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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
Death in Blazing Oil.

A thoughtless act cost one life, much
suffering to two men and destroyed
$4,000 worth of property yesterday
evening at Point Breeze, the extreme
southern point of Philadelphia. The
Schuylkill river at Point Breeze is al
WAYS covered with thin scum of oil
from adjacent oil works, and since the
oil fire there on Sunday more than the
usual quantity has been floating on the
surface
William Miller, Albert Krunchback
and Warren Hill, all young men, start
ed from the eastern shore at Point
Breeze yesterday evening in small
row boat to cross the river. When
about one hundred and fifty feet from
shore. one of the men lighted his pipe
and carelessly tossed the blazing match
into the water As the match fell into
the water q burst of flame shot up
alonside the skifi and almost instantly
the surface Of the river around the boat
was blazing iiercely.
The flames of the burning oil licked the
gunwales of the light craft and the men, real
ling that it would be quickly construed.
plunged into the burning fluid around them,
and started to swim ashore. The fire circle
grew larger. and spread more rapidly than
they could swim, and they found that they
were being roasted alive. Hit sank beneath
the blaziug surface and WAS seen no more.
but his two companions by repeatedly diving
and swimming beneath the surface, succeeded
in reaching the shore. Both men were hor-
r:bly burned about the shoulders, head, face
and arms They We're taken to the hospital
where it was said that their condition is criti-
cal
The fire in the meantime had spread down
the river and the wrccking steamer Mary
land. which was lying III the stream working
to raise the burned bark Felix, caught on fire,
and before she could steam out of the fire she
had been damaged to the extent of $1,000.
Streams of water from several engines and
tugs finally put the burning oil out.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

At corn husking in Henrico county
Yesterday a five-year-old child OF James
Melton. q farmer, was burned to death.
Mr.. II. L. Lyman, secretary OF the
Board OF Agriculture, republican, and
an alliance man, has come out for the
democracy.
Postonices have been established in
Virginia rs follows: AT Nails, Culpes-
per. county, with Bruce w. Stringtei-
low as postmaster; ut Not, Amherst
county. with Lucy E. Kent as postmas-
ter. and at Washington Heights, Roa-
noke county, with John F. Blair as
postmaster.
At the All Saints Day services held
at St. Paul's Church, Richmond, yes
terduy. Rev. H. Carmichael, i'll calling
attention to the handsome memorial
windows to General Lee, paid oeauti-
i;ll tribute to the great Confederate
cbieftain. His theme was Judas Macca-
beus. and the parallel between TINS
great warrior and Lee was striking ana
true and described in eloquent language
never to be forgotten.
James L. Kcmper, son of e1-Gov.
Kemper, who went west several years
ago and who it was supposed was dead,
reappeared ut his home in Orange coun-
ty a few days since as suddenly as he
had disappeared. An administrator
had been appointed for his estate, a pol
lev of insurance on his life had been
paid up and his estate settled. His sis
ter Jessie fell into i'll health because OF
her grief over his supposed death, and
she herself died some six weeks ago. 1t
is believed that the news of her death
induced him to come home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
ALEXANDRIA, Va
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. ,. 1892.

Mr.. GooDE, the third party's candi-
date for Congress in the Petersburg dis
trict. in recent public speech III his
district, denounced preachers, who, he
said, with four exceptions-Taimage
and Dixon of New York, Dir. Jordon OF
AIecklenburg, the county i'll which ne
was speaking, and Sam Jones-counte-
nanced election frauds and the stealing
of republican votes. In the same
speech ne also stated that no less than
of his democratic colleagues in the leg
islature acknowledged to him that they
had not been elected, but were counted
in. The names of the latter were de-
manded on the spot, but he could not
give them. The great fault with the
third party, and with all similar organ
izations, one that necessarily deprives
them Of all reasonable hope of success,
is the character of the men they, by q
remarkable fatality, choose for their
leaders. How can men having any re-
gard for the opinion of their reputable
and reasonable neighbors, be expected
to vote to send to Congress, as their
representative, man who would stand
up before crowd, composed mostly of
negroes, and make such reckless asser-
tions as those referred to?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
reliable deputy sherifs for duty at

reliable deputy shoriffs for duty at
Monte Carlo.
A we'll informed Virginia democratic
politician, here to-day, one having
somethingto do with the management
Of his party's affairs, says that Corrigan,
tie negro republican candidate for Con-
gress in the Norfolk district, will refuse
to obey the order of the national repub
lican ticket, and will remain in the
field. He also says that the names of
all the third party's candidates for Con-
gress in Virginia will be print d on tie
republican electoral ticket.
Acting Attorney General Aldrich
sent the following telegram to U. S.
Marshal Walker, at Montgomery, Al
ALBANIA, this afternoon See last para
graph of circular mailed yesterday.
Use your discretion, remembering and
so instruciing your deputies, that they
are peace officers and not partisans, and
that the law was enacted 20 secure a
free and honest ballot and fair count
This was in response to 4 letter from
United States Marshal Walker re-
ceived this morning in which he said /:
Il will thank you to notify me by wire
ii | shall exercise my own judg
ment as to the number Of special dep
uty marshals to be appointed i'll Mont
gomery and Mobile, coming under the
head of cities Of 10000 inhabitants or
more. | ask You for the reason that it
will be difficult matter TO find u suita-
BILE number of efficient men that could
be relied upon, in case there is riot or
disturbance on the day of the election.
and | would be glad TO know the full
extent of my authority III order that l
may select sufficient number before
hand"
Mr.. J. Ii. EanAuken, once promi-
nent Virginia republican, but now hold
ing minor place in the census bureau
here, says he will start for Norfolk to-
night TO do what he can TO help the
election of Dczendorf TO Congress from
that district, though he hasn't much
hope of success, as republican affairs
are in such a demoralized and shame
full condition in the whole State that
there is little or no ground for hope i'll
any OF the districts.
Mr.. Cunning, the editor of the ma
tional organ of the third party in this
city, says Harrison will be elected and
that the election will not so to the
House Of Representatives. He also
says his party will have the balance of
power in the House, and that the cleo
ioral vote of Virginia will be cast for
Harrison.
Among those who appeared at the
rooms of the Virginia democratic asso-
citation yesterday for transportation to
their voting places in Virginia were
three men who said they had been re-
pubicans but were opposed to
Force bills and high tariffs, and would
vote the democratic ticket if ut home.
but that they could no; afford either to
buy railroad tickets or TO lose the re-
CURED three days. They therefore
wanted tickets and g Il day each for
loss of time They We're informed that
the association had no money to pay
good democrats for loss of time, and
certainly none for those who had here
tofore been voting the republican tick
ct. They went off, hut afterwards came
back and got orders on the railroad
company for half fare tickets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
TO.DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
Foreign News.


LONDON, Nov. An appalling rail-
way accident occurred early this morn
ing near Thirsk, in Yorkshire, by
which nine persons were killed and
a large number injured. The express
train from Edinburgh for London was
running at full speed as it approached
Thirsk when ahead Of it appeared a
heavily laden goods train. The engi-
neer of the express train reversed his
engine, but the heavy express dashed
into the goods train, making most
terrible wreck. To add to the horror
the carriages caught tire and were de-
stroyed. The scene at the wreck was
pitiable. Some of the bodies taken out
of the debris had been burned beyond
all semblance to humanity. The cloth
ing had been destroyed and III some
cases the jewelry worn mad been melt
ed by the intense heat. This will rem
der the identification of the dead ex-
tremcly difficult. 4 number of ply
sicians were carried to the wreck and
they at once devoted themselves to re-
leving The sufIerings of the injured.
The accident is said to have been due
to dense fog, which prevented the en-
ginecr of the express train from seeing
ahead of him for any distance.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. "A Birkenhead
ferry boat loaded with passengers col
lded last night with the the ship Fury
dice and a panic nearly followed. The
people who were on the ferry boat had
hardly got over their scare when they
met with another accident that was far
more serious in its results. a large
number of them boarded train on the
Mersey railway talking among them
selves of their narrow escape from
drowning. AS the train was leaving
the station it ran into an engine and
was wrecked. Three Of the passengers
were killed and fifty were injured.
PARIS, Nov. Mail advices re-
ceived here show that while the French
gun-boat Opale was returning from
Kobe on September 80, it was sudden
ly attacked near Donkoli by hundred
Dahomeans armed with quick-fring
rifles. Three of the Frenchmen on the
gun-boat were killed and number
were wounded. The Opale shelled
the villages along the river. The next
day 200 sharp-shooters surprised Don
koli. The Dahomeans fed, leaving
many dead behind them. A Dahomean
chief who had been captured by the
French says that the Dahomeans are
led by 200 white mon. He gives the
names of many Belgians and Germans.
The dispatch adds that after the French
captures Abomey another King will
succeed Behanzin, who will be exc
cuted. The campaign is expected to
be over at the end of the month.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
A PHYSICIAN CRAzED BY RELIGION

A PHYSICIAN CRAZED BY RELIGION
At Louisville, Ca, on Monday morn
ing, DR.. G.. w. Kelly, 8 prominent ply
stefan, threw his eight-year-old daugh-
ter into well, intending to drown her,
and then shot and killed his sister-in-
law, who tried to prevent the perpetra-
ton of the crime. For some time past
Kelly has been in q nervous condition
due to religious excitement and has
limited at the necessity of taking the life
of those who were dearest to him in
order that he might preserve them from
the evils of the world. Monday morn
ing, after the commission Of the crime
and while his sister-in-law lay dying in
the room, he asserted that God had
called him in his sleep to take the life
of his child and sister. He appeared
perfectly sane and rational at times,
but then would break out in historical
cries, appealing to those around him to
know if he had not done the right
thing. He appears to be sorry that the
child's life was saved. Only its cries
while in the well attracted the atten-
ton of the crowd Of neighbors. The
excitement is intense. The only thing
that saved Kelly from lynching is that
the doctors say that he is undoubtedly
q lunatic.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

GENERAL FIELD having denied the
statement that he had asserted, in
speech at Monticello, Georgia, that he
could get as many damaging ailidavits
against General Lee in Pennsylvania as
those published in regard to General
Weaver in Tennessee, five of the most
reputable citizens of Monticello have
made affidavits that he did make
the assertion referred to in their hear
ing. 1t is hardly possible that south
ern soldier and Nirginian at that,
could have asserted what General Field
is reported to have said but the weight
of the evidence is against him, and the
testimony of five disinterested men
against that of one charged with an
offense, would certainly convict i'll a
court ofjustice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
Killed by Eagles.

OGDEN, Utah, Nov. q. F. Barke-
low, of Brooklyn, n. V, who with
Frank NJ. Conroy. also of Brooklyn, left
here two weeks ago to examine the ter
ritory of the extinct cliff jewellers, re-
turned here yesterday. Hetells most
horrible story of Conroy falling down a
precipice and landing on u projecting
rock, 100 feet below, where he was at
tackled by two eagles and clawed to
death. Above Conroy was large nest
with several young birds in it, and the
two eagles, suspecting him of al attack
upon their young, swooped down upon
him from different directions and struck
at him with beak and claws. The
great birds at last succeeded in reach
ing his face with their horrible claws.
With q scream of triumph and gratifed
revenge his victors followed him as
their victim was hurled over the edge
of the cliff,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

letters Southern Mdga=ine for November hiss
been received from its publishers in Louis
Vile. Its contents are Personal Recollec-
tions of jeremiah Sullivan Black, by J. Proc
tor Knott; Prophecy, Three Poor Souls, The
Cannibals, The Watering. Place Young Man.
The SPIRITS Flight. The Mountain Fountain
Spray, A Remnant, Why Jew is not q
Farmer, by N. Kaufman; Honeysuckle, The
Burden of Mystery, A Word About Jere
Black and Proctor Knott, The Columbian
Exposition, General Weaver in the South, Par
Mobile Fratrum, Womans Department HUI
morous, and Book Review.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

REPUBLICAN ORATORS and writers
continue to repeat the same old story
that protection rebounds to the interest
of the working man, and that the Nc
Kinley bill was passed for the sake of
such men. But Mr.. Harrah, protect
ed steel manufacturer who has sub
scribed ten thousand dollars to the re-
publican campaign fund, over his own
name, in respect of the bill referred to,
says;
This tariff belongs to us; we bought
it; we paid for it, and it is ours; we
did not put up our money to increase
the price of labor, to increase wages,
and therefore we have not done it we
put up the money to buy the legislation
we wanted, and we got it, and that Is
the whole story
Dir. Harrah tells tho truth. But did
the protectionists buy the bill to in
crease the wages of their employees
and at the same time to lower the price
of their products?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
Cinnamon as Torturers.

A story illustrative of the diabolical
cruelty of the Chinese comes from In
dian Diggings, q mining camp on the
Upper Boise river. Idaho. The coolies
had, after two years work, succeeded
in rocking out about $4,000 worth OF
gold dust, which they had hid in hole
in an oak tree. On Friday, when they
went to the tree to add to their golden
store, the treasure was gone. The Chi
nese at once commenced search for
their dust, and running across George
Parker, an aged prospector, they ac-
cused him of the theft. He stoutly de-
MED his guilt, and refused to accom-
pany the Chinese to their camp. They
attacked Parker, who was unarmed
and unable to protect himself, and bad
" injured him with pick-handles and
rocks. The coolies dragged Parker to
their camp and demanded that he show
them where he had hidden their gold.
He declared that he had not stolen it,
but they would not believe him, and
applied fire to the soles of his feet and
to the back of his neck. Seeing that
this torture had no effect upon the
white man. the Chinese tore q length
of barbed wire from their burrow pen,
placed it about Parker's neck and pro-
ceedcd to hang him. They raised him
clear off the ground twice, and would
certainly have taken his life had not
the passengers of a passing stage, who
had responded to Parker's cries, forced
them to desist. 1t could not be learn
ed whether or not Parker was the
thief, but it is generally believed that
he is innocent. Unless Parker dies the
Chinese will not be arrested, the people
of that rough region believing that no
punishment is too great for suspected
thieves.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
Colorado Politics.

DENVER, Col. Nov. 2.-The latest
move in the resignation of the Weaver
electors from the Cleveland ticket was
the issuing of an order last night by j.
G.. Miller of the county court, to Col
Clark McGaliery instructing him to re-
move the names of the Weaver men in
accordance with their request. This
order has not yet been served, and as
the ballots are now being printed it
looks as though the Cleveland ticket
would go in headed by the peoples
party electors.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Captains of steamships report an is
| nd of veget .ble sr)wth floating about
in the Atlantic.
DR.. C. p. Cronk, weather observer in
Baltimore, announces that copious
rain will soon begin falling.
1t is said that during 1891 l09,5l5
persons emf grated from Russia to
America. In 1890 S5,54S Russians emf
grated thither.
Mrs. Simon Manack, an Eskimo, has
pre- ;ented her husband with fourteen
pound daughter in the Eskimo camp in
the Worlds Fair Grounds in Chicago.
It is the first child born on the grounds.
At the Charleston celebration last
night there was genuine South Caro-
lima cake-walll, in which twenty of the
Afro American elite of the State COM
peted. 1t was witnessed by fifteen
thousand spectators, and was great
success.
The four children of Mrs. Morrier
were burned to death in Alexandria,
Ont, Monday. The little ones, whose
ages were s, I, q and year, were left
alone in the house while their mother
went 10 visit neighbor. The mother
is insane from grief.
At Yesterdays session, in Baltimore,
Of the National Academy Of Sciences
Mr.. C. X. Gilbert read an interesting
paper on "The Evolution of the Moon, :"
his theory being that it was evolved
from an original ring of minute satel-
litcs that once encircled the earth.
Mrs. Burton Harrison, the southern
novelist who made such hit in her
story of New York society, 1.-The An
glomaniacs,n is to get i'll another skit at
the smart set in new novel of New
York society, entitled "Sweet Bells Out
of Tune" which begins with realistic
description Of q fashionable church we'd
ding.
A storm which prevailed in the Med
iterranean extended across the south OF
France to the coast of the Bay of Bis
CIV. The streets of Perpignan were so
badly flooded that upon issuing from
the theatres yesterday evening some
women and children were swept along
by the rushing waters until they were
rescued by neighbors.
Attorney General Miller has issued
circular to U. 5. supervisors of elections,
u. S. marshals and U. S. attorneys in
all parts of the United States in regard
to their duties in the coming elections.
He holds the federal election law to be
paramount in all cases where State
law conflicts with it, and that it is in
force whenever representative in Con.
gress is to be voted for.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

IT Is announced that Mr.. Roosevelt,
chief of the civil service commission,
will make speech in Boston next Sat
urday in favor Of the reelection of Mr..
Harrison. And yet Mr. Roosevelt
knows better than any other man in
the country that, though Mr.. Harrison
has sworn to execute the civil service
law, he not only has failed to do SO,
though informed by himself of its gross
infraction, but has done everything in
his power to thwart aud prevent its cx-
ecution by any of his subordinates.
The whole civil service is 4 humbug,
but Mr. Roosevelt is the most grotesque
part of it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
The Century Magazine for November

The Century Magazine for November
has been received from its publishers
in New York. It's contents are: A
Russian Nihilist Artist, Beyond the
Limit, Sweet Bells Out of Tune, lnsom-
MIA. Alice, An Old-Fashioned Thanks
giving, The Poems Here at Home,
Francis Parkman, Note on the Com
pletion of NIr. Parkman's Work, Moods
of the Soul. Browning at Asolo, What /
Saw of the Paris Commune, by Archi-
bald Forbes; What an American Girl
Saw Of the Commune, The Rowdy,
Road Coaching up to Date, The An
swer. Letters of General and Of Senator
Sherman, George William Curtis, The
New Member of the Club, To Gipsey-
land, To Rose Terry Cooke: Autobio-
graphical Notes of Massenet, Does the
Bible Contain Scientific Errors? Plain
Words to Workingmen, Some EXPOSE
ton Uses of Sunday, "reminiscences of
Brook Farm, G.. P. Bradford, The Mas
sachusetts Corrupt Practices Law,
Road-Building Exhibit at Chicago,
Sunday at the Worlds Fair, Open Let
tiers, and In Lighter Vein.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

NATIONAL BANKs.-Three years ago
last February there were 3,i7O active
national banks with an aggregate CAPT
tai of 1896, 1863, $50. Their resources
amounted to S2,S37 ,406,213. To-day
there are 3,777 national banks in active
business, with an aggregate paid up
capital of 1898, 331, 7O4, and with
resources amounting to just about
So, 500, 100000. That shows an increase
of 607 national banks and an increase
of 500, 100000 in capital and about
1868, 600, 900 in resources.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02
MCKINLEY Bill
THE MoRMoNs' BIG ORGAN.-Thc

THE MoRMoNs' BIG ORGAN-Thc
monster organ in the cid Mormon
church at Salt Lake City has 2,7O4
pipes each 80 feet long and large enough
to admit the body of a man of ordinary
size. Besides this, two towers rise at
either side to height of ~ feet. 1t
was built in the early days when all
freight was hauled from Missouri river
points across the plains with OK teams.
One man put in 1,O14 days work on it
and received provisions, only. for his
labor. 1t has been undergoing improve
ment for the past IS or 40 years.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

Mr.. PULLMAN has subscribed hun
dred thousand dollars with which to
buy the vote ofIndiana for Mr.. Harri
son. Bribery is immoral and injurious
but if there be any one man in the coun-
try who can we'll afford to make such
large subscription to any thing, Mr..
Pullman is the man, as every one
knows who rides in his cars.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

In the last stages ofconsumption, when
tubercles have formed, and the disln-
tegration of the lung tissue goes rapidly
on, nothing can be done but to smooth
the unfortunate sufferers way to the
grave. DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup the old
reliable remedy, promotes easy expect
grafton, thereby giving relief and COM
fort to the patient.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

POSSIBLY, IN the sweet by-and-by, it
may be known that anonymous COM
munications to the GAZETTE are con-
signed to the waste basket without ever
being read.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

MEN WHO will bride will usually
steal. So that of the immense sums
that have been subscribed for republic
can bribery, it is by no means unrea-
sonable to suppose large portion will
remain in the pockets of those to whom
the distribution of the money has been
entrusted
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

BY THIS time next week it will be
known whether the will of the people
of the country, or the money ola few of
its rich protected manufacturers, chooses
the President.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-02

Lieut.. Frederick schwartka, of the Alaskan
exploration fame, died in Portland, Ore, this
morning. he was picked up on the street in
an unconscious condition. Beside him was
found an empty laudanum bottle.