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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
TUESDAY EVENING. FEB. IS. 1910.
JAMES HENRY STARK, OF Boston,

JAMES HENRY sTARK, OF Boston,
his wri TN a book entitled, THE Loya-
list, OF Masssci u,e!ts and the other slice
of the American Revolution" 10 which
hs chsracte.iz.s Samuel Adams and
Joha II sncock 80 dsfau!t:rs and thieves,
psf OK Fl ,nry as the mott unreliable
m IN Ina. had lived NJ to that time and
a baakrnpt st twenty three, after having
failei as a It ekeeper, farmer and shop-
keeper; B.rjsmin Franklin as 8 20 t
office lhie', who was dismissed from Ia
lob aa possm as.er OF Boston, and Alexsn'
der II amilton as ausillegitimase SOD and
q notorious intriku'r. There are dtuo'-
less cases where only the good acts per
formed by greet men ere placed In MIS-
tory; while sponge is drawn down the
other column, but it will be difficult
matter for The tn hor OF the book re.
tered to above to make people look up
on those great Americans through hls
soac acles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Railroai Accident in Florida.

Macon. Ga, Feb. 15.-It was stated
at the Citj Fl ,spital todsy thst all Of the
seriously Injured persons br;u ybtin early
t)dsy from the wreck 10 niles sotta OF
here that Tied up ths Georgia Southern
and Florida Railway for several hours
last night will probably recover. The
bodifs of the FIVE persons killed In 'hf
wreck are at the local moIus. The
qreck, which was a head-op collision BIZ
tween north and south bourd passenger
trains, vas csu'ed, 1t Ia alleged, by the
allure of the crew of the north. bound
train to obey orders and wait urt!l The
other train passed them at Bonaite
The trains we're not III ming q! a very
high rate of speed when the wreck 'ok
piece, tu they met On curve 80 thtt
neither engineer had any warning.
Several hours elapsed before relief
reached the scene and women passengers
bond up the hurts Of tie wounded With
strips of cloth tern from their own u
darclct hiap
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
ANOTHER LIQUOR BILL.

Senator Hslsey, OF Lynchburg, offered
a bill In the Senate yesterday which will
il adopted abolIsh every saloon In Viz
ginia. The bill provides for dlspeu
ssrIea. The operators pay the state a
licenss as at present for the privilege.
No drinking in sny place where liquor is
sold, DO treating aud only sealed pack
ages OF liquor are to be dispensed. Sena
tor Halsey declares that'the evil of the
drink habit is due TO tis saloon and the
eu'tom of treating. The bill provides
places shall bs opsned al Il o'clJtk, closed
a. O'Clock at Dight. No entrances ex.
cept on principal thorcuy hfares, all of-
stu :!icus removed. Violations OF the
law are to be made msdemesnor, pun
ishRble With q fine, all sentence and a
revocation oil license in the discretion OF
the etu!t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Virginia News.

Mr.. J. B Gill died al his home, nesr
GarrisonviIle, S!stfo d cou atty, yesterday,
after an Illness of four days.
Miss Etizs Thompson, CT Culpepsr,
so years old, died yesterday afternoon.
Shs vas palalyzed about 10 years ago.
The Tt:-St4ts Medical Association of
Virginia, North and Sub Carolina
met il Richmond today. Over one
huld.ed papers will be read.
Professor Charles a. Graves, of the
law department of the University IL
Virginia, has, |! Ia understood, been o.
Tered, and is considering the acceptance
of chair in the Harvard laH school.
Members of The theatrical companies
may coz tiuue to get laughs by referring
10 the hair or to the lack of hair of PSI
sons in the sudiepcP, for the commi tie
yestardsy returned to the II US. the bill
torbiddiug such merry practices vita g.
Recommendation thtt it ehculd cot
pass.
Evelyn Whitner, fifteen years old,
adopted dsu liter OF Henry Rollins, of
yelling toD, Prince William county, was
fa:slly burned to death ct her home
Friday evening and died Saturday p!ghs.
Miss Whtmer was in The act OF pt ting
wood liz stove when her sprou ignited
and che wss instantly developed in
flames ana frightiully turaed bsfore az
sislance could reach her.
A memorandum WAS 6Ied IL Safolk
yesterday by counsel for Mrs. l. zzie A.
Dennis, who eeeks dtvorcc from Olyds
A. Dennis. When tbis young C: uple
eloped to Eliz,bttl Oty few years
ago The groom wired bis wiis's parents
a!s notification: "L'zzie's name is
Dennia."
Mr.. Beverly B. Turaer, SO years old,
died At his home, near Broad Run
sli TON, s indsy. Re is IL 'vived by
widow, four daughters and two sosV.
Mr.. Turner farned eS 'nsigely and va.
interested in dairsirg. Ia 1892 be ran
for OJrg:e5s es tie Farmers Aliaoce
candidate and made q m ST crec!taole
showing.
The divorce case 10 Suffolk, oil Mrs.
Rosalie A. Copeland, sixty two years
OH, Who sou GIT separation trou her bus.
baud, Tiaothy Qlentin Copeland, aged
about seventy-one, the grounds alleged
being that tie husband is an inveter,,
snorer, wss settled yesterday by an agree
ment as 10 division OF the detendanrs
property. The wiie's potion rsyerts to
her husbands estate after death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Today's Telegraphic News
From Richmond.

Especial dispatch to the Alexandria Gazstte.l
Richmond, Feb. 15.-The contend.
ing armies for and against the S:rtds
state wide enabling act will meet esch
other tomorrow morning ct close range
when the Senate committee on privileges
aud elections will have Il frat public
hearing on the bill. The Aut;-Ssloon
League will bs represented in force.
There seems to be disposition on the
pant of some Legislators today to approve
the new Halsey bill which Woold eslat-
lish private dispensaries in the cities in
the place of saloona.
Adcn Yoder, who is serving fifteen
days In jail for criminal libel, snuoanced
this morning that he would remain and
continue to publish bis weekly pham-
phlets. He ssys bs is nov preparing
copy for The next Is ne.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
News of the Day.

billiard 7. Owen, 8 we'll known Gu .
nsn OF Washington, died yesterday OF
G.20 p. M, at the Episcopal Eye, Ea,
aud GThroat Hospital from pueu nonia.
following al operation.
The Twenty-Gfth United States Infan.
try (colored) ia to be paraded before
Mrs. c. E. Aiseda, OF Seattle, Wash.
who charges one of its members, whom
she is to identify, with an assault
10 the House yesterday Mr.. Davidson
st'r,ed fight on The 81 ) 900, 900 sppro-
piia!ion for The prfpafalory work on the
Misaisaippi waterway project. His
amendment striking tu! the approprla-
ton vas lcst.
Comic valentines received sta9ger-
ing blow from Chicago postoffice cen ,ors
yesterday. More than $4,000 OF them
were condemned and ordered not to be
delivered On the ground that they we're
Objectionable.
Eight persons were killed, 4 fatally
Injured aud 20 more or less seriously
bu t, when two passenger t'ains on The
Georgia Southern and Florida railroad
met head on 10 miles from Macon Co.,
last night:
The South Carolina House estarday
pissed the bill changing the Ell ulder
Which Senator TilIman gel his grand
children, iorcidd Dg 'uch deciding With :
cut c0n5ett OF the oiher CT the children.
The Senate has AIKEN ainilar action.
Col William H. Love, secretary OF the
Board of Trade, we'll known in insurance
circles, historian aud authority on the
GEE logical formations of Maryland, as
well as on other scientific subjects, was
found dead yesterday on the floor Of his
daughter, Mrs H. n. Slade, in Reister-
town, Md. Death was due to apoplexy.
Still g,ieViug over the dss ID of their
father, week ago, three young daugh-
'sr's OF Mrs. Ella Mu1ycn, of Camden,
n. j., cav their mother burned ID de- th
last tight. Tneir screams brought Mrs.
John Kuez'e, a neighbor, to the restue,
AID she was burned abort the bands
while e1tinguishiDg the flames. Mrs.
Ma Yon was taking down wash hung in
the s!t hen when her clothes we're ignited
by the kt;hen stove.
A dispatch from SIN Diego, Cil, says
az explosion of steam tlbe on the tor-
pedo destroyer II ,pkins jet rjay morn.
Ing result ID 10 ne death OF one map,
the fatal injury OF another, end the
severe scaldlBg of FIVE more. The man
who died and the one fat lily hurt C uld
have escaped unluiured, tut they tutned
back and Inhaled st.am during their
desperate efforts to ta7s their shipmst:s.
Armed with an a., 1mftc revolver,
With which be bal ju,t murdered tso
women OF his own racp, William Withers,
a negro, yesterday FABRICATED himself in a
house In Toronto, Csnada and fought q
90 hour duel with force of policemen.
Ii fred his fnal shot IS the policemen
eDterd the tic OF the place, where
Withers had retreated after receiving
it'll w;u,d Withers was found lying
dead upon The floor, the revolver clasped
in bis hand,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Suicide OF a Minister.

Philadelphia, Feb. l5.-Rev. d..
Oliver E. Stocking, pastor of Emmanuel
Methodist Episcopal Clutch, one of the
best known Methods! ministers In the
state, today commit ed suicide 10 the
bathroom of bis home in Rcxborough
by cutting bis throat With arfzn. r.
sanity, due t. a fall on his head, some
years ago, is given as toe esuse. Three
years ago, while pastor OF the Shenan.
dosh Methodit Episcopal Clurch, Rev.
Stocking going to service on Sunday
morning tipped al the top Of stairway
and fell t. the b, ON landing on bis
head receiving icjaries from which be
never recovered,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
HALF-OLAD AND STARVING.

A shiveriug boy, hslfaaked and etarv
ing, was reseured from ramshack'e
house 10 Brooklyn a day or two age.
His father is in hospital in Marylsrd
and the mother has been dead FIVE years.
The boy Is nov siS, and toe grand
mother with whom tho little fellow hes
heen living Is old snd feeble. The child
wss found Ia the rear of the first floor
OF tso story irsme house. The house
had been condemned and the grand
nc Ter bad been dispasaed. There has
been nothing tc est ir the hoase for two
days, and all the boy lad to wear was &
shir. and knes braecbee. There was 40
furniture In The room except stove and
O mait,sss on the floor.
The boy vas taken in charge by the
51ciety for Prevention Of Craelty II
Childreu, %here he will be clothed sud
given good food.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Suspects Arrested.

Wilmington, Dsl., Feb. l5-EdWin
W. Oasa, aged II, one of the three yours
men wantsd BY the MsrS and tut lor. flea
on suspicion OF knowing a0nething about
the death OF Dallas Collins, Of CriB.
field. Nd, and the firing OF The pier
and WAREHOUSES OF tie Baltimore, Obeas.
peake and Atlantic Railway Company,
wss captured here st noon t,day By
Dttt)D,a pr t.olman, on descrlE I an re.
ceived from the Maryland police.
Cass had not been in the city long. The
top of the cap he wore was burned, there be-
ing large hole in it. He admitted he is Ca s
and said that he was at GristGel but left
there on sandsy night. Further than this he
refused 10 talk.
Philsdelphia, Feb. 1.-two suspects on.
swering the description of William siler, who
Is wanted 10 Atlantic City On the charge q
numbering Jane Adams. and that Of his
brot er, Orvist who nlso disappeared and for
whom warrant has been issued, were arrest.
ed here today. They were taken TO City Hall
where they will be confronted by detective
from Atlantic City, Charles Adams, brother
Of the dead girl later in the day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Street Car Crew Robbed.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. T5-Two masked
men eally today held up and robbed the
crew of a street car in the subuib OF
Millvale. and after binding the men with
ropes started the car at fuli speed down
an incline. Conductor Kinsey managed
TO crawl to the rear platform of the car
and jerk the trolley from the wire.
Otherwise Kinsey and the motormsn
would undoubtedly have been killed end
the car wrecked. The highwaymen
boarded the car while it was IN motion
and after covering the crew with revol
vers bound them AMI took IS dollars in
cash and two watches.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
The Rooseyeit Party.

Qondokoro, SUDAN, Feb. 15.-Tbe
advance guard of Colonel Theodore
Rooseve't's hunting expedition arrived
here ,day end reported inst tae rest o.
he party would reach here Wednesday
morning and after stay Of two days
tie lip down tie Nile to Kha,toum
sill be begun
The colonel is spending considerable
tine 10 making rough drafts of>ths adj.
dresaes that he is to deliver In Paris and
Berlln.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
New York Stock Market,

New York, Feb. l5.-Tbe stock MAJ
ket showed decided irregularily at the
opening. The first advanced, after the
opening but receded and showed Losses
at ire end of The hour.
The tone after the fret hon, was Chm
pars vely heavy and prices of active
lssusa at midday showed general recess
slons OF about point from the highes'.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Steamers Founder,

st. Petersburg, Feb. 15.-Ths Rusa
today prirtI dispatch from Te'eran,
Persia, saying that more than 200 pas
aeugers and crew, men Of two unnamed
passenger steamers and one cargo
steamer, we're drowned 10 the laundering
of tiess boats in a storm in the Persian
pnlf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

rR. ". A. NCKEEvER, professor CT
philosophy in The Kansas Agricnl'u'si
College st Topeka, is at the head OF 9
new movement ard he has recently on! :
lined his plsn in pamphlet eit.tltd
"a Bitter O,op Of Boys aud Girls"
His idea Is to make ni t;imory q study.
The psofe'sor fsvors an examination bt
fore U arlisge, and says that license
should be refused those who fail 10
pas. Unfortu aa,ejy, mos. people mske
mstiimooy a study after marriage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

The government began Sunday az ct.
tsck and bombsrdnent of General
Chamorro'a lni Il ger army ct MstagaIPa'
General Obsmorro attempted 10 escape
from Mategslps Sunday morning through
Portocarero's column, Two n,ilas from
that place. Chamor, o wss repulset a2d
driven back ID the city. The Red Gross
reports Is iusurgent, killed and 8 OF the
government troops wounded at the Bit
te OF Seals, when Cbanorro escsped
from Boaco. The same reports slao ttst'
that Dol. Gustsvo Martina and 9 t:le-
graph operator were csptu ed BY dfnerai
Ohamorro near 3 AGO and executed IN
der Chamorro's orders,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Summer Homes Folder, Season 1910

Summer Homes Folder, Season 1910
1t is suggested that any of the readers ct
the G.zetta who desires to entertain boarde!s
for the ensuing summer furnish Dir. l.. :.
Brown General Agent Southern Railwav,
7o5 18th street northwest, Washington, d. +,
Immediate information as to name OF resort
postc flee address, at or near what station,
What distance from station, conveyance from
station To house. number Of guests, terms day,
weak end month.
Wesll would be pleased to see the country
full Of borders next summer and would be
. lad if this notice will induce increased pun
Der OF persons who Will accommodate them
for the coming summer season.
This infol mstion should reach Mr.. Blown
OF nter than February 10th.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

ACCORDING 10 the progressiges, Presi'
dent Tstt's New York speech will defeat
the postal banks bill in The Senate. In
tina. apeech Mr.. Taft advocated an
amendment that would make the postal
banks an az jlnct Of Wall street. The
amendment, tia sid, is an Aldrich
trick cn:red,to make the bill obnoxious
and ip7ile its defeat That defes. nos
seems certain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

ACCORDING 10 Prot. Yoshisat Hro
Oksturs, Of Tokyo, Christian science
originated in Japan during the latter
part o.; Inc eighth century. The jap.
auese scholar made .his claim in lee
sn.e before the Lowell Iostl!ut, in Boz,
ton recently. Ii the professor is right,
tits 10 auttler ilu,trsti0n of TIE tra!t
of tho observation that there is nothing
uew Il 1der the suu.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Accompllces Sentenced,

Seoul, Feb. 15-The two accom-.
pIices of Iocbau Augau, tie Kor.sn,
who assassinated Prince lto st Harbin
several months ego, have been sentenced
t, prison, one for three years and the
ether for eighteen months. A death
sentence was yesterday passed on
Apgan,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Bombardmeus Of ElstspaIos:

Name qua, Feb. l5.--General Lare. lss der Of
the government forces today resumed his
bombardment of Matsgalpa, 50 miles north
east of here, which is held by the revolution.
AIRY army under General Chamarro. Today "a
dispatches ssy that tee bombardment which
has been in progress for two days, shas not
greatly damaged the city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
TIE British Parliament Assemblies.

London, Feb. 15.-After the hardest
fought elect on England has ever known,
the third Parliament OF King Edwards
reign assembled at Wet ninst,r for The
sessions business this afternoon.
Technically the session canno. be
ssid t, have opened uatil next Moudsy,
Hhen King Edard will open it 10 person
and In full st,,e. The interim will be
filed in With eftaes!ng tae U nal organi.
cation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
LIVE MOLE IN HER BODY.

k,tietire ru'cell, Of Pat Ison, n.
j., has htd live mole in her body for
several montha. For weeks NJ as Put
cell has suffered sc5t, pains in her chest
and two Gays ago was obliged to tske /
her bed. The pain gradually worked up
into her throat. She seemed likely TO
die, although the doctor ctu'i get NJ
ides of shat WAS the matter with Der. II
became apparent that the cause OF The
trouble WAS q mole which Miss Purcell
swallowed when 1t vas very email aud
which hep! alive ultil !. reached it tulI
s;z'. Il way removed yesterday alive.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

AdoD a. Yoder vas lat night found
guilty By jury in the Hastings Ooust
of Richmond, Of crim'nally libs!ing Pc
lice Com missiouers Chris, Manning, jr.,
". Douglas Gordon, eud Police Justice
John Je:er Crutch6eld. Yoder was
s:nteuc,d t, pay q fee OF $50 and to
s:rge term of fiitesn days inprison-
ment in the city Jail. Yoder submitted
10 the verdict, and Immediately began
bis aentepce, This Ia The frat criminal
libel tu't ia the state siuce 1927.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
Bank Robbed.

Bloomington, ILL.,. Feb. Is The
safe of the O;tizsns' Bank of Ohatsworth,
near here, was lo' It'd of $40, 600 in cash
early today By FIVE masked mep. The
robbers escaped, after binding and gag
giDg night VIZ ;hman and a cltz,n
who attempted 10 interfere.
The robbers had to u'e four chargaa
of n TITO glycerine +, cpsr me safe, get
Ting abont IS, 900 10 bulls and about g.,
900 in gold and silver.
After placing the money In saoks The
robbers drove north 10 q t yo.horae r'c.
They are thcuItt to bs headed for Obi
capo
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15
To Oscar w. Herring. late of 425 south
Washington street. Alexandra, Virginia,
aud 1913 south 49th street, Philadelphia,

PennsJ lvania.
You are hereby notified that the under
signed has been appointed By the court TO
take testimony in Il e matter OF Tie SUIT for
divorce brought against you By your wife,
Mary Z Herring, in the Court Of Common
Plc!s No. 3, Of Philadelphia County, Penn
sJlvania, No. &c. CT March Term. lSoe.
A meeting for the purpose Of hearing such
testimony will be held before meal my office,
4I5 Real Estate Trust Building. Philadelphia
Peuuss lvanis, on Monday. March IS. 1910, at
two o'rlock p. M, at which meeting you may
appear and offer any defense you may have
10 this artion.
CHESTER h. FARR, JI,, Master,
janl9 T4~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

Abdul HemiJ. who for % years vas The
despot.sutan of Turkey, is hopelessly insane
sni is starving himself to death in his prison
pal zee at soloni Ia, according to dispatches
ON there today. The death Of the former
ruler is believed to be a question Of only
few days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

AID bldges OF such towns in the ratio 1T
1e an cunt paid by such towns for suob
purposes bears to The fund to be expeEd ed
By such counties for building and repair
ing bridges; to prohibit The pratt'ce of for.
'uos-,e'lIrg, clairVoyanoy and palmist:y
and to provide penalties jor said practice;
to amend section of chspter S Of al
set concerning public corporatlone;so pre-
vide that the parties iu interest shsll &c
permitted to name watchers bt the polls
in al local option or diapenssry elections,
or where the question OF license Is otter
mined in any election; reensc. seclion SIS
code OF Virginia as smendsd ty an al
entitled an sct approved December 81
1903, to amend and reenatt section 5S5
OF the code OF Virginia, as heretofore
ameuded; to prevelt land owners cwn-
ing propelt. cortieu Il, TO the cities and
towns from the coogesti0g tu urs o1th
of cities By opening street, aud pl,tt az
land for ui!dlag llt', which mag dsstrf ?
the true street lines and alley#sys OF CT es
and t)WDs by reason of annexation ard
enlarging Of city or town borders.
Over the protest of two ministers, the
House Committee on Roads and Internal
Navigation, at the close OF hearing
yesterday, decided by virtually unani-
nous vote to report favorably the Carter
bill allowing interstate trains to -un on
Sunday in Virginia. The bill has passed
the Senate by unanimous vote, and will
be reported to the House today.
Cap ain Smithers, OF the Southern
Railway, urged that the measure tends
to better conditions for the railroad man
and for more opportunities TO cultivate
family life. On the other hand, those
who opposed The bill regarded 1t as a
blow 10 Sunday observance in Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

An attempt to cross the Irish sea from
Dublin to england in balloon 'was begun
today by John Dunville snd A. Rsllock two
Belfast aeronsuis,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-15

Senator Bailey of Texas, spoke before
,ha general assembly OF South Carolina
la night. 1t was his opinion that the
only means to raise the necessary revenue
ior the government provided the tariff
vas decreased under future democrs'ic
edmioi,l on wonld be the Inc me tag.