Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-04-29

do with as they please.
In Thomas Ellison, better known as
."Uncle Tom," who resides in Newton
county, Ark, it is believed the real
champion of the Regeneration princl-
ples of Theodore Roosevelt has been
found. "Uncle Tom" is 90 years old.
The birth Sunday of son to one OF
his granddaughters caused recasting
of Ellison's record. Here it is: Mar
ried three times. Father of so child
rem. Grandfather of 1875 children.
Great-great-grandfather of 27 children
Observation-Disclosures of 81 children.
His youngest child is II years old, the
oldest 65. Ellison was born in Clinton
county, Ohio.
The Japanese Diet yesterday voted
to send Ehara Soroku, member OF
the House of Lords, to Sacramento,
CAL, with view to establishing bet
ter mutual understanding between the
California and japanese governments,
according to a Tokyo cablegram. The
foreign office was instructed to COM
municate with the United States gov
eminent and also the state govern
ment of California TO ascertain what
attitude will be taken in the United
States on Mr. Soroku's proposed visit.
If the United States does not objec;
the envoy will sail May 10.
The crevasse near St. John, Miss,
has spread to 1000 feet, and seven
parishes are being flooded. A wall OF
water twenty-five feet high is rising
inland, inundating the towns of Water
proof, Clayton and Ferriday. Forty
thousand persons are homeless. The
levee at Ramey, which 5000 men have
been working on to prevent The flood
ing of the richest parishes in the
state, is again ;sloughing and may go
out before morning. All the women
prisoners on the state convict farm
were rushed from Angolora, La, to a
place of safety yesterday afternoon.
The levee is expected to break at any
Mrs. Nellie Paugh, Sc years old, late
threw her two sons, Daniel;
IL, and Delbert, 6, from a bridge into
Deer creek at Logansport, Ind, and
jumped into the stream. The mother
and the younger boy were drowned,
but Donald SWAN ashore. Before
the boys off the bridge the
mother told them she did so because
she loved them.
The cruelty alleged to be practiced
upon private soldiers Of the Germany
army was brought to mind again last
week by the ordering of court mar
tial inquiry into the death of men,
Der of zhe imperial body guard. The
case brought the following private
latter from Private Russian, serving
in the crack Potsdam Lancers, to his
mother. 81 am khrashed by every
body with whips. I am going mad.
Let me see you once more before l
die" The mother hurried to Potsdam
to complain, but the son urged her to
keep silence, saying: eff you report
the case nobody will believe you and
l will be tormented worse" A year
later Russian was found dead. The
court martial revealed. that Russian
had been treated with indescribable
brutality by third-year men. The SER
geant refused to forward his COM
plants, and at the trial declared that
he had noticed nothing, although Bus
SLAMS face was often black and blue.
Battered and churned about in a
small space by the great paddle
wheel of the Mahawk, an excursion
steamboat, as she was in the Morse
dry dock, Brooklyn, yesterday, Ar
thur N. Brown, machinist, was killed
and his companion, Albert Ludgate,
narrowly escaped a similar. fate. The
two were working on the wheel, when
Frank O.. Davis, the engine tender
of the craft, which is being repaired
turned on the steam. The wheel be-
gan to revolve. Ludgate grasped the
inside edge of paddle as he stood
on THE steel shaft, and when he struck
| Nhe water he dived to safety. Brown
instead of diving, held on, and wa:
whiraed about again and again in ths
wheelbox. Soon his hold was loosenet
and then he was battered by paddles
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