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Evening star., 1907-10-30
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
BRYANT-B BROWN WEDDING oC-
OURS AT NOON TODAY.
Democratic Committee Planning to
Get Voters to Polls-Enforc-
ing City Regulations.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 80, 1907.
\ fashionable home wedding occurred a
noon today at the residence of capt. Her
bert Bryant. 3O6 North Washington street,
when his daughter, Miss Ruth. became
the bride of Lieut. Wilson Brown jr.,
United States Navy. Rev. 7. p. Phillips,
rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church. performed tn ceremony.
The bride entered the drawing rooms,
which We're decorated with palms and
white chrysanthemums. escorted by her
father, who gave her in marriage. Her
only attendant was her sister Miss
Marion Bryant The groom had for his
best man Lieut. James Murdock of the.
United States steamship Missouri. The
groomsmen were Lieut.. Rowcliffe and
Lieut.. Semmes Read of the Mayfower and
Ensign Herbert Fairfax I.2ary of the
United States steamship Minnesota and
Lieut.. John Drayton Wainwright of the
Naval Academy. Annapolis. The bride
was Httired in Il beautiful creation of
white satin. triNlmed with duchesse and
Irish lace. Her veil was fastened with
wreath of orange blossoms and she
carried q bouquet of lilies of the valley
and white orchids.
The brides attendant wore a gown Of
blue chiffon over taffeta. with hat trim
med to match. Her bouquet consisted of
white chrysanthemums, tied with a
streamer of blue ribbon. Following the
ceremony wedding breakfast was ten
dered the bridal party and the few init
mate relatives and friends of the two
families represented. Subsequently Lieut.
and Mrs Brown departed for d northern
bridal trip, and at the conclusion of
their honeymoon they will reside at An
napolis. where Lieut.. Brown is Just now
stationed.
Evening star., 1907-10-30

Cost 69sS-The extended popularity OF
voile has resulted in the creation OF
number of new and charming designs for
its development. The one shown is mod
eled in smoke h,ue voile. with blue and
silver embroidery for garntture. 1t is suit
able for almost any occasion. being espe-
cially appropriate for church. visiting and
afternoon wear The waist 69S4) dl plays
several novel features. including the smart
vest, graceful trimming section and mi
kado sleeye-cap, and will be found eS-
pecially becoming to a slender type of
figure. The sleeves may be made long or
short, as desired. In the sketch they are
shown with the lace extensions that are
now much the vogue in Paris. The
skirt ,uJS>} consists of straight upper
section, heightened by two straight gath
cred hoUnces the lower one tucked hori-
Zontally. Tne fullness of the upper sec
ton is becomlngly arranged at the waist
in groups ot small tucks. falling below in
graceful lines to the hem. To make the
costume in the medium size requires 5ls
yards of 27-inch goods for the waist and
81 yards for the skirt.
Two patternS-6as4: Six sizes, 81 to AZ
inches bust. 69SS: Seven sizes, 20 to 80
inches waist
The price of these patterns is 20 cents,
but either will be sent on the receipt OF
10 cents.
Evening star., 1907-10-30
General and Personal.

called meeting of the board of polio!
commissioners will be held al 80 O'Clock
tonight for the purpose of eleCting q sue
cessOr to fill the vacancy on the police
force caused by the resignation of Police
man Steward Jones. Up to the present
time the commissioners are in receipt of
but few applications.
Funeral services over the remains OF
Joseph II. LOvejoy, whose death occurred
yesterday morning at the residence of his
cousin, Mrs. John Donnelly, pOS Prince
street. will be held at $50 O'Clock tomor-
row morning at St. Mary's Catholic
Church. Rev. Father Kelly Will conduct
the services and the interment Will be
made in St. Mary's cemetery
In the corporation court yesterday aft
ernoon, Judge Louis {. Barley presiding,
Ida b. Cayce was granted an absolute
divorce from her husband William f
plaintif was also granted permission to
use her maiden name, Ida B. Goodman
In the same court Gilbert ]. Cox quail
fed as administrator of the estate OF
Charles ID. Semmes, deceased
Rev. James II. Taylor will preach at
the Second Presbyterian Church at 7:3O
o'clock tonight. He will also conduct
services at that church Thursday and
Friday evenings.
In the police court this morning John
WI EiioS' ClldfSeu Win drunken and dis
orderly conduct was fined So. The case
of William Hansborough, charged with
disorderly conduct, was continued until
tomorrow
The American Athletic Association bas-
ket ball team representing Company G.,
ist Regiment, District of Columbia mi
ntla' defeated the Alexandria Athletic
Association basket ball team last night
by a score of 10 to 16
MI Hubert SnoWden. who has been
spending the past week at the jamestown
exposition has returned
Miss Bette E. Keyes has returned from
the jamestown exposition.
Evening star., 1907-10-30

default of bond for 500 he was ordered
to be committed to Jail.
Remus was caught through the detec-
tive work of George W. Billings, 20S q
street. He saw ''Dynamite' pounding on
the lock of the stable of G. L. Cartner in
the rear of G12 II street northwest about
9 clock last night, and hunted up Po-
iiceman Wilson OF the sixth precinct.
When the officer reached the barn RemuS
was inside, and he stood in the middle Of
the floor unable to speak, when Police
man Wilson stru k a match and asked
him why he was there
Evening star., 1907-10-30
LEARNS BY EXPERIENCE.
Isom Wagner KNOWS More Than
He Did When He Left Home.

Isom Wagner colored. whose home is
at Bokchitor l. T, cam here three
weeks ago to see about getting a pension,
and yesterday he called at police head
quarters to tell of his dealing with con-
fidence men, admitting he knew NOR
than he did when he reached here. He
was near 9th and f streets, he told the
police, when two colored men came along
and one of them picked up a pocketbook.
Wagner was appealed to by one o. them
to lend him some change until h could
get change for a bill that was in the
pocketbook.
And" said the crook to Wagner,
when 1 get the bill changed III pay you
for your trouble.
Wagner kindly loaned the stranger $27
and then waited for him to return VIII n
the stranger did not return Wagner
called upon the police. He said he had
never heard of such game being played
where he lived.
Evening star., 1907-10-30
Turned Over to Police.

T. II Brown. a coloTed undertaken. who
resides at the northwest corner of Payne
and Cameron streets, this morning re-
ported to the police that "A new bicycle
and a new overcoat were left at his
place of business Monday last by
strange white man. and that the man, up
to the present time. had failed to call for
the goods. Brown is of the opinion that
the goods We're stolen. The police re
moved both articles to the sta ton house
and the case VIII be investiga ted.
Evening star., 1907-10-30
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Evening star., 1907-10-30
PROMPT PAYMENT ASSURED.
School Teachers and Employees to Re
ceiye Checks Friday Next.

The school teachers and the officers and
employees of the public schools will not
experience any delay in receiving their
pay for October. According to, Auditor
Tweedale and Disbursing Officer Rogers
they will be paid Friday, the first day of
November, on which day the police, fire
men and all other employees of the local
government will be paid. On account OF
several technical errors in the prepara-
ton of the pay roll before it swas sub
mitted to the auditor, the teachers and
officers did not receive their September
pay until October u
Evening star., 1907-10-30
TALK OF ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Two Addresses Before WASHINGTON
Society of Engineers.

Julian E MCDOWELL. inspector. and
Proctor l.. Dougherty. assistant inspector
of electric light plants of the Treasury
Department, spoke last night at a smoker
of the Washington Society Of Engineers,
held in its rooms at 729 18th street north
west
Mr. MCDOWELL spoke particularly of the
sixteen electric plants operated by the
government in the large federal buildings
to furnish light and power for the build
ings. These effected. he stated, a saving
of about $4,000. or 20 per cent on the
investment For other federal buildings
electricity or gas is purchased for the
buildings from the private plants. Mr..
Evening star., 1907-10-30

Dougherty told of the careful card index
system by which the exact status OF the
lighting and power equipment of a fed
eral building can be determined and
checked up.
That there are wide opportunities for
artistic Illuminating engineers was the
statement made by Mr.. Woodwcll. He
stated that the Illuminating engineers
now had a society of about 400 members,
formed about two years ago. and thes =
men We're studying the different illumi-
mating efficiencies of different kinds of
lamps and the artistic effects. This Of
fers wide field, the speaker stated.
Evening star., 1907-10-30
Ordered to Jail.

Remus Carter, better known to the po-
lice as Dynamite" was arraigned in the
Police Court this morning on a charge of
housebreaking. Remus pleaded not guilty,
but waived the preliminary hearing. In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
KILLED IN HER BED.
CHICAGO WoMAN'S BODY FOUND
AFTER MANY HOURS.
Neck Shows Murder Was Work of
Observation-Disclosures the Proba-
bic Motiye-RaiIroad Companies
Mulcted for Delaying Mails.

murder, with robbery for its motive,
which promises to be battling to the po-
lice, was discovered in fashionable Hyde
Park, Chicago. The body of Mrs. Lillian
White Grant, aged 40 years, was found
on her bed in the home of the Rev. Ed
ward S. Ames, pastor of the Hyde Park
Christian Church. About the woman's
neck was a chemise with which she was
strangled to death. Her room had been
ransacked and what money and vaIuables
she is known to have had are missing.
The murder was committed some time
Wednesday night and was not discovered
until Friday morning, when two students
Of the University of Chicago, who room
at the Ames home, discovered the body
Suspicion is directed toward negro who
had been employed a few days ago by
Mrs. Grant to assist her to pack pre-
paratory to moving. J. e. Simms, an
expressman, and James Dunn, his helper,
are under arrest at the Hyde Park police
station. From them the police have a
good description Of the negro, who has
disappeared from his usual haunts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
MANY DIE IN WRECK.
TRAIN DISPATCHER'S ERROR
COSTS TWENTY-FIVE LIVES.
Excursion Train and Freight Collide
in New Hampshire While Under
High Speed-Twenty-Ifv Are
Killed Outright

Twenty-Five lives were sacrificed to
a telegraph operators blurder and
thirty other persons were badly in
iured in n train wreck which occurred
just before daylight Sunday four miles
west of Canaan Station in New Hamp-
shire on the Concord division of the
Boston and Maine Railroad
An operator at Canaan station, it is
said, by misconstruing orders sent a
freight train directly in the path of
crowded excursion train. The two
trains met in a head-on collision at
nigh speed. The resulting crash made
a pile Of splinters out of a light day
toach which was crowded with women
and children who were returning from
a fair at Sherbrooke, Province of Que
bee, 160 miles over the Canadian bor-
der.
The excursion train was rounding a
curve four miles west of Canaan Sta
ton when the engineer saw the head
light of the freight train. The paSsen-
ger train was running down grade and
had attained a speed of nearly fifty
miles an hour. There was no chance
of averting a collision, as the curve
at that point is sharp and the trains
were within a few feet of each other
when the engineers saw the danger.
Brakes We're thrown on and the en-
CINE crews jumped to safety.
The excursionists did not have a
seconds warming The jar caused by
the setting of the brakes was follow
ed by a grinding crash and the coach
es doubled UP as if they had been made
of cardboard. The baggage car, direct
ly behind the engine, telescoped the
coach and reduced it to kindling wood
1t was hours before some of the in
jured were taken from under the
wreck. When the last body was
taken from the wreck it was found
that tWenty-four had been killed out
right and that others were SO badly
hurt that they would die.
The baggage car in the rear of the
engine was hurled back into the crowd
ed cay cOach ike great ram and
tore it asunder from end to end. AS
it did so the rear end of the baggage
car rose up, so that when it stopped
at the forward end of the smoker, after
tearing through the day coach, the car
was almost perpendicular.
The shattered day coach was crowd
ed with more than fifty people Short
ly before the accident a few of the
men had gone back into the smoking
car in the rear, leaving the women to
get little sleep in the straight seats
One of those who escaped said that as
the train was rounding the curve some
one in the front began to sing, so that
nearly every one was awake when the
crash came.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
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Chicago-Cattle common to prime,
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 96c to Csc;
corn, No. ., Gle to Csc; oats, standard,
53c to 54c; rye, No. 2, SOC to soc; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $500; prairie, $500
to 27c; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to 21c; potatoes,
per bushel, SOC to 60c.
polis-Cattle, shipping $500
to $685.; hogs, choice neavy, $l0O to
S6.4O sheep, common TO prime, $500
to S475; wheat, No. 2, 90c to 92c; corn,
No. 2 white, Gle to SIC; oats, No. ,
white, 40c to soc
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40;
hogs. $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$780, wheat, No. 2, CSC to $1.O0; corn,
No. 2, 6Oc to Gle; oats, No. 2, 47c TO-
4Sc; rye, No. 2, SIC to S3c.
ncinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1913;
hogs, $500 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, Coo to CSC; oats, No.
mixed, sic to 52c; rye, No. 2, SSc to 9Oc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000; hogs,
p1.UU 10 pO.JOs ouctp, p-'cO w Pi''c,
wheat, No. 2, 93c to 94c; corn, No. B
yellow, roc to Tic; oats, No. 3 white,
51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, SIC to Soc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S1.O4 to S1OG; corn, No. 3, Gle to 62c;
oats, standard, sic to 52c; rye, No. l,
soc to Ole; barley, standard, Ole to 92c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
S4OO to 1923; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to SS.25.
New York-Cattle, $4OO to $6.45:
hogs, $500 to $7.OO; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, S1.O5 to $1.O6 !;
corn, No. 2, 74c to 75c; oats, natural
white, 56c to 5Sc; butter, creamery, &c
to pc; eggs, western, lie to pc.
Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 94c to
96c; corn, No. mixed, 65c to &c;
oats, No. 2 mixed, sic to 53c; rye, No
2, SEC to SIC; clover seed, prime, $10.02,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
NEW CHARTER BEATEN.
Chicago's Proposed Measure Is De-
featel Two to One

feateI Two to One.
Chicagos proposed new charter was
defeated at the polls Tuesday by a vote
of more than two to one. The measure
was showed under in many strongholds
of both parties alike, losing in all but
four of the thirty-fye wards. Fifty per
cent of the registered electors turned out,
and their ballots killed the act by vote
of %, JS1 for to 121 40 against.
knowledge had hardly been obtained
that the charter was dead than a move
ment was on foot to secure another in
strument that will contain the good fea-
lures of the defeated measure while hold
ing none of the alleged defects that led
the voters 10 turn it down.
An analysis of the vote shows that the
campaign made by the United Societies
bore much fruit in the shape of ballots
against the measure. 4 survey of the
situation Indicated that the defeat of the
charter was due most largely to the con-
tention that taxes would be raised IN
der the instrument, and that the Sunday
closing laws would be put into force.
On the North and West Sides hundreds
of small property holders turned out to
register an adverse vote because of the
taxes argument while in the thickly set
tied foreign sections a heavy vote against
the act was tailed because Of the per
sonal liberty" appeal.
The ward gerrymander, too, undoubted-
ly played an important part in the defeat.
The political aspect it gave to the char
ter led many an independent voter to show
his resentment by marking an adverse
hallnt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
CHICAGO.

While there is a more conservative
tone permeating business circles, fall ac-
uivity in the leading industries is more
defined and of encouraging magnitude
Production reflects no appreciate falling
off, but operations would be conducted
with greater ease were the tension less in
money and cost of supplies.
Transportation facilities by both rail
and lake are severely tested by increased
general freight offerings and marketing
of crops, and with this gratifying condi-
ton in evidence it is not clear that COM
merce is undergoing shrinkaga. New de-
mands continue strong for factory mate
rails to complete contracts which run far
ahead, especially in steel, forge, car and
machinery construction.
The most active branch at present is
that of staple merchandise, the Absorb
ton of which is remarkably strong and
comparing favorably with q year ago in
textiles, footwear and food products. The
attendance of visiting buyers includes
many from distant points, and their lib
eral orders indicate sustained confidence
for satisfactory sales throughout the ag-
ricultural communities. Local retail dis
ltlpulioH is Vi SedSOudDle extent.
Mercantile collections in the West oc-
casion little complaint, and defaults COM
pare favorably with last year in both
Numbers and liabilities.
Marketings of crops indicate that grow
ers are disposed to secure the current
high returns. The general demand for
breadstuffs is well sustained and the ship
ments run heavier than year ago. Live
stock and provisions are in ample supply
and the absorption is good for both do
nestle and foreign needs
Bank clearings, $243,913,697, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by 15.S per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered twenty-three, against
twenty-three last week and twenty-five a
year ago, those with liabilities over S5,-
600 being only two in number. -Dun's
Review
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
Humorous News Notes.

Wife has a hard time now telegraph.
ing home for money.
Is Esperanto the unknown language in
which train porters call stations?
Wouldn't it be best just to wipe out
Morocco and start there with a clean
slate?
1t will be hard luck for the Moors tc
have to pay for the licking France is
giving them.
Dressmakers may now have an excuse
to raise prices on account of the increased
cost of thread.
The telegraph strike is to be a fight tc
a finish. That's what the country wants
to see-the finish!
Tight shoes are to be the style this sea.
son, which will make the corn-plaster fac,
tories work overtime.
4 Philadelphia woman, 104 years old
complains that seciety isn't as lively as il
used to be- Giddy thing!
There are S1,722 persons in prisons in
the United States, not counting a number
of others that ought to be there.
Chicago claims 1861, 900 population
But this is only city directory popula-
ton, and it doesn't mean people at all
at all.
If the telegraph strikers cut of the
cables, how are we to learn what White
law Reid and Jimmy Hyde are doing on
the other side?
The cut in steamship rates won't ap-
peal very much to those who think their
country is good enough for them.
Three German. tourists slid down the
Jungfrau 1000 taet. Up in the Alps
they have awful sh 1ot-the-chutes.
At New Rochelle n. Y, a miser saved
up 100000 and starved to death. Al
this only 45 minutes from Broadway.
4 Tennessee poet has written an ode
to the prune. He evidently aspires 10 be
the poet laureate of the boarding house.
The automobile as an engine of death
and destruction is beginning to almost
reach a class with the American mince
pie.
In Massachusetts, an automobile ran
into an express train and killed three
persons. Express trains ought to beware
of the automobile.
That Massachusetts boy wht gor only
5 cents for finding a lost bab.r doesn'.
believe the country is so PROSPEROUS as
people say it is.
The most complete crop failure Of the
year has, bean in Wall street, where the
lambs positively refused to Gomez in for
the annual shearing.
Because the prisoner tainted en- the
SPOT South Carolina judge cut his SEN
tence from SO to 10 years. Look oUs for
an epidemic of court faints.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-09-26
STANDARD OIL PROFITS.
Earnings from 1899 to 1906 Shown
to Be S49O,315,834.


to Be $49O,315,9 1884.
Sensational disclosures regarding the
fabulous earnings of Standard Oil were
brought out in New York at the hearing
in the suit of the United States govern
ment to dissolve the corporation. Adroit
questioning drew from the reluctant lips
of Clarence G. Fay, resident comptroller
of the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, the admission that in seven years
Standard Oils total profits amounted to
$3.50, 1874, or something over ST0,000,-
900 a year.
Mr.. Fay was also forced to admit that
in 1899 the profits were nearly $S0,O00,-
600 instead Of $34,O00,O00 as set forth on
the books of the company. The Standard
Oil managed to cover up its great earn
ings in that year by deliberately failing
to credit the earn .ngs of nineteen subsi-
diary companies that contributed vast
sums to the parent corporation. This
is the first time the company's earnings
have been made public.
Figuring on the capital stock now out
standing-$9S,3 39, 3S2-this is an annual
profit of something over 70 per cent. Fig
ured on the basis of the Standard Oil
trust, which had capitalization of S1O,-
100000 when it was dissolved and reor-
ganized into the present company with
out any additional investment on the part
of Mr.. Rockefeller and his associates, the
annual profit is something like 100 per
cent. On the basis of the original Stand
ard Oil Company, with capitalization
of $1,000,O00, the annual profit is little
more than 1000 per cent. On the basis
of the little refinery Mr.. Rockefeller had
when he started out, with an invested cap
ital principally of nerve, the percentage
OF annual profit is-well, the statisticians
haven't figured that out yet.