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FRIDAY EVENING. MAYS, 1908
Twenty fivk masked men viiiledlhe
1 cine of John Bar cl ira, at Weilaburg,
Ky., a few daya ?g *, aod compelled h'm
io dig up his tobacco plant beds on pain
ol deatb. Wben the beds were de?
stroyed (he riders whipped Sandera until
the blood flownl. They next went to Nel
?*oa Oumminga' place, snd upon hia re*
lu-al to come out, the riders fired sev?
eral volleys into tbe houae. Such oc?
currences bave been going on in Ken?
tucky for acme months pis', apparently
without let or hindrance, whereca tbeae
marauders should be treated like mad
doge and exterminate il st any ct si.
It ll claimed tbat thia ia a representa?
tive government of a democratic people.
Yet bo great haa become the perversion
of this system of free government tbat
one mao, in the person of Speaker Gan?
non, is able to obstruct the wheels of
legislation in Congress. A flagrant evi?
dence of thia one-man power ia the
speaker's refusal to let the majority of
the House vote to repeal the duties on
printing paper. Ho says these duties
ought not to be repealed, aod he makea
goid thia opinion against that of a mi
j>rity ot the representatives of the peo?
ple* in Congress aseembled.
Wisconsin msoulacture.a of print
paper say tbey are going to try aod in?
terest eastern newspapers to hereafter
print on black paper with white ink.
They claim that millions of dollars can
b; aaved the newspaper*, because black
piper can be made from any old waste,
while white paper requires spruce and
hemlock wood. Unleas tbe price stops
advancing or Congress removes the tariff
many of the eastern newapapere will
have to use any colored paper that the
trust may put up n the market.
William Momr-OMttY, cashier ol
the Allegheny National Bank at Pitta
burg, known for a quarter of a century
aa the headquarters of the republican
politicians of tbat city, was arrested yes?
terday afternoon, cLarged with embiz
zliog $169,000 from that institution.
There i. nothing small about thia man;
he left the depositors what he did not
want and put the politicians' money
where it would clothe mest good?In his
own pocket.
The Methodist biabopa in conference
In Baltimore yesterday recommended
tbat the conference strike out the pro?
vision io the church law against danc?
ing, theatre going, attending circuaea,
eic. Tbe churches seem to be keeping
up with tne times ana are being lead in?
stead of leading. If Mahomet will not
come to you, you must go to Mahomet!
Vf.naior Fouakkk is working Ihe
ne^ro issue for all there ia io it, and de?
clares to the Senate that there muat be
''action on the Brownsville r-ft.ii, or no
adjournment." The repul heans are up
against a tough proposition, snd find
they cannot serve two masters and will
have to choose between the president
and the darkeys.
Tue announcement waa made in Nor
folk yeaterday that the incidental ex?
penses of the big revival campaign just
closed there amounted to $.3,600. Thia
would indicate that whereas we bave
the biblical aulhority for the atatemeut
that salvation is free, yet this does not
extend to the gospel.
Governor Swanson, of Virginia,
?a stati d yeaterday, saya that the time ia
coming when the wealthy will prefer a
clear conscience to their hoards of gold.
Thia may be true, sm* the Baltimore
American, but there are few of us opti?
mistic enough to expect to be alive to
see that time.
Stirheox was offered for aale in the
Alexandria market today at twenty
cen'a a pound. But a few yean ago
fifty cents waa considered a big price for
a whole one.
Om: or ibe Astor farms in New York
city, bought in 183$ for 928,000, bia
just bt*?n divided among Ihe heirs at a
valuation of t3,2f>o,o00. No'hing suc?
ceeds like success.
From Washington.
ICirrospondence ofthe Alexandria Gasette,]
Washington, D. C., Msy 8.
Representative Townaend, one of tbe
Rooseveltian captains in the Honae snd
tbe great backer ot some sort of anti
injunction bill, has received more than
500 letters and telegrams from people in
various parta of the country, protesting
against the enactment of such legisla?
tion. Many business men olj?ct to tbe
enactment nf sn anti-injunction measure
as prejudicial to their interests, white
the labor leaders demand a law more
radical than any that has yet oeen con?
sidered. Mr. Townsend is wailing for
President Roosevelt to return ,lrom Pine
Koot, Vs., when be will seek the execu?
tive's views upon what steps should be
taken to secure the legislation desired.
Until then, he haa postponed hia attempt
to call a republican caucua on thia
?MW,
Measra. Mann, Stafford, Miller, and
Sims, comprising a majority of the
Hausa committee investigating tbe price
of print paper, will leave Washington
Ibis sfiernoon to inspect Ihe paper mills
of tbe Inierostional Paper Company, at
Corinth, N. Y. Teatimory will be j
taken Satu'dty afternoon and night, atti
possib'y Sun tay relative to mill opera?
tions, psrticularly ss to whether the
wages have been increased recently, aa
maintained by tnanufacturera. The com?
mittee will leave Corinth lor Washing
Ion Sunday night, anl will probably
have another hearing io Ibis city next
Monday
Tbe bill prepared by the Senate com?
mittee on militaty affairs to prevent the
. aecration of the American flag waa re?
ported favorsblv to Ihe Senate today.
The Navy Department has just re?
ceived a report from Captain Charles
J. Badger, superintendent of the Naval
Academy, showing lhat 54 midshipmen
have been physically disqualified aaa
remit of the recent exsminations for
promotirn. No definite action baa yat
been taken, but in the cate of the 13
memberi of tbe first claaa in tbe liat,
diplomas will be given if ihe mental
examination ia pasted, but ii Ihe physi?
cal aliment is not eliminated in two
years, their rreigoaliona will be compul?
sory. Defective vlaion ia the most com?
mon ailment.
With tbe third republican currency
conference only three days away the
band of tried and true '-insurgents,"
wbo are opposed lo the idea*, principles
and everything sise in the Vreeland bill,
are still working day and night to make
tbe ad.-p'ion or passage ol thia measure
an impossibility. Ooe member of ibis
group of warlike currency experls aaid
today tbat there are about twenty-five
republican members of tbe Houae who
bave already sign litxl to Ihe inaurgent
camp their readiness to leave Ihe fold
and come over to tbe opponents of tbe
Vreeland bill. If thirty members can
be persuaded to bolt the programme
which it waa believed had been practi?
cally settled at tbe laat conference, ibe
Vreeland bill cannot be forced through
in api'e of Speaker Cannon and the
leader**. Tbe democrats are againat the
bill and with tbe number indicated it
could not pass. In tbe meantime the
select commit tee of republicans appointed
to perfect tbe Vreeland bill ia aaying
nothing but making a lifelike imitation
of sawing wood.
Two Illinois representatives in Con?
gress, one a democrat and tbe other a
republican, whose elections have been
contested, have been fcund by theHouae
committee on i Deltana to be enticed to
tbeir seats. The (wo membera seated
are Representative Adolph Sabatb, demo?
crat, of the Fifth Illinois district, whose
aeat waa conteeted by Anthony Michalek;
and Representative Cbarlea M. McOavin
republican, ot tbe Eighth Illinois dis
rici, whose aeat waa contested by Stan?
ley ll. Kurz.
Secretary Root haa received from the Costa
Rican gnrS?nasat a formal iuvitition for
thc Ann rican government io participate in
tba *<? ramonies of lbs iiisugnrsiioo of tb'
Ceitral American Court ol Arbitration at
Cai tag" on May 26.
Sixtieth Congress.
Washington, May 8.
SENATE.
Senator McComber (oday made a
statement to the Senate regarding the
exialing conference deadlock on tbe pen?
sion appropriation bill. Ue expressed
a desire to test tbe feeling of the Senate.
He ssid tbe deadlock is on the question
ol abolishing pension agencies.
The Senate conferees insist on retain?
ing the present system while ibe Houae
aeeka to establish a general bureau here
and dispense with seventeen general
agents.
Mr.McOumber explained tho attitude of
both sides. Personally, be did not be?
lieve tbe change would be eilber eco?
nomical or beneficial.
Mr.Hale said thia ia not a question of
saving a few thousand dollaiH. No claaa
of public officers is bj popular and near
to the people aa pension agents. There
has never been any scandal connected
with their work. He hoped (he con?
ferees would "stand pat." The law is
good as it is now.
Mr. Hopkins urged ths conferees to
remain firm and prevent the abolition ot
penaion agencies.
HOUSE.
The House today passe.1 the sundry
civil appropriation bill earning approx?
imately $107,000,000, of which $1,000,
000 waa added in the committee of tbe
whole for the geological aurvey. Only
tbe general deficiency appropriation bill,
of all the big appropriation bil's, yet
remaina to be passed by the House.
Rather than face a minority fight
againat the bill, Mr. Mann in charge of
tbe omnibna light hou**. bill today
struck from the bill the provision for a
pension to widows and orphans of per?
sons who die from injury or disease in
the service. The democrata add thia
meant the inauguration of a civil service
pension system. The bill bb passed
carriea an appropriation of $759,000.
Thia afternoon the House wrestled
witb the conference report on the army
appropriation bill, a stubborn fight be?
ing made against the acceptance of the
conferees' agreement, wbich included
the Senate i'eui to increase the salary of
officers.
Tbe opponents to the increase were
led by Mr. Hay, of Virginia, one of the
conferees who refused to sign the con?
ference report. Mr. Hay aaid that in
live years the proposed raise to enlisted
men snd officers would smountto $25,
000,000 a year or what the army coat
the United Statea at the beginning of
the Spanish-American war.
FIRE LOSSES.
Thc following figures, compiled by
Actuary Charles Q. Taylor and touch?
ing the fire insurance buaineaa in this
State, have just been msde public by
Colonel Joseph Button, commissioner of
insurance:
Total premiuma for fire business col?
lected in Virginia in 1907, $8,880,512.
SS; losses paid, $1,788 745.80; loaaea
incurred, $1,830,175 21; amount of in?
surance written, $263,790,389.
Of tbe above amount, Virginia com?
panies did the following:
Stock companies?Premiuma, $689,
861.79; losses paid, $285,347.84; loeses
incurred, $298,091.61; risks written,
$38,043 947.
Mu'ual companies?Premiums, $56,
976 38; loaaea paid, $43,,S06.70; losses
incurred, $50,808.67; risks written,
$19,840,698.
The marine business in Ihe 8tate pro?
duced only *73, lH2.ti9 in premiuma.
Christian \ toiler, probably tbe most
preeminent among Ibe o'.d U*rman ree ?
dents of Washington, and well known
ta' bia famcui winee, died laat night at
7.30 o'clock at bia home in WBabington,
News of the Day.
Jt ia isaprted that the coat ol rail he
wore saved President Cabrera of Guate
a?ila from sssaialnstion recently.
Evelyn Thaw who waa ejected from
the grill room of the Hotel Knicker?
bocker^ in New York, h?a brought suit
againat ita manager for $25,000 damages.
At Newmarket, England, today
Richard Croker'i Rhodora won the thou?
sand guioeta race from a field of eigh?
teen. The betting wu 100 to 8 against
Rhodora.
Cardinal Logue left Washington this
morning for New York. After a brief
visit to Boston snd Niagara Fella, be
will return to Ireland. The Irish pri?
mate waa entertained at dinner laat
night by Representative Bourke Cock?
ran, of New York.
M> j ir O. P. Chaffes, 79 yean old,
who waa an officer in the Confederate
army and waa a brother of Lieut.-Cen.
Adns R. Chaffes, United States army
(retired), ol Los Angeles, died at hia
nome in Kaneaa City yesterday of kidney
tfonble.
The conference of the archbishops of
the Catholic Oburch in America waa
opened yeaterday at 10 o'clock at the
Catholic Uoiveraity, Brookland, D. C
Cardinal Qibbona presided. Ths state
of tbi church was the principal aubject
of discussion.
Final quietus waa put on the revolu?
tion today rn Peru, when a troop of
cavalry overtook and captured Dr. Do
rand, the leader aud instigator ol the up?
rising. He waa taken with ten men,
wi h whom he escaped when hia forces
were shattered.
Jock Pheoie, of Jobnatown, Pa., and
Kid Murphy, of New York, battled for
ix rounds at Jobnatown, Pa., last
night without either gaining anpremacy.
The releree declared the boot a draw,
Neither wu aatitfied with the outcome
and it is underatood they fill meet agaip
Burne time in the future.
A reception at Rautcber'a in Wash?
ington lut night concluded the aecond
day of ibe ninth biennial convention of
the Colonial Dames of America, In sm
eton at the Arlington Hotel. The re?
ception wu given by tbe members of the
Washington society to the delegates and
officera attending the convention.
Two more Episcopal clergymen ol
Philadelphia have quit their churca to
join the movement toward Roman Ca?
tholicism. They are Kev. Albert S.
Cooper and Rev. Edward A. Cowan,
ivght other Episcopal miniatera have
quit tbe Episcopal Oburch recently on
iccount of the "open pulpit" movement.
A unanimous vote by the delegates to
turn over the salary of tbe Biahop of
Washington, amounting approximately
to $3,000 and houae rent, to Mrs. Sat?
terlee, widow of the late Biahop Satter?
lee, until the inalallation of Bishop-elect
Brm', yesterday sfternoon, wu the
feature of the closing boura of the thir?
teenth annual convention of the Wuh?
ington Diocese of the Protestant Epiac
pal Church in session at 8', Paul's
Church. Although Rght Rev. Charles
Henry Brent baa made no announce?
ment, bia frienda are confident that he
wiil accept tbe election to the Episco?
pacy of Washington.
Dr. A. J, Col born, of Connella? illa,
Pa., baa furnished an affidavit wi h tbe
story of the smallest baby ever born
slive aud healthy in western Pennsyl?
vania, a one-snd-three-qusrter-pouod
gi*1, which arrived Sunday at the home
of George Henzoer, at Morrell, Pa.,
Tbe baby is the aecond born to Mr. aod
Mra. Her'zog. Tbe drat waa a boy
weighing two and one-half pounds at
birth. Now, at 22 montbi, it ia aa
lusty aa the ordinary child. Ita newly
arrived sitter ii fully developed, and,
although not at all lusty, wjll live.
Tbe father ia a carpenter. The moiher
is of medium build.
Mri. John Wilson with ber two rmill
children md her titter, Miss Msry Ic, at
8t. .lohn?ubry, Vt., mero burned to death t
day as Ce result of sn explosion cfs gaa
itove iu the teucnent where they resided.
The street esr men's union aod the Muni
e-ipal Traction Company, at Cheveland, O.,
which have leen neg'tilting for reice terms
fur over a wi .-ck, broke ort all negotiationi
this afternoon.
All bot one of the crew of 100 of tha Ger?
man ship Peter Rickmere wre*VeloS Etsi
p .rt, L, l? Monday night, was ijiaooverttd.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Io the Senate yeaterday the Foreat
Bureau section of the agricultural ap?
propriation bill wis diacutaed moat of
the afternoon, Senator Depew making a
speech in defense of the service and
Senator Teller bitterly attacking it.
A d'senssion relative to the power of
the president of tbe interatate Commercs
Commission to allow the railroada to
increue freight rates waa precipitated
by Senator Culberaon who aaid the In?
crease would coat the country hundreds
of millions. The proposed increases
are said to havs the president's unction,
Senator Foraker entered with zest into
the discussion.
The postoffice appropriation bill wu
reported from committee In skeleton form,
with an amendment carrying tbe Hal
linger subsidy extension proposition.
The Houae completed the sundry civil
bill which carries appropriation! of $106,
966,369.
The principal diacuaaion of the day
related to the salary and wage scale to be
paid in the construction of the Panama
canal.
The democratic fillihuiter wss tempo?
rarily broken when Champ Clark in?
terrupted a roll call to congratulate Ibe
apeaker on bia seventy-second birthday
anniversary. The speaker wu forced
to make a speech, and on motion of Mr.
Mason, of Arkansas, the filibustering
motion compelling a roll call wu dis?
pensed with.
LEAGUE BASEBALL GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.
Waihington-Philadelphia?Rain.
New York-Boston?Raia
Cbicago-H- Louis-Raiu.
Detroit-Cleveland?Rain.
HOW THEY STAND.
W L Pct W L Pet
Pbila'phia ..12 7 .632 I Chicano.8 8 .SOO
Cleveland.9 fi .600 | Boston.s ll .421
New York...lO 7 .688 I Wash'n.611 .SSS
St.Lonls.tO 8 .656 | Detroit.6 10 .3JS
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
yesterday's results.
New York Boston?Rsin.
Philadelphia Brooklyn Rain.
Pittsburg Chicago?Rsin.
til. Loui. Ciucinnat Rain.
HOW THEY 8TA5D.
W L Pct W !. Pct
Chicago.lt 4 .733 I Phll?'phi*....8 9 .471
Pittaburg .94 AU I Cincinnati ..57 .417
New York...10 7 .5X8 i Brooklyn ... 7 ll J 0
Boston.10 8 .656 | 8U Louii.... 8 13 .187
Tmi*-t upon DeWitt's Wit h Harri Salve.
It ii especially good for pllsi. Hold by W. F.
..'rstg ii ton A Lo.
Virginia News.
Rev. Alexander Stuart Gibson, ion
of Biahop Gibaoo, of Virgioia, arrived
do Saturday in Aldis, where he hu
taken ths parish. He is now tbe guest
of Mr. Bolling Haxall, near Middle?
burg.
Jodge Adam C. Carson, usociate jus?
tice of the Supreme Court ol Ibe Philip?
pine Islands, has srrived in Winchester
Irom Manila, sod on next Tuesday even?
ing will lead Min Eleanor Barnard Con?
rad, of that city, to the altar in Christ
Proteatant Episcopal Oburch.
A beautiful wedding took place near
Delaplane, Fauqoier county, on Tues?
day the 28th of April, st four o'clock,
when Min Mildred Strother and Mr.
Gulick plighted their troth to each
other. The old Cool Spring Church
wu taatefolly dressed by Mrs. Curlett
and other frienda ol the bride.
A delegation of University of Virginia
atodenta was at the atation at Charlottes?
ville wben the president's special ar?
rived thers yeaterday, and the preaident
addreased them briefly. He referred to
ihe fact that John Greenaway, a former
Virginia student, waa "ooe of the beet
men" in hit Rough Rider regiment.
It waa announced at the office of the
attorney general in Richmond, yeaterday,
that the ault againat B. E. Oogbi'l,
former treasurer of Mecklenburg county,
for $4,411 69, would be aitbdrawn, aa
he baa arranged, through a bonding
company, to meet tbe deficiency charged
up against him after tbs cloaing of bis
books.
A few minutes before dying in a hos?
pital at Brialol list night Mra. Mixey
Peltier, who waa during the day i .not!
in a critical condition on the atreeta,
confessed to haviog murdered two ol her
young children. Sbe declared abe had
put ons of tbem to death by hurling it
from a railroad bridge into a deep ai ream,
drowning it. Three of the woman's
children are now in a reformatory rcbc-ol
at Hampton.
THE BISHOPS' ADDRBtt.
Moat of yesterday's session of the con?
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Ballimore waa taken up by
the reed ng of the bishops' addreta. It
ia a lengthy document and lt nq-iired
more (han two boura to read it. While
a number of important queetiona were
d.Bcuraed In tbe paper, that attracting
most sttention and causing; something of
a eecution waa tbe resolution that
amer.dmenta be combated by aome spir?
itual rather than legVa'ive means, ami
that the words "dancing, play log at
gamea of chance, attending theaters,
horse races, circuses, dancing parti-s, or
danoing schools" be stricken from para?
graph 248 of tbe Book of Discipline.
The biBhopt raid i it plain tbat they
did not approve of these amus;ments,
but believe tbat the number and kind of
amusements hare grown || great that
ihe queation ahould le left to the con?
science of tbe people themselves, and
that the opposition vi the church to
amuaemeuta lt regard* aa unwholesome
may beat be aisled in tbe terara of gen?
eral [tnciplea. They recommended
that paragraph 248 be changed bark 'o
Ita original woiding aa it waa in 1872,
when the certain kinda of amuromenta
were specific'I.
With abouts and cheers, the 715 del
ega'ea pledged themselves to support
the bishops in an onslaught on tbe saloon
and liquor traffic. Every mm, woman,
ai il child in the ball jumped to their
feet and cheered wildly in response to
the appeal of (he bishops for help In the
fight againat the saloons contained in
tbe report of the biahops to the confer?
ence.
A national divorce hw ia advocated
to prevent "continued polygamy."
Q.vernor Hanly, of indiana, and
Governor Hocb, of Ranna, had paaaed
reaolutiooa demanding that Speaker
Cannon secure the puaage ol tbe Little
field bill.
At night tbe centennial anniversary
of the organization of the General Oin
terence u a delegated body waaubisrveel.
POHICK.
Rev. Everard Meade, putor of Po?
llick Church, preached to a large con?
gregation on Eaater Sunday, when
special aorvicea for the day were beld.
The Etater off-ring amounted to fifty
dollars, twenty-seven dollara of which
wu tbe children'a offering through their
Lenten boxes.
The annual vestry meeting for the
election of vestrymen waa held Eaater
Monday. Tbe following vestrymen and
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
Dr. N. B. Nevill, T. F. Chapman, Br, ?
Wm. M. Nevill, H. H. Dodge, O. C.
Thompson, L. G. Rsid, B. F. Nevill,
L. Denty, Paul Keafer, and F. Elmore;
aenlor warden, T. F. Chapman; junior
warden, Wm. M. Nevill; treasurer, Dr,
N. B. Nevill; uaiatant treasurer, Wm.
M. Nevin.
Tbe work of reatoratico on the church
li going forwaid slowly but surely. Tbe
pews hive recently been marked with
numbers and the Initials of original
owners in silver. The door of each re
stored pew als,) burs a ai ver plate with
tbs name of tbs person having rsslored
it, snd ot the person to whose memory it
wu reatored. Two handsome chancel
choirs modeled after (he colonial pat?
tern, were presented to the church in
time for the F.tater service.
The members of The Ladles' Associ?
ation of Monnt Vernon will attend
services in tbs old church May 17tb.
? [Fairfax Herald.
PARADE"AT SAN FRANCISCO.
The two chief eveata for yesterday in
San Francisco in connection with tbe
fleet festivities were tbe great military
and naval parade in the forenoon and
the governors banquet in the evening at
the Hotel Fairmont. Between 7,000
and 8,000 American seamen, aaid io be
the greatest number ol United Ststea
aailora and marines ever to come ashore
at ooe time to take part In a procession
in any city, lined np yeaterday in tbs
third division of the militsry snd nsval
parade under command of Captain Sea?
ton Schroeder.
Yesterday's parade marked the lut
public appearance of Admiral Evans in
bia active career aa a naval officer. In
a few daya he will retire from tbe ser?
vice. He bad a place in the carriage
diviiion directly following ths regulsr
soldiers.
Ia sll Alleen thousand soldiers and
ssl;.-, s made up the line including 2,500
?an of the regular army under General
Fuostoo, the National Guardsmen ol
California consisting of twelve companies
of the Fifth regiment and the naval mi
lilia of California,
Today's Telegraphic News.
-uardlng Tobacco District.
Columbus, Ohio, May 8 ?Cavalry
troop A cf Clevelaud paaaed through
Columbus today en route lo the tobacco
district of Adams county. Tbe troops
now in the field consist cf troop B, of
Columbus; troop A, of Cleveland, aud
company M, aeventh regiment, 0. N. G.
Tbe Law and Order League wbich is tbe
organized opposition to the night riders,
h's a big force of detectives st work sod
many arrests are expected. As soon aa
tbe bill appropriating $10,000 for tbe
purpose ia paaaed tomorrow Adjutant
General Cruchfield will pnl an array of
secret aervice men at work. Il seems
certain tbat more troopa will be ordered
to the field. Col. Knox, of the Seveuth
regiment, has been ordered to take com?
mand of all tbe organizttiona now in tbe
field.
Hamilton, O, May 8.?Tobacco
growers are todsy in a heat of excite?
ment. A band of men, declared by
growers to be night riders, visited this
county list nigbt. A big tobacco shed
and 6,000 pouuda tobacco were destroyed
near Sommerville. Growera have placed
their croc, ? under armed guard. Agents
for tbe nigbt riders gained admittance
into many tobacco sheds by a ruse and
are believed to bs plsnning new raids.
Many growera have received warninga.
Mexico's War Threat.
i.-atemala City, May 8.?Although
mote political prisoners are being con
a'solly thruat imo the overcrowded de?
tention houses, executions are continu?
ing steadily and all the excitement at?
tendant upon an abortive upriaing atill
prevails, auch aflaira have been practi?
cally forgotten in the general alarm
prevailing over what ia regarded aa
Mexico's war thr.a's. Reports are con?
stantly arriving aa to the massing of j
troops ou the Mexican border and fears
of an invasion are ever before the people.
The government ia uneasy, as are also
the people over the signs of a threatened
invasion, and an answer ia anxioualy
awaited to the request of Preaident
Cabrera, Mini.tera have been aent to
Wuhington to aik Mexico to explain
the presence of soldiers on the border.
Col. Solorxano, a prominent military
official, and Vincents Cezena are the
iateal reported yielima ol the shooting
squad. Both were accused of partici?
pation in the recent plot against Ca?
brera. General Miguel O. Bustillo, s
coe fi le nisi agent of Honduras, also
accused, ia now under tbe protection of
the Mexican legation.
France Wanta Explanation.
Paris, Msy 8 ?The French govern?
ment haa aiked .lapsti to report fully re?
garding the attack by a mob wbich
wrecked a timber factory owned by
Frenchmen at Llino, Japan. The re
qm il la ) worded that tbe Tokio offi?
cials will understand that a full expla?
nation ia wanted with reparation for the
damage*. An official report from Ihe
Miyaaak prefect declares tbst the dam?
age amounis tn $50,000. No one wu
killed, it ia atated, and the French, wbo
owned the factory, are either hiding in
tbe mountains or have Had to Kobe. I;
ia unl-'is'o-'il that the Tokio office haa
exprea-ed regret at the occurrence, and
liss usure'l the Frrnch government lhat
the tflilr will be s'fted. Forty arris 8
are reported lo have been mails.
The Thaw Case.
New York, Msy 8. ?Mihi ugh it is
aaid that he gare his consent lo the ar?
rangement, it ia uudeiatood that Harry
Thaw is very much disappointed at the
delay in (he heating of the habeas cor?
pus proceedings to release him from
Matrawan Asylum. The decidion of
Attorney Mack that Toaw cannot be
taken out ofjsil for automobile rides is aaid
to have added lo Thaw's dislike to Ihe
delay wbich aet the hearing ot the caae
for Wednesday instead ot Monday. He
ia aaid to be aomesbat irritable and a
repiila'i.-n of yesterday's scene, when he
loat hia temper because ihe deputy
sherill would not allow him to go on au
automobile tide planned by Harry Van
Cleat, a Poughkeepsie lawyer, whose
wife ii related to Thaw, it ia aaid, would
not surprise (he j dieri
Admitted He Threw Dice.
New York, May 8.?District Attor?
ney Jerome today admitted on the wit?
ness saud that he threw dice lor a dol?
lar a piece and the drinka with the two
som of Taoraaa F. Ryan, at a restaurant
near the criminal couria buildings, while
Dolphin M. Ddlmas was summing up
in (hts first (risl of Harry K. Thaw (or
the murder ol Stanford White.
It also waa proved tbat Frank Garvin,
Jerome's moat promineut assistant, is
related by marriage to Anthony N.
Brady, Garvin'* elater having married
Br adj'a son. Ryan and Brady are per?
haps the m st prominent men in tbe
New York Oily Traction deals wbich it
ia alleged Jerome failed to investigate
properly.
Burning of an Infirmary.
Mmietia, ()., May 9.?The Waah
ington County Infirmary wts burned to
the ground at noon today. Two hun?
dred patienta ofthe ina i u i ju were ia
s panic and many were seriously in
j ired. Three leaped from windows and
were badly hurt. Supciiotendeut Joseph
Young discovered the flames in Ihe
basement and spread the alarm. He
waa fatally burned and doctora aay he
rill not survive the day. An explosion
in lbs laundry department caused the
fire. Physicians and nurses from Mari?
etta have been ruabed to the acene.
Locked up Policeman.
New York, May 8.?Charged with
locking up a policeman who had been
sent to atop a prize tiglc, Max Roae,
Frank Dombroaa and Harry Roaenburg
were presented in police court today.
Policeman Martin Lunn wu the advance
guard cf a raiding party and wu to blow
bia whistle wben tbe fight waa in full
swing. He was recogn zed and led to a
room in the top of tbe building and
there locked up and kept prisoner. Io
ths meantime the police made the raid
without a signal and they aay they found
Rou and Dombroaa in the ring.
Charged With Perjury.
Berlin, Msy 8.?Prince Phillp Zu
Eui en burg, former favorite ot Kaiser
William, and an alleged member of the
notorioua "Knighta of the RoundTable,"
wu arrested today on the perjury charge
againat him, growing out of hia test -
mony at the trial of Editor Harden.
Despite the fact that he ia desperately
aick the prince waa brought to Berlin
under police escort and incarcerated in
prison. He ia now an inmate of the jail.
Ths Market.
Georgetown D, C., May 8 - Wheats 101.
Destructive Fire in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Gs., May 8?A diuatrous
fire wbich started early today io ths
center of the wholesale district laid in
ruins a block snd s bslf of the iargest
and beat business buildings in tbe
city. Fifty business houses sre s com?
plete wreck. The loss ia eatimated at
more than $l,.r>00,000 and will fall most
heavily on S. M. Iomann, a weslthy
capitalist, who owna practically all of
the buildings. From 3:80 s. m. until
7 a. m. tbe flames raged almost st will
before being finally bought under control.
The entire, block bounded by Mitchell,
Madison, Forayth snd Nelson streets
waa burned out, and where ones stood
substantial buildings are now only masses
of ruina and debris. Toe block ia near
the new terminal station which was
aerlovaly threatened. The Ter_inal
Hotel is a total looa. All the gues'.s
ears ped, however, aod ao fsr as known
no one wss killed or seriously iojured in
the tire which waa the most serious
Atlanta has exj ero tc d layton, Fire?
men in numerous la* a iota had narrow
escapes, however, irom being buried
beneath failing walls.
The tireatsrted from sn unkuown rauss
in the big building ol tbe Scblesenger
Baker Company and quickly spread to
a<-joining property. Tue fsi lu re of tbe
water supply at the most critical moment
haa caused much crlticiam and an invest?
igation will be ordered by the eily
authorities.
Retirement of Rear Admiral Evans.
San Francisco, Msy 8.?When the
Usg of the commander-in-chief is! run
down from the battleship Connecticut aa
the mn sinks in the Pacific this evening,
the long and glorious career of Rear Ad?
miral Robley D. Evana will come to an
etd.
The veteran performed bis lut service
todey when, in spite of hia illness and
infirmities he went aboard bis flanabip
to be preaent with Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf at the joint review of the
Atlantic and Pacific th ea.
It waa a day of wonders for San Fran?
cisco, and the celebrators and expres?
sions of honor bestowed upon Rear Ad?
miral Evans mtde lt a elsy all filling the
close of his services.
The .ear admiral expects to leave for
Washington tonight. Hia retirement la
at hia own request on account of iii
health. Though his service ends today,
be will not be placed on the retired Hat
until Augus'.
Rear Admiral Thomas will become
commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fidel
Sunday. He will retire at hia own re?
quest on May Itt, and at lbs', time com?
mand will pau to Rear Admiral Oharlea
S. Sperry, now in command of tbe fourth
division. Sperry will take tbe sixteen
batil'sbipe on their voyage round the
world and will bring them Into Hamp?
ton Roads on Waahington'a birthday
next year, where they will be received
by President Roosevelt.
Another Skeleton Unearthed.
Ia Porte, Ind., May 8.?At dawn
today Sheriff Smu'zer ai d hia deputies
n some-! siarth for bodies on the larm
ol Mrs. Belle Gunueaa, La Porte's arcb
initial-tress. Ina short lime after work
wu started another akele on, that ofthe
tenth body unearthed sitce Tuesday,
wrs uncovered. It was Impossible lor
the diggera to determine the aex of tbe
victim.
Chicago, May 8 -Revelations io Con?
or c ion wi>h the "house of horror" op?
erated at La Porte, Ind., by Mrs. Belle
Gunnea?,have caused United Statea Dis?
trict Attorney Sima to isaue orders for
the arreat of every manager of any mat
rmonial bureau operating in the Chicago
diatrict. Several have already been taken
in custody.
La Porte, Ind., May 8.?Several
bon.8 of another body were lound short?
ly before noon by the diggers at work io
the plot adj turning the Gunneaa houae.
They were taken from a hole -about two
feet from those found thia morning.
Thia makea 3 bodiea uncovered todsy
and 12 since Tuesday.
Poatofflce Robbed.
Philadelphia, May 8.? Yeggmeo
who blew the postoffice sale at Lienarch
a amall village near bere early today,
?ecu re. $200 booty aod indulged in a
running fight with pursuers, in wbich
scores of ahota were exchanged,gave thia
region tbe biggest eensati.n it baa ex?
perienced in montha. One ..f the yeggs
waa captured at Cobbs creek and gave
bis nama of Harry Killy. Another
robber waa abot by tbe pursuera and ia
believed to be badly injured. Officers
are io close pursuit of the other robbers
and it ia expected they will soon be run
down. There were eix men In the party
that robbed the postoffice. The charge
of dynamite uaed to blow the sife waa to
heavy that it wrecked ihe whole build
iDK' _
Steamers Collide.
Portlaud Eng., May 8.? Toe British
ateamer Matiana, from London, collided
with a ateamer ol the Hamburg American
line 50 mi Ilea suith of here. The
Matiana hu returned here with her
stern broken. Thu extent of ths damage
to the other ateamer, whose name haa
not yet been aacertained, ia unkoowo.
A tug hu been aent tn seek her.
Verdict for Damages.
London, May 8.? A verdict for a
$37,500 damages hu been rendered
sgiioat the London Timea ia favor ol
John Murray, a publisher. Murray
charged the times with libel on account
of a publication acci'MQg hit firm ol
extoraiion foi- selling the Inters of the
late Queen Victoria st high price.
Ex*Presldsnt Cleveland.
New Yoik, May 8.?A telephone
messige waa received thia morning at
tbe office of Judgs Alton B. Parker
from M.-s. Cleveland at Lakewood. Mrs.
Cleveland aaid that the ex-preaideni's
condition was steadily improving.
New York Stock Market.
New York, May 8.?There wai a ihirp re
yirsal in speculative conditions during tbe
first hour, the reactionary f-e iu_ prevailing
yesterday t-ing suoreeli-d by a tt.-ong tone
and aggressive buying was no'e I iu neirly
all stocks actively traded in. Prices neoned
uptfler the opening, scoring adv.nces ex?
tending to over a point.
The market continue 1 strong all through
the forenoon,advances made in the Int h-.ur
not only being maintained bat aggie sive
buying carried tte opw-rt movement along,
lifting many stocks ag-in 11 ie * high levi-1.
Union Pacific crosaed 140 for the first time in
a long period. B. H. T. was active oo ramon
thit tbe five cent dre bill will he vetoed
by Gov. Ragbe*. Commission holiness
showed moderate imp'oieuient. London was
? ?dier of .boot 10,000 ?h_ie-? daring tbe
forenoon.
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PR "ALE-EGG-i FOR SETTING from
choice Black Minorca aod Barred Rook.;
alli baby chickens sith mothers to rahe
(hem. Cheap. Apply at iii tooth Wash?
ington, it rt.:. lt
DHTISGUHHED GATHERING AT
MT. VERNON.
Next Thursday morning at 10 o'clock
the annual meeting of lbs Mt. Vet noo
Association will be held at Mount Ver?
non for tbe transaction of the busioess
necessary to peserve the estate of
Wishington ss be knew it to be during
hia reaicleoce at that beautiful apot.
Wednesday afternoon the vice regan's
of the association assemble in Wuhing?
ton, aod will be conveyed by s special
boat to Mt. Vernon, where tbey will re
msin for s week.
The Governor of Virginia usually
bonoia thia assembly with hia preunce
during s morning of tbe sealion, ia
recognition of the work accomplished
by thia dignified organization of -latin
guiahed women from tbe thirteen original
States, wbich cauae will be revered la
ceuturies lo come ss the mos*, complete
historic collection In America.
Seversl vice regents having been re?
cently elected, wiil have tbis May of tha
yesr 1908 engaven upon their memories
aa bearing their inital slay at Mt. Ver?
non, around whicb glows a halo of
romance and history.
Mra. Emma Read Ball, of Richmond,
will again represent Virginia which ahe
haa d<me with much grace and hooor to
her State duriog seversl years.
PARKER AGAIN IN THE RACE*
Information haa been received la
some exclusive democratic circles in
New York tbat Judge Alton B. Parker
ls preparing to announce himself, or
have hia frienda make (he announce?
ment for him, that hs will be a candi"
date for the norrioatiou lefore the Den?
ver convention.
It is thought that (he Irienda of Judge
Parker hope through tbe mere revival
of thc story of hia famous 'Void" tele?
gram to the conveotion of 1904 and a
eulogy of the man to center democratic
atteo.ion upou him to the end that lila
nomination may be brought about if
Bryan does not dominate the convention
from the very outaet.
With regard to JaJge Gray and
others who have been named from tba*
eut, it ia claimed they ail not be sup?
ported by weatern democrats because
Judge Parker did support Bryan, and ir
Brvan cannot win the nomination th a
time be might be persuaded lo throw
his strength tn Parker. At ill events,
the former candidate is to be brought
into publicity as an available maa.
CALLS~DECLJN_D.
Tbe Rev. W. N. Tillinghast, rector
of Bloomfield pariah, Rappahannock
county, haa declined the cai! of the vea
try of St. John'a church, New Decatur,
Alabama.
The Rev. W. H. Burkhardt, rector of
Si. Junes' cburcb, Leesburg, Va., haa
declined a call recently extended bia*
to become rector of All Hallow'a church.
Wvncof, near Philadelphia.
Tue Rsv. E. P. Hinks has declined
the call to become Archdeacon of Vir?
ginia in sucresaion to the R-v. J. Poy ott
fvler.-- [-southern Churchman.
CARD OP THANKS.
I desire lo extend my sincere thanks to the
mernie rs of tl-e Alexandria tire department
Cir t | r h. .-.tic work in preventing Ihe <te
striiition it'my residence .lui ia,s ibe lire la?.
WV-1 ce sd ay night. Pearc.-tfnlly,
J. H OPILLBORTZKB.
^'OT'CE, I), of A.? hi and after tonight
' Mount Vemou Council No. 1, I), of A .
will meet hi .lr. O. V. A. M. halloa King
street, and until Jul. 1st will meet ot ly oa
tits second sod fourth Friday night* of etch,
m 'tull,_ma)8 St
FOUND?Near the destroyed properly ?f
T. K. Burroughs, 8, u AC?., ou Thur!
day mi ruing a small pasteboard hox runUn.
ing money whit h the nwn*r can have hy celt
iog at this ort c ., proviug property and pa>
ii.g for this adverlineuient._
ATEXANDRIA LODGE No 768. B P.
O. ELK*1?Regular m*iti-g will ba
held MONDAY night for initiation. By
order r I' Exalted Ruler.
WALTER M. DONNELLY, Secretary.
may8 3t_.
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