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The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
WASHINGTON HERALD BUREAU.

- KING street
Alexandria. Va. Feb B.-GeOrge Mid
gets, colored, will be hanged in the city
Jail yard tomorrow morning between
and G.3J o'clock, for tie murder of
Charles T. Smith, which occurred October
p. 1906. Everything is in readiness for
the execution. Twelve witnesses. to-
gether with a number Of newspaper men
and most Of the members Of the police
force, will witness the execution.
It is believed by many that the negro
viii confess 10 the murder on the scaf-
fold, although he has not yet given any
intimation 10 that effect Since his con-
viction he has sI1illfuIly avoided referring
to the murder This morning Midgets
stated that he would make brief state
ment on the scaffold. The condemned man
said that.he did not know exactly what be
would say. This morning he called for
canned peaches and cIke.
Rev. Alexander Truatt, coIored this
afternoon, paid Midgets visit The con-
demned man this evening bade all of the
ian inmates good-by, and also shook the
hands Of a number Of newspaper men
and Chief Goode, of the police depart
meut He told the chief that he had no
malice against the police. The negro
seems perfectly resigned 10 his fate. and
says he would rather hang than 90 10 the
penitentiary. He asked Sergt Cox II
he could be hanged al 1 o'clock in the
morning. The sergeant informed him
that he could not. as he was compelled
/ 10 execute him between the hours Of 6
d. m and noon, as prescribed by the
court
/ This morning a number of jail inmates
stood in the corridor in front OF the con-
demned mans cell and rendered gospel
hymns. and Aldgets joined them in song.
/ This afternoon the scafOld was tested
with 20o-pound sack Of sand and every
thing was found 10 be in perfect working
order Midgets viii only have about sixty
/ feet 20 walk from his cell 10 the scaffold.
while the steps he viii ascend number
1 thirteen.
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BIG MILLS START UP.
Two Thousand Men Back at Work
An the Wheeling District.

Special TO The Washington Herald.
Wheeling. W. Va. Feb 15.-More than
20C0 workmen who have been idle since
November and December have resumed
work in the Wheeling district this week.
a dozen additional mills al the Aetna
Standard plant have started. giving en-
ployment to 800 Hasking glass plant,
Martins Ferry. gives work to as many
more.
The starting of the Top Mil Furnace
and the Wheeling Steel and Iron Works
gives employment TO oyer Ices. the Ma
tional Tube Companys Riverside plant
viii partially resume about February %
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TWO B. q o. MEN RESIGN.
l.. G. Haas and George Hodges Go to
the SeabOaFd.

Special to The Washington Herald
Baltimore, Feb. i3-L G. Haas, as
sistant general manager of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and George Hodges,
who was connected with the transporta-
tion department. have both resigned, 10
become agent and assistant agent re-
spectively. Of the receivers cf the Sea-
board Air Line Railway c. r. Williams
has been named as secretary TO the re-
ceivers. and the firm OF Price. Water
house & Co. Of New York and London.
selected as the expert accountants.
Bir. Haas was with the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore and Ohio railroads for
twenty years.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
Fnn of Cage XII Two.

North Sydney, Cape Breton, Feb. b.
Two men were killed by the fall of a cage
in the shaft at the No ! coliery of the
Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company's
mine at Sydney Mines to-day.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
CoehPan-GiIehriSt.


Special to Tie Washington Herald.
Iynchburg, Va, Feb 13-At the par
sonage of the First Christian Church last
night Miss Virginia Frances GiIchrist and
Mr. Herbert Hugo Cochran, both of this
city, were married. the pastor. Rev b. b.
Bullard, officiating.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
Enrineer knocked from Cab.

Special TO The Washington Herald.
Spencer, y. c.. Feb. 19-Engineer r.
H. Walker, of this place, was severely
injured in the Southern yards here last
night by being knocked from his cab
while leaning out. He was struck on
the head by box car. lie will recover.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14

Chicago. Feb. l3.-Nick AItrock has
signed 1908 contract with the White
S0X, one Of the provisions of which is
that he viii not touch liquor during
the playing season.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
FosslI AIonster Found.

Santiago, Chile, Feb l3.-The fossil re-
mains of a plesiosaurus have been un-
earthed at Taleahuano Bay. The body
was forty-five feet long.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14

Aberdeen. Wash, Feb. 13-"Jimmy''
Butler,sof England, defeated al" Smith.
Of California, in the fifteenth round here
last night
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
Hermann for President.

Information from reliable source
makes IL appear that Pittsburg has
cinch on the 1909 tournament and that
Garry Hermann viii be reelected presi-
dent of the A. B. c. unanimously. The
I high scores in each division follow:
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LAVENDER AND DAVIS BEST.
Lead In Second Session of whist
Tourney at Local Club.

The second session Of the whist tour
nament at the Washington Chess and
Checker Club was in progress last night
and many Of the players of the previous
session were handed surprises. dropping
from substantial plus score into the
minus columns.
Much interest was displayed in the
contests, and even more is promised be-
fore the finals are reached.
The best score of the evenings play
was that of Lavender and Davis, from
a-minus-7 TO a-plus-7, a game Of fourteen
points.
The summaries.
North and South. average. 245-Tulloch and Jones.
255 plus To- Huntington and Martin. 2i9 plus g.,
Townsend and SJien. 2l5 plus 3, Smith and sum
mers. 2E plus .; ollifero and Bradford. pa plus
Turner and Parker 80 minus 4. Merrill and Hutch
ens0n. 253 minus s.; Bryan and Lummy 235 minus 3.
Hue and Lockwood 295 minus g.
East and West; average, @4-La7ender and Davis.
lS Plus H. Brown and Babc0ck. "a plus TO- Queen
and Zimmerman. 222 plus 6; Young and Belt, 232
plus s; Polk and Nye 2s3 minus !; Hine and
Bishop, p minus 2, T. Lucsey and Tagbon, 2ls
minus 8. Nottingham and Pitcher, 26 minus S.
L0Wnsberry and Dembitz 16 minus l3
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
NEWSOF ALEXANDRIA
All in Readiness for Execu-
tiOn Of MidgetS To-day.
MAY CONFESS ON sCAFFoLD

Convicted Man Has StOicaIiy Refused
to Discuss Crime Up to the Present
tilted by Their Victim, Who IL
Dangerously wounded.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-14
LAJOIE BLOCKS DEAL
Cleveland Refuses to Waiver
on BlankenShip.
UPSETs CANTIILON'S PLANS

Washington Manager Had Hoped To
Place Catcher with Some Minor
Maps Decline 10 Allow Him to
Leave the American League.
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Substitute Mail Carrier Arrested.

James Gaskins colored. who was ar
rested several days ago on a charge of
larceny of articles from package Of
mail on a rural free delivery route, which
he was serving in Culpeper County in
place of his father was this afternoon
arraigned before United States Commis-
sioner r. p. W Garnett and given "a pre-
Hminary hearing. The accused was held
for the action of the grand jury. and his
bond was fixed at $500. Gaskius after
ward furnished the necessary surety and
was released. He viii be given a hearing
al the July term Of the United States
Court
Julian Ballenger about thirteen years
Of age. was shot tonight about $50
o'clock in the right eye with pistol
used for firing blank cartridges. in the
hands Of Sidney We'll, about fourteen
years of age His eye was badly in
iured. The boy was attended by Dr.
Moore. The shooting took place al the
corner Of Prince and ST. Asaph streets.
a Hon. Step. and Jump Through the
Orient" will be the subject OF an ad-
dress which will be delivered tomorrow
night AT the Young Peoples Building OF
the Methodist EpiSttbal NAAiti f'tuL-ls
by Representative Charles TOwne, Of
New York
Announcement is made that there viii
be patriotic services at Christ Protestant
Episcopal Church on the morning of Feb
ruary p, at 10 O'Clock under the auspices
of Mount Vernon Chapter. Daughters OF
the American Revolution. Right Rev. A.
NJ Randolph will deliver an address on
George Washington. 4 special Offering
viii be taken up for the restoration OF
historic old Pohick Church.
Albert Farmer, sixty-one years Of age,
died this morning after d brief illness at
his home at the Braddock House Ar
rangements for the funeral have not
been completed.
Mai. Hatfield. of the United States
Army, stationed at Fort Myer, Va. has
been named as chief marshal for the
para6a which will he held February -.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

fit through the hotels like lost spirits
and recall the dear dead days when
there was politics in this mans town.
and railroad attorney with book OF
transportation was bigger man than
old Grant. And that's what. your re-
form has done Put a lot OF Willies
in serge suits-'nine ninety-eight,
marked down from fourteen fifty
into control of the destinies of our
great republic
What has become of our common
heritage?" exclaimed Mr.. Handy wav-
ing his glass wildly. Where is our
manifest destiny? Who's gone and
stolen the pride pointer and the alarm
viewer? Is 1t in the platform? No,
you reformers are making terms with
Gompers; and Taft's liberal views
as they call them. are going to pre-
vail over the fine conservative views
of our peerless leader, our grand old
man. freedoms champion. the defend.
er OF the faith of the fathers, the man
who-the man who-the man who
reiterated Mr.. Handy-"the man who
Il refer to Hon. ]. G. Cannon OF Dan
vile. ILL.,
Where's your keynote speech in
this convention? I'll tell you; it's
fastened in Burrows time lock. Who
is going to sound clarion note here
today? There win be no clarion note.
The name of the gallant Blaine will
not be heard In the hall The party
that saved the country, that broke the
shackles on 100000 slaves, the party
that preserved the Union, is represent
ed here by the allies. and they are
tossed around like a lot OF last years
alfalfa. They came here asking for
the presidency; they were willing to
compromise on the yice-presidency
and sprung the name Of Jim Sherman.
1T reminds me Of the time Col. Ana
doneran ]. Balderson of our town
started out to be minister to England
under Cleveland's first administration.
He found that job gone, and compro-
missed by applying for assistant secre-
tary OF state Failing in that, he asked
for United States marshal Failing In
that, he asked for the postoffice at
home, and then, failing in that,
Strengthened himself up and said:
Thank heaven, we have a Democratic
governor in Kansas. and he will not
turn me down
He came home three months later
with pair of Gov. Clicks old trous-
ers. and to that end has your reform
brought those who for 40 years have
been fighting the party's battles.'
Mr.. Handy rose proudly and said:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS crimes are
committed in thy name."
The Big Crowds Tribute.
What a curious thing is big crowd
Of civilized men and women gathered
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

He assured the convention that
under Fairbanks there would be no
government by impulse" and the
crowd knew what he was driving at.
and his usefulness as an orator was
ended
New York has sense of humor.
and when the delegation was called
for New York the delegates rose
laughing and let Gen. woodford make
the shortest and most appropriate
speech of the day. nominating Hughes.
And when he said that only two men
beyond a doubt could carry New York
one being In the White House and
the other in the governors office at
Albany-he made the crowd restive
and quit just before his credit gave
out.
The Clarion Note.
The only real clarion note of the
convention was sounded by Knight
of California, seconding Taft's NOM
inatioD. For Knight has voice. and
Mr.. Burton OF Ohio. who put Tafts
name before the convention grace
fully, was not heard as we'll as such
a speaker should have been heard.
Knox also was tastefully nominated
with proper eclat and without too
much wind-jamming.
And II the young football player.
Cochem OF Wisconsin. who gave the
convention La Follette's name. had
cut his speech in two. 1t would have
made the hit OF the afternoon. But
he slid past the crowds limit, and the
smile which captivated every one
wore on and he grew angry. and "the
subsequent proceedings Interested
him no more"
1t was Mr. McGee-remember the
name-who seconding the nomination
of La Toilette, started the whoop
heard round the world. There seems
to be no question that OF all the can
didates besides Taft, La Toilette got
the best demonstration.
But after that complications oc-
Cured. Some one walked across the
gallery back OF the speakers platform
with flag containing Roosevelt's pic
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

Young men with stiff straw hats and
boyish faces are dominating the
crowd.
What can you expect" asked the
colonel. earnestly. as he drifted out OF
the Taft headquarters. "of a gang like
that? No whispering-no one coming
out of the consultation room like
man from a dentists ofilce-with his
teeth in his hands--a sadder and wiser
man; nothing but idle speculation
about the vice-presidency."
Sighs for the Old Days.
The colonel waved for the waiter
and sighed and shook his head and
said: "A promise is promise-when
your wife issues the door keys-yes,
another bottle of those liquid hair
pins"
Then he resumed his lamentations:
81 saw some forlorn fellows solemn
ly hayfooting 1t down Michigan ave
nue. this morning They had a band
and were in procession. Was it a
funeral? 1t was not. Was 1t the
doomed man walking to the gallows
with firm step after eating hearty
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

ture, and the applause for La Toilette
merged into the futile, stupid attempt
to stampede the crowd to Roosevelt,
and for a quarter OF an hour the
yelling continued.
1t was quieted as the roll call on
president began and continued down
to Iowa. There silence fell. and con-
tinued until Taft was nominated
Now written down here in a thou
sand words. this seems like the story
of a stirring episode Yet it covers
events that lasted from 10 O'Clock
until $50 There was some formal
cheering of something like two and
six-elevenths seconds for each of the
allies, and this is the best part of 1t
all-those who had sought the nom
nation the hardest, Cannon and
Knox and Fairbanks. got no more
than Foraker. who took what he
could pick up. There were no diff.
ferences between the SIS picture fire
works and the ten-cent roman candle
they all fizzled and went out In
gloom.
Abner Handy Talks.
Sut to go back to some of the earlier
days of the convention, some of the
days before the fireworks were all ex-
ploded, the days when only the fuses
were sizzling. 1t was on Sunday,
think. that ! met my friend Handy
Abner Handy from the Ninth Kansas
district. Mr.. Handy, who has been out
of politics in Kansas since 1902 was
unable to get to the convention before
Sunday on account OF floods in the
Kaw bottoms. and until his arrival the
pre-convention milling had been rath-
er tame. But the arrival of Mr.. Handy
in his Prince Albert coat and black
slouch hat, with his massive head of
hair protruding fiercely. and his little
slits Of eyes keenly measuring up the
situation-Mr. Handy is an expert on
the situation"-added new life to the
crowd in the Annex. and one may saw
that the convention began with his ar
rival.
1T has been II years since 1 at.
tended Republican convention" said
Mr.. Handy. as he lolled In red plush
divan in alimony alley and spat
through his teeth at the onyx mon
board. "and I NEE; great many new
faces. first saw Fairbanks in the
st. Louis convention, and l have Just
been talking to one of his managers
one of the new men in Indiana poll
tics-born since left the state-a Mr.
Ade-George they call him. Clever
young man, apparently. He tells me
there is a strong undercurrent for Fair
banks. and wanted me to help him
bale 1t up SO that there would be some
surface indications.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

1t was under orders, and nothing could
move it. So 1t moved majestically
along. 1t adopted the platform, for
mally voting down, by overwhelming
majorities, planks advocating pub
licity in campaign contributions
recommended. by the president in his
messages, valuation of railroads,
recommended by the president In his
messages. and the election OF senators
by the people.
A Roosevelt Convention.
For that convention was for Roose-
welt policies only when 1t had them
in the regular order and the authen-
ticated form. The Roosevelt policies,
as such, did not interest the conven-
tion. for it was under orders and took
only the real milk of the word as 1t
came through the committee, and 1t
believed. and probably with some JUS
tification, in the fact that Roosevelt
did not care to have his policies come
into the convention by way of Wis
consin.
So 1t voted for the program and
went on to the next order. And the
next order was the nomination of a
president. And that is a serious busi-
ness.
1t is curious to know just how forms
and conventions and precedents are
worshiped without sense or reason by
apparently clear-headed men. But
there sat 1000 delegates and 10000
spectators and listened to five mortal
hours of utterly useless, entirely mean
ingless and absolutely vacuous
speeches. These speeches were made
putting men in nomination for the
presidency who had no more chance to
be nominated than they had of pick
ing out harp check and joining the
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25
Frank II. Hitchcock Brought In the
Delegates with Ease.

est. The visitors In the galleries are
there only to see the hero crowned,
and once the ceremony is over, and
the shouting has worn itself out. their
interest in the convention rapidly dies
away-the show is over.
Thursday was a hot day. and the
perspiration that the thousands shed
would have floated all four of the pres
ident's battleships, and the real trou-
Bile Of the convention-in a day of
trouble-began after the invocation
had been spoken, after Senator Hop
kins had given a visible demonstra-
ton of the platform, which no one
heard and no one seemed to care to
hear, and after Congressman Cooper,
on behalf of the minority of the COM
mittee on resolutions, began scolding
the convention.
His speech, of course, did not con-
vince. 1t was a protest, rather than
an argument, and anyway the conven-
ton would not have changed that
platform, which it believed to be in
spired from Washington, II the minor
ity had offered the Ten Command
ments. But Cooper scolded, and when
the authorized representative from the
railroad engineers and firemen and
trainmen appeared and warned the
convention that the railroad employees
of the country were dissatisfied with
the anti-injunction planks, that made
no difference, either.
GabrieIs trumpet would have been
lat ho 10 fOr ho
by the convention. Its face was set.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Story of the Great Gathering Told
by a Master Pen.
Incidents and SideIights-Pcture of the Nomination
of Secretary Taft-The Old Politician Talks of
Politics of Yesterday and To-Day.
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

Chicago.-A national convention is
all over but the shouting, when
the presidential nomination is made
II Is for that that the delegates assem-
bic. High-browed men wrangle over
party platform planks. and fight 1t out
among themselves as to who shall
be forced to accept the vice-presiden-
tial place, but in all of these things
the general public has but little inter.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

heavenly choir. Boutell of Illinois
began it-naming Cannon.
The crowd stood for him with some
patience, though no one listened to
him.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana, an unusually
able governor. and an otherwise zane
man, came little afterward and got
in row with the convention because
it laughed at him and jeered him dur
ing the last half Of perfectly un-
necessary speech.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-06-25

breakfast of bacon and eggs? Not at
all! Was it delegation Of flood suf-
ferers or chain gang? No, but 1t
looked like the melancholia ward of an
asylum out for mornings airing
and 1t was the Knox Marching Club!
They are here. The band is here.
They have to do something's they
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-10
INVESTIGATING GIRLS DEATH.
Sweetheart of Cove Girl Points Out
Doctor Who Oncrnted.

San Francisco, Nov. 10.-Dr. G. w.
O'Donnell, a physician of San Fran
cisco. was pointed out by James Glib
son of Cove, Ore. on the witness
stand in the coroner's office, as the
surgeon, who under the name of OR.
J. j, Black" performed an operation
that is alleged to have resulted in the
death of his sweetheart Vesta Van
Nlack.
The coroner asked the doctor if he
wished to say anything and he said
he did not
The Identification followed Glib
cons testimony in which he describ-
ed his relations with the Oregon girl
He said he sought to marry her in
Cove, but license was refused them.
Again they We're refused in san
Francisco because they did not have
the consent of the girls parents.
They then visited "Dr. Black" and
finally the girl was taken to the hos
pital, where. the coroner will trv TO
show, the case was diagnosed as ap-
and the operation for that
resulted i'm death.
The autopsy surgeon. Clark. of the
coroner's Offices, swore the girl died
from the effects of bungling crimi-
nal operation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-10
"RIDERs" TERRIFY sQUAw.
Four Men Parade Unclothed Boy Be-
fore Woman,

Tacoma, Wash, Nov. 10.-Descend-
ing upon the ranch home of Mrs. Sal
ly Bill, an aged indian woman living
on the Marshall road, four might
riders" about o'clock Sunday morn
ing entered the old woman's dwelling
and subjected her to the grossest in
dignities, and were not satisfied until
they had paraded an unclothed youth
before Mrs. Bill and smashed the cook
stove and much of the house furni-
ture. Then, taking a lantern, they
departed and are said to have made
an attack upon another dwelling oc-
cupied by an Indian family. Three OF
the men were somewhat under the in
fluence of liquor and each carried a
quart bottle of whskey in his pocket.
Warrants will be served on the men
tomorrow charging them with assault.
From the accounts given to the police
1t appears that a Chilean boy en-
ployed by Mrs. Bill had been seized
by the gang and forced to accompany
the trio to the Indian woman's home.
l. is said the three men debated
whether it would be better to strip
the lad of all his clothing and lash
him to tree and then invite the In
dian woman out or disrobe the lad
and usher him into the presence of
the terrified Mrs. Bill as she cowed in
the bedroom. The latter program
was carried out
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-11-10

Berlin, Germany, Nov. 10.-De-
manding that Chancellor Won Buelow
introduce a bill limiting the kaiser's
personal power, and reciting a long
list of what he termed indiscretions
on the part of the emperor, Herr
Waserman, leader Of the national lib
erals, today made a sensational at
tack on the kaiser during a sitting Of
the Reichstag.
He declared that reactionary forces
were working in the German empire,
making the country more benighted
than Turkey or Russia.
When Wasserman finished, Herr
Weimer followed with harsh criti-
cism of the emperor. Paul Singer,
leader of the socialists, also denounc-
ed the kaiser. Deafening applause
followed the attacks.
The government ministers regard
the situation as critical and fear a
ministerial government, similar to-
England's. Will follow the agitation.
Wasserman said: I'VE want to
state plainly and publicly to the world
that we are not afraid of Yellow per-
lis, or any other perils, but the dan
ger from international policy, based
on the sudden moods of the kaiser, is
incalculable. Germany's fate must no
longer depend upon one mans i'm
pulsive temperament. The idea of
personal absolutism is undermihing
our national security"