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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-21
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Thursday, October 2Ss 1890.

RACE /.
acknowledgements mile heats.
Purse Sl50-Sl00 to first, $50 to second.
RACE II.
Trotting-2:35 class. Purse S25O-Sl50
to first, $75 to second, SD to third
RACE III.
Running Merchants stakes, one and
one-quarter mile dash. Purse $500
S150 to first, $50 TO second.
RACE ~.
Running -Welter-weight hurdle, one
and one-half mile dash over six hurdles.
Purse Sl5O-SlO0 to first. $50 to second.
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Water Notice.

Bills for use of water for quarter be-
ginning October LIST, are now due and
payable at the Office of the Roanoke Gas
and Water Company. If bills remain un-
paid twenty days after due, the water
will be shut off without farther notice.
j. c. RAWN,
octitocct2o Manager,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-21
Friday, October "a, 1890.
RACE I.

Running-Novelty, one mile dash.
Purse S25O-S25 to horse at quartcr-mile
post first, $50 to ono at half-milc first,
S75 to one at thrce-quarters first. 500 to
one at mile. 1t is possible for one horse
to win the whole purse.
RACE IL.
Running = Five-cighth mile heats
Purse $l50-Sl00 to first, $50 to second.
RACE Ill.
Running Virginia stakes, one and
one-half mile dash. Purse $350-$175 to
first, $75 to second.
RACE ".
Trotting-Frec for all Purse $500
$40 to first, $3.50 to second, $40 to third.
RACE V.
Running Consolation, thrce-uuarter
mile dash. Purse $15O-S1OO to first, $50
to second. Horses only that have run
and not won at this meeting arc eligible
to start. Entrance per cent.
SPECIAL. RACE.
Roanoke stakes, for trotting horses
owned and in Roanoke county Septem-
Der Is, 1890. A swcepstake of So5 each
with 500 added by the Association. of
which two-thirds to the first and one
third to the second horse; four to enter
and three to start. If five enters the
third to save his stake. Time of race
will be arranged on or before the first
day of the meeting.
Music by
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-21
REMOVAL.
J. F. WINGFIELD,

Fire, life and accident, i'll
surance and real estate agent,
has moved his office to
NO. IA COMMERCE STREET,
Where he will be pleased to
see lis customers. Major A.
L. Pitzer is with this firm, and
would be glad to see his friends.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
The Elections in the West.

MILWAUKEE, April 2.-The new election
lava modifi I'd form of the Australian
gave satisfaction yesterday. Ia GAINESVILLE,
a republican mayor was elected, but the
council is tie. Tbs democrats carried
Eau Claire, and license secured majority.
At Racine the liquor men carried the day.
CHICAGO. April 2-In Quincy the demo.
Gratis elected nearly the entire ticket. At
Springfield they elected majority of the
council and township officers. 10 Rock
Island the democrats secured maj ority.
10 Aurora the republicans made clean
sweep. La Galesburg the temperance peo'
pie scored victory.
ST.. PAUL. April 2.-Il Minnesota and
South Dakota, yesterday, the principal issue
was license or no license, the supporters of
the latter principle being victorious in four
fifths of the contests.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
FOREIGN NOTES

The young Duke of Orleans will be re-
leased from prison this week and secretly
conducted across the French frontier.
Divers stopped the big leak in the bottom
of the steamer City of Paris, at Queenstown,
and she has been taken to Liverpool for re
pairs.
A dispatch from London says Colonel
Hughes Hallett has definitely decided to
apply for divorce from his wife, late Miss
Emily Schaumburg, of Philadelphia. The
proceedings will be based on Mrs. Hughes
HalIett's alleged misconduct with Mr.. John
Chandos.
Prince Albrecht Waldeck, cousin of the
Queen of Holland and Duchess of Albany,
advertises in the leading journals that the
reignng Prince of Waldeck is liar and has
driven him to bankruptcy. He also says
that his wife's fortune Is sufficient topay ali
his debts.
The seventy.fifth anniversary of the birth
of Prince Bismarck was celebrated in Ger
many yesterday. The railway station al
Friedrichsruhe was almost blockaded by
the enormous number OF presents arriving
for the Prince. Five train loads Of admi.
rers visited Bismarck during the day. EN-
peror William sent his portrait. La the
evening he was serenaded. After the pro-
cession the Prince invited Herr Woermann
and other Hamburg visitors to his home.
Herr Woermann, in the course of CONVEX
satioD, expressed his hope that the Prince
would not be altogether stranger to poll
tics, and that he would still take part In the
debates in the Reiohstsg. To this Bismarck
made an aequiesceDt reply.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
Foreign News.

ZANZIBAR. Apl. 2.-Emin Pasha has en-.
tered the German service at salary oil
81 900 q year. He will leave about the
middle of April for Victoria Nyanzs, and
will be accompanied by large caravan.
LIVERPOOL, Apl. The new White Star
Line steamer Majestic sailed from this port
for New York on her maiden voyage to-day.
Sr. PETERSBURG, Apl. I'm consequence
OF the discovery of a conspiracy among the
students, the university has been closed by
the authorities. Two hundred students pre-.
sented them selves at the institution this
morning, but they were all refused admis
sion. The institute Of technology has also
been closed for the same reason and 800 stu
dents were to-day refused admission to the
institution.
ADEN. Apl. 2-The British expedition re-
Gently sent ous against the Somals has fall
ed to accomplish its mission and another e1
petition has been started. The E,a tribe
have made another attack upon the Bulhai
people and defeated them with terrible
slaughter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The courthouse at Warrenton is being rap.
idly reconstructed, and will be ready Tor oc.
cupaDcy by August.
Marylanders residing in Richmond have
formed an organization. They will take
part in the Lee monument upveillDg cere-
monies and entertain visiting Marylanders.
Commodore Marshal Parks, supervising
inspector of steamboats, for this district, VINO
has been ou heightened tour of inspection
in the southern States of his district, found
upon his table on his return to Norfolk
request for his resignation, which he prompt
" forwarded.
The Prison Association of Virginia, Or
pauized in Richmond yesterday, with Major
Robert Stiles, president; D. G. Richardson,
first. and Richard F. Berne, second vice
president. The object Ct the association Is
to reform youthful criminals, subject
which has been much discussed by those IN
terested for some time past.
The Virginia State Board of Dental Ex-
aminers met in Richmond to-day to adopt
such measures as are required to enforce
the provisions of the amendments to the
dental law adopted at the last session of the
legislature. The sessions tomorrow will be
occupied In the examination OF candidates
for license to practice in the State.
VIM. Acres, white youth, while seated
on heavy roller drawn by yoke of oxen,
Friday, on the farm of Colonel A. 81. Jones,
near Tappahanncck Essex county, fell from
his seat. He was alone, and when found,
several hours afterwards, he was dead, the
roller having crushed his body into the
ground and still remaining on it.
The Board of the Chesapeake and its
Tributaries met in Richmond yesterday
considered the matter of the appointment OF
commander of the oyster fleet, and con.
cluded to receive communications with ref
erence to the appointment of that officer up
to April the 10th, on which date, or very
soou thereafter, the commander will be ap-
pointed.
The Court of Appeals yesterday discharged
from the penitentiary (but remanded to the
custody of the Russell county authorities) o
white prisoner named A. ]. Spurgeop, who
| was sentenced in 1887 to twenty years i'm
prisonment for rape. Spurgeon gets new
trial upon teohnicalty growing out OF the
careless issuing ofthe venire facias. He bad
already spent about three years of his long
term in the State prison, from which he was
yesterday liberated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

GOODNIGHT TO acknowledgements
tive Goodnight, of Kentucky, has presented
Hon. Charles T. O'Ferral, of the Virginia
delegation, with walking stick that has
very interesting history, and aside from the
realization that his friend and fellow MEM
Der from Kentucky has high esteem for
him, Colonel O'Ferral prizes greatly the
cane on account of the memories that its
possession will awaken 10 note accom-.
panyirg the gift Mr.. Goodnight says that
the late Hon. Jefferson Davis was born at
Fairview, Todd county, KY, June 3, 1908.
snd few years ago Mr.. Davis presented
the old house in that county to the Baptist
church. The house in which Mr.. Davis
was born wac removed, and church was
erected on the Site A friend made the
walking stick from log In the old house
and gave it to Mr.. Goodnight. The latter
then adds:
There is probably to you moro mean.
ing in such souvenir than to me. and II
you will not deem it trining hope you will
accept the gift from
Yours In truth,
IL. Il. GOODNIGHT"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
The Meat Bill.

a case testing the constitutionality of The meat
inspection bill passed at the recent session of the
Virginia Legislature was heard before the United
States Circuit Court, Judge Hughes, ct Norfolk
yesterday. The State was represented by the At
torney General and the inspectors by Robert NJ.
Hughes, of Norfolk. These gentlemen defended
the act IS valid inspection law and denied that
it was either tax measure or designed to operate
as discrimination against those in the dressed
beef business. They laid great stress on the point
that the court conld not go behind the letter OF
the act, which says nothing about meat from other
States. At the conclusion of the argument the
court stated that its opinion would be delivered
next Monday at Richmond.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
Terrible Explosion

HUTsoNvILLE, Ills, Apr. Five lives
will probably be lost through boiler expo
sion here yesterday. The stsve mill Of H J.
Hussipg was blown to pieces and the pro
prIetor and one Of his men killed. Nina
persons were injured. OF these three are
fatally hurt and the wounds of two othes
are serious. The force of the explosion W S
terrific, every building In town being sask
en-. The body of Mr.. Hussing was badly
mangled. The factory was literally demOl
ished. The Cause of the explosion is sup.
posed to have been low water In the boiler.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
The Late Storm,

information from part of the tornado-swept
region is to the effect that fifteen families near
Golconda. H., were rendered homeless and most
of their members injured. Ten dwellings we're
wrecked and all barns and other outhouses de-
stroyed. It estimated that over forty persons
were killed or fatally Injured in the vicinity of
Henderson, KY, and twice as many more wounded.
Twenty three members of the Edwards circus
party, six of them women, were stranded on about
an acre of land just above the surface of the
Mississippi by the wrecking of steamer near
Shotwell's Field, ILL.,, in Thursdays storm. They
are there STILL without shelter, food fuel or light
except so far as small shsnty boat covers the
women.
At Fayetteville, Tenn, the loss will aggregate
$2500CO Milton College and sll the churches
and 200 houses are in ruins, and the people are
homeless, destitute aud suffering.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
A Body in a Trunk

AUGUSTA, Ga, Apl,2 Constable Bennett,
armed with warrant authorizing him to
attach trunk OF a negro woman for debt
who was about to leave the State, made q
horrible discovery yesterday. While wait
ing at the depot for the arrival of the wom-
ans trunk baggage wagon deposited 1t on
the platform. The off GER seiz I'D it and open.
ed it to Investigate it's contents. AS he did
so he was astoun1ed to find the body of a
woman packed closely in the box. It was
that of the woman whom the warrant was
Issued against. She died Monday night and
was being shipped off to relatives in trunk,
as she was 30 poor that her friends could
uot buy coffin for her:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

The Century for April has been received from its
publishers, the Century Company, New York. Its
contents are: Madonna and Child, by Giovanni
Bellini The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson,
Friend Olivia, The Slave Trade in the Congo
Basin, The Herr Maestro Suggestions for the
Next Words Fair, The Harbor of Dreams The
Furrow Italian Old Masters, The shlines Of
Iyeyasu and Iyemitsu, Tolstoi, Friendship, a
Mystery The Serpent Mound of Ohio The Latest
Siberian Tragedy, Daf6dils, The Old Poetic Guild
in Ireland, Robert Brewing, On the Fur Seal ISL
ands "And His Will is our Peace" A Dusky Ge.
MUS, The Non.Irrigable Lands of the Arid Re-
gion, A World. Literature, The Shoshone Falls,
"The Little Man in the Tnshop," THAT Yank
from New York." The Ideal, Present-Day Papers,
Longer Terms and Less Rotation, The People,"
Loyalty in Employment, Judge Holt and the
Lincoln Conspirators, Boston Corbett An Anec-
dots OF The Blairs, The White League of New Or
leans,n Congo, and Bric-A- Brac.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
COMMUNICATED.

The following subscribers to the capital
stock of the Potomac Shoe Company were
placed on the subscription book since our
last report, and prior to the meeting Monday
night:
Washington DAnenhower. Samuel G..
Brent, B. Wheatley, John Fegan, washing
ton, D. C). When the meeting opened at
the Board oil Trade rooms, about 81 500 was
lacking to make up the minimum amount
of stock. The following names were ad
ded F. 8. Harper and F. F. Marbury
William Fl. Smith, John I. Sweeney,
Geo. W. Fisher DR.. T. NJ. Jones, Joseph
Kaufman, F. Schwsb. At this juncture it
was clearly seen that there were not enough
new subscribers present to make up the
amount. Mr.. Harry Smoot came to the
rescue and put the ball in motion by adding
$500 more to his subscription. This was the
signal for rally, and the following doubled
or increased their subscriptions with an en-
thusiasm that was refreshing and encoura
cling to all good wisbers for the prosperity
of our city, Worth Hul65h, trustee, Henry
Strauss, Miss Lizzie Smoot, John D.
Fl. Lunt, William B. Smoot, George
Uhler, A. F. Cox. G.. VIM. Ramsay, ] R.
Zimmerman, E s. Leadbeater, Henry
Wildt, B. Bear. ir. D. Beudheim, VIM. q.
Hellmuth, w. F. Lambert, J. K M Norton,
Chas. King & Son. Magnus Schiller and
Mrs. NJ. Smith. The amount necessary to
enable Us to proceed with the enterprise hav
ing been subscribed, we will push it forward
as rapidly as possible, and we hope that
every subscriber will be ready to respond
when payments are called for. The action
of the meeting Monday night in putting an
additional IS 900 of stock on the market
will enable those who desire TO take stock
to do so, end no one need fee that he or she
has been ehut out. G. POWELL BILL,
Sec and Treaa
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
In Favor of the Y. NJ. C A.

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, Apr. 2 "A man named
flasher recently left will by which mes. of
his property was bequeathed to the Young
Mems Christian Association, of Decatur.
The heirs contested the will on the ground
that under the statutes of Illinois religious
body cannot hold over ten acres of land. In
the opinion of the court jus. rendered the
Christian Association is not wholly reli.
gious body but ia charitable and bsnevo
lent organization, and therefore the law
does not apply to said association.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

Mr.. GEO. w, CABLE has been forced by
Mr.. Southmayd to say, in the April number
of the Century Magazine, that mot a black
man was bodily harmed by the white
League In New Orleans" But he vainly
attempts to excuse his thus acknowledged
sroundless charges against the league re-
fsrred to, by the equally groundless ssser'
ton that "tbere is neither black nor white
man in the whole State of Louisiana who
was not morally harmed by the policy and
actiop of the league" Mr.. Cable has ma
Iigned the South for pelf, and naturally
hates those who know he has tried to iniure
them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

Tie North American Rer;ev for April has been re-
ceived from its publishers in New York. Its con-
tents are: Discipline in the Navy, by Admiral
Porter; Kinship and Correlation, By Francis Gal.
ton My Life Among the Indians, by Bishop
Whipple The Needs of the South, by Ex-Gov.
Lowry; Flaws in Irgersollism, by Rev. Lyman
Abbott; Conversational Immoralities, by Mrs.
Amelia E. Barr; The Plea for Eight Hours, by
Master Workman Powderly; English and Ameri
can Book Markets, by O. B. Buncs; SOCIALISM in
Germany, by Oswald Ottendorfer Society in
Paris by Madam Adam; The Tariff Discussion
by non. q q. G. P. Breckinridge; The Defamation
of Charlotte Bronte, by Marion Harlan; Lyman
Beecher and Infant DamnstioD, by Edward Beech
ar and c. K. Tuckerman Changes in My Ballot
Bill. by State Senator ss1ton; What Americans
Read. by Helen Marshall North, and Why Mem
Der of Congress-" by Julian Proctor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
Court of Appeals Yesterday.

Moore against the Norfolk and Western Rail-
road Company. Writ of error and s1persedeas
awarded to judgment of the Circuit Court of
the city of Lynchburg on the 17th of May, 1889.
Marshall against Palmer. Writ of error and
supersedeas award ID to Judgment rendered by
the Circuit Court OF Northumberland county on
the 3Oth of March, 1899.
Fry against Leslie, &C. Writ of error awarded
to Judgment of Circuit Court of Loudoun county
on the 26sh of October, 1889.
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Bail
road Company against KNOTS. Argued and SUBJ
mitted.
Meas against Dexter. Argued and continued,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
The Mississippi Floods.

At Greenville. Miss, the water has not
spread much since Monday night, as the
tracks Of the New Orleans and Texas Rail.
way prevent it Speeding in the town. 1t is
doubtful whether 1t will rise any more 10
the already inundated district, as the water
ia now runsing over the levee into the river.
The water from the Huntington break is passing
hack INFO the river The Easton break is, how
ever. letting out great quantity Of water, which
is fast spreading over the eastern portion of the
The condition there is not as bad as it would
seem to be to the outside world. Should the flood
which Viii has been the case in nearly sll years OF
overflow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
$4,000 Lost.

CHICAGO, Ill, Apl 2-The officials Of tho
United States Express Company and tina
National Bank Of 1llinois are worrying over
the loss of package, containing $4,000 in
bills, which mysteriously disappeared last
Saturday morning. The delivery me.sap.
ger left the bank that morning with the
package, and although the express Office /.
within block of the bank he didn't take il
to the bank at once. He had his Route
marked out, and followed it. and when be
got to the bank and opened his little SAT.
the $40. 900 package was gone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

MR.. HUSTON, U. s. Treasurer, left his
Office In Washington to-day for Indianapolis,
for the purpose. as he openly declared, OF
doing all he can to secure the election of the
republican ticket there. Under the late
democratic administration, Mr. Benton, U
g. district attorney in Missouri, WAS re-
moved because when unexpectedly called
upon at his home one night during q political
campaign, he made q democratic speech
But times change and men with them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

Elk POSTMASTER General Horatio King,
in the April number of the Century Maya
zine, essays the vain task of excu!patipg
Judge Advocate General Holt from the
prominent part he took in the murder OF
Mrs. Surratt. That murder, like the steal
of the Presidency, is blot upon the Amer
lean name which, like the stains OF Rzzlo's
blood on the floor of the ante-chamber In
Holyrood, will never be effaced. The less
less said about 1t, therefore. the better, es'
pecially for Gen. Holt, who is about the only
one of those engaged In 1t who has not al
ready met with violent and disgrsceful
death, and, according to current report, bis
conscience smites him 80 sorely that be is
afraid to sleep in an unlighted room.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02
From Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, Apr. Both houses Of
congress were opened last evening. Ia his
message President Diaz refers to the apollo
gy of the United States government for the
sighting remarks OF Consul Miner, and
states that the United States has promised
to take into consideration the protest Of
Mexico against the bringing of Apache prls.
oners near the Mexican frontier.
On Sunday last the CIshuirachic reduction
works in Mexico, owned by a New York co npa.
ny, were totally destroyed by fire: loss 81 600.
OO0
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

DELIBERATE sUIcDE.-After returning from
business yesterday afternoon Morris Marks, 2 silk
importer of New York, committed suicide at his
home, By shooting himself behind the right ear
with revolver. He had been separated from
his wife since the early part of last month, and
the remorse he felt at her repeated refusals TO
turn and live with him is said to have driven him
to the desperate act He went home carly yes.
terdsy afternoon, and after undressing put OIL his
night robe, on which he pinned white rose which
had been sent him the day before by his wife
Then ne lay down on q bed in the back parlor and,
placing pistol to his head, fred the fstal shot.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-04-02

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS in Milwaukee, Chi.
cago ard Schenectady yesterday resulted in
decided democratic victories. The actions
of MIR. Harrison and the republican Con-
3ress are producing their natural effect.
Had elections been held at the same time In
Massachusetts, the attempted imposition
of tax on hides, and the retention OF that
on all other raw material, would doubtless
have produced the same effect there als1.