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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-07
OPECIAL ELECTION.

Pursuant to resolution OF the Board of Aldor-
men of the city of Alexandria, passed April D.
1892 fpecial election will be h Id in the First
ward on THURSDAY, May %, 1890. for the
election of q MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF AL
DERMEN to fill the vacancy occasoned by the
resignation OF Park Agnew. The polls will be
opened ct sunrise and close at sundown. Inc
judges and clerks of the regular election Will DC
the judges and clerks of this special election.
n. P. VINCENT,
my6 te Clerk Board OF Aldermen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-07

section.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE Chief Secretary for ireland, Mr..
Balfour, said that the report that there
would be a general famine in Ireland
was absurd.
The Government of Canada has de-
cided to expend $3.50. 900 in promoting
emigration from Europe.
On the 9th the centenary anniversary
Of the birth OF Father Mathew was cell
ebrated in Cork.
AN explosion in the Rocario gold
mine in Mexico killed ten men.
MARY aud Eliza McGonnigle. aged Ia
and 12 years respectively, we're crimi-
nally assaulted and murdered near
Cumberland. Ont A man named Mar
cisse Laroque had been arrested for the
crime.
RoBERTo SAcAsA has been reelected
President of Nicaragua for a term of
four years.
JOHN DILLON and William O'Brien,
on trial at Dublin, Ireland, for conspir-
acy, forfeited their bail bond OF IS, 900
each on the 10th, and it was said they
were on their way to America.
BY an explosion in the pyrotechnic
school at Bourges, France, ten persons
were killed and many injured.
ALI. over Italy storms have done i'm
mense damage and have greatly in
creased the suffering Of the already
impoverished Inhabitants of the coun-
try.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, who had
command of the Russian army, has be-
come hopelessly insane.
ADvICEs from China say that pirate
craft seized trading junk and massa-
cred in cold blood the whole crew Of
thirty-five men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
WEST AND sOIITH

The population of the State of Ne
braska is announced by the Census Blu
rcau to be l. O56. 1913; increase. 697.43
AT Brazil. Ind, C. C. Scantlcbury, on
returning home from the funeral of
Fred Nance, who had dropped dead of
paralysis. was stricken with the same
disease and died almost instantly.
MARTIN b. KISDLE, of johnson Coun-
ty, Ind, has been selected as candidate
for Secretary of State by the Peoples
party in place of Leroy Templeton, of
Benton County. who declined
The noted Southern outlaw, Rube
Burrows, who was captured by officials,
was shot dead at Linden, Ala, by one
of his captOrs while trying to escape.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations on the
sth were as follows: Kentucky, Second
district. II. r Bourland (Dem.). Mis-
sissippi, seventh district, Meredith
Matthews (Rep.). Michigan. Eleventh
district = NJ. Stephenson (Rep.l re-
nominated. 10, Fourth district, w.
z. Orr (Rep.L South Carolina, Fourth
district, q. W. Shell Farmers Al
liance). Utah, Charles C. Goodwin
(LiberaO.
LANES utStFONtu tue ouSlutcS HON
tion of Pickrell, Neb.
THE postal authorities seized the
weekly edition of the Atlanta tGa.l
Constitution for violating the anti
lottery law recently passed.
On the Sth President Harrison was
entertained at Galesburg. ILL.,. and the
city was full of strangers tn get view
, of the Chief Magistrate. He laid the
cornerstone of the alumni hall of
Knox College and attended the reunion
of his old brigade.
AT Terre Haute. Ind, Nelson, the
great Maine stallion, trotted mile in
/ 2:IIA breaking the worlds stallion rec
ord. Hal Pointer on the same track
paced the three fastest consecutive
heats ever made; time. 2:09S4, s:12A
and 2:IS.
JoHN SCHMIDT confessed at Louisville
/ that he had counterfeited 81 silver GER
I tificates to the amount of $4,000
A MAN named Dandy, who lives in
I Tecumseh, Ala. killed his wife and
brutality beat his daughters. one fatally.
because they had discovered him in
criminal acts
DEMOCRATS opposed TO B. b Tillman
for Governor of South Carolina met in
/ Columbia and nominated a full State
ticket, led by A. C. Haskell for Gov
! ernor.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

synopsis OF the Report OF Commissioners
Groif. of the General l. md Once Near
ly 100000 Acres Taken Up by Set
tiers During the Year.
WASHINGTON, Oct 137Judge Lewis
A Croft, the Commissioners of the Gene
raj Land Office, has submitted to the
Secretary of the Interior the annual re-
port of the operations of his bureau for
the fiscal year ended Juno 80, 1890. The
report says that an agricultural domain
Of nearly $4,000, 900 acres has during
the year been transferred to settlers
by patents issued to them The area
of coal and mineral lands patented has
been greatly increased over that of the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1889. The
area patented to the States under the
grants for educational and internal i'm
proyement purposes has increased 800
per cent. The class of patents known
as agricultural" includes all patents
issued on final and committed home
stead entries, on presumption, timber
culture, desert, private cash, town-site
and other entries embracing lund of an
agricultural non-mineral character.
The number of such agricultural pat
ents issued during the period covered
by the report was 1I7,247, embracing
is, 75s, $50 acres, as against TOTAL
issued in 1889, with an aggregate area
Of 1920, 500. The increase for
the year is, therefore, Al, log pat
ents, and 1886. 900 acres of land
of mineral and mill-site patents l, 407
were issued. showing an increase in the
year of 49, OF coal patents 224 were
issued. This is an increase Of SO
patents, representing 1886 acres. The
acreage OF swamp lands patented to the
several States during the year was 109.-
ISL. There were patented or certified
under the law for the benefit of railroad
companies during the year 1863. s62 acres
This is decrease for the year of 81, 1888
acres.
A statement of the acreage of public
lands disposed OF during the fiscal year
shows that by private entries 3s,617
acres were disposed of, by presumption
entries, 2,204. 905; timber and stone
entries, 500. 1896; desert land, AIS, sag.
The total cash sales were $780,
s46. The acreage disposed of by
original homestead entries was
5, 53i, 67S: timber culture, LIST,
4OS; State selections, school and swamp,
25S, l4i; railroad selections, 1852, 75s;
and others of miscellaneous character
making an aggregate of 9.362,6s5. The
Indian lands disposed of aggregate 1885,
sos acres, making a grand total OF H.
y9s, 3S7 acres. The total cash receipts of
the Office from various sources during
the fiscal year was s7,7s0.5 SIT.
Upon the subject of the forests of the
public domain the Commissioner says
that he finds that the most valuable
timber on the public lands is being rap
idly exhausted, and that the several
laws relating to the subject are utterly
inadequate properly to protect either
the public forests from unlawful appro-
priation or the interests of the settlers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
PlTH AND POINT.

The Modern Maiden.-He-Would
that those busy little hands were niinei'
She-Ycu can hire them for SIS week.
Van Dorn's Magazine.
Room for Doubt Mr.. Whitney
House tpointing to young Clarence Yer.
isopht and his girl)-"Two souls with
but single thoughtw Mr.. Chauncey
Lake (cynically)-"Which has it?"-
Westborough Tribune.
The Returned Traveler.-''Switzer!
land, madam, Switzerland is horribly
oyerrated! You are all the while shut
in so by mountains that you can't see
any thing "-Courrier des Etats Unis {.
well. young man." said the irate
parent, IF you persist in your present
course you will sup sorrow with
| spoon" II don't know whether that
can be worse than eating ice-cream with
fork" returned the profgate; ''and
I've tried that"
Husband Sitting down to support
Where are all the children. Maria?"
W!fe-"I sent them to bed" Hus-
band-"To bed? Why so early?' Wife
-'Because you are going to put up that
new stovepipe. and want them to grow
up 70 be polite men and women."-Bos-
ton Herald
Duchess Of Borrowitz Ito Attendantl
WHO knocks at the castle gates 1t
this unseemly hour?" Attendant lex
citedly)-"lt is thy son. He brings with
him an Ar erican wife with q purse
large enough to pay all the family
debts" Ouch ess with emotion AID
4 III III
| Weekly.
Won Lohnote "a ponderous basso-
singing)-'A Warrior Bold Am l." Two
hours later: Madam Won Lohnote-
Jacob, is the wood ready for the cook?'
Won Lohnote-"Yes, my dear" Madam
Won Lohnote-"Then lock the doors.
and don't dare to wake the baby" Won
Lohnote (meekly)-"Yes, MY dear
Pittsburgh Bulletin.
Little Neil-"Auntie took me 20
the matinee to-day. and all the idiot
asylum inmates were there. The man
ager sent them free tickets. and put
them all in one part OF the theater in .
whole lot OF seats by themselves"
| Mamma-"Indeedl And how did they
act?" Little Nell-'o. just as IL they
had box"-Springfield Republican
Maria" he pleaded, 'if your IA
Their will not give his consent will you
elope with me?" But Tom, just think
of the wedding presents we will miss.
l will promise to be yours when papa
| says yes" ''Oh. pshawl Why wait all
that tiine2 II we elope we can cele-
brate our golden wedding by the time
| your father comes around. Harper
| Bazaar.
| -Ethel-''What are you so angry
about to-night?" Maud Tive received
a note from Jack saying that he's en-
gagged to Clara Bescbly." Ethel-"Well,
/ should think that would relieve your
mind rather than make you angry. You
are engaged to Tom Shore. and intended
| TO throw Jack over anyway" Maud
YES goosy, but do you think wanted
TO lose the fun of throwing him Overt"
Epoch.
Nobody cares whether the inhab-
Itants of Jupiter are transparent or not.
as some of the star-gazers affirm; but 10
would be something of a godsend in the
way OF wisdom to understand by what
process OF vision q woman can see clear
through a man weighing two hundred
and forty pounds with as much compre-
hension IS she can look Into a plate
glass window full of new bonnets.-
Rams Horn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Recent Inventions and improvements Oh
General Interest.

Recent Inventions and improvements Oh
General Interest.
A plan has been devised by which a
single sewing machine in a private
house can be operated by electricity
without trouble. danger or great ex-
pense.
The daily mileage made in cities OF
the United States by cars supplied with
hundred thousand miles, and is grow
ing rapidly.
In the London General post-office
there are go electrical circuits fed by
twenty-nine accumulators, which are
charged once a month by the electric
light dynamos. 1t is stated that never
before has the system Of using accumu-
lators been tested on so large scale.
There is a coal mine at St Andre du
Poirier, France, worked with two shafts
of a depth OF 2. e52 feet and S.os3 feet
The latter Is ito be increased to 4. 600
feet. Contrary to theory, little increase
of temperature has been met with as
the shafts went farther into the earth.
The rolling of cold steel-wire is now
accomplished with ease, and, instead OF
the wire becoming weakened by the
process, practical tests have demon
strated that its tensile strength is nearly
doubled. In other words. the tensile
strength of hot-drawn steel-wire is "a,
400 pounds to the square inch, while
that of cold-rolled steel wire is los. 500
pounds.
Inventors are trying to adapt naphtha
engines, which have proved so success
full in launches, to locomotives for pro-
peliing street cars. One such motor has
been run experimentally for six months
at Elizabeth. n. j.. and is said to have
developed abundant power, although
there were mechanical defects which IL
was nece sssry to overcome. A speed OF
twelve miles an hour was attained The
motor has now reached such a stage
that 1t is TO be tried in actual service in
ST. Louis. The cost OF operating one OF
these motors for day Of fourteen
hours, running distance of ninety
miles. is placed at 81. 40; the cost of OPP
Grating street-cars with horses ranges
from S. to 50. so a day.
The .'schiseophone" is the name given
TO an instrument for discovering flaws
in metals. invented by Captain Louis
De Place. of the Paris School of Cavalry.
and described in a recent number of La
Nature. The instrument consists OF
microphone combined with mechanic
al striker and a sonometer. In using
this instrument one operator directs tho
striker over the surface Of the metal
under examination. while another list
ems at the telephone in an adjoining
room. When the striker hits point
over flaw the sound is increased, and
the increase is so magnified By the
microphone that the listener at the
telephone can detect its presence.
Tests of the instrument were made at
Ermont on the rails for the Northern
Railway Company, and in every case
where a flaw was indicated by the in
strument Ii was found TO exist on break
ing the rail-Chicago News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
LATER.
Justice Miller IL Dead.

WASHINGTON, ID. C. Oct. l3-Justice
Miller, who was stricken by paralysis
on the morning of the 18th, died to-
night at IO:42 without struggle or pain.
Judge Miller was born in Kentucky
in April, 1916. He studied medicine
and was graduated from the Transy Iva
MIA University of Kentucky. While a
practicing physician he made up his
mind that Medicine was not his bent,
and while still practicing he studied
law and was admitted TO the bar. With
his sensitive, sympathetic nature he
suffered more than he could bear.
Judge Miller had the will and courage
OF lion with the heart of child.
Judge Miller is statesman as we'll
as a jurist. In 1s4s he was a delegate
to convention with Cassius M. Clay
and a number of other such men, the
object being to suggest some plan for
the gradual emancipation Of slaves.
The effort never came to anything,
and in 1850 he removed to Iowa and
soon obtained large practice. He was
an emancipationist and was the early
friend of Lincoln, Chase. Giddings and
Thad Stevens. The first and only
Office he ever held was on the supreme
bench to which Lincoln appointed him
in 1s62. He is the oldest justice on the
supreme bench in point of service. lie
has lectured very successfully before
the law school at Washington and the
bar associations OF New York and Iowa,
and has been given the title of l.. L. ID.
and ID. c. l.. by number Of literary
colleges.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Pats.
FROM WASHINGTON.


GOVERNOR PRINCE, of New Mexico. in
his annual report. estimates the popula-
ton of the Territory at Is5, 900. The
financial condition of the Territory was
excellent The total output of gold,
silver, lead and copper was valued al
S4,O23. ssA The Governor strongly urges
the admission of New Mexico as State.
IN his annual report Lyman T.
Knapp, Governor of Alaska, says thai
fourteen Government day schools are in
session, eleven of which were attended
wholly by natives.
IN the United States the visible sup
ply of coffee is figured at 2.2l4, 544 bags.
against 2.I93. 4T3 bags on the Ist OF
September.
IN the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 10th numbered 215. against 1877 tho
preceding week and ga the correspond
ing week last year.
On the 10th Justice Samuel +. Miller
of the United States Supreme Court was
Frustrated by an attack of paralysis in
the streets Of Washington. and his con-
dition excited the gravest fears.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing-houses in the United States during
The week ending on the 18th aggregated
81. $50, S65. Ssi, against sl,2s0. $40. 1875 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1889 the increase
amounted to as.
THE annual report of Louis A. Croft.
Commissioner of the General Land
ONCE, shows that an agricultural do
main of nearly 10, 900. 600 acres has dur
ing the year been transferred to set.
.lers by patents issued to them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
PUSHED BEFORE A TRAIN.

a Constable Killed and His Prisoner
Hurt in an Attempt to Rescue the
Latter.
AKRON, O., Oct. 13-The killing of
one man and probably fatal mangling
of another at Orrville Friday night
turns out to be murder. Coroner
Scion Boydston, of Orrville, who was
acting as policeman during the
fair. had John Sweeney, said to be
from Cleveland, in custody on the
depot platform. Sweeney saw pal in
the crowd and made a sign to him.
The latter stepped up. and iusS as a
switch engine was going by showed
Boydston in front of it The coroner
was terribly rlangled. and must have
died instantly. He retained his grip on
Sweeney as he went and the prisoner
was also run over, being very
badly injured. He will probably die.
The man who did the pushing was
caught by the crowd and is now in GUS
xdy. He refuses to give his name.
There is great excitement at Orrville,
where Boydston was prominent citi.
zen and highly regarded.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
MR.. LANGsToN SEATED.
Tardy Justice Done to . Southern Repub-
lican of Great Ability.

Tardy Justice Done to = Southern Repub-
lican of Great Ability.
The contest which has just settled
the question of representation in the
Fourth Congressional district of Vir-
ginis was one OF the most protracted
and interesting events of its class which
has occurred in recent years. John M.
Langston was the regular Republican
nominee in that district in 1883, but not
being pleasing to General Malone, a
nominee named by the latter was put
in the field. Langston. however, re-
ceived 1867 votes, or four times as
many as the Mahonite, while E. C. Ven
able, the Democrat, led Langston by
only 642 Had the Republicans been
united their majority would have been
almost 5000. Fraud. however, which
mu ch more than swept away Venable's
narrow margin, was proved against the
Democracy, yet that did not give Lang
ston any Democratic support in the
House in his efforts to get his wrongs
righted. Right up to the close OF the
fight which has just resulted IN his ad-
mission to the seat to which he was le-
gally chosen two years ago. his claim s
at every point were resolutely fought
by the Democratic party.
For nearly a week the Lang ION con-
test blocked the wheels Of legislation in
the House. Recognizing the Republic
an purpose to seat him at the earliest
opportunity, the Democrats employed
every parliamentary resource within
their reach to delay or defeat this prof.
ect The absence Of quorum on the Re-
publican side enabled them to triumph
for the time being. BY the childish but
familiar device of deserving the cham
Der at critical moments they postponed
the accomplishment of this task to the
time at which the Republicans sue
ceeded in mastering enough of their
own members to constitute a majority
of the House. and thus virtually sus-
pended all important work in that body.
The seating of Langston, however. ac-
companied as il has been by the admis-
sion OF Thomas L. Miller. another Re-
publican, who was elected in the
seventh district of South Carolina, but
who was counted out by the Bourbons,
will make the Republicans masters of
the situation. 1t will give them a suf-
ficient lead in the House to make all
Democratic obstruction hereafter i'm
possible. From this time onward to the
close of the term the Republicans will
have complete and continuous control
in the lower as we'll as the upper branch
of Congress st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16
DEATH IN THE FLAMES.
Three Men and n Woman Lose Their
Lives In Hotel Fire at Chicago.

Three Men and Woman Lose Their
Lives In a Hotel Fire at Chicago.
CHICAGO, Oct IA lamp exploded
in the fourth floor hallway of the Put
paU European Hotel at 1853 and 1855
Adams street Sunday morning at
. o'clock. The ignited oil was
thrown in every direction, and imme-
diately the frail pine partitions sep
arating the apartments were in blaze.
The fire spread rapidly. and within a
few moments the building was filled
with dense smoke, binding and suffo-
eating. Ten persons were sleeping on
the fourth floor. Some escaped down the
stairway. others CROPPED their way 20 the
fire-escape at the front of the build
ing Edward Peyton, aged so years, was
burned to death in his bed. Kirk III.
Salms, of Calumet, Mich, a Pinkerton
detective, and Thomas Ii. Dowler, of
this city. fell in the hallway and were
burned almost beyond recognition.
Mrs Charles Robinson leaped from the
fourthst story window and was horribly
mangled on the pavement below. She
has since died
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-10-16

WASHINGTON, Oct. l3.-Gen. William
Belknap. ex-secretary of war, was found
dead in bed this morning in the Evans
building in this city.
The room where he was found joined
mis- Office rooms and was only occupied
by the General during his wife's alb
sence from the city Gen. Belknap was
last seen alive on Saturday night about
midnight, when he was on his way to
his rooms.
The autopsy disclosed the fact the
Immediate cause of death was infiam-
nation of the inner lining OF the heart.
For some years past Gen. Belknap has
beer an almost constant sufferer from
govt, and in February last he had 50
severe an attack that he hardly left his
room FOR three months or more Dur
ing that time he lost in flesh between
thirty and forty pounds, and since then
he has been in poor health. In conse-
quence of his long illness his business
has suffered and this had worried hin
at times.