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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06


day.
IL The House refused to con-
cur in the resolution calling
upon the Corporation Commission to
formulate plan of taxation looking
to a segre CATION of property for that
purpose. This does not mean that the
House is opposed to segregation, but
only that It prefers that this work
should be done by the legislative COM
mission for which it has already voted.
Both branches adopted the resolu-
ton of sympathy for the stricken peo-
pie of Collinwood, Ohio, whence the
cry OF the perishing children has been
heard around the world.
In the Senate the appropriation bill,
and In the House variety OF matters,
made the day one of great interest.
Important Matters.
"A number of measures OF real sig
nificance. which had passed one OF tho
branches of the Legislature. received
the approval of the other. Among,
these may be mentioned the teachers
retirement fund, the abolition of local
executions. the establishment OF a
school Of mines at Blacksburg, the bill
In regard to the Board Of Education
and school superintendents. the anti
cocaine BILL the bills allowing the
R1chmond, Fredericksburg and Poto-
mac Railway Company to secure new
charter. giving UP Its present exemp-
lions from certain forms of taxation,
r the bill allowing circuit courts to grant
charters OF incorporation to towns of
over two hundred and less than five
thousand inhabitants. the bill In re-
gard to the carrying OF concealed
weapons. the bin to Increase the pay
OF Jailors In small counties, and others
OF less general interest.
The resolution calling upon +be state
Board of Education to establisb .
single list of school books. already
adopted by the House, was YESTERDAY y
agreed to by the Senate. Once or twice
oefore the Legislature has preferred a
similar request, but the list OF school
books has continued singularly muI-
tiple.
The feature of the day. however. nd
the most spectacular legislative event
OF the session was the passage BY tho
House OF the Senate bill providing for
the establishment ofga teachers retira.
ment fund. The young women w,b,,
had we'll won the title eeof queens :
the lobby, having pledged three-score
and ten OF the members to their b,ll.
repaired to the gallery and alternately
iroWned. smiled and applauded as the
measure proceeded. The House aband-
oned itself to TIE galety Of the si,ua-
ton and enacted scene altogether
hilarious, not to say boisterous. Four
teen unterrifted souls, ilnpelled by
conscience, courage and what-not, re-
corded their protests, but the bill went
through with a whoop and howl, and
us fair supporters retlred-not within
the meaning of the bill, but bodily It
VIII be many a long year before any of
them really gets upon the retired list.
Progressive Step.
The Senate bill making the selling OF
cocaine a felony was passed by the
House It is hoped that this measure
will deal heavy blow to this most
elusive and pernicious traffic. Disease,
insanity and crime have long followed
In Its wake, which Is another example
OF q merciful medicine becoming the
handmade of vice.
But perhaps the most progressive
ltep along humanitarian lines was the
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HELD FOR BERRY MURDER
Pictures of TrinNgfg slt't 81.
ns Men Suspected OF Norfolk Killing.

Pictures of TrinN9w aai't a.i
ns Men Suspected OF Norfolk Killing.
NEW ORLEANS, March 5.--Georgc
Hamilton and Charles Weatherhee.
beld here on request of the Rome Ca,
police, were to-day Unidentified as for
mer companions Of a. II. Berry. the
Rome man murdered in Norfolk last
summer. The Identification was made
by f. T. Reynolds. of Chattanooga and
q G.. Glenn, OF Dalton, Ga.
who were acquainted with Berry
and several Of his companions.
The New Orleans police were tonight
still awaiting the arrival of officers
from Rome, as formal charges had been
made against the prisoners in connec-
ton with Berry's death.
The arrest of Hamilton and Weather.
bee came as sensational climax to a
series of daring robberies perpetrated
in the heart of the business sections
by persons who selected jewelry win
dows as the scene of their crimes. Sew
eral hours after receiving the message
from Rome. Inspector O'Connor was
called up by Il. B. Berry. of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. who, through the long
distance telephone. said that he posi-
lively identified the published pictures
of Weatherbee and Hamilton as the
men who murdered his brother, A. II.
Berry, in a hotel in Norfolk. Va. Oc-
tober 90. 1907. and robbed him Of $500
in money. valuable diamond ring and
some small trinkets.
Hamilton and Weatherbee deny the
charge.
The killing of Berry.
NORFOLK. VA. March 5.-A cor
oner's fury, summoned in October last
to inquire into the circumstances and
cause of the death of Aston II. Berry.
returned a verdict that he came to his
death from stab wounds and blows re-
ceived at the hands of some person to
the jury unknown. The body Of Berry
was not Identified until three days after
the murder had been committed
The police tried to locate Felker. a
supposed companion OF the murdered
man. now declared to be one of those
under arrest at New Orleans. a tele-
gram received from New Orleans to-
day by Chief OF Police Boush says
Weatherbee denies he Is Felker, and
claims 20 have been in Mobile at the
time of the Berry murder.
What evidence the police have
against Felker, except that he ran with
Berry, was last seen with him and dis
appeared when the murder was commit
ted. Is not known. Chief Boush Is sill
ent. The evidence is believed to be
and flimsy. 1t is not
believed he can be convicted unless
further evidence is developed
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
PRISONERS GET HUNGRY

Grumbling About Not Getting Enoush,
They Try to Hrcnk Out of Jail.
TRENTON, n. j., March 5.--Nearly
100 prisoners in the county prison here
mutined Tonight and made an effort
to break jail, because they declared
they We're not given sufficient rations.
When supper was served there was
shortage OF meat ana some one turn
ed out the lights, Whereupon small
army Of pris onerssmade a concerted
dash for the door. squad of guards
was called out and the prisoners We're
beaten back. The Jail has been over
crowded, about 100 inmates being COM
PEELED to sleep on the floor The prison
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
FORMER BANKER INDICTED
Eill off Counts Against Adler. Former
Head of New Orleans State National.

Ell of ~ Counts Against Adler. Former
Head of New Orleans State National,
NEW ORLEANS, LA, March 5--Wu-
lam Adler, former president of the
State National Bank of New Orleans.
was indicted by the United States grand
jury here to-day, charged with mis-
applying natIona bank funds and with
other illegal transactions. There were
seventy four counts In the Indictment.
Charges that dealings about which thsv
should have heen informed We're con-
cealed from the board OF directors. and
that false entries and misapplIcation
and distraction of funds occurred
reaching between 100000 and 100000
We're made against Adler In the indlct-
ment,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
TWO NEGROES ARE LYNCHED
Had Murdered Georgia Man and Wife to
Rob Their House.

HAWKINSVILLE, GA, March s.
Two nebroes, Carrie Robertson and
John Henry. were lynched to-day near
here and their bodies burned. They
We're charged with the murder of Mr.
and Mrs. Warren Hart. One of the
negroes confessed TO the crime and
said the motive was robbery.
Robertson and Henry We're arrested
Wednesday following the discovery Of
the body of Warren Hart. His wife
was lying near by in u dying condi-
ton. Tho murders took place near
Frazier, the home of the Harts. MI.
Hart was Killed by a blow on the
head, apparently made by an AK. Mrs.
Hart was seriously beaten and was
found uneonseious. She died Wednes-
day night. To-day the negroes We're
taken from the county jail and car,
ried some distance from the town,
where they We're hanged to q tree. .Af-
ter the hanging the bodies We're cut
down and incinerated, and the posse
Quietly dispersed.
The crime of which the negroes were
accused was committed just at day
light Wednesday, when some one at
tackled Hart as, he went from his house
to feed his stock. His head was crush
ed. The murderers then went to the
Kitchen of the Hart home, where Mrs.
Hart was preparing breakfast, and
attacked her with an ak, leaving her
for dead. The Harts We're nnoWn to
have about $1,000 in the house, but the
murderers did not get the money.
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Tspeclal 70 The Times. Dispatch

Especial 10 The Times plspatch.l
BRANFORD. CONN, March 6--Gen-
eral Frank a. Pargond, who obtained
his rank in the Confederate Army. is
dead at his summer home, In stony
Creek, aged seventy-nlne years. He
came here from Louisiana. where he
was a large plantation owner year
ago, General Pargond leaves no heirs
It Ia believed.
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NO RESTRICTIONS PLACED
Savannah Merchant Says American To-
bacco Company Imposed None on Him.

NEW YORK. March 5.-Joseph Ferst,
OF Savannah. Ga, a member of whole
sale grocery firm Of M. Ferst Sons &
Co, Of that city, testifying to-day In
the governments suit against the
American Tobacco Company, said no
restrictions ever We're placed on his
firm regarding the sale OF tobacco by
the American Tobacco Company or the
r. j. Reynolds Company, independents
He said his hrm is allowed an inside
rate OF 3 per cent. on smoking tobacco
by the American Tobacco Company,
and had a like rate on plug tobacco
until last year. when 1t was cut off.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
BRIDE TAKES HER LIFE
Mrs. Samuel Garrett, of Orange. Swal-
lows Curbaiic Acid.

Special to The Times Dispatchl
ORANGE, VA, March 5.--Mrs. Ruth
Garrett, wife of Night Policeman Sam
uel Garrett, committed suicide here
to-day by swallowing carbolic acid.
Mrs. Garrett was but nineteen years
cid, and had only been married twoI
months. No cause is known for the
desperate act.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
GLAD HIS PRINCIPLES
ACCEPTED BY PEOPLE
Party Leaders From Every Dis
trict in the Commonwealth
Gather to Pledge Allie
glance to His Presi-
dental Aspira-
tions.
Confidence in Bryan

"rhc Democratic party Of Nebras-
kn nEnin declares confidence In and
admiration for William JcnninR.
Bryan. In him we behold the ideal
American citizen, the ideal Demo-
crnf. we rejoice TINT the principles
Which he has 80 nbly advocated
nave been GLADLY received md nrc
now generally accepted by the
American people,. Resolution
adopted by Nebraska convention.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
,1otber and chlldrcn nurnea.

old and her two children. Florida, aged
three years, and Arnell, aged eighteen
months, colored, were burned to death
to-day. Tho fire Is believed to have
been OF incendiary origin.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
KING EDWARD IN PARIS

Stops En- Route for Months Rest at
Biarritz and Cruise on Mediterranean.
LONDON, March 5.-King Edward left
London to-day for Biarritz for months
holiday. after which he will make q
cruise on the Mediterranean in COM
pany with Queen Alexandra.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
MAY CALL REV. Mr.. EARLE
Richmond Pastor Invited to Preach In
Paterson, ~, j.

The Rev. j. Fl. Earle. of this city,
has been invited to preach at the Park
Avenue Baptist Church. in Paterson.
N. j.. on Sunday, and may receive a
n call to FIJI the vacancy caused by the
departure OF OF the Rev. Frank S. Ken
non to the pulpit of Fairport N. Y,
Baptist Church. The Rev. Mr.. Earle
Is pastor of the Fairmount Baptist
Church. He was formerly pastor at
Wharton, N. j., and Allentown. N. j.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-06
by LEWIS H. MAcHEN.

. HERE We're many crowded hours
: in Legislative circles yester-
day.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-24
BODIES OF MURDERED FOUND.
italian at Florence, COL, Makes Partial
Confession to Police.

Florence, Col, Jan. 21.-The dead
bodies of three of the four Italians
whose disappearance from this city
in the last three months has baffled
the police, were found Monday buried
at a distance of about $50 yards from
the home of Antonio Nernino, alias
Antonio Bavari, who is under arrest,
charged with the murder of four per-
sons.
The corpses are those of Dominic
Minichello, who was partner of
Nernino in a market gardening bust
ness; Ercola Buffetti, an employee at
the garden, and Mrs. Frank Palmetto,
who had been Nernino's housekeeper.
Nernino disclosed the hiding place Of
the bodies when threatened with i'm
mediate hanging if he did not tell all
that he knew about the murders.
However, he declared that the MUIR
ders were committed by Joseph Mini
chello, the missing man, and not by
himself.
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LETTER POSTED 80 YEARS AGO.
Crossed Ocean Many Times Before
Delivery to Sea Captain.

A letter posted at Garmstad, Nor
way, 80 years ago to Capt. Thomas
Nielsen of the bark, Harmonic, and
which has travelled across the Allan
tic to and fro many times in pursuit
of him, was delivered to Thomas Mel
sen, carpenter of the revenue cut
ter Manhattan of the local service.
says a New York dispatch to the ST.
Louis Globe Democrat. 1t was the
right envelope, and the joint letter it
contained brought the mist to his eyes
with the news" it told of old friends
and relatives in Norway, many of
whom are now dead.
Capt. Nielsen is now 6S years old,
and has been retired from the sea for
many years. The letter was from his
wife, Alviner, and his brother John,
who wrote to tell of an accident to an
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MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting Items Gathered in the
Gopher State
The NJ. p. Paws Up.

st. Paul.-State Treasurer O. O..
Dinehart received from the Northern
Pacific Railway company a check for
$11 ,S80.63 in payment Of the per
cent penalty for the failure of the
company to have its taxes for 1904
fully paid up on March 1, 1905.
Several other roads were found to
have been delinquent in the payment
of their taxes for several years, and
upon notification of the imposition Of
the penalty prescribed by law some
of them have already paid up, while
there are still several who have not,
and suits will be started against these
roads for the enforcement of the
penalty.
The Northern Pacific did not put in
an answer to the suit brought against
it but agreed to pay the amount.
The Great Northern answered, setting
up an understanding with former
treasurers that the taxes might be
paid in installments, beginning two
months before the taxes became due,
and that the payment of the balance
would not then be required on the
date specified by law.
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t.tsons Of whisky were judged to be

txtfons Of whisky were judged to be
the real thing.
Tt stands to reason, of course, that
tho great proportion of the liquor sold
Is counterfeit, when 1t is known that
the consumption is far in excess Of
the ability of distillers and brewers to
produce the genuine product. Adult
terations and criminal counterfeits
must be resorted to in order to meet
the demand. I will wager that there
have been inmates of Bellevue's alco-
holic ward who have never tasted a
drop of real whisky in their lives.
They just think they have been drink
ing whisky, and if they had been
drinking real whisky the chances are
they would never have been in Belle
vue. don't say that real whisky, if
taken excessively, is not harmful, but
I do say that man could drink the
pure article in moderation all his life
and not be hurt by it. Why, Is
drinks of pure whisky would not do
man the harm that one drink of this
vile stuff they sell for whisky in New
York would do him.
Poisoned by Vile Liquor.
II know man who left his Office
one evening all tired out: dropped into
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saloon of the best class and took
only two drinks of their bar whisky
and was lost for four days. I was
called in to help find him, as he was
a friend of mine, and when we found
him he was in pitiable condition, his
mind was clouded, he could not re-
member where he had been or what
he had done after leaving that saloon.
He only remembered that he had taken
two drinks of whisky.
"The beer drinker, if he gets real
beer, is handed a glass of the bever-
age which, to meet the demands of
trade, is put out too new and i'm
properly fermented. Beer should be
kept in the key for six months before
being sold to the drinker.
ut is rather surprising how many
of our school children have become
beer drinkers, especially those Of for
eign birth, and the habit is making
them mentally sluggish to a degree
that is attracting the attention of ed
ucators and philanthropists.
Another habit which is getting con-
troll Of eur shop girls particularly is
the cocaine habit. This habit has
grown in the last few years with such
rapidity that to-day thousands of
young girls as well as mature wom-
en- and men are held in it's clutches.
The effect of the habit is noted in the
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and the poor, young and old. Girls in
their teens evidently see no impropri-
ETY. whatever in drinking publicly
with men companions. Very often
indeed have had young girls brought
to me for treatment, Historically
drunk.
81 have treated within a year
women whose weekly bill for cham
payne alone was 500 and who filled
up the intervals between their
draughts of wine with highballs and
cocktails. One woman drank quart
of champagne every morning, and
when ready to go out her custom was
to order her maid to bring her another
quart Then before leaving the house
to enter her carriage she would empty
the bottle to STEADY her nerves.
Girls Indulge In Liquor.
School misses and college girls in
great numbers are among the throng
of women drinkers. A case was
pointed out recently of luncheon
given here in New York at which "a
debutantes drank SO bottles of cham
payne, AMI Is Of them smoked seven
dozen cigar cites.
"As everyone knows. the punch
bow, figures largely in the growth of
the drink habit among women of New
York. 1t is found at all functions, and
many girl has got her first taste of
iQuo- b. dip into it The punch
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-01-24
DRINK HABIT AMONG
WOMEN ON INCREASE
GROWTH OF DANGEROUS EVIL IS SEEN
Prof Quackenbos and Dr. Parkhurst Join in Deplorng
Present Conditions "Common Among All Classes"
Declares the Former Columbia Professor Testimony
of the Present Superintendent of Bellevue Hospital

bowl, however, is not to be blamed
entirely. Many women dip into it and
may do it many times without acquir-
ing the drink habit, but many get
their start there. 1t does give them
the taste of liquor and then, with
many of them, the taste for liquor.
''Now, the tendency of the Ameri-
can woman is to go to extremes, and
in drinking she over-drinks. 1t is
dangerous for her to touch liquor at
all. This is particularly true of the
New York woman, because of the
added excitement of life in New York.
''It is not my object to preach un-
less the mere statement Of fact is a
sermon, and the fact is New York
women do drink, or rather too large
a percentage of them drink, and drink
to excess. If one doubts it let him
go to any of our large hotels and
restaurants any night and look about
him. On every hand you find them
and their sister visitors to New York
drinking. No one thinks anything
about it, and the women think they
are simply doing the proper thing.
Many of them drink just because they
do think that way and many of them
drink because they like the liquor.
Do Not Want to Be Cured.
81 have treated in the last eight
years 700 cases of alcoholism, with a
large percentage Of women, and l
found in many cases where the pa
tient was a woman that she did not,
deep down in her heart, want to be
cured of the habit. This fact is true
especially in the case of the rich So
ciety woman. She usually comes to
me either at the urgent solicitation
of relatives or friends, or with only
a surface desire to be rid of the
habit Very few of them honestly
and truly, and with their whole heart,
want to be cured.
"For instance, a certain woman
came to me for treatment for the
drink habit and seemed sincere indeed.
I treated her by auto-suggestion, CIV
ing her the suggestion that she could
not lift a wineglass to her lips. She
went away and the very next night
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she went with a man companion to
one of our large restaurants, made no
objection whatever when wine was
ordered, and even tried her best to
overcome the suggestion 1 had given
her and drink the wine. But she
found that she could not lift the
glass from the table. You see, she
did not really and honestly want to be
cured and wasted but little time in
rushing into temptation.
Conditions might not be so bad,
however, If women or men drank real.
pure whisky, real, pure wine and real,
pure liquors of all sorts, but they
don't. They think they do, but what
they are really drinking is a deadly
poison and one swift in its execution.
l feel safe in saying that out of 100
drinks sold in New York city as
whisky not more than one is the real
article.
Counterfeit Whisky.
"But so cleverly is whisky counter
feited to-day that club connoisseurs
cannot detect it, as was shown in an
experiment made recently by DR.. Oar
lington Of the board of health. DR.,
Darlington went around and collected
a number of samples of whisky from
saloons of all classes, took the sam
pies to his club, where he had sew
eral Of the members test them, and
much to his surprise the cheap imi-
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NEWS NOTES.

Dundee.-Three hundred farmers
attended the institute at this place.
Hamline. are 1877 enrolled in
the farmers short course at the state
school of agriculture.
Crookston.-The annual report of
City Health Officer @. E. Dampier
shows that there were an even 100
deaths here during the year of 1907,
while there were 230 births. During
the year 1906 there were SO deaths
and 1853 births.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pleas were
made to the state board of pardons
on behalf of DIR. J. F. Force, the for
mer life insurance official who is
serving asentence of SO years at Still
water for grand larceny, in connection
with frauds on the company.
Washington.-Minnesota has two
more years in which to conform its
national guard to the terms Of the
Dick bill. The time was up Jan. 81,
but Congressman Stevenson got the
house to pass Senator Dicks resolu-
ton for two years. extension of time.
Observation-Disclosures of the game
and fish laws of Minnesota in the
course of last year entailed the pro-
secution of 331 criminal cases and the
assessing of fines ranging from $40 to
800 according to reports received by
Game Warden Munich.
Minneapolis staggering fig
ures of 3, 400, 900 gallons of water used
to extinguish fire would excite the
skepticism of many, yet this is act
ually the amount of water used during
the Hartman fire.
Washington.-The application of
James r. Jones and others to organize
the National Bank of Adrian, Mimi.
with capital of $25, DOC. was approved
by the controller OF the currency.
st. Paul.-The report of statistician
Moersch shows that the recent finan-
cial stringency has scarcely affected
the number of men employed in st.
Paul industrial establishment