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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
PROTEST AGAINST LYNCHING.

At mass meeting held IN the Metro
politan Baptist Church in Washington
last night an Address to the American
People" signed by colored pastors in
Washington, was adopted protesting
against the numbering of unarmed
and innocent members of the race near
Palestine, Texas.
The address declares that within a
month nearly 100 colored persons have
suffered death or persecution in Texas.
This sad condition ofracial strife, ever
present like a smoldering volcano, :"
saws the address, makes it imperative
for us, as colored ministers, to make
this protest and appeal.
eve ask the sympathetic considera-
ton of the president, the Supreme
Court. governors, officials of law, pull
pit and press and fair minded people, ;"
says the appeal, to the end that lynch
ing and mob rule may be driven from
the American commonwealth.
I'VE ask that this government, that
has shown its sympathy with the weak
of foreign nations by sending an army
to Cuba, joining with the powers in
settling the Boxer movement in China,
bv suggesting that honor had been
satisfied to Russia and Japan, that
is in sympathy with Russian Jews
and Armenians, shall protect its weak
at home ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
, UNREST IN PORTUGAL.

Portugal, like Spain, is almost on
the verge of an open rupture with the
Vatican, due, among other causes, to
friction over the governmental cen
sure of the Roman Catholic archbis-
hop OF Braga for suppressing Portu-
guese Franciscan newspaper without
submitting the order in the Portuguese
government for approval.
Since the issue Of the royal decree
July y, multiplying the action of the
archbishop, the clerical forces inspired,
it is charged, by Cardinal Merry del
Val the papal secretary of S ate, have
been conducting a bitter campaign
against the government for this and
other reasons.
A big meeting Of ecclesiastics was
held at Lisbon yesterday to protest.
Danger also threatens the govern
ment from tie side Of the republicans
on account OF the refusal OF the king
to redeem the promise made by the
government Of the amnesty for politi-
cal offeh ders, including the members
Of the s. crct societies involved in the
assassination OF his father and brother.
The government has been trying to ap-
pease the republicans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
Rayases of the Cholera.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 9.-The growth
Of the cholera scourse i'll Russia within
the last few days, owing to Il spell OF
unusually hot weather, has been so
alarming that the government ut last
is awake to the fact that national
calamity confronts it. Factories are
shutting down everywhere. mines are
temporarily closed, railroads are hamp-
cred and the peasantry so affriShtcd
that unharvested crops are rottin@ III
the fields. In rural Russia alone there
ara today approximately lO0,00 cases
Of such malignant type that nearly
fifty per cent. are proving fatal. In
the cities the conditions are equally
appalling. -
St. Petersburg hospitals contain 1000
cases, and there are probably as many
cases in private houses, owing to the
health departments in competence IN
discovering and isolating cases.
In some of the worst of the country
districts, the people are fleeing from
their homes and thereby spreading the
disease broadcast. The deaths in some
localities have been so heavy that dead
bodies are found in fields and by the
roadside. Many of the bodies are still
clothed, indicating that the victims
died after the briefest illness. and prob
ably without medical attention.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09

THAT we are closely approaching q
reproduction of the age OF extrava-
gance and inordnatc pleasure in which
the Romans lived just before their city
was destroyed is the belief OF Cardinal
Gibbons. He made that plain in an
interview in New York on Saturday,
and an idea of how Americans high.
est Catholic authority views conditions
can be gathered from the following ex-
tracts taken from his talk;
I think we are very closely APP
preaching the age of extravaganza and
inordinate pleasure enjoyed by Rome
lust before her fall. We have many
more channels Of pleasure than there
we're in the days of Augustus Caesar:
I believe the Gospel of Christ will
save the present situation. There was
no Christ, you remember, to save
Rome. This great desire for riches is
making people very selfish. we
have many generous ones among the
rich, but T wish that more of them
would be little less selfish and little
more considerate Of the unfortunate.
Nothing pays SO great returns as
good health.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
Anti-War Organization.

London, Aug. 9.-The movement
for a workingmcn's international anti
war organization is growing SO rapidly
in England that today it is being dis
cussed not only by the labor leaders,
but by the rank and file of unionists
as well. Definite action has not yet
been taken, but there is a strong
prospect that overtures will shortly
be made to unionists abroad
for an international congress to put
the movement upon more substantial
basis. The leaders are convinced that
peace conferences between politicians
and diplomats are unlikely ever 10 end
in anything but talk, and that If any
thing is to be accomplished, it must
be by the workingmen's class, the
class that always suffers the most
from war.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
ATTACKED BY BUSTARDS.

A dispatch from London says: Sew
eral visitors to the Lake district have
been attacked by pair of great bus
tards and have escaped only after ex-
citing adventures. While Rev. H. F.
Lloyd, Of Wigan, was climbing Ill Bell,
4 mountain near Troutbeck, bird be-
gan to hover above him. He continued
his climb, thinking it was large
hawk, but the bird suddenly swooped
and struck at his head. A second bird
Joined in the attack, and after Mr..
Lloyd had kept them at bay for some
time with his stick, he was compelled
to abandon the climb and beat a retreat.
He ascertained later that the birds
were bustards and that they had at
tackled other climbers. One visitor was
driven from the mountain almost in a
state OF panic. The great bustard, which
is the largest game bird in Europe, is a
rare visitor to the Lake district. Two
persons were attacked on III Bell last
year, but it was then thought that the
bird was an eagle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
RATpLaGuEIN MONTANA.

The invasion Of rats is becoming II
serious matte" in Montana. 1T is now
no uncommon thing for Il farmer 10
kill 20 or 80 Of the rodents in Il single
day.
Reports show that they are doing a
vast amount OF damage along their
line of march, and estimates sent
to the Department of Agriculture
show that the loss already incurred
through them this year will total over
$5 100000.
Traps which will catch the animals
alive will be used and every female
caught will be killed. while the males
will be allowed their liberty. 1t is an
established fact that poly@amouS ro-
dents, lacking a supply Of males, vent
their spleen upon their Young. cIi!irr
eating them or killing them III large
numbers. The supply Of females d.
minishng, the males attack each other
and the consequent strife proves fatal
to the race and the object aimed at by
those ridden by the pests is swiftly ac-
complishcd
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
Loss of aIEScilOoncr.

New York, Aug. eleven scamen.
captain and crew OF the abandoned four
nastcd American schooner, Edith o.
colt, were brought into port today by
The British steamer King Edgar, ore
laden from Huclva, Spain. The King
Edgar picked up the s"ilors from the
Edith OIcott Sunday.
Captain Wallace, Of the schooner said
today that she sailed from New
York July 81, with cargo OF
general merchandise for Porto Rico.
On Wednesday, August 5, she ran
into storm from the southwest
with q heavy sea that opened the yes
seI's seams. Three days at the pumps
failed to improve the schooner's water
logged condition, and when the King
Edgar happened along Captain Wallace
requested tow. After vain attempt
to tow the schooner during which her
hold filled with water, she was ADAM
doned, and the crew taken aboare the
King Edgar.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
New York Stock Market,

New York, August 9.-The stock
market showed 4 good deal of irregu-
larily at the opening, and in the early
trading with changes about evenly
divided. At the end of fifteen minutes
trading. the market tone was fairly
steady although II majority of the
stocks then traded in showed some mod
crate loss.
After the first few minutes pronounced
strength developed all through the list,
resulting i'll advances from to 5 points
in nearly everything traded in.
Profit taking caused slight recessions
around noon and in the early afternoon
prices ruled slightly below the highest
figures of the morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
MoToRBoAT REGULATIONS.

The United States revenue cutter
Apache, Captain ]. NJ. Moore, return
ed to Baltimore yesterday from cruise
TO the Rappahannock river to enforce
the new regulations regarding the
equipment of motor craft. The cruise
extended to Weems, Va. where a camp
meeting was in progress. A number
OF those attending the camp meeting
came in launches, which permitted a
number OF the launches being boarded.
Captain Moore reports many violations,
and in all probability a number will be
fined for not having sufficient num-
Der of life preservers and facilities for
quenching a fire should it occur on the
vessels. 1t is understood that it will be
the purpose Of. the revenue cutter Off
Gals to board all craft of that character
and to report any violations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
He Wanted Pie.

indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 9.-Mayor
Shaunk, returning from Detroit stopped
ut what he thought was q hotel at
Rome City, and as he registered he
asked the clerk if they served pie, re-
marking that he was very fond of
huckleberry. To his surprise, the may
or, found that he had registered at a
Catholic sanatorium.
you won't get any pie and cake if
you stay here" one of the sisters told
the mayor, but we will treat you the
best we can" He went to a regular
pie-and cake hotel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Qualifying examinations for the
Rhodes scholarships will be held at the
University of Virginia October 25
and 26.
William ]. Day, aged 10 years, OF
Richmond, was drowned while bathing
at Ocean View yesterday. Young Day
was spending week at the resort on
vacation. While bathing he swan out
to a diving float. In attempting to
climb upon the float he slipped and
sank. He never came to the surface
again.
]. L. Hall, aged 45 years, died early
yesterday at Tyler, Hanover county,
following a particularly severe attack
OF pellagra. Mr.. Hall, who was a
brother of Sheriff A. B. Hall, of Han
over county, was stricken about three
weeks ago, and since then had been
demented.
Mr.. William Skinker Boswell, form
erly Of Fauquier county, now of Bre-
ward, N. c., announces the engage
ment of his daughter, Rebecca, to Mr..
Charles Norton Cox, of Denver, Col.
the wedding to take place the middle OF
September.
Mayor Walker OF Lexington yester-
day dismissed from Office Chief Of
Police Lindsay under charges Of i'm
moral conduct and lnsubordination
The charges were preferred by the
mayor. He also sat rs trial Judge and
was witness against Lindsay testify
ing before himself Lindsay was last
February dismissed by the mayor, but
was promptly reelected by the town
council.
Mr.. Chas. H. Hurkamp, of "Bosco-
bel, !" met with serious accident Sun
day night. He was returning to "Bos-
cobel" in his buggy from Highland
Home, the residence of Capt. Dan NJ.
Lee near Fredericksburg, when he ran
into q wagon and was thrown from his
buggy. His hip was broken and he
sustained other injuries.
Jack B. Swami, Of the Fauquier
county polo team, who was injured i'll
an accident ut Narragansett Pier, last
Friday while playing practice polo,
died at 1915 O'Clock last night at
Green's Inn, where he was taken from
the polo field. Mr. Swami had been
unconscious ever since the accident oc-
Cured.
Mr.. Robert Beverley, OF near Caret,
Essex county, had the misfortune to
lose his large barn Saturday night by
fire. One hundred tons of hay and
1000 bushels of wheat were also de-
stroycd. Loss $4,000 with $4,000 in
surance. Origin of the fire is not
known. Mr.. Beverley was absent in
Fauquicr county, but left by steamer
on Sunday for Essex.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In an interview in New Haven, n
few days ago, Alton b. Parker, who
has Travelled considerably. says that
tile democrats will control the next
House by u large majority.
Three boys were killed at Emlentor,
Pa, yesterday afternoon when fast
passenger train on the Allegheny
Valley division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad ran into wagon in which
they we're riding.
The first postal savings bank will
probably be- established in Washington,
where it will have the close supervision
Of the board Of trustees of the postal
savings banks system, composed OF the
postmaster general, attorney general
and secretary Of the treasury.
A romance of youth aud old age was
disclosed in Chicago yesterday with
the formal announcement that the Rev.
IIerrick Johnson, IS years old, pro-
fcSsor emeritus of Mccormick Thco-
logical Seminary, Of Chicago, and a
former president Of that institution, is
to we'd Miss Margaret Duncan, %
years old, society woman OF Louis
vile.
There is CONSERVATION in the higher
society circles Of Narragansett Pier be-
cause Of the fear that Constable John
G. Cross, who conducted the gambling
rail- at the Narragansett Pier Club Sun
day. may make public the names OF
the men and women prominent in So
cicty who were on the premises 1T the
time. Prominent matrons, personally
or through emissaries have besoueht
The officers all day not to give out their
names. Constable Cross so far has
complied.
News was received at Asheville, n.
c., yesterday of a tragedy at Murphy,
n. c., Saturday night. in which two
men lost their lives and another was
seriously wounded and may die.
According to the meagre reports re-
ceived, Lex Battles, OF Murphy, walked
into the Jenkins Hotel and without
warning opened fire on group OF
young men who were congregated
there. Benjamin Hyde, Of Cadiz, Ky,
was shot through the heart and in
stantly killed, and J. J. Simpson, of
Rogersville, Tenn, was shot through
the body and died yesterday. Hugh
Johnson, OF Marble, n. c., who was
shot and seriously wounded, has a
chance to recover, but his wounds are
said to be dangerous. Battles was ar
rested and is in Jail at Murphy.
Announcement is made by acting
Secretary Hills, OF the Treasury De-
partment, Of the appontmentof Henry
IS. Jackson as collector OF internal
revenue for the north Georgia district
in place Of Henry A. Rucker, colored,
who has resigned. Ruckcr, it
is believed. will be cared for
by appointment to some other place
under the Taft administration He is
a politician whose services have been
useful to the party in past campaigns.
He was one OF the men mentioned in
connection with the appointment Of a
negro in place of 4 white officer as col
lector Of customs at Georgetown, D.
c., the port Of Washington, but the
place went to Whitefield Mckinlay, Of
Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
JOKES IN THE BILL.

The startling revelations in Okla
homa in connection with Indian lands
in that state, made to the congressional
committee investigating the charges
made by Senator Thomas P. Gore struck
the echoes in Beverly, Mass. Yesterday.
1t became known there that some one
who was not named succcededin having
inserted in the last Indian appropriation
bill Joker" which was intended to
bring hundreds OF thousands OF dollars
into the hands of the parties interested
in Indian lands in Oklahoma. The
Joker was discovered just at the close
of the session, but rather than hold up
the bill and Congress, President Taft
signed it, after method by which the
government expects to render it useless
had been unearthed by the Department
of Justice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
Railroad Accident.

Santa Rosa, CAL, Aug. 9.-Working
all night by light Of torches, rescuers
early today succeeding in recovering
from the wreckage all the bodies Of
those killed when 4 special engine and
caboose crashed hcad-on into the re-
gular San Francisco-Santa Rosa pas
sengcr train on the Northwestern
Pacific Railroad, 4 mile south OF the
town of Ignacio. Later reports say l3
persons were killed, and more than q
dozen injured. several seriously. All
the dead and injured were California
people, most Of them being delegates
to the Rcd Mems state convention,
which will meet here today. The exact
cause Of the wreck has not determined,
but it is reported that the conductor of
the special failed TO carry out orders to
run his train intoa siding near Ignacio.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
TUESDAY EVENING. AUG. o.

Ir.HAs been said that the invention
nf gunpowdes placed the bravest man
at the mercy of any coward. me
truth OF this observation has been
shown for centuries, ASSASSINATION
having followed assassination, until to-
day murders are becoming almost as
numerous as cases Of petit larceny.
Three presidents OF the United States
have been ruthlessly murdered IN TWO
score and half years, while many
other persons in less exalted positions
nave become victims of assasslns. A little
more than a decade ago Carter Harris
son, mayor of Chicago, was murdered,
and TODAY y man who had been dis
charged from the street department OF
New York for drunkenness attempted
to add another figure to the chamber OF
horrors by shooting Mayor Gaynor al
ter he had boarded steamship Tor a
visit abroad. 1t is hoped that the
mayors wound will not prove fatal and
that the object OF the assassin Will
miscarry. The mayor has occupied the
executive chair OF New York city but
a short time, but during this brief
period he has proven himself to be the
right man in the right place, and the
people of the country can i'll afford to
lose his services at this time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
The Gore Charges.

McAlester, Okla, Aug. 9.-Thc
congressional committee probing the
charges OF bribery brought by Senator
Thomas p. Gore, learned today that
the kilograms which poured into Wash
ington last May, urging the approval
OF the McMurray contracts, calling for
a S3O,OOO,0OO sale OF Indian lands,
were prompted by j. F. McMurray
who would have received S3,000,0 900 in
commissions had his contracts been
approved. A. l.. Watson, a telegraph
operator at Kinta, Okla, was called
to the stand this morning and produced
kilograms that passed through the
Kinta office showing that McMurray
wired George Scott, son in law of Chief
Green McCnrtain, to induce the
Choctaws to send such messages.
The names OF Senator Charles Curtis,
OF Kansas, and Vice-President Sherman
were again mentioned during the hear
ing today, when telegram to Richard
C. Adams, Washington, from George
Scott, was read.
Senator Gore Immediately explained
that he wanted it understood that he
was not trying to drag the names of
Curtis and Sherman into the matter,
and exonerated them OF any connection
with the case.
Il have produced this telegram, he
said, merely TO explain how influence
was sought in Washington by men,
who in private correspondence, men
toned the names OF Sherman and Cur
tic -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09

In despairing effort to avert the
defeat which threatens the republicans
in this fall's Congressional campaign,
President Taft, it is said, has decided
that the whole machinery OF the re-
publican national committee and the
league OF republican clubs must be set
going without delay. 1t was to discuss
with his alarmed chief these extraordl-
nary measures OF party defense that
Postmaster General Hitchcock, still the
effective head OF the national commit
tee, left Washington for Beverly yes
terday afternoon. 1t is believed that
even burnt brandy will not save the
republican party at the November cleo
ton.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
cripnen has Made no Confession.

London, Aug. "a specific and
positive denial that he had made any
sort of confession to Inspector Dew or
to any police official at Quebec has
been cabled by DR.. H. Fl. Crippen, the
supposed wife murderer, to Arthur
Newtown, Crippen's counsel, who made
public the message.
Not a word about the case will
come from DR.. Crippen," Newtown
said today until he reaches London
and has a talk with me. ! am satisfied
that the authorities know no more
about the crime now than they did be-
fore Crippen was arrested.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
Pope Presides at Anniversary.

Rome, Aug. 9.-Worn and tired by
the troubles that haze bcset the NatI-
can, Pope Plus today presided at The
magnificent ceremonial celebration OF
the anniversary Of his coronation: m
the Sistine Chapel. The pontlff looked
aged and worn by the stress OF his re-
cent difficulties and the worry that mas
attended tire Spanish emhrogllo. lt
was significant that Marnnis Gonzales
the Spanish charge
Vatican, despite thu
was present at the G
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
DIVERS SEARCHING FOR TREAS
URE.

A French Captain Kidd's treasure"
is being searched for at Cherbourg,
where divers employed by an incorpo-
rated company, are searching the floor
OF the sea for treasures Of immense
value, supposed to have been lost in
the naval battle between Admiral Trou-
vile and Dutch fleet in 1892. The
search results from the washing
ashore OF two bars OF silver last March.
Markings on the bars showed that they
we're on the Dutch ships that engaged
in this battle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09

THE mere word OF the occupant of
the high Office of vice-presidcnt OF the
United States should be enough to dis
sipate such hearsay evidence rs was
Offered in Oklahoma last week, but
unhappily, suggests: the New York
Sun, the past performances of Sunny
Jim" call for more robust rcfutation
than mere word.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09
Injured by q Train.

Jamaica, L. l., Aug. 9.-Justice
Leon Sanders, of the Second Municipal
Court in Manhattan, was struck and
seriously injured by train this morn
ing at the Stratton avenue crossing at
Aryerne. He was later taken to St.
Joseph's Hospital at Far Rockaway.
First reports were that he had been
killed in an auto accident.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-09

Dysentery is dangerous disease but
can be cured. Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has
been successfully used in nine epidemics
OF dysentery. Ithas never been known
to fail. 1t is equally valuable for chill
dren and adults, and when reduced with
water and sweetened. it is pleasant to
take. Sold by W. F. Creighton and
Richard Gibson.