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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

FOR SALE-Several secondhand gas
oline engines from | to 10 Ii. p. Ex-
ceptionslly close prices. Engines have
been rebuilt and put in first class shape
For prices or other information either
write or call up the Alma Mfg. Co.,
Alma, Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13
Personal

Steps preliminary to active work
were taken by the Carnegie endow-
ment for international peace at the
first meeting of the board OF trustees
In Washington. Senator Elihu Root
was chosen president OF the endow-
ment
The presidency OF the Missouri Pa
cifc road TO succeed George Gould
may be offered to John w. Kendrick
of Chicago. vice-president OF the
Atohison. Topeka & Santa Fe. 1t 10
said.
Edward B. Mclean of Washington
has decided that he does not care for
the supposedly "hoodooed" Hope dia-
mond, but the firm which delivered II
to him has sued for $1S0,000 the price
of the famous gem.
At convention of Episcopal church
men and laymen at Kansas City,
Bishop Sydney c. Partridge OF Japan
was elected bishop of the diocese OF
Kansas Clty 10 succeed the late
Bishop Edward r. Atwill.
Maj. Gen. Frederick d. Grant, at
present commanding the department OF
the east, has been selected as military
aid on the staff OF John Hays Ham
mon, the special ambassador TO repre-
sent President Taft at the coronation
of King George V.
Ex-senator Thomas H. Carter OF
Montana has accepted a place on the
commission established under treaty
with Canada for the adjustment OF
controversies over the question OF
controversies of the question OF
water routes and other border priv
ileges
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

Senior De La Barra, Mexican ambas-
sador 10 Washington. gave out de-
FAINT statement declaring that Mexico
will resent any Intervention by the
United States or any other country
for the purpose Of protecting the lives
and property of their citizens resident
In Mexico.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

Conversations have been held be
tween President Taft and NJ Jusser-
and, French ambassador at Washing
ton. respecting a comprehensive agree
ment for arbitration between the Uni
ted States and France upon the gen
eral outline Of the presidents ideas re-
garding international peace treaties.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13
Washington

The Wisconsin assembly, by a vote
of 90 to 30, adopted Joint resolution
censuring United States Senator
Stephenson for voting in favor of seat
ing Senator Lorimer of Illinois and
lauding Senator La Toilette for his
vote to unseat the Illinois solon.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13
Domestic


The war department has ordered
the surgeon general TO have all sol
diers now mobilizing in Texas vacci-
mated against yellow fever, which Is
prevalent in the heart OF Mexico, with
no appearance Of 1T in Texas. This
Is taken as an indication that an in
vasion of Mexico is intended.
Matrimony does not bar any one
from attending the public schools OF
Cincinnati, according to a decision
rendered by Superintendent Of Schools
Dyer when he reinstated Carmelia
Stump, the twelve-year-old bride OF
an Italian.
Twenty-Five politicians including
Coroner Ralph Cole of Danville, ILL.,,
were indicted by the vermilion coun-
ty probe grand jury. They are charged
with having received pay" from can
didates. The money. the indictments
allege, Influenced their votes.
The power plant Of the Milwaukee
Electric Railway q Light company at
Racine, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
causing a loss of $4,000. The entire
city was left in darkness and without
street car service.
With a known death list OF eight,
an actual property loss OF half a mil
lion dollars, 5000 idle miners. and
the mills and mines idle because Of
the havoc wrought by the storm,
southwestern Nevada is in the grip
of blizzard which ragged more
freely and destructively than any
storm in that region In many years.
AS II In the grip of violent earth
quake, Chicago was shaken TO Its
foundations when the LaflinRand
powder mills at Pleasant Prairie, near
Kenosha, Wis, exploded and were
destroyed One employe Of the pow
der mills was killed; one woman
died of the shock; 16 persons were in
jured 1000 persons are homeless
700 in Pleasant Prairie, 800 in Bristol;
property loss of 81 900 900 resulted;
four states were shaken-these are
some Of the results of the explosion.
Fifty-three violations Of the federal
16-hour law are alleged in a suit filed
by the United States district at
torney at st. Louis against the Wa
bash railroad. The government asks
for penalties amounting to S26,50O.
One hundred and thirty-five blind
men waged a terrific battle in the
Philadelphia Working Home for the
Blind, using broomsticks as weapons.
The riot was quelled by police re-
serves.
The American soldier in the Philip
pines is so neat in military attire and
so soldierly in department that his
fellow countrymen should feel proud
of him. This is the substance of a
report from Maj Gen. J. Franklin
Bell. in command of the Philippines.
Twenty Bryn Mawr college stu
dents are in disgrace because they
have insisted upon wearing a modifi-
cation OF the "harem skirt" They
had been informed that they must
not appear in public In the new at
tire.
The worst fire Valparaiso univer-
sity In Indiana ever experienced de-
stroyed Locksley and Windsor halls.
One hundred students, the major por-
ton Of whom lost all their personal
effects. were accommodated In other
dormitories
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD

Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered From All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

Baron Vincenzo Palermo. who will
be tried for the murder OF Princess
Trigona di SAINT Ella at Rome, has
been acting strangely for several
days. The attending physicians be-
neve he ia Stimulating insanity.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

Hereafter employees in the postal
service will have one day off week
Mr.. Hitchcock, postmaster general, is
sued instructions TO that effect. In or
der to give the letter carriers day of
rest on Sunday the present system of
delivering mail through the letter car
riers' windows for three or four hours
on Sunday will be discontinued.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

The American soldier in the Philip
pines is so neat in military attire and
so soldierly in department that his
fellow countrymen should feel proud
of him. This is the substance of
report from Maj. Gen. J. Franklin
Bell, in command of the Philippines.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

The worst fire Valparaiso univer-
sity In Indiana ever experienced de-
stroyed Locksley and Windsor halls
One hundred students. the major por.
ton Of whom lost all their personal
effects. were accommodated In other
dormitories.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

Twenty Bryn Mawr college stu
dents are in disgrace because the!
have insisted upon wearing a modif
cation Of the 'harem skirt" The.
had been informed that they mus
not appear in public In the new at
tire.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

I U. s.. inspected meats.at Baneharts. X
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

One hundred and thirty-fve blind
men waged a terrific battle in the
Philadelphia Working Home for the
Blind, using broomsticks as weapons.
The riot was quelled by police re-
serves.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

II now is admitted in administrative
circles at Washington that an extreme
ly serious condition of affairs prevails
in Mexico and that 1t may be neces-
sary for the United States to inter
vene for the protection OF American
residents and interests. President
Taft himself is reported to have made
statements to visitors at the White
House which bear out this view Of the
situation
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

Appropriations at the last session
of congress aggregated $l,025, 1862,
according to the statements issued
by Representatives Tawney Of Min
nesota and Livingston Of Georgia,
who were chairman and ranking Dem
ocrat respectively of the house ap.
propriations committee.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

Recent rumors that a number Of
Jews had been massacred at Kieff are
untrue, according to a cablegram re-
ceived by the state department from
the American consul at Odessa
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

The war department has ordered
the surgeon general to have all sol
diers now mobilizing in Texas vacci-
mated against yellow fever, which Is
prevalent in the heart OF Mexico, with
no appearance Of 1t in Texas. This
Is taken as an indication that an in
vasion OF Mexico is intended.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

ocrat respectively of the house ap-
preparations committee.
Official announcement was made at
the White House that Associate JUS
tice Charles r. Hughes of the United
States Supreme court has been desig-
mated as head Of the commission to
investigate second-class postage rates,
especially with reference to maya
zines.
Democratic leaders In the senate
and house are emphatic in the state
ment that the party in the extra SEES
sion will not make a general attack
upon the present tariff. but will confine
their labors to the reciprocity ques-
ton and a few schedules that involve
monopoly products.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER PossIBLE.
At HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered From All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
Washington

President Taft was deeply gratinet
to receive from the emperor Of
Japan a message warmly reciprocal
Ing the presidents expressions Of
good will and friendship toward
Japan made TO the Japanese ambas
sador, Baron Uchida.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13
Foreign

British naval estimates provide for
the expenditure Of 1921, $685. 900, an in
crease of $4,000 900 over the preced.
ing year. The cost OF new construc-
ton ia fixed at $75,319,385
severe epidemic of the bubonic
plague is reported at Siokhe, village
OF the interior. 90 miles from Annoy,
China. Siokhe is the seat OF a mis-
sion station of the board Of foreign
missions OF the Reformed church in
America.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-04-13

President Taft had a cordial inter
view with the Japanese ambassador
Baron Uchida He sent for the baron
to felicitate with him upon the rati-
f1cation Of the new treaty with japan
He assured the ambassador that never
In the history Of the two countries
had the relations been so pleasant as
they are today and never had talk of
war been more absurd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
Pastor Resigns.

!. Roanoke, Dec. -. Rev. W. H. H.
Joyce did not occupy his pulpit at Trim
ity Methodist Episcopal Church South
Sunday, the services being conducted
by visiting ministers.
4. 1t is learned that Pastor Joyce has
rendered his resignation to the presid-
ing elder, Rev. w. /. Wolfe, and that
the latter has decided to refer the mat
ter to Bishop Collins Denny.
Various rumors have been in circu-
lation regarding Rev. Mr.. Joyce and
the presiding elder last week spent four
days here investigating. Members OF
the board OF stewards Of Trinity were
consulted and the pastors resignation
is the outcome.
Rev. Mr., Joyce has served as pastor
at Salem, Blacksburg, Buena Vista,
Luray and elsewhere, coming to his
present charge several years ago from
Blacksburg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
! SPY LEAPS TO DEATH.
Pryce Lewis Once Sentenced L
Be Hanged While in Old HenrIco
jail in Richmond.

Richmond. Dec. 11.-Nineteen
months in Libby Prison, and later
a long term in the old Henrico county
Jail Under sentence of death. were
two incidents in the life OF Pryce
Tegis eighty three years old, WHO
leaned to his death last Wednesday
from the top OF the Pulitzer Building,
in New York. Famous as war spy
in the employ OF the Federal govern
nent he was brilliant figure in q
number OF plots and counter-plots en-
acted in the immediate neighborhood
OF Richmond.
His life story reads like a chapter
from q romance by the elder Dumas.
Disguised as an English nobleman,
and riding in q magnificent carriage,
hetoured the border states of the South
and gathered Information which is
said to have given the Union armv
its first success after the battle oil
Bull Run. An Englisbman by birth
he fitted we'll into the role OF Lord
Tracy" the name under which the
distinguished gentleman, in silk hat
and clothes of the latest English cut,
travelled.
It was shortly after his Lord
Tracy tour, and while in the en-
ploy OF the United States Secret Ser.
vice, that Lewis fell into the hands
of the Confederate constabulary in
Richmond. Condemned to death as
a spy, he lay for nineteen months in
the dungeons of Castle Thunder and
Libby Prison. During this first in
generation, it is related, he twice
heard the hammering on the scaffold
where he was 10 hang the next morn
ing.
In some manner he obtained his re.
lease, and Richmond saw him no
more for period Of two years. Dur
ing this interval he was busily en-
ployed in Washington and other east
ern cities in the employ OF the Pink
ertons, who were then in charge OF the
Secret Service.
His second arrest in this city oc
CURED when he arrived on another
secret mission for the Pinkertons
He pretended to be Confederate spy
but his disguise vas read by the wife
OF Senator Morton, Of Florida, whom
he had once arrested in Washington
She informed the authorities of bis
true character, and he was promptly
lodged in the old Henrico jail.
He was tried by court.martial and
sentenced to be,hanged. A long diplo-
lomatlc wrangle followed, and Lewis
finally appealed to the British counsel,
who obtained his release at the last
moment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
NEWS OF THE OLD DOMINION,
GIVES STUART CREDIT.
Democrats Agree That Ninth District
Man Worked Marvellous
Changes in South.

Richmond, Dec. For whatever
shade OF political opinion the demo-
Gratis Of the Ninth district are unani-
NOUS in giving to Henry c. Stuart
most of the credit for the vastly i'm
! proved conditions OF party affairs in
that section" said A. II. Williams, OF
Wytheville, at Murphy's last night.
up to the time Of his nomination for
Congress, the party was defeated, dis
organized, demoralized. The organlza-
ton which he effected has put new life
into the situation, heartened every
democrat, and resulted in the fine
showing made at the recent general
election, when the district went demo-
cratic by n large majority.
And | am safe in saying, con-
tinued Mr.. Williams, that the demo-
Gratis of the Ninth are as unanimous LII
their choice OF Mr.. Stuart for governor
as they were for gMartin and SSanson
in the late primary, which is saying a
great deal. No one speaks oat there OF
possibility Of his defeat, and | am
satisfied that he could poll ninety OF
every 100 votes cast no matter who
might be his opponent. :"
Personally. Mr.. Williams thinks the
best solution OF the redistricting prob
lem would be to put Smyth county into
the Fifth district, taking it from the
Ninth. Then he would put Halifax
also in the Fifth, making tia. district
democratic and evening mp the popu-
lation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
FOR MOUNT VERNON,
EEW SOAP.

w. P. Taylor, druggist, has just re-
ceived a fresh supply Ct ZEMO and
Zemo Soap.
Zcmo is said to be remarkable
remedy, a clear liquid for external use.
The first application frequently relieves
the most intense itching, removes
boches, pimpIcs, blackheads, eczema.
Gaodruff letter and other forms Of
skin or scalp humors whether on in
FAINT or grown person. Iemo Soap Is
ne8 antiseptic skin soap, is pure and
sweet and relieve. prickly heat. rashes,
hives, chaling and other forms OF skin
affection so prevalent among infants.
Especially adapted for persons With a
delicate or tender skin.
W. ?. Taylor, the druggist, has a
limited supply of samples Of I-n,o and
Zemo Soap. 4 sample Of each will &C
complish wonders and will demonstrate
their great merit to those who have any
form OF skin or scalp eruption.
Ady't.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
How to Get Rich on Cats.

Take 100000 cats and get rich
quick. This is the advice ef the Ii
berte, OF Paris, to its readers. The
prescription is quite simple. a mil
lion cats will supply you with u, 000,.
600 kittens 4 year The skins are
worth little over IS cents each, so
there you have daily gross revenue OF
about so. 900. To skin the cats you
will have to employ 100 men, who will
charge you 81 per 30 cats. Your net
revenue will Thus be- reduced 10 about
$4,000 day. Itshould cost you moth
ing to feed your cats. Start a rattrv.
Rats breed four times as fast as cats,
81 the cats can have daily diet OF four
rats apiece, which is ample. To feed
the rats is perfectly simple. Give them
the skinned cats. One cat will be
ample for four rats. The scheme
works out simply and automatically.
The cats eat the rats. the rats eat the
cats, and you have the skins.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
TO STOP OVERDRAF IS.
Examiner Barksdalei Says Practi
Must Be observation-disclosures
ment is suggested.

Richmond, Dec. 12.-Further re-
strictions are to be thrown about the
allowance OF overdrafts by State banks
in Virginia, with view to final ellmi-
nation of the practice. State BANK
Examiner G. G.. Barksdale has issued
an earnest request for cooperation
between state banks, by an agreement
to refuse to allow oyerdrafts.
tits plainly ntimated by Mr.. Banks
dale in his letter that he intends to
break up the practice. He has found
that during the past few years there
has been great Improvement IN tins
| matter in Virginia, but he also finds
that there is still ample opportunity for
further tightening of the lines until the
time comes when not dollar Will be
overdrawn by any customer OF any
bank in Virginia.
Mr.. Barksdsle has found that when
his Office calls the attention OF bank
to the fact that its books show over
drafts, the reply is sometimes made
that the bank cannot absolutely refuse
to allow these, as it's competitors, ma.
tional banks, permit overdrawing, and
TO withdraw privilege granted byssa
rival concern would mean the loss Of
business. In this connection. the
Com ptrollor OF the Currency has ISSUED
instructions tt, national bank examiners
to use every effort to eradicate TIM
evil. He will also take up the matter
of cooperation looking to an agree
ment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
Cardinal In Titular Church.

Cardinal Farley took possession oi
his titular church OF Santa Maria
Sopra Minerva in Rome yesterday
afternoon. The church was crowded
and among those present were all the
| American prelates, visiting priests and
the students ut the college as we'll as
nearly all the Americans now in Rome.
Squads OF carabineers, police and
municipal guards regulated the crowds
outside the church and kept Il way
open for those entitled TO enter. Other
carabinecrs and police kept order with
in The church.
Cardinal Farley, accompanied by
Bishop Kennedy, rector of the Amer
idan College. and other prelateS and
the members OF his suite entered by the
main door, where the new prince Of
the church donned the capra magma.
The general of the Dolninicans met the
party at the door and presented II cruci
Fix VIII ich Cardinal Farley kissed while
kneeling.
A possession was then formed and
started toward the high altar, the choir
meanwhile singing the hymn, Behold
the High.Pricst." After short prayer
the Cardinal proceeded to the throne A
prothonorary apostolic then advanced
and read the papal bull assigning the
church to Cardinal Farley.
The head OF the Domiuicans, adj
dressing Cardinal Farley recalled the
fact to which the latter upheld.
During the service the choir and the
students OF the American College sang
the 0 Salutaris and Ave Maria com.
posed by the Able Perosi. The throne
was decorated with the American and
papal flags.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
Harvard scholarship for Virginia.

Richmond, Dec. lit is probable
that scholarship from Virginia in
Harvard College will be established
following resolution unanimously
passed by the Harvard Club Of Virginia
at their third annual banquet at the
Commonwealth Club Saturday night.
Two OF the five RumriI! scholarships
for Southern students to Harvard were
awarded TO Virginians last year, and
the general record OF men from this
State to the Cambridge institution is
said TO be par excellence. The growing
number of men from the Old Domin-
ion State at Harvard is said to be the
cause OF the action Of tho club.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-12-12
Dynamite Causes Scare.

Harrisonburg, Dec. 12.-Tbe people
OF Dayton, which recently suffered a
$50, 900 FIRE, are just recovering from a
near earthquake.
Just after breakfast the population
was thrown into CONSERVATION by the
shaking OF houses, the rafting OF win
dows and the falling of pictures. Men,
women and children rushed into the
streets in panic.
In few seconds it was learned that a
mile from town some men tried to
shatter into small pieces number OF
big iron wheels in order that a junk
dealer might haul them away. Too
much dynamite was used and Dayton
was given bad scare.