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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-20

Lydia Pnkhams Vegetable Compound Succeeds Where others Fail
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
LONDON hOURNS LITTLE
FOR KING CHRISTIAN
Queen VIII Cut Grieving Short for
Trade Reasons and Subsequent
Season Will Be Gay.

LONDON. Feb. I7.-Most people ap-
pear to imagine that the death of King
Christian Of Denmark. Queen Alexan-
dra's father, win make a serious diff
ference in the London season. and will
rob the state opening Of Parliament OF
all its splendor. In regard to the lat
ter. there win be no difference. as ev-
cry member of the royal family. ex-
cspt the King and Queen, for the first
time in many years is abroad. and
there was never an idea Of a great
procession.
The state opening will resemble that
after the late Queens death. Every
peeress will be In black. but this only
increases the brilliancy of the uni
forms Of the officers OF state.
In regard to the season. Queen Alex
andra intends 10 make the mourning
as short as possible. as she. like the
King, is invariably concerned when
London trade IS affected. This season.
in fact. promises to be a particularly
gay one Everyone is heartily sick Of
politics, and the Liberal hostesses are
planning many gafesteS
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
QUEEN ALEXANDRA SAW
SPIRIIUALIST'S SEANCE
So Impressed Was She That King Or
dered Medium to Show Him, But
Cot Refusal.

LONDON, Feb lit has leaked
out that few weeks ago Queen
Alexandra was actually present at a
spiritualistfc seance.
There is in London a very exclusive
spirituaIistic set, known as The Inner
Circle" They meet usually at an ar
lists studio in Regents Park. Spirits
are ''materiaI:zed," and phenomena
have occurred which no one can eX-
plain away on ordinary grounds
A great friend Of her majesty went
to one of the seances about two months
ago. The medium generally employed
is a delicate little man about thirty
years Of age
The one at which the Queen WAS
present so impressed her majesty that
she told the King about II, and
command" WAS given to the medium
TO appear at Buckingham Palace. So
many Instructions, however, were Civ
en- 10 the medium 70 insure secrecy
ana so elaborate were the directions as
to the particular door ne should enter
the palace by that the medium fatty
refused tile command"
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
MONEY POURS IN
TO AID JAPANESE
Thousands Subscribed in
Answer to Presidents Plea.
WASHINGTON CONTRIBUTIONS
Treasurer Keep, of National Red Cross,
Receives Upward of Eleven
Thousand Dollars.

The Hon. Charles Hallam Keep.
treasurer of the American National
Red Cross, has received, in response TO
President Roosevelt's appeal in the
public press, contributions amounting
to sIl, ,42l05, to be expended for the re-
lief OF the famine-stricken provinces of
Japan.
Ten thousand dollars, contributed by
the Christian Herald of New York,
was cabled on the 18th inst, by the
Department of State. to Japan to be
used Immediately in the purchase of
food for these sufferers
District Gives its Share.
The District of Columbia Branch OF
the American National Red Cross re-
ports contributions amounting to Sl5s.
This is In addition TO the amount stat
ed above as having been received by
the national treasurer direct
A complete list of Washingtonians
who have contributed to this worthy
cause, including both those who remit
ted direct 20 the national treasurer and
those who remitted 10 the treasurer OF
the local branch, Thomas r. Jones,
president of the National Safe Deposit,
Savings and Trust Company. Fifteenth
street and New York avenue, follows:
Washington Contributors.
Mr w J. Boardman, $50; Miss Mabel
II Boardman, s.; Miss Josephine
Boardman, s.; Z. c. de Q. Woodbury.,
$50: f A. Keep, SO; Mrs. Florence s.
Keep, S25; 'E. s P, $; Mrs. John c.
Spooner. 81: Miss Alice T. Gilman, 50;
j. E Terbet, g; A w and J. W.
Hardness. 81; Non Casado, 5Oci Lewis
johnson Davis. $40; A. F. Faulkner, 81;
Mrs Virginia 6. William Fox, $50: Tho
mas Harrison. So; International Bank
ing Corporation. $3.50; George c.
Bent, $40: c. D.. Mecutchcen, 81; w.
n. Gait & Co, $50: ~. Howard Glib
son, $40; Physicians and others in
medical division of Pension Bureau,
$3.50; William Caulfield Lee, 81
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
GERMANY MOkOPOLlZING
ASIA MINOR RAILROADS

LONDON. Feb. 17-An example Of
the progress made by Germany In Turk
ish commercial and Industrial life is
reported from. Constantinople IN the ac-
Quisition OF large tracts Of land in Asia
Minor for the Anatolian railway. which
viii enlarge its enterprise far beyond
its original scope. IN TACT. these land
purchases point to new series OF Ger
man commercial undertakings iu Asia
Minor, which viii prove to be OF great
Importance.
The Anatolian railway, only a few
days ago, bought the controlling pan {
of the shares OF the Tarsus- -Mersina
railway. the last, but one, of English
railways in those regions. The newly
acquired line VIII furnish an outlet to
the sea for the entire country between
Smyrna and Alexandretta, and will save.
transportation for all the goods COM
ing from central and eastern Anatoiia
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
WIDE EARTHQUAKE MADE
WEST INDIES TREhBlE
Shock Reported Generally in Danish and
French Possessions With Some
Minor Damages.

ST. THOMAS. Danish West Indies.
Feb. 17.-Earthquake shocks. which APP
pear TO have been felt generally through
out the Danish West Indies, shook the
walls of buildings throughout the is
lands yesterday, and caused consider
able minor damage SO far as has been
learned, however, no one was injured.
and the loss will not be great.
Messages received here from Castries.
Island OF 81. Lucia, and RoSeau. Island
of Dominica, report that two shocks
were felt at each place during yester-
day afternoon
The cable officials here have sent out
notices to the effect that messages TO
and from the Islands Of St Vincent and
Barbados are subject TO delay.
Dispatches from points on the island
OF GuadeloUpe, French West Indies,
state that slight earthquake shocks were
felt there yesterday.
The Washington times., 1906-02-18

LONDON. Feb. 17-Before Mrs Beat
lie daughter of Marshall Field left for
New York with her husband, Captain
Beattie, she told her friends that she
had not the slightest desire TO add IN any
way to the very large fortune which her
father settled upon her. She was Obliged,
however, to so over owing TO the I'M
pending lawsuit over the Field millions.
She was particularly unwilling TO go.
because she Is leaving behind her as six
months-oid baby. Captain Beatties SIS
ter-in-law is to take charge of the in
FAINT Mrs. BeattIe was better known TO
some of her English friends as Mrs
Lambert Tree.
She lived In warwickshire before she
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
HANDSOME LOVING CUP
FOR WILLIAM CASEY
Prince George Politician Will Be Re
membered by Democratic Club on
Washington's Birthday.

HYATTSVILLE, Feb. 1.-THE Demo-
cratic Club, OF Prince George county,
Nd. will honor its president. William
Il Casey, on Washlngton's Birthday by
presenting TO him a solid silver loving
cup as a token of esteem for his ser
vices.
Mr.. Casey has been a potent factor
In Democratic politics OF the Second
district for a score of years Last fall
he was a candidate for the House of
Delegates from his district, but was de-
feated by d small majority. He, how
ever, has been quite successful i'm local
politics having chamDioned his party
TO victory on many occasions.
The cup to be presented Is of beauti-
ful design. standing about fourteen
inches high. mounted on a base OF solid
silver 1t was made by +. VoiEt a
Washington ieweler. T. F. Browning,
w Brooke Conner. and George Lynch
comprise the committee who will pre-
sent it.
The ceremony will take place at the
latteTS home.
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
SENDS PHOTOGRAPHS BY WIRE.

Prof Arthur koFn. of Munich. Ba-
be practicable method for the elec-
tiical transmission of photographs as
distinguished from the mere handWrit-
ing and line sketches which can be sent
hv he teiautograph. The first practical
70 suits were secured in 1904; but later
improvements. recently described before
the Berlin Electrical Society, have en-
atlcG him TO transmit photographs with
remarkable definition over lines offer
ing q resistance OF fully 1900 ohms-
the equivalent of distance of several
thousand miles. the time of transmits
sion being ten to twenty minutes and
the size of the picture five by seven
uches.-Technical World.
The Washington times., 1906-02-18

A new and attractive
pattern in Colonial Iron
Beds. Splendidiy enamel
cd in white and green.
substantially built OF
continuous bent tubing:
strong, rigid, and sani-
tery. Standard Sf1 VAL
Ue- Dis n 50
count sale Oh "
price .-.... -
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
COMMISSIONER WEST
TAKES OATH OF OFFICE

District Commissioner Henry L. West
was sworn in for his second term of
Office for Three years from February /.
at the District building yesterday. The
oath Of Office was administered by
Private Secretary Louis c. Wilson.
The Washington times., 1906-02-18

and DR.. Balance vas summoned to the
palace to perform an operation which
was q pronounced success and which
win probably result in an absolute cure
Partly because OF the jealousy OF Ber-
lin surgeons and partly because It was
not thought wise TO make public the fact
that the kaiser's deafness had devel-
Oped. the English surgeon was smuggled
into the palace with the utmost secrecy,
and when a paper, nevertheless, found il
out, it was officially denied that any
specialist had been consulted.
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
KAISER OPERATED ON
TO REMOVE DEAFNESS
Dr. Charles Balance Noted English Specialist, Was
Quietly Brought In To Serve And Was Decorated
For His Success.

EERLIN, Feb. 1.-THE fact that the
insignia of the Royal OrGer OF the Crown
have been conferred upon Charles a.
Balance, the famous English surgeon
and ear specialist, has confirmed the
rumor which was current here some time
ago thst the Kaiser was in poor health.
but which was at the time officially
denied
1t is now admitted that a few weeks
ago the deafness from which the Kaiser
has long suffered took a very acute form
The Washington times., 1906-02-18

Solid Oak Chiffonier:
nicely finished: carved
top: five deep drawers:
brass handles. Regular
Discount y n
sale price, sES
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
DAUGHTER OF FIELD
HAS ENOUGH WEALTH
Late Chicago Merchants Child, Now Prominent English
woman of Hunting Set Told Friends She Was Return
ing to America for Possible Will Suit

divorced her husband and has aIwavs
been in the hunting set. At Oakham, in
Rutiandshire. where she has lately
hunted. she has made herself very pop
uiar-
The Washington times., 1906-02-18

The greatest carpet value ever offer
ed in this city. Just closed another
special purchase OF over a thousand
yards Of HEMP INGRAM CARPET
in neat patterns and substan-
tiaf coiors. A standard 35c val III
Ne Special to you at. per yd... y
The Washington times., 1906-02-18
PETITION FOR DIVORCE
FILED AGAINST 1T. RiS0N

Carrie A. Rison has instituted pro-
ceedings in the local courts for absolute
divorce against James T. Rison. Ia her
petition, which was filed by Attorney
Herbert L. Franc, Mrs. Rison names a
co-respondent
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
Break Up the Gang.

Frank Mills arrested at Woodville,
o., for stealing horse at Tecumseh,
has decided to help the officers break
up the gang of horse thieves that has
operated in northern Ohio and south
ern Michigan for twenty-five years. He
has given information where several
horses can be found.
Officers located at Morenci horse
and buggy stolen near Fremont, o., in
the spring. They have also information
OF the whereabouts of the black mare
AIKEN from near Ecorse, Wayne coun-
ty: also the Turner mare taken from
Lenawee county April T. and the Ben
nett horse, taken three years ago from
MOrenci
Sheriff Holt is of the opinion that
the same gang got away with the
horses stolen at Pontiac, st. Johns.
Kalamazoo and other places, and some
of them may eventually be recovered
and the gang broken up.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
THE FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC FIELD
The CONDITIONS IN FRISCO
ARE THE VERY WORST
POSSIBLE.
TO DISSOLVE STANDARD
President WheeIer's Picture OF The
Situation Is Vivid And Shows How
Desperate 1t Is.
Dancer OF Violence.

"If we have mar more bad men
In San Francisco we may have TO
get rid of some of them by means OF
the scaffold," said President Benjamin
Ide Wheeler, of the University of Cali
fornia, in an address before the pupils
of the Los Angeles high school.
Continuing his reference to this sub
ject in a personal discussion following
his address, Mr.. Wheeler is quoted as
giving uttePance TO these words
Perhaps outsiders do not realize
how desperate and bold the conspir-
ators have become Nearly all self-re-
speeding minded men in the city are
behind Heney, yet he may be over
whelmed. Those who are opposed TO
him are vindictive, desperate, and no
ole knows how strong.
"A coterie of men, myself included,
supplied him with what money he
needed to push the investigation. Pub
lie feeling is wrought to such a pitch
that should violence be done ! do not
believe public indignation would stu
short of death to the perpetrators. He
ney is a brave man. He knows that
every time he walks into the court
room he takes his life in his hands"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
kert Was Not Killed.

Deputy Sheriff Warner returned
from Toledo, where he was called to
see if the body of the man found in
the c.. II. & ID. wreck was that OF
Kent who wantonly shot Chief of Pc
lice Masten. of Ann Arbor. Warner
says that the body was apparently that
OF a man the same hight as Kent. He
had brown hair and blue eyes, as has
Kent, and was about his weight, but
ir some other ways the resemblance
fails. The dead man had a tattoo mark
on his arm, which Kent did not have,
and although the features are nearly
unrecognizable because of the condi-
ton in which the body was found, he
is certain it is not Kent
So far, with the exception of clues
which fade away as soon as picked
up, Kent is as far away as IL he had
dropped through the earth.
Chief of Police Masten is getting
along nicely and will recover.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
The Whole Town Attacked.

An epidemic of disease which doc
tors have confessed themselves unable
TO diagnose, and which has assumed
menacing proportions in the town of
Mariners Harbor, on Staten Island, has
thrown residents of that place into a
panic. Hundreds of persons have sold
or closed their houses and moved to
other parts of the island
The disease already has brought two
victims to the grave, and there are at
present under treatment in the town
over 300 cases. It's victims are first at
tackled by high fever and soon red
blotches cover their bodies. At its in
ception the malady confined itself to
the ranks of Austrian laborers. nearly
5000 of whom have been brought to
the town from Buffalo, n. Y, recently
To construct new factory buildings.
Within the past week. however. the
disease has spread to the town PEG.
ple
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
Three Oaks Stricken.

The typhoid fever epidemic at Three
Oaks is in acute stage. The village has
"a cases and physicians are busy day
and night. Three persons have died
and more deaths are feared The latest
victim is Fred AllcocK, a young mar
ried man.
The inhabitants of the village are
in terror. The epidemic arose from an
impure supply of milk, and the dairy
man himself is sick in bed with ty-
phoi6. The original infection is traced
to an open well from which the cattle
were supplied with water.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
Skull Was Torn Open.

Edward Haber, about 80 years old.
employed as a laborer by telephone
company, was struck on the head by
a car as he was working in trench
in street of Detroit Friday. His skull
was torn open and his brains oozed out
on the pavement. Harper ambulance
took him TO the hospital, but nothing
could be done to save him, death re-
sulting within an hour. Haber came
frome Romeo, and had started 10 work
for the telephone company only two
days ago. He was working with mis-
head above the ground near the tracks
and the foreman warned him to watch
out for the cars. No sOoner had the
warning been given than Fourteenth
avenue car came bowling along and
the side steps hit the side of, Ha5er's
head, almost severing the top.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
STARVING.
PitifuI Story OF The Suffering OF Rus
sian Peasants


John Foster Fraser, staff correspond
ent of London paper, writing from
Buzuluk, province of Samara, some 300
miles from the Siberian frontier. tells
a touching, pitiful story Of the suffer
ing of the peasantry. He declares the
femme Is already more severe than
that of 1891, which covered an area of
$4,000 square miles and had 25,000,000
people in its grip. What it will be in
the dead of winter, when most of the
little wheat the peasants now possess
is gone, is terrible to contemplate.
F'raser's letter shows these conditions:
Eighty-nine per cent of the 2,S00,000
inhabitants of Samara province actu-
ally starving.
In town of 5000 souls, only 10 fam
lilies which are not in the most abject
need
Peasants paying from 20 to 500 per
cent interest to get money to save
their wives and children from death
Soup kitchens established to save
livez Of starving closed by government
officials because peasants talked sedi-
ton" tlere.
over 10000 farms in Samara with
out even seed for next years crop.
In Samara, Kazan, Simbrsk and
Saratof provinces, with a population
of approximately, 100000, the one
cry: IF aid does not come soon we
shall die
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
Senator" Burton's Jail Life.

A half hour of liberty and stroll
to his wife's boarding house and back
to his cell varied the monotony of
former United States Senator Joseph
X. Burton's first day in the Ironton,
Mo-. jail.
Pleading that he wished to get some
books and papers from his trunk, Bur-
ton was permitted by Sheriff Marshall
to take a brief recess from confine-
ment. AS Burton reached the street he
say his wife and niece returning from
drive. They accompanied him to the
home of DR.. Smith, where Mrs. Burton
is boarding.
Mrs. Burton prepared breakfast for
her husband and brought it to the Jail
She asserts she will prepare all her
husbands meals, so that he may not
have to subsist on prison fare.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
Give the Japs a Chance.

Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambas-
sador, at conference with Secretary
Root at the state department Thurs
day, made the request in behalf of his
government, that the United States see
that japanese subjects In California
are accorded their full rights under
the treaty of 1894, including the right
or children to freely attend the public
schools of San Francisco.
Secretary Root will take the matter
u with the president and it is likely
that representations will be made to
The authorities of California.
The ambassador said the exclusion
of Japanese children from San Francis
co schools is the chief cause of the
anti-American feeling in Japan.
The friendship between the United
States and Japan is too genuine and
OF too long standing to justify any
formal protest on the part of Japan be-
cause of wrongs her citizens may have
suffered in some locality i'm the United
States" said Vicount Aoki. There is
much misunderstanding in Japan con-
corning the true situation. OF course
the Japanese government fully realizes
that the action against the Japanese
children is local but all the Japanese
people DO not understand conditions
in this country. and local unfriendli-
ness to japanese is regarded by many
persons as a national action"
The action against the Japanese chill
dren is regarded as extremely serious
by Viscount Aoki and he made no at.
tempt to discount it's importance.
After all the years OF friendship be-
tween the two nations it seems too
bad that the poor innocent, little Jap
anese school children should be sub.
jected to such indignities," said the
ambassador. Such action on the part
of local authorities in this country is
resented very bitterly by all Japa.
neSp"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
MICHIGAN
''"'E EVENTS NOTED
THE STORM DID MUCH DAMAGE
ON THE LAKES AND ON
SHORE.
CERTAIN KENT is LIVING.
News Gathered Here And There About
The State OF More Or Less Interest,
Briefly Told.
DAMAGE By Storm.

What is conceded TO be the most VIC
lent storm of the season ragged all
over the great lakes Saturday after
noon and night. The first wreck to
be reported was that Of the steel
steamer Iackawanna, which was
thrown on the breakwater crib at
Cleveland, and its side stove in. The
crew was taken off by the lifesavers.
The barge Maurice b. Grover, when
was among the sheltered fleet at CleNe-
land, caught fire early in the evening.
and was burned to the waters edge.
Two men on board escaped safely.
The schooner Allegheny slowly
drifted on the rocks between Red
Ridge and Beacon Hill. about eight
miles from the Portage ship canal,
and there were grave fears that the
crew might not be rescued.
A dozen of the larger: carriers were
behind the Apostle Islands, near Ash
land. At Portage, vessels were nav
ing dangerous times 10 get into the ca
nal. All along the east shore OF Lake
Michigan navigation wholly suspended,
and no steamers left for Chicago or
Milwaukee,
Detroit nas the distinction Of record
ing the highest wind velocity shown
al any lake port, sixty miles an hour
being reported. Chicago was strug-
Cling with fifty-twO miles from the
northwest, while Cleveland and Buff
falo came next with forty-eight miles.
The general range was from forty TO
forty-eight miles an hour.
From various places in the state
reports came of the unroofng of barns,
destruction of trees and other damage.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03

The following is a copy Of the cpl
taph of a matchmaker, written by
himself, in which he is compared to
watch that has run down: Here
lies, in horizontal position, the out
side case of George Ritter, whose
abiding place in that line was an hon
Or to his profession. Integrity was
his handspring. and prudence the reg
ulator of all the actions of his life.
Humane, generous, and liberal, his
hand never stopped till he had re-
lieved distress. He never went
wrong, except when set agoing by
people who did not know his key.
Even then he was easily set right
again. He had the art of dispensing
of his time so well that his hours
glided by in one continual round Of
pleasure and delight. till an unlucky
minute put an end To his existence.
His case rests and molders and de-
Gays beneath the turf. but his good
works will never die"
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
side LIGHTS
ON MICHIGAN
STATE RECEIVES A FRANCHISE
FEE OF FIFTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS.
HEAD SPLIT OPEN BY CAR
Typhoid Fever Epidemic in Three
Oaks-ln An Open Boat on Lake
Eyie-Various Matters of Note.
States Largest Fee.

The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road Co. sent. to Secretary OF State
Prescott the largest franchise fee ever
received by this state. The check was
for $4,000 and is to cover the increase
of capital from $100,000,O0O TO $780,
000.Q 900, voted by directors on October
IS, according to the certificate filed.
Owing to the fact that Il Michigan rail-
road was one of those consolidated in
TO the Chicago & Northwestern. the
fee had to be based on the entire cap
ital instead of the amount employed
only in Michigan.
Charlevoix county herald., 1906-11-03
The Guns Burst.

Fred Lewis, formerly a Battle Greek
street car motorman, lost one eye and
probably his entire sight in a hunting
accident at Crooked lake.
Lewis, with two other men. bought
smokeless powder at the country store
in Delton and ii lis believed thGt ihe
cartridges contained an oversupply of
dynamite. At any rate, when all three
hunters fired simultaneously al a flock
of ducks, all three suffered severely by
the bursting of their guns.
Lewis was the most unfortunate vic
tim, his right eye being blown out com
pletely and the left side of his face so
laeerated that fears are held that the
left eye cannot be saved The other
hunters escaped with bruises.