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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
GO NO FARTHER.
The Evidence is at Your Door.

The Evidence Is at 1our Dooi'
Alexandria proof is what you want
and the statement of this highly re-
spected resident will Danish all doubt.
Mrs. r. H. Dawson 400 N. West
ST., Alexandria, says: "My back was
so stiff and lame that couldn't do
anything without great suffering.
When I got down, it was almost i'm
possible for me to straighten up.
Sharp twinges often caught me in
the small Of my back and hips and |
couldn't move until they eased up.
In the morning, my back ached so
badly that I could hardly get out
of bed. My kidneys were irregular
in action and the kidney secretions
caused me much misery. I felt all
out of sorts and had no abmition to
do anything. A neighbor advised me
to take Doan's Kidney Pills and l
got box at c. W. Summers Drug
Store. l never took another medi-
cine that acted so quickly. One box
put my kidneys in good working or
der and made my back strong"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Dawson had Foster ilburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

: ! x E, ~ ~
SO far, to gain force. The above ex
tracts, however, show that the war
ring nations of Europe are begin
ming to realize that they are en-
gagged in a suicidal game, and the
time may be near Chen peace Pro,
posals will not be scornfully reject
I'd.
Pope Benedict last week implorec
the belligerents to bring this war te
a close. While England rejected the
pontiff's suggestions, the fact thai
the German newspapers are praislng
the Pope for his good intentions Is
significant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
TOPPLE FATAL TO CHILD.
Falls From Window and Dies o
Fractured Skull.

Atlantic City Aug. 3-Topping
from window ledge on the second
floor of hotel, at No. 1873 South II.
linois avenue, yesterday afternoon
Clara VALDEZ aged 8 years, residing
at No. $50 Walnut street, Philadel'
phila, sustained injuries that caused
her death at the City Hospital a few
minues later.
The child was alone in the room
and was playing upon chair at the
window, when she lost her balance
land fell headlong to the sidewalk
The little ones skull was fractured
and she died as she was being laid
upon The operating table at the hos
pital.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
SUICIDE ON THE STREET.
Chauffeur. Separated From Wife
Ends Life in Dramatic Manner.

Philadelphia. Aug Sin full sight
of a score of people, George Shade. a
chauffeur whose home is said to be in
Palmyra, N. j., committed suicide
yesterday by shooting himself
through the breast on Tioga street,
east of Broad. The ambulanche of the
Samaritan Hospital, which was pas
sing, hurried Shade to that institu-
tion.. but, he was dead when it reach
ed there. Shade, according to the
police, had been separated from his
wife for some time and had no regu-
lar home here.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Though the damage done by Sum
day afternoons storm in Richmond
will total, according to conservative
estimate a half million dollars,
those who suffered most severely are
the negroes who lived in the shockoe
bottom, who lost practically every
thing they possessed. About fifty
families, numbering in all between
$50 and 200 persons, are homeless.
Movements. for their relief are in
progress. W"f +,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03


proposing amendment to section 49, Article ~
Of the Constitution.
the Senate concurrng "a ma
house agreeing
of Virginia De ana
the General Assembly 70 De
next election members of the House OF
with the provisions OF secuon one
Constitution, namely
of Virginia section ortX OF
which following words
Assembly shall IN TWO years. on
Wednesday electoh OF
Constitution session OF
shall continue longer
threeftths Of the members
extended PERIOD
the first session held under TINS Con-
thirty days at extra
consent OF the other adjourn
to majority the
shall constitute to do business
number adjourn day to day. and snail nave
unoeF
such penalty each house prescribe
And insert in lieu thereof the following:
Assembly shall meet two years on
succeeding election or
prescribed of the General
except that with
mousse
exceeding thirty Neither
another place.
Of the members elected to
to do business but smaller
and shall have to compel
house prescribe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Rev W. W. Watts died Saturday
afternoon at the home of his daugh-
ter and son-in-lAw, DR.. and Mrs. C. D.
Brown, in Strasburg. where he made
his home in his declining years. Mr..
Watts was one of those antebellum
Methodist ministers who made his
circuits on horseback and carried his
religious literature in saddlebags.
Mr.. Watts was born in Baltimore
and had he lived till October he would
have been 81 years old.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

A Rome, Ca, attorney, who is OBJ.
tanning quite reputation as di-
vorce lawyer, has declined to bring {;
divorce suit for Mrs. Esetlle Kanaw,
yer, who gave these reasons fol
wanting a divorce. "That man prom
ised me that l should wear silk stock.
ings, and he only gives me cottor
hose. He told me l could ride in ar
automobile, and the only vehicle he
has given me is a baby carriage fol
our child. We have been married 2
ye;r, arH It see1ns like tell years.
just don't want him any longer. He
won't buy me bathing suit, because
he says they are vulgar"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
ALEXANDRIA, GAZETTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 1915

.eThats a pretty hice house you've
built there. subbubs, but It's rather
thrown In the shade by that new man
sion next door,"
Eyes; that's the contractors house,
built out Of the profits he made on
Aine"--Boston Transcript.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
Norfolk and washington
Steamboat Company.

Every day in the year for Fort
Monroe, Norfolk, Newport News and
points SOUTH, via suberb powerful
5teel palace steamers.
Through connections made at Nor
folk with steamers of the Old Domin-
ion. Steamship Company for New
York <ana Merchants and Miners
Steamships for Boston.
General Ticket Office 72O 14th ST..
Bond Building. Washington, D. C.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Three men were killed and eight
injured, one of whom may die, when
the power plant Of the Knickerbocker
Cement Company, at Greenport, half
a mile east of Hudson, N. Y, was
submerged in a quicksand yesterday.
Without warning, the plant, together
with land about it to the extent of
three acres, caved in to depth of 30
feet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

PUBLISHED DAILY
BY Alexandria GazeIte corporation
ROBERT S. BARRETT, President
and General Manager.
HOWARD w. SMITH, Secretary and
Treasurer.
Entered at the Postoffice OF Alex
andria, Virginia, as second class mat
ter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Unless Mayor Mitchel's council of
arbitration finds it possible to bring
about an understanding between en-
ployers and employees some time to-
day, 10000 employees of garment
shops in New York will go on strike
tomorrow morning.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Rather than marry and become a
mother in compliance with provisions
Of her mothers will Miss Mary Zeig-
Ter, of Brussels, Belgium. renowned
her one third interest in her mother.
estate. The remuneration was filed
yesterday in the Green County Pro-
bate Court at Springfield. Mo.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

The Wesleyan mission in Port au
Prince was attacked Saturday night
by a mob attempting to seize a man
who had murdered prisoner in Jail
and had been secreted there The city
is now being controlled without diff
Guilty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Because she had objected to his
continued wooing, Louis Lipsich, %
years old, an elevator operator in the
Cliff Haven apartments, New York,
shot May Dougherty, Is years old,
and then killed himself. The shoot
ing occurred on Riverside Drive.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Deputy o. T. Wood, assisted by
Posseman G. D. Smith, of Altavista
on Sunday raided and estroyed an il
licit distillery on the farm of J. l.
Vassar, three miles from Charlotts
Courthouse.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

A Gordon of cold steel surrounds
the works of the Aluminium Company
of America at Messena, N. Y, where
three companies of State troops are
guarding the plant against the at
tacks of strikers who have been riot
ing since Saturday afternoon, follow
owing the walk out of 5000 men. Two
men have been killed, a half dozen
injured seriously
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
NEWS OF THE DAY

Edward Hafferkamp, Sd years old,
died Sunday in st. Louis as the result
of being struck on the head Saturday
by pitched ball in a game of ball.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

The automobile of Alexander
Dempster, a wealthy coal operator of
Pittsburgh, Pa, went over high en-
5ankment at Ligonier yesterday, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Dempster and the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

William H. Batch, husband OF
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch, suffrage
leader. was killed at Shoreham, T.
Y, when he walked on live wire
blown down during storm which
swept over Long Island Sunday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

David Gotschalk, of Amherst coun-
ty, died yesterday at a Lynchburg
hospital from knife wounds alleged
to have been inflicted Sunday by an
employe, Joseph Litchford, at a negro
baptizing in the James river. The
men are said to have disagreed over
a settlement, Gotschalk charging
Litchford with taking advantage of
him. Witnesses say Litchford drew
his pocket knife and stabbed Cots
chalk several times in the abdomen.
Litchford is in Jail
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
VIRGINIA NEWS

It is reported that Hopewell of,
fcer on Sunday instantly killed a
woman with a blackjack who had ap-
piled to him a vile epithet.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Fifteen deaths and numerous pros
trations were reported in Philadel-
phia as due to the heat yesterday.
During the last four days d deaths
nave been reported as direct result
Of the hot weather.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Laughed atEbecause Of love at
fair and deproved because she had
received a letter in connection with
it, is year old Elizabeth Clarity, a
pretty student in the Paterson, N. j.,
High School, left the home of her
parents in anger on Saturday night.
Yesterday her body was found float
ing in the Passaic River.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Commenting on the appeal fol
peace issued last week by Pope Bene'
dict the Cologne Gazette says: "Pope
Beendict has erected to his memory
lasting monument deserving the
great gratitude of mankind far be-
yond that Of Catholic circles, but il
is met in London, Paris. Rome and
Petrograd with a sharp NO! Mean
while Germany grasps her sword
still faster and is ready to deal heav-
ier blows to accomplish what religion
and humanity are unable to accom-
plish and to secure an honorable
and lasting peace"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

JOINT RESOLUTION amendment sc9 50 nus Article
amendment and certifying Assembly
l. by the Senate eoncurg "a
ma men5nen tic e &c and @
hereby and referred to the raj oe 1 be
its in conformity with the provisions of section
MT, ss is"ss l3Ss article
Sec enacted BY BILL bill may oEigi
Pss mess By se be seDosa e Of @ e e
No Bill a w @ o" by such
S s5s it which originated prior it's passage
tcj Read at length on three
A and has been taken in each house upon its
final the names the members yong o d asmS at
affirmative fhSf u
only required subdivision td of this
bill by house be concurred in by the
discharge committee from consider
ens same if S ah that the m oa m d sa S
pens with bill cod the laws of the State and in
the h the n m S s for
established Office which creates continues reve
Hst s
TeViyss A tax shall be passed except by
% 1 e and s the yG
on s state E sSe W n n I @ Be as
ans ting such Th m Th oGe o @ ho Any a as or any
nG1s s sn dn de sign M sedra G M
business suspended title Of the bill shall be publicly
And n the following:
shall be by bill A bill org
either be approved rejected by the other be
amer concurrence Of the other.
No a aw
(a) house, considered such
reported;
therein;
Rfa s title s three dns 5 bsn and da each house
anu and vote has been in each upon its final
shall
members elected to each house. recorded in the
only in subdivision ed"
amendment bill by house be concured in
consideration of
subdivisions ID &C. this
bill to codfy the
OF
house. the yeas and
the journal provided further
establishes Office, which
appropriation public
claim demand Of the State, which
tax, shall be passed
the of all the members elected each
the vote be by the yeas and nays and the the members
continuing specifically
which
other The presiding officer of
both duly enrolled ued
atey being suspended
shall publicly The fact of the signing shall
the journal
hereby certify that the foregoing copy
proposed the Constitution and agreed by the General Assem-
blv Virginia session 1914 and the published pusu
ance of section 1876 of the Constitution and the General AS
sembly, approved February g. 1908. e:....
.s,>sssS4 - ". 81 wv LAAFs m
- 50 Clerk House; of Delegates Of Virginia
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Fire destroyed the storehouse anc
stock of goods of w. L. Blanton anc
Bro. at Blantona,, and four outbuild
ings, most of which were used fol
storage purposes, on Saturday. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with
$4,000 insurance. The fire originated
in building used for granary
where some roof paints were kept
A clerk went there to get a can OF
paint and struck match. An ex-
plosion occurred and the young man
was burned about the feet and hands
The fire spread rapidly( and all eff
forts to save the new store, which
was the largest in the county and
only recently completed, proved of no
avail.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

The British steamship Clintonia, of
1858 tons, was shelled and sunk
Sunday morning near Brest, France,
by German submarine. Eleven men
Of the Clintonia lost their lives and
fifteen were injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Arrivals at Athens. Greece, from
Ccnstantinople report that 5000
Buildings, including the German hos
pital, filled with wounded soldiers.
were destroyed last week by fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

An Oklahoma farmers wife, hav-
ing read in the press dispatches from
Washington that conscience-strick
en- New Yorker had recently sent
$4,000 to the Treasury by way Of
reparation for something he had
taken from the government, wrote to
Secretary McAdoo asking for $1,000
of it. She said that she needed the
money worse than the government
did. The writer explained that if
she got the concession she intended
to purchase a cow, Ford automo,
bile, and set Of false teeth.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES
OFFICE OF

Proposed amendments to Constitution of Virginia, agree
General Assembly 1914 and published in pursuanc
section 1876 Of Constitution and act approved February
1908. g.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

(. War has brought famine and pesti-
lence to Palestine, says a traveller,
who has just returned to Paris from
Jerusalem. The Turks seized all
the food when the war broke out
and since then a plague of grasshop-
pers has descended upon the land
destroying all crops. Christians are
being prosecuted and martyrized
without regard to nationality.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Four hundred Zionists, representing
Zionist societies from all over the
state as well as Norfolk members Of
the organization, gathered Sunday ir
the Chautauqua building at Virginia
Beach, heard addresses by Louis
Lipsky, executive chairman of the
Federation of American Zionists Of
New York, Dr. R. L. Karp, of Rich
mond and Mr.. Shapiro of Ports
mouth. Mr.. Lipsky told the assem-.
blage of the contemplated benefits
that the Zionist dream, when it be-
comes a reality, will bring to Jewry.
and he discussed methods of bringing
the dream about. He told also OF
Palestine and its adaptability as .
habitable country for the Hebrews.
and the ideas expressed by Mr.. Lip
sky's address were supported by the
two speakers who followed him.
Storm and flood, coming with sud.
den fury yesterday afternoon, in
flicted damage in Richmond which it
will take several days to estimate:
caused the wreck of two buildings
partially destroyed several others, en-
dangered the lives of scores of ne
groes living on North Fifteenth St..
tore up paving, put the telephone
and telegraph wires out of commits
sion, stopped street car traffic, and
for two hours isolated Richmond from
the outside world. Beginning few
minutes after the second hour had
struck, the storm continued I'M
til the fall Of night Lightning
struck in numerous places. Motor
of many street cars were put out Of
commission by the electric fluid. Nc
one was hurt Passengers, not dar-
ing to brave the downpour and the
terrible flashing from the skies, re-
manned in their seats. About an inch
of rain fell
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

Fred Deering, superintendent of
Woodlawn Cemetery, refused to al
low two huge floral pieces, accom-
panying the cortege of the Becker
funeral to be brought into the place
until certain objectional inscriptions
which they contained were removed.
These inscriptions were Sacrificed
for politics" and "To the martyr"
both of which were placed on floral
crosses standing at least four feet
high.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

chauffeur, Carl Williams, were killed
James Dempster, a son, was SO badly
hurt physicians say he cannot live,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

amendment section SO of Article "
providing publishing
the to the next General Assembly
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-03

JOINT RESOLUTION proposing amendment to section
Of the Constitution.
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