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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

servant contributes to the injury of On
employe. In all the time that has iol-
Logged. the court has not been able 10
announce its decision. Many believe
that Justice Moody, because Of his being
attorney general when the United ststes
INTERVIEWED, has declined to take part
in the decision, and that the other
justices are divided four and four on the
consti.udonality of the law. AS the
lower courts have declared the law uu-
constitutional, q ;our-,o-four division
would mean the confirmation OF ihe
Judgment Of the lower court II is gen.
orally understood that Justice Moody
considered the lsw constitutional. 1t Is
said to have bsen gears since such an
important law has been 20 long under
consideration by this august court.
Viscount siUzo Aoki, japanese Am
basssdor to the United States, with his
family babe his fareEell to Washington
today aud will begin this evening bis
long Journey to the orient. The Am
bassador leaves ostensibly merely 10
make report to bis government, but
American Ambassador o. Brien, at Toxic,
has informed the State Department that
it lie not likely that Aoki will return.
Who will succeed him has not yet been
announced.
Herman A. Tull, q years old, clerk
ia The freight department Of the Penn
sylgania Railroad, whose home is at
Seaford, De-, shot himself in the stomach
this morning at his boarding place, OIL
7th street northeast. he was taken 10
the Casualty Hospital 10 critical con-
dition.
A distant earthquake of considerable
intensity was recorded by the seismo-
graphs at the weather bureau today, be-
ginning at 1888 a. m. and lasting for
more than an hour. The first prelir'i-
nary tremors continued for four minutes
and ffty-fve seconds and the strongest
motion occurred at 1915 g. NJ, at
which time actual movement Of the
ground at Washington was about five
millimeters.
The peonsee case Of the government
sgsins. c. n. Smith, ct al, Of Cape
Girsrdsau, No., made particularly
notable by the U. 5. Circuit Court of
Appeals recent denunciation Of the
practices Of Smith and his business as
s,cistes will be fought ont aDew before
the U. S. Supreme Court shortly. A
motion for writ of certirori will be
filed within a few days. The solicitor
general today advised that the mandate
Of the court, iDhcting fine and i'm
prlsonment of the defendants, be
not handed down until the Supreme
Court can pass upon the motion.
The opinion of the Circuit Court Of APP
peals of the Eighth Circuit, re-
ceiyed at the department Of justice, in
summing up the case, said, among other
things: "That such fragrant violations
of the law: such shameless inbumanity
and brutality; such base dishonor to
American citizenship could be deliberate
" practiced in a civilized and Christian
community by intelligent men, is re-
proach to our civilization and challenge
instant and vigorous protest. Any other
verdict would have been travesty on
Justice" The administration is largely
depending upon this case to break up
peOnsge.
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LanSburgh&BrO
400 to 428 Seventh Street,
Az to 425 Eighth Street,
WASHINGTON, D. O.
WASHINGTON, d. q.
Ticket-of.Leave Womsn.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Dec. 3O.-With
the passing of 1907 tomorrow midnight,
Helen Dixon. the Sunday school girl
embezzler, will forsake that name, and
under a new one, will leave Bloomington
and Illinois and seek refuge in some
places where she and her story are I'M
known to make new start in life.
Despite the interest tia. Mrs. Adele
Stevenson and other prominent women
and the Womens Club have taken in her
cause, they have been unable to help her
since she was released from jail.
Miss Dixon was arrested last February
on her confession that che had en-
bezzled 81, 200 left in her charge as
treasurer. The money was to have been
used to buy an organ. The girl is heart
sick from her failure to find any who
believe her story of repentance and
would help her to work. After she came
out Of all she decided to try live down
the past, but both she and her friends
have come to the conclusion that the
only plan open for her is 10 take a new
name aud go far away from Bloomington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
Trouble Anticinated.

New York, Dec. 9O.-Tbere is every
prospect of serious trouble at the open
air mass meeting Ct rent strikers scbed-
uled for tonight. The socialists, who
we're engineering the campaign, say the
strikers will no. only meet in defiance Of
the police, but that they are legally en-
titled to assemble peaCeably aud to re-
sist if iuterfered With. The gathering is
to be held in Rutgers Square. Police
Captain Schlotiman, in whose precinct
it is to take place, declares his men will
not hesitate to use force to break it up.
The strikers have so increased in number
that it ia difficult to estimate how many
are enlisted in the campaign. 1t is GER
tain that far more than 10000 will re-
fuse to pay the present rentals after
January l, aud that they VIII resist
eviction by every means in their power.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
Shipvrecked Crew.

Boston, Dec. 80 The fate Of the
four-masted schooner Nimbus, which
hiss been missing for two weeks, was re-
vealed when her crew arrived here on
board the United Fruit Company's
steamer Admiral Sampson. TIE MIN.
bus ioundered off Hatteras December 10.
But for the timely arrival of the steamer
Beatrice every member of the crew
would have persisted. The Beatrice
landed them at Port Antonio and they
we're brought home yesterday by the
Admiral Sampson from that place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
The New Jersev murder Mystery.

Harrison, N. j., Dec. 3d. Realizing
hat the mystery surrounding the fading
of the nude body of a woman IN the
swamp near here Thursday conceals one
of the most dsstsrdly Of murders the
Newark and Harrison police aided by
Hudson county officials are bending every
effort at least to identify the victim and
locate the murderer. Bat the delay in
holding the autopsy has given the slayer
time to cover his tracks and tie task
of fixing the responsibility for toe crime
will be extremely hard.
The most significant development,
the police now think, is the revelation
of The autopsy that The dead woman was
not of the ordinary walks Of lie; that
she Was not dissolute or given much to
drink, and that her murderer struck her
down from behind with a sand bag or
similar instrument, fracturing her skull,
then throwing her face down into the
pool of water to drown. Vengeful hate
is indicated by the force of the blow
rather than brute passion, and It seems
evident she was k;l d because she iu-
teriared with he plans Of soma man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
Virginia News.

Dr.. ]. II. Ball, of King George
county, died Thursday, aged seventy
six years.
According to the report Of Second
Auditor Dew, which Eas just been pre-
pared for the primer, the total Stale
debt is s25, 259, 965.l6.
Msjor John Piifisld George, a we'll
known figure in Richmond's business
aud social life for many years, died on
Saturday after g short illness.
Eugene D. Fry. and Hiss Daisy Y.
Shroy, daughter of John W. 5hroy, both
Of Lucketts, near Leesburg, we're mar
ried Friday at the BRIDES home.
Rufus Cornell, Of Loudoun county,
and Miss May Leonard, daughter of j.
II. Leonard, formerly of Prince William
county, we're married at Leesburg
Saturday.
Rev. DR.. J. w. Morris preached
his farewell sermon as rector Of Christ
Church, Norfolk, yesterday, having ac-
cepted the rec:orate of Monumental
Church 10 Richmond.
William L. Payne, of Rsppahannock
county, and Miss Sarah Cornwell,
daughter of Thomas F. Cornwell, of
Hillsborp, Loudoun county, we're mar
ried at Round Hill Friday.
Marriage licenses we're issuedFn Wash
ington Saturday to Tssker NJ. Cook,
and Agnes e. Hall, both Of Gainesville,
and to William B. Rock, of Lyells,
and Fife R. Gu.ridge, of King George.
The Governor and Mrs. Swanson will
give a public reception R, the Executive
Mansion on the evening OF New Years
Day, between the hours of 8 and 1890
O'Clock. No invitations will be issued,
however.
Fire last night completely destroyed
the wood aud coal establishment of A.
Blacker, at Seventeenth and Gary streets,
Richmond, and gave the department a
thrilling battle TO prevent serious con-
Aagration in the wholesale business dis
trict. The loss proper was hardly more
than $40, 900.
Robert O. Brent, the l0-year-old son
of Rev. @. Brent, who was accidentally
shot by his playmate, Edwin McNamee,
Christmas Day, died at Danville
Saturday night. He requested that his
boy friend who did the shooting be one
of his psllbearers. He also made q
division OF his toys and playthings, in
which he remembered young McNamee.
At the request of Lieut.. Frank Ror-
schach, U. 3. NJ, the coroner's inquest
into the murder of bis wife, Mrs. Mary
Lawless Rorschach, by an intruder 10
her home in Portsmouth early last Sep
TENDER, was again postponed Saturday
on accoun. of the absence Of material
witness. An important arrest is expected
10 follow the hearing. The person I'M
der suspicion has been located, 1t is
said, aud will be kept under surveil-
lance. The inquest wa continued until
next Saturday.
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News of the Day.


The Shah On Saturday took oath be-
fore parliament to support the Persian
constitution.
Springfield savings bank will increase
the rate of interest to depositors from 81
to 4 per cent, beginning January /.
Viscount Siuzo Aoki, Japanese Am
basssdor to the United States, will leave
Washington today on his way to Japan.
The Canadian cotton mills will not
curtail their output during the winter,
as the New Eoglsnd mills have decided
to do.
Lord Jurzou has decided to sccepl
the nomination IS a representative Irish
peer to succeed Lord Kilmaine in The
House of Lords.
Fire yesterday destroyed the Ameri-
can Express Office, the Masonic
building and other property in Lqxiog.
ton, Miss, causing an aggregate loss Of
$75, 900.
George Petiibone's trial was not re-
sumed at Boise today. He is critically
i'll and his doctors say, may not even
recover sufficiently to permit OF finishing
the case.
Thomas fitzgerald, general manager
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, re-
signed bis position, on SATURDAY., bul
subsequently,, at the request Of President
Murray, he withdrew it.
The battleship feet sailed from Porl
Of Spain for Rio JabeirO yesterday 90
the eecoad longest stage OF the voyage
to San Francisco. Arrival at Rio Is
scheduled for January L.
Early Today an earthquake of large
proportions was recorded a. the Stale
museum station at Albany, N. Y. The
earthquake appears to have occurred
about 4, 500 miles from Albany.
After being imprisoned for three days
10 Ellsworth Number ! mine at Els
worth, w. Va, John Omillisu, a young
Slsv miner was released from his under
ground dungeon a raving maniac and
taken to the county home at Arden.
During the progress of a fire at the
residence of P. NJ. Becker, secretary OF the
Frszee Laundry, 1906 llth street, Wash
ingtoD, at o'clock Sunday morning,
Mrs. Becker was burned to death, and
her daughter, Edna, wss severely burned.
She was conveyed to the Emergency
Hospital for treatment. The fremen
we're unable to discover the cause of the
blsze. Mr. Becker learned of his be-
reavement when he read the account 10
psper while on a morning train from
Baltimore to Washington.
The condition of Rev. Denis j. Stat
ford, the pastor Of St. Patrick's Roman
Catholic Church, Washington, arouse'
the gravest apprehension. After a con-
suItation of his physicians, at which
DR.. Barker, of the Johns Hopkins HIS
pitsl, was present he was informed Sat
urday that a serious operation wss i'm
perative. He gave his consent ard yes
terdsy afternoon he was removed TO the
Providence Hospital. The operation will
be performed tomorrow morning by d..
Waugh. Mr.. Stafford Is suffering from
cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by a
severe attack Of grip.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
MONDAY Evening. DEC. 80, 1907.

ATTEMPTS by the Standard OIL Com
pspy to show that lis $29, 24O,-
goo ine for accepting rebates is IN
merited, have brought forth a singing
rebuke from the government. Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner OF corPo-
rations, has sent to Secretary Strsus, OF
the Department; of COmmerce and Labor,
a reply to pamphlet issued by James A.
Mofstt, of the oil trust. Ia his pamphlet
Mr.. Moffstt designed to throw doubt
uoon the merits of the conviction OF the
Standard Oil Company imposed by
Judge K. NJ. Lands, of the Chicago
Federal Court, Mr. Smiths reply not
Only puuctures the trusts pleas, but
arraigus the Standard as attempting to
violate with impunity the whole spirit OF
tbs auti-discriminatory law" 1t is
declared that Mr.. Mohetfs argument
put forth to check the tide of public
opinion agslnst the trust, is merely an
evasion. TIE secret rates and false biz
ling of freight between Chicago and Est
St. Louis are held up to the light
The commissioner closes with the state
meet that by means of its secret rate
from the Alton road the Standard was
enabled to underssll and drive out OF
business its competitors in he south
west. Then it raised prices so that one
subsidiary company WAS able to make
600 per cent. profit 10 1904. For fifteen
wears this rebate evil continued, and the
trust made many millions. This, says
Commissioner Smith, "emphaticslIy
justified the imposition of a groat fine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
neath OF Human Pincushlon.

New York. Dec. 30.-New York has
lost lis human pincusbiop. Mrs., Dolly
DRESSER who acquired that reputation
by living yesr after swallowing a gross
Of needles, died today at FOrdham Hos
pitsl. In the twelve months abe had
been almost continuously under
surgeons care. In that time she sub
mitled to twenty-six operations in which
1874 of the needles we're removed. An
autopsy will be held to determine how
needles eventually caused her desth.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
EloDers Located.

New York, Dec. S0-A special dis
patch to the Evening World from San
Francisco today says that the Rev. Jere
Koode CooF, forme ly re;tOrtf the fash.
ionable ST. George Church at Hemp
stead, L. l., who eloped last April with
Floretta Whsley, bis seventeen-yasr-old
beiress ward, is living with the girl in a
fat 10 that city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

BECAUSE of the industrial depression
General Elliott reports TO Secretary Met
calf that the marine corps is nowGup 10
Its full complement of $500 enlisted
men and that more men are applying
for enlistment than he has place for.
The times must be hard indeed when so
many men wish to join the marines.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
EVANGELIsTIC CAMPAIGN

''Ksnsss for Christ" is to be the
slogan in an evangelistic campaign that
is to be pushed simultaneously in every
county of Kansas next year. Hundreds
nf preachers of various denominations
together with numerous evangelists, are
to hold revivals.
An entire year win be spent in the
movement, and an effort is TO be made
10 demonstrate to the whole country
what msy be accomplished 10 concerted
religious work carried forward on
strictly business lines. The great
revival is to be under the direc. leader
ship of Rev. William Edward
Biederwolf, who planned it.
The undertaking will 5e subjec! to the
general supervision Of board Of two
preachers and two lsymeu from each
denomination. This body, which has
already been organized, with Is denOmi-
nations represented, has selected Edward
E. Taylor, Of Philadelphis, as secretrry.
The condition Of U. S. Court Clerk
George f. Bowden who is i'll at his home
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

As heretofore published man died
of heart disease The other day upon draw
ing four aces in poker hard. This az
fords a new suggestion to ststis.icians
who are trying TO explain the unusual
increase in deaths due to cardiac all
ments. The New York Tribune sus.
poets that this rising mortality rate must
be traced back to "four.fushiug," not TO
four aces, for it says that The strain Of
keeping up the bluff Of amazing pros
perity is more fatal than prosperity IL
self
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
Badly MIxed Up.

Abraham Brown. Of Winterton, N. Y, had
q very remarkable experience; he says: doc,
tors got badly mixed up over me; one said
heart disease; two called it kidney trouble;
the fourth, blood poison, and the hftb stom-
aeh and liver trouble: but none OF them help
ed me; 50 my wife advised trying Electric
Bitters, which are restoring me to perfect
health. One bottle did me more good then
all the FIVE doctors prescribed" Guaranteed
for blood poison, weakness aad all stomach,
liver and kidney complaints. by all druggists
fifty cents.
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From Washington.
Correspondence Of The Alexandria Gazette

GCorrespondtnce Of The Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, d. c., Dec. so.
Old-time practitioners before the Su-
preme Court of the United States are
convinced that the justices Of thsl court
are in deadlock over the decision SIS
to the constitutiousliiy OF the employ
ers' liability act" passed 10 June, 1906.
Nearly nine months sgo, this high
tribunal heard arguments on this set,
designed by the President to abolish the
felloW-servsDt rule, which releases en-
plOyers from liability when fellow
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
A Real Wonderland.

South Dakota, with its iich silver mines,
bonanza farms, wide ranges and strange nat
ural formations. is a yeruible wonderland. At
Mound City. il the home Of Mrs. L. ID. Clapp,
a wonderful case of healing has lately occur
red. Her son seemed near death with lang
and throat trouble. "Exhausting coughing
spells occurred every five minutes" writes
Mrs. Clspp, when | began giving DR.. Kings
New Discovery, the great Medicine, that
saved his life and completely cured him "
Guaranteed for coughs and colds, throat aud
lung troubles, by all druggists. SOC, and SLIGO.
Trial bottle free.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

SIMILAR news items as the following
are now appearing in the papers too
frequently and 60 to show that indus
trial conditions are not improving as it
was hoped they were
Owing to lack of new orders the Bald
win Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia,
has decided to shorten the working hOurs
of its 10000 employees. While none
will be discharged, It's expected that by
February the men will all be working
only half time.
Orders on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad for retrencbment were carried
out in Cumberland. Nearly all the shop
and yard forces were laid off Saturday
night end yesterday. At least 500 men
we're affected.
The delay Of railroad companies IN
placing ordersTor equipment, Incidental
10 the general policy Of retrenchmeut,
is said to be resctiog on steel industries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
Threatened st rike.

Havana, Dec. S0.-Represcntsiiges
of lweniy.ihree labor unions waited on
Goyernor General Magoon today to warn
him that the striking mssons' demands
must be complied with or there will be
general sympathetic walkoui, tieiDg
up nearly every industry in Havana,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

A DISPATCH from Dublin says the dis
tress in the poorer parts of Ireland has
been made keener by the financial stress
in the United States. 1t has been Gus
tomary for the Irish in America to for
ward monetary help to those at home.
But this year the letters from Amerios,
Instead of money drafts, contain lamenis
as to the stale Of things commercial and
regrets that the usual help is Impossible.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
No WOMEN outside Of me immediate

No WOMEN OUTSIDE OF me lmme"Hte
family of the defendant, il is said, will
be permitted to hear the proceedings in
the new Thaw trial which begins Janu-
airy 6. Justice Victor J. Bowling today
Issued en- order to that effect and inform
ed the court officers that there we're to
be no exceptions. Only active working
newspaper women will be able to pass
the barrier, and there is a possibility
that even they and the feminine MEM
bers of the Thsw party msy finally be
excluded while certain testimony is be-
ing given. A private entrance has been
made for the prisoner so that he will not
have to force way through the crowd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30
New York Stock Market.

New York, Dec. SO.-London WAS a
moderate seller. The industrials did
not join in the upward movement TO the
same extent as the railroad stocks, max.
ing only fractional gains wherever there
was any activity displayed. Government
bonds exchanged other bonds steady.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

For any OF the ordinary diseases Of
the skin Chsmberlain's Salve is excel
lent. 1t not only alIays the itching and
smarting but effects cure. For sale
by Richard Gibson, and W. +. Creighton
q Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

THERE seems to be sound sense be-
hipd the suggestion that Congress su-
thorize the representatives of the Treas
ury to receive certified checks in pay
ment Of dues instead of insisting on cash
payments. The government would be
only accommodating itself thereby to
current and modern methods of business.
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N. B. Harlow
& Co., Inc.,
lle South Fairfax Street
Alexandria, Va.
By s. II. Lunt. Auetioneer.


RY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
- from Layinia CrosoD, recorded in deed
book No. IS, page 1863, one Of the lano records
of the city Of Alexandra. the undersigned
ryiy ng trustees named 10 III deed, by
direction Of the Mechanics building Asso~
citation No. 4, of Alexandria, w.. the bere-
fl larry under said deed, default having been
made in the provision Of said deed, Will offer
for sale at public auction, in front Of the
Market building, ROYAL sire t, ia this city, on
SATURDAY,
January 18th. 1908, at ~ o'clock NJ,
the following described property:
All that lot OF ground with the improve
ments thereon, in Alexandiis, Va. beginning
on he nntth side OF Gibbon street 1Oj feet 5
inches east OF Henry street, and mining
thence east On GibeOn strest q feet more or
less thence north 100 feet to an alley 10 feet
wids; th'nCe west "a feet more or less, aud
thence sDarh 100 feet 10 the beginning on
Gibbon ,iree' with all appurtenanees.
Terms Of saie Cash.
r. II. WATTLES,
J. NJ. HILL,
Surviving Trustees
Jshn NJ. johnson, Attorney.
drc30 II
Imported MAkAsCHINO CHERRIES
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Suicide.

Buffalo, n. Y, Dec. 80. - After
searching for him all night the body Of
George Werner, prominent business
man, was found in the office OF the Wer-
ner Carriage Manufacturing Company
here curly today. Werner had commit
ed suicide by inhaliug Illuminating gas
through rubber tube attached to a gas
let.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

Take DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills,
thev are for weak back, Inflammation Of the
bladder. baekache and weak kidneys. Sold
nv w. +, Creighton q Co.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

The condition Of U. S. Court Clerk
George f. Bowden who is i'll at mis- home
in Norfolk continues serious.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-30

Imported MAKAsCHINO CHERRIES
St received BY J. c. MILBURN,