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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
CONGRESSIONAL.

The conference report on the currency
bill was discussed in the Senate yester-
day until O'Clock, when Mr.. Aldrich
permitted 1t to 90 over until today. A
tacit understanding was reached that the
vote on 1t should be taken today. Sem
ntors Oulberson, Teller, Owen aud New
lands discussed the bill, calling atteh-
ton to its bad features.
Efforts to secure consideration of the
government liability bill and the inland
waterways commission bill we're failures.
President Roosevelt notified the SEN
ate that he had signed the District child
labor act, but the absence Of an sppro-
prIatlon to pay the required inspectors
makes the law practically useless.
The bill providing for the establish
meut of a home for feebie-minded chill
dren in the District was passed.
Among other measures passed wers
bills to punish soldiers for the sale of
their uniforms, to promote the safe trans
portation 10 inter,tsts commerce of high
explosives, requiring railroads to equip
their engines with ssbpans that can be
emptied automatically, and increasing
the compensation of inspector of Gus
tome at New York, Chicago, Philsdel-
phia, Baltimore, and San Francisco to
So q day.
After brief executive session, devot-
ed to confirming minor nominations, the
Sensts, at 6.Sl p. M, adjourned until
ii O'Clock this morning.
Ia the House a number of minor bills
we're passed while visiting action Ia the
Senate on the currency measure. Among
them one Incorporating "The Congress
sional Club" composed of wives and
female relatives of members of Congress,
and slso the Brotherhood of Ct Andrew.
The House also passed the Senate sct
TO authIrizs the Baltimore and Wash
iugton Transit Company to enter the
District of Columbia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
More Trouble for the Shah

Tehersn, May 29.-Uuless the Shah
makes amends for the attack on the Rus
sian financial agency here and the
woundiDg of agent Ostogradski he will
have to fight the car. If he meets
Nicholas demands he fears he will pre-
cipitste a revolution. The outrage in
Teherau also means stifiening of the
Russian demands for indemnity on &C
count of the Persisn frontier tribesmen's
raids into Russian territory and for the
punishment of the offenders. The shah
is fighting for time, while the Russian
diplomatic representative here presses for
immediate action relative both to the
frontier troubles and the attack on the
agency.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
THE METHODIsTs.

The general conferences 10 session
In Baltimore yesterday refused to set
date for considering the question
of smusements, which many delegates
wish would die in committse.
Episcopscy COMMITTEES decided on
tentative assignment of bishops to
residences.
The publishing irt'rest t, of the church,
with more than "A, 900. 0Os capital, were
ordered merged.
These sgents for publishing houses
vera elected: Rev. Drs. Eaton and
George l.. Mains, for New York, and
H. O. Jennings and Mr. E. r. Graham,
for Cincinnati.
Subscriptions amounting to thousands
were received for rebuilding churches in
San Francisco,
With minor changes TO be made
report consolidating Home Missions and
Church Extension Board was adopted.
Conference sent back 10 committee
TO slnmber q suggestion of having
Bishop Scott, colored, preside over the
colOred conferences in ODitsd States.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
DAMAGED by Storms.

Chicago, May 29.-Reports from all
over the middle west today show great
damage vas done during the heavy
thunderstorms which swept this section
last night and early this morning. In
Chicago half dozen buildings were dam
aged by lightning aud twenty-five per-
soDs injured, none seriously. Iowa,
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Illinois
all report damage to crops aud farm
houses.
Reports from Topeka, Ksns., show
one man killed and seven hurt in cy-
clone there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
Accident 70 an obseryatlon Car

Oonnellsviile, Pa, May ga
crowded observation car on the Balti-
mere and Ohio Royal Blue limited
plunged over an embsnkmeut at Gsrret,
near, here about noon today.
AT the general superintendenps Office
in Pittsbuig this afternoon It was stated
that none OF the passengers had been
killed. The number OF injured was not
known. The wounded after having
their injuries hastily dressed we're taken
to Cumberland Nd.
The train was running on schedule
time when the observation car lett ths
rail ct q shape curve, plunged along the
tracks and heaved lts whole length over
steep embsnkmeDt On account oil
the heat the observation platform was
crowded with passengers. With the
first crash OF the trucks many of these
are reported to have Jumped to the
ground, while others on the inside OF
the car hurled themselves through the
windows.
A Later dispatch rays tsenty persons
were injured, three probably fatally.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
Threatening Letter.

Chicago, May 29.-An anonymous
letter written in blood aud wrapped in a
small piece of crepe, has carried threat
OF death ID Father Peter J. O'Osllaghsn,
head of the Paulist Order in Chicago, and
Attorney Francis Hinckley. 1t also
threatened the destruction by dynamite
ofSt. Msry's Catholic Church, Of which
Father O'Oallaghan is pastor. The let
ter was taken from the poor box In the
church. Death to the priest and lawyer
is promised, it is believed, because Of
their efforts to obtain pardon for Her
man Billek, under sentence to hang
June II,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
News Of the Day.

The annual boat race between Hsr-
ward and Cornell, will come of at Boston
tomorrow.
In Kansas City, No., today Denver
was chosen on the first ballot ss the
location for the next Presbyterian Gent
raj Assembly.
Mrs. Susan Reid Psulding, former
wife of Governor Psulding, Sd, of Be-.
ton, was married yesterday In Noyio.k
to Theodore Laurence BOgert, of New
York.
The president has styled the bill pro-
viding for the Reorganization of the
militia Of the led States and it, arm
Ing and equlrment at q cost not exceed
ing $1,000, 900.
.arence F. Norment wss elected presi-
. dent of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company, yesterday the position
for which, it was believed, Secretary
Loeb WAS slated.
Theodore Fl. Price, the cotton broker,
wss indicted by the federal grand jury
ia New York, this afternoon rs the re-
suit of the alleged leak of cotton stat
istics from the government bureau 10
Washington some three years ago.
Frank Merritt, whose wife and son
died of tuberculosis, has at his urgent
request been inocuIsted with the germ
of the disease BY New York physician
and his case will be watched by the med
ical profession and an effort made ia
cure him.
Three trainmen we're swept to death
and property loss apprOximating $780,
600 WAS caused by the breakingof 8 dam
early today in the Current river, Port
Arthur, B. O. A freight train was
swept into the river and the city power
station was entirely hooded.
Senator Raynor, said in Baltimore,
yesterday, 1t locks as if Bryan would be
nominated at Denver, and that the dem
ocrats have chance OF winning If the
platform is uuequivocally democratic
and opposes all the schemes Of centrsli-
cation which misunderstanding the institu-
tons of the country.
A singular accident on 3 ball field at
POaghkeepsie, N. Y, late yesterday az
ternoon caused the death of Charles
Lempka, aged fourteen. who was at the
bat and was struck by pitched ball.
The fatality occurred in a match game
between Y. NJ. O. A., teams of boys on
the River View Military Academy
grounds. The game was close one,
and was nearing the end, and Lempka
was very anxious to make hit.
A terrific rain, wind, and hail storm
swept through the western section of
North Carolina yesterday, In many
places doing great damage to property
and crops. Dwellings, mills, and other
buildings we're carried along the French
broad river and tributary streams, and
thousands of acres are Inundated Hail
stones in Rutherford county fell ss large
as guinea eggs and did much damsge.
There also was considerable damage from
lightning.
A d spatch from Winnipeg, Manitoba,
says Canadian Pacific freight train,
east-bound, when near Current river,
ran into wssh.out yesterday, and
the train was thrown into q lake
during the darkness. The engineer
fireman, brakeman and two tramps
were killed. The entire train was sub.
merged, aud the dead men we're either
killed in the plunge or we're drowned. 1t
Is estimated that the loss to the railroad
company is upward of half a million
dollars, rs the train was loaded with
laces and silks from China, bound east
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
MYSTERIOUS Murder.

st. Louis, Mo-, May 29.-Wi!h a
feur de lis pin inscribed with the letter
"E" as their only clew, authorities Of
Hartford and Alton, today sre trying to
solve the mystery of the death of we'll
dressed man whose body was found In
the Mississippi. The crushed skull and
marks ola heavy blow caused the officers
to assert a murder had been committed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
Departure of EalIleres

London, May 29.-Before embatking
for Calais today on the French warship
Gsmbetts, President Fallieres of France
expressed keen disappointment over the
failure of his visit to result in a formal
Anglo-French alliance, OIL, at least, in the
preparatory Steps towards one.
1t develops now thst this WAS really
the chief object of FsIIeres's visit. II
is conceded that the time was inop-
perfume for broaching the subject, owing
to the opposition that has arisen to the
kings coming visit to Russia aud the
fear that it has a greater political
significance than indicated. Fsllieries
embarked at Dover and royal send of
was given him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
DIED FROM HIS WOUNDS.

Joseph Sudgsburger, foreman of the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing stables
In Washington, diedAt Emergency Hos
pital early last night from the bullet
wounds inflicted by a negro named Wal
ter J. Johnson on Wednesday evening.
The third bullet which entered Mr..
5udgsbnrger's body was the direct cause
Of his death. The first shot fred by the
negro entered the right hand, the second
the abdomen, but glanced, striking a
muscle, and was easily located. The
third bullet entered the abdomen and
lodged in the spine. The frat two bull
lets we're located Wednesday night and
both were removed. Mr.. Sudsburger
suffered intense pain during the twenty
four hours he WAS in the hospital. 1t
was pathetic scene when the wife and
two little girls we're called to the hospi-
tai shortly before 6 o'clock last night.
Mrs. 5udgsbnrger had been told that
her husband could motive, but the little
ones we're ignorant of it. When little
Amelia walked into the room where her
fsther was battling for his life, she rush
ed to the bed. Throwing her arms
around her fathers neck she asked him
II he did not know her. For just an
instant Mr.. SudgsbuIger realized who
was near him. He attempted to arise
aud fell back on the bed. BE was semi
conscious, and at times conversed brok-
emily with his wife and little girls.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
Jury Failed to Agree.

Bristol, Tenn, May 29-The jury
in the case of Ack Hale, charged with
criminally asssulting and numbering
Lille Davis, reported to the court this
afternoon that 1t had failed tt agree and
asked to be discharged. This was re-
fused and 1t was sent back fer further
deliberations. A hung jury is generally
looked for as the factions in the box sra
reported hopelessly divided
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

Mr.. R. LINDSEY GORDON, jr., in an
attempt to offset charges Of irfegularity
In Louisa county at the primary cleo
tIon last June, has issued q pamphlet,
alleging that the election in Alexandria
was not conducted according to law,
and that votes were cast by persons
whose names were not, or should have
not been, on the ward books. Prompt
dsnisls of the allegations have been
forthcoming. They are in the shape oil
sfidsyits from City Treasurer Thomas
w. Robinson, CLERK of the Court N. s.
Greens way and Capt. W. 81. Sweeney,
chairman of the finance committee o.
the City Council, who examined the pol
books. Afidavits have also been made
BY Messrs. Wayne F. Byers, Conrad
Schwab, E. J. Fleming aud James l.
Lawler attesting the correctness OF their
books as registrars of the four different
wards. Mr.. Gordon will find nothing
amiss In Alexandria and before he at
tempts such thing he should clean up
in front of his own doorstep in Louisa,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
COMMUNICATED
BLACKSMITH SHOP.

/ noticed in the council proceedings
OF the Alexandria Gazstte a few weeks
ago in the course Of the argument on the
sale OF the old Hydraulion engine house
that a member from the Fourth ward
advised the body to sell to a certain
bidder, stating that the prospective
purchaser intended making improve
ments which would amount TO thousands
OF dollars and that he intended TO con.
velt the old building into retrigerstlng
plant. | see by yesterdays paper that
1t has been rented as a blacksmith shop.
! would like to ask what kind Of a re-
fiigerstlng plan. is blacksmith shop.
| think, s. far as the residents along
that square are concerned, they would
rather see the building remain as it
WAS, CITIZEN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
General cIInton,s Remains.

New YORK, May 29.-Oonvoyed by
the gunboat scorpion, the torpeto boats
De Long, Blskaly, Porter, Tingley and
Thornton, and the submarine Outtlefsh,
Viper and Hist, the gunboas Wasp,
with the remains of Gen. George Olin-
ton, started up the Hudson river TO Kings-
ton today. The body will lie in state
there tomorrow, Memorial Day, when 1t
will be buried with full military and
naval honors at the old home of the first
governor of New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

TIE trusts and manufacturers now
want tariff not only for IT lection, but
for trade. This il new idea. A tariff
that would enable them to sell cheaper
abroad than at home without being de-
tscted, and still keep the monopoly Of
the home market for them, would in
deed be 3 daisy. Democrats want 8
tariff as a means of collecting revenues
bu! the trusts and manufacturers never
Ghink Of that. They think only of mo.
0opolies and privsts gains.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
Nav York stock Market.

New York, May 29.-The msrket
was strong 10 t1e first hour. Nearly
ever thing traded in made gains rang.
ing from fractions TO over two points In
that period and caused partial restora-
ton OF confidence by the ease with which
quotations we're advanced With little out.
side assistance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

THE republican national committee
having selected Senator Burrows for tenn
pOrsrY Chairman, snd John E. Malloy,
of Columbus, Ohio, Foraker man, fol
temporary secretary of the national con-
ventlon, means that the temporary or
ganizstion will be hostile to Taft and
that most eff the 200 cont ssiing dele
gates opposed to Taft may be admitted
to the republican convention.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

THE RECENT conference of governors
10 Washington, called by Mr.. Roosevelt,
was great affair, but whether Perms-
nent "house of governors" such as has
been suggested, would do good or harm
Is problematicsl. Certainly our federal
constitution contemplatss no such thing.
And 1t is always dangerous to set up any
extra constitutional organization to &C.
compllsh the general welfare, the promo
tIon of which Is already amply provided
for. A house of governors to hold the
sworl of Dsmocles over the heads Of
congressman might prove disastrous.
The old way is the safe way. The
beaten path is the best for progress, after
all
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

THE Wall street speculstors have ad-
vsnced the price of stocks beyond the
pre-panic level, and it ia hardly neces-
asry to say, that with reduced incomes and
smaller dividends, they should not be in
demand at higher prices on their intEin-
aic merits. As Messrs. Hartman and
Rockefeller are said to be engineering
the advance, there is no doubt they
can force prices even higher, but that is
all the moro reason for small fish to seek
shallow wstsr, or those big fish may
swallow them up like the pike does the
minnows. The Wall street stock mar
kst Is no longer run on business princi-
Piles, it is now entirely at the mercy OF
the big SPECTATORS, who force prices up
and down u suit themselves, and gener
ally make money whichever way 1t goes
How can the ordinary business man
compete in such nest Of manipulation !?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

NAPOLEON used 10 say that one bad
general is better than two good ones.
A great many people in this country
seem TO think that one bad government
is better than forty-sIx good ones. But
the democrOtic theory is that forty-six
common home. made governments are
better than one absoluts central govern.
Snent, be it good or bad.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

Kodol completely digests ell classes Of food.
It will get right at the trouble and do the very
work itself for the stomsch. 1t Is pleasant to
take. Sold By w, F, Creighton q Co,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
Troops Sent to Prince of Samos.

Smyrna, Msy 20 "A strong force Of
troops is on its way from here to the Ialand
Of Samos, on the coAst OF Asia Minor,
to the aid of the governor, the Prince of
Ssmos, who is still, so far as known
here, besieged in his palace by the
rebelious islanders.
Consular dispatches from Samos late
today say fully $50 persons have been
Killed in the fighting at Ysthy, the
capital, and that hostllities, already Of
four days duration, are still raging.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

CTOCKHOLDERS' EOTICE.-The regu-
~ lar annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the COSTA BRICK COMPANY will
be held at the Office Of the company, lO7
north Fairfax street, Alexandria, Vifgiais,
on MONDAY. June l, 1908, at 2p. M.
HARRY A. BECK, Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
YEsTERDAY's REsULTs.

Washington, 6; Cleveland, 2.
Detroit, 10; Philadelphia, 2.
Chicago, 2; Boston, l.
st. Louis, 4; New York, 8.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

PREMIER ROLLED OATS loo per pack
age, j, G. MILBURE,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
HOW THKY STAND.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
HOW THEY STAND

Chicago. 8; st. Louis, 2.
Boston, 3; Pittsburg, l
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29

Mr.. OOonnelPs motion u send his
bill zing the erection of an immi-
grafton station st Boston TO conference
was agreed To.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-05-29
The Market.

Georgetown D, c., May 20 Wheat sO-s7
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
TO BE E-ADMIRAL
Congress to be Asked to Restore Grade
ns Reward to Evans

Congress to be Asked to Restore Grade
ns n Reward to Evans.
WASHINGTON. March lin a quiet
way naval officers in Washington are
endeavoring to arrange Il most agree
able surprise for Admiral Evans when
the battleship fleet under his command
sails through the Golden Gate and COM
pletes the Pacific cruise. 1t is pro-
posed to greet the Rear Admiral with a
commission as vice admiral of the
American Navy. OF course. the success
OF this undertaking depends upon Con-
gress. but the President has donc his
part in making a proper recommends
tion to that body for the re-establish-
,ment OF that naval grade and 1t is not
doubted that Congress can be induced
to act upon the recommendation In sea-
son to ensure the issue of Admiral
Evans's commission before the compile
tion( of the present cruise, so that he
may bear the title of vice-admiral for
the few months that will intervene be-
tween his arrival at San Francisco and
lis retirement from active service.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
74O CARS BURNED


Flames Destroy s:,aoo,ooo Of Property
Of New York City hallway 90:
NEW YORK, March 1.-Two fires
that brought out all the fre appara-
tus in the upper section Of the city
and ragged in lively fashion from mid
night till dawn TO-DAY, burned doWn .
Railway Company in Second Avenue:
George ". Grote s: Co, only al few
blocks distant There were 740 SUR
face cars burned in the destruction of
the barns and the loss to the com-
pany Is estimated at S2,500,000. The
loss on the paint factory is given
as sl25.OoO. II was the railway peo-
pies second serious fire within year
the former blaze having destroyed the
Madison Avenue car barns.
The car barns took up the block
bounded by First and Second Avenues
and Ninety-siNth and Ninety seventh
Streets, and though torrents of water
were poured on the blazing building,
the fire did not subside until 1t had
Ieveled the three floors to the ground.
The fire started in q paint shop on
the second floor.
a During the progress OF the fire the
police ordered scores of families liv-
ing opposite the barns to leave the
.tenements While the apparatus was
at the car barn fire, two alarms We're
turned In for spectacular fire in the
factory of George Grote & Co. occupy
Ing n four-story building on One Hun
dred and Second street. The paints
and oils hlazed furiously, and within
short time the building was in ruins,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
OHIO FOR TAFT
Republican state Convention VIII Dc.
clnrc For Tariff RevtsIOn.

Republican state Convention VIII De-
clnre Tor Tariff Revision.
COLUMBUS. o.. March 1.-THE Re-
publican State Convention, which viii
meet on Tuesday. and, according to
present plans. will declare for revis-
not yet entirely formulated, and It IS
made in 1t before final adoption. The
present plan of some party leaders is,
however. that a declaration Will be
made for "a revision of the tariff along
protective lines. at special meeting
of the next Congress-"
The policies of President Roosevelt
VIII be upheld and Taft will be in
dorsed, 1t Is said.
The advance. guard of delegates be-
gan to straggle into the city to-day,
but most of the delegates will arrive
to-morroow. All of the candidates for
nomination are on the ground and thcy
are sufficiently numerous in themselves
TO constitute n formidable array, The
convention will name candidates for
scYernor Lieutenant-Gove Secre-
tar% Of State, state Treasurer. Auditor
ers, ATTORNEY General two Commits
sloners of Public Works, two judges
Of Supreme Court, clerk of the Su-
preme Court, ana four delegates-at-
large to the Republican National Conr
It is likely that for Governor, Gov
ernor Andrew ], Harris will be nomi-
1t Is said that there will be no slate
prepared for the convention and that
the fight for all OF the offices will be
open. Neither Senator Foraker nor
Senator Dick are expected to attend
the convention. M