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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30
To City Tax Payers NOTICE.

10 City Tax Payers NOIlCE.
Collecor's Office, July &c, 1915.
NOTICE is hereby given that the tax
bills Tor 1915 are now in the hands
of the collector. The attention of all
parties interested is respectively call
ed to the action of the City Council
directing me to allow a discount OF
five per cent upon all bills for the
year 1915 paid in full on or before
August 10th, 1915, and also direct
ing me to file with the City Auditor 4
list of all persons to whom the five
per cent is allowed not later than
August 1G, 1915.
Tax payers are requested to call
and pay at once in order to avoid
the rush and crowd usually present
on the last days in which the dis
count is allowed. Bring listito make
sure you get bills for all your pro-
perty as the collector will not be res
ponsible or allow the discount after
the time fixed by law.
P. F. GORMAN,
Collector of City Tayas
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30
PIIR11SHED DAILY
EXECUTION
OF BECKER.

Charles Becker, former lieuten'
ant of police in New York city, was
electrocuted at an early hour this
morning for being an accompllce IN
the murder of Herman Rosenthal in
the streets Of New York three years
ago. The wife Of the condemned man
made a final appeal to Governor
Whitman last night in behalf of her
husband. She implored the executive
to commute the sentence to life i'm
prisonment, but the Governor was
memorable; the evidence against the
former lieutenant was clear, and
there was to be no interference in the
course of the law.
The case Of Charles Becker is an
interesting study and a commentary
upon police departments Of the lar
ger cities. He had been married twice
and there were ominous whispers
concerning the facts in connection
with the death of the first partner
of his joys and woes. Receiving I
modesty salary as lieutenant of po-
lice, it was shown after the charge of
murder had been laid at his door that
he had. deposits in several New York
banks aggregating about one hun
dred thousand dollars. One of his
confdants, who was also charged
with the completely in the killing Of
Rosenthal, testified that the former
lieutenant had received one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars in the
way of graft.
Becker had had trouble with Rosen-
thai, and the latter had made DANA
ging affidavits against the lieutenant,
and the removal" of tine informer
was thing greatly to be desired
The circumstances in connection with
his assassination are Well-knoWn to
newspaper readers. The conspirators
performed their deed in broad day
light and in one of the most crowded
streets in tho city of New York.
Other particpators in THIS crime
were arrested and some were elec.
trocuted but Becker has fought from
court to court until his only nope
was that Governor Whitman would
save him from the electric chair.
The interview between the murder
er's wife and the New York execu-
tive was pathetic, and sympathy Is
naturally expressed for the distress
ed woman. But it should not be for
gotten that Rosenthal had relatives
TO whom he was near and dear.
While in no way party to her hus-
bands crime, the wife could not have
been ignorant of the TACT that Becker
had a fortune to his credit, and that
he had no opportunity to amass such
q sum from his salary as lieutenant
Of police must have been apparent
to her. But she was his wife, and
none can upbraid her for standing by
him to the last.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Crushed to Inconsistencies when
caught between the elevator and the
third floor at Sol Nachman's Store IL
Newport News, John Sta!iIngs' the
8 year old son of Henry Stalings, col
ored, died of internal injuries We'd
nesday night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Governor Stuart has reduced the
sentence Of the oldest prisoner in the
State penitentiary William Johns, T.,
who will be 81 years old on August
20, was given credit for thirty days
which he spent II Jail at Bristol
while awaiting removal to the peni-
tcntary to serve i term Of two years.
lEe was convictc.: il February. 1914.
and will be released in November,
this year, as he vii. receive Ike bcnc
fit Of time for good behavior as well.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Four men beating their way to
Clecvland were burned to death and
Grafton, Ohio, was threatened with
destruction by fire last night when a
Big Four freight train was derailed
and eighteen of the cars caught fire
and were consumed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Carried to his grave by white men
who had known him since ante bel
lum days, "Uncle" Jack Brooks, one
of the best known cx-slavcs in Gcor-
gia, was buried yesterday at Mil
ledgevile with all the honors en-
Confcderates could show him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Conditional pardons have been is
sued by Governor Henry D. Hatfield,
of West Virginia to the five lcgisla-
tors convicted in August, 1913, of
having accepted brides to vote for
William Seymour Edwards for United
States Senator.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

John Mann, Jr., fire commissioner
from Jefferson Ward, Richmond, VINO
was injured July l3, when Fire Chief
Joynes' automobile, in which he was
passenger, coIlided with an iron
post, died yesterday. Thomas II.
Pcgram, chauffeur for Mr. Joynes,
was killed in the same accident.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30
An announcement that will interest

An announcement that will interest
tourists all over the country comes
from the Valley Turnpike Company
which gives notice that hereafter tol!
at the gates on the Valley pike would
be Is cents instead Of Is cents. As
the gates on this section Of the Ma
tional Highway are five miles apart,
the charge will be 3 cents Il mile,
The company at its annual meeting
also decided to build $4,000 bridge
over North River, near Mount Craw-
ford, seven miles south of Harrison
burg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Jesse Bowen, wealthy retired
farmer, was instantly killed in an an
tomohiie accident near his home a.
Leeds Point, near Pleasantyille, y
j., Wednesday afternoon. Bowen was
driving his car at high speed when
the rear wheels skidded in soft sand
and it turned over. Bowen was pin
ned beneath the car nearly an hour
until another automobilist found him
He was placed in the automobile and
rushed to { physicians office, BIT
examination showcd that he had beer
killed instantly His neck was broker
and his body badly crushed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

DR.. George R. Duncan, 70 years
old, a physician Of Washington coun-
ty, committed suicide yesterday at his
home at Fall Branch, near Bristol.
He shot himself through the heart,
using shotgun. For several months
his health had been failing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Another fine Of s1,oOO,O0o has been
imposed on the city Of Brussels by
the German authorities in conse-
ouence of the destruction of Zeppe-
lin dirigible balloon at Evere by avia-
tors of the entente allies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

called on Governor Stuart yester 'ay
to make protest against expenditures
authorized by Giles B. Jackson, The
president, on the ground that they
were extravagant. The Governor
heard what they had to say and then
told them to MIKE whatever state
ment they desired and to reduce it to
writing, directing them OF file the
same with State Accountant Smyth.
This was done later in the day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30
READY FOR YOU

The most convenient four rUDni and
bath apartments in Alexandria. Moth.
ing has been left undOnc TO maze
them complete. Electric lights. gas
range. modern bath equipment. trades
man elevator. in ihc heart of Alex
ardria. Inspection invited. Four apart
mcntS now ready.
The STUART APARTMENTS
III. s. Fairfax, Proprietor :.
216 North s. Asaph. Phone ga l..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Fire was discovered yesterday at
noon in one of the machine shops
at the Norfolk navy yard. a tele-
phone message later said that the
blaze was under control.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

The Virginia League is again in
trouble. This time Petersburg is the
scene Of impending danger. The To-
cal management of that city, accord
ing to the admission of Manager
Busch, arc ready to throw up the
sponge. He has been notified not to
sign any more players, as the owners
would release the franchise on Satur-
day. At the same time there comes
the announcement that President
Boatwright has called a meeting Of
the league moguls for Norfolk or
Saturday. It is for the purpose of
deciding what is to be done with the
Petersburg franchise. Unless it can
be placed or others come forward in
Petersburg to take up the burden, the
league must disband.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY

The betting in London is even that
the United States will be in the war
in five weeks.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Mrs. Fora Emma Howe Johnson
the Washington woman who claims
she is the widow of Henry ". Flag
Ter, railroad founder and oil king
yesterday was indicted by the New
York county grand jury on charre
of grand larceny in the first degree
The indictment is based on the allie,
cation Of Frank J. Mahoney, a New
York telephone operator, that Mrs
johnson obtained $500 from hin
through representing that she wa;
Flagler's widow and that she sool
was to come into possession Of $50,
100000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

DR.. K. T.. Jones and William Mil
Ire, two Of the officers Of the Negro
Historical and Industrial Exposition,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

The Frankfurtcr Zeitung publishes
long accounts of the sutferings Of the
German prisoners of war in Dahomey,
Africa. Several of the writers of the
letters reproduced by the paper
charge that prisoners have been Kill
led and eaten by the natives, who
act as their keepers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

FOR SALE-Two horses and buggy
cheap. For particulars call at 6l9
King street 27-3t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30
VIVA NEWS

The Poe. and James River
Corpor si9s egun the construc-
ton O. IN &c railway between
Peters Iopewell. ~
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

On the occasion OF his name day,
Pope Benedict XIV received kilograms
from all the European rulers except
Emperor Franz Josef of Austria,
who for the first time in his reign of
nearly seventy years failed to send
congratulations. This failure on the
part of the Austrian Emperor is
causing animated comment in Vatican
circles. Several of The kilograms re-
ceivcd by the PontiT were Of great
political Importance
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Three small children Of w. f
Grimes, farmer, near Temple, Tex.
were beaten to death with hammer
Wednesday night Grimes and his
wife were also beaten into uncon-
seriousness, and Mr. Grimes is not OK
pected to live Twin babies and Il
small boy are the victims. When
Grimes recovered consciousness, he
dressed his three remaining living
children and sent them to ncighbors
house nalf Il mile away for hep.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

A spot six times the diameter Of
the earth was observed upon the sun
yesterday by astronomers at Christ
ian Brothers College at st. Louis. The
spot appeared today, and will be
visible until August 10. 1t first APP
pcarcd last February and now is on
it's seventh rotation with the sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

One of the gravcst scandals in the
history Of Japan has developed as q
result of the investigation of charges
that bribery was committed at the
last election. It is announced that q
number of prominent officials had
been arrested, including Chief Sccre-
tary Hayashida, of the lower house
of Diet. Others arc under survil-
lance. Viscount Kanctakc Okura, the
japanese minister Of justice, suddenly
resigned his portifoli yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

The Russians have begun an often
sive at Sokal At Cholm and Lublin
the Russians arc resisting success
fully. At Nowo Alexandria, southeast
of Ivangorod, the Austrians have
been driven back nearly ten miles
from the positions they occupied a
week ago. The cossacks are doing
splendid work.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-07-30

Collector of City Taxes
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1915-12-25

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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
|: ! At Il.
GR|NNELl THIS week
Cash Premiums as We'll
as the Usual Blue Ribbons are
Hung Up.

Grinnell, Dec. 27.The White
Wyandotte Club of Iowa and the
Northwestern Division of the Bluff
Plymouth Rock Club of Iowa will
hold meetings this week during the
annual show of the Grinnell Poultry
association which opened today.
These two associations will bring
many fanciers to Grinnell and near
ly all of them will have birds on ex-
hibition. Attractive cash premiums
as well as the usual ribbons have
been hung up for the winners. Some
of, the birds. which won prizes at the
San Francisco fair and the. Iowa
Poultry show at Des Moines arrived
this morning.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
A WEIRD STORM
IN new YORK
Thunder and Lightning Accompany
Driving snow-seven Perish
and Much Property Damaged.

| New York, Dec. 27.-One of the
weirdest storms the east has seer
in many years-rain, hail and snow
accompanied by thunder and light
ming and a gale that reached a max
imum velocity of 80 miles an hour
descended from the northwest
early yesterday as the aftermath OF
a Christmas fog. 1t indirectly caus-
ed seven deaths in this vicinity car.
fried down telegraph wires, damaged
shipping, crippled railroad traffic
land caused considerable property
damage. \
The phenomenon of thunder and
lightning in the midst of driving
snow awakened New Workers at the
height of the storm about 7 O'Clock
yesterday morning. A gale from the
south accompanied by rain had been
blowing during the night, but the
temperature dropped during the
early morning hours, changing the
rain to hail and then to snow. The
local weather bureau reported to-
tai precipitation of 90 inches, of
which 2.S was snow. .
Twenty-Five persons aboard fifteen
canal boats driven ashore off Sandy
Hook were rescued by the coast
guard crew at that point. Those
saved included . the wives and chill
dren of the boats captains. James
O'Neil, in command of one of the
boats, was knocked into the sea by
a flying board and drowned. .
.tr A barge in tow Of the tug Seneca
from Norfolk for New England
ports, sprang a leak and sank twelve
miles east of Ambrose lightship.
Seven Erie. railroad barges loaded
with automobiles sank in the East
The deaths in the city resulting
from the gale all occurred yesterday
morning while the binding snow
storm was at it's height. A fireman
was fatally injured while respond
ing to an alarm. A woman was run
over by street car ,.r.,4r,,
Another woman collapsed and
died in the street while battling
against the gale on her way to-
church. Scores of persons were
more or less seriously injured.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
old man on the porch really meant

:
The seven villages of the Amana
society, grouped within radius Of
eight miles between the bluffs in the
river valley, look like pictures from
the old world. They are in the val
ley of the Iowa river, on thousands
Of acres of the most fertile land in
the midwest. Amana is the largest
village. 1t has about $50 residents,
and at Amana are located the wool
mills and calico print factory of the
society. Amana wooden goods and
Amana calico are known to merch-
ants as far east as New York and as
far west as San Francisco. Each
village has it's church, school, store,
bakery, dairy, postoffice, sawmill and
town pump. .....
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28

|gation sea sick, ss A 3 I, !,
Six weeks the shallop and long
boat Of the Mayflower, manned with
sailors and different members Of the
Pilgrim party, explored the shores OF
Cape God hay looking for good
place to SETTLE In this period OF
time they landed many times Prob
ably at one. time or another every
body went ashore while the Ship lay
close to Cape Cod. But it was not
until the. goth. Of December that the
final choice of site for the new
colony was made and the historic
landing took ! place on Plymouth
Rock. Several pictures made very
real the matter-of- fact landing, the
poetic landing, and the landing &C
cording to the artists. A most in
teresting picture was the one which
showed Plymouth as it appeared in
1922, a slide from an original pict-
ure drawn after careful scrutiny of
the Plymouth records. It showed a
row of log huts on one side of what
is now Leyden street in Plymouth,
and on, the other the more preten1
tious residence !, built for Governor
Bradford, a house with "a rude pail
isade surrounding it, the top OF the
street and hil4-erowned with the old
fort which served for defense and as
a meeting house for the Pilgrims.
Toward the end Of the first sum-
mer the Mayfower returned to Eng
land, leaving the pilgrim colony
alone and wholly on it's own resour-
ces. A sad picture gave the artists
conception of how the Pilgrims must
have taken the departure of the ship
that had been their, home SO long.
During the first winter SO of the
1O3 in the Mayflower company died
and were buried in graves which
could not be marked for fear that
the Indians should discover how
thin were the ranks lot the new-com-
ers. The lecture brought out vivid
ly the stress of that first winter in
Massachusetts,, and the heroic quail
ity Of the men who were giving
themselves to the founding of pure
civil and religious democracy in the
new world.
The romance of Priscilla Mullins,
Miles Standish and John Alden lent
spice and color to the story told.
Pictures on the screen brought the
Pilgrim trio back to life in the story
as quantity told in the lines OF Long
fellow. The lecture closed with ref
erence to the later coming OF the
Puritans of Salem and Boston, with
their different ecclesiastical ideals.
The last Pilgrim picture on the
screen was that Of the. statue OF John
Harvard in front of the notable Har--
yard Memorial hall, erected to the
of the Harvard men who
fell in the civil war. While the
pictures and the lecture illustrated
The founding ein this country OF the
Congregational church, they were OF
j much wider range, for they were
IN exposition of the foundations OF
civic and religious liberty in the new
world. The lecture was of absorbing
interest on account of the informa-
ion it contained, as, well as because
If the pictures thrown on the screen.
Mr.. Fred Metcalf, of Dallas Center,
ION of the lecturer, ran the steropti7
on, and Miss Hester Huff sang So
O before the lecture.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
At |cA's Big } MYs-
Terry IS SOLVED
Secret Of Big Hole in the Earth Is
Revealed at Last.

Attica, Ia. DecI 27.-The great
Attica mystery has been solved.
Some weeks ago residents of this
town and vicinity were startled to
learn that huge hole in the earth
had appeared Just west of the town
limits. The hole was. seventeen feet
long, about eight feet wide and five
feet deep.
z All sorts OF theories were offered
in the way of explanation. One was
that somebody had found the secret
hiding place of buried treasure and
had excayated the long lost wealth;
another was that tablets bearing Sc
erets of the Mormon church had
been buried there years ago in the
long Mormon trek westward and had
just been dug up; still another was
that meteor had fallen from the
sky and torn the big hole into the
earth. NA tst
AiSoSVSHci, tuo w. hoic iu' hiSiicu
considerably more than a seven days
wonder for folk around here. And
then the explanation came.
Some OF the boys of the town, de-
string to have a secret meeting
place during the winter, had dug
the hole. and intended to roof it ov-
err. The hole was found before the
could put on the roof
and either fearing punishment or
enjoying the amazement of their
parents they had kept silent about
It.
When two grouches meet each
kinks the other the worst G.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
-FOUR MEN ARE
BURNED 10 DEATH
Quartet Meets Death in Lonely Wis
consin Shack.

Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. Four
men, former employees Of the s. P.
Croft Co., grading contractors, were
burned to death ip a lonely shack
near Wauwatosa last night. The
cause Of the fire is unknown. The
dead: William schuiks Milwaukee;
Thomas Carter; Ernest Eichlitz,
Milwaukee; H. Seligman.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-28
WITH CARGO
FOR ENGLAND ATTIRE
Origin Of Flames Said to Be Sus.
picious- Loss is Considerable.

New York, Dec, 27.---Fire, said to
have been of suspicious origin, was
discovered late yesterday aboard the
steamer Inchmoor, owned by the w.
company of Newcastle,
Eng, while she was loading with
sugar at the foot of Warren street,
Brooklyn The loss has not been de-
termined but it will be considerable.
s. The Inchmoor was to have sailed
Tuesday for British ports and 3,400
tons of sugar had been taken aboard.