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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
The President In st. Paul.

st. Paul. Sept. 5.--Ten thousand
people surrounded the depot when
President Taft arrived here today.
There was little demonstration when he
was escorted through the streets, the
crowds apparently having come to see
the president rather than to cheer him.
From box he reviewed the Labor
Day parade of 10000 union men. A
number OF unions were absent, having
decided several weeks ago not TO be re-
viewed by the president Ten thousand
delegates and invited guests OF the con-
servation congress heard the auditorium
speech.
Minneapolis, Sept. 5.-The Balm
ger-P inchot Congressional investigation
committee met informally in Mime
apolis today and decided to take no
action until Wednesday The mem
bers of the committee went to st. Paul
to meet President Taft and attend the
National Conservation Congress. On
Tuesday a similar pilgrimage to hear
Theodore Roosevelt will stand between
the committee and its deliberations on
the verdict to be rendered in the Balm
ger Pinchot co ntroyersy.
Conservation Hall, st. Paul, Mimi.
Sept. 5.-The gossip OF the western
delegations arriving for the conserva-
ton congress, is that the west is pre-
pared to form n holt against the Pin
chot policies OF federal control OF re-
sources. i is said that il the congress
in any way votes for federal control,
the western states, under the leadership
of Senator Heed Smoot, will bolt and
organize a separate movement for state
control of resources. SmOot is father
OF bill in the Senate turning federal
water powers over to the states, The
mention by President Taft Of Theodore
Roosevelt as the champion OF conser-
walton caused an ovation that lasted
nearly sixty seconds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
VIOLENT WIND STORM.

One woman and two children we're
fatally injured, two score others were
slightly hurt and property damage
amounting to more than $3.50, 600 was
done in the western part of the min
ing district OF Missouri Saturday night
by a violent wind storm.
The storm was most violent at
Galena, Kan, eight miles west OF
Joplin, H., where Mrs. James Hamp-
som and her two small children were
fatally injured when their home was
demolished. Ten mining plants in
that district were destroyed. Plate
glass windows we're broken and build
ings unroofed. The total loss in and
near Galena will reach $3.50, 900.
A pleasures boat plying between Jop-
lin and Galena received the full force OF
the wind. A 90-foot illuminated tower
was blown across two street cars into
which pleasure-seekers were crowding.
Many were slightly hurt. Mining plants
in all parts Of the district suffered dam
age. The storm lasted Is minutes,
and was followed bya heavy rain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 3

THE statistics OF the prodiglous out
put OF cigars and cigarettes in this
country for the fiscal year ending June
80 cause the United States Tobacco
Journal to reiterate Are we becoming
a cigarette nation?" The reason for
this query is in the respective increase
in the consumption Of cigars and cigar
cites. The gain Of the paper rolls IN
an output Of 1852, S75, 500 was l,7G6,
5S3,71 while in the output OF :, l39,
$50. IA cigars which included the
small ones sometimes also known as
cigarettes, their increase was only
$50, us, 691. In the case Of the
cigarette industry the growth was the
most phenomenal in ten years. The
Tobacco Journal answers its own ques-
ton by mentioning that the United
States already has become a cigarette
nation as have several other coun-
tries, including staid old pipe smoking
Germany.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Coal dust is said to be responsible
for the most serious mine explosions.
C. w. Post, OF Battle Creek, Mich.
has filed suit in st. Louis 10 prevent
the contamination OF the deal between
the Buck Stove Company and the
Federation OF Labor.
James l.. Hutchinson, formerly a
partner OF Phineas r. Barnum, and
one Of the veteran circus men OF the
country, died at his summer home at
Shelter Island on Saturday. He was
born ga years ago at Jerseyville, Ohio.
Rev. John b. Wand, pastor of a
Catholic church at Meppen, Calhoun
county, ILL.,, has been unfrocked and
dismissed from the church by Bishop
Ryan, OF Alton, on complaint OF Miss
Anna Maria Schumacher, who alleges
that she was decoYed to this country
from her home i'm Germany and
offered indignities by the priest.
William G. Drury, employed as
postal clerk in the Postofiice Depart
ment in Washington, shot his eight
year-old son, William Bernard, early
yesterday morning at his home in
Brentwood. After Drury had been
placed under arrest he declared that
he knew nothing OF his actions during
the period when he shot his boy, and
appeared rather Indifferent TO the
whole situation. The boy is not dan
gerously wounded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
MAYOR Caynor receptive Candidate.

New York, Sept. 5.-Friends Of
Mayor Gaynor who have visited him at
his home ut st. James, where he is re-
covering from the effects Of an assas
sins bullet, say that If nominated as the
democratic candidate for governor he
will accept. He will not become an
active candidate for the nomination,
they say, and would prefer 90 serve his
term as mayor, but il drafted" he will
accept. believing he should do all he
can to reunite and solidify the party
in this state.
The sentiment for Gaynor's nOmina-
ton by the democratic state convention
which meets at Rochester on Septem-
Der 80, is almost unanimous upstate,
his friends say. They argue that his
past pledges that he would serve out
his term as mayor will have to be dis
regarded
He has so far reformed the city gov
eminent that he could turn over the
work to acting Mayor Mitchell, who is
young and ambitious, and would fol-
low in the lines laid down by Gaynor
The latter could, if elected governor,
cooperate with Mitchell as mayor.
Democratic politicians, who are not
inclined to be sentimental, however,
predict that il Gaynor is the democratic
nominee for governor, Hearst would
run independently against him, which
would give the republican candidate a
distinct advantage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
Girls confesses to Thefts.

Paterson n. j., September g.
Declaring that they were forced TO
steal in order to buy food and cloth
ing. Annie Camboritch, sixteen years
old; Helen Marshall, sixteen years old,
and her sister, Sophie, ten years old,
pleaded in the police court yesterday
not TO be sent to prison. Annie was
arrested Saturday night in department
store. When searched at Police Head
quarters by the matron it was found
that she had large quantity Of wo-
mans appeal concealed about her
person. She confessed that she had
been stealing from stores for several
weeks, and implicated the other two
girls with whom she lived at No. 81
Spruce street. Annie said her home
was in Wade, Pennsylvania. The po-
lice found a great variety OF goods at
the Spruce street home. They included
dresses. laces, household utensils and
fancy postcards, said to have been
stolen from number OF stores. Helen
Marshall spent the night at headquar-
tiers, but the younger girl was paroled
until yesterday, when she was dis
charged, but her sister and Annie Cam
boritch were fined so each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
Girl Admits Man in Jail is Innocent.

Elizabeth, N. j., Sept. 5.-Through
confession made today by Mary
Daley, IL years old, Of Price street.
the fact has been disclosed that George
b. Caufne has served one year in the
county Jail without just reason. The
Daley girl was principal witness in a
case OF the state against Caufine tried
here more than year ago. A friend
of Mary Daley brought serious charges
against Caufine. On the Daley girls
testimony Judge Atwater sentenced
Cautine to two years in the state prison.
The case was appealed by w. S. Will
son, attorney for Caufine, but the latter
not being able to furnish bonds. had to
remain in Jail for n year. A few nights
ago Sigmund Wolf, tailor, was arrested
on charge made by the Daley girl. The
next day she confessed that the charge
she made against Wolf was false. Pro-
baton Officer Charles w. Irwin quizzed
her Saturday and she admitted that the
charges made against Cau6ne were
also false. Mr.. Wilson has taken
steps to have Caufine's sentence set
aside,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Governor Mann has designated Judge
]. B. I. Thornton OF Manassas to hold
the regular term OF the circuit court Of
King George county for Judge John f.
Mason, who is ILL., The term begins
today.
In a jail delivery at Staunton on
Saturday George Brown. Jim Fitch
and John Henry, all colored, escaped
by breaking the grating at second
story window and letting themselves
down by blankets.
The Paul NJ. Rice farm in Stafford,
containing III acres, has been pur-
chased by II. A. Stewart, X. Nj. Col
vim. of Alexandria, and w. f. Duffey,
Of Baltimore. It will be developed as
a fruit, berry, and truck farm. Mr..
Duffey will be manager.
A charter has been granted to the
Berryville Ice and Refrigerating Com
pany Qnc.), Berryville, w. f. Lewis,
president and general manager; 5. f.
Baughman, Charles Blencowe, John b.
Neill secretary and treasurer-all OF
Berryyille, Va, Capital: Maximum,
$50, 600; minimum, $4,000. Objects:
Operating a refrigerating plant to deal
in produce, ice, fruit, fish, etc.
With the high price of cotton assign
ed as the cause OF its embarrassment,
the Williamsburg Knitting Mill Com
pany Saturday became a voluntary
bankrupt in the Federal Court in Nor
folk under amended statutes permit
ting voluntary bankruptcy, except to
municipal, railroads, insurance and
bonding corporations. Liabilities are
placed at $50, 665, with assets scheduled
at $113, 625.
Beginning the fight OF the farmers
OF Virginia against the sO-called ferti-
lizer trust, meeting has been called,
to be held in Richmond in October, to
organize a cooperative factory from
which shareholders will be supplied at
cost. Other farmers will be sold ferti-
lizer at a price to be fixed by the board
of directors of the manufacturing com
pany
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
Golf Denounced.

New York, Sept. 5.-The decision
OF Justice Golf OF the Supreme Court
that labor unions are guilty OF con
spiracy when they order strike to
enforce the closed shop" was bitterly
resented by organized labor in its street
demonstration today. The Labor Day
parade was one of the largest ever
held in this city, and at the head OF
nearly every organization was carried
a banner denouncing Golf. Some OF
the structures closely approached con
tempt, but no attempt was made to
interfere with them. They were the
product Of the women's trades union
league.
There we're several unique incidents
in connection with the parade. In line
we're members Of the cloakmakers
unions who have just ended their nine
weeks strike after suffering great
priyations, women and men members
marching side by side and stopping
the parade occasionally to cheer for
their officers.
Before the parade started commit
tee named by the Central Federated
Union inspected the marchers. All
we're compelled to display the union
label on their uniforms and badges,
and some OF the marchers were forced
to discard those that did not show
publicly that they were the product
OF union labor. The parade marched
down Fifth Avenue, and there was a
good deal OF jeering from the cloak
makers as they passed the aristocratic
clubs from which the complaints were
made against them last week. causing
wholesale arrests.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
Repudiates Cannon.

TitusviIIe, Pa, Sept. 5.-Congress-
man Arthur l.. Bates, from the twenty
fifth congressional district, who is now
candidate for reelection, openly an
nounced last night that il elected he
would not support Joseph G. Cannon
for speaker at the next session OF con
gress.
Bates was a regular during the sixty
second congress, and during the fight
in the House last spring voted to retain
the Cannon gag rules.
1t is a safe bet that Bates, il re-elect-
ed, will stick to Cannonism, although
he repudiates Cannon personally now
that the latter has no chance OF getting
the speakership again.
Bates is being hard pressed in his
campaign for reelection, and his dec
Iaration is recognized as one of policy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
Dies for Love of Master.

Clinton, N. J. Sept. Sandy" a
handsome Collie dog, lost his life yester-
day for love OF his master. He was owned
by Benjamin N. Robertson, who left
yesterday for South America, to be
gone a year. During Mr.. Robertson
preparations for his journey, Sandy"
was disconsolate and so that he would
not witness his masters departure, the
dog was taken to the home OF friend
at Fairfield, Saturday. Yesterday the
dog bolted and ran to his home. He
shifted around the piazza for moment,
and then started for the Lackawanna
station. A train was pulling out and
the dog attempted to board the second
coach from the rear, in which his mas
ter was seated. He jumped on the
steps, lost his footing and fell to the
tracks. The wheels passed over his
body.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
auarry,s Eighteenth Victim.

Chester, Pa, Sept Oscar Simp-
kins, of this city, was drowned last
night in the Ninth street quarry, on the
outskirts of the city. The water is very
deep, and, as a rule, very cold. Simp-
kins went alone to take a bath, and it
was not long before his cries were heard
for help. Some BOYS in the vicinity
went to the quarry, but Simpkins had
disappeared. His clothing was lying
on the bank. 1t was several hours be-
fore the body was recovered, and it was
taken in charge by Deputy Coroner
White. This makes Is persons who
have lost their lives at this vuarry hole
so far this summer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
CHILD BITTEN BY RATTLEsNAKE.

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. l.. Bright, farmers,
who hive in the neighborhood OF John
son, took their 3-year-old daughter,
Vera, to the field with them while
they worked. The child wandered
away from the parents considerable
distance and was bitten on the leg by a
rattlesnake. When the snake bit her
she screamed for her mother, and upon
the parent reaching the child the little
one said long mouse" had bitten
her. The imprints Of the snakes fangs
we're pronounced. The father ran to
the house with the child, took his razor
and made incisions in the wound and
sucked the poison from the same. In
the meantime the mother had tele-
phoned for the doctor, who, upon ar
irving, found his work reduced to the
minimum owing to the prompt action
of the thoughtful father. - Omaha Bee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
May OntIaM this Union.

PottsviIle, Pa, Sept. 5.-Proceedings
are now in progress to ask the United
States Courts to declare the Interna-
tional Brewery Workers Association an
illegal organization. Lawyer William
Wilhelm has been retained for this
purpose. The complainants aver that
the Pousville Brewery Workers, sub
sidiary organization Of the International
Association, expelled George Bausbach,
a member in good standing, because he
exposed theft and graft at Rettig' S
Brewery, Pottsville. An appeal was
made to the International Association,
which has headquarters at Cincinnati,
butuo action was taken. 1t is said
there are several precedents for the
movement to declare the association an
outlaw organization.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
HOPE FOR WOMAN LEPER.

Mrs. Proyidencio Mascara, AN Italian,
of Baltimore, who was removed to
quarantine last May, suffering from
leprosy, has improved to such an ex-
tent, according to report by DR..
Thomas L. Richardson, quarantine
physician, that she may be completely
cured by Christmas.
DR.. Richardson said yesterday that
the sores are rapidly disappearing and
that only few spots remain. He con-
fesses surprise at the rapid change in
the woman's condition. Health Com
missioner Bosley says il the woman is
declared cured by DIR. Richardson he
will order her release.
When Mrs. Mascara was taken to
quarantine it was thought she could
live only short time. Dr. Richard
son has been experimenting on the
woman with certain medicines for the
treatment OF skin diseases, but he does
not insist that the improvement in her
condition Is being brought about by
this treatment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
stole SIO.S2Oin Gold.

Telluride, Col, Sept 5.-WiIliam
Irwin, amalgamator at the Libbey Bell
mine, was arrested last night on the
charge of stealing refined gold, the
property Of the mine. He confessed to
the police that he had stolen 80, $40
worth of gold in the last year.
At the home Of a young woman on
whom he has been calling policemen
found 81, 93l worth Of gold he had
given her. He represented to her, she
said, that it was his and that he wanted
her TO keep il for him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05

SUIT against District President Fee
han, of the western Pennsylvania dis
trict 5 OF the United Mine Workers
and against seven other officers and
members of the union, on the charge
of conspiracy to preach sedition, was
brought by seven coal companies which
operate in the Irwin and Westmore-
land fields last Wednesday, and the ar
rest of the accused men was to follow
shortly. This is the section where a
strike has been in progress since last
March. The companies say that more
than 10, 900 men we're thrown out OF
work and that they have suffered a loss
of more than 81 900, 600.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
Chickens and Dlphtheria.

Mays Landing, n. j., Sept. O.
Diphtheria has afflicted the family OF
William Thomas, and nine-year-old
daughter, the first to contract the dis
ease, was buried yesterday without relig-
ious services. Two other children are
in a critical condition, AS neighbors
children played with the sick ones up
10 the time they were quarantined, a
general outbreak is feared, and the
opening of school in the district may
be postponed. A daughter was born
to Mrs. Thomas just after the quaran-
tine sign was tackled to the house. The
children are thought to have taken the
disease from some pet chickens which
died from Group week ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
EITHER HAND GOOD ARMY.

BY formal action Of the War Depart
ment any doubt as to discrimination
against left-handed candidates for the
army has been removed. In prepar-
ing recently to make nomination for
West Point a congressman asked the
department il the fact that his nomi-
nee was left-handed would operate as a
bar to his admission to West Point.
As the question never before had
been raised, the surgeon general OF the
army was asked for an opinion on the
subject. That official reported that a
left handed cadet may not properly be
considered as physically disqualified. 1t
is considered as certain that there have
been cadets at West Point who we're
handed, but this fact seems never
to have occasioned comment. They
probably acquired the use Of the right
hand, so essential to the uniformity of
movement necessary in military organ
izatiOn
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
Fatal Nap on the Railway.

Palmyra, Pa, Sept. 5.-William
IIemperly, molder employed by the
Hershey Chocolate Company, was kill
ed last night by freight train on the
Reading Railway here. Hemperly was
overcome by sleep on his way from
town to his home on Gravel, Hill, and
laid down on the railroad. He was 40
years old, and leaves . widow and three
children.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05
In the Grip of a General strike.

Madrid, Sept. 5.-Barcelona is in the
grip OF a general strike today. No
newspapers are published, street cars
are tied up and business is at stand
still. The government fears that the
strike there will result seriously and is
preparing TO reinforce the garrison. 1t
is feared the Barcelona strike may be
extended all over Spain, though the
collapse Of the Bilbao general strike
and the Saragossa strike has given rise
to the belief that the threatened nation
wide strike will be short lived even if
disastrous At Bilbao only the miners
remain on strike.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05

THE price Of August cotton was
forced up to 20 cents pound on the
New York exchange Monday by a
bold band of specializing buccaneers,
in defiance of the recent indictments
of cotton gamblers. And with some
variations the price lowered in that
neighborhood most OF the week. 1t
was the highest point reached since
1873, the reconstruction days, when
it sold for as high as q cents. The
high figure of the raw material is eX-
pected to result in a rise in the price
of cotton manufactures. OF all kinds in
the near future.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-09-05

FROM Molokai, the Hawaiian island
set apart for lepers, comes the news dis
patch to the effect that experiments
conducted thereby surgeons Of the Unit
ed States marine hospital service have
confrmedthe previous announcement OF
Doctor Clegg, at Manila, that the bacillus
OF leprosy can be cultivated outside the
human body, the first step III the pro-
duction of vaccine or curative serum
that will render people immune from
attack by this terrible scourge. Clegg
has been rushed to MolokM to assist
in the completion Of the work which
Doctors Currie, Brinkcrhoff and Holl-
mann have carried along so far success
fully.