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ALEXANDRIA, VA.
THURSDAY EYKNING. DF.C 15
As ? result of the rebuke of the re?
cent tariff revision fiasco by tlie p
at tbe poHe, both partiea bave beea
Hpurred tnsucldcn aeli\ iiy, rv11? 1 both ap
: oa Monday ia tbe roJe of rner
?Hk eompetitors for tbe bonor ol be
ing known as simon pure tariff ro
visionists. While Senator Aldrieb, the
chief ni.inipulator 10 tl.e log rolling
tbat made tlie existinglaw, was pjouer*
piofessing himself. in tbe Senate tliat
day, in fa\or of revision by
Chairman I'ayne, of tbe House oom
niiitee of ways and means, eo-liead
devil with Aldrieb, was oceupying a
front plaee on the inoiirner's beiie'n in
committee an I assuring a sympatbctie
worlil that for ft long time be bad
favoreil picc.-mcal revision. Mean
while, Mr. Chanip Clark. not to allow
the recent eonverts tu iiih away with
all tbo fclory, was sending out seouts to
eonfer on ? eanens of the HOOM deiBO
crats; this cauein poetibly to be beld
tomorrow, to eall a caneus of the 288
democratic members eleet lo tbe next
House to meit somewbere in .lanuary
and designate same means for stleet
infr. tbe democratic members of tbe
ways and means committee. Ifr.
Olark's idea is to get actiOTI for tariff
revision as soon aa possible from tbe
next House and tbis should be tbe ef?
fort of all good citi/.eu?\_
Mrt ii spaee ol most newapapera to?
day is oivupied in telling tbe world of
Atidrew Carnegie's ilonatioii ol ten
n.illions of dolla.s to be used in draama
Of abolishiug iritcualional war, men
tion of whieh was made in yeeterday'i
Oazctte. Certain people bave from
time iiiimeuioii.il devoted lal.or aml
wealtb in acTiimulating WOOd, baj and
stubble for the great eonllagration of
tbe latter days, aml this is but anotber
buge pyrami'l ?.f oombiMtiUee. The
l.ulk of Mr. Cainegic's BUWOOJ b_l
be? flcoaaa-aUed io roamifacturion
niinor pUte oaed ln Bdating borrora de
signedtw kill, maim and cripple, aml
nowportionsof ihesc MXUmolatiooa are
lo be need to rear ? peaoe moouaoeot
to bia glorv.
N,,i qoke all tbe deeertei aod
bounty-jumpers have had their military
reoords "eorreeted" in OT_ar to be
placed on the panaio- list. BUTa in
Uodocod hy patriotic members of Con
gres already in this aeanOfl iboi tbat fl
few more are le.t. A peiisiou certifi
cate was at one time regarded as a
badge of honor, bal tbis isnot the caae
now. ______________
A BROtiki.YN jodge baa just declared
Ih ni the bench lus eonvieti.m. ln-. A
on long judieial experienre of other
people s matrimoni.il foubles. tbal
football i> a safer game lor men than
niarriage, and fl Chicago clergymin
bas wntleti an ...le tO "Kather." He
bflB long dc-erve.l il.
Cyrlone lleiastate Spain.
Bareelona, Dec 15. BtOfUM of a
tyclone cbaracter are Booding a large
pait of tbe eountry aod tbe aituation
is becoming deaperate in aereral proi
ioc-B. Practically all the cropa in thia
diatricl bave been deatroyed aod tbe
people an- tbreateoed with famioe,
Many rillagea are nol aubmerged.
Ma.lii.l, Dec. 15.?The Bve pai
ey.ru OO- erew of lt) of the (iermaii
Hteamebip ftdetma were all kjel when
ihe vessel ground. d and went lo pieces
in tl.. storm off Cape Oorrubode, on
the west .oast of Spain. BCCOrding tO
dtapatcbea reeeived here today.
?OgUth I'lectbill.
London, Dec. 15.- Tl.lalitton
niajonty, exc!usi\e of tbe eight aeats
captured by tbe independenl national
ists, jumpe.l to s" loday, Oul of tbe
., made, tbe coalition
has made a net gain of one over the
conservatives, and there is little doubt
now tliat the majority of the laat par?
lianient of 124 will be heltl. There are
only 66 aeats remaining to be deenled.
The present atandinj, is: Conservatives
667, liberal laborites 876; Mib na
tlotmlist K>; independent nr.tionalistss.
Ihe Irish natioualists had only 71
membcra in the hist pnrliametit aud it
ia now certain lhal they will inerease
their repreaentation.
I>J?a?troua Fire Haglng.
Kliut. Iffcll., DeC, 15.-The village
Ol new Lothrop ia being wipcd out by
1'iie today, aocording to meag!'
rkai reri'ived todiy. Telephone 00??
inunieatioti with lha town 1ms been de
jjtroyej.
A later dispatch saya but na atores
tf_re diatroyed. Loss 110,000.
Btrlkrr ahnt by Drtectitf.
Chieago. Dee, 15.?Atiacked hy a
I I of striking garment workers.
Oetectire Barfatat Charles Weinioki
today turned loo.<e his gun aa hc sank
beneath a ehower of blows, ahot and
killed an unknown atriker and ahot
through the lungs nnd probably wound
? J Mark Lanjjou
A later dirpatC- aaya the detective
and a policeman were attacked by ?
party of striking garment workers ^to?
dav as they were cscorting a sccre of
girl workers to the ahopa of B. Kup
penh-imer _ Company. The detectivo
{in_ \h% policeman ww wnoua'y hurt.
FBOM WASniNGTON
While th* White House, War De
pirtnifiit and the House of Reprcseuta
wste eentoraofa three-cornered
dispute over the poblJC-IJO- of the
faota regarding the eountry's lack of
national defense, Senator Root and Dr.
- Brown Bcott took up the task of
applyiog the new ten million dollar
Carnegie fund for intemational peaee.
.Mr. Root as president. and Mr. Scott as
lary, are the two administrative
officera oftbe new foundation and it
irith them to make plans for the
ezpenditure of the $500,000 annual in
come for the endownment. It waa said
today that Dr. Scott probably would re^
atgn bia position as solicitor for the
judicial settlement of intetnational dis
ixitc?.?; and give his whole time to the
Carncgie foundation.
Fear on the part oi Kepresentative
Tawney, chairmati of the appropria
nimittee, that the j)ublication of
the -fcL-Cbla-i report would resultin
a general demand for enormous appro
priationa for the army, is said today to
i, ? tba real cause ol tbe attempt to sup
preM tbe report. Mr. Hobson, in tel
ling him of his hill for a national de?
fense board, nientioiied the Mel?chlan
report air" gave Mr. Tawney an ad
ra-oe eopy of it. Mr. Tawney at once
caala a llvine: auto trip to the White
mh] i- aaid lo bare told Presi
lenl Tafi that the publication ofthe re
WOuld wreek all the econ
oiny plans of tho adrninistration.
A eonferei.ee was called and aa a re?
sult the War Dfpartment was ordered
by tbe president to hold the report in
confidenee and not to withdraw itfrom
publication. This reversed the policy
of the Department, Secretary Dickin
tnd Geoeral Wood had believed
that a full publication of the faeta was
to be dosired. When the Honso re?
fused to reeehre a "coniidential docu
nient." Dickinson and Wood were in a
qnandary. They held a long confer?
ence today and it was announced that
tha report "aubatantially modified"
would be sent again to the House,
with the word "coniidential" removed.
President Taft has found himself con
fronted by a greal conllict of opinioiis.
The conservatiT?B among his advisors
urge him to use all his power to pre
vent further annouueements, both on
the argument advanced by Tawney and
upuii the coiitciition that it is unwiseto
publish to tbe world any weakness m
the nat'onal defense. Oo the other
band many of his advisors urge tbat a
full publication is to be desired and
that auppraeeion now might be re
called wilh sorrou'm the future if ad
ver.-e circurnatanoes dcveloped.
Ii beeame known here today that
tl.e War Departnient io answer to the
resolution l.y Keprcsentative McLach
lin, of Caiifornia, reported to tbe
II.,'use tli it tbe United States is wholly
unprcpared for war; the United States
lacka tl.e rigbl kind of men in its army;
thal it ooeda gnns, *mmumtion; nb9o
lutaly requiree a vast inerease in the
number of mobtte troopa aud theroafter
idpiiies Increaaed fortifications. This
is tbeofflcial answer of the War^ De?
partment, prepared by Uen. Wood.
Chief of Staff, and passed upon
by Becretary of War Hickinson.
I,', reply to ItoLaeblflo'a tiuestion
whether the United Btatea conhf with
stand invasion of tbe Pacifie coast by an
Ajtatic power, tbe aoawar amounts in
?ubatanoe to tbfl negative "No." Many
repreeentatirea have read the report
an.l are diapleaied at theattitude ofthe
War Department in trying to hold it in
"oonBdence" by Bending it to the
House under sueh restrictions. It is
tcd loday that Secretary Dickin
m, in ftnawer to Speaker Cannon's
letter declining to recehra the report,
will aend it back to tbo House with the
word "confldential" removed.
\ conference at the White House
today between tbe preeidetit, Seeretary
of War Dickioaon, Mr. Hull, chairman
?f the Bouae committee on military
affaira, and Senator Root head of the
new Carnegie peace commission, re?
sulted in tlie decision on the part of the
prwidoBt not to fiirnish the House with
Ihe itiformation requestcd by the Mc?
Lachlan reeohilion, Tho president
takea the poaitioo that tbe statcments
in the "contideiitial reply" made by
Dickinaou io McLachlaa'a resolution
eoiistituie oieraly an opinion based on
fflCta whi.b are of record in tbe annual
reporta ol tbe aecratary ot war and the
Cbief-of-SUff of ihe army, and that,
as an opinion, it is not a proper docu
mein for aubmlasion to Oongrata, Tlus
deciaion plaoea tbe executive and the
Becretary of war in tbe attitutle of re
fusing informationto tbe House.
A favoial.le report for the nomina
ttona .J the United States Circuit Judge
Willis Van Devanterof Wyomiog and
Joaepfa B. I.aniar. of (ieorgia, to l.e
: ite juBtioca of tbe Supreme Court
?,f tbe United Btatea was adopted by the
Benato committee on judiciary today.
Ii i- probable that tbe rules will be
auapended al ro executive session of
tbe Benate today and tbe two nomiria
tiotis coufirmed. The nominatious for
judges of tbfl Coinnieree Court were re?
ferred to Bubcornmilteee.
A report 00 the investigation of
the election of William Lorimer,
of Illinois to the Senate by a aub
committee of the Senate committee
on privileges aml eloctions will be lub
niit'ed to the full committee on Satur
ceting of tbe aubeommittee
was held today and a report agreed up?
on. Tbe subcommittee a few days ago
I nniitiimf.tisly for the exoneration
of J/Otimer.
Tim explosion of a aix-inch gun on
the artnored c-uijer, Pcnnsylvania.ihir*
ing iargct practice nesr Mare Island,
Cttlif., waa reported today to the Navy
Department hy Rear Admiral Barry.
N'o casualtiea reaulted. Barry aaid that
he waa investigating the accident, He
also reported that night practice had
been completed. Tlie exploaion oc?
curred late yeaterday. Barry gave no
is aa to the daniage to the ahip.
Two bulky ?Xpran packagea were
received by Pardon Attorney, Fiach,
at the Department of Justice today.
Thev contained a position signed by
more than 20,000 persons asking the
pardon of Charlea Morse. Tho list of
petitioner9 includea Suteamen, Minis
urs Women, and financier-. They
M aptciric re__o_ why Morae
should be pardoned, but safelv ask
that be be allowed to return to his
wife.
A tariff commission bill combining
the ideas embodied in the varioua billa
on the same aubject introduced in the
House and Serate wa* completed today
for prwentation. 19 lh? cornirtjt^g ?p
ways and raeans of the House. Bep
resentatives Lenroot and Good with J.
C. Cobh, president of the national
tariff commission association, framed
the measure at the instance of the ways
and mtana eommittee. At hearings
held early thia week on the Lenroot
and Good billa the oommittee asked
the autbors to get together and framo a
bill (-liminating the various poinU on
whieh tneir billa varied and to consult
with Cobb, who appeared for his organ
ization. The eommittee will hold fur?
ther hearings on the new bill and Rep
resentativea Good and Lenroot aro con?
fident that the measure will be report?
ed to the House.
Wadc Ellis, formerly "trust buster"
of the adrninistration, and more re?
cently chairman of the state eommit?
tee of Ohio, was today offered a place
on the customa court, to succecd Judge
Hunt, recently nominated by the presi?
dent as a member of the commeree
court. Ellis refused the nornination,
declaring he proferred to remain in pri?
vate life. He ia now acting as speeial
attorney for tho Department of Justice.
A report in favor of the passage of
the Sulloway pension bill, whieh would
increase pension appropriation.! $M,
000,000 a vear, according to Sulloway,
was agreed upon by tho House eom?
mittee on iuvalid penaions today. The
bill is theoutgrowlh of the dollar-a-day
pension proposal urged for sev?
eral years by Representative Sherwood.
The Sulloway bill provides, that any
person who served 90 days in tho civil
war or 00 days in the Mexican war and
is 62 or more years of age shall reeeive
a pension. Veterans <>2 years old are to
be paid |15 a month; those of (!5 years
?20; 70 years $25 and 75 years or over
$36 a month. The latter is $0 a month
more than called for by the Sherwood
bill. A number of congressmen dedare
that the passage of tho bill would cost
the government much more than H0,?
000,000. If the bill should beeome a
law it would be too late in the present
session to mako appropriation and th*
first provision of money would go to
swell the appropriations of tha demo
cratic House in the bext Congress.
Secretary MacVeagh today issued an
order curtailing tbc sick leave to bt
granted in the future to the employes
of the Treasury Department.
SIXTV FIRST MIXURKSN.
pksatk
The Senate today considered and
passed a joint resolution continuing in
effeet for two years tho resolution pro?
viding for appropriaUdy marking the
graves of Confe<lerate soldiers and sail?
ors died in Northern prisons. The
reaolution waa today considered by tba
eonimittee ou military affairs and
favorahly reported.
A bill introduced by Senator (ialling
er, to provide a suitable restint! plaec
for the remains, of John Paul Jones,
was referrid to the eommittee on naval
affairs.
An answe.r to the -peeeh of Senator
Cummings, progreasivo of lowa, in
favor of revising the tariff by schedule
was made in the Senato today by his
colleague, Senator Young, conserrative
of lowa. Amon_ other things the
senator said. "I charge that New
Kngland is drifting to a strangc inter
pretation of the square deal; when they
demand protection for their manu
factured articles and free trade for our
food products." He referred to the
secretary of agriculture and all the
farm and papers and magazines for
proof that the farmer is not getting too
much. If the middlomnn was at fault
for the high priees, then the attack
shotile be direeted at him and not at
the produeer.
The omnihu8 claims bill was again
taken up. In reply to a ipisstion by
Senator Burton, the total amount of
French spoliation claims reported from
the Court of Claims wns stated by
Senator Burnbam, at $l,454,tHH?, about
$500,000 in ca?es are still pending be?
fore the court.
Senator Bristow then continued bis
oppo?ition to the French spoliation
claims. pointing out same ltems he
cousidered objectionable.
HOl'SK.
Out of reapect to the memory of
Representative Joel Cook of Pennsyl?
vania, the House today adjoumed after
being iu session but 11 minutes. Ofl
resolutions introduced by Mr. Hing
ham the speaker was aajthoriaad tO ap
point a eommittee to attend the
funeral of the dead representatives.
Resolutions of condoleuce and sorrow
were adopted for tbe death ofCook.
No business was transaoted, the legis?
lative appropriation bill goinn over
until tomorrow. _
The Recent Mine niaast.r.
Norton, Va., Dee. 15.?With nine of
tbe dead already identilied, efforts w.re
renewed early today to reeover bodies
of other vietims of the gas explosion in
the mine of tho Bond Coal Company
at Greeno, nix miles east of here. Ac?
cording to statements made by oftieials
of the coal company, only thr.
main in the mine. but thero is no hope
that any of them will be found alive
The rescuers were driven from their
work last night by the dangerous after
damp that filled the passagea of the
mine, but today, after the drait fana
had been repaired and fresh air driven
through the workinga, a party led by
Charlea Roaenbaum, the only miner
reacued alive, made ready to go in
aide.
Flghtlng Reiirwrd.
Kl Paso, Texas, Dec. \o.~-Meagre
reporta reach ing El Paso today from
the vicinity of Uuerrero aasert that thfl
battle between inaurgenta and federal
troopa ouUide the city haa been re
newed with grenter fury thati ever and
that the outcome ii ih doubt.
The rebel force haa been trebled,
since the disastrous engagement of
Sunday and Monday. aod the federal
force, whieh originally numbered 600)
haa been more than doubled,
The rebela are now said to be occu
pying A stroog poaition, whieh Navarro
iasheillng with field pieces
Galveston, Tex., Dec. 15?General
Navarro. commandlng Mexican federal
troopa against revolutionista about
Guerrero, early taday put to rout the
rebels for the second time since Sun?
day. according to Mexican cablea re
ccieved here. Tbe dispateh aays that
more tban 300 men were killed, and
wounded.
Forty-four passengers were injured
today by the craahing of a train into a
"bumper" at the Fortbern depot,
Paris. Tho brakea of tho train failed
to workf
Rebcllinus fk-doulns,
Constantinople, Dec. 1~>.?A pitDittve.
expedition will bc sent against tlie ro
bellious Bedouins in several of thefiy*
rian vilaycte, as a result of the alarm
ing reporta receivel today of the e.vtcDt
of the uprisingof the tribesmen.
United press cables last Friday told
of ihe Bedopin flttaek on Kerak, and
tbe defeat of the Turkish garrison
there. Details ofthe affair, however,
bnM only just been reeeived. They
show that tho Bedouin victory tbere
was practically completc and that the
remaining soldiers are now blockaded
in one of the buildings of tbe town,
awaiting reinforcomentfrom Damaseus.
It is fearcd that there are not enough
troops throughout Syria to suppress a
rebellion should it becoine general and
arrangements are being pushed to dis?
pateh heavy reinforcementa.
The robbing of the eight Ameriean
tourists, condtieted by agent Miller, of
Chicago, complicates the situation. It
nmed that the Americans will de?
mand redress of the Turkish govern
n.ont and sueh a demand would proba?
bly have to be met to avoid interna
tional complications.
The trouble started in the oxecution
of one of the Bedouin ehieftains and
the ord.r for tho disarming of the Be
douins. Led Ly Chief Mejilla, the Be?
douins attacked the troops at nearly nl|
the Btatiooa north of Mflon and were
uniformly successful. The first reports
said that many Christians were killed,
but it is now stated that the easuafties
among the Christians were aecidental,
the Bedouins attacking only theTurks.
.lerusalem, Dec. lo.?Twenty thou?
sand Turkish troops are being rushed
today from Adana. to the Syrian ri
layeU where licdouins are in rovolt.
Serious Clash K.perted.
Heinlaye, France, Dee. LV Mail
idrleaa sent from Madrid yesterday (O
aroid tbc eeaaorebfpw-re. reoeired here
today to the efiect tbat a serious clash
between the clei ieals and government
party is expected IntbeCortM before
the end of the week in the debate on
tbe "p-dlock" billto resisttho religious
ordera of Spain.
Owtog to the une-pe-tedlyearly pa*
sagc of tbebudget, tbe detfnte will prob?
ably be launched noJ later ihau tomoi
rOW and both Btdea have already mar
tballed their full forcos for a titanic
struggle. If defeated in the parli_nt_rr?
tary struggle, as seems inevitablc, the
clericals, allied wilh the Carlists, are
reported as ready to naeort to physical
force.
The all is lilled with rutnors of a
clerieal Carlist plot againat King Al
fonso. Already there have been dis
orders in many loeahties, preeipitated
by the clericals in antieipalion Of their
defeat in the Cortes,
Premier Canalajaa atill inatata that tha
government will be able to put through
it:, programme ol church restriciroh
without dithculty, but he is showing
ioereaaing anxiety a> the time for the
debate arrives.
The Oarlists and clericals will engage
iu lilibusteringtactics inthe hope M
forcinga eompromise. Already seveuty
amendmeiits hav. been prepared toone
aection of the bill.
.Mlnrrs Kiitombe-.
Dehyer, Colo., Dee. 16.?9m minenr
are either dead or are tighting against
desperate odda for their lives in the
Leyden Coal Company'a coal miaa at
Leyden, 11 miles from here, as the re?
sult of a tire vshieh started in the shaft
late iast night nnd continiied at an early
hour today. The fire is so hot tbat
rescuers have been unable to enter tlie
shaft.
Tlie niin.rs are walled in, and al
though oflioals of the compauy be?
lieve they ha-e B chanca to get, out
alive, this feeling isnot shared by thoir
comrades. The cause of tho fire is un
known.
i;_rihi|iuke Mhurk.
lilasgow, Dee. 15. 'Ihe (ilasgow
police force is being subjected to un
precedented raillery today for its
failure to capture the "bank burglars"
who last night threw tho city into a
seare. Rxperiencing a tremendous
trhaek and rumbling noiae, the polioe
iumped to the concloaioo that a bank
was being dynamited.
A general alarm waa S'.uiuled and
the police searched the city for thesnp
posed yeggs. The f vt that cverybody
else in town had heurdlhc "explosion'
and was out Ofl the atreeta in a state of
?emi'pank.Iy aerred toconvince the
police that tbey had a desperate ca
band.
Not until the search had progressed
several hours was it leamed that the
noise and rumbling were from an
earthquake that shook n<>t only
Olasgow hut much of western Seotland.
No serious daniage resulted.
Iturket Hliupa K-tdt-il
Chieago, Dee, l'?. -Detailed 0- 0M
reqneat of ledaral autboritiee, a squad
bl tlnrty police today raided a ruunfcer
of alleged bueket shops here and gath?
ered in a number of persons. said. to
have conducteil them. All raptured
wero taken in pafrol wngons to lfu-tm
eral building.
The work is not yet completed, for
thirty hranch oflkea nf the eompnny
locatod in Aurora,. 111., Joliet, llf..
DeDalb, III., Ciurinuati, Ohio, and
other c.itien of the middle. west are yet
to he closed and their managers placed
under arreat.
DIED.
on Deeomber 14, U'lo, at -Soo'cloek,
at Provldence Hospital, WaahingUiu, D.
C. KLIZAHKTH .1A\ ISH. beloved
wifeof Andrew .Javlna, of Fairfax coiih.
Iv. Va.. aged H yeara. She leaves two
sims and live daughters to mourii their
'oas- , , -.
Dearcsi mother. thou bas left n
We thv loss mostly dceplv feel.
But tis bod who hath berefl tta,
Hc can all our sorrow%h<-al.
l\\ Iln: I.ovi.vo Chimirkn.
Funeral Sunday afternoon at 230
o'clock from Sharon Cbapel.
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IN MEMORIAM.
ln loving remembrance of our dear
aon. WILLIAM DOUCtLASS ZIMM-R
MAN. who departed thls life Deeember
1"., 1903, seven yeara ago today.
ln memory we oftlmea aee
The ono we loved ao dear.
Tbe vlaien gro-a ao dear sometlmes
We feel hc mu?t l>e near;
But no' 8 ago today,
U'h.ni cverMhlnh' eeemed co bnght.
Ourdarling William Tras ealled away
Out of our mortal signt.
BT Hl<* Fath-u MI Mothbr.
Fa.r bevond tbfl world of trouble
Par beyond this world of care.
We shall flnd our mlsBlng btxnher.
in our Father* nianaionjair.
Dy Hl?3fc?T),H4 A.\p BRorpsRS,
VIRGINIAJlSrEWS.
RabbiU are plentlful in the valley.
One rocrchantat Maurertown one day
this week reeeived four hundred for
shipment.
Tlie Nickel Savings Bank, a small
colored financial institution, in Rich?
mond yeaterday closed its doors and
went into the hands of a receiver.
Charles H. Hughes, of Obtrkecounty
has announeed himself a candidate for
the slate Senate from the district oom
posed of Clarke, Warren and Page
countiea.
Representative Maynard, who failed
of re-nomination for Congresd in the
-Jtorfolk district is being mentioned in
Washington as tlie next clerk of the
House of Representative.
Marriages licenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Clark T.
Enibrey and Eva M. Kilby, both of
Fau.{iiier county; Irving L. Taylor and
Mary V. Devera, both of Franconia;
Avalon B. Marchant, of Lott, anJ Cora
L. Lumpkin, of Clearden, and to Lloyd
T. Cassell and Amanda B. Cowne,
-both of Calverton.
Kev. Beverly P. Tucker, jr., of
Boydton, son of Bishop B. D. Tucker,
of Lynehburg, has accepted the rector
ship of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, at
tlie I'niversity of Virginia. Rev. Mr.
Tnoker succeeds tothe charge reeently
made vacan? by tho death of Rev.
Hugh M. M<?Ilhany, D. D.
Mr. William Seitz, who fornierly
lived i:i Ohio, but who had reeently
purehased a farm near Asbland, waa
thrown from his wagon Tuesday after?
noon and instautly killed, his neck
being broken. Mr. Heitz had been to
Asbland witb ? load of farm products
aud waa ndurning when his horses gave
a sudden jcrk and threw him out.
A bankruptcy statement of Boyenton
A- Co., at Hampton. bankers, filed in
tho l'nited States Court, in Norfolk yes?
terday. shows total liabilities of$64,900
and assels of 626,184. The c.oncern in
elodfla Ibfl Ilampton bank and iu*
l.ranehes at I'pperville and Middleburg.
The liabilities and assets are divided as
follows: Ilampton bank, liabilities,
?27,512; assets, $lfi,740; I'pperville
hank, liabilities. *_l,101; assets, 68,190;
Middleburg bank, liabiiities, 92,667;
$1,..:'.. There were 500 deposi
tora.
Messrs. Davis A Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, tO citizens ol thia state, of the
following pateuls: L. von Kugelgen,
Holconibs Hock, electric. furnaee; D. P.
Meade, White Post, coin operated tele?
phone apparatus; Q. Poe, South Nor?
folk, gaa generator; M. G. Ray,
i;:.hmond, gas burner attachinent; S.
S. Schull, Roanoke, dynamite thawer;
.1. S. Shepherd, Yintou deviee. for
operating eoupltng pins; II. Wanleii,
Fredericksbnrg, gate, opening dovice;
A. P. Wclls. East Slone Qflp, fruit
?iokar,
fHB CHESAPEIKE IIEFEXSES
Senators Martin and Swanson took
up J esterday tho question of the ade
cjuate fortification of the Ches?pcakc
Hay. They called upon the d iel of
artillery at tho War Departineiit ai;d
also upon the chief army engineer and
went over tho War l?epartmont plans
and estimates. I'pon returning to the
Capitol they eonferred with Senator
Smith, of Maryland, about tbe project.
Senator Smith is co-operating with
the Virginia senators in this mavter.
Ho regarda tho adequate fortification
of the Chesapeake Bay as a more vital
nialter for Bsltimore even than it is for
N'orfolk and Virginia.
Sonator Martin has been at work OU
the project for some timo and now has
strong hopes that the efforts h? has
tnsdc will bear fruit in a jufiicient ap?
propriation to afford tho needed pro?
tection in the next army appropriation
bill. The tentativc plans prepared bythe
War Department have been gone over
by Senator Martin and are approved by
him. They include the Boqoiriog of
land at Cape Henry sufficient to estab
lish a strong moderu battery and tho
creation of an artiticial island between
the two channels, upon which would
be eatab'.ished another battery or fort.
These two fortifications would be sutii
eient to prevent the passage between
Capo Henry snd Cape Charles of any
ho-tile battleahips and would moan
?doquata proteetion for the whole bay.
The artilieial island would lie similar
to the one at llampton Roads and is
tbe suggestioti of the War Department
offieials, who regard the scheme of
fortification as outhned as a perfectly
practical and feasible one.
The- original estimates for the plans
made by tho War Department, at the
suggestionof Senator Martin, are now
being revised and, as soon _S possible,
will be sent to him. He will then,
with tho aid of Senators Swanson aud
Smith, start the right to get through
the necessary appropriation to carry
them out.
KEAL !Ht/HIIERER < OXEESSES.
After twenty years in River?ide, Pa.,
penitentiary. Andrew I-olli, serving a
life aentence for murder, laat night
heard that the real murderer had con
fessed in Hungary, aud that his four
sona, who have worked twenty yeara to
clear their father's name, had been suc
ceaaful. Attorney Edward Goehring
haa been retained by the aoaa to carry
the caae of Ixith before the atate par?
don board, with the eopy of a confea
sion made by one Stephen Loth, a man
of the aame name, but no relation, ad
mitting thal he killed tba man for
whom Aodrew Loth ia now aerving
tima. lx>th was ronvieted ef murder
ing a watchmau named Michael Quinn
at the Braddock ateel mills. It ia aaid
by the sona thatStephen Loth, in Hun?
gary, thinking himaelf dying, recently,
made a confeaiion. Andrew Loth,who
is tYS yeara old, collapaed laat night
when told that hia pardon waa probably
only a few weeka off.
Bollermaker. Heturo to Work.
London, Dee. 15.?Thousands of
hoilermakers employed in the yards
of the shipbuilding employera1 federa?
tion returned to work today after a
lockout aince September 2. The men
have agreed to the employera' demand
that no more ttrikea be called until
every reeource of arbitration had failed.
The rote to return to work waa 13,715
to 1,290. ^__
The marriage engagement ia an?
nounced in London of Lord Deciee and
Miaa Vivian Gould, second daugbter of
George J, Opuld, pf tfewYork,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Ottnwa, Ont., Free Press pub
lishes a London dispateh stating it may
be nccessary to postpone the eoronation
owing to an interesting event iu thi'
royal family.
I/.uis R. Glavis, principal witness i:i
tbe Pinchol-Iialling. r hearing, was ae
.iuitted at Golden Gate, Waab., yes
t.iday on the chatgeof having
started a forest lire. The jury was out
_0 minutos.
Representative Oscar l'u.let wood, of
Alabama, who will be the chairman of
the next waya and means < onitnittee of
the House and who is regarded as thfl
? friend of Champ Clark in the
House says tho committees of the ne\t
House will not be named by the
speaker.
Somcbody subsiituted indelible ink for
common wino at the Pleasant Valiey
Chrislian Church, a few miles from
Carlisle, Ky., and several pcoplo were
mado violeutly ill last Sunday. The
wine was kept at the church, and, not
noticing the change in eolor, the elders
passed tbfl vin'.age OD Sunday to the
members. Many of them drank be?
fore tho change was notieed. Soon
after they were taken violeutly ill. In?
vestigation has not rovcaled the eulprit.
The larger part of yesterday \s Bflfl-kw
Of the House was devoted to tbfl COO?
sideration of the bill for tbfl i (xlitieation
and revision of the laws relating to the
judi< iary. Tho session started witb fl
contest over tbo rules. Representative
Htighes, of New Jersey, led fl fight
agatnst the consideration of tbfl judic
iary committee measure, but the Houflfl
by a vote of 146 to 61, decided against
him. The legislative, executive, and
judtotal appropriation bill, carrying a
total of 980,326,219, was repmtfld to
the House. It eontaine.l a reduction
of $4:12.S7'> from the esiinntcs.
Margaret Carder. aged 17, a daugh?
ter of Cyrus Carder, of Gre Spiing,
14 miles east of CuniberlanI. Md., is
dying at tbfl Western Marylaml Hos?
pital at Cumberlaiid, from fl gtmabot
wound ioflkted by a small brothcr.who
was handling the wcapoii yesterday.
The father thought he bad taken both
ahclls from the gun. One remained,
however, and as the boy was playing
wilh tbe weapOfl it disrbarged two feet
from the girl, tbfl charge entering the
flbdomen.
Kntering his home Tuesday night,
Dominick Cflppo, an Italian labo'-er, <?f
Wheeling, W. Va., removed his shoes
iu tho kitchen, and, Mcalihg upstairs,
entered the chamber in whieh his wife
and Uvo year oll daughter were sleep?
ing and alaabfld the woman with fl
ra/or. After seriously injuring her, he
ran to thfl room in whieh Itaymoinl
Pasciti, a bo.uder.was aeleep, and, after
slashing him, eut his own jugular vein.
dying l few minutes later. His two
vietims wflrfl rnflb-d to fl hospital and
will reeover. Jealousy is assigned as
tbfl inotive.
PAMC AT MOVIMG PKTIRK
?HcrW.
The fa?t tbat tlu; stairways in the
building were of BtOOfl n believed to
aecount for the Bflviogof many lives in
I lire p.inie eauafld by thfl explceioo of
nioving-pieture iilnis at an exhibilion
in Maaonic Hall, WeetNotley, N. J.,
late Tuesday night. Tbe stairways
were al.le to stand tbfl strain ofhun
dreds of struggling men an.l women,
who rushed from the ball in whieh an
entertainment was being given by
Kempton Chapter, Royal Arcanuin,
when tbfl explosion ...vuircd.
More than half thfl 800 persons at?
tended were women. ()f these. seven
were left helpless in the hall and six or
them had to be reacued by ladders
after one had jumped and had been
aaved by an awning. Scores ofperaoo
were hurt, but none seriously. It was
threo hours before the lire was cxtin
guUhed yesterday with an estimntel
loss of about $20,0(10.
MHH. EDDY'S HILL.
(ien. Henry If. Baker, c.ecutor of
the estate of Mary Baker 0. Kldy,
riled her will ln the probate court in
Coiicord, N. H., yesterday afternoon.
I'nder the terms of the will, the
mother church at Boston is to get the
bulk of Mrs. Eddy's enorinom fortune.
This church, iu additions to speeial be
qneata aggregating $160,000, ia also
made tho residuary.legatee.
There is every reasoii to believe that
the value of Mr,;. Eddy's estate haa
been underestimatcd and that it will
reaeh, if it does not exceed, f 2,0<H>,000.
This will, of course, depend largely
i-pon. tho value whldl Ibe appraisers
place upon the copyrighta. Tho cash,
securities and personal eatate, e.vclusive
of the copyrighta will exceed, it is
pretty authoritatively rumored, $1,
000.000.
The speeial beojaeeta are divided:
160,000 direct to the ehnrch an<l $100,
000 in trust for teaching Christian
Science to students who aro unable to
pay for their instructions.
Tbe Second Church of Christian
Bctenea Of New York eity is the next
largest boneficiary, ns there is left to
it a Biim not to exceed $175,000 to pay
off its indebtedness. _
RICH MAN'M KON HOMELES*.
William C. Rhinelander, whose
fathe--, the late William Rhinelander,
of New York city, diainherited him
for marrying a wattresa, but wlio was
later given $5,000 a year income from
the Rhinelander estate, waa an
and arraigned in police court in Sara
toga, N. Y., yeaterday, on a charge of
vagrancy. Rhinelander'i wife, Julia
C, haa recently brought auit for aep
aration and the action la now pending.
He told the police magistrate that
since Oetober 10 he has received notb?
ing from hia father _ estate; that he
is now penniless and has no place to
Bleep. A night or two ago he was
permitted to keep warm at police head
quartora.
Rhinelander claim. that he is be
coming bliod. When arraigned yes?
terday he waa warned that if he does
not find aome way of supporting him?
self he will be sent'to the county houae.
Since hia wife sued bim Rhinelander
haa been living alone._
Death of Congreaa_ian t'ook.
Fhiladelphia, Dee. 13.?Congressman
Joel Cook, of this city, died bere early
today._ _
OontracU for two battleihipa of 24
000 tona each, for tbe Hritiah navy,
wtre lat in Loodon yeaterday,
OFFICIAL
Report of the Clerk of Ga_.
ol'FICE OFTHE CITY OAS WOHKS.
Alexandria, Va., November jc, 1910.
To tl.e llon. i. itv Oe-n-ll or Alexandria, Virginia.
Qentlemen' Afl?aoulra4 by law I hereby .uhniit ihe report of tl,.- .;
ofthe City Qfaa Works for the six montha e_dl_|f November :w. 11*10.
Jone l i.'io, there remained unpaid gas blU amountlnte to. rttM
l?I" Whieh I have eolleeie.l . _m*19
?:.. ifl
. 67.12
Leavlng unpaid .
Ol" w hi.h T."> per eoul is worlliless
kUMM
A icfereiiee to the eomparative statement wKtoh ij made a uarv ofUla r*?
port will show under tho head of net amount that there baa been sold
foeonsumers for six moutha ending November 1, I'AO I < -
Of thla amount I have eolleeted. ? . _______
Leaving uiieolleete.l .???? ?.?????? |3X">.U
Vmouiiiofmontlily billa whlch are dated Novombwr 1, aud havi. until
Deeember 1"?. to entltle them to diseount and whieh are uupaid _!___
Amount orbills due and unpaid November30. ????_., *B1,.I1
COMPARATIVE 8TATEMKNT
siiow ing amount ofgaa sold during six month* eedlflg .November 1910, as oom
pared with same period of year 1909.
Cubifl leel
?old.
Juue ..... 4,007,100
July . l.2ii2,3UO
An- l.'il.'l.^W
Bept :t,s_J.ooo
Oot -_.0*>,5S0O
Nov .... LtWl-00
14,934,400
June . t,s74,iiio
July. i WOJOO
Aug. 1.411,000
Bepi . 4,c%,:fuu
Oet . 2.H03W
Nov. -,134.&<X)
1900
Grosa Kev.
?5,977.27
1,640.99
1.577.94
2,060.0(1
2,a75.W
Dlact
1919.08
?_v_.n;
242.7.
700,80
4U9/34
mira
119,414.72
PJHSM
aiti.i_7.i-u
1910.
?r.,3*;.JO
2 U'M.ill
IJfl-flO
6,tof\i?
_.7Si..>4
2.774.85
16,837,400
?_i,8a?.a_
Inerease .. 1,90-400 | $2,473.90
$1,462.-3
474.21
423. M
l,40?.h_
Hl-2.24
__ mm
fsjMja
2,0*4.34
MJT4.10
1,V?>.70
1.Ill 00
?^fluao
2.149180
*00 <?
Showing
pared
COMPARaTIVESTATKMKNT
maelpta from sale of coke from June t. 1910. to Novsivbor 1, I** ^ BO-.
wiui same perior of 1901'.
1910.
.1 une
July
Aug
Sept
li, l
Nev.
5_.:?<t.:i4
Tar
$170.06
sa.4i
17.".. 90
I57.M
131.33
Total Coke t'.UO
Total Coke 190B
mk\
'-Coke.
June .|__s.?:
July. 4.7.17
Aug W9M
Sepi SM.?:
Oel . tlLW
Nov.44*79
T-r
ar_i..7
iaa.CM
I0&.OU
\\:>. ??
IS0.-I
24*7
asw.t.
?,90134
2,2_.6_
timM Iiieiea-D
Total Tar W?
[_Ul lar it?io
87.44 Deeraesa
Aromonla iwa.
Aiuiiiouia 19IU
..a_7.V0O
IT5.00
000.00
J. B WALLER, Clerk oftias
EIRE B\08SE?*.
The average annual loss by fire in
tbe 0 n ited States inthe past 10 years
has beeu more tl.au $200,000,000, and
during tha past Are yeara has a.ver
age.l over 1260,000,000. That aver?
age loss means alossof atwut, $80,
000 for each hour, aod tliat $1,260,
000,000 in tho producta of humau
loil has been wipedwat of exi*t?nce
in thebr.ef spaee of tive yesra. The|
values repreaatiaad by the fire waste
would more than pay tha atock dtvi-,
denda of all railroads. It exceeda the
rereone of the national postoffice;it ts
greater than tbe production of gold or
silver.
The annual uumber of lires ??
American cities average 40 for eacb
10 000 of population as compared tO
6 of each 10,000 population in Euro
peau cities. The annual per oapita
loss in Auatralia, Denmark. France,
Germany, Italy and Swit_erland'vari?s
from 12 conts in Italy to 49 cents
in Germany, witb an average of 33
cents- in the United Statea the average
is $2.47. Berlin has a population
of 3 000,000. IU average annual firo
loss is $170,000. Chieago, witb ita
nonulation of 2,000.000, burna up an
nually nearly $5,000,000 of values.
We destroy more property by tire than
do any four nationsjn J-Urope.
?TAYO* EXEC-TIO*.
Qoe. Mann yeaterday granted a atay
of execution in the caae of Jim Hair
ston and Torn Bailey, both colored,
COOTtCted of tho murder of Sidoey
Woods, a negro, who waa alam in a
drunken fight on an excuraien trBin, in
Ifarch, 1900, Tho men were to have
gooe to the electric chair next Friday,
but the execution was yeaterday set
over until January 13, 1911. John
Ec.cles, oue of the tive negroes aaid to
have been implicatcd iu the killing of
Woods, haa already been erecuted. He
left Ijehind an alleged confesaion, in
whieh he states that Hairaton and Bai?
ley wero not eoncerned in the homicide.
Effort* in Detroit,Mich., to locate the
father of Mrs. Jamea E. Knott, the
woman arrested in Waahingtou in con
oectioo with an alleged badger game,
today proved futile. The loeal detec
tive bureau of the police department
declare they do not remember any
elopement wbere the woman went to
Washington.
Mane Emile Rucket, vice-preaident
of the Federal Council and Miniater of
the Interior of Switzerland, waa at
Berne today elected proaidentof thfl
Swisa Confederaiion for 1911 by tbe
federal aaacmbly._
Driven insane by builneea worriea,
JohnHinea, aged ti1,of Aaroria, L. h,
today shot and killed hia wife, Jo?e
phioe, nnd then cut liis own throat,
dying alir.ost Inat 0 Iy.
New Opera House
POLITEVAUDEV1LLK.
CEtANOED MON. AND TUUB8.
10c TO ALL.
Harris and Beauregarde
In a Rural Comcdy 8ketch,"The Country
Judffc," with vpoclal acenerjr.
Ragenninie
The Mtrcet Singcr and Vlolmiat.
Fasey and Taylor
T. o clever Comedieone..
Matinee Wedneaday __d Haturd-y ?o
Alio lateat motion ploturos ohanged
daily.
Store open eveninfs un?
til Christmas.
Early in the morning and
at night is the best time to
shop _of jXmas.
KING AND PITT STREETS.
Useful
Xmas
Presents
For
Ladies.
Bureau Scarfs, each 25c, 50c, 98c and
$1.49.
Pillow Sharas, each 9M, 50c, 98c and
$1.89.
Sideboard 8carf-, eacb 50c, 98o, $1.60
aed $1.98.
Lunch Cloths. each 60c, 98c, $1 49,
$1.98, $_.50 apd $2.98.
Tableclotha, with do.cn Napkins to
match, the set, $2.50, $3.50, $6.00.
Ladies' Fancy Collara, in bores, each
15c, 25c, 85c, 60c aod 75c.
Writing Paper in holiday boxes, each
10c, 15c, 25c, 89c, 50c, 75c, $1,11.60,
$1.99 aod $2.25.
Japanese China, front 10c to $5.00.
J_\die_' Fancy Belts, each 25c, 60c,
75c and $1.00.
Ruching, neatly boxed, each 25c and
49c.
Belt Buckles, each 25c 60c, 75c aod
$1.00.
Leather Handbaga, eacb 26c to $5.00.
Leather Muaic Bolla.each 98c and $1 49.
Wbite Tableclotha, eacb 98c to $6.00.
Dinner Napkina, doz. $1.00 to $<?.00.
Hand made Doiliea, eacb 25c, 35V, 60c.
Cuahion Pillowa, each 89c, 49c and 59c.
Fancy Tablecorera, eacb *J8c to $8.50,
While Aprona, each Uc, Wo, Wc and
60c.
Gingbam Aprooa,each25c. 85cand60c.
Bad Tablecovera, each 49c to $2.60.
Knit Fascinatora. each 26c to $1.50.
Fancy Open Baga, eacb 35c, 50c 75c
and $1.00.
Accordin* to nooracial returns re?
eeived in hla home at Bridgeport, W.
Va., PreeidentT. L Uwia haa been
re?elected preaident of the l'nited Mine
Workera of Ameriea by a majority of
about 80,000.
Gentai Styliah, up-to?date footwear
adds materially to your appearance.
Wd have tbe excluaive fltyiea, auch aa
XII HISS, RIGAL, WALKOVER,
BROC-OS COOPERATIVB, 4c. J. -a.
Uarahall A Bro.. 422 King atreet.
Many peraona flnd themeelvea affoct
ed witb a peraiatent cough after an at?
taek of influeoza. Aa thla cougb can
be promptly cured by tbe u?e of Cbarn
berlain'a Cough Be..?*dy\ it ehould not
be allowed to run until it becemea
troubleeome. Bold by W. F. Creigh*
ton and jicbard Oibtoo,