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MONDAY EVFNING AUG. .0,1909. Today, Auguat 30, ia the_forty* seventh anniversary of the second battle of Maoa.sas when tbe Confederate forces under General Lee and the federal troops under General Polk (of "head? quarters in the laddie" notoriety) met in battle array and tbe latter's forces were defeated aod driven to tbis city. In tbe battle tbe Confederate and federal forces occupied exactly the reverse po ?itions tbat tbey beld in the first battle of Manas-a?, bot tbe result ot each battle was the same?a famous victory for the Confederates. In calling attention to tbe anniversary the Manas.as Jon mal ?ays: Each succeeding year bringa this memorable date to tbe minds of Vir? ginia's citizen-., tbis day of the second great victory of tbe Confederacy on the Bill Bun field, which shines tbr)ugh the deepening haze of past events with a Juster that can never bedimmed Fewer ?nd yet fewer a** the years slip by, are the answer1-, "Heit! to the roll call of tbat great host which once stood in the strength of its youth and patriotism at the threshold of the southland waiting in grim patience for the coming strug? gle. Silently tbe thin gray line is marching onward to tbe final rendezous "beyond the river" where wait in brotherhood the reunited armies of tbe Blue and the Gray. ."Mon there will re? main to us of thia generation only a hallowed memory, arid it behooves us with garlands, with aong aud with time? ly tribute of word and deed to keep thia memory green. Bl preserving its cross-ties with creo? sote tbe Pennsylvania Railroad Com? pany expects to prolong their life to thrice their period of usefulness when left untreated; and to corespondlingly reduce tbe consumption of timber. Tbe railroads of the United States require 100,000,000 ties annually, and to supply them over ],<?00,0<<0 acres of forest are stripped of their timber each year. If tbe creosoting of ties should re? duce this conanmption of timber one half the general practice of thia method -would be a measure of forest conserva? tion second in importance to none. It now turns out that Mes.rs. Rei ber ?nd Young, tbe former officers of tbe Farmers' National Bink, of Pittsburg, who are serving a "sentence in the River? side penitentiary at Allegheny, Fa., for their bank's shortage, have found a ?hortage of $S0,000 or more in the prison accounts instead of the $27,000 first reported by them last March. Warden Johnson, who waa suspended, is now not to be found and the state will have to put up fonds to meet the pay? roll. Tbis shows that there is thieving going on within as well as without priaon walls. The wonderful peach yield io (he vi? cinity of Moorestown and Marlton, N. J., ia creating widespread attention, and never in the history of the peach-grow? ing industry have such crops been gathered either for quantity or for qual? ity, bo near and yet bo far. It is strange that some enterprising Alexan? drian does not buy a few bushel of peaches in New Jersey or Dataware and offer them for -ale here. So far there have not been enough peaches in this market for one to buy them even by tbe quarter peck. Another automobile horror occurred yesterday near St. Louis in which five persons were hurled to death by a train which .truck the machine. Mother Bhiptcn's prophecy? CarriasiPN witlueut horw* shall k? Ami accideita till the world with woe? U generally .upjo.ed to r:fer to railr >?i!~ and the many calamities to trains. The Beere**** may, however,have bad viaious of au'omobiles. Si vu M.- -.ut-li-bed by the British Admiralty show that the aggregate t-um apent by Britain, France, Russia, Ger? many, It,lr, Japan and tbe Uni:ed Skates on navies in the past fiscal year waa, in r und numbers, $600,000,000. Aod thia iu the face of peace congresses and disarmament convention* .' BkiUTOI Auntie h. of Rhode Island, chairman of tbe national monetary com mis-ion, which wis appointed by Con? gress last year to improve the currency ?yatem rf <be Uniied Sates, sailed fer Eurcp:* on Se-turday and there are thou* aanda wbo don't care a rap if he never c.mes back. From Washington. lOormp**adanr-a of.the Alexandria G&setu.) Waahington, Aug. SO. Consul General Hanna, at Morterey, Mex , forwarjed to (he State Depart? ment today an appeal from the officers of tbe association of tbe American colony for aid for the vict:ms of the flood diaas ter. He fays in bis dispatch that several hundred were drowned and thousands are homeless. It is evident that every person ia Monterey, he declared, haa suffered les-* of aome kind or other, and many of the poorer claaaes are entirely destitute. Tbe appeal calls attention to the fact thst Mi n-ere?, a city of 100,000 people, does 85 per cent of its foreign trade taih the United States. The State Department, which can not take acion officially In providing relief, bas referred tba appeal to the Red Gross Society. The Postoffice Department figures out tbat it will be $10,000,000 short of re? ceipts for the year ended June 30 laat. Tbe deficit ia attributed to tbe mainten? ance of the rural free delivery. Formal announcement nf the decision to increasa tbe registry rate from eight to ten cents was made by Postmaster General Hitchcock today to a committee of registry officials called together from various parta of tbe country. The com mittee was instructed to reacjast tbe business of the registry offices to conform with tbe new rat". In tbe river carnival and regatta to be held in the Ge.rjjetown chiinnel and h1ol,k the l'e> tomsc drive at w ashinj-ton i-'eptecuber 19th, the naphtha launches Angi-sia and Edna Earle, thc former owneed by Admiral Calmes and the latter hy Messrs. Harry Eleitebmaun and Lorenao ".VolfoW, of this city, will take part,_ Virginia New*. Senator Martin addressed a good roada meeting at Charlottesville on Saturday. "We are making some experiments," be said, "and are proceeding slowly, but we are going to proceed wisely, earnestly, and vigorously." Harry Berry Lane, Helen Lane Johns and Llizie Lane Daniel, children of the 1, te Mra. Helen B. Lane, of Fredericks? burg, are to si are equally in ber estate, according to tbe will of Mrs. Line, filed for probate in Washington ou Saturday. In a statement issued by the State Corporation Commission it is shown that tbe railroads operating in Virginia on their mileage in tbis state alone made an increase in gross transportation revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30 of tl, 208,325.93, as compared with tbe previ? ous year. Mr. Price Maury.aged 60 years, while riding horseback near Charlottesville on Friday night was attacked and severely hnea by C. Fair, a jouog man from Kentucky, wbo is visiting the home of Mr. Maury's niece, Miss Lucy Maury Granger. Fair was arrested and bailed tor hia appearance on September 6. J. Hitman Higb, of Durham, N. C , baa been placed tn j iii in Richmond, on a charge of abducting Ida Markham, a 15-year-old girl, from ber home in tbat city. Tbe man and girl were discovered in a Iccal boarding-house, where they *ere living as man and wife. High bas * wife and child elsewhere, but bsa not 'een living with them for some months. Judge Mann, of the Twenty-eight Vir? ginia district, on Saturday handed to Governor Swanson bis resignation as a member of the state Senate. Judge Manu retires from tbe legislature ia or 'Ier to make tbe race for the position of t-overnor. Ga receipt of the resignation Governor swanson issued a writ for -pecial election in that district, to be hpid at tbe time of the regular election in November. James Robinson, negro driver for Alvey Brothers, was sentenced to '.){) r_ys in jail in the Police Court in Rich? mond oo Saturday, for substituting rocks for grain in deliveries to the city stables. Robinson's defense was that one of tbe Alveys had told him to substitute tbe stones for the grain. He even went far as to say to a city detective, that he bad been lipped for such work. The uu.uppnrtfd testimony of th? negro was not sufficient to ca*! blame upon a cor* cern tbat has always had a good reputa? tion. On hearing tue evidence Com? monwealth's Attorney Folkes made ap? plication for a bench warrant foi Edward Alvey, wbicb was refused hy Justice Cruchfield. It is believed that a gen? eral warrant will be sworn out by tbe city against Alvey in order that the mat? ter may be conaidered by the grand jury. MOSBY'S MEN MEET. Tbe annuil reunion of the Forty third Virginia R.italion, better known as''Mjsby's Men," was beld at Front Royal on Saturday under the auspices of tbe Warren Memorial Association, in the Afton Ion Hotel parlors, where the reception committee held sway uot I a late hour. The old men told tsar stories. Tbe address of welcome was delivered by H. H. Downing and was responded to by Maj jr A. E. Richards. Tbe orator of the day was Capt. Sam F. Chapman, who spoke of bis a'tack ?while leading a body of men near Front Royal against the union fores, think? ing tbat there was only a compsny, when it was a divisii n. He was forced 'o retreat, and gave his reason in detail. In this charge six men were lost by bim. Tbey were hanged or dragged to death by horses. Tbe next reunion will be held at Herndon. Amont? those present Saturday were 0_pt. William H. Chapman, Capt. Sam, F. Chapman. Maj A. E. Richards, Lieut. W. Bm Pi-lmer, Capt. Hugh Mcllhaney, Lieut. John Bu-sell, 0. W. Dunnington, J. F. Callnha-', Dr. C. A Fox, Magn.ss Thompson, K S. I>enn, Dr. Joseph E Mudd, Thomas Hunger? ford, Sl. Qm rgeBr-an aod ntl The following officers wttt elected: Camp Commander, Capt. William H. Chapman; first lieutenant commander, W. B?n Palmer; sec md li. nt-rant commander, Robert M. Harrover; ?h'ri lieutenant commander, T. W. L*fce; 8?rg*aot irujir, B >yd M. Smii. ; Edwin Sbatkleit, aoju ant ands-cretary. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. Five persons, four of them closely re? lated, were kilted yesterday when an automobile io which they were riding was struck by a fast passenger train nf the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway west of Vigues station,St. Louis .ouoty: Mo. All were residents of St. Louis. Tbe party had been at Creve O.eur Lake, a resort 12 miles west of St. Louis, and were speedirg homeward when killed. The locomotive struck the automobile iquarely. Two members were in the tuto. A baby'a body dropped from (he root of tbe (rain ao eignih of a mile lown the track, and the women caught n the toDoeao were crnsbed almost te mod recognition in tbe wreckage, rbich waa carried a quarter of a mile teyond the scene of th? accident, and ras still on tbe engine pilot when (be rain s'opped. A male member of the party, who ras not instantly killed, survived long nough to be brought to a hospital in ;t. Louis, bnt died there without re? lining consciousness. An order for a new Cunard liner has een given to the Tyne firm which uilt the MaoretaniB. The new vessel rill be of 20,000 tons, 600 fee', long acd 0 feet tuarn. News of tbe Day. The condition of E. H. Harriman is rtp ned as being much improved. A law ia being enforced in tbe Dis? trict of Columbia wbicb requires resi? dents to bave a permit to keep roosters on their premises. J. A. Heether, superintendent of tbe Memphis division of tbe Siuthern Rail? way aud a resident of Memphis, died at a hotel at Atlantic City yesterday. The Nebraska Railroad Commission today ruled tbat passengers could ride free in Pullman cars when there were no empty (eats in ordinary coaches. Jacob H. Scbifi visited E. H. Harri? mao at Arden, N. Y., on Saturday and he said tbat Mr. Harriman's condition was not serious, and tbis was borne ont by the statements of others. The Kaiaer Wlhelmn reported npon ber arrival at Plymouth t)day having been delayed oil Newfoundland by striking a Bleeping whale. Tbe whale was literally cut in two by the prow of the steamer. Tbe National Conservation Congress In ".-ssion at Seattle on Saturday adopted o resolution declariog that the federal government should limit grants of water rights to a reasonable definite time, aod should exact an annual tax upon them. This is a victory for the policy of Chief Forester Pinchot. Four persons were injured, seven ser? iously early todsy in Cbictgn when a crowded s'reet car overturned on a curve on Twelfth street. A temporary track bad beeo laid three feet above ao excavation, the car running at high speed, struck tbe curve, and it turned over partly falling into tbe excavation. Fourteen persons were taken to the hos? pital. Ormsby McHarg, assistant secretary of tbe Departme-. of Commerce and Labcr, baa sent in bis resignation and it bas been accepted. The Pincbot-B.l linger controversy is involved in tbe resignation. Recent sharp criticism by McHarg ia said to be connected with bis leaving the department. The contro? versy in the Department of tbe Interior is becoming io acute tbat Presideot Taft cannot much longer igoore it. Folly |200.OOO damage was done to West Scranton, Pa., property yesterday by a mine cave, the wont the city bag ever experienced. Abandoned work? ings of tbe old "Cork and Bottle" colliery of the Fairlawn Coal Company, which ceased operations 20 years ago, gave way under a side hill, and an sera equal to two city blocks aank from two to eight feet, throwing bouses from their foundations, cracking walla aod other? wise damaging buildings. Former G.vernor W. S. Taylor, of Kentucky?wbo for nine years waa an exile from hia native state because of bis a1 leged connection with the assassination of Seoatcr Wiilian-Gjebel wbo lives in Indianapolis, and wbo w.s pardoned three months ago by Gov, Wilson on all charges against him growing out of tbe Goebel murder was io Louisville last night. Thia ia Taylor's first visit lo Kentucky since he fled from tbe state in 1890 just after Goebel wss abot. Rev. Robert Martin Matthews, of tbe First Welsh Church of Coooellsville, Pa., was on Saturday night committed to jill, charged with having more wives than ooe, acd ooe of tbe most remark? able stories of a wife trailiog tbe hus? band, whom abe bus** cted was revealed. Mrs, Anoa Jones Matthews, of Pitts hurg, whom toe minister married there F.bruary 26, 1907, had reason within the past year to su?p?ct that she was not the only one, and abe traveled 7,000 mMes before she succeeded in getting tbe evidence wbich she submitted in swear? ing out a warrant for her husband. In Wales the Pittsburg wife, traveling un? der her maiden name, found tbat ber husband hid a wife and some children there and that be bad been sending them money with great regularity. Murder Explained. Bristol, Tenn., Aug. 30.?The sui? cide at Newport today of John Spencer, a prosperous farmer living near Jones r> ra, is believed to clear up the mys? tery surrounding tbe equally aensa'ional murder on Sa'nrday night, of A. J. Slagle, a wealthy lumber man, who waa shot to death at Newport, Tenn,, and robbed. Spencer wss suspected of hav. ing committed the murder, but aa there was no evidence agaiast bim, he was not arrested, lo fact he weat to the S.'agle home to attend the funeral and ? slr pt there. He left bis bed at 3 o'clock | this morning and drowned himself in a rain barrel. Thaw Appointed Librarian. MaHMwaa. N. Y., Aug AX? ll iny Keel:,! Thaw, re?enily renniideel to Me.tieawun Any lum ley .Instil t; [mat M ill*-, u i the grovnd timi he is still a dangerous lunatir, has Ixten appointed librarian nf the asylum hy the su periiitendeiit, Dr.Bakw When Thaw waa re- I tunnel to the asylnm, his ?cflw> is-ued a statement in winch she -iii .lattice Mills' reqoeat thal Thaw he grant-d more liber.ie*, ? bb ignored by tlie hospital MtboritieS] ?hini' Ivis lamed a statement that they ifould ii ra ?'t tn Thaw no privileges <? rn. rited to other maana patients._ New York Stock Market. K?W York, Aug JO Tr.idiugat the oren inir ot the sto,*k niark-t and daring the* Oral fifteen minnies kw active and excited, with strength ame unting almost to buoyancy. The tlaa showed advances ranging from 1 tee 'lian . points, Tl, news treiin Arden of the conditio i nf Mr. Harri? man's health bolstered up to the market won? derfully*. After the buoyiint opening the market developed NHIm strength a:nl fur? ther gains were made. The volume of hii-i ness diminished after the first hour of trail.ng tint the quieting down was without et?lilli in priies. Letter to A. L. Jameson. Alexandria, Va. Dear Fir: A big mill-owner, Spartan-barg, s. ('., waited 5,000 gallons of paint, ami bought tiy pri'te; paid 5 cents less than our-; got a 'ita l-and-/inc" paint; bnt the lead was -.ulphate of leid, not carbonate. t*u!phate costa about half; and covers about half. That paint waa adal'erated about six times ns much us the 5 cent paid for. He ' saved" *? ct nts; and it cost him 30. 'ii no; it cost him more than that; we for? got the labor. Can't work it out ei < lon't know how lung it'll wear. Bbort measare besides; that 11 me waa twice as Brack ta his ''saving" 5 cents. It was thia, too; some loss there; don't know .ow much. 1 here was too much dryer in it. The maker made something on thst; he didn't. Taking it altogether, he diou't make mach ry thst 5 cents. Go by the name: and the name is De voe ead-and-xinc. Yours truly 1. W*. DEVO* 4 CO. P. fl, E. S. Leadbeater 4 Sons sell oer ?amt._ .9 DIED. Saturday, Angil-.' ML in Charles Town. Jef j th er-ou county, Went Virginia, ELIZA -Ki , ; to >KH, daughter of Li?_t. Ol. John Augustine ci Vaahington, C. B. A., Ot Mount Vernon, and P life of Maj. Robert W. Hunter. The fiinerai a' ervices took plat* from Zion Church Charlea ca 'own, today, August i; at 12 o'clock _u, br s j ie Today's Telegraphic News Harriman'a Condition. Turner, N. Y., Aug. 30.?Tbe spirit of confidence min'fes id around Tower Hill today leads to ihe telief tbat E. H. Harriman has already undergone ? sur? gical opetation, from which be rallied splendidly, or that tbe surgeons wbo bave examined him have decided tbat the operation, when it ia preformed, will, be of auch a minor character aa not tot cause a'arm. j Ihe sources from which come the re-| port that Harriman his already undergone ao operation declare it waa a "bloodless" opera ion, aod highly successful. Tbe report ia tbat, instead of a malig? nant ta.cer, Harrimao is sufi ring from a hardening o! the spinal column, which threatened him with p<ral)8is It is Bald that. Dr. Crile, on Friday, nipulated two of the vertebrae of M Harriman's apioal column so tbat a pressure on them was relieved, a plas ter cast fitted to to the body to hold tbe spine immovable, and Harriman, it is dec'ared, was given immediate relief. lt was not found necessary,according toj tbe reports, to make a single incision on| tbe patient. Ilia believed new cartilage will form, at which time tbe plaster ch. .tl will be r-moved. This, however, it lsj said, will take several months, lt ia de? clared tbat tbe partial paralysis bas disappeared and tbat tbe surgeons no longer fear for Harriman. Other reports from Harriman's home coming from semi official sources, declare Harriman has decided to give tip a great many of bis minor railroad details to ex Judge Lovett, Julina Kruttichnit'. aod L. E. Ljree, aod that they ar. to be totors of youog Averill Harrimao, wbo finally is to take up bis father's great work. Harriman doea not intend to give up control ol bia railnads, but will get all the minor details off hia bands. Tomer, N. Y., Aug. 30.?Lying on a big portable couch,E H. Harriman took the air on the spacious veraada on Ar? den House, top of Tower Hill today. He was seen the.- by a United Press repre? sentative, wbo climbed Tottot Hill iu an effort to set at rest the conflicting stories of the railway king's condition. Tbe correspondent waa not alloted to draw near. Harriman lay flat on a large iron coach with robber tired wheel", the couch covered high with pillows. Har? ri m m was covered by a yellow dressing robe. He looked yellow aod wan from tbe diataace and seemed to be ia the same coodition as wheo he arrived from Europe. The Atlantic City "LM War." Atlantic Oily, N. J , Aug. 30?At? lantic City's "Jil war" ia aa-umiug arri ons prrp.rliooi. The Sj mu/ observers dec are they will bave arrested today 100 saloon-keepers for a continued vio? lation of tbe Sunday c'osing law. Detectives are today searching, for the man who wrote to Rev. Birney Hudson, president of the Lord'a Day Alliance, threatening to blow up his church uol-'sa the Sunday closing war was slopped. The officeis of the chancery court will probably order tbe arrest today of the ball players who engaged in a game at Inlet Park yesterday afternoon, defying the Injunction granted by the court. Joseph W. Sulm, president of the city buiineM league, today declared that the hotel men will j lin banda and strip Commodore Loots Kuehnlo. spootor for Sj oday baseball aod bead of the cly "political machine," of his power. Ba lus proposes tbat the hotel-men dis? charge their S,000 wait-r* aod other mgr) employes aud thus deprive Knell nie of tbe greater part of the force which enables bim to control the city election!. The Sunday closing question probably go to tbe polls thia fall, with a reformer running for every office. The reformers will make a special rflirt to control tho city council and thoa ensure the enforcement of the ".unday laws. Accident to Balloon. Berlin, Ang. 30.?Misfortune con? tinued in the wake of Count Zeppelin's new dirigible hallo ia today, and the great airship is now undergoing repa r it Buelz.g tbat will require at least two days to complete. Oo the fact that the airship is con? structed on the "balloonet" plan, with seventeen gas tight compartments, simi? lar to the waler tight compartments of .cean liners, prevented today's accident, when tbe propellor flew off aod ripped hrough the side of the balloon, from ming a far more serious ending. Tbe accident occurred at Bielzig, near Wittenberg, at f> o'clock- tbis morning, ive hours after the Zeppelin III had tarted on its return trip to Friedrich ihafen. Count Z ppelin was not aboard, ie having left etrlier for Friedricbshafen The propel le t abaft broke and the pro pellor ll.w oil, tearing two big holes iu be aide of the balloon. Three of (he leventeen gas computmruis, or ral oonets,wer. torn open by the propeller, mt tbe remaining fourteen were imm? ured a_d sufficed to keep the baTloon float. The crew of the Z ppelin III s'gnallcd he soldiers io tbe barracks at VVitten lerg ard a c*>f/?paoy of soldiers rushed o the hallo*io'a aid. A landing was nade atB tlswelg aod mechanicians have >eeo tent there to repair tbe ship. Conditions in Greece. Athens, Aug. SQL?The immediate esignation of Crown Prince Cooitanii ios ts commaader-ia-chi-f of the 'redan army ia expected aa a result of iday's conference between M. Mav omichalis, tbe new premier, and lead rig generals. The enwn prince's re .oval h(<B beeo made a provision of thc lutneer'a r.torn to tbe barracks, and t it ls not short-coming, the soldiers breaten to fcO out in greater numbers , ban ou last 8-tordsy. The demand for tbe removal of the rown prince indicatea the intense feel eg against the royal bonsebold, includ- - *g King Qjorge, and is believed by f ?any tn foreshadow a revolution. , To allay the discontent in tbe army, t is likely tbat the new premier will 'ant nearl* all the ref< ros de mandi d y the army. No punishment waa ra* cteel ripon the soldiers who mutinied atorday, complete amaeaty being ranted them. School Children Strike. Pet'-e'eiirg, Pa., Aug,30-"\Veareall on a ; |i_ dtelant-oa written in a chilli's ?riel tai Ucked upor) the door of the public hool in Preston, greet- I the tea-hers when ey arrived too; en ' be first day of soho I' liv. Tl e Fltt'Ot -'lo I i" attended hy I 0 dldren who*e father-were eaiplojed at the : Work*. That they have ? n.| their fathers'strike-pint was indi .ted by their act"**)"- ""' -bree "strike eaker." appeared for their tint lessons. . Roouvelt Kills Bull Hippo. fiaigo Sol, Lake Navasba, July 15 ? (Bd mail to New York)?It was shortly altfr eifcht ibis morning when Col. Rijee-evelt, Kermit, H. W. Atten bo'jugb, bis brother, tbe comm*nder, aol tbe -taft correspondent of the United PrLa steamed oft in tbe launch this mooing towlog a row boat with three naives to serve in case of emergency. \;.tr some minor experience in shoot ic * an otter which was swimming io tbe .i*4 a '?rKe hui bippo waa encounter t Col. Roosevelt intered tbe row boat 'h Kermit and after taking aim be Iiacflarged his rifle. Tie boge beast, bit fall In the boL.der, turned aod made straight for tbe |oat. Doubtless he had some idea of Jfcr'.ipg the deep water, but be left no .'tit as to bia intention to destroy the b4-t, incidentally. His behavior gave hal evider.ce of this, and besides, b% evil character waa notorious. Again H-iosevelt fired, thia time striking tbe h|?d, the only part wbicb presented lt* saf. Tbe bippo grunted and opened ita j^-s wide enough to ssallow the boat, if I bad been some yards nearer; aod osevelt sent still another bullet aigbt down his throat, causing him to close his jtw with a snap and wheel slightly. Then a last bullet in the head finia.ed him. Meaowbile Kermit, stand? ing op io tbe boa', wbich in a few minutes would have been smashed but fer tbe colonel's cool, steady aim was showing as much coolness and perhaps even more courage by taking photograph afttr photograph of the charging beast. R*pes were then fastened round the body and tied to the Ivjucb, wbicb put on steam, and dragging behind us our heavy barden, we came back ti camp iu thc late ait.rnooo. International Labor Convention. Paris, Aug. 30 ?Fourteen countries and I),000,000 union labrrers are repre? sented iu th- 1-iteroaliooal La*>or Cm vention wbich opened today under ihe chairmanship of M. Jouhaux. Samuel (rimpers, president of tbe American Pedi ration of Labor, began playing a prominent part In tbe conven? tion by winaing a fight for the admis? sion of the prr*s. (> -ing to the ant-go niim betwe.ii lb* FttratO government aod a large ps it ? I tba French press oo one hand and iv li har leiden on the other, resulting from the rea nt labor strikes, au t lt rt was made to exclude the pres*, br. O m<pera argued aucctst fully for the frees*, acceeaibility to news? paper men. The t rganizatino of an International Workingmen'B Congress for mutual aid, tbe importation of atrike-breaken, shorter working hoon aid the regula? tion of domestic service will be some of the questions discussed uy the conven? tion. ^^^ Explosion on a Collier. San Francisco, Call., Aug 30.?De tsils of tbe explosion of gases on board the United S.a'es collier Nansban some rime rgo bave been brought to the United States by Third Assistant Engi? neer Elmer Hutchins, who has arrived hereon the cruiser Hill lo. Tbe vessel, Hutchins declares, was running between Cavite and Hong Kong when she was struck by a typhoon which stove in some of tbe steel balk beads of the vessel. A abort time later a terrific explosion occurred in the paint locker and clouds of smoke arose. It la believed the explosion wss caused by water comlog in contact with some chemicals ia the locker room, for the vessel was shipping a great deal. Two men (Med from snflocation. Wife Kills Har Husband. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 30.?In ber cell today in a dirty pri on, Mrs. Walter Lampe, a prominent society romen ol this city and formerly of New York, shows great bruises on ber b idy and limbs, which she says were inflicted by ber husband, whom abe fatally shot yeaterday at tbe Hotel Holland, where J they had apartments. Mrs. Lampe declared her husband accused her of infidelity, naming her former husband as one of tbe parties, and that he beat her as he had often done before. Earaged, she shot bim and then, as he lay dying, tried to force him to sign a written s'atement exonerat? ing her of his charges. She made no efforts to escape. The couple was mar* ried secetly six montha ago. The Flood In Mexico. Menterey, Mexico, Aug. 30 ? Falling almost as rapidly aa it bad risen, the S.ota Catarina river, today is within ita i anka and rescue parties along the shores are recovering bodies of tbe flood victims swept to their death in the deluge of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. While no official estimate of tbe number of dead has been made it is declared the total may exceed 1,200 Tbe rain wbich had been falling alnce Thursday stopped at noon Sunday and since tben the work of rescue has beeo going abead rapidly. Hundreds of I bodies bave been recjver.d aod prepared | for burial. Forest Fire. Yosemite, Calif., Aog. 30.?A great forest fire which oow looks like a sheet of flimes 10 miles bog, is workiog its way toward the great grove of mammoth i trees in tbe Yosemite which hav?, for many years, been tbe mecca of thousands of toarists, and it is feared tbe thousand I year old monarchs of the forest lu tbe ' Mariposa, Sequoia and Merced groves ' will be destroyed. Government troop. < ire "back-firing" in an effort to stop ' tbe blsz3. Already thaosaods of acres ' if the great forest lands bave been bara- ' ?d over the damage, great as it ls in j noney is more from the view-point of ' isture-lovers. } Rescued From lynchers. ', Brockhaven, Miss , Aug. 30.?Ia an , neffectual attempt to lynch Robert j iVrwdball, white, beld here on a charge t if having tsatulted Myrtle Neal, 12, ( vhite, eight persons were wounded. The I ight was between friends of ibe girl's amily sod the Woodhall family. While , he battle was at irs height troops here - oofc Woodhall hurriedly on a spec al g rain and he was t .ken to Jackson (cr - afe keeping. f \ Faat~Voya_e~ <i'ieenstown, Aug. 30?Cutting two ' lours and 23 second* boa her own ea?t-' \ rard Atlantic record, the great Canard mer Mauretan'a arrived here today, js laving trade the ran from New York in J - tar dnys, 14 boan and 27 minutes.' let bfs-. previous reord was made jj 'hen she landed here on August 9 after n ruo 'rom New York of fotr dajs, 17 " our* aod 20 miuutaa. Tie Market. Georgetown, D, a Au*. JO. -*-Wb?t 66m. ROSENFELD'S Both 'Phone* Both 'I'honea Satisfaction or louey Back, Women's Tailor Hade Suits Autumn S yles, New Materials, col ring and style feftore; M ** terials are Mannish Fabrics, R ugo Disgor.rU, Horoe-puoa and Chifl.n Broadcloth; all the new coluri g. Ai*-o Navy and Black. Early purchasers have the advance of special prices. Anything in summer goods cut nearly to half and some less than half The balance of our $13 Silk **uits cut to . $9 Our $12.50 Spring Cloth Suits cut to . . $6 50 Our $6 Misses' Suits cut to ..... $3 50 Lawn Waists were $1.50 and $1.00 cut to . 75c Our $1 Sailors Cut to 50c. ROSENFELD'S. 518-20 King Street, Alexandria, Va. Third Annual Excursion Post FT. P. A., To Marshall Hall FRIDAY, Sept. 3. AITCHESON'S WHARF: Thre| Eft p10-,3" m ? LAST nOONLIQHT RIDE. aug.tfl St Swan Bros ????#?????#?? lew Fall Goods Sow on Sale Ml New dress ginghams for childrens school dresees very pretty and stylish. Yard, 10c, 12k: and 15c New plaiddress goods, for childrens school dresses. Yard. 12}c 25c. 50c, New All Wool Serge dress goods All colors. 36 inches wide. Yard, 50c, One case New Outing Flaunels, splendid quality and good styles, Yard 5c New Canton Flannels, good and heavy quality Yard 5c, 8j, 10c, 12jc, 15c. New fine quality Galatea. Just the kind of Material for early Fall wear, big variety of plain and fancy colors. Yard 18c few Standard Patterns for Fall 10 and 15 Cents, Drink Mico Water. I They All Want The Iceman when he leaven such a nice big pta *e nf ice for ki little money aa we* do But there's only one iceninn who 4aat, 1 hat ia ouraelvea. 8o if you wait the. beat ice serf.ce at the -nialleat emt order ns to begin leaving you a piece at once. Iee ia going to be ahort, they say. (Jet oo our lint wbile we can take customer!. mutuaTTice co. Phone 51. A New Whisky. Pitt.burg, ft , Aug. 80.?One bowl if prune juice, a pinch of yait and a ittle sugar; mix well and let atand until erment d Result whisky. Thia re* eipt ia said to bave been followed by irtaoners in the Western penitentiary lere aid tho fa lure of the gnarda to de? ed the "moonshiner-*" ls said to bave e.ulted in the discbarge of eight of n.ai. According tn George Htauft, one I tbe gua di discharged, five of the nen tere dismissed outright, wbile three 'ire allowed to res'gu. Mauri stated tia*, the priB'inors rni*_/d tbe prune lice, yeast aod pogar and then put it way in tbeir cells to ferment. Frightened at the threat of a police* ian to "take bim along" fir playing in park fountain at Oat-kill, N. Y , lobert ttims, a seven.year-old boy, r .n ?rror stricken to bis home yesterday ad dropped dead at hia m.ther's feet. Mr. John W. Uitelcr, a retired china irrcbant and for many yrars a bnsi* .as man in Washington, died Saturday tbe age of seventy-eight yeara. Af ANTED.- A color.-. BOT to drive '* Liundry Wagon. Apply to A. **>. I'UNJPIJAN, angSO M King and Ol?mbna Hreeta. V ANTED.?A STENOGRAPHER, male, Salary W> a 'nonth. Apply at the 1UTHERN RAILWAY H.K'1'**. aug30 3t_ All persons desiring to aend their -kittel the public schools ?< ii d d j sall to get eir tax receipt now aud avoid the iu-h of it week._*?**> U_ Foi: Bl s t Latta newly-furnished ROOM. sm KINO STREET. aug-S 3t _WANTED. ______ AGENTS- Chance of your life. RttabUah permanent business; amtMlia territory. Sell our perfect brana, kerosene or coal oil mintie table lamp; hanginp, or bracket lamp, 100 candlepower; one-fourth oil uned; a won der; mtuple, durable; aella ou aight; Imnelwini profit. Sample at wholesale price. Write lol dey. WEBeBTEBSPECIALTY C<>, aug27 H* Waterbury, Conn. Everybody Will Be Happy LABOR DAY, nONDAY,Sept.6, At Marshall Hall, D. A. 66, K. of L. Boat leave*. Aitcbeaon'a wharf at 10..0 0. m.. Sand 7 p. m. Auiueeuieuti will le provided for the chil? dren ami un enj eyaMe outinf ia promi-ed all who atteinl. Tickets,.25 Cents. ian Ml rt Autumn Festival .OF. Seminole Tribe Red Ken Will bel eld at the Armory Mall September 15,16,17 aod 18 Something entirely new and onione?a mam? moth Indian village in the f'.reat. Four nigbta of ml A fun. /__ headquarters, 417 King St. -J L. r. JAUEHON, Chairman ) - C. II. KN KS, -Uo.-t.ry. , Fxecnliye V. ci. NICKLIN, Ireaaurer. j (-?**-?'tt-*j,. aug.6 td