being rs miles al hour, allowing
tho machine 10 bs "bAiled" after EN-
pounded,
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Clerk Fred l.. Hamilton Of the house
of representatives and Secretary Wal.
ter X. Farnsworlh Uf the senate, and
their competent assistants have so long
performed their labors TO the saiisfac-
zion OF the public that Il is almost SUI
perluous 10 inYiie attention 10 the
good record they have made again at
this session. Lawmakers, however,
will agree that without the experience
and level head 81 these men, legislG-
ton would have hard shedding At
times aud the public business would
often times oe delayed and snarled up
for war. Of competent hands to keep
the machinery In order.
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WANTED.

INANTED-Men for Automobile driving
w and repair business; complete, course
sos; send stamp for catalogue; correspond.
ence course a specially. Boston Auto School,
343 fremont Street. Boston.
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Woman loves clear, rosy complex.
ion. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies
the blood, clears the skin, restores
ruddy, sound health.
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As the genial secretary OF civil and
military aGairs last evening present
ed the member from BrAttleboro With
his commission a. judge OF the NUM-
cipal court Of the town which be has
representaied with such honor at this
session, he said 10 substance that be
was becoming somewhat weary OF sign
Jog commissions for him. First. he
was made a colonel on the governors
sian, commission one: next, he was
made a justice OF the peace, and 10y the
governor, commission two; then he was
made a member OF the board of visit.
ors to Norwich University, commission
three; and last, and far from least,
comes a commission naming him the
Judge of the municipal court Of Brat
tleboro, commission four.
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS

JAMES SILK, contractor and builder. Also
y repairing, rebuilding ana shopwork. Shop
OF Union street.
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FOB SALE.

I,oR SALE-Sleigh in good condition. Mrs
II S. L. Jewett $50 South st. 30tf
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UNOR SALE Large size, self.feeding
II Graphic" parlor stove in perfect order.
X. II. Merrill. Washington Ave. 2s2tf
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LAST OF MOHICANS
FRANCES FREELOVE JACKSON
AND HER ROMANCE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WORCESTER, Mass. October 6-Miss
Frances Freelove jackson, the only real
Indian in Worcester, and the last of the
Mohicans, was 101 years old yesterday
Miss jackson was disappointed that she
did not die on her Tooth birthday and has
no desire to live. Miss jackson has had a
romance in her life.
When she was seventeen years old she be-
came engaged to an Indian, one of the Mo-
hican tribe. Her mother objected to the
wedding because she did not want her
daughter to marry a man with rowing
disposition. She has been member OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Colchester,
Conn. for eighty-nine years She has many
peculiarties, one of which is her positive
refusal to eat anything containing lard or
pork
Miss Jackson was born in Franklin. Conn.,.
on October 8, 1906. She was the second
oldest of family of ten. Her father was
Arson jackson, a pure-bfooded Spanish In
dian. Her mother was Phileno Mezo.
Mohican. They were not rowing Indians,
and lived peaceably in Connecticut. Her
mother lived to be 101 years old.
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MEDAL OF HONOR GIVEN
PRESENTATION MADE TO MAJOR
sTRAUB BY THE PRESIDENT.

AS recognition OF gallant service in the
face of fire Maj Paul F. Straub. a surgeon
of the United States army, was presented
with a medal of honor today by President
Roosevelt The presentation was made at
the White House and was attended by
many prominent army officers.
The heroism which prompted the giving
of the medal was displayed by Maj. Straub
at Alos, Zimbales. Luzon. December p,
1899. The officer was then surgeon of the
seth Volunteer Infantry, commanded by
Brig Gen. j. Franklin Bell now the chief
of staff. Maj. Straub voluntarily exposed
himself to the fire of the enemy in repelling
an attack Of insurgents, and. at great risk
to his own life, rushed to the rescue of a
wounded soldier and carried him to a place
of safety. Maj. Straub was heartily COM
mended for his bravery by Gen. Bell, and
in the awarding of the medal.
Mai. Straub's home is at Mount Pleasant.
Ia He is a graduate of the State Univer-
sity Of Iowa and of the University of Ber-
lin, and was appointed to the army from
Iowa in 1892. He served In the Philip
pines from 1893 to 1901 and was in Panama
for a year prior to his assignment to duty
in the office Of the surgeon general OF the
army in Washington last January.
The first presentation OF the medai OF
honor by the President, under the reguia-
tion which makes such an event a feature
Of the award of the emblem, was to an
other officer of the medical department
Capt r. Church OF this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06
FOR THE FREDERICK FAIR.
Fine Prospects for Strong Attractions
-Presbytery Meeting.

-1resDytefy meeting.
Special Dispatch to The Star
FREDERICK, Nd, October 6.
Secretary J. Roger McSherry Of the Fred
erick fair. before leaving today for the race
meet at Albany, N. Y, on a final trip to in
terest horsemen in the races at the fair
to be held here October 16 to 10, stated that
from Information obtained on visits to the
principal fairs of the east this season, he
could state that the entries for the local
races would be unusually fine, and that in
all other departments the fair would sur
pass previous exhibitions. Special arrange
ments will be made for the entertainment
of the members of Almas Temple, Mystic
Shrine, Washington, who will visit the fair
on October 10. They will be given build
ing on the grounds for headquarters.
: The presbytery OF Baltimore, which held
it's 2Sth stated meeting at Emmftsburg
this week, took under its care student
for the ministry Charles E. Lefund, a He
brew and freethinker. He will attend the
Presbyterian Seminary at Newark, N. j.
Rev David Nelly of Baltimore was elected
moderator of the presbytery.
Hotel Braddock, at Braddock Heights,
where a number of Westinghouse spent
the summer, has closed after a successful
season, and the post office there has been
discontinued for the winter.
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CARS AND THEIR DRIVERS.
America.

four cylnncr gasoline: entrant s. T. Davis, jr.
No. 1-Driver. Herbert lie Blon: 115-h.-p. Thorn
as. four-cylnder gasoline: entrant. Z. r. Thomas.
No 5-Driver. Frank LawweN 11Oh.-p. Prayer
Miller, fou--cylinder gasoline; entrant, W. j. Mil
Ter.
No. 14-Iri,er. H. n. Harding: 5O-h.p. Haynes,
four cylinder gasoline: entrant John Haynes
No. 17-Driver. Walter Christie: 50-h.-p Chris
tie. four-cylinder gasoline entrant, Walter Chris
tie.
France
No. 10-Driver. Louis Wagner; 1OO-h. p Darracq,
ur-cylnde: gasoline: entrant. A. Darracq.
No. g. Driver. Elliott F. Shepard: 130-h.- p.
Hotchkiss four-cy Under gasoline; entrant. Hotch-
kiss Company.
No IGI,river, Albert Clement: 1OO-h-p. Glenn
ent Bayard, four-cylinder gasoline; entrant, Glenn
ent Bayard.
No Driver. George Heath: 120-h-p Panhard
fOurcylindr. gasoline entrant. Panhard- Levassor.
No. lS--Driyer. Dnrayi 120-h.-p. De Dietrich.
four cylinia: gasoline; entrant, \. De Turckheim.
Italy.
No +Driver. Lancia; 120h.p. Fiat. four-cylin-
der gasoline: entrant. F. l. A. T.
No. s--Iriver. Navarro. 12O-h.-p. Fiat four
cylinder gnsoline entrant. F. l. A. 7.
No. 16--Iriver, Dr. Aldo Weschott; 12Oh. p.
Fiat, four-e Hinder gasoline; entrant. F. !! A T.
der gasoline entrant. italia Company.
No. 19Driver. Fabry; 40 h. p. 1tala, four-cyl1n-
der gasoline; entrant, italia Company.
Germany.
No. 3-Driver Jenatzy; 12O-h.-p Mercedes, four
cylinder gasoline: entrant. Robert Graves.
No Driver, Luygen; 120-hp. Mercedes four.
cylinder gasoline; entrant George Mex Brown.
No 11-IoXhan =. keene; 1901 p. Mercedes
four cylinder gasoline; entrant FoXhall p. Keene
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THAT'S GOING SOME.
TWO NEGROES LYNCHED
MOBILE MOB SENDS TWO TO THE
DEATH.

MOBILE, Ala, October 6.-Two hundred
masked men met Sheriff Powers with the
two negroes charged with assault at
Richardson switch, three miles north Of
Mobile, on the Southern railway, took his
prisoners from him and hanged them on
the spot. No others were hurt. The ne
groes had been taken to Birmingham for
safe keeping and were being brought to
Mobile for trial.
MOBILE, Ala, October Ga committee
of sixty men left here on the Southern
railroad at o'clock this morning to meet
Sheriff Powers Of Mobile county. who is
returning from Birmingham with two
Mobile negroes charged with. criminal as
sault The committee expects to meet the
sheriff and prisoners about thirty miles
the program is, but the feeling here is
that the prisoners will be taken from the
sheriff and lynched or burned outside of
Mobile Two thousand men met the Louis
Vile and Nashville train this morning,
but were disappointed at the non-arrival
of the sheriff and prisoners, who had
gone by the other route.
MOBILE, Ala, October 6.-Sheriff Pow
ers and his prisoners have reached Thorn
asville, Ala. ninety-seven miles north Of
Mobile. They are scheduled to arrive
here at II 80. There is no militia aboard
the train. Much excitement prevails in
Mobile
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06

The North Carolina was authorized by
Congress April 81, 1904, and both she and
her sister ship, the Montana are being
built by the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company, at a cost of s3575-
coo for each vessel The North Carolina
will have displacement of 800 tons. will
be 5O2 feet long, y feet 101a inches beam
and will have draft of % feet. Her con-
tract requires that she shall make a speed
of % knots hour.
when completed the North Carolina will
carry the heaviest armor and the most
powerful armament for a vessel of her
class. Her main battery will consist of four
10-inch guns, sixteen G-inch guns and four
21-inch submerged torpedo tubes. The sec
ondary battery will consist of TWENTY-FIVE
3-inch rapid-fire guns, twelve 3-pounder
rapd-hre guns and several guns o. smaller
caliber. The 1O-inch guns will be mounted
in pairs. in two electrically controlled, clip
teal turrets on the center line, one forward
and one aft, each with an arc of fire of
about 27O degrees. The 6-inch guns will be
mounted four in independent classmates on
the main deck, the remainder in broauside
on the gun deck, all on pedestal mounts.
Those on the gun deck will be behind five
will be protected in the rear. as well. by
two inches of nickel steel. There will be
four of the 6-inch guns at the ends of the
battery, arranged to fire right ahead or
right astern, respectively, and the other g.
inch guns will have the usual broadside
train. The guns of the secondary battery
will be mounted in commanding positions,
The hull of the North Carolina will be
protected by a water line belt of armor
worked in vertical strakes amidships, where
1t will be about II feet 3 inches IN height,
extending from the protected deck to the
gun deck port stills. This armor will be of
a uniform thickness Of inches through
out the machinery and magazine space and
3 inches forward and aft. The upper side
armor will be disposed in the wake of the
6-inch battery and win be inches thick
throughout. AthwartsfTip armor of 6 inches
thickness will be fitted from the protective
to the main deck The 1O-inch barbettes
will extend from the protective deck to
about feet above the main deck, and will
consist of 8-inch armor in front, finch ar
NOR at the rear below and 6-inch armor
above the gun deck. The armor Of the con-
ming tower will be 8 inches thick. Teak
backing of minimum thickness of inches
will be fitted behind all the side armor
There will be complete protective deck
extending from stem to stern bulk up of p.
pound lower plating throughout with nickel
steel Of 100 and 40 pounds on the slope and
20 pounds on the fat except over the maya
zines where 1t will be 60 pounds forward
and abaft the 10-inch barbettes
The engines on the North Carolina will
be OF the vertical twin-screw. four-cylin-
der, triple expansion type Of a combined
indicated horsepower OF not less than 3d.
pellers when going ahead. There will be
sixteen water tube boilers. placed in eight
water-tight compartments. The vessel will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06
OCEAN STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS.

NEW YORK, October 6.-Arrived:
Steamer Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, from
Hamburg.
SIASCONSET, Mass, October 6.-The
steamer ST. Paul, from Southampton and
Cherbourg, for New York, was in commune
cation with the wireless station here when
abeam of the Nantucket lightship at 1:30
am today. ST. Paul probably will reach
her dock about 1870 pm. today.
NEW YORK, October 6.-The big steamer
Bermudian, which went aground in New
York harbor yesterday while bound in from
Bermuda, was relocated today. 1t is be-
lieved she was not seriously damaged. She
started at once for her dock.
NEW YORK, October 6.-The Cuban
steamer Guiana, which has been chartered
by the American government to transport
troops to Cuba, sailed from New York to-
day. Her destination was not announced,
but it is supposed that she is bound for
Newport News.
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SUBWAY EXPLOSION VICTIMS.
Coroner to Probe Affair to Place Re-
sponsibility.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, October 6.-By
the death of Cato Benignano, a laborer in
the Pennsylvania Hospital last night, the
number of fatalities resulting from the ex-
plosion in the subway at 9th and Market
streets early yesterday morning was in
creased to eight. Another of thirty men in
jured is expected to die.
The Willard Construction Company, which
is building the subway. and the United Gas
Improvement Company are shifting respon-
sibility for the accident. Both corporations.
however, conceded that the explosion was
directly caused by Illuminating gas leaking
from either the Market street main or the
one on 9th street. The point upon which
they disagree rs the cause of ignition of
the gas.
City officials are conducting a rigorous
investigation on this point, and Coroner
Jermon may hold an inquest into the death
Of the eight victims Wednesday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06
MURDER SUSPECT HELD.
Prisoner Arrested in Mexico for an
Idaho Crime

BISBEE, Ariz., October Ga man whose
name is as yet unknown, but who is be-
lieved to be Simpkins. member of the
Western Federation of Miners. connected
by the authorities with the dynamite MUIR
der of Gov. Frank Steunenburg of Idaho,
is under arrest at Cananea, Sonora, Next
CO. and is being held there at the request
of the Arizona rangers.
The prisoner answers closely the official
description of Simpkins. Capt. Tom Ryn-
ing of the rangers. who returned yester-
day from Cananea, so states, but he is
not positive of the mans identity. Ryning
has sent for a man in Arizona who is well
acquainted with the real Simpkins to iden-
tify the suspect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06
PRINTING HOUSES YIELD.
Two Local Establishments Adopt
Union Rules.

Chairman T. c. Parsons OF the printers
eieht-hour committee announced to the
striking typos at roll call today that two
other printing houses in this city had
yielded to the demands OF the union' ana
would, beginning Monday morning, conduct
their establishments on an eight-hour union
hos,s The concerns in question are those
- McC,tu a Wallace and s. e. Tomlinson,
enc r street, Both were formerly members
Of the Typothetae of Washington. In the
presant week. Mr.. Parsons stated, four
printing companies have returned to the
union fold
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06
TRAGEDY IN RICHMOND.
Seaboard Engineer Shot and Killed
in a Saloon.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, October 6-Michael
Kelley, an engineer on the Seaboard Air
Line, was shot and instantly killed this
morning by Clifford C. Childress. The shoot
ing occurred in Narduccis saloon. Kelley
and Childress entered the place and Child
ress said to the barkeeper. an Italian, that
some day some one would drop in and get
the cash register. The barkeeper produced
a revolver and said 1t would not be done
while he had that. He handed the weapon
to Childress who broke it, all the shells
falling out but one.
Kelley said he would fix the weapon and
caught the revolver in his hands and it
was discharged, the ball striking Kelley
just above the heart He did not speak,
dying almost instantly. He was thirty-five
years old and unmarried. Chldress is
twenty-eight and single. The men had
been intimate friends for years. The cor
orners jury brought in a verdict of acct
dental shooting.
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DENIED PoAcHING INTENTIONS
Japanese Sealers Declare Russians Ill
treated Them.

VICTORIA, B. c.. October 6.-Advices
from Japan state that the crews of the
sealing schooners Togo No. 8 and Daifuku,
seized by a Russian warship off Copper
Island, have returned to Japan. The cap
tains and mates were imprisoned by the
Russians at Petropavlovsk, where the con-
fiscated schooners are lying.
The sealers claim they put in under the
lee of Copper Island, where the Russian
rookeries are located, merely to escape
the heavy weather, and deny any poaching
intent They were robbed of all their
private property and illtreated when i'm
prisoned by the Russians
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Want Spanish War Veterans.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, October Ga commit
tee from this city will go to Washington
next week to invite the Spanish War Vet
Grams Association to hold its reunion in
this city next year. The committee will
go with an invitation from the post of vet
Grams here and from the chamber of COM
merce. The invitation will be cordial, and
it is expected that the vote will find many
who favor coming this way. especially as
it will be comparatively easy to come here
and visit the jamestown exposition.
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Information for Shoppers.

Special Bargains will appear to-
morrow In the announcements Of the
merchants, who are reau-
ar advertisers In The Sunday Star:
s. kann, Sons & Co.
Paiais Royal
Lansburgh e. Bro.
Parker, Bridget 4 Co.
Vim. Hahn & Co.
PhIIipsborn & Co.
w. q. Moses a Sons
J. L. Leverton & Co.
Julius Garfinkie 4 Co.
q. RIch's Sons
N. c. Stout 4 Co.
Barber 4 Ross
Bon Marche
Mayer 4 Co.
Hub Furniture Company
Arthur Burt
House 4 Hermann
Family Shoe Store
n. w. Devreaux Co.
r. G. Smith Plano Co.
w. n. Hoeke
Sanitary Oyster Rouse
o. J. De MolI Geo.
Peter Grogan.
1.-THE Fashion"
Petit q Co.
Goodyear Rafneoat Co.
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No. 1888.

the crowd surged about him and cheered.
The band played the "Marseillaise."
There were many minor accidents in the
great crush leaving the finish line.
The times of the cars that finished the
ninth round, in addition to the five which
finished the race, were:
Nazzaro, Italian, 292.5S 35.
Cagno. Italian, 3062S As.
lie Blon, American, 312.26 rs.
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VETERANS GET HOLIDAY.
Clerks With War Record Released
From Duty Tuesday.

The District Commissioners have decided
to issue an order excusing from their du-
ties all veterans Of the civil and Spanish
wars next Tuesday, in order that they may
take part in the parade of the Spanish Wal
Veterans on that day.
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WITH FRENCH CAR
WAGNER WINS THE
GREAT AUTO RACE
Third International Contest for
Vanderbilt Trophy.
ONLY 5 CARS IN AT FINISH
Victor Rode in a ITO Horsepower
French Machine.
VIEWED BY AN IMMENSE CROWD
Completed Distance of 1911 Miles in
800 Minutes 10 2-5 seconds-some
Sensational Features.
Victor Rode in a ITO Horsepower
French Machine.
VIEWED BY AN IMMENSE CROWD

FINISH LINE. VANDERBILT CUP
COURSE, October 6.-Louis Wagner in a
11O-horse-power French car today won the
third international automobile road race for
the William X Vanderbilt, jr, cup, COM
pleting the distance of 2971 miles in 200
minutes 10 2-5 seconds or at the rate of
more than mile a minute.
Vincenzo Lancia in a 1922 horse power
Italian car was second in 293 minutes Is As
secorGs.
Antoinine Duray In a 12O-horse- power
French car was third in 293 minutes A As
seconds
Albert Clement in 1O0-horse-power
French car was fourth in 3O1 minutes 50 4-5
seconds.
Camille Jenatzy in 12O-horse-power Ger
man car was fifth in 304 minutes SO seconds
Lancia actually finished the course about
three minutes ahead of Wagner, who
however, started six minutes later than
his rival and had that much margin at
the finish
Only five cars finished the race but
there were fourteen of the seventeen
cars that started running at the time the
race was declared off, which was done as
soon as Clement had won fourth place.
1t was with the greatest difficulty that
the crowds were kept back from the
course during the last lap. Without re-
gard to personal safety they swarmed
over the roads. giving way only when the
fast-fiying racing machines were a hun
dred yard: away.
While France carried away the premier
honors of the race, Joseph Tracy Of the
American team had the satisfaction of
registering the fastest lap made. On his
fifth round Tracy drove the 29.7 miles in
the remarkable time of twenty-six min
severely from tire troubles in the first
few rounds, and this cost him dear. He
was on his ninth lap when the race was
called of.
Held Lead From the First.
Wagner, who held the lead from the very
first round, came very near to losing the
race when twenty miles from the finish, one
of his tires exploding. He had a lead of
some seven minutes at the time changed
tires and managed to win by approximately
three minutes. Lancia, Duray and Clement
went through the race without mishap
the start scheduled for am. was delayed
fifteen minutes by heavy fog.
After this had lifted there were occa-
siona1 riffs and bursts of sunshine but
the finish was in a drizZle The Indictment