Newspaper Page Text
ALEXANDRIA. VA. MONPAY EVENING. ? ULY ' Dr. ?. ?. ? known as ? ? of the. leading inv< ?u tli science of the Roentgen rays and thei application to surgery, died ?a the J< ferson Hospital. Philadelphia. Tuc-da from canec? contracted in los ?Mota with the rays. I> ? had continued bis work after he knei that tin? result mu-i pro\ fatal to biui and one of his last ads w is tb( I.w tion of tin? proof- ef his mon u raen la work on "Electrical Therapeutics am Boentgen Raj - Hii had shown bow the rays have |l> power t?. stimulate the wh of the blood up to ? certain poinl which continuations of the treatmen might cause seriout ? ? i's. He ab found when it was too late to -ave him self how a doctor may protect bimsel from the evil effects of using the rays Dr. Ka-sabiau will now go down inb history as a martvi t ? -!( ace. MANY snake -toiic- have been toll during the present summer and turtle yarn comes from Suffield, Conn A farmer who lost his footii fell into quicksand Saturday whil dredging an ice pond, owes his lif to a big snapping turtle's back Thinking it was a rock, he climbed 01 top of it and reached eafety. Beliei ing the submerged ruck would make ; good doorstep, he returned with dredg ing irons and hauled up a militan snapping turtle. A hotel man binigli the turtle and will convert it into soup Sinbad the sailor in one i>f his r< it will Lk? remembered, landed on wba he supposed was a small island. lb kindled ? fin? when tin "island" sud ?Jenly made a dive toward lb?? liottoni Sinbad then realized thai he had l.iinln on the back of a Bleeping sea turtle. K. F. BoXWl ? :.. id Holsington Kaius., the democrat who swore pre vious to the election of 1896 that ? Bryan was not elected In? would noi ein bis hair until a democral was holding down the biggest office in the republic, is still unshorn. Mi. Boxwcll's hair i.? now nearly a yard long. lie is still linn in his determination to remain away from a barber until Mi. Bryan 01 Some other man of bis political faith i firmly seated in the presidential chair. During the civil war a man in Alcxan dria refused to submit to capillar) abridgement until the Southern Con? federacy was recognized, He was ar? rested by the military and no! releas?! until he promised to have his lucks .-boni immediately, ???: twn little daughters ol M Mrs. Frank Gould were present when their divorced mother. Helen Kelly Gould, was man ?id t> Ralph II. Thomas in New York, last Monday, and several detectives employed by Gould watched the proceedings and pre? vented the girls from visititi!; theii mother, Mrs. Kelly, seeing that they went back directly io the custody ol their aunt. Helen Gould. At tin - : 1111 < ? time it was reported from Pa Frank Gould had been married I Kelly, the aetres-, live weeks ago. On the strength of his remai.?? . the mother of the children will try to gain entire control of tinn? The whole UnaaVOjy affair has been made the text for much moralising and di ? the marriage and divorce problem in its relation to the idle rich. It is announced that American pro? ducers of orange-, raisins .??,ml ? have practically driven the ! produci out of tin- niarket, '?'hi- i l>y means of the tariff .uni of course the consumer pays the high price which the producer sees lit t?. place upon In good s. A DUKUTKHI of colon??! patriots, most of whom had held office under him, found Mr. Theodore Roosevelt al Sagamore Hill on Saturday chopping down a tree. Fearing that he might tell them to go and do likewise the ton ference was short, as it was office and not work that tin- delegation wanted. Rape I inter Chi??!'! I!< it. Harrisbtug, Pa.. .In,? (8.- !?' burg's police ami many citizens are puzzled over strange rapping? at the home of William Kraft, E'izabeth, the daughter of Mr. aid ??-, ? just recovering from diphtheria. Two days ago ? mysteriovs rapping at inter? vals betM to annoy the family and neighbors. Detailed si arch has failed to reveal the source. The raps from the floor beneath Elizabeth's bed, 8ome one noticed that the raps came in groups of fourteen. This led to the suggestion that a- Elizabeth is ? ! old, the raps may be an omen, Then the police were summoned. They cm discover nothing. Sanitary o bave carefully inspected the water pipes and declare the pounding don ? t cium from them. An effort togel Elizabeth away from moving her bed, but the. raps stick ?tody beotsUi it? 1 ???? WASHINGTON. i ne,? of \ lexandrta Qasettel Republicans leaders are at work on ? plan to prevent an increased represen Ition in the House from the s ?Ulli iiidcr the mwci nsusand it is predicted ni. that the p mber hip of the Horn ?vili not be nidi? than lit?. The nev. will 1-bOW many importan! ? ? I (he ? lliticians are read ? ? inalo use ,, every available advau Il is cxpecied that the ratio ? I lepre- Claooll will be about 'J-J(UXM'. jure thai tin? south, not ? ? ? . I '? laware and West Vii ?? ? population of 29 <h?o correct, at Ihn ratio > 220,000, III.? south will have more re iiesen ? ive* in the House than A o publican leader stated to s ?(the population should exceed I OOOthe ratio would be increase I ? ven if soni?? ol the strong republican m? in the north should suffei. republicaut are worried ove; Oklahoma. They fear ihat the pi,pu ?., ilii- new Stai? Will have in I enough to give her the or si\ putatives. A big gain I m New York city, which . louiid i" the benefit of the dem ? the House, bul the reputili ae- contend that in the electoral col : n gain may go to them. If tii .p? leaders can carry out theii in. G benefits of the nev be gamed by New York Pennsylvania, Illinois. p | Minnesota. The republican ; li the Mouse with it I . up of ?">'.?! is iinwicldK ? bu m-- was transacted much ? ? ?re uuickly and efficiently ,\heti the membership was l'?o lo make good their argument ol im m an? advocating the re h ? or ol tin- membership now ? Shouldf the ratio of representation be I io n main unchanged, it ?- esti mated in tl the south would gain aboti 25 repi "inalivi- while the north would gain about 85. With the great ol insurgency and the con-tan combina ion ol progressive republicans with the democrats, the regular lea.lei fear that such an increase means tie overthrow of the organization. Tin democrats are planning to block this move on the part of the republican! and thev expert to be able to put up s hght that will swe ? the republicans of, then ie is. -ending their calculation and crooked. " The conci den' " \|.cciaiion of the democratk loaders that they will control the next House gives them double assurance and ile fear of such a contingencj -pur- ihe republicans on all the mon io drastic action. Sociologists here today attempted o prove by the case of Muy Arentrue, lifly-iiiiio-vi ars old, the woman win ended her life by asphyxiation, whethei I jit is actually possible for a person to live in the center of a large city abso lutely alone as desolate as if in the I middle of a desert. Such appears to have been the strange case of Mary I Arentrue. Seven months ago she de eided that il was not worth while and [?lined this not.?. "Nov. 28, I Wlierefore should I live f I haw no friends, no money and no relatives. I have no reason or cause to live. Henee I ili'?. Mary Arentrue." The note was turned over to tin? authorities lodaj by Mrs ?. G. Asbford keeper of lie? lodging house where the aroman lin.illy elidi ?! her life after contempl?t for inore than half a yeai Mrs. Arentrue bad supported herself by sewing. No one who knew ber had iispii ??? of her intention, but in ? 'ion today seemed to bear out .cjlb! in her farewell note that -he had no fi lends. ? controversy that has arisen be? tween the Virginian Railway Company and tin locomotive engineers in n emp'.oy will probably result in a call for the - ? ? ices of Chairman Knapp of '.? commerce commission ami Commissioner of Labor Neil J, the nmciit's mediators. A telegram I from the company today th? mediators lake up the nd ? '? tiuiiitii ? of engineers held a conference with Chairman Knapp to m ? m the -aun? request. Santo Domingo, prospering under the administration of its customs ser? vice by the United States, has signed with an American firm a contract for improvemeni of the harbor of Santo Domingo city, according to ad re? eived at the State Department today. The present contract calla for (instruction of 1,000 lineal feel of ? dl mi the .?:.-? . "de of the port, she first step in s plan to the harbor and proi ide modern dock facilities, Since (In? United look over the supervision of olleetion the republic has portion of il- public debt ami has undertaken many public works The big capito! building le under complete interior renovation. Tliirtj -five workmen are climbing aboul the d. like -o many human alit? ami the budduig is being painted from (..?ddi- of Liberty to Hi.r -ill- on the lower floor. The ,i to be reached by the 300 let ! above the sid.? walk side, and 60 feet higher on the w< - I" painting the dome proper, an eHipUcaj ladder is used, mil' from the bam of'he curve to the pillars at the cupola. The exterior with the exception of the wings, will e one coat, even to the pillars in front of the entrance. An arrange? ment of banging scaffolds is used in paintingthe outei walls, and 40 days trill bequired to complete Um job, Jesse James, colored, was tined $10 in the police court bere today charged with insultili;; a lady, lie entered a ar, almost pushed a white girl ofl Ini seat ami when she remonstrated In called her "white trash." Th. retail prices of fre-h meats here have considerably declined during the past month. ? din ? recaed. Haweeville, ??.. July 18. ? The I.oui-ville. Henderson and St Louis train for St. Louis wa? wrecked by a landslide two miles from here this morning, Fireman .lohn Rey? nolds was killed and severa] passengers ported slightly injured. The loco? motive ami baggage car were swept from the track and carried two hun drcd feet. __________ ? ml I!. -toe. a 8 j ? .?.--old boy is in a critical condition in South Bend, Ind., today froto ? lisooing, H several m orean con ?* the day he was taken sick. THE CRIPPEN Ml ? DK li < asi:. Dr. Grippen l.lkclv to ; Srape Piini-li nitiil il'tCaptu 11 d?NO l.< ?;?! Proof Gau be lliiuiglil A^ain-t Hon. London, July Is.?After bearing the testimony of friends ami members o! the police for??', the coroni;.l inquest into the death of a woman Supposed U) have been B? lie Klniore, the actress wife of Dr. il. H. Crippen, was ad? journed today (or ? ?.ith, with the belief growing that, even if arrested, Dr. Crippen could never be convicted of any crime whatsoever. The .sensation <,f the bearing today was sprung by Dr. Marshall, the DO Hoosurgeon, who assisted Ih. Pepper, r. ? famous Ctriminologist, in tin? au topsy on the sjismembered form disin? terred from the basement of Dr. Crip? pen'? home. Dr. Marshall swore thai a prolonged examination of the llesh had failed t" furni-h tangible legal evidence that the body was even that of a woman. He could likewise furnish no legal proof that a murder had been commit? ted, the remains having been so fright fully decomposed bj the quicklime that h was impossible lo Oll what had caused death. In view of this startling ,cimi?ion. legal authorities declare it would be impossible to convict Dr. Crippen, if captured, unie-.- Mut* believe could be fonti to narrai. something of the crime or Dr. Crippen should confess. The poliee lailllol prove in any other way that a murder lias been committed, or thai even it' they should prove a murder, tin? body was that of the missing Mrs. Crippen Under the British common- law it ? absolutely necessary i" piove the 'corpus delicti" before a prison? '?an be adjudged guilty. It.iiirnail \ccitlt ni-. Washington, July Is. An interest? ing state ment of facts from the railroad In .-? ry of the year ending June 80, 1909, was issued bj the Interstate Com merce Commission today. It ?- the abstract of the Commission's 22nd, \nnual statistical report. It .-how- a single tract railway nule age of 286,809, an increase of 3,215 miles. The equipment of the railroads included ?7,l'1l' locomotives and thi number of 'ars of all rissatili were 2,218,280. The total Dumber of casualties io persons <>n the railways was 104,848 of which 8,728 aepresonted the number killed, and 5,626the number injured. The number of passengeis kille.? irai ??'? and the number injured was 10.811, In the year previous 881 passengers were killed and 11,566 injured. Among railroad men the casualties were train men, 1,845 killed, 29,118 injured; switch tender-, crossing enders and watchmen, 98 killed, on? injured: other employee 1,178 killed, 45,581 injured The ligures how thai one employe in every 576 wa- killed and one em oloj in every twenty was injured. among trainmen, engineer, firemen, conductor and other trainmen it sppeas that one was killed for 205 employed and one was injured for every nine em ploy es, One passenger was killed for everj 3,528, 606, carried'and one injured for every 86,458 carried. The total number ol persons reported co the pay roll was 1,502,888, or an venge Of 6,88 per hundred miles of road. The par value of railroad stock now outstanding, according to the returns of the companies having to report to the commission wa- 117,487,368,935. of this amount 118,711,867,738 wa? in the hands of the public representing a capitalisation of 150,259 per mile of line. The number of passengers car? ried during the year was B91,472,525 and the number Of tons of freight hauled was 1,956,659,741. The aver? age receipt pei passenger per mile was 1.928 cents. The operating revenue) of the railways were 92,410,077,03(1 ami their operating expenses 11,599,448, natetele tit a Lever? Colorado Spring-. Col., July IS.? Clutching in one hand a revolver, in the other a lemon, with a note at? tached reading "From Lottie, Joly 17, ?T1?," .lames S. Hunter was found dead in \u- rojbm early today, a sui? cide. When Hunter fell in love with Lottie Collins, aged I1', and vowed hi- low, the ?irl said not a word but left the room. In a few moments she re? turned and handed her admin ? a real lemon, to which she bad attached a pine of paper on which was written: "1 love my steady, bui oh' you some? times, " This was too min h for Hunter. Cry? ing eoodby in the girl In? fled home and killed himself, I ?ili-in?; \iiti<-fpale<l. Manila. Juiy Is - .\(l uprising of Molos on the ?sland of Palawan ? pteteil io follow ih?? death of three - who were -hot down when liny attacked Dean C' Won?.-ter. secretary of inferior for th, Philippines. Tin plot against the American official was carefully planned, and Worcester would undoubtedly have been-Iain but f"? ii.e vigilance of hi- bodj guard. which fired a roJl.ey into the Moros as with brandished bolos they attacked ?he secretary. Three were Instantly killed ami a number of others seriously Injured. Death til ( iMiyrc-smaii (.ihm?!-e. New Orleans. July 18.?Congress? man Samuel L. (?umore, of the Second Louisiana district, died at hi- home al Albina Spring? eaily today afo-i an exteoded ilmeae, Samuel Louis Gilmore was Iwrn in HSMST DrleailS in 1809. He wa- elected to Congres?? in March 1909 to rill a vacancy caused by the death 'tf R. C. Davcy._ Movement lor Puhllr Laundries. Boston, July IS.?Taking a leaf out of the book of the socialist mayor of Milwaukee, the Boston Central Labor Union is to start a fight here for the establishment of public laundries. A committee will call upon Mayor Fitz? gerald to that end. Ba-ing their stand upon the crowded condition of the tenements jn certain sections of the city the Central Labor Union will in -i-t that the proposed laundries are nary and warranted by pubik policy as ? health measure. One car of an eastboood Boston ? Maine train was derailed near Denen ?. Y., today, and strikers are aOCOSed of tampering with the tracks. The situation has become so serious that tne strikebreakers have refused to go to work. impkmmm; -stbikx. Official? of Order ol' RattWSJ 1'oiiduclor?? and limili? rlienil ni Ksllrsad Trainmen in GoiiMiltatioii Milli Itailwa) Official*. I'hilatlelphia. July 18.?When the officials of the order of Railway Con? ductors and the Brotherhood of Bail road Trainmen went into conference today with Genera] Manager Myers, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, n was ad? mitted that on |be result hinged whether Ute threatened -hike would be declared. The union officiala have full power io issue a strike order ai ? moment's notice. They sougbl today's confer? ence, claiming that the company had misunderstood their attitude. They planned to explain to Myers anil hoped to arrange a compromise. Failing in thi-, it was conceded that nothing could prevent ? gene**] strike. Presidents Garretsoa and Lee wen? hopeful as they entered the meeting. Tin y said there was good reason U) be lieve that s basis on which both sides could agree existed, On the ten-hour work-day demand, tiny declared they Would Stand pat. bUl expressed the .?pinion that la way would be found whereby it could be put into effect with out greatly adding to the railroad com? pany 's expenses. Officials of the company maintained a reticent attitude. Then? would be a itati ment aftei the conference, but nothing until thai hour, they said. Pittsburg, July G? Negotiations be tween the employees ol the Pennsyj vania Railroad lines west of Pittsburg ?,.! ? In? railroad officials will be re? turned this afternoon. Although the railroad js -till making preparations for ? -trike. ssmpfliaJly on it- lines east of Pittsburg, the confer? ences here have been exceedingly friendly, it is -aid today, and ibis i dealsrod to be an indication that the differences wc*i will be settled peace? fully. Philadelphia, July 18.?? psaeeful settlement of the dispute between the Pennsylvanie Railroad and it- con tincture am) Hainnieii probably will be effected late tbW afternoon 01 lomor I hi- was the aiiiioiinceiti ut when the conference between the railroad oilicials ami a committee representing ii- employees reeessad after a two and a half hour session. The meeting will be resumed Ister in the afternoon President W. <?. Lee. of the Brotbei hood of Trainmen said : "We expect to meet Mr, Myen either this afternoon or tomorrow morning with our sob-committee I whole lot of the apparent misunder? standings ban- been cleaned up, We m? not saying whether we or the com? pany have been making concessione, but we will meet Mr. Myers again." President Garrctson, of the Order of Railroad Conductors, refused to talk beyond confirming Mr. Lee's statement. Detroit, Mieh. July I*.?With hun? dreds of strikebreakers distributed along the Grand Trank finja tbe officials of the railroad an? prepared for the strike ordei which is imminent, ?? ree thou? sand trainmen ami switchmen have voted in favor of astrke unless their demand for a standard wage scale i inet, and the ( irand Trunk telegraphers an? ready u> j ? ?? i * ? the moment the trainmen go ont. Port Huron, Mich., July IV ? A strike order affecting all the switchmen ami trainmen on the Grand Trunk lines, will be issued ai 6.80 o'clock io night, unless toe company grants tbe mena modified standard wage -cal??. This ultimatum was delivered to Presi lent Charles M. Hayes, of tin railroad here today, by a committee of era ploye*. Alton! two hundred strike breakem imported by tbe compenj were turned out of sj local hotel today by the proprietor, Tfoey wen? boused m the < band Trunk depot. Italks al N?gres- Tearlier. Rlisabeth, X. J.. July 18.?This city ?- -lined ?? over tin? appointment of a negreas to teach in the public schools The girl ?- Richie PaJson, sin? was graduated last month at menead of tbe normal training class Ol the Batten High school and is not yet 20 years ok! she was appointed lasi week to publit school 7, which is in the residential part of the town ami is attended aim.?-' exclusively by while children. The girl attributes the sentiment which is being aroused against her to the jealousy of a fi-w of her cla--ni iie Thera were not quite enough planes in the public schools for every member of tbe class, she says, and those who were disappointed immediately began to raise the question of her eligibility. The girl's father, Kdwar.l Falsoii, is in the express business and is reputed to be well to da He has lived in Bisa? bet 11 for a long time. It is said that a petjtion will soon ix- presented to tbe i.oi.'i of i.ilti.aiioii requesting eithei her removal or that she tewtdi only colored children, The question has never coin? up in Elizabeth, and there i- a good deal of uncertainty as to what the board will do. It is thought likely that she will be put in charge of ? class consisting entirely of children of her own race. Mintesi te Hcnclactor. Mei),.nal?1. Pa.. July Iff DiffeiSSf of a kindness done toa poor teametei iwt-my years ago during the oil excite? ment, Boyen Rankin, who was tlien ?lerk in a general store, has been made heir to a millionaire's fortune. The millionaire, once the poor teamster, was lack Bonis, a Texas oil king, who re ?cntly died in Corpus Christi. He eaves his vast fortune to his wife dur ng bei lifetime. At her death it goes o Rankin. When Ejitii?? came hero ??g twenty years ago, he vae liscouraged by his inability to obtain ?redit, when young Rank in on his own ?-?lonsil.ility gave biffl credit for sev? rai bags of bnrtf feed. Ennis roundly wore Rankin would never regret the ?ct. Since then he has prospered in lOth Pennsylvania and the Beaumont til fields. Twelve well known Washington. Pa., DtS ranging from 17 to 40 years in age today appeared in police rourt charged with gambling. According to the polii e, the men were playing poker in the middle of a county road near there, and compelled vehicles to turn in? to the ditch in order to get around them. When tiny were arrested there was ?'JlNI 111 the ]M. William J. Brown, anoioriou? forger recently sentenced to a seven year o rn, in the Hew Jersey penitentiary at Tren? ton, and Charles Berger, pickpocket, under six months sentence escaped from the Camden \ county jail this mornipg, < ONDITIONS IN SPAIN Political Revolution Anticipated?Flight of Wealthy Npanlard*. San Seba-tian, Spain, July 18.? Wealthy Spaniards are rushing, into this frontier city, owing to the danger on-outlook for a political revolution throughout Spain. The result of yesterday's meeting between King Alfonso and the member! Ol the Spanish cabinet is Still being kept a profound secret, but there is good ground for the belief that a military programme was out? lined, to be followed in the event the outbreak I,nomes as -erious as fore ?aeted. It is thought the constitution will be luspeoded ami military law substituted the moment the authorities lieve the situation warrants such drastic action. Serious strikes are now in Barcelona, Btlboa, Cen.iia, Santander, (iijoii and ?aragOSSa. Considerable fighting, ac Qompanied by numerous fatalities, i progressing in all sections of the nation. but th ? government is suppressing the details ami all cable matter is sub? mitted to rigorous Censorship. Labor agitators are working hard for a general -trike all over Spain ami are meeting with considerable success. In every city where the workers have gone oui rioting and bloodshed have followed. Troops are being poured into the threatened districts, with order-, to tolerate no large gatherings. Despite the official denials, there i. iio question that the revolutionists barely missed wrecking King Alfonso'jl train at Villa Dollid, while the monarch was en route to Madrid last week. Accident to Motor lloat. Beverly. Mass., July 18.? That Helen l.ift. daughter of tin? president, came very near to a serious accident while sailing off Marblehead, became known hen? today. No damage resulted, but for a few moment Miss Taft was near ducking if no worse, The president's daughtei had been visiting som.? friends at Marblehead Neck, and accompanied bj Capiain Roger Williams, of (he Sylph, wa- speeding homeward in tin? launch ??f the vachi when trouble came. Just ..if Marblehead tin? propeller .,r the launch l<i enne entangled in a moor? ing ami the little crafi careened badi]. almost taking water. The launch motor aras stopped at oi.ee and 4 Harvard student living nearby came to th rescue. He dived under the crafi ami untangled the mOOling, setting th lau ich free. Throughout the incident Mk? Taft "eat tight," her rescuer said, am', kepi a cool head. \ge- of Candidates to he the Issa*? New York. Julv [8. With the an tioiincenieiit by Mr- Donald McLean that Mrs. Mary R. Scott, presidi m ?;, mral of the daughter-of the Ameri? can Revolution, is to be s candidate for ? election, n became known today thai one of the issues of tbe campaign fer the office would be tbe ages of the re? spective candidates Mrs. Melgan declared that reference by the opposition lo the age of Mrs. Beoti wen? reali) funny, and thai in her opinion, if Ihe truth ware known, ii WOnM he fourni there is not a gnat difference in the ages of Mr-, Scott ami her opponent. Mrs. William Ciiinniing ?*toi>. "I know how old 1 am." said Mrs Story, when mid of Mr-. McLean slat ? ?ment, "but I do not know Mrs. Scott's age. and will make no corn men on what it might be. " Pitcher Transferred. Rochester, X. Y., Jury 18.?"Lofty" Russell, Baltimore'- famous Southpaw was -..Id this morning to tbe Phiiadel phis Americans for 112,000 cash and ?- to be delivered this fall. Manager Jack Dunn, of the Baltimores, says both Pui-biirg and Cincinnati were after Russell and that In? might have gotten even a higher price forth pit? cher bad he In Id out. but he wanted t.. complete tbe deal, and Connie Mick wired hi- acceptance this morning. Russell pilche- for Baltimore this after? noon against Rochi (tei \iitiiiiiohile Accident, Eureka, Col., July IS. Secretary of State (hail??- S. Curry, who is a candi? date for the republican nomination for governor, ?- under can? of physicians ai the result of an automobile accident yesterday. A car in which lie and four Others were riding went over an em bankment, falling forty feet. All the occupants wen? more or less hurt, but will recover. A* iMxi'iitri'.i? winov?. Three boors after Frederick Blochert's lifeiess bod) bad been picked opal tbe bottom of the elevator shaft of the Hen ilrie ? Bolthoff Manufacturing and Supply Company's warehouse in Chica? go. Kmuieti F. Taylor, a roomer at the New Bond, tin? house where Blochert had inaile his borne '"?" 'h'' I't-i fwelve years, collapsed in the street, Less than four hours later Taylor's bod] rested on s slab in the morgue beside that of his friend and fellow roomer. About the same time that the ambu? lance was speeding to the hospital with Taylor in a vain effort to san? his life, 8 heart-broken woman made her ap? pearance at the morgue and claimed Blochert's body as her husband's. ^hc claimed that she and Blochert had secretly' been united in marriage in Golden last Saturday. HI HIDE. Rather than face a court trial on charges preferred nearly a year ago, William Lyons, an old-time race track gambler and bookmaker, ended his life by hanging in ? cell at the Sixth precinct station Washington yesterday morning. Pinned to his coat was a hastily written note, in which he ac? cused his wife of betraying him with a "Judas kiss." He was taken into cuatody Saturday afternoon, after being away from the ejty since la-t August, when he jumped $1,000 bail following his arrest for bookmaking. On August 19, 1909, Lyons, and his wife, Julia A. Lyons, were arrested at their home, 6?t Sixth street northwest, on a charge of making handbooks on the ? Both were Mbseqoendy released under bonds of $1,000 each. Before tin was called for trial Lyons left the city, ind had evaded the detectives until ?Saturday. ChaHes Gillespie, a former news [wper man, who it has been said, is en? raged to Mrs. Mary Kenny Scott Hartje, letiied the report in Pittsburg today, NE\VS OF THE DAY. Rben B. Phillips, a Doaton million air.. i- ruing his wife for divorce, nam? ing a male nurse as corespondent. Brodle L. Duke, the tobacco mag? nati: has given his young brille a band Some business building injDurhum.N. C. President Taft will leave Beverly for Maine today to open the campaign in that state. A cloudburst ruined the tobacco crop and causeii $2,000,000 damaged in three counties of Kentucky on Sat? urday. One million immigrants were ad? mitted to this country during the past fiscal year. Twenty-rive thousand were rejected. Only about 1400,000 of the ta? on corporations, approximating more than $27,000,000, remains to be collected by the government, Ten thousand girls are wanted by the housewives of Maine, according to the state bureau of industrial and labor Statistics. That body has started out to supply the demand. Twelve prelates and priests and twelve laymen of tbe Episcopal Church yesterday at Xew York organized a foundation to unify all Christian churches. ? A large force of special police i- be? ing recruited by Pennsylvania Railroad ollictals in Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities to guard its property in the evelll of a strike oil the system. More than three thousand United States prisoners will be paroled under tbe operations if the law passed by the last Congress; the work of paroling will probably be started within the next two or three months. A bill which, if enacted, will compel all bachelors of 25 years of age work? ing for the French government to gei married or leave the civil service has been laid before the Senate by Senator Lannaloiige. of the Department of < San Fire which causetl $:500,(MM) damage to the plant of the Pullman Company at Pulliuan, III., yesterday, marked the Culmination of the storm which -wept over Chicago Saturday night causing I?sa of life, heavy damage to shipping and many tires from light? ning. Charged in a warrant for first -degree murder with fastening the rope around ihe Iiot'k of Call Fllieringtou, the "dry" detective lynched at Newark, (?hio, about two weeks ago. William Wutster, jr., agiti I1.', employed in a Zanesville poolroom, was arrested last night and lit Iti without bail for Newark officers. To reporters tin? boy -aid he was in the mob, adding that he hail "been th inking". A dispatch to the London Daily Mir? ror from Paris states thai the police have notified Beeilend Tard that ^' Hawley H. Crippen and Miss Ethel Leneve arrived at Dieppe on July U. and took 8 train for Paris. It is sug? gested thai Crippen is masquerading BS a woman. His gait, cffeminat? inaniieri-ins. and manner all coin bine to maki such a make up easy for him. Ministers of Cleveland, Ohio, attack an ediloilai written by Rey. William MeMahoii in the Catholic Universe, in which he declares that man should be restricted by law in his efforts to lly, and that the Lord never intended that man should By, Piote.-tant min? isters ?? tin? ? lly declare that there i iio harm in man's attempt to rule the air, ami say they believe it was tin? Creator's wish and deaire that In? do SO. William H Jacobs ami hi- BOO Charle- H. Jacobs, of Aberdeen, Md.. had a most remarkable escape from death during a terrific thunderstorm which Swept thai section Saturila} night A holt of lightning struck their barn in which both were occupied at tin? time ill unharnessing a horse. The lightning came through an end of tin? building |ike a Hash, and struck the animal, killing it immediately, but both men weif only momentarily shocked. It i- announced from Washington that Hole- baye ?* MOT) between the United States and Italy regarding the case of Porter Oharlton, arrested in Hoboken on the charge of killing lus wife in Italy. A decision will la- reach? I tlii- week. Prosecutor Uarveti of Hud? son county. N. ,)., -aid yesterday he would set Porter Charlton free, having no alternative, should the government refuse to grant Italy's demand for ex? tradition. \ trolley car ami a it.'livery wagon each evicted ?is to)l of /u\ en ile de.tt h in Pittsburg, Pa., yesterday. At Foni City the ;i-year-old -on of Mear hard Szffrui, a merchant, was ground beneath a trolley car. His neck and back wen? broken. He had escaped from Ins mother on a porch and the [falber, infuriated at wh.-.t he Charged With being her careles.-ness, knocked her down ami was heating her when the police Interfered, she escaped and is in hiding. At Canonsburg '?' year-old John Oarmack was run over by a team Of mules and his skull WM crushed. He ran away from his father into the path of the team and was killed before his helpless parent. While rushing along through the wooded road halfway between city I9 land and Bartow, Xew York, on Satur? day afternoon, the first car ever used on the new monorail road between those two points tore away part of the topi rstructure a.nd crashed over the roadbed, sending more than one hun? dred passengers tlytng from their seats and injurying more than a score of them. The accident was said to be due to the fact that tbe car was so heavily loaded with its human freight that the light stricture which held it in place over head gave way under the strain wher the car was rounding a curve. PKACHF.S filJMPRD INTO R1YRR. Thirty carloads of Elbertas peaches were dumped into the Flint river, eight miles from fori Valley, Ca.. Saturday as a result of the failure to move tin crop quickly. Eighty thousand < are awaiting cars there. It is feared they will bo a dead lass. Already grower-, here have |pj| $100,000because of the lack of iced can*. The situation is ?aid to be the worst in the history of the industry in that section. DIED. siindtv morning. July 17, at 2 o'clock. Mr- JENNIE KRAMER, wife of Harry Kroner. Funeral from St. Mary's [hiirch. high mass, tomorrow (Tuesday, morning at 9 o'oclock. Interment in th? Presbyterian cemetery, VIHGTNIA NEWS. The farm of J. H. Scllman, near Herndoii, Tondoni) county, containing 111 acres, has been SOM to W. H. Moretead, of Clarke county, for $6,000. Thomas H. Wheelan, charged with abducting Bes-ie L. Robertson, 16 years old has been .inputted, in Petersburg. The British steamship Bloomtield was attached at Norfolk on Saturday under libel proceedings, in which the Coastwise Dredging Company, of Delaware, claims$16,000, The Old Dominion Steamship Com? pany has been sued at Norfolk by E. W. Simmons, master, ami others, for $8,000 as salvage for saving the steam? ship Jefferson. The marriage of Miss Carolyn P. Nelson to John K. Britain, of Trenton, X. .1.. tts.k |tlace Saturday evening at St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Warrenton, the rector, Be?, Edwin s. Hinke, officiating, a disastrous tire accurred at Lynche Station Saturday, destroying the store? houses occupied by John 1). Richard? son, J. J. Anthony ft- Bro. ami Wilkin? son Bros., together with the postoltice. central telephone office and a boarding house kept by Mrs. Richard Smith. The floodgates of the beavene opened right over Richmond yesterday after? noon and lit down a perfect delugi That was by far the heaviest rainfall of ilio summer, the exact precipitation from 4 o'clock to eight being 1.74 inches. During a severe electrical storm Saturday afternoon the bande?me resilience of L. Bruci? Moore, near the University of Virginia, was struck by lightning ami partially destroyed by tire. Firemen arrived promptly, but were delayed in getting rafficfeni water. The total Osa is 16,000. Young latli. from the uniitisity, in a pouring tain, aided the firemen in removing the valuable library and furniture to an adjoining resilience. John Fisher, a colored desperado, was shot six times yesterday mi a Sea board Air Line train, six miles from Petersburg. Fisher resisted arresi and was shot as he was jumping from the train. Three of the shots took effect in the back ami one in the right leg. Fisher was brought to the hospital in Petersburg. His wounds will prove ratal. By the will of Sheriff Clark ?. Pur (??II, recorded in Winchester on Sat urda,, an estate valued at $60,000 ?ras left to his widow for life. After her deal h a hi me for poor and unfortunate white women is to be founded, to be man? aged by a board of trustees and known as the "Clark Pureell Home." Mr. Pureell in his will expresses tin? wish that his wife marry again, so that she and her husband may enjoy his property. J. C. Barnwell, aged 46, and Willie, his 8-year-old son, were instantly killed by lightning, which struck ?????? lion)!? during a -torni at Farmvill?? yes? terday afternoon. Barnwell. who was in the silling room of the home with the rest of his family, was leturning to his chair after having lowered a win? dow, whi.n tin? fatal bolt came crashing through the ceiling. Another son James, aged 10, was -hocked, Barn well is survived by a widow and eight children. The storm was one of the severest that has visited the Pernii ill? section m many years. Rank < !?-< .1. Franklin. Pa., July IS.? The Frank? lin Saving Bank did not open today and it has been announced thai it affairs will be voluntarily liquidated, owing to the sudden death of E. W. Echols, who was tin? principal owner, ami the ill health of 1!. W. Brcdin, the surviving partner. An assistant was made to W. D. Doyle, ami it is stateti lin- bank will pay dollar for dollar. Plans are being formed to organize a new bank. Strike in Prance. Paris, July 18, ? Fifty thousand troops wen? today rushed by special train to every strategic railroad point in Prance, following the authorization of a general railroad strike by the Na? tional Railroaders' I'nion central com? mittee. Desertions from the railroad ranks at many pipces were reported to? day. The general strike will involve 100,000 men. ?leves Persons Killed. Melbourne. July 1'.' -Eleven persons win? killed and ,-iMy eight injured to? day when a ( rpwded state life tub urban train crashed into the rear of a train standing on the tracks at Rich? mond Station, four miles north of here. Tne*ool|!s|on occurred in a heavy fog. On a ? i<n-il;i\ .* Vacation. Beverly, Mass., July ]?>. ? president Taft stepped aboard bis privata yacht Mayflower this afternoon and sailed away from the summer ? apital fora ten days' vacation jaunt up and down the Maim? coast. ?peakek canxox overcome. Mr. Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the House of Representatives, collapsed at Winlieltl, Ky., Saturday afternoon on the ChautaiKiua platform after speaking for an hour and three quarters. Prompt aid prevented him from fainting, hut he was unable to continu" his speech, and with the greatest difficulty, be begged the audi? ence to excuse him. The intense heat affected him and brought on the sud den sinking spell. I' ? water and fresh air partially re? vived him and he haltingly thanked the audience for listening tc him for so greata length of time. Then he was led away by his friends and taken to the home of J. T. Raffcrty, where he was a guest. Mr. Cannon took an auto ride last night, and, accompanied by Congj man Philip Campbell, left for Kan-.i City. He stoutly asserted that he was "nota bit sick.'' He will speak at Einporia this afternoon. Teething children have more or less diarrhoea, which can be controlled by riving Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera ?nd Diarrhoea Remedy. All that is tsary is to give the prescribed dose ifter each operation of the bowels more ;han natural and then castor oil to deanse the system. It is safe and sure. J Jold by W. F Creighton and Richard j jlibson, DRY GOODS, 50c and 75c Imported St. Gall at 39c Another .?surplus stock of .'!.(Hm? yards of these much-wanted Swisses enables us to offer you a bargain long to he re merobered. Every vani guaranteed absolutely perfect. The tle-igus are of the very newest, including all size tint-, figures and scrolls. Nothing better for this hot weather than a waist or tin -s of this tine, sheer fabric. 86 inches wide, and qualities that sell at 60c and 76c everywhere. Xo phone or mail orders Riled. ????. 420-42? Seventh Street. WASHINGTON, D. C. Try our Fancy Teas and Coffees, Extracts. Baking Powder and Fancy Groceries. Beautiful premium Free with our Baking Powder. They arc the best yoM can purchase. SUGAR - 5 CENTS POUND Best Elgin Creamery Butter.32c lb SPECIALS A. ta P. Fancy Patent Flour. 1-8 sack. ----- -80c Peanut Butter. - - - - ? lie Japan Rice, b pounds - - - 25e Cherries, 2 cans - - - - 25c Matches, Parlor or Double tip. 2 boxes. ----- 7e Grape Juice. - - 10c to 20c lona Peaches, a can - - - lbc Cheese, full eream. - - - 18c Pure L-.rc!. Sw ??t's Silver Leat. 13c The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 525 KING STREET. (?tv Pilone ITI Bell Phone ?? Special for Til is Week. Blesi Silvi -? Plan? and llawkts Cut Glast Water l'ilehi ? $5.00 Regular ?? R. C. ACTON ? SONS. Jewelers and Silversmiths, ???:??.? i\<; of CIVIC ? ?I'ltoVK MENT ASS? it I.\ 11. i\ al il,.? (nani inr of Commerce rooms, MONDAY NIOHT - p. m. Please be prepared to make returns from sale of excursion tlcVets. TAYLOR Bl KM jvlt;.:i Tr?s ur E\-I?HM>T m BM ? ok Wivti. Patrick .1. Cosh II" ? \ communi? cated and expelled from tbe Catholic priesthood, Bled a writ of habea* cm pus in the Chaiiitiv Court. ,f Mobile Saturday, asking to gain possession of his wife, Jeesie Becker Costello, Judge Smith ordered service upon EU. Rev. Bdward ? Allen, bishop of the Dj c -e of Mobile, Louise F I mother superior of the Convent ol the Visitation; Rev, B, J, III? kett, of tbe Cathedral parish, and Mrs. Irme Un? ruh and George W. Unruh relatives ol the wife, eat h of w boni i.- ? om mandi 11 ?. appear in court today with Jessie H Costello, whom, it is alleged, ill I detaining. Costello, formerly a priest, ran off with Je-sie Becker last November and married her in Kansas City, lb- was excommunicated. The young aromen laici visited her parents in Mobile, and di-apji. areti. Shortly after having been ordaii prit -? ? ostello was given chai "? of ,i parish at Mount Yeinon. near Mobil??. Among hi- perisbouers wa- Jessie Becker, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Chris Bed er. Th.? young priest became m fain ii.d ?,. ||.|| hi- pari-hi t-r, and \ vein11?t las! they went t. usa- City, win: ( ?ostello remained - ? ' lecently. HINKEHM A>l> HI - ER?. Concern- using the woi ?? "baukwi ami brokers" lo .ulverii-? ? bustness musi .all in their -igu? en ? letter-beads within th.? next I s days or else go to jail. eCCOrdin lui?" of a law psssted it th?? I .-' if tbe legi-lafure. It is estimateti that at It a ? ???'? brokerage h ,u-.??? ill Ri? hm . arili be ?ff?? Od by the new law. ami ?? tiny fail to comply with the statu??? it is expressly provided that all memi., ?? ?? the firm are liable to punish ment, Twenty privati? banks in Virginia will be affected by the new law, which provides further that "every conten, desiring to do a hanking businesi must hereafter incorporate and b. come either a state or national bank. It is especially stated, however, how? ever, that tin- BeCtioa shall not .ipj.lv to any private banker oj ?p? "' bankers who shall have been engaged in bn-iii'-- prior n. January L 1010.?[Richmond Virginia Friends of Obttgn?? .?? r ""? <>' Massachusetts, bave #5"M'ne?. a ,,"<"" for him for the vi.? presidential nomi? nation on the m ? desnoerntfc national ticket. They prop?-?' to have him. nominateli foi gowruor of Massachu? setts next fall? He could win. they daim, because of the unpopularity of the present administration with th.? labor element. This, t|?.y ?, wo|1.,j make Foes the logical candidate for vice -president, and he would greatly strengthen the ticket in the eastern? state".