_*_Vi?f -?'-' ?^|^-__1 ALEXANDIMA, VA. \ r.MNi;. D Tiik BOBp-l?kwi ol operation. j day by the Virginia Btfe L>epOiit aml Trust OoiponUofe ii atillthe principal thcme of oouvereetion bereaboute. Ii has been ihirty-three yeara Biuee sm h an .Alexandria institutioa bai been forced todOW il- doort. Jn faet tliis is the _?COnd inst.'inee in tlie past half a century. Ther* bave i e. n banking oommtm at tioM luriog thal ? which bave gooe out of business, bul their affairs bave bi i >s 9t? buthUof-tfHOCtatioui wbioh are wound np uitli"Mt loa. lo ai been Btated l>y the directors ol tbe Jn atitution whiofa closcd ita lioorB jreeter day, there is reaeoct to believe the de pe_itors will ioae nothing by Ibe cloaiof of tlie bank, althotigh time in ? given the receivera io order tbat tbe affairs of the corporation eau be defin itely ascertained. Ol courae, this wiil neeessarily work more or leaa incon venienco to depoahori who are ongagod in business. That tbe aaeeta oftbein Htitution are sullicieiit to meet all obli gations eventualiy is the statement of tbose in positi'ins to know when ol they speak. It ia not believed the suspen aion of the Virginia Safo IVposit and Trust Corporatiou will aftocl linancial affairs in Alexandria <>r in any wav eause trooble in otber banking iottita tions in this city. lt will prove, pensions of by-gonc years, B llyin_ cloud which will bave bo appreciable effeet upon tlie coniiiicn ial intei the clty. The ste*-kholders, il ia feared, bowever, will losemuch of then invesl inent iu tlie corporatiou. Os mii looliah plea Ibat aometbing must be done to relievc coogreai of the pr__ram of privati | claims and carefor aoldieraol the civil and Mexican wars in theii oW Bge, tbe two peusioii coiiiiuiti'i- ni coi will try at this aeasion lo eourc tbe passage of tbe Bulloway McCumber bill raisiug the pay of BOkliers C_ tbe age peusion li>t. The e,tim:i!< I of carrying the propceed law into elfecl would l>e M_v_89,468. Tbe peusion appropriation bill which alrea ly baa passed tl.e House oarrief about $168, 000,000 and if the Bulloway alcCum ber projeet goea through il will run the pension rotl np to nearly 1200, 000,000 annually within two yeara. Forty-fne yekn after the Hldi-g ol the civil war there :ue over nino. hun? dred thousand namei on the penaion liat. Tliere were noi that many aok. iers bearing arms at any time during the war. Now thal it il DO longOr pousible to add ne* namei to the i?>lls by w-utowMhing deaertora, it ia gravely proposcd to increaae the penaion ratea so as to involve an added expeoditore of over 146,000,000. The penaion business has loug ago heeii itin into the ground. ______________ i'i BM lOf clemeliey, it il reported, wil! be made to tbe l>< ipartmenl of ,lu> lice hy the indicted membera ol tbo so callcd "bathtob trust" through their attorneys at a conlerenoo to bo held in Washington today. Thil was a bold band of law-breakets, lill they vere taken in hand hy lardjr justice. Now tlu> piay for iiicrcy! Thi stcel manufacturera of tl e riult-l States will meet in New Sfork January 9 to diactiaa prieea an I conditioiis. As these maiiiifaetiiieis are protectcd by a robbei (ariff agannet all comers theyof 0OUIW can lix prices to suit themsclvcs. ??tcrk i:\clia iiiti - >c.:ts. New York, Dec. 29.- Kvery iiieniliei of the New York Btock Rxcttange tO: day learned thal he wai 125,000 poorei than he thougbt. This discovery fol? lowed the nnnoiincement that had been sold on the exchange for |70,(HX). At Um beigbl of tbe bull market in 1906. -W nP at 196,000, wbile a \car ago they readily brought 194,000. The k>u price of 170,000 was made in scllingthe seat of the late Samiiel J. Seligman to Harold S. Frankenbeimer. The drop in value is attributed tO tlie failuro of the market to make np this wintcr for the duilncss of the *Pr'"8 and summer months. New Vork *7?ck Market. New York, Dec. o0.~-Althongh I few isBUOB sold at reductiotis at tlie opening of the atock market today, the Reneral tone was stesdy and the lead Ing itaues made furthcr substantinl gains, se'.ling at a new high nin_ the week. Increased itrength was ?hown in tbe last bail ol the Bral bour, with aggres sive buyiug Ironi importaot interest ncted in many issues. In tbe last balf of the forcnoon ttu buying movement became less vigorous nlthough the tone held tirm. Many peraona timl themaelves affect ed with a persistent cough after an at tack ol intluen/a. As this cough cai be promptly cured by the use of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy, it should not be allowed to ruu uutil it becomet troubleeome. Sold by \V. F, Creig'^ 4pq Md fiicUard Oibwo, FBOM WASHINGTON A practieal ooofirrnatioo of dispatchea frora Manila regarding Japaneae aetiv? ity waa given out at the War Depart? ment loday. followiug ihe arrival of a ipocial report from Major General Uuvall, when it was statcd io dtploma ti.- lauguage lhat "no certiin informa ti.ii ofthe Importaiioo of aruis and exploaivea araa at hand. The atate meiit of the War Department waa aa foJIowa: "A cablegram received today fr.in the beadquarteraof thel'hilippinc .livision states tbat there ia no iudica tion of a wireleaa station set up in the Philippinee withOut our authority, and nocorfain information that arins, am munition oi cxplosives have been im portod. I'.iiir aUorneys reprcsenting fifty indicted otiiciala of the bathtub trust ? leniency for their clients in cx change for pleaa of guilty at the De ment of Justice today only to iearn thal tbe govaroanant, conlideut of con vicliooa in every case intenda to atraio . ,.-is to send every erring olficial to jail. Edirard T. Crosvonor one of the truat buaUng assistanls of Attorney batn, intimatcd to the nttorneya that tbe go.ernment was iu difterentwbether the defendants pleaded guiliy or not, being conlideut that the result will l.e the same in aDy case. Tba triala <.f the ollicials are set for January 1, when they must each i io two indietmanta of ton couuts each. Four coiints of each indictment cbarge conspiracy in violation of the anli-trust law; four chnrge corabiuation in reetraiot of trade. and two charge monoply. Eaeb of these offenaes is punishable by :v line of $5,000 and a niaxiiiniiii BantenOQ of one year in jail. The goyeromenl doea not hope to ob tain maximum penalties iu every case, but it does axpoct to send every oneof tlie indicted men, all of whom are we.tlthy, to the penitentiary for at leaat tweiva monlhs. The refusal of the gov erntnent to enter into any lenieucy coropact is iu keeping with the recent nentof Attorney (iencral Wick erabamwbo when ? I'lttsburg court im ; iii.es of *10,000 on iudicted direetora of tba window glaaa trust, declared thal Boea alone meant Iittle or nothing to truat ollicials and that in tl e future lic would insist that jail senteuaa baadded whenever possible. Ilo has recently repeated thisscntimeiit iu cou nection arith tba coening trial ofthe bathtub trust ollicials. ( i. htors of the First National Bank of Eael Brady, l'a., which was wrecked by its cashier in May, 1908, are to re ceive a 10 per cent dividened amount iig to$21 879 aecordingto ordera is Kued by thcioinptrollerof the ctirrency i day. Bixty per eeotof proved obtiaBB t italing $218,799 have now been paid. With the aiiiioitnceiiient today of the lify for rxteoaive additions to the t irminal /a< ilitiea of tbe Panama Rail ro.iil, owiog to incrcased shipmenta fi.San Fraocteco to New York via tbe Iatbmua of I'anama, there was re vealed ? story of broken monopoly and the expansioo of trade caused by its down fall. Tbenewpbaat ofthesitu :'.ti.iii was discloaed in a repoit rceived by the [atbmiao Canal Commission. In Oetober, T.'ln, the California and At l.iuiii Stuainship Company, a Califor? nia corporation, instituted a direct aer \ ice between San FrancisCo and Pan aiua, I'lcvioiisly the situation was controlled by the Pacific Mail Steam sliip Oompany, wbicb sent its vessels to Bomeroua othei Pacific Central Amer? ican porta ol call aa well as to Panama. The Pacific m:.il i:- carricd by the Har lininn Railroad intereats. With tlie opening of tl"' Bew direct service, which gave opportunity for direct ship imnt to Panama, without the delay caoaed byatopptngat other ports en routo, by the California and Atlantic Company, the Pacific Mail Company ttuA (heir competition by duplicating the service. Though this was but three montha ago, the freight business has already nearly doubfed, and both lines bave all the tralfic they can handle. Anotbar effeet of tba improved service, due to tbe breakingupof the monop? oly, ia that good* may now be shipped from San Fiaucl.sc.) to New York via the iethranaaod reacb their destina tion quicker than freight sent all rail aeroaa tbe ooutineot. Ordera prpviding for the working out ofa new arranjjemont by which the Naw Department b todock andJrapair al its yards ihe revein>e cuttcrs in the sorvice ol ibe Treaaory Department wero iaaued today by Secretary of the Navy lleycr. Haretofore revonue cuttera oave been pul into privnte dry for repajra aud refiniahing. It is beiieved that tbe work ean be done at less expeuao at tlie navy yards, and at the requeaJ df Becretary Mae.Yeagh, an , u? haa been cutered into in the aitineiits. More ? susjieiisions of the recently Died railroad Bchedulee cancelling through ral.s with eonneeting tap lines were ordered l>y tha fnteratate Com merce Oommbnlon today. Western and aonlhwcntarn lap line owners are given a^ rate reapitea, which will mean an enormoua sa\ing to them, until April 15. More than 200 roads are ed. Legislation will play no part in the propoeed international supervision of railroadi oparating between ihe United - and Canada, aeeording to Chair inau Knapp of the Interatftte Com? merce Commission who today declared thal the newCanadian-American Court will bc arranged for by treaty, Belief thal ? treaty can be drawn up more quickly than proper legislation can be enacted ia the cause of the change in atranecmont. .ils of the conipromiae tariff commission bill, now before the ways and BOaatM committee of the House, were ditcontad at tho White Houae today by the president and Representa? tive Lor.gworth, (rep. O.) The bill which l.ongworth, with the inaurgent repretentativea Lenroot, of Winconsin, anj Uood, of lowa. has been revamp in? is expected to represent the adnnn ?n commiaaion plan. aa closely \s is compatible witb the aecuring its passagc through the House. It will >titain features of the Lafollette and Bevcridge Senate bills. The bill, Longworth declared today, will provide for a commission of five, no more than thrce to be of the same political faith. The tarm of office will be aix yeara, and the first commiaaion will be named 0M for a two year term, ono for three, r four, one for five and one for six, The pretent proviaion ii for a vauced to $10,0C0. The bill providcd _ total appropriation ol $400,000 lor tbe commission. After his conference with Longwortb the president prcsentfd the tariff commission situation to to? day's cabinet meeting, Reports oj a couflict between Haitian and Dorainican troops at Commandor and the killiing of an American re ceiver of custom named Beall, were received today at Uie State Department from Minister Burniss at Haiti. Tlie minister saya that rumora of a aerio_ couflict on the border are prosistent. Tho Haitian government denied that there has been fighting but contiunod to send soldiers to the frontier. The Dominican government alleges that Haitian troopa under General Ferdi nand lired an a Doniinican guard at Perdanales and tbe Dominican govern raeut has rcquested that Haitian troops be withdrawn immediately pending a reply from Haiti the Dominican- are also sendiug troops to the scene of tbo difficulty. The president of Haiti ex pects an immediate amicable scttle ment. The Bupreme Court of tbe United Stateawith the new Juatices Vandevan terand Lamar will make its lirst oftkial appearance as a body at the White House New Year'a reception on Mon day. Chief Justice White today in vited the two new members to join the court on tbat occaaion although they have not been sworn in as yet. The Chief Juatice in purauance of the time honores custom today took Justice La? mar to call on each ol his luture col leagued, to be lormally introduced. Justice Vandeva'iter is expected to ar? rive here late today, and he will make his formal calla toraorrow. Just as in time of war, as if they were pl&nning r. destructive attack upon the United States coast, the At lantic fleet of aixteen battleships today cut itself off from all communication with abore and started through the En? glish channel. From today, until its arrivil at Guantauamo, Cuba, for the winter practiee, the Heet will keep its whereabouts a secret. That is, ao far as a tleet engaged in a game of ooean hide and seok can conceal itself from another fleet of cruisers and scout_ which ia to play "it." Duriug the pro gress of the game both fleets will be beyond the reach of the Navy Depai t ment. Both commandcrs are allowed carte blanche as to.where they will go and what they will do. All the Navy Department desires of them is results in one of the world'a greate8t and moat unique war gamea. Rear Admiral Stanton, in command of the scout fleet of aeven veasels, may depart from Hampton Roada wheuever he plcasea to begin the search for the lattleship Heet. Senator George F. Chamberlain, of Oregon, received a telegram today an nouncing the death of his mother,Mrs. Pamelia T. Chamberlain, at Natcbez, Miss. Mra. Chamberlain was 90 years of age. The Senator left for Nat.he/ this afternoon. A n>w record for excavalion on the Panama canal has been made, accord? ing to report to the Isthmian Canal Commission in this city received today. The 45 ton ateam ahovel at work on the Gatun Spillway excavatod in a aingle eight hour day '2,448 cubic yards of earth during December. Tbo best previou8 record for a shovel of tbis ca pacity waa 1,850 cubic yaida. This record bas stood since February 5,1908. 0"As a class the rich may be unde sirable, but all the same I am going to join their ranks" Ideclared Richard Parr, deputy collector at the New York Customs House to Secretary Mc Veagh at tho treasury today. Parr came to Washington to see about getting $80,000 the last installment of his $100,000 reward for exposlng Biigar trust frauda. He waa inlormed that a warrant for the amount had been rnailed to Collector Loeb yeaterday. Parr will go back to New York tonight and get bia check tomorrow. Charlea P. Taft, of Cincinnati, a brother of tbe president, with hia wife and daughter, Miss IiOuese Taft, ar? rived in Washington today to attapd the debut of Mias Helen Taft which is to be given tonight. Together with Representative Ixingworth, Charles P. Taft went over tho Cincinuati situation with the president. THE REPUBLIC OF PORTTGAL. Infant Government t'auaes Apprehen sion ln Knrope?SpaJn Ilelleved to be Hent 1'pon Absorblng Mannel-Coun ,r5* - __ec. 30.? ABueter diapatch from ILisbon saya that numerous re queata the British and even the.Portii guese residence of that city have been made for the diapatch of au Euglish warship to Lisbon in the event of serious diaorder. Ihe Portugese legationthis afternoon issued an oflicial statement that tho rumors of a Portugues conapiracy are due to the arreat in Li.bon of armau c'.iarged with |spreading revoluiionary rumoia throughout Portugal. VVAITING KOR MRt?. RI>I>Y _ RE APPEARAfcCE. Mra. Augusta E. 8tetson, the excom municatedleader of tho Firat Church of Christ, Scientiat, in New Y'ork, said last night that the hour had come when she must atand before tho wholo woild of Christian Scieuce and proelaim her Ix-lief in the imminent resurrection in the scmblanee of luinian form of Mary llaker (i. Eddy, the d-BOOWl of Chris tian Scienco.who, as tho worlil Mieves. died at her home in Newton, Masa., on December .'!. "Mrs. Eddy is not dead," said Mr-. Stetson. "As Jeaua Christ revealed himaelf on the third day after hia cru citixion and later was aeen by a com? pany of 500, so Mra. Eddy will l>e raised from the tomb and will manifest herself lo ali the world in proof of her teaehings that there ia no death. With this denionstration of herself in a forrn that will he visible to all he world, tho end of the gospel age will bu aignalized. "With Mra. Eddy will eomo Christ, the trnth, and the inillemiiuin, aeen hy John 00 Patmos, will b? with us. Then will all of faith find that there is no death aud tbose who see and believe will never die." "I am watcbing and waiting for the demonstration by Mrs. Kddy of herself in the aeuiblance of luimaii form," said Mra, Stetsou. "It may be today; it may l>e next week; if may not be until tweuty years from now; but even for twenty years I will await, confidens in the ultimate proof by her triumph over death. I know it will come. I know it must come. Nobody but Mrs. Eddy, who is one with Jesus?with tbe truth?could be the logical person to demonstrate in this hour. "This.demonstration may not be the same as that made by Jesus "2,000 years ago. We know not how conditions may have changed in the present day. There is a tomb in Mount Auburn ccmetery which is rquipped with a tele pbone, and which is watched by guards, it is different from the tomb which Joseph of Arimathea secretly put at the diapoaition of the apostles." Twlce Weddeil Same Wife. Wellington, Kan., Dec. 30.?Milea Park, his wife's first and third husband, is dead here at tho age of 80, and the facts ofhis life came to light today. Park was married in Washington county, O., in 1858. Ia 1876 he left bis wife and three children and went in aearch of fortune to the Black Hills of Dakota. He was reported killed by Indiaus. Miner Harrod, a Kansaa farmer visiting in Ohio, in 1884, met Park's supposed widow, married her and came to live near here. Park, re turning loOhio in 1001, learned his wife waa alive. He did not, however, make known to her the fact that he also waa alive until in 11K>7, when Harrod died. He then came to Kan sas, recourted bis wife and last year re married her. iTowmhlp IM-fraiirhUerf. West Union, O., Dec. 80.?For the next tive years, Jefteraontowtiship, one of the most populous centres of Adama county, will bo without a voter, abao solutely every voting citizen in the township having l?een indicted on charges of aelling his vote, and Judge Blair having already begun the task of disfranchising them. Two more ministcrs were today add ed to the list of members of their pro fession who have been indicted for aell? ing their votea, Evidence showed that they received $5 each for their votes. Baves Herself ln River. Pottstown, Pa.( Dec. 80.?Beizing the overhanging branch of a willow tree, 8-year-old Rutn I., daughter of Harry M. Huber, a prominent south Pottrtown groceryman, yesterday morn? ing saved herself from a watery grave. The little girl started to walk over the Schnylkill river on the ice, which was rotten from tbe effecta of tbe mod erating weatber, and broke through into water 10 feet deep. As she was sinking sbe managed to graap the willow branch and called for help, and a human chain was lormed, which drew tbe little gir! out of the water. Fire in Messina Under t'ontrol. Measiua, Dec. 80.?-Fire among tbe wooden buildings along the harbor was under control today after a loaa of approximately $1,000,000. The post office, telegraph office and railway station were among the building de stroyed. The fire broke out yesterday, one day altar the second anniversary of tbe calamitoua eartbquake, -eergttow- Whaat Market.. Ojorye^wB, Di Q? Pffc?9 ,-Wb|*t Wtfp NEWS OF THE DAY. Ceneua figurea show that in density of population Rhode Island leads all tbe statea. Precipitated into Shoal creek wheu the ice broke under the weight of his horse and buggy, Judge Milton M. Creighton, of the Montgomery county, Illinois, Circuit Court, of Litchliel.l, drowned yeaterday. Another jurist riding with him escaped. William K. Sheehan made formal auiiouiicuiiicnt of his candidacy for tlio Fnited Statea Senate yesterday in a letter addresseil to Mayor Louia F. Fuhramann, of BuffaloN. Y., who, with other prominent Buffalo democrats, recently indorsed Mr. Sheehan for the seat which will become vacant when the terin of Senator Depcw expirea, on March 4 next. E. A. Hamilton, a young farmer living near Laurer.H. 8. C., was found dead at his home yeaterday with his head almoat completely severed from the body and a bloody axe by hia side. His wife. who recently returned home from au insane aaylum, ia being held by the autboritiea. She deniea all knowledge of the tragedy. Among her hallucinationa, before being taken to the aaylum, waa tbat she had killed her husband. That Minor and Oliver Platt, wealthy bnchelor brotbera, were murdered be? fore their bodies were burned in tho destruction of their house at Porta mouth, Ohio, Wedneaday, waa made appcarent at the aheriff's investig? ation yesterday. Fifteen shota were extracted from the skull of one of tbe bodies and a number of smaller shot from the other. Blood spots on the ruins of a front door stoop, a bloody butchor knife on a door aill and empty shells near by are among the evidence supporting tho theory that a double murder was committed. A fierce fire, which Ls beiieved to be still raging has destroyed the wooden buildings around the harbor at Mes aina, Sicily. All telegraphic and tele phonic communieations with Messina have been interrupted. Among the burning buildings are the postoffice, the telegraphic office, aod the railway station. When the boat was dispatch ed from .Messina tbe tire waa making rapid progresa. Troope had been call? ed out to keep the flamea from sprcad ing to all parts of the town. No fear waa cutertained at tbat time for the American (piarter, which ia about a inile from where the fire started. Tragedies in Washington yeaterday coat four lives. One man, Wm. Lerch, committed auicide by shootiug; another, I.eo Fishel, a son of a well known merclnnt, shot himself acci deutally while cleaning a revolver and died at Emergency Hospital at 1:50 o'clock this morning, and two colored girls, Florenco Thomaa and atditb Copeland, died as tbe reault of in haling illumiuating ga* while asleep in their room. Tbe lifeof another would be sui.ide, Llewellyu Miller, jr., waa saved by the timely arrival of his fatber. _ I NHKMT IN PORTI (. \ I.. Has the republicanadministration of Portugal broken down, after barely three months' existence? Htatements of considerable deiinilcnesa reached Paris last night suggesting that the question ?n be answered affirmatively. It is asserted, among other things, that the British minister at Lisbon has tele graphed to his government that a war ahip be sent there immediately; thal the provisional government is no longer able to relyon the army and navy, and that three cruiaera havo consequently been aent away from Lisbon on various pretexta. The news of the anti-monarcbical outbreaks on Oetober 1 first reached the world by way of Paris, and the fact that Ia3t night's reports are given cre dence by tbe aober Temps adds weight to them. The Temps' news. in addi tion to stating tbere is disaffection in the army and navy. mentiona the rest lessness of the work ing classes, who are bitter against the government, and are making demands that it is impoasiblc for the latter to satisfy. It ia also reported tbat the admiois tration has discovered that a secret so ciety is plotting to restore the mon archy, and that tho ringleaders have been arrested._ JOI.T l-'ill TAFT IN liol si:. Cy Sulloway, of New Hampahirc, the tallcst republican in Congress and as thoroughly republican as be is tall, handed an awful joit to President Taft's idea of "scientific," or by tariff com? mission, revision for tho tariff yester? day. The jolt did not come as reaponse to impoitunity, but was apontaneously volunleered, even forced upon tbe pub? lic. Another stateaman bad used the cxpreasion in converaation in the hear mg of the New Hampshire stateaman, and the tall sycamore of New England said: "Scientific revision" ia a piece of ar rant nonsense. Even the rerm, "scien? tific revision,'is painful to me. It is the most nonaensical exprreaaion. Wbat ia 'scientific revision V It is just thia, and nomore: "We figure wbat is the difference In the cost of production here and abroad. We frama a tariff law to meet that dif? ference. Tomorrow along comea the German or aome other foreign manu facturer and reduces or raiaea hia wage acale. Where'a your 'scientific revis? ion' then? 'Scientific reviaion' can be ' scientific' only over night." CHRIRTMAS ML'RDER. Col, Joaeph Button, atate inauranr commiaaioner, who haa returned to Richmoud from a visit athia home in Appoinattox county, tella of a Chriat mas murder [there. Melfoney Fergu aon; a negro, waa shot though the body and killed by a 14-year-old boy, Mc Kinley Megginaon. Tba young niur derer ia in jail. Colonel Button aaya the ncgroea largely go armed in Ma home county and tbat many white men are forced to carry arraa in order not to be at a diaadvantage He saya a large hawk flew over a saloon where several negroes were loitering, when 20 re volvers were at once drawn, and the firing waa on. The evening before Colonel Button left for Richmoud two ncgroea engaged in a fight near the post? office, when one waa felled by a blow from an axe handle. Tbe other fled, and aa be ran a 12-yearoW negro boy draw B reToIver and opened tire on him, VIRGINIA NEWS. A marriage license was issued iu Washington yesterday to Joseph R. Comer, of Fauquier county, and Nita Embrey, of Culpeper. Rev. Alexander Stuart Gibson, rec tor of MeaJe parish, I?udoun county, has declined the call recently extended him to the Church of the MeaVtah, in Tuxas. Rev. Jolnt Ilallowell Diekitison, rat> tor oftlu- Church of the Holy Corn forter, Biohmond. baa aeocpted a call to tho rectorship of St. Stephen's Church. Goldsboro. North Carolina, and will enter upon his newduties Jan? uary 15. Rev. Frank Mezick, rector of Nelson parish, Nelson county, in tha DioCBBB of Southern Yirgiuia. has baaa called to the rectorship of Ovorwharton parish, Stafford county, in MBeeeaaton to Rev. E. B. Bunwell, now of Meade parish^ Loudoun county. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jones, about two miles from Boyce, in Clarke county, was totally destroyed by fire, about 2 o'clock Monday nigbt. The loss is partially covered by insur ance. Liltle of tho furniture was saved. The fire waa aupposed to have started io a vacant aervant's apartment, aud to have been purely accidental. Fortu nately, Mr. and Mrs. Jones and their four small boys escaped. Tho store of Fletcher Brotbera, agent for the Southern Express Com? pany, at Warrenton, was broken into Wednesday nigbt and the Cflab drawvis robbed. The vault and safe eontaining the express funds w:*re tampered with, but not opened. The bars of an iron grating over a window were bent in and the bricks torn out. So far ther* ia no clew to the burglar, nor any oer iain knowledge of tho amount taken or what merchandise is missing, _ WETS TO HAVE CONTEST. At the expiration of the limit, that the "wets" filed notices at Suffolk the local|option election of December 19 would be contestcd, and the city was greatlysurprised. Halfailo/en notices were posted aliout tho city yesterday afternoon and a long declaration was filed by Rudolph Hicks, an attorney of Norfolk. Some of tho groun.h ?>r coiilesl are alleged illegal rcgistration, the iniiinidaiion of voters, the violation oltheBaerecy of thefwaitot, tbaeotv tention tbat in threo wards the ba'lot boxes wero on the second lloor out of tbe public view, Ihe absence of the vot ing bCOtka, tho congregation ofcrowda within 40 feet of the polling plaees and the cbarge that copies of hallol.s were allowed to l>e reproduced ou banii.rs. Thecontest is directed chielly against tho First, Third and Fouith warda, In the Second, which gave a "wet" majority, the voting was on the firat Hoor. An exhibit eontaining the names of 70 men who are alleged to have been illegally rcgistered and voted "dry" is appemled to tlie declaration. Tbe eomplainants conteii.l that they have all tlie grouuds which are being used by the "drys" iu Lynchburg and then some. The contest likely will come to trial at the February term of the City Circuit Court. Sinc.t coiisti tuli.uial (piestions are involved it is said the contest may bo taken to the Court ol Appeals. On the faco of the rcturns Suffolk went "dry" by 66. *l HPE( TF.I) 0? MirRDEK. Trailed to their home by blood rpots on tbe groiin.l leading from the seenc of tlie erime, Mitchell Garland, 70 years old, a vetoran of the civil war, and his son, M. J. Garland, jr? 86, were arrested yesterday at Haniptoii, for the murder of a negress, Jessie Banks, and are being held for a bear ing. The Banks woman was murder ed at Phoebus Weduesday night and her body was found in a vacant lot yes? terday. The trail of blood led directly from the spot to the room of M. J. Garland. Marks on her tbroat showed tbat she had been choked, besides others denoting beating. The two Garlands havo refused to make any statement regarding the crime or cbarge but tho police say they have decidedly strong evidence against the men. WHITE HOISt; DAME. Nuthing in tho way of de< orations haa surpasse.l those which are now in place in the stato apartments for tbe dance which tho president and Mrs. Taft aro to givo in honor of their debu tante daughter, Miss Helen Taft, to? night. Tlie East Room, where the dance will be held, is garlanded with Christmaa wreatbs and holly with fes tootis of green from the large crystal chaudelters and out from this room a temporary adddition bas been made on the east esplanadc, for the Marine Band, wbich will play for the dancers. The large bow window at the east sido, before which Mrs. Nicholas Ixmgworth stood to be marriod and before which Nellie Grant was also married, has been removed for the time being and there will be sufficient space for the volume of sound. About a thousand invita tions bave been sent out. Mra. Taft and Miaa Helen Taft will receive in the Blue Parlor and the guesds will pro ceed through the Green Room and corridor to the Rast Room. Cap. Butt will make the presentations to the hostesa and her daughter. Among the company, which will in clude young people from tho diplo matic, official and army and navy sets, there will be aeveral prominont young people from other citiea, B/INHM HIDDEN (iOM) MINE. In the hillanear Oakland, Cai., George W, May, jr., of Newark, N. J. baa found gold in a shaft that waa aunk by his father forty years ago. The fatber was driven from his claim hy forc<>, but not bjfore he had convinced himself that there was treaaure in th ground, When he waa comjielled to quit he filled in the shaft, and con cealed the place that he had dug, The aon, who bad often heard hia father tell of the aupposed gold ledge, recently went to Oakiand and bought two acrea of land inciuding tbe old shaft. He claima to have found ore that bears out bia parent's glowing tales, A pair of atay at home comfortable SLIPPEKS ia what he "wanta." Large fine, beautiful deaigns. Comfortable: styldi. "Cut Pricei." 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New York, f)ec, 30.?As Ihe re? sult of the strike of marine firemen employed on the municipal ferry sys tem between Manhattan and Staten Island and Manhattan and South Brooklyn all of tbe city owned ferry boats are idle today. The strike came without warning and the boats were tied up at their wharves, leaving the hundreds who make the trip daily be? tween the two points without meaos of transportation. The War in llouduraa. Calveston, Tex,. Dec. 30.?The cap ten of Malpaso, the mountain strong hold of the revolutionists in Chihua hua, nnd the death of Col. Cuzman from wounds sustained in anotber re? cent battle, are conrirmed today in messages fromjprivate interests in Chi huahua. The rebels were routed yesterday wheu General Ezcuedero, with a de tacbment of less than two hundred men, attaeked Malpaso. It is reported that 14 Diax soldiers were killed in the attack. The rebels abandoned tbeir strongliold with even smaller loas, Accldent to an Avlator, Paris, Dec. 30.?l.itut. De Caumont, an army aviator. was probably fatally injured today in the 150 foot fall of a monoplane which he waa teeting in a flight over the maneuvering grounds at 8t. Cyt. Both legs were broken, bu hin crushed and serious internal ?n< hlfiH inflii_n?Kit Oestmrtlve Itre RaginJ Altoona, Pa., Dec. r>0.?Tbl b,l*?]e_ aection of PhiUipshurl is thK^tenej _itj, de_tnution which 8te.,C(i |? the Scl.oonov,. early todav. Thia block, in J located the Ifcu Telophono d ia in ruius, while tj|t. pj,^ Opera House is a mas_ .4? ||ft. Joonied. ' Osceoia, Tyrooe, Clearti*^, dalo have been asked for a" Shortago ol water prevent-s etU work. by the rireiuen. At 10 o'clock today the lire wB#! blazmg flercely aud with the driviug west wind fanniug the tlames, it aeem od certain that nothing could BBV- the Jownton aection. A conservative ? mate at that hour placed the lo more than $30,000. Asaisted by the men and apparatus sent from nearby towns, the BrOBSBB got tl?o blaze under coutrol shortly be? fore noon. The total daiuage was placod at $75,000. Several of the tiio fighters were slightly injured. i'lllagesWrerkeTby liarthquakes. Atheua, Greece, Dec. 30. ?Fragmcn tory reports received today from the provinceof Elis, on theaouthwoat OOBBt of Greece, indicate that several viltaevs were wrecked by yeeterday'aeartlniuake and that hundred- of peoph have beei eiiderod homeleas. It ia fearod that many have bden killed. Owing to the interruption ol telegrapb communii tion, deUila are lacking. A l-'-i tuiK-le-s "\ _??*_." New York, Dec. 30.?For the next twelve montha the prisoners on Black. - wells Inland may have their fottUMl told at reduced ratea, as an even dozi n of the aoothaavera arreated iu a raid of Wednesday night took up their enforced abodo there today. Magis trate Kempner, who doesn't boUot. much in the power ol an Oriental garb and a pack of cards to read the future, sentenced the dozen to serve a year. Tweuty-nine other palmists had their cases postponed. rimrrti Hnalness Heada. Pbiladelpbia, Dec. 30.?That all city churchea need business managers as well as pastora waa thetheory aiisatnvd by J. E. McAfee, assoeiate secietaiy of the Board of Home Missiona of tha Preabyterian Church, at a eonferencti of lay workera yesterday According to Mr. McAfee the laymen in the Presbyterian Church are not al? lowed to take a sufliciently active part in the executive organization of the churchea. This, he said, was had foi the ininisteis. who were thus burdemd with an intinite number of dutails, cur tailing tbeir time for spiritual affairs, aud tbe laymen were driven almost to tho "verge of rebellion." "There aro more than (wo thousand out of the ten ten thousand c.isitiog Presbyterian ehurches now without apermanent pas tor," he added, "many being vacaut because no man will assume the enor mous burden connected with being their paator." ____?_ Salllng" ol thlc U. H. fle_t. Portland, Eng., Dec. 30.?As its own hauda played "(iod Savo tbe Kinjr," and the Lands of the Ilritish home th 11 "Auld l__ng Syne" aud "The Sta. Spaugled Banner," the second di viaion of the American battlcship Heyt aailod today to join the other divisiona mobilized in tho English channel pre paratory to aailing for (luantanaino. The home fleet gave the American ships a rousing farowell and drew up in a doublo line, through which the American ships passed. Broke WorTd?? Krrord. Buc, France, D?. 80.?By remain Ujg in the air eight hours and live miuutes, Maurice Tabuteau, Hying in an aeroplane constructed byMauiicn Farman, today broke all world'a record. for diatance, covered in one Hight, flying 3_2 milea and taking tho laad iu the conteat for the 1910 Miehe? lin cup, and prize ol $4,000. Lower Court Bu.talned. Trenton, N. J.,Dec. 30.?Suslaining in every particular the opiuion ol Judge Ten Fyck adjudging that Caro line B. Martin, cbarged with murder with the Snead bath tub case, is not in sane within the meaning ol the act ol July 8, 1906, Justice Swayze today d? nied the application lor a writ of certio lari to review tbe order of the Eaaea Court ol corn mon pleas. Justice Swayze held to be constitutional the act ofl90_ providing for an imjuiry into the sauity of prisoners, but pointed out that properly construed tho act was not desigued to change the long establiihed ruie ol criminal responsibility. ? _ua Men" IMsarmed. New York, Dec. 80.?There is peace today among the Tongs, not only iu New York, but all over the United States. The "gun men" bavo been disarmed and ordered back to the laun dry tuba. The highbinders must seelc noneat employment; they will no lon gor be permitted to maim and slay. The pact was signed last night in the heahejuarters ol tbe On Leongs, in Mott street. Iu tbe contre of ihe low-ceilinged room atood a bigh round table, about which were grouped the head men ol the two tongs, in brigbt rai ment. About them stood lorty Cbinese mercbants, preachers and studenta, together with the niinor officiala ol the tongs. At each end of the room atood two altara ol the God ot war, before whose wringled form burned two red candles, with the emblems of the tongs painted in white on their aidea. Between tbe candles rested two lat oiled roast piga, banked about with candied sugar loafs. Burning incenae sticks quivered in the hands of the joss. Behind the joes knelt two hok kah bnys, bearing lacquer trays, upon which were the Cbinese ink pada and bamboo ink brushes to be used in lign ing the treaty. Cnder the terms of peace thatis to extettd to tbe remoteat aection of Ameri ca, each tong agrees to turn murderers artfr to the Chineae Merchanta Aaaoeia? tion. wbo are to deliver tbtm to the poiici and inaure a ipeedy trial. All gambliog debts are to be liquidated promptly. Do tlie right thlng Ifyou bave Naaal ' atarrh. Get Ely 'a Cream Balm at one. Don't touoh the oatarrb powdera and muflfs, for they con win cooalne. Ely'a Cream Balm releaaea the aecretions that ln_arae tbe naaal paaaages and the throat, wbereas rnedicinea made With mercuiy merely dry up the seeretlona and leave you no better than you were. In S Bly's Cream Balm is a real remet \ deluslon. All druggists, -0 oe< roailed by Wjr ftroi., K Warren