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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
CRAZED NEGRO RUNS AMUCk.
Attacks Several Houses And Finally
is Trapped in One.

fredericksburg, Md, Sept. 13.-
Crazed by speak-easy whisky, George
a negro from Cape Charles,
Va, terrorized fashionable Federal
Hill early Thursday morning. He first
at the home of Mrs. Rebecca
Bradley, where he attempted to force
his way into her home, despite the
screams and barring of doors by the
occupants. Being foiled in gaining
an entrance he went to the home OF
Charles Hackett. where he smashed a
large window in front of the house
Several pistol shots fired by Hacket'
frightened him away.
He next appeared at tire home OF
Peter Morris, where he forced opsr
the parlor window and entered. A
posse quickly captured Anderson ir
the house and he wa: srraigned be-
fore Magistrate Moore and heavil!
fined.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
DROPPED FROM ROLLS.
Machinists Discharged From Wash
ington Navy Yard.

Forty machinists at the Washing
ton navy yard have been discharg
ed and a number of others will prob
ably be similarly dealt with.
Work has become slack at the navy
yard and steps were taken by the Off
cialS of the navy department and also
the navy yard to rcGuce the forces
and cut down expenses.
The brcech- making shop was the
hardest hit in the discharges. About
twenty two men were discharged
from that shop. The other depart
ments from which discharges were
made were the gun shop. tool shop,
miscellaneous shop and sight shop.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
DIR. FLANAGAN IN THE CITY.
Reports Great Improvement in Health
Conditions IN Virginia

Dr.. Roy X. Flanagan, of the Nir-
9inia Board of Health, was in the
city today. The doctor says he finds
sanitary conditions greatly improved
in many places throughout the
state and that their effect is becoming
apparent. He states that while their
are few sporadic cases of typhoid
fever at certain places, nothing APP
preaching an epidemic is reported in
any locality. He attributes these sat
isfactory conditions to the more i'm
proved sanitary measures which are
interesting people throughout the
Old Dominion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
Operatives Are Caught by
The Crumbling Walls
And Flames.
FORTY-ONE INJURED.
Structure Completely Wreckcd-Loss
$3.50. .OOO-All in the Building Sus-
tanned Injury.

Buffalo. Sept. 13.-Forty- -one men
were burned and manned, two fatally,
in an explosion that wrecked the plant
of the Clover Leaf Milling Company
early today. There were three eX-
plosions in rapid succession. The
building then took fire. The loss IS
estimated at $250,000.
Men terribly burned darted from
doors and ieaped from windows to
escape the rush of flame that followed
the explosion. There we're forty-onc
men, composing the night shift, sta
toned in different parts Of the five
story mill building when the walls be-
gan to crumble, and for time it was
feared & large number had perished.
All were accounted for, however.
Not one of the crew of workers but
received injuries of more or less SER
iousness.
Donald B. Fraser. preSiden: of the
Clover Lcal Mill, today denied that
there was dust explosion. He de-
clared the fire was caused by pebbles
in the grain throwing off fire as they
passed through the mill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
POTOMAC VS.. WHITE SOX.

As the White Sox have played the
last two Sundays out of town, they
will play the Potomac at the Point
tomorrow at 2:30 p. inland the Rex
4. G., Sunday Sept 2i. The Potomac
team is composed of some of the best
players in the city, and the White
Sox will have their regular lineup.
A good game is expected. Batteries:
White SOX-lttncr or Mccarthy,
pitchers, Jones or Patterson, catcners.
otomhc-RaiSon. pitcher, Rosie"
Hay len, catcher.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
BApTIsTs TO BOYCOTT FAIR.
Goshen Baptist Association Pledge:
Members Not to Attend.

Fredericksburg, Va. Sept. l3.--lhe
Goshen Baptist Association, which
has been in session at New Hope
Church in Orange county, adjourned
Thursday evening after successful
ueotino The association adopetd a
set of resolutions protesting against
the sale of liquor at the State Far,
in Richmond, calling on the directors
of the fair to prohibit the sale OF
liquor on the grounds, and pledglng
the association members not to at
tend the fair unless the sale of liquor
on the grounds be dispensed with
The association has membership OF
5000
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
POLICE COURT.

S. Prevlos. charged with keeping
an unlicensed dog, was dismissed.
John Dillon, charged with assault
ing Lillian Brown, was fined $25.
Fred Spencer, colored. charged with
stealing a razor from Charles Ander-
son, colore&, was dismissed
Torson NickcnS, colorcd. charged
with disorderly conduct in public
house, was fined So.
Mike Petit, white, and William
Marshall, colored. charged with dis
orderly conduct in a public house
were fined 81 each.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
c. AND O. FINED 1000.
Pleads Guilty in Federal District
Court to Two Charges.

I.ynchburg. Va. Sept. l3.-The
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
panv. in the Federal District Court.
Yesterday pleaded guilty to tw"
charges. one under the safety app!i-
ance act and the other for working
tl,ainmcn continuously for more than
eighteen hours. The fine in the first
was $500 and in the second $1,000
The case against the Nirgini"n
Railway for violating the safety ap-
pliance act. was heard and decision
will he rendered after counsel sub
mits written arguments.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Falcon and Hope Islands, of the
Friendly or Tonga group in the South
Pacific, have disappeared from view.
With them several hundred natives
and a few white men also have dis
Just prior to the discov-
cry that the islands were gone the
instruments at the Sydney naval sta
ton showed that several violent
earthquake shocks had taken place
about 1000 miles northeast of Sgd
ney.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
AT THE CHURCHES.

Rev. J. T. Logan, editor of "The
Free Methodist" will deliver his lee
ture on "Prohibition,' at 7:30 this
evening at the Free Methodist
Church, 424 South Lee street, and
preach at the same place at II a.
m., and 1880 p. M, on Sunday. He
will be pleased to greet the public
and especially his old friends. Sun
day school at 10 d. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Rev. Dr.. John Lee Allison pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church, re-
turned last week from the mountains
and will preach morning and evening.
a large congregation wills greet him
at both services it is expected. Sun
day school $3.50 a. m., in the West
minister Building. Mems Bible class
in room back Of Assembly Hall, 10
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
TO Test Legality of Election.
(SpeciaI DiSDatch 10 the GazetteD

Richmond. Sept. ia test of the
legality of the election Of division su-
pcrintendents chosen by the state
school board of education after July
], will probably be made Monday,
when the board resembles. Brunswick
county people will raise the point that
the law requests the election Of
prior to July |.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Home in Brooklyn tentative arrange
ments are being made for an impress
sive public funeral, to be held in
Trinity Church, probably Monday
morning, September %. AT this all
ranks of the city's public and official
life will be presented in common rev.
ssence for the stunIr and picturesque
man thst VIA, lststy their mayor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Misses Hamme and Wortham VIII
open a school of music on Monday the
18th Of September. Studio No. 2l0
north Washington street.
A thorough conservatory course in
Piano, Violin, Mandolin, Pipe Organ,
Theory of Music, History OF Music,
and Harmony will be given.
For terms please apply 2lO north
Washington street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
WELL-STOCk ED MARK ET.
Abundance Of Country Produce on the
Benches This MOrning-PriceS.
However, Still High.

The marle. this morning was well
attended by country people. and buy
ers we're more numerous than on
previous Saturdays during the past
few weeks.
Staple articles were about as firm
as ever Prices of vegetables showed
but little variation from those pre-
vailing during the summer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
CONDUCTOR SMITH KILLED.
Stepped From Platform Of Passenger
Car and is Severed in Twain.

George T. Smith, passenger con-
ductor on the Southern Railway, was
almost instantly killed last night at
Amherst. Mr.. Smith had stepped
from the platform Of a car and was
run over by his train and cut in two.
The deceased is survived by a
widow and several children.
Mr.. Smith was former resident
of Alexandria, but in recent years
had been living in Washington. He
WAS 40 years old.
His remains will be brought to AL
exandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

For wearing mems clothing on the
street when accompanying her hus-
band on pastoral visits to the foreign
labor quarter, Mrs. Oscar V. Junek,
Of Granite City, Mo-, has been arrest
ed, and will be tried on charge Of
disOrderly conduct.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
DEATH NOTICE.

Died at the residence of his broth
er-in-law, W. l.. Finks, SID Prince
street, on September 18th, Bernard
Toal Purcell, son of the late Richard
and Margaret Dalton Purcell. Funer-
al from st. Mary's Catholic Church,
Monday, September 18th, at II
o'clock. lnterment private.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
DEATH NOTICE.

On Friday, at $50 o'clock a. m.. at
her residence, 3o7 south Fairfax
street, Mrs. Mary E. Lyles, widow of
Richard n. Lyles, in the 67rh year of
her age. Funeral TUESDAY morning
at $50 o'clock from st. Mary's
Church.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Rev. G.. A. Luttrell. pastor Of Trim
ity NJ. E. Church, will have for his
subjects tomorrow the following: ! ! a.
m. "The Masters Good Advice to
His Disciples; 8 p. m.: What
James and John Wanted Jesus to do
For Them"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Three men were killed and another
painfully wounded in shotgun duel
yesterday near Mason, 25 miles from
Brewton, Ohio. The shooting, which
occurred at farm, is said to be the
of previous quarrel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13
SHRINERS NOTICE.

There will be held ceremonial
session of Acca Temple, A. A. o,
y. 0. NJ. S.. in Alexandria, on October
4th. All who are interested are re-
quested to communicate with the un.
dersigned
13td F E. DOWNHAM,
Representative.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Mr., Kenneth W. Ogden will sing as
offertory, at the Washington street
NJ. E. Church South, tomorrow
evening, 80 was there ever Lone
illness like His" by Maunder.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Rev. w. +. Watson, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, will preach at
II u. n,., on "The Suffering Jesus, ana
at p. m., on "The Folly Of Sin
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

There will be preaching tomorrow
at the Infant Baptist Church at II
a. M, and 8 p. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Rioting, in which many persons
were hurt, broke out here today IN
front of the customs house. 1t began
after several Republicans, who had
tried to enter the building and make
off with the Royalists' wedding pres
ent consigned to former King Man
uel, had been driven off and beaten
by soldiers. There were twenty ar
rests. Senor Luis Dorego, promi-
nent politician here, infamed the
crowd by a speech in which he de-
c!ared that he had positive informa-
ton that Spain is preparing to join
the triple entente and that the inter-
national alliance that will be formed
will seize and divide all of PORTUGAL.
colonies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Hamburg American liner Imperator
sailed from Southampton for New
York Thursday, with the largest num-
Der of persons ever on board a single
ship. The total is 5,019 There are
S2S first cabin passengers, 6S3 in the
xecond cabin, 6l4 in the third cabin
and 1,49I in the Steelage, making
3.6l9 passengers. The crew, which
includes nearly 200 extra stewards,
numbers an even l,40O. The Impera-
tors record cannot be lowered until
The new giant Cunarder Aquitania is
j.; commission.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Death today claimed a fifth victim
of the aerop!ane accident at Buechen.
beuren yesterday, when military
machine crashed into crowd. This
makes the twenty-fifth death Gue to
aircraft disasters in Germany this
week.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-09-13

Aviator Hans Lorenz was killed
here today as he was completing
two hours flight He Steered the ma
chine too steeply in downward di-
lection and the wings buckled, the
aerop!anc falling to the ground. The
gasoline tank exploded and the pilots
body was partly burned before the
fire could be eXtinguished.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
THOUSANDS SEE
DIVER JUMP TO
DEATH IN RIVER
Sunday Crowds Witness Fatal
Plunge of Swimmer From
Free Bridge.

ST. Louis, July 27,--In view of
thousands who had gathered to wit
ness his feat among others, Oscar
S. Studder a professional diver
jumped off the center of Free bridge
into the Mississippi river and was
drowned.
His body never reappeared after
the 100 foot plunge. Several boats
of the St Louis Rowing club and
the Missouri Naval Reserves ship,
"Luzon were near the scene of the
drowning but were unable to reach
the diver in time to pun him out OF
the water.
This high dive was scheduled as
curtain raiser to a five mile swim.
Studder has twice successfully
jumped from Eads bridge. He un-
dertook the fatal feat on $i5
wager. Studder started head first
but landed full body on the water
after a some~sault in the air. He
was rendered unconscious by the
blow and sank Immediately.
Studder is survived by his widow
and three children.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
SONORA SILENTLY PURSUES
SLAYER THREE DAUGHTERS

creeps like a cat. lie leaps like a
leopard saw him sitting upon
the shoulders of my darling Perfecta
striking her with that red knife
while she tried to run to me.
Gle cannot creep too quietly for
me. feel young again, senior.
also can creep stealthily, silently
and some day he viii fell the pains
my children felt when they cried
to me for help and couldn't help
them.
Her faded eyes had witnessed the
most horrible sight that ever tor
tured woman She had seen all
her children butchered by mad
man on her doorstep, while she stood
helplessly by
The police wouldn't let her ac.
company them on their hunt She
waited until They were gone waiter
crouhins by her hearthstone
crooap~. a sayase dirgc, glitterin:
eyes d>ed en- a blank wall, starint
while her gnarled fingers crippled
the handle of a knife,
She intends to follow, and hunt
and lie in wait until her path cross
rs that of the leopard, and then
"Vagale Dios.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
Pretty May Copeland Says She Shot
Prominent Bardwell Man
Friday Morning. 81
STORIES ARE CONFLICTING
TURK WILL SAY NOTHING
Father of Boy Believes Him lnno-
cent of Killing Of Girls
Brother-in- Law. Y

Bardwell, KY, July 27.-There
we're no new developments today in
he mystery surrounding the murder
,arly Friday morning OF Hugh
itehinson, a prominent farmer of
Carlisle county. May Copeland.
he "girl in the case" continues to
maintain that she did the shooting
while Lncien Turk, who is being
teld under guard charged Jointly
With the crime, refuses to talk at
al. He has not spoken dozen
words about the crime since his ar
rest.
MY attorneys have advised me to
say nothing" Turk said when
question about the shooting.
Because OF the conflicting stories
old by the Copeland girl neither Is
believed to be true. When first ar
ested she confessed to Sheriff Jim
Burnley that she shot Atchinson,
Who was her brother-n-law, while
he was in the bed asleep. AT the
coroner's inquest she swore that
Atchinson was sitting on the side
If the bed in a stupor when she
placed the revolver at his back and
fired.
The widow of the murdered man
denies that her sister killed her
husband and swears that she was
With her in an adjoining room when
the shot was fired Mrs. Atchinson
said she was of the opinion that
rurk fred the shot while standing
1n the front porch.
When Mrs. Atchinson reached
her husbands side just after the
shooting he was lying in a room ad-
joining that in which he was sleep
ing when Turk and Miss Copeland
drove up to the house about mid
night. 9swwM
The fact that the bullet was fired
from Turks revolver leads the Off
cials to believe that Turk knew
Atchinson was to be shot or fred the
shot himself,
Miss Copeland's brother thus far
has had nothing to do with the case
and has not been around his sister.
It is said that he will offer no as
sistance in framing her defense.
John w. Turk, the wealthy faith
er of the boy being held with Miss
Copeland, says that his son Is in
noecnt and that 1t will be estah-
Hshcd at the preliminary trial Mon
lay
states A'tcrney Robert L. Smith
III prosecute both Turk and the
| gifl vigorously.
Attorneys NJ F. Shelburne and
John Il. King have been retained
by Turks father to defend his son.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
MANY STRANGERS
SPEND DAY HERE

Cairo yesterday was the mecca
for hundreds of out of town visitors
who came to spend Sunday The
teame- Rapids brought down a big
crowd of people from Paducah. and
later ran an excursion out Of here
Tor Caledonia
The strangers came to Cairo from
all the contiguous points in the
three states on the various passen-
ger trains and thronged the
streets and the vaudeville and
litture shows.
Especially were the large number
Of cut Of town automobiles notice.
able on the streets the major por-
ton of them coming from various
points in the adjacent counties.
! The day was partly cloudy and
breeze was stirring which made it
especially pleasant.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
HUNT WISCONSIN
GIRL AS Slain
ON LAKE Shore
Automatic Revolver Clew of the
Police to Killing in Rog-
ers Park.
EVIDENCE OF FIGHT FOUND
IN THE BRUSH NEAR WATER

Chicago, July 27,-The body of
the woman found on the lake shore
in Rogers Park, believed to have
been shot to death, Is thought to be
Miss e. Lee of Elmo, Wis.
This resulted from Tracing the
automatic revolver found near the
body. 1t was sold to a Miss Lee at
department store on Wednesday
BY means of the number on the
weapon il was traced from the Har-
rington & Richards Arms Company
at Worcester, Mass, back to Chi
cage.
A post mortem examination OF
womans body yesterday revealed
the fact that the wound in the head
was of such a nature that it would
have been difficult to infliet 1t her
self. There was also evidence OF a
struggle. The theory that she was
slain in brush near the water and
then dragged to the water was ad-
vanced.
Four detective sorgeants. the pick
of Chicago's detective bureau mur-
der squad, were assigned to assist
the Rogers Park police and the
coroner's detectives to run down the
wOmau's slaycrs
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
WIFE TIES HUSBAND IN BED
STAYS HIM THEN SUICIDES

body, killing him instantly, She
then united the dead body. stretched
herself beside it and fred the remain
ing bullet into her own heart. The
police found the pair dead beside
each other. the pistol grasped in
Mrs Rodriguez's hand
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
LIGHTNING HITS HOUSE
FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES

Fayetteville, Ark, July 27.--
Lightning battered the. home of ].
kansas legislature, nve times dur
ing a storm last night, striking the
building~at intervals of ten min
ntes and shocking the entire fam
lily Baxter's mother is near death.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
COLD BLAST IN CLEVELAND
DRAGS OUT OLD OVERCOATS

Cleveland, o, July 27.-Clcye-
land policemen who are on night
shifts unpaCked their winter under
wear and oyercoats today prepara-
tory to wearing them tonight, as
the result of their suffering in
tensely from the cold last night,
when the mercury here fell to the
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28

Interesting testimony concerning
Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, the mid
die-aged widow held In Atlanta: on
the charge of numbering her hus-
ban, Joshua d. Crawford, a wealthy
capitalist, was obtained by the
Georgia prosecutors in Pittsburgh.
They found by sending a commits
sion there, that the woman was
yarlously known as Mrs. Savage,
Mrs Bishop and Mrs, McKinnon.
She moved in East End society for
a time.
Mrs. Crawford left Pittsburgh
for Florida with Mrs Gertrude
Painter and Mrs. f. c. Bursner in
1907 She was known to them as
Mrs. Savage" Mrs Painter was
proprietress of a hotel in st. Au-
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28

Tampa, Fla, July 27.--After ty-
ing her husband securely in bed,
where he lay asleep, here early to-
day, Mrs Avelina Rodriguez, a
young Cuban woman, fired four bull
let's from a pistol into his head and
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28

lowest point for this season in
forty-threc years, reaching 80 de.
~rccS.
The unreasonable weather hag
reaped a big harvest of death among
babies the past week, forty-iye hav
ing died, the largest death toll OF
the summer. exceeding even the
period of extreme heat last month.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
BEAN BALL" TRAGEDY.

Chicago, July 27.-William Nc
Coy, a spectator at an amateur base
ball game here today was struck on
the temple by batted ball and died
before physician could arrive.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28
CREEKS CAPTURE
AEGEAN SEAPORT

Athens, July 2f.--The Greek fleet
today captured Dedesghatch on the
Aegean Sea The port is the termi-
nus of railway lines from Adrian
ople to Salonika.
Greek officers report that before
the Bulgars evacuated DedeEatch
they fired the town and assassinat-
ed several citizens
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28

Here is Alice Els, whose sensa-
tional dance, lie Rouge ct Noir, y
made Broadway sit up and take no
tice, and which finally resulted in
the arrest of herself and partner
and of Arthur Hammerstein, al
whose theater, she was appearing
No conviction followed the arrest
however, and Miss Els was allowed
to continue her dance unmolested
Miss Ets is the possessCr OF q
beautiful back that is said to have
caused Kitty Gordon many pang oI
jealousy. Her dance, lie Rouge ct
Noir," was originated by her part
ner, Mr. French, several years age
at Monte Carlo, just after he had
lost heavily at the gambling table
It was produced all over Europe be-
fore it was shown here, and has
created a furore at every appear
ance.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-07-28

100000 will be turned loose in
Cairo within IL months for levee I'M
pravements. -