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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-08
Situations Wanted-Maie.

BOOK X EEpER. FIFTEEN YEA Re
experience, rapid al figures. desire
airy kind Of clerical work after :
o'clock evenings. Address r. -
Last Main street.
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THE EE.zNot. GAS STOVE NO oIoE
ard truly All economical heating de
vie. GENERAL GAS LIGHT Co. sci
W Rruad street.
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FcE RENT, ONE NICE, BRIGHT,
we'll furnished roenl on second foor.
lila North Third street. Phone Mon
roe 11ss-I.
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ROOM For RENT. MODERN CON
veniences, Phone Madison sTb-J. 5f
apply No. 1895 IVES; Main street
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Personals,
Rooms for Rent.

LIST YOUR FARMS AND CITY PROP
erty with TABOR REALTY CORPOk-
alton. Az F.. Marshall st. and gel
quick returns
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THREE CONNECTING ROOMS. FUR
ntshed or unfarnisAed -af Eas,
Main street.
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ONE NICELY r, FINISHED RpoM Is
private family. dee North Seventh
street. s25o week
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WANTED Young LADY To SHARE
room, references exchanged. Phons
Madison 5lo7.
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TWO LARGE CONNECTING FRONT
roonsas newly papered. gas. bath. etc
Apply Il south Pine street
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FIVE NICE ROOMS AND BATH IN
West End, near Robinson street. at
car line. Chap rent. DRISkARE .
&a3 Ia \ Sixth
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Birthday Party.

Miss Rita May Baker, daughter Of
Professor and Mrs. w. Henry Baker,
celebrated her thirteenth birthday at
her home. East Main street, on
Tuesday afternoon from to 5
o'clock
Those present were; Misses Olga
Stockton, Martha Watson, ora Aus
tin, Ruth johnson, Ida Henlin, Mary
Merits Core and Eleanor Core; Mas
tiers Marsh Stockton, Marvin Stock
don. William Cliffe and Robert Nor
ris. Misses Doris Baker and May
carp assisted in serving refreshments.
MI K6ssaxsa ssss4s,
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Eskey, of Huntington, w. Va, the
wedding to take place on the even
ing Of December IA. at ! O'Clock in
the First Presbyterian Church Of that
city.
Personals.
Miss Elizabeth Bownes, of Cations
vile, Md. and Miss Therese Nurney,
of Suffolk. who have been the house
guests OF Mrs. Tom SInythe on mon
ument Avenue, will leave for Suffolk
Thursday evening. where Miss Bownea
will spend several weeks with Miss
Nurney.
Mrs. Albert Mayo, who has been In
Richmond for three weehE, has re-
turned To her horne In Petersburg.
Miss Franklin Mckinney. of Farm
vile, Is visiting Mrs. ". W. Starke
in Norfolk.
Mrs. George Mason, of Edge HiIl,''
Aibemarle. has an apartment at Gres-
ham Court for the winter.
AR. and Mrs. j. w. Todd. OF Staun-
ton have returned to their home AT
ter spending several days here.
Miss Nell Sutton. is visiting Mrs.
Lane Lacy. formerly Miss Katherine
Copeland, Of this city. at her home in
Newport News.
Dr. Lyman Abbott and Miss Alb
bctt are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Bosher.
Mr.. Geo. W. Brown. President OF
baldwin Brown. will leave Friday
at noon for New York to join Mrs.
Wrights party for Bermuda. Jamai-
GA. Cuba and Panama.
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FOR RENT, EIGHT ROOM HOUSE;
s.06 East Grace street. Chareh Hili
hot water, bath, etc. Apply ZOO L
Grace street.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
INAUGURATION BILL Up.
Change To April Is Favorably Re.
ported BY House Committee.

Washington, D. c. Especially -
The passing of the historic fourth oi
March as presidential inauguration
date and the fixing of the fourth
Thursday of April in its place is pro.
vided for in a resolution ordered
favorably reported by the House
Committee on the Judiciary.
The resolution, action on which
was unanimous, directs that hereaft-
er the terms of the President. Vice
President, United States Senators
and representative in Congress shall
begin on the final Thursday of April
This change is not to apply to the
members of Congress until their
present term expires
The action of the committee fol-
lows general outcry against the
holding of Inauguration ceremonies
in Washington at time when in
clement weather has been the rule
and when blizzard shuts off all COM
munication with the outside world
for a time as marked the last in
auguration.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
FARMERS GET VAST SUM.
Corn, Wheat And Cotton Exported
At High Prices.

Washington, D. c. Especially A
picture which reflects the prosperity
of the country. especially that of
the farmer, is drawn in the state
ment of domestic exports for 1909
prepared by the Bureau of Statis-
tics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor.
Corn at 20 cents bushel, wheat
at s1.04 a bushels and about IL
cents for every pound of cotton ex'
ported is the record for 1909. More
than s24,000,000 worth of corn and
s4S,00O,000 of wheat went from
American ports to feed the world
last year. More than $3.50, 100000
worth Of cotton went to foreign
looms, and as these figures show
only the expectations from the prin-
cipal ports of trade. the detail state
ments will be larger.
While there are some decreases
shown from the year 1908, the show
ing is considered satisfactory.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
WASHINGTON
BY TELEGRAPH

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion dismissed the complaint of the
Loeb Lynn Construction Company,
which charged the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad with undue discrimi-
nation.
Separate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico is authorized in a bill
ordered reported by the House Com
mittee on Territories.
Speaker Cannon has promised to
the insurgents a fair deal in the eau
Gus, and President Taft has taken a
hand to bring the warning Republi-
can elments in harmony.
A pardon is being urged for Fred
erick Baker, the United States marine
who is serving life sentence for de-
serting to the Filipinos in time of
war.
Attorney General Wickersham has
completed the tentative draft the ad-
ministration incorporation act.
A movement was started to raise
a 100000 endowment fund for the
George Washington University.
The House passed the fortification
bill without amendment. The meas
ure appropriates $5,617,200.
The Signal Corps of the Army is
constructing a wireless telephone line
to Washington.
Three West Point cadets were
found guilty of hazing and will be
dismissed
The tendency of native-born chill
dren OF immigrants to take up lucra-
tive occupation is shown j. a re-
port of the immigration Commission.
The unpreparedness of the United
States has cause the proposed inter-
national congress on hygiene TO be
postponed until 1911 or 1912.
The report of Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General p V. De Graw
shows an increase in rural free deliv-
cry mail of sc per cent.
President Taft as accepted an in
vitation to deliver the opening ad-
dress at the Actors Fund fair in
New York on May 9.
The House passed the white
slave bill and sent it to the Senate.
1t is said that the Spanish minister
is highly offended because the am
bassadors and ministers were sepa-
rated at President Taft's New Years
reception.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to attend the annual dinner
of the American Peace and Arbitra-
tion League in New York on March
22.
The Supreme Court upheld the
power of the Interstate Commission
to direct the distribution of coal cars
to give the independents their fair
Quota
The citizen., 1910-01-21

( IN the air than any man in heavier
than-air machine ever had flown.
The wind barely stirred. Cort-
landt Field Bishop. president of the
Aero Club of America, stood in front
of the judges stand, enthusiastic
over the beautiful scene.
AS Paulhan rose in the air he
bent low his gray-capped head and
smiled as he made a short circle over
the spectators. Curtiss had previous
~ tried the higher currents and come
down.
Paulhan pointed north, went up
1000 feet, passed over the center
of the field again as though to take
another last look at a human face,
then turned north and up again.
The crowd grew breathlessly in
tent as the Frenchman and his air
machine rapidly became speck in
the gathering twilight.
At height of 1900 feet Paulhan
described great circle to feel the
currents. By this time he was a mile
and half from camp. When word
spread that he had beaten Hubert
Latham's record of 1,S00 feet the
vast throng became frantic.
Two thousand feet and still climb
ing. No one would have been sur
prised if the man and his little wings
had been swallowed up in the void.
After the aviator was as near out of
sight as he could be without disap-
pearing. Paulhan began to descend,
much to the relief of the suspense
felt by the spectators.
He came down easily in front of
the grandstand, after having risen
to the plane of the mountain peaks.
AS he leaped from his machine,
cheeks glowing and eyes flashing, he
was grabbed by his friends and car
ried to the grandstand, where he
barred his head amid thunder of
cheers.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
Eorelgn

rue Chilian government is sending
alal invitations 20 all countries to
nicipate in the national festivities
t September, when a centenary of
pendence will be celebrated.
:, she marriage of King Manuel OF
hugal and Princess Patricia,
Il slgest daughter of the Duke of
laugat, will be solemnized next
ccs.
la l number of Spanish Army officers
bi p been imprisoned in fortresses
d, Afomenting q conspiracy against
IA npresent Liberal cabinet
m 2SIvices from Britiaba, Lake AL
ba9 Uganda, Africa, report Colonel
uuseyelt and all the rest of the
co vhsonian expedition we'll.
itJonor Palaccio has been chosen to
tn, necd Senor Don Luis Pastor as
br' eAtary of the Spanish Legation at
wasaintgon.
an brty to fifty per cent. of the ma
er., of the Samoan Islands are in
md with the hookworm disease
1--WE Belgian royal family, with
50 oStion of Princess Louise daugh-
sols.of the late King Leopold. have
arcllged TO do everything possible to
at, | lawsuits and scandal in con-
'dion with the distribution OF Leo
h,toDs fortune.
9anag dispatch from Toxic expresses
n belief that Japan and Russia
seou reached complete agreement
uitli'le subject of the naturalization
feren c Manchurian railways.
con Emperor of Japan gave audi
suc,nIto Rev Francis c. Clark. of Bos-
all founder of the United Society OF
moyss stian Endeavor.
Ebert Bacon, United States am
"dor 10 France was elected hon
Ird. d.ris' GssS'Oen' o. 'ls american 0iuO
beep;rman exports to the United
corrAs in 1909 aggregated in value
callfe 1898, an increase of $685.
Com 446 over 1908.
cattlse NJ. Moore, surgeon. United
siIa,es Navy. retired. died in Naples
hnn bf pneumonia.
VIII heEernor Colton's message was
of t,h(nted to the legislature of Porte
c.r helai Hafii, Sultan of Morocco
a,aa 49, $500 900 anG redeemed at the
*nment pawnshop in Paris the
siiaseh Jewels that had been pledged
'ney eie deposei sultan.
Inee German government has
corn sid to Secretary Knox's plan fol
rapid &C.. neutralization of the Man
and vein Railways.
Hogs .fruns de villalobar is slated tC
equallxsd Count de San Luis, Spanisf
steers ssador TO Lisbon.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
Telephone Noise Saved Her.

Princeton, Ind. Especially. - Mrs
Zenas Finney was saved from a hor-
rible death in an unusual manner.
She had called her daughter. Miss
Bessie Finney. over the telephone
when, without warning. the daughter
heard a clattering of the instru-
ment and was unable to get her
mother again. She hastily telephon.
ed a neighbor to investigate, and
when the neighbor ran into the Fin.
ney home she found Mrs. Finney un.
conscious, with her head almost in
the open fireplace. Mrs. Finney had
been suddenly stricken with paraly.
sis.
The citizen., 1910-01-21

Aviation Camp. Los Angeles. Cal.
Especially Louis Paulhan. French
aviator, broke all official and unoffi-
cial records for altitude in a Far
man biplane by flying to a height
of more than 1000 feet and de-
scending safely after so minutes
46 1-5 seconds in the air
As methods of measurement were
not exact, the exact height reached
is not known, but it is certain that
he exceeded the record of $500 feet.
The instrument in Paulhans machine
registered the greatest height at
$500 feet
The judges record of Paulhan' S
altitude, which is still to be sane,
toned officially, was 1924 metres,
approximately 5000 feet. The time
of descent was Z minutes 80 Sec
onds. He made his record shortly
after losing the speed record of the
course to Glenn H. Curtiss.
The Frenchman, using an engine
that had pust arrived from Paris, had
been on the course all afternoon.
He had circled the course again and
again. skidding and dipping and
swinging corners in a daring fashion
that made his wife shiver with
fright.
The sun. was low toward the sea
and the shadows had begun to gather
when Paulhan decided to go higher
The citizen., 1910-01-21
Steel To Make Record.

New York Especially Smart i'm
provement to record figures will be
shown in the steel trade in the forth
coming quarterly report of the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation. to be
made public January %. The re-
port, 1t was learned. will show an
untitled tonnage at the close of 1909
close to 100000 tons, the largest
reported in several years and a gain
of over 100000 tons, compared
with September 80.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
MAY HAVE Been
A SYRIAN PLOT
Police Still Hunting Man Who
Shot Boys.
DEAD BOY AN INNOCENT VICTIM.
Robert Lomas Believed BY Police
To Have Been Mistaken For Mas.
sib Shibley, Foster-Brother OF The
Other Boy Shos-Nassib's Father,
Who Killed Wife And Himself In
1908, Had Persistently Fought
Certain Syrian Societies.

New York Especially A venge-
full Syrian plot. which partially mis-.
carried, may be the explanation oi
the act of the seeming madman who
wantonly shot down two six-year-
o.d boys coasting on Washington
Heights, killing one of them and
fatally wounding the other. Such
meager clues as the police had were
followed up diligently in the effort
described by the panic-stricken boys
among whom the murderous strang-
er appeared. But while still work.
ing on the theory that the man was
a homicidal lunatic. the police are
giving attention to the alternative
theory that both Robert Lomas, the
dead boy, and Arthur Shibley, who
was shot, were the victims of a plot
by enemies of the Shibley family
On this theory young Lomas is sup
posed to have been mistaken for
Nassib Shibley, an adopted son OF
Arthur Shibley, Sr.
Nassib Shibley's father killed him.
self and his wife in 1908 because OF
domestic differences. He was an at
torney and had persistently fought
certain Syrian secret societies. His
brother Arthur adopted his son. who
was not in the crowd of boys among
whom the assassin appeared. 1t is
assumed, however. that the stranger
believing young Lomas to be the son
of the dead attorney, killed the boy
and then shot his intended victim S
foster brother.
The condition OF the six-year-old
Shibley boy, who is in Washington
Heights Hospital. grew worse in
stead of better, as the physicians had
hoped, and DR.. c. c. Sichel, the head
physician, said that he thought in
order to save the little fellows life
it would be necessary to transfuse
into his veins blood from some
healthy person.
When Mrs. Shibley, the boys
mother, heard what Dr. Sichei
though, she said that she would un-
dergo the operation. She was told
that TRANSMISSION would not be re-
sorted to unless it was absolutely
necessary.
Coroner I. L. Feinberg went to
the hospital to get the ante-mortem
statement of the Shibley boy. The
statement the boy made to the coro-
ner differed somewhat from the one
he made shortly after he was shot.
The little fellow said that the man
who did the shooting had called to
Robbie Lomas and himself and told
them that he had something to show
them. They went TO him, Arthur
said. and then the man began TO
shoot at them with two pistols.
Another thing, the boy said, was
that the man wore spectacles, and
that he seemed respectable. The
man. he said, followed him a short
distance after the shooting, but turn
ed and went in another direction
when he saw Arthur going toward
Edgecombe Avenue over the rocks.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
zelaya Going To Belginm.

City Of Mexico Special After
having leased and taken possession
of house WITH the announced in
tention of making his home here for
several months at least, former Pres
idcnt Zelaya. Of Nicaragua. declared
that he would sail for Belgium as
soca as he could make arrange
ments. This decision was said to
be due TO the receipt Of a telegram
rom Mrs. Zelaya. now at Managua
she has decided TO go direct to Brus-
sells. her old home. instead OF COM
ing to Mexico City to live.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
message to CONGRESS

message to Congress
Mr.. Taft asks for new land laws
which have been drawn by Secre-
tary Ballinger.
The message also asks Congress
to validate Withdrawals by the Sec
retary of the Interior, and points
out the difficulty of enacting laws
that will both conserve and develop.
Separation of the soil from the
minerals beneath it is urged as well
as laws to prevent monopoly both
in minerals and water powers.
The President calls attention to
the need of conserving the fertility
OF the soil, which work, he says. is
more important than saving woods
waters or minerals. He recommends
loan of S3,000,00o to complete ir-
rigation projects already commenced
and remarks upon the distressing
condition of those settlers who have
taken up land and the irrigation de-
layed. Failure to complete these
projects, he says, is ''in effect a
breach of faith" And the people
need relief from their distressed con-
dition.
Discussing inland waterways, the
President strongly recommends the
Improvement of the Ohio River, from
Pittsburg to Cairo. and of the up
per Mississippi. The former project
would cost 100000.
An experimental reforestation at
the head of navigable streams b.
the Forest Service is recommended,
and a new law is urged on small
areas not included in the national
forests.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
Ten Children Blown Up.

Charleroi. Pa. Especially = Ten
children were killed outright and
the mother and two other children
were seriously injured when an ex-
plosive, which Joseph Kentic, min
er. was thawing in the kitchen of
his home. was discharged. The
house collapsed, burying the children
in the ruins. Kentic was blown out
the door in which he stood, but was
able TO recover the bodies of his
children from the ruins. All the in
jured will recover.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
TWO WATCHMEN HAVE
BATTLE WITH REVOlV VERS
Survivor Then Writes to His
Wife and the Police.
PLAY A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK
Ferris Says He And His Opponent
Dodged Around The Boiler BlaZ-
ing Away At Each Other-So Far
As Can BE Learned The Men Quar-
reied Over Their Work.

New York (SpeciaD The tale of
a battle with revolvers between two
watchmen in a store at Broadway
and Twenty-frst Street is told by
the survivor, John Ferris, who was
Familiarity called "Old Pop" Ferris.
He is 50 years old. The man he
killed was William Woods, 20 years
old.
After the fight Ferris wrote a let
ter to the police and one to his wife;
but he was not arrested until the
janitor went TO the store next morn
ing.
So far as can be learned. the men
quarreled over their work. and lat
er, when in liquor. fought with their
fists and then with revolvers, until
Woods dropped dead. Ferris was
unscathed. He said he lodged the
bullets fired by the older man.
The shooting was done in the en-
gine room in the basement of the
store. Here, according to Ferris.
the watchmen shut themselves up to-
gether and blazed away at close
quarters, lodging and running, try
ing to get the drop on each other
and playing hide and seek around
the boilers.
The dead man leaves a widow and
three children living at % Twelfth
Street, Whitestone, Long Island.
Ferris lives at $50 East One Hun
dred and Sixty-seventh Street, and
has wife and two boys, the latter
being employed at Tiffany's. This
is what Ferris told the police:
Woods was late in getting to the
store. He should have been there
at o'clock, but didn't get there un-
til 1920 o'clock. When l asked him
to pitch in and help with the work
we had to do he said Go to -
Il told him to brace up and get
a move on, and he went on to tell
me in a number of ways that he
didn't intend to lift a finger. got
mad at his cussedness and went out
for a while. When l got back he
went out.
About II O'Clock we started the
argument again, hotter than before,
and by and by the old man drew off
and gave me stiff one in the jaw.
l boxed his ears, and then he drew
his gun. Before he could fire | was
on the jump, because knew he
would shoot.
"He blazed away. and had TO
fight for my life. l drew my gun
and hit him with the first shot. That
didn't stop him, and had to shoot
again, and then again. He dropped,
and / picked up his gun"
Two revolvers were turned over
to the police by Ferris. One of
them, which he said was his own,
was of .32 caliber; the other was
a .3S caliber and had four emptied
chambers.
After the shooting Ferris very
quietly sat down and wrote to police
headquarters. setting forth what had
occurred and asking that some one
be sent to arrest him and take charge
of the body. He also wrote TO his
wife, and then went out to mail the
letters. When the janitor came in
the morning he summoned a patrol
man and Ferris was arrested.
Ferris had been employed at the
store for 81 years and Woods for s
wears
The citizen., 1910-01-21
Star Witness Takes Poison.

Dresden. Tenn Especially Frank
Feheringer. confessed Night Rider
and star witness for the STATE in the
trial al Union City of the alleged
mnrderers of Capt. Quentin Rankin,
attempted suicide in jail by taking
poison. He wrote a note saying
that family and friends. had desert
ed him. Feheringer was under ar
rest on a charge OF drunkenness and
shooting up the town. but he prob
ably would have been released soon,
as grand jury had failed to ind!ct
him.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
Lawson In Tobacco Deal.

Lexington, Ky. Especially .-Thom.
as w. Lawson. of Boston, arrived
here and began a conference with
officers of the Burley Tobacco So
ciety with view to purchasing the
entire pooled crop of the organiza-
tion, amounting to 100000
pounds. Mr.. Lawson is said to have
offered 20 cents a pound, ami to
stand ready to bind his contract with
check for $2,000,000. He is un-
derstood to represent Boston syndi.
cate.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
JUDGE FORCED TO TEARS.
Hated To Sentence Young Men To
The Penitentiary.

St. Louis (S2eciaD Judge D. P.
Dyer. of the United States District
Court. wept as he sentenced two
young men convicted of embezzle-
ment. George F. Smith, Jr., 81
years old. and VIM. A. Gray, 20
years old, former bank clerks, must
each serve five years in the peniten-
tiary at Leavenworth. Kansas. The
mittimus will be held until March l,
in the hope that pardon will be
granted.
IF the law permitted me to i'm
pose a lighter sentence, l would do
so," said Judge Dyer. 81 hate to
send young men to the penitentiary.
The citizen., 1910-01-21
TO JAIL FOR LIFE.
Judge Says Hanging Is Too Good
For Child Murderer.

Belleville, Ill (SPacial A life
time of remorse, rather than death
on the gallows, was ths pc.alty I'M
posed on James Pullman. who con-
fesscd that he hal killed his month
old baby by crushing its head with
his heel.
Il will not sentence Pullman TO
the gallows,' said Judge A. Grow,
of the Circuit Court, but TO tho peni-
tentiary for life. II will be punish
ment more terrible than death for
him to be haunted day after day by
the cries of his murdered child"
Pullman killed the child last July
atter he and the infants mother had
tailed to find q home for IL.