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PUBLISHED DAILYBy the Alexandria Gazette Corpora- *

tion.ROBERT S. BARRETT, President <

and General Manager.HOWARD W. SMITH, Secretary and 3

Treasurer. J

Entered at the Postoffice of Alex- jsandria, Virginia, as second class mat-1ter. 1

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DOUBLE MURDERBROUGHT TO LIGHT.

Charged with the nrard-ir inof a wealthy but i:r.ideM:i; v tman and his son,

' facing 'thelegation that .he <vj.- »

notorious pv v- njooperated i the- of r- ord, c

v Iowa dun.-; :ju-»t subsc-jaqurrif. ,o »!;o i" tfs Hunts-1r .11, '71. > ember of a j i

jhio, has been p;r-iesie^k_ pIr'-'foYry a wealthy cattle- p

n. .sted on one charge of !bcomplice, and the author!- J c

searching for the third man Jin .d uted. : V

ne issurance of the warrants fol- >/owed an attempt by Samuel AnderIson,of Lucas, Iowa to file a civil suit jagainst the men named in the war- n

rants, forcing them to give" him a olfourth share of $90,000 said to have ai

\ been found twelve years ago in a d<chest buried on a farm near Sia.!Iowa. Huntsman, Scribner and thejaithird defendant, Anderson told the 0(police, hired Anderson to dig up the Achest and they toolc possession of it. \\A gang of counterfeiters in the fall; gi

of 1808, it is said, attacked and kill- thed a wealthy cattleman and his son.jlowho had come to Iowa to buy land on 00which to start a cattle ranch. MThe victim brought $90,000 with! al

him in a trunk. This the counter- in,feiters buried on Anderson's farm, is

An T^nr/licfl nnot tl;>c IIS

Murder may pass unpunished for a! no

time, r

But tardy justice will o'ertake the it:crime. ! of

Such cases as that described above wibrings to mind the case of Eugene T1Aram, the English school teacher, niwho killed Daniel Clarke over two eo

hundred years ago. Clarke vanished m

and thirty years /elapsed before his wi

bones were exhumed and the muv

orbrought to justice.n

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board ot cirt.-.' fi'..Steel Corpora:. /expectedly quick eu i t;; >1 iiv'-n-

peanwar. He added that pc

( bring about an unpreceden-:.*-:perity for the United States. ~>UioGray said in part: ui

"We are approaching the end of a ic.war that has been and still is des- tltroying life and property almost be- fyond human calculation. £

"There is obtainable proof that allcountries involved deeply regret thatthe war was ever started. They nr. tjnearing exhaustion. They are sick ft! (;heart. We shall at no distant day sc a

peace secured. g"Throughout our own land we ace w

to have industrial peace, and as n »

consequence greater propseritv th-i-i

ever before."We have the opportunity to be- t<

come the leading: nation of the worM p|.financially, commerically. and in- Q

) dustrially." biThe civilized world earnestly hopes, tl

Judge Gary's forecast will he realiz- s,

ed as soon as possible. But, accordingto present signs " the skies, the belligerentsare not preparing for peace.' yOn the contrary they are sending in 01

large orders for munitions and mis t-]I eellaneous supplies and some obset- hl vers are inclined to think conditions gV next summer will he virtually a c<

those now existing. o.

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POISONED RYCOCOANUT PIE. , v

I yPtomaine poisoning. believed r,

to be the result of eating cocoanutj a

\ custard in a restaurant in Wester-1 qlv. R. I., caused the death p

Timothy Sulivan and the h;s of 26 others. Julia Savagetng daughter of Patrick' Savage. \eveloped meningitis, and her re- j cv is doubtful. Raymond A.ivT. J. Crane, of Philadelphia, 1 is

ras on his way to Eastern Point ti

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or the remainder of the season, stop>ed off and ate a piece of the pie.Ie was taken to a lodging house irl critical condition. All the othe:nembers of the Sullivan family ant

ill of the Savage family are ill.In this hustling age thousands ol

>ersons, especially in the large citiesvirtually take all their meals at luncl:ounters.' Indigestion prevails to ar

ilarming extent among old and younj1 * 1 *." nolnAnc* r\-f + /UIKC clTKl OCCttdiUJiaujr v/uo ui cm

:heap eating houses find themselve:'ictims of ptomaine poisoningThere is a general dcir.a.'id for pi:

'rom those who patr&r.i.tc har- coun

ters nad in order ~se;

)f customers i-vcvy ariet; ya

50n, out of Oil i

Many v a ic' '-:xr ou

some hot. : ;k :V.c cav

she ah' .!>.. c-J sons whi.,< ; .;'.ii .woi: -;t be a luncl

>» : out thi-' adjunct,;'iy .erally known, bu<

.vertheless, that al!U.v i after they are twelver .ours old, are dangerous.

v is run in eating them whilehey are fresh, but it would be safeio avoid them when it is known the:vere baked the day before. Mixture:>f eggs and milk after having, beerooked are said to generate a poisorfter a certain number of hours.

Many years ago a young man dicen West Virginia after eating tapiocaudding' which had been cooked therevious day. A number of cases of

oisoning, some in Alexandria, haveeen attributed to the use of stale

ream puffs.o

WEDNESDAYilGHT'S STORM.

Revised accounts of Wednesdayight's storm which struck portions{ Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Indianand Illinois do not materially cutDwn the casualty list.Twenty-seven dead, ten missing,nd property loss of more than $1,10,000,is the report from Cincinnati,score of buildings were destroyed at

rashington Courthouse, Ohio, and"eat damage to crops throughoute State is reported. The propertyss in Kentucky is placed at $1,000,i0.Seven persons were killed inissouri. The town of St. Peters was

most wiped out. Three dead. 50jured, and property loss of $500,000the toll in Indiana. Property lossfully $500,000 is reported in Illi<is.The weather in this city and vicin/was sultry until towards the closeyesterday, when a high westerly

ind accompanied by showers set in.le temperature fell rapidly and lastght was unseasonably cool. Thesenditions were doubtless the after-ath of the terrible tornado in theest. j

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NEWS OF THE DAYj

The White Star liner Adriatic hasrived safely at Liverpool.

The national registry bill has pasidits third reading in the Britishouse of Commons.

"*t a violent battle the Italian" taken Pedgora, a suburb

-manding the railway

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erguso.o of . L- .<

arranza and Viii;. loa.'ei .

According to a report i.

ie State Department fromeneral Skinner, at London, t».

.mericans lost their lives when theritish steamship Anglo-Californianas shelled in escaping from a Gerinncnhrm»rin/»

American naval officers yesterday>ok charge of the powerful wirelessant of the Atlantic Communicationompany, at Salville, L. I., which will; operated by the government untilic close of the European war to injreagainst violations of neutrality.

Two representatives of the King ofloutenegro and three other men.

:ie of them formerly Montenegrinlarge d'affaires at Constantinpole,ave been indicted by the Federalrand jury in Chicago, charged withmspiraey to violate the neutralityi i-1. TT_.-i._Ji ine uimeu ouiu:».

A miniature cyclone about a mileidc swept over East Millstone, N. J.,estenlay afternoon. While it was

aging it picked up a baby carriagend its occupant and carried it threcuartersof a mile in th-; air. dropir.gthe carritge in a fiei-" withouturting the baby.

Closing of the Adriatic Sea to merhantvessels of all nations, excepthen bound for Montenegrin or ItaJmports under convoy furnished bybe Italian ministry wa» is an-

ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE! r«ui*>

j nounced in a telegram from Ambassa- J|dor Thpmas Nelson Page at Rome, B|

! dated Wednesday and given out by Rthe State Department. H

What is claimed to be the highest Rgas well ever drilled in Western R

> Pennsylvania was struck Wednesday Hi on the farm of George Spiegel, four Hi miles from McKeesport. The owners RI estimate the flow at 45,000,000 feet a E? day. So far it has not been control- B5 led, and the roar can be heard for Rmore than four miles. K

1 jjfigWilliam J. Bryan, wno originally R

; !intended to address a big noonday R. meeting of the Christian Endeavor Eg. Society at Chicago, was cor.pclled to Ejjj, change his plans. He sent a copy oi Ki a temperance speech, with penuis-, sion to have it read, but the pro- B, gram committee decided not to avail HE

themselves of the offer. jjjjI

Frederick Carlin, 20 years old., died of a fractured skull at the Home- Bj

opathic Hospital, in Wilmington, Del., K

; yesterday morning as a result of a B. fight with Harry Dych and Louis H, Rosenfeld at a boarding house. The fl, trouble was due to Carlin throwing B

torpedoes against the side of the Khouse, the police have learned. B

. JSj C. E. Cumberson, a capitalist, was B

shot twice through the shoulder yes- Ejterday in Redwood City, Cal., by Carl B

! Auerswald, a discharged employe, Hwho previously had fired the house, Hbarn and garage on the Cumberson Bestate., Auerswald died on the way 3

j to jail, it is thought from poison. EjCumberson's wounds were believed B

j not to be serious. Si

Evidently roasted to death, the JSbody of Marcus Jones, aged about -1". jByears, was found yesterday morning Hwedged between the frame work of Hthe cabin and the engine of the tug BChamplin, at Havre de Grace. Md.. BWednesday. It is believetl that Jones B

j was intoxicated and fell while trying flto board the boat Wednesday night. KThe body was in such a position thai 10it required two hours to extricate it iff

Clarence H. MacKay, millionairepresident of the Postal TelegraphCompany, yesterday applied for |.er-mission to carry a revolver for his J theown protection. The request was ideagranted by Judge Dodge in Mineola, sionN. Y. The Mackay estate, at Roslyn, dea1has been guarded since the attempt of 1to assassinate J. P. Morgan. It is ni'i?reported that Mr. Mackay has re- ion

ceived a letter threatening his life.A

As a result of investments in c<irr

coal lands in eastern Kentucky Rep- mee

resentative C Bascom Slemp, of the tracNinth Virginia district, will take rank a s^with the wealthiest men of his native 'n£state. It is reported that Mr. Slemp'sincome next year will be around $40,-1 best000 alone from his coal holdings in wer

Kentucky, and in three years' time his 0

income will double, making $80,000. ^rniThis sum does not include Mr.Slemp's other investments. Brie

SistSeventeen persons were killed a-d gag

50 injured, some probably fatally, as havithe result of the trolley wreck on the $-0,slope of Queenston Heights Wednes- singday night. Racing to catch a sterol-;ed for Toronto, a special car of the | GInternational Railway, loader! with clab121 passengers, left the rails on a Pac;sharp curve and plunged into a gully brat15 feet below. The car struck a builtree as it toppled over and was near- Was

't in two. All the dead were res- VecToronto. onic

ingl. nosscssion of Uici'iun-nI. ''i.- £ldridge Snioot, of; dec!

' v- . .> young husband who i V invounded his bride of frua

l'v and then turned the Unipistoi iimself, inflicting a f'esh Stuiwound ir. the forehead, are relied, W.

II upon to mitigate the younir manV, ar

crime when he is put on trial for at-. whitempted murder. It is said at i he oahVirginia Hospital that the condition ari

of Mrs. Smoot is critical, and it c-.n

not be stated whether or not she willrecover from her wounds. Her has-band is improving and will recover. II

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President Wilson may he formally aftcand publicly requested by the Ant-i- boliSaloon League of America to take!the pledge as the result of a sugges- F

i l^,1 .._A 1 V T"> ! 1-tiuii jucauiiuuu uh> in rum- mot

j mond Pearson flobson, former Coo- and! pressman of Alabama. He called fo; Vie| a dry White House and asked that mot

the Chief Executive he "urged to.o'cbpractice total abstinence as an cx-' sevi

ample and banish all intoxicating lifj-1 buruors from the Capitol and to holdcivil service as it is established by Vrailroads .and other big organiza-, beetions." of t

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Moved by speeches of men promi-: thenent in church and business life of fallthe;- South,;.>00'Southern ipcn .'>'and;'.conwomgn,' -delegates to'; the World's] outChristian Endeavor Convention in, °f <

session in Chicago, yesterday acknow-

j ledged brotherhood with, the negro j 1race and determined to extend to it par

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hand of fellowship. Out of this J pi is to grow the Southern exten- v

committee of the Christian En- \/or, which the Rev. Ira Landrith, ^Mashville, Tenn., calls the begro- s

; of the Interdenominational Un- e

of the Colored People. hc

special train on the Pennsylvania hying race horses from the recent

ting at Latonia to the Easternks was wrecked at Terrace Pail: jlortdistance from Cincinnat* du»v bthe big storm Wednesday night heteen of what arc considered tin di horses that ran at the meeting de killed. The large racing slab v

f E. R. Bradley was on thr train (ong the race horses killed were 0

le Father, Fitzgerald L'lcud Test, fc:k and Mortar, Margaret I). Bricks per and White Col. Blind Bag- te, for whom the owner is said to 0

e recently refused an offer oi000, and Prince Hermis are mis-

ILovernor Stuart participated in the. j|orate ceremonies at the Panama- c

ific exposition yesterday in ceie- (;ion of Virginia Day. Virginia's o

ding is a faithful copy of George C;hington's residence at Mount n

non. Miss Nannie Randolph Hcth. o

rial hostess, wore a Martha Wash- v

on gown at the reception, and a .}iber of other participants were pced out in colonial garb. The b?inia Blues, a body of nationa*rdsmen, and two battalions ofted States cavalry acted as Gov. a

art's escort to the grounds. Capt c

W. Baker, of the Confederate 1iy, is chairman of the ceremonies r

rh included the planting of an e

tree brought from Richmond. r

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VIRGINIA NEWS ]tarry L. Chittum. of Richmond. 1

imittcd suicide last night shortly r

:r 10 o'clock by swallowing car- c

c acid.

ire shortly after 3 o'clock thisniug destroyed the Yale cottage '

several other cottages at Ocean c

w. The Kimbail hotel and Rich- '

id hotel were ourning at o:*5u

ockand indications were that r ^

eral other cottages would be *

lied down. c

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frits for a primary election have f

n issued by the office of Secretary the Commonwealth James to about £

enty of the counties and cities in e

State for primaries to he held this a

...The poll books.to-be used in; the ^

iing: primaries have been mailed i

by Mr. James1 office to the clerks r

;ach county and city. c

_ ithomas B. McGowan, a car re- j 1rer in the erpploye of fhe Cbesa- \

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cake and Ohio Railway Company,ras fatally injured while at workWednesday morning at Newportlews. McGowan was run over by a

tring of ears that were being switchdand both legs almost severed from

is body. He was rushed to St. FranisHospital, but died shortly afteris arrival there.

Captain Miller, in charge of theIalifax Street station of the PetersurgFire Department, is confined tolis home as the result of a personalifficulty with Harry Williams, theriver of the Halifax street engine.»'hich occurred Wednesday morning,laptain Miller is suffering from one

r more wounds inflicted with a knifey Williams, and was unable to ap

earin Police Courty esterday. Therouble is alleged to have grown outf a suspension by Captain Miller, of

Villiams for drunkenness.

The demand for automobiles andhe means of Virginians for purchasngthem arc enormously on the inrease,according to the reckoning ofJhief Clerk James FI. Hayes, Jr..f the office of the Secretary of thelomonwealth B. 0. James. The totallumber of licenses issued from thefficc up to yesterday for this yearras 18,l id, which is an increase of,000 over last year's total, ft is ex.*.ii-i.a. .»a i.a/i l~ i: ,,,;i|CCLCU mat ^u,uuu auiu licenses »>ni

ie issued for the year 1015.

Governor Stuart is the possessor ofl watch chain 30 links in length,arved out of the seeds of a tri«r<inlii*?exas watermelon. The odd gift was

eceived through the mails at thexccutivc office in Richmond yesterlay.The trophy will serve as an

ippropriate ornament with which (heixecutive may adorn his waistcoatvhen he attends watermelon feastsind agricultural fairs this summertnd fall. The donor of the waternclonseed watch chain is 13. Emdcn.>f Houston.

Martha and Henry Moody, of ClifonForge, arc minus of from!24(i of real money, being swindled»ut of that sum by one W. D. Wiliams,of Ohio, who showed up thcru:ome months ago and told them ofhe death of an uncle, old and wcal,hy,in the Buekeye State. Williamsloclared that, no will' was left, rindhat he was the representative of the:state, seeking to get a list of allhe heirs and to.establish relation;hip.But he needed money for hisixpenses, and could they let hirn havel trifle. They could and did. ThenATlliams. left. After waiting a timen patience, ; the} Moodys began tonake some inquiries. They soon disoveredthat Williams was a faker.Williams was subsequently located inronton where he was doing more

msiness. He was arrested.

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TONIGHT'S PROGRAMThe Romance of Elaine

Episide, "The Gray Friar.''Lionel Harrymore, Pearlc White,Creighton JIalc, and The MysteriousMr. X.

lellian Walker, Kvart Overton, FrankCurrier and Lillian Ruins inThe Little Doll's DressmakerSpecial Vitajrraph feature two parts.

Luhin presents Arthur .Johnson andLottie Jiri.scoe in

The CornetHerbert Prior in

A Sad Dotf's StoryEdison.

SA J'tlK DAY

Lubiu presents ICilzar .lories hiCourage and The Man

Three parts.

Lorn a Doone15i 'K',raj>h Two pa rI -.

MONDAY

Anita SLcv/art-anu Earlc Williamsin the serial beautiful.

"THE GODDESS."Fourth Chapter

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