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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23

Montreal, July %. - Mackenzie
King, minister of labor, was confident
TODAY that the minor points of differ
ence between the Grand Trunk and its
striking employ ees will be eliminated
so that his proposed plan of arbitration
can he worked out, Both the men
and the company say they are willing
to arbitrate. The company asks that
the committee be made up OF men ac-
duainted with the details OF the rail-
road business, who would be in posi-
ton TO dissect the schedules OF earn
ings and income OF the road. The
company, however, refuses to accept
p. H. Morrisey or K. f. Clark as mem
bers Of the board not alone because
they are Americans but because both
we're very prominent in fixing up the
New York Central schedule which is
practically the same as that which the
Grand Trunk refused to pay.
Vice President Murdoch Of the train
men says that he will submit the mems
side OF the controversy to board
mutually acceptable" but up to the
present has insisted that Morrisey and
Clark should be accepted by the com
pany. 1t is the plan OF Minister King TO
try and get both the company and the
men to submit lists Of men whom they
would be willing to have arbitrate the
dispute and from these lists select three
satisfactory to both sides. The rail
road company is moving some freight
today
Detroit, Mich, July 23.-The strike
of trainmen on the Canadian division
of the Wabash railroad is at an end,
and the men will 60 back today. ac-
cording to J. J. Sims, superintendent OF
the Wabash. The Wabash strike has
been incidental to the Grand Trunk
strike, and was called because the
Wabash uses Grand Trunk tracks in
Canada.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Cardinal Gibbons Birthday.

Baltimore, July 23.-Today is the
seventy-sixth anniversary of Cardinal
Gibbons birth. He is at the home OF
T. Herbert Shriver, Union Mills, near
Westminster. June 80 was the forty
ninth anniversary of the cardinals
ordination to the priesthood, and the
twenty-iourth of the comforting on him
of the red biretta of the cardinalate.
This unusual event was observed by
the cardinal at the home Of Mr. Shriver
with the celebration by him of low
mass. Next year, it is proposed a
jubilee celebration IN honor Of the
events will be held at the cathedral.
Many letters of congratulation from
both clergy and laity were sent to the
cardinal The venerable prelate cele-
brated mass in the little chapel at
Union Mills. and spent the remainder
of the day in quietude.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
ALEXANDRIA,, VA.
SATURDAY. EVENING. JULY -
SENATOR CUMmNs, Of Iowa, in

SENATOR CUMMINs, of Iowa, in q
speech at Council Grove, Kan, last
night, asserted that the pledge OF the
republican national platform for re-
vision OF the tariff was not fulfilled and
that Senator Aldrich and Speaker Can
non and Others who took the lead i'll
framing the tariff bill had never at
temped, and never intended to keep the
pledges Of the party. The senator,
among other things said:
Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrlch
are driving the country into soclalistlc
form OF government and industry be
cause Of their interest in promoting
the cause of monopolies. They are I'M
willing TO take measures TO prevent the
rapidly growing tendency toward
monopoly or TO disintergratc and de-
stroy the monOpolies already III
existence whereby the prices Of com
modities are fixed, not by the usual
laws OF trade, but by the will Of a single
man or a group of men. The
people have found that the absence OF
foreign competition in the markets OF
this country has made it possible for
the American manufacturer to increase
his price at his own sweet will and
without regard 10 the actual market
conditions.
Conservative and sensible republicans
are gradually realizing that they are
the victims of Cannon. Aldrich and
other politician bunco-steerers, but the
bulk OF them, for some reason, con-
tinue to vote with the dominant party.
The present generation seem as fond Of
being humbugged as those which have
preceded it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
still Searching for DIR. CrIppen.

London, July 23.-Inspector Dew
of Scotland Yard, who has been in
charge Of the search for DR.. III. H.
Crippen, murderer OF his wife, Belle
Elmore, left hurriedly today for Canada,
after admitting that Information had
been received which indicated that an
important clue had been found there
as to the whereabouts Of the missing
man.
Inspector Dew's Hurried departure
for Canada is explained by the Even
ing News this afternoon as being due
TO the receipt of wireless message ut
LIVERPOOL This message, which came
from a vessel in mid-pcean, declared
that two passengers greatly resembling
DR. Crippsn and Miss Leneve, are on
board, bound for Canada. The police
have evidently withheld the name Of
the ship on Which the suspects are
or they were unable to ascertain it.
Scotland Yard I2doubtedly had a
strong clue that thsse suspects are
really Crippen and Miss LeneVe. Inc
despatching Of Inspector Dew 70 Oah-
ada is regarded as an impS.ant move
toward their apprehension.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
LIQUOR SEIZURES.

Secret agents sent here by Internal
Revenue Commissioner Royal Cabell
have seized in this and other cities
nearly 100000 gallons Of spirtuous
liquors and although the local agent,
Colonel William Chapman, refuses to
discuss the matter, it is known that
sensational disclosures will be made
when the report Of the agents is filed
with the proper authorities. Seizures
we're made in large retail and wholesale
establishments here and in other cities
on the ground that the bottles, jugs
and barrels containing the liquors were
improperly labelled, being Of mis-
leading nature.
1t is charged that a majority of the
barrels, casks, jugs, demijohns and bot
ties we're improperly stamped and that
the federal government was thus de-
frauded ont OF vast sums which it
should have received as revenue on the
contents of vessels. - Richmond Vir-
gilman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
4 Widespread Plot.

Uskub. Turkey. July &c. A wide
spread rcactionary Plot, aimed to over
throw the Young Turk movement and
restored Abdul Hamip to the throne,
was unearhed here today following the
assassination last night Of the customs
director, a prominent official of the
Young Turks party.
1t is said the police have found
evidence that the reactionaries are
being led by former leaders of the
Young Turks, who became incensed
by the autocratic power assumed by
the men who had promised to bring
about an acre OF freedom after the de-
scription OF Abdul iiamid.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
PATENT GRANTED.

Patents have been issued in Washing
ton to Crawford Elliott, the inventor Of
the book typewriter, on a cotton picker
or harvester which he has perfected as
the result OF nearly seven years constant
effort. The basic patent granted covers
forty different claims. The machine
has been tested for two years in the
cotton fields, and with it one man and
a team OF mules will do the work Of
forty hand pickers. Only the ripe
cotton is picked, and this is done with
out injury to the green cotton or the
flowers, The successful cotton picker
has at last arrived and will enable the
planters to greatly increase the present
acreage under cultivation.
The principle OF the machine is a
double row Of bristle brushes about one
and onehalf inches in diameter and
fourteen inches long, spinning rapidly
in such manner that the revolving
brushes are introduced into the plants
close to the ground and drawn up in a
verticle line through the plants the
brushes penetrating the bushes from
both sides of the row The ripe cotton
adheres to the brushes while the rest OF
the plant is not in any way affected,
the brushes travelling to a receptacle
where they are stripped of the cotton
and the operation is repeated
1t has been thoroughly tested and
demonstrated that it will do the work
at a quarter of the cost of hand labor
which means a saving Of $3.50, 600, 900
a year to the cotton growers.
The invention which has been pur-
chased by the National Cotton Harves-
ter Company of Chicago, ILL.,, means
much to the growth and expansion OF
the cotton industry, and it will UNI
doubleday add immensely to the annual
wealth OF all the cotton-growing states.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Minister'S Blaa Called.

Greeley, Colo, July 23.-Because
he delivered a sermon from his pulpit
denouncing the city officials for not en-
forcing the law, and expressing the fer
vid hope that he could be chief OF po-
lice for a while, Rev. ]. J. Lace, a
Methodist minister, has had his bluff
called" The city council today offer
ed him a job as policeman with fine
chance to become chief of police. In
offering the job, the council asks the
preacher Can you distinguish be-
tween woman who is bad and one
who is Just giddy? Can you tell the
difference between a poker game and
plain cribbage?
Can you tell when a man is drunk
enough to be sent to Jail, and when he
is only hilarious enough to be sent
home? Can you distinguish between
Young couples innocently spooning in
the park and those who should be ar
rested? Will you walk your beat from
six in the evening until seven the next
morning?
If the minister qualities, the council
makes this offer: After a year, if you
have demonstrated yonr ability to de-
tect criminals, catch bootleggers and
keep your own skirts free from muck
the council will come to you with open
arms and ask YOU to take the job OF
city marshal. For years the council
has been looking for a man to fill that
position who has the personal reputa-
ton Of a Joseph, the patience of Job,
the wisdom Of a Solomon, and the
courage Of lion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Killed Wife and Himself.

Albany, n. Y, July 23.-Aroused
to jealousy over the friendliness which
he thought his wife displayed for an
other woman, Stephen Johnson, aged
about 80, farmer, yesterday shot and
killed his wife, aged about 40, on the
road between Undertook and Valatit
and then blew out his own brains.
johnson for some weeks has been
employed on q boat on the Hudson
river, but spent the last few days at his
home at VaIatie. As his wife was re-
turning from her work at the noon
hour, Johnson waited for her, and as
she approached fired one shot at her.
The bullet pierced her breast, killing
her instantly. Johnson then turned
the pistol on himself firing one shot in
his breast. With another he nearly
blew off the top Of his head. His body
fell on the tracks OF the Albany South
ern Railroad. The pair are survived
by a son and daughter, both OF whom
are married.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
To TREAT RABIES FREE IN
RICHMOND.

Persons suffering from rabies will nc
longer have to go to expensive Pasteur
Institutes for treatment, but can &c
to Richmond and be treated free Of
cost. This applies to all citizens OF
Virginia Only those who can afford
to pay for the treatment are excluded
from this offer, according to a sts.te-
ment given out last night by the State
Health Department.
When the present outbreak Of rabies
appeared, the State Health commits
sioner notified all who inquired regard
ing the treatment, that the United
States Public Health and Marine Hos
pitel Service, in Washington, was pre-
pared to administer treatment to all
who could not afford to pay for it.
This led to such demands on the Wash
ington department that no morepatents
could be Accommodated. Health Com
missioner Williams at once went to
Washington and requested the Federal
authorities to send the rabies emulsion
to Richmond, where it could be adj
ministered to citizens of the state with
out cost. The government officials
gave the necessary consent and DIR.
Williams will at once make arrange
ments for the treatment.
The health department cannot OF
course care for those who may wish
the treatment" says the official an
nouncement Of the department.
Those who go to Richmond must
be prepared to pay the expenses Of
their board while there. We will only
give the treatment, but as this generally
costs $3.50 the saving to the State will
be considerable. The treatment will
be given free to those to whom the
regular charges will be a hardship. All
others will be referred to the regular
Pasteur Institutes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Fire on a steamship.

Charleston, s. c., July pa wire
less message received at the local station
reports lie Southern Pacific steamer
Menus, with a fire in the cargo hold
aft anchored under the lee Of Cape
Canaveral, Fla. The steamer Comus,
Of the same line, 10 standing by, the pas
sengers Of the Menus having been trans
ferred TO her. The crew Of the Menus,
aided by all that can be spared from
the Comus, are fighting the fire which
is not yet under control. The fire was
discovered yesterday afternoon and the
Comus summoned by wireless The
only danger will be TO the vessel, as the
Comus has wired that she will stand by
until the fire is out or until it becomes
necessary to abandon the ship, to save
the crew.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Another Echo of the Iticht.

Chicago, July %. Investigation into
affairs of the Michaels Furniture Com
pany today brought about through the
Ming of involuntary bankruptcy pro
ceedings foil owing the suicide OF Nj.
Harry Michaels, secretary, developed
the fact that when the referee in the
Johnson Jeffries fight at Reno gave the
fight TO Johnson, he also signed
Michaels' death warrant. Michaels
had $4,000 wagered on the white
fighter, with which he hoped to recoupe
losses at the gambling table, and thus
be able TO make an accounting to his
firm. He killed himself in his office ON
July 4, just after hearing the result of
the battle. Surrounding him were piles
IF forced papers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Murder and Robbery.

Kittaning, Pa, July GA masked
robber today held up near Pendleton,
Paymaster NJ. F. Brown, superintend-
ent of the Widnoon Coal Mining Com
pany, who was en- route to the mine al
ReydoldsviIle, with $780, and shot
and killed Horton Craig, who accom-
panied Brown as guard. The bandit
then escaped but a posse is searching
for him. The robber failed to secure
the money. When The bandit appear
ed, Brown and James Corbett, another
guard, jumped from their buggy and
fired. The robber returned the fire
and then fled into the woods along the
road Brown and Corbett FASTENED on
with the money, but as Craig, who was
riding in a spring wagoe closely behind
the paymaster, followed, the bandit
fred at Craig, killing him instantly,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Bat ENtirnator Perllons.

Pennsburg, Pa, July 2S.-Adyised
by his neighbor how he might get rid
of bats, which infected his house-loft,
Alexander G. York, Of this place, put
pound Of sulphur in a galvanized
bucket. lighted the contents and went to
his work. As a result the astounded
man not only nearly lost his house by
fire, but also his spouse. Mrs. York
saw smoke coming through the roof,
and by means OF a stepladder, with a
superhuman effort pushed back the
trap-door leading to the loft, and, be-
ing nearly overcome by the sulphur
fumes, after a fierce combat with the
terrified bats which attacked her, the
plucky little woman extinguished the
flames.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
4 RloodthirstY Despot.

Algiers, July 23.-Messages from
Fee indicate that Sultan Mulai Hafid
has become practically a homicidal
maniac. His deposition and the resto-
ration to the throne OF his brother, Alb
del-Aziz, are considered matters OF a
few more weeks. No one at court is
free from the rulers fits OF murderous
fury. The tortures he inhicts upon
those who incur his wreath are fearful,
and his viziers have experienced the
greatest difficulty to restrain him from
ordering wholesale murders in several
districts.
The European military advisers with
whom Mulai Hafd surrounded himself
have deserted him and the sultan could
not cope with a widespread revolt
Mulais mania is regarded as more
remarkable inasmuch as he was re-
garded as an unusually enlightened
Moor when he came to the throne.
French influence is generally blamed
for the changes wrought in him. The
ualliac representatives at court have
forced him, for their own interests,
into all kinds Of policies he knew would
be detrimental to himself and the
brooding over this condition Of affairs
caused him to become a drug iiend.
Abd.el-Nziz, while he was on the
throne, was subjected to the same
nressure hut he did not allow IL TO
worry him, while Mulai Hafd, really
having the interests OF Morocco at
heart, allowed the matter to prey upon
his mind until his reason was unseated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
The shooting of Maura.

Madrid, July 23.-Republican mem
bers OF the Cortes today express open
jubilation over the attempted assassi-
nation last night, in Barcelona, OF
Antonio Maura, former Spanish
premier, who was shot in the leg by
Posas Roca, a delivery wagon driver
and prominent laborite. The repub-
Iicans declare the shooting will give
them a chance to air in court the
charges of republican leader Iglesias
that Maura was primarily responsible
for the Barcelona massacre last year,
in which nearly 900 persons were slain
and following which 500 persons were
shot bv orders Of courts martial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
4 Fatal Leap.

Punxsutawney, Pa, July 23.-Rav-
ing with delirium following an opera
ton for appendicitis, Isaac Zisser, 80
years old, a merchant OF Sycamore,
Penn, leaped from bed in the Punxsu-
tawney Hospital Thursday afternoon,
and after struggle with the nurse
jumped from a window to the ground,
twelve feet below. Miss Cecil MADDEN
was the nurse Zisser's strength was
too much for her to overcome. Before
he made the leap she was holding to
his nightclothes. These slipped off,
and he fled across the hospital grounds
nude. He was caught by attendants,
His widow and two children survive.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
Mother Falls Dead.

Chester, Pa, July 23--Heart disease
killed two Delaware county women
suddenly yesterday. Mrs. Sarah Draper
was sitting in her home in Aston Mills
when her young son, Thomas, came
running into the room with a fishhook
imbedded In his leg. He was scream
ing at the top Of his voice. The sight
of her boys sufferings 50 wrought upon
the mothers nerves that she tainted,
and when members Of the family went
to her aid she was dead Mrs. Phoebe
Young, Of Chelsea, sat chatting with
her niece. Miss Ida Young, when she
asked the girl to 60 TO the cellar and
and get her an apple. Miss Young
was absent less than two minutes.
When she returned her aunt was dead
i'm the chair.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23

THE WestcheSter New York Bankers
Association believes that the people Il
the country are automobile crazy. On
information received by its members at
a session yesterday, it was decided to
look carefully into applications Of those
who wish to borrow money on notes.
II it is found that the applicant is to- ur-
chase an automobile, the banks will use
extreme caution in diScounting his
paper. 1t was said that hundreds of
persons have either mortgaged their
homes or hypothetical valuable securi-
ties to purchase automobiles in the last
six months.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
To be Transferred 10 RevoIutIonIst.

Portsmouth, Va, July 23.-ThC
converted gunboat Hornet, recently
purchased from the government by
Theodore Stern and Thomas S.
Roberts, of New Orleans, is to be
transferred to the reyolutionists in
Nicaragua. 1t sailed today for New
Orleans, but its ultimate destination
is declared to be Bluefelds, where it
will go into action for Estrada in at
tempting to put the Madriz craft Venus
out of commission. The Hornet after
being sold by the government was re-
fitted in Norfolk ship yard 1t is
understood that electrical connections
and rapid fire guns were installed, and
the vessels equipment brought up to
date.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Joseph A. Laws died at hi:
home near Catlett, yesterday in the sixty
third year Of his age.
Judge Goolrick, of the Corporation
Court of Fredericksburg, yesterday, il
response to petitions, ordered a loca
option election to be held in that city
September g next.
Gov, Mann has ordered the state
flags to be placed at half mast in mem
ory of the soldiers who were killed by
the bursting OF the big gun at Fortres:
Monroe Thursday.
The republican committee of the
Seventh congressional district last night
in Harrisonburg decided to hold con
yention in Charlottesville September II
to nominate a candidate to oppose
James Hay for Congress.
The farmers OF Rockingham county
are making hay while both the sun
and moon shine. They are far behinc
in their work on account Of the pro
onged rainy spell, and now that a sea
son OF clear weather is fayoring them
they are running their mowers night
and day.
Miss Pauline Sharrette, the 16-year-
old daughter OF Mr. Robert Sharrette,
residing near Bristol, committed sui
eide yesterday afternoon by sending a
22-calibre rifle ball through her head.
The act was, it is believed, superinduced
by dependency, due to temporary ill
ness,
Mr.. w. r. Free, OF Nokesville, one
Of the oldest and best known citizens
of Prince William county, died sudden
" on Thursday. Mr. Free was a gal
LIANT soldier and served as second lieu
tenant in Company B, 49th Virginia,
under Capt. Chancellor Nelson.
News has been received at Char
lottesvile OF the marriage in France
OF DR.. Edwin Preston Dargan, until
last June adjunct professor OF Romantic
languages in the University OF Virginia,
and Miss Esterelle Vera Riddett, o
Cannes. France.
What is said to be the only plant in
the United States that extracts flour
from culled potatoes, both Irish and
sweet, has been established at Hall
wood, Accomac county, with machinery
brought from Germany. Culled pota-
toes, Irish and sweet, that are practi-
calIy worthless are utilized. The in
dustry promises to develop into large
proportions. The extract is grayish
and not as white as wheat flour. The
process has passed the experimental
stage. The potatoes, to describe the
process briefly, are placed in hopper
and washed, then are boiled and finally
dried, after which they are ground into
flour.
Pink Barbour, cOlOred, yesterday
afternoon was found guilty Of murder
in the first degree in Harrisonburg
His only defense was that he was
drunk. The crime for which Barbour
was convicted occurred in Harrisonburg
on the Fourth OF July, when James NJ
Lee, a highly respected liveryman, was
shot to death in his stable. Lee found
Barbour in the act of stealing several
whips and ordered him out Not COM
plying immo diately, Lee started after
the darkey with a stick. Barbonr
walked out Of the stable, but whirled
and fired four shots, one causing death.
At the time of the tragedy the town
was fill ed with 10000 visitors attending
the celebration of the Fourth, and
Barbour narrowly escaped summary
vengeance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-23

THE streets and alleys Of this city
again need attention. In many places
rank weeds are hOurishing under the
recent rains and present sunshine. 1t
was suggested last spring, when the
Civic improvement League started a
movement toward cleaning the
thoroughfares and alleys Of Alexandria,
that the only way to keep a city clean
is not to allow it to become dirty.
This theory should be acted upon. A
large crop of weeds is being raised in the
city, and in the suburbs this year, the
bulk Of which will doubtless be allowed
to remain until the pods break and the
seed fall for next years growth. in
the early fall the air will be filled with
noxious vapor from these undesirable
growths and disease is likely to follow
This is the time TO act.