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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-20

Of the deceased as may be deemed requisite.
The delegation OF Italians reported to be on
their way here frcn Chicago, with revenge
stamped on their brows and blood their
battle cry, havs not yet arrived, and the
telegram announcing their spproaca Ia ger
orally supposed to be fake. Neither mas
the Governor of Louisiapa's answer TO sec
rotary Biaine's presumptuous and tooiisn
dispatch yet been received, at leass state
ments to that effect we're made at the stare
Department at noon to-day.
General Malone, who has been here for
eeveral months, Left for his home IN Fesers'
burc to-day. saying before he boarded the
train be did not know when. If ever, ne
would be back. The General has fatten'
ed considerably during hls visit here
ard Ia now quite stout. and, what
will still more surprise his ecquaintances
has had 30 attack of govt, and has gouty
deposits in bis iager joints. Ee is very 30
stemlous in his diet now. drinks no Wl9e
and eats nothing but milk end hominy. ds
is keen set upon preventing Juoge LEWIS q q
his owe State from getting the new u .
inGpeship for the Virginia circuit.
The following charges in the 4.h class
nostoftices of Virginia were made to-day
Reamons. Nansamond county, b. M. Oar
! den appointed postmaster vice u. III. Apps
white, reeigued Bunker Hill, Bedford coun
ty. Fannie Austin, vice A. G. Wells, resign
ed; Edom, Rockingham county, J. L
Swauk, vice W. E Swank, resigned.
The new Washington end Norfolk steam
boat company have decided that the Prince
street wharf &C Alexandria is not wide
enough to accommodate their new propel
Iers, and sre negotiating for the lease OF the
wharf of the Pioneer Mills. which has two
piers and which will require no addition tt
its height.
Intelligence here from Berlin Is to the Ell
feet that U 6. Minister Phelps recently gave
dinner there. to which he invited the mot'
Influential German supporters OF restrictions
upon the importation OF American
meats. The chief dishes served were
these prepared from the meats re
referred to, aud such was their excellence and 81
resdiy wera they dgested and assimiated thai
the objections of tho guests to American meats
were at once emoved, ard the prospect of the re
moval Of the restrictions upon the importation
such meats considerab' y improved.
| Arrange merts are being made for the re'estao
lishment OF naval war college at Newport.
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The W. O CIV. Extension.

There is no doubt that an effort is being
made By mon of large capital to extend the
W., o s. W, r E. from Round ELL to the
coal certainly to Winches er, with the
Interior design of making from thence to
the Allegheny region Of tbs black diamonde.
There never YVES such an opportunity for
enterDrising capital. Clarke ard Frederick
are we'll organized through their improve
ment companies to render valuable assist
ance. The distance from the Black water
district, where coal ia found In vast guam
titles, to the seaboard by the proposed ex-
tensiou is les by thirty or forty miles than
by any o her route that leads into lines al
ready constructed. Il would penetrate a
region more heavily timbered with hemlock
and yellow pine, thar any east CT The O1io.
The giant hemlock trees, the growth OF
centuries, have struggled upward, contend
Ing with each other for the sunli2hE till their
huge trunks extend from forty to eighty feet
above without branch.
The route leads through heavily timbeEed
districts on the spurs and slopes of the
North Mountain and at many points ls to
be found ore in vaet quantities.. The iron
that could be gotten from the ore beds OF
Clarke would alone furnish sufficient freight
to make the road paying one from Berry
Vile to the sect hoard.
The W., o. & W. R. r. has charter priVi-
leges and can go forward in the path OF con-
s,ruc,inn at oncs, and as it will pass through
or border upon tae frs. tin OF es of any i'm
portance discovered in the Uaited States,
bis fact of Itself will bring the road into no.
iorlety and interest capital 10 it's success.
No one knows without frat making an ex-
amin alton of The word.rfui amount of va!u
able mineral to be found 10 Clarke county.
We heard gentleman who had spent some
time il making Investigations say toat he
did not think there was another county be-
tween Roanoke end Hagerstown SO richly
endowed with minerals as Clarke.-Clarke
Courier.
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a GovERNoR THREATENED -Gov. jack
500, of Maryland, left Annapolis yesterday
for Baltimore. Before he took his departure
Secretary of State LaCompte handed him an
anonymous letter, postmarked Westminster,
March IA, in which the Governor is threat
eued With assassination should he refuse to
commute the sentence OF Ernest Forbes, COL
oeed, who ia to be hanged April 3 for CON
hitting feonious assault upon Miss Phipps.
The letter Was received several days ago,
but was withheld from publication until the
arrival of the Governor. who says he is not
in the least disturbed by the threat and shall
treat it as the work of an irresponsible per-
son. The letter IN part is as follows: lyon
have sentenced poor negro to death for q
rape He did not murder, and you have
COMMITTED the sentence OF notorious murder
era. Now, if you do not commute Forbes'e
sentence you will have your light put out
The negro deserves punishment, but not
death. Justice between man and mar"
Although postusrked Westminster. 1t is be-
lieved at the executive department. that the
letter was actually written in Annapolis and
sent away to be mailed as diegulse. Forbes
has already confessed his crime anG no for
NAL application has been made to the Gov
ernor for Communication OF death sentence.
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R,v. Howard McQueary's Suspension

The verdict in the case of Rev. Howard
MeQ1eary for heresy was made public at
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday. Mr.. MoQneary
is suspended for Elk months. and if he does
not 'retraot" during that time his suspen-
SIGN becomes expulsion. Heis found guilty
"of holding end teaching, publicly and ad-
v,ssdly, doctrines contrary to those held by
the Protestant Episcopal Church 10 the
United States OF America" and OF "having
by such holding and teaching been guilty of
an act which involves breach of his ord :
nation vows, ssid obnoxious doctrines. and
the manner of holding end teaching them
being plainly set forth In said praeentment"
Mr.. MoQueary received official notice OF bis
sentence from Bishop Leonsrd 10 the morn
ing at Canton. he pronounces the verdict
unreasonable and unjust, and says be will
not eubmit to it, hut leave the church, an
nourciHg his intention of preaching for some
other church and speaking of engagements
for the Unitarian Church OF Messiah st Chi
csgo, Toronto, Canada, ard the Congrega-
tional church at Jamt s:oTr, n. Y.
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A Mysterious Case.

DETROIT, Mich, March 20-JoseDh Per-
ren, proprietor of one of the largest Il >ur.
inc mills in Detroit ard half millionaire,
was called 10 his door by stranger last
night with message purporting to come
from 81 intimate friend, who wad represent
I'D as iii, and desiring Mr.. Perrien's after d.
ance. Mr.. Perrien lift bis home with the
stranger about 10 O'Clock, entered coach
VITA him, and went away. At 1 o'clock
this morning the Perrien home door bell
was ruug and an envelope thrust in BY o
young man, who Immediately disappeared
The envelope contained check for SIS 600
on the Peninsula Bank, Of which Mr.. Per-
rien ie vice president; promlssory meta for
SIS. 600 payable in 5 dsys and letter to MIR.
Perrien's nephew, Mr.. Hesselbacher, advie-
Ing him to cash the check, negotiate, or. fail
ing either, to raise SIS 600 on his own prop
erty to be paid as ransom for Mr.. Perrien,
who was being he d by some parties whom
the letter did not disclose.
The letter appointed rendezvous at which he
money might be paid this evening. The police
were immediately put at work upon the case, but
up to II O clock this morning they had no clue,
either to the persons who kidnapped Perrien or
to his present whereabouts. Mr.. PerIien Is q
bachelor, SO years old, and extensively interested
in Detroits industries and financial Institutions
The letter to Mr.. Hessobfc cher stated that Mr..
Perrien had gotten into trouble with woman
and had to pay tho money over without a word,
but this statement is secuted. Both note and
check bore Porrien's genuine signature.
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The Worlds Fair Buildings.

CHICAGO, Mar. 20.-The commission OF
architecture have figured out plan by
which about 81 900 900 will be saved In The
construction OF the worlds fair buildings
Those structures, planned to be built oflrop,
brick and stone and to cos! s. 100000. which
are to rise In Jackson Park will have oil
the appearance of magnificent palaces OF
marble, granite and glass, but they will be
built principally OF wood covered with a
comparatively Inexpensive building material
called staff consisting OF a composition OF
cement and gypsum. The Paris exposition
buildings were built largely of ataf.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

New osses Of eprcsy have been discover
ed IN Victoria. Canada.
Thirteen Ice houses located near OsWegc,
ILL.,, were destroyed by FIRE early this morn
inr. LOSS S62 600
Ia the village of Centerville. Wis, four
critical cases OF t-ichinosir, caused By eating
raw or partially cooked ham, exit.
Rev. Frederick Upton. probably the Ole
IS. Methodist clergyman In America, died
at his home in Fair Haven, Conn this morn
Ing.
1t is said that notwithstal ding the deli.
as OF the directors, the deal whereby the
Monon rcu.e passes to the control Of the
Brice syndicate ia complete.
A young man named Fred Roihcbid was
shot ard killed 10 Chicago last night by a
police officer, who discovered him and Two
com panions In the act of burglarizing a fl At
At Indianapolis yesterday the coroner in
his verdict on the people killed In the RAIL-
rosd wreck on the Pan Handle road at Hs-
gerstown says that the train was run at IN
safe rate OF speed at curves and therefore
holds tae road responsible for the deaths
caused.
WreckiDg master Burgess says that not
withstsndipg the fact that the u s. steamer
Triapa is In bad position, being aground
near Vineyard Haven, If he can get one day.
smooth sea to enable him to BOX up her
matches he thinks she csn be pumped cut
and foated.
q private csblsgram received at Chicago.
from Rome says: II am Informed that as
surances on the part Of The federal govern
ment at Washington have reached here say.
Ing hat ample aud satisfactory reparation
will be given for the assassination of the
Italians at New Orleans"
Isaac Bufard. farmer, yesterday al
tempted to cross Valley creek, near Biz
mioghsm, Ala in wagon in which were
his wife and three children. The creek was
much swollen and the wagon and team were
washe d down stream. The three children
were drowned, the father and mother barely
escaping With their lives.
a call signed by Samuel Gompcfs, presi
q snt of the American Federation OF Labor,
Is published in Boston. II Is addressed to
the trade and labor. unions OF America and
urges the necessity of immediate action in
the objection add contribution OF funds for
the 10000 coal miners whose struggle for
an eighi-bour day is to begin May L.
The election at the Manhattan Club in New
York last night resulted IN the success of very
much m ;xed ticket, but the attempt OF the ad-
herents of Tsmmany to defeat David B. Gilbert
and John Hone WAS sgusl.y defoated
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NEWS OF TIE Dag.

Reports are current that the mental CON-
dltjon of the Emperor OF Germany has be-
come alarming.
Mrs. Shell, the wife of the murdered Cni'
osgo millionaire's SOD, claims to be the VIC
tim Ct plot to poison her by slow process
The old receiving chip Vermont, while ~
inc In the Brooklyn navy yard, was run
down by the steam collier Wilkesbsrre last
night and badly Damaged.
Charles N. FELTON,, republican. was elect
cd Uoited statesI Senator from California
ON the fret ballot yesterday to succeed Inc
late George Hearst, democrat.
Mis- Mary Pennocs. Of Greenport, l.. L.
who was esIrapged from her sftianced nus
band 25 years ago. has come into fortune
of three quarters of million ie's by niin.
An attempt was made about O'Clock tn q
morpipg to set fire to the Center Market, IN
Washington. No serious damage vas dcne,
bowever. and the loss will only amount to q
| few dollars.
Two lives were lost and twenty-five fem
lilies made homeless by fire last night
which Quilted the six-sto-y double tenement
at 2l5 East Twenty ninth street New York.
The loss is only $50 600.
Eva Steele, otherwise Mrs. Eva Ray Han
iton. eays that Hamilton's relatives have Of
fered her $50, 900 in settlement of her claim
upon the Hamilton estate, but che will not
settle for less than $4,000.
Captain McKeague, of the wrecked sisam-
ship Utopia at Gibraltar, has been arrested,
charged with negligence and mismanage-
ment. Divers found the bstchways and chart
roum of The sunken vessel packed with dead
bodies.
A sevea-year old son OF William E. Rid
| out, of Botdentown, N. ], was killed yes
ierGay by drinking tumblerful OF Whlsky.
The child had succeeded in getting hold OF
| flask of whisky, which the father hsd
placed on bureau in the bed room.
Meredith Stanley, the bridge jumper,
| leapsd from the Cincinnati suspension bridge
into the Ohio river yesterday without ipju
~. This Was bis twenty.seventh feat Of
that kind. II was witnessed by several foot
passengers on the bridge.
III is generally thought in New Orleans
slst tie grand jury will take no action
whatever in regard to Inc attack on the par
ish prison aud refuse to find any indict-
msnts. Ssligman, the foreman OF the jury
who acquitted the murderers, has published
card giving mis- reason for the jury's &C.
tlon. He says he la still IN New Ofiesns,
that he has not ef. the city, nor does he in.
| tend doing 80.
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SAMOAN AFFAIRS -Tha steamer Meripo.
So, from Samoa. brings news that Samoan
chief was recently blown cut to sea In 8
canoe and then handed on Oae Island there
he wes killed By some plantation boys and
eaten. Tue chiefs tribe, at lates. accounts
Tas preparing to wipe opt all the laborers
on the Island. The same steamer briugs
news that Hawsii's volcano s again active.
Several cones have sunk from Is to 100 feet,
and some bave disappeared altogether
There have teen many earthquake shocks,
but no damage. other than shaking down Of
several stone walls has occurred.
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Gold Exports.

NEW YORK, March pa total OF
81, 375. GOO in gold bars has been applied for
at the Assay Office in New York for export
tomorrow. Supt. Mason, OF the Assay Or.
fee, will not telegraph the request for gold
bars to Washington until 2 p. m. This is In
accordance with orders from the Treasury
Depa tment, aud is believed to be for the purpose
OF impeding the shipment. An answer is not eI-
pected until after banking hours, and as the sup-
Elementary mails OF the fast steamers close to-
morrow it will pa difficult to take the bars and
get them to the steamer in the short inc between
the beginning of business and the hour for call
inc
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Bank Closed.

PHILADELPHIA, March 20.-The keystone
National Bank was to-day closed by order
of the comptroller of the Treasury. The
closing was surprise. During the foam
oIal s.ringency in the latter part OF last year
there were rumors affecting the banks uo!-
vency and heavy run was made upon 1t,
but the institution tidsd over the run. The
largest deposition s the city OF Philadelphia,
which has deposit there of about S4CO, 600.
No statement of the banks liabilities and
assets ,s obtainab!e. 1t Is said that the
bank was closed by reason OF Its reserve
fund having fallen below the amount re.
uui.ed by law.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Foreign News.

PARIS, March 20.-The police yesterday
evening raided and searched the houses and
arrested number of leading Bouangists.
Tomorrow NJ. de Roulede will question the
government as to the action Of the police,
and stormy scene ia i.e1pected In the
Chamber OF Deputies.
TURIN, March 2O.-The remains Of the
lste Prince Napoleon arrived here to day
and we're conveyed to the church Of La su'
pc go aud we're there deposited in the royal
crypt.
DUBLIN, March 2O.-The Freeman's Jour
nal to-day says that 1t Ia rumored that Mr.
Michael Davltt will be the candidate
against Mr.. Parnell at the next election In
the vision OF Cork city, which the latter
represents.
QUEBEC, March 20.-The government
cartridge factory here Is running full time
Ths rush orders for warlike material with
out known cause excltes comment In militia
circles.
LONDON, March 2O.-A letter from
Newfoundlapder declares that any at
tempt on the part of the imperial govern
ment to enforce martial law In Newfound.
and will be resisted.
PARIS. Mar. 20. The police seiz d at NJ.
Caron's residence list containing the
names OF twelve hundred men 30 arranged
in groups as to form military companies.
OTTAWA, March 20.-Mr. Herbert E.
Knight, OF Newfoundland, has had an inter-
view with the finance minister, 1t ia thought
with reference to concerted action Of New
! foundand and Canada and Washington In
regard to trade negotiations.
MONTREAL, March 20 The admirers of
Mr.. Parnell In this city are making prepa.
ratioDs to give his delegates hearty recep
ton. The Irish Catholic organ urges that
no money be subscribed until the present
breach in the party Ia oose6.
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A CONFESSION Mrs. Qulgley, sister OF
Arthur Day, vino wss hanged at Welland,
Oat., Dec. IS, 1890. for wife murder, who
was with bin 81 Niagara Falls, Sunday.
July 81. 1890, when ba pushed bis wife over
the precptcs near the whirlpool, and wae g
witness against him on his trial, died in b.
chester, N. Y, yesterday. o. her death
bed she confessed to hef moiher that she
had melted Arthur to the murder, and had
helped him to commit 1t by aiding bin 10
pushing bis wife ever. S.e hsid MS Days
dress skirt over her face and pushed On one
shoulder, while D y pushed ca the other.
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YIRaIEIA EEWs.

Miss Marie Gag Caskie. of Richmond. was
married there Yesterday evening to Mr.. Ap-
pleton JuyeIi Ide, of Colunbus, Ohio.
Valentines heroic statue Of WiIlams q.
Wickham is now in the plaster. Il was cast
last week, aud very soon 1t will be sent to
New York to be cast In bronze
A meeting will be held in Roanoke on
April IA b to organize State Association
of Engineers. The association will be COM
posed OF civil, mechanical mining and cleo
trcsl engineers. architects, geoloeis.s, q,
Meior H. w. Newly, formerly of this city,
is on the committee on organization.
Late "Wednesday night the nearly COM
plsted Hotsl Shenandoah ct Shenandoah, In
Page coupty, abe property of the Shenandoah
Land Improvement Company, was totally
destroyed by fire. Tee hotel was hand
some frame building in Queen Anne style OF
archi ectnre. and contained about lOO rooms.
The fire IL supposed to have been the work
OF an iuceGdtsrv.
G vernon Mckinney yesterday received
q reouisilion from Governor Buchanan. oil
Tenn eesee, for George Potter ard George
and John Wright, tho men held In the Ao-
jppdon iai! f,- horse stealing The crime
CHARGED against these men in the re- QUESTION
Ia murder in the second degree. Tney are
eupp oeec- 10 have belonged to the McCoy
gsny, ard not long Ggo some Of their friends
threat, nsd 10 visit Abingdon ard take those
accuse d ous Of Jail. Potter and his two CON-
De Mons ara in all still The Governor has
the reQuisition of the Executive of Tennes
gee uDder consideration.
Mr.. Butler Malone and Judge Atkins arc can
didatss for the cle k5hip of the new U. s. Circuit
Court for this circnit.
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whose bodies have made food for Solve.
and coyotes,
Elopers Lost in the WOOD $.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., March 2O-Wi n bs,
shoes In her hand Miss Fannie Yspdls .
Pineyille society belle, ciimbed out OF he,
bedroom window at II o'clock last pyb,
and eloped with ] D. Crump Hand +,
hand the loving psir started 10 wax acres.
the dividing line into South Caroline. vsry
near by, but got lost In tie woo1s spd
CROPPED about til Daylight beiote ,hty .Lld
continue their fl zht from parental obstrue.
tive agencies. R " John Culps married the
pilgrim pair, and now Colonel YandIs, tho
BRIDES father, who represents one OF Tho
leading families 10 the S uth, VOWS yse.
geance against son-;n-;sw Cramn.
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EXPLODED on HIs BACK. "A shocking ace},p.
occurred Welnts lay at the gold mines nesr Hal.
fax N. E. A miner nsmod Croft was c.rryi boz.
fifteen pounds of dynamite is a Kettle, aid ba
Just got out OF the shaft house when il cxplodc,
The shaft house was completely demolished and
the blacksmiths shop Was nearly wr,cNed t'rof
was Knocked senseless and received seve, e iol III,
injuries. Three men-named McGinnis. Moor,
sod B and-who were in the bscssmiths shon
were seriously hurt, McGinnis not being expected
to live. Moore had an o. Knocked out sud Bland
foot taken off. The cause Of the explosion i;
unknown
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FRnM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence Of tho Alexandria Gasett
WASHING TON d O.. March 20 1880

Especial Correspondence Of tho Alexandria Gazette
WAsHIEG TOR. D. O.. March 20. $780,
Il addition 10 what was stated In this cor
respor dsnce yesterday 10 respect OF the call
"a delegation of Malone republicans from
Virginia made upon the President on that
CAV, 1t may be said that tie President told
them they must put what they had to say in
writing, as be would not appoint the new
circuit judges for SONS months and would
necessarily forget sil they had said 10 behalf
of Judge Paul before that time. He also
said he would make all the judicial appoint.
m ants upon the bssis of the legal qusiifica.
lions of the applicants as furnished by their
court record, and that all the matters rclat.
ing TO their .etsopal qualifications would be
left 30 the Attorney General. He also said
he wen d MT like to appoint district judges
to circuit jajgeships before the next 10 Getting
of The Senate, for the reason that while the
domination of their successors as district
judges might be confirmed, their
own nomination as circuit judges might
NOT be, and they therefore be left
nnprosided for. The President in
simated that be would mt appoint the
judges until next fall, by saying that there
certainly would not be II Session OF the Sen
ate before that tiue. AID thereby conveyed
the idea tat an extra session of thet body
mag he held at THAI time. The indications
DOW seen to be that no Virginiap will be-
appoin ed, but that ey-Seoretary Goff OF
Yves. Virginia will be. lis certainly known
that Mr.. Steve. E kins VINO controls the
republican vote oi West Virginia. Is actively
engaged 10 urging his appointment, and Mr..
Harrison thinks that while there Ia scme
nope, faint as il may De OF CO frying West Vir-
2inia in so, there is none whstevsr OF carry
irg that CT the s. ale from which the terrific
~ OF " hch the State of West Virginia was
made. wss stolen.
Senator Hswlsy of Connecticut, no ia
here to-day, Gays be has no fears of any
irouble between this country and Italy in
couse quencs of the late New Orleans sffsir.
He says this country Is well disposed, and is
not only liberal, but has the means to be Sc,
aud that lit shall tntU out that any of the
lynched men ware Italian citizens, the re-
2rets Of the government will be rendered
to Italy, and such damages to the relatives