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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
News of the Day.

A dispatch from Colon, Mich, says
that Senator Thomas G. Plstt wants to
settle Miss Mae Woods suit against him
out Of court aud as quietly az possible.
Miss Wood says she is Platt's legal wife,
and wants n divorce, naming sixteen Co
respondents.
The New York State Court Of Appeals
has susta ned the judgment Of the lower
court that George w Perkins, as vice
president Of the New York Life Iusur-
ance Company, was not guilty of larceny
in the use Of funds of the company fol-
contributions to the republican campaign
fund.
There il @ rumor that three large New
York banks are to merge-the Hanover
National Bank, the National Bank Of
Commerce and the National City Bans.
The merger would give the combination
capital of $5s, OOO, 600, surplus and uu-
divided profits of more than $50, OO0.-
600 and deposits of nearly half n billion
dollars.
The mysterious theft of Sl7S, 900 from
the Chicago subtreasury 10 the Federal
building continues 10 battle the author
tiles. They struggled until far into the
night to clear up the case, but without
avail. Warrant, in blank have been
prepared for the arrest Of any suspect
against whom sufficient evidence may
accumulate.
That 20 negro passengers were drown
ed or burned to death, and a dozen more
are missing, as the result Of the burning
o: the steamer Marion at Harris Land
ing, on Wsdmalaw river, about 40 miles
from Charleston, s. c., on Friday, was
the report of Captain Ferguson, of that
vessel, filed with the government inspec-
tore. There we're seven white passengers
and about 80 negroes The great loss Of
life seems to have been OH account Of
the negroes being terror stricken and
neglecting to get life preservers, of which
there we're $50 on board.
While opening oysters in Morris
town, n. j., market yesterday Maurice
F. Morrison opened one Of the bivalyes
Of the size known as box oysters. he
perceived embedded In it foreign OBJ
iect, which he carefully dug out with
hi. knife. The object was encased in q
thin shell similar to isiuglass, which he
peeled off, disclosing large pearl. The
gem is oval in shape, fiat at one end,
about the size of q mans thumbnail.
Morrison took the pearl to a ieweler,
who, after q cursory examination, told
him it was worth ct least $500.
Prof. T. NJ. Taylor, q teacher in chemistry
at the Carnegie Tech Schools, at Pittsburg
committed suicide this morning by firing O
bull let into hi brain.
Longiellow Day is being observed in Boston
10 all the schools and by individual lovers o.
the Cambridge poe..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate yesterday the currency
bill was debated during the later hours
of the day, the Nelson amendment re-
qulring national banks to pay interest oil
public money deposited with them being
defeated by a vote of AZ to II. The bill
vas finally passed by 4S to II.
The Senate bill amending the general
printing law was passed.
The conference report on the criminal
appeals bill wss agreed to.
The House considered the ship sub
sidy bill and passed several measures oil
minor importance.
Conference reports or the Notifications
bill was agreed to, and the agricultural
and postoffice bills we're sent 10 confer
ence.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill, as finally agreed upon by the sen
ate and House conferences, carries a
total of $50, 96S, 432 in cash appropra
tons and contract obligations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
The ThaW Case.

When Mr.. Jerome 10 New York yes
terday finally announced that no he'd
concluded tho cross examination oil
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and turned be'
over TO the chief lawyer for the defense
for the redirect examination, the Dis
trict Attorney did 30 with the sir OF one
who had been completely bsilled and
kept at bay for parts Of Eve DAYS, and
that By a mere child. The material facts
related in EveIyn's first testimony, q;
having been told to her husband as con-
stituting the reason why she would mol
marry him, remain uucontradicted, and
the little woman comes out Of her great
ordeal with her credibility as q witness
practically unshaken. She had spent
more than four days and half in the
witness stand, more than half OF this
time being spent under the relentless IRE
of District Attorney Jerome's cross
examination.
When in response to her look Of In
ouiEy Delmas said CHATS all" and the
| little figure rose and passed lightly from
the courtroom, everybody in the court
room who had watched her from day t
day since she first took The witness stand
was conscious that he had seen the enc
of an extraordinary performance.
There are good many views regard
ing the substance Of her testimony, bu
there is no difference of opinion sbout
the manner OF its delivery. Perhaps
after all, there is still no possibility o
differing from the man who said, on th'
Arst day Of her testimony, ",'he Is per
fectly simple and simply perfect.
The completion Of Mrs. Thaw's ex
animation followed the unsuccessful Ell
fort OF the prosecution to draw from Alb
raham Hummel certain facts relating to
the affidavit which Mrs. Thaw is said Il
have made in Hnmmsls law Office. 10
this affidavit it ia declared there was an
allegation that Thsw had beaten the CIR
while abroad in 1903, when she told hin
there was no truth In the story about
her relations with Stanford White.
Mr.. Delmas, for the defense, blocked
practically every question put to Hum
mel. The witness got no farther than t
say he knew Mrs. Thaw, that she came
10 bis Office and that he dictated to
stcnographeI while she wss there.
Justice Fitzgerald ruled that collatera
evidence WAS not admissible
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
Virginia News.

Mrs. Henry Brent Miller died last
Friday at the residence OF her husband,
four miles from Jeffersonton, aged seven
ty-fve years.
Joseph J. Halsey, Of 'Lessland, "
Orange county, near Rsccoon Ford, died
*Mondsy Dight, after brief illness, aged
seventy-eight years.
Benjamin +. Barton, county official
and prominent citizen ofLoudoun county,
Died Monday at his home near Bloom
field, aged sixty years, ofheart disease.
Mira. Katherine Keene, wife of DR.. T.
f Keene, q prominent physician OF
Hamilton, died at her home in that
place on Monday aged about forty year,.
James C. Hooe, If Loudoun coun =,
has announced his candidacy for the
democratic nomination to succeed the
late John F Rixey as congressman from
the Eighth Virginia district.
Mrs. Katherine Fl. Goss, widow OF
John Goes, died at her home In Win.
chester yesterday after lingering sick
ness of consumption, aged forty-niDs
years. Mrs. Goss Was Miss Katherine
Hyde, of Baltimore.
Major General Grant, commanding
the Department Of the east, visited the
jamestown Exposition grounds to inspect
the grounds upon which the federal troops
will encsmp during the Exposition.
The crack military organizations Of the
South will attend the Exposition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
r., r. q p. Violates Charter.

"The Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad is operating its lines
in disregard, If not in violation, Of the
plain requirements of its charter both
as to passenger and freight trsnsporta-
ton, and therefore has no standing to
complain, certainly of any reasonable re-
strictions which the State may place
upon the charge which it may make for
description and character of trauspor-
tation not contemplated By its charter. y
Attorney General William A. Amber
son 80 declared before the State COrpo-
ration Commission yesterday in his fight
in behalf OF the commonwealth 10 en-
force the 2-cent passenger rate obliga'
ton on every railroad doing business in
the State.
The attorney general contended that
the Richmond. Fredericksburg and PO-
tomsc was not operating its road under
the provisions of its charter, that it vas
permitted to charge eight cents, provided
the company take up" and "set down
any passenger or passengers as he OF
they might desire" This, be declared,
was not now carried out by the road.
Chairman Crump announced that the
two cent rate hearing would probably be
completed by today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

dent there are plenty OF republican Legal
lights in her State ready and competent
10 take the vacant United States district
iudgeship which the politicians of both
partles are net trying TO capture. The
democrats sag the President cannot find
a ct man for the job in the republican
ranks and the President does not seem
to be able to reiute that assertion Al
though not an avowed candidate for the
place herself, Mrs Bailey admits that
she would take the job if it were offered
her. She also sasd her son, W. mosely
Bailey, would make an excellent judge.
The Senate bill, creating Philippine
agricultural bank, WAC today favorably
reported TO the House by the committee
on insuIar affairs Secretary TAFT, who
is watching the matter, said that the
bill will become law.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEE. p. 1907.

THK SILENT struggles against poverty
waved by untold numbers Of the human
race are for the most part unknown to
the world at large, but occasional hap
penings are seemingly flashed upon the
screen for the purpose Of calling the at
tention Of other classes TO the skeletons
in the closets of many of their fellow
creatures who mutely appeal for aid from
those Of their genus. An English lite
vary man, who had at times walked the
thoroughfares Of the British metropolis
homeless and hungry, tells of the "ter-
rible London streets" terrible to him,
a. he bebeld the lights in cafes snd phi
yate houses where safety was in evidence
and realized his own sad condition. The
streets of all large cities are terrible to
The hungry unfortunate with no place
upon which to lay his head, and who is
compelled to pass the night in park in
a sitting posture. An occurrence in the
yOlup,ious city Of New York during the
past few days aaords food for thought to
those of philanthropic ideas who look foI
far away fields on which to bestow aid to
The human race. In the morgua OF that
city among the unknown dead the body
Of young man was lying who worked
20 hard to get something to eat that be
killed himself. Dressed in summer
clothes. with low shoes, he was recruited
hy the foreman OF gang Of snow clean
ora. The young mans hands we're a'
soft as those OF q woman, There were
no muscles on his arms or back, and the
sloop in his shoulders gave the impress
zion that he was student. When q
shovel was given to the man the foreman
saw he was stranger to manual labor.
He worked all the morning and by noon
his hands looked as ii they mad been
boiled. At noon the stranger was paid
Is cents, which he took and thanked
the foreman courleOusly. The yonng
msu went straight to nearby restau-
rant. In the afternoon he returned and
worked as though the labor were de-
light. At 3 the gang quit for the day
and we're paid off Theman in the thin
suit and the light shoes got his final 80
cents. AS he took it the foreman
noticed that his hands we're bleeding.
The mad began to artioulate his thanks
when he suddenly let the money fall in
the snow, caught ut his breast reeled
and fell dead, and the short and simple
annals Of the poor were increased by the
addition OF another brief paragraph to
he already lsrge volume
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
From Washington.
yConspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.


Washington, Feb. %.
Everybody here ia asking why has
Chief Engineer Stevens resigned from
the Panama Canal work, and why has
the administration, after months Of work
apparently committing itselfto that plan.
finally decided to reject all bids for thu
construction of the canal by contract
No one 10 a position OF authority will
givea Satisfactory answer TO the many
questions asked conceringthe resignation.
When the veil Of secrecy ia removed II
will probably be found that Paul Nor
ton, former Secretary of the Navy, war
the principal cause Of this new embsrrass'
laent to the administration in its cana
work. a Syndicate was found last fsl
when it was announced that the canal
would be built by contract, and Morton
vas relied upon to secure the same, but
becsuse OF the great differences between
the Oliver aud the syndicate bids, the
latter being practically double the for
ner, il was impossible for The admin
stration to turn down Oliver snd Civ,
the contract to the other firm which va
backed by Morton .and his associates
All influences we're therefore directed T.
secure tue abandonment Of the plan Il
build the canal by contract. They hav'
at last succeeded
DR.. Emma Rebs Bailey, a woms'
lswyer from Alabama, called at th'
white House today to assure the Presi
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
Investigating One marrIms an Lines.

New YORK. Feb. 27.-E. Il. Harri.
man again took the stand when the 10.
tersta!e Commerce Commission resumed
its hearing today. Stuyyessnt Fish was
not present and it was not known whether
he would come. The commissioners de-
clsred that they would be glad to le, Mr..
Fish make q statement If he wished TO
do so in reply to Harriman's charge that
Fish had been forced out Of the Illinois
Central Railroad for using the railways
funds for his personal advantage Mem
bers of the commission are almost be-
wildered by the mass Of sensstiouals
which Hartman is making in his testi-
mOuy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

President ROOSEVELT has directed
ths chairman of the Isthmian Cana
Commission, Mr.. Theodore T. ShOnts,
10 reject all bids for the construction Of
The Panama canal. This means con
sidcrable delay in the digging Of the
canal and decided increase in the cost
# its construction. II Mr.. Oliver, the
lowest bidder, had lived on the other
side Of the line that divides the North
aud South he might have been given
The contract.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
CHARGES Of robbery and favoritlsm to

CHARGES Of robbery and favorltism to
certain financial institutions in New
York have been made against high
official Of the sub.ireasury in that city.
It isal,O charged that there is democrat
ization among employees and that
questionable characters sre employed in
the sub treasury. Corruption among
those who handle government money
seems 10 be on a rapid increase.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
Firemen lose Their Lives.

New York, Feb. 27.-TSo firemen
are dangerously Ill in q hospital and
scores Of Others we're overcome by the
fumes Of amonia, liberated by the ex
plosion Of tank OF a FIRE 10 the refrig'
Grating plant Of the Volunteer meat mar
ket today. The men who persisted "eDl
into the cellar TO fight the Games and
when the explosion occurred we've In
stantly overcome aud persisted before
their comrades could reach them. The
monetary loss was small.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

by the burning Of the Hochelags
Protestant school in the East End o,
Montreal, Quebec, yesterday afternoon,
the principal, Miss S. Maxwell, and six
teen children lost their lives. The little
victims we're caught in the building
without chance to escape, hemmed 10
by fire, sufIocsted by smoke, and driven
back from the windows and all hope OF
safety. Mss Maxwell gave her life for
her charges. She made 8 desperate
effort TO get the smaller children ont.
She could have saved herself, bat SHIT
coursgeossly rushed up snd tried to get
the children.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
COMMON COUNCIL.

At O regular meeting of the Common
Council of the city of Alexandria, Va, held
february 26.l9u7. there were pr sent Hubert
Snowden, esq President, aud Messrs. Lead
be ter, burke, Str,uss. Brill, BaHder Biz.
relI. Hellmuth. Harrison. Uher, Mar.hail
and Spinks.
bills from the Pinkerton Detective Agency on
account Of the Curtin mu der case, was receiy-
ed and referred to tn joint Comui ttee on FL
nance and General avs.
A communication from the Mayor enclosing
letters from the Alexandria Electric Com
psny, was received and the following resolu.
ton was unan mou,ly adopted:
Resolved, That the Mayor be and is hereby
authorized apd requested to nike proper
transfer of the electric light plant, machinery,
poles and wires upon the payment Of the
tipulated sum, viz, thirty-fye hu-dred dol
Lars.
A communication from the Board Of Police
Commissioners enclosing p tition from the
m mbers Of the police force requesting an in.
crosse Of salaries, WAS received .nf referred
10 the Joint Committee on Finance and Police.
A resolution appropriating $500 te-pur 80
q e stones. was recommended by e. omm't-
tee on Streets and passad--aves IL, no 30.
The Committe on Light returned without
recommendation q resolution aDpropriaiing
$500 for the purchase Of gas stoves 70 demon
rate the advantages Of gas for cooki our
poses and also submitted n OpiaIon OF the
Corpor ltion A torney. The opini n OF the
Corporation Attorney was received mo-
ton 10 adopt the resolution was lost. MIR.
Birrell called Tor division which resulted
yes 4, noes 8, aud the resolution was again
declared lost.
A resolution to place an arc light at the
corner Of Cameron and Washington streets,
was referred to the Committee on Light.
The following was received from the Com
missioners Of the linking fund
AT meeting OF the commissioners Of the
Sinking Fund held Monday, January 29fh.
s07. the bonds Of the issue Of 1872, which
matured July lst. 1902. and which have been
gradually paid of, we're examined, aud rs
| the plan for their redemption has been fully
observed, and as the last interest IN he paid
was paid January End, 1907 the Commission.
ers authorize the Auditor To deliver said
bonds, which amount TO S35. 500, TO the FL
nance Committee for destruction, and that
| the President Of the Common Council be re-
auesfed 10 inform the il Council that such
bonds have Ne n destroyed
An ordinance to requ re persons, firms, or
corporations purchasing secondhand goods.
wares or merch andise, 70 keep book where.
| in said purchases shall be recorded, was taken
from the table aud read the second asd third
times and passed-ayes II. noes 0.
A report OF the Committee on Finance and
General Laws, returning 70 the Mayor bills
which had been referred to them from the
Pinker9on Detective Agency with request 10
explain some differences in the account and
which was adopted in the Board Of Aldermen
on February 18th. was called from the table
and the action Of the Board Of Aldermen was
concurred in.
The board then adjourned
HUBERT SNOWDEN. President.
Teste: DANIEL X. STAHsBURY. Clerk c. C..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

To stop a Cold with "Preventics" is saieI
than 10 let il run and cure afterwards. TakeI
It the ''sneeze stage" Preyentics will head oil
all colds and Grippe. and perhaps save yoi
from Pneumonia or Bronchitis. Preventifi
are little tootbsome candy cold cure tablets
are chilly, if you begin 10 sneeze, try Pre-
ventics. They will surely check the cold, anc
please you. Sold By E. 8. leadbeater = Sons
druggistE,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

Nov THAT the trial Of Evelyn Thawi
the witness, has been concluded, it IL
hoped that the trial of Harry Thaw, the
prisoner, may be pushed to rapid com
pletion and tho disgusting case brought
10 an early end. Evelyn Thaw may
have been bad, and doubtless was anC
IS bad. but that she, when mere child
wss most shamefullY abused by a maj
old enough to be her father, goes with
ont saying. Certainly up to this tint
she and not Harry Thaw, has been oil
iriRl
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

Willie walled and Winnie wheezed, while
Wintry winds whined weirdly. Wilt wrig-
gled while Winnie wheezed n retchedly Wis
dom whispers, winter winds work whee9es.
Wherefo-e We write, use Rennedy's Laxa-
tive Cough Syrup 4" Nothi els so good.
Sold by W. +. Creighton & Co., 4Oi King
street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
President Elected.

New York, Fep. 2T.-At meeting
of the directors of the Seabcsrd All
Line Railway, today, W, A. Garrett
Flrs. Vice President and General mana
ger, was elected President to OIL the va
cancy caused by the death Of Alfred
Walter. No successor to A A. Garrett,
as First Vice President, was elecsed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

Piles get quick relief from DR.. shoop 9
Magic Ointment. Remember it's MADE alone
for piles-and il works with certainty ano
satisfaction. Itching. painful, protrueinR, 81
lind nils disapprar ike magic by its use.
Try it and see / For gsle by E. g. LesdbeateE
4 Sors, druggists
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

Leslie NJ. Shaw, Secretary Of the
Treasury, has been formally elected presi'
dent of the Carnegie Trust Company,
OF New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27
Official.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

At a regular meeting OF the Board Of Al
dermen of the city of Alexandria, Va, held
February %. 1907, there were present:
Messrs. Hill, Marbury, Bsllenger, Simp-
son. Curt and w. n. sweeney.
In the absence Of the President Vice fres'
ident Curtin presided.
The fol owing were received from the Com
mon Council and their action concurred in
BIZ unanim, US votes
Resolution appropriating $500 to purchase
fagstone
Communication from the Mayor enclosing
corrected bill of the PlDkerton Detective
Agency for services in connection with the
Investigation Of the murder of Geo. N. curtin.
Reso ution directing the Mayor to make
th proper transfer of the city electric hght
plant, machinery, wire and poles upon the
payment of $500.
Resolution for placing an arc lamp at CaIn'
eron and ashlngton streets
Communication from the Board OF Ponce
Commissioners asking Council to consider
the application of the members Of the police
force asking for an increase In pay.
Communication from E. F. Price, secretary
of tn. Sii king Fund Commissioners. an
nouncing the destruction of bonds 10 the
amount If $35, 500 of the issue Of 1872, which
matured July |, 1902. and which have been
gradually paid of.
The board then adj urned.
J. r. N. CURTIN, Vice President.
Teste LUTHER II. THOMPSON, Clerk.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

Something new each day at the Great Quits
w s..THE GOODBYE COMPANY.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-02-27

Argo Red salmon IL Just the thing for IN.
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