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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
A Shocking Crime.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 2S.-Annie Rigs
by, a house girl living near Coal Cine
Hill, had gone to the woods yesterday
to get coal. While resting beneath a
tree she was surrounded byseyen tramps
who choked her and some held her
while Others repeatedly assaulted hcr.
After kicking heri the face the !udians
fled. About mile from the scene otlhe
crime the officers found the tramps seat
ed off the road drinking beer from a
keg. A lively battle followed, but the
two officers captured the entire lot.
Miss Rigsby is in a serious condition
and her physician is very anxious about
her. But for the presence of the officers
it is pro able there would have been
some lynching last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
A Horrible Tragedy.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 2S.-Jchn
Robinson and VIM. Kurtz were bosom
friends and four years roomed together
Kutrz afterward married and drittcd
away from Mrs. Kurtz, and she and
Robinson formed an attachment. The
two men were out drinking together
yesterday and about dark were drunk
enough TO quarrel. The result was
that Robinson fell, Il horrible mass Of
blood, and only lived few minutes.
The wound was Just below the right
breast where a circular piece of dcsc as
large as ones hand had been cut out,
exposing the liver.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

UNDER THE forty-seven per cent.
tariff there was surplus of one hun
dred million in the Treasury during the
last democratic administration. Under
The sixty per cent. tariff there is large
deficit in the Treasury during the pres
cnt republican administration. All the
money is gone, but the people have no
more of it than they had before, nor
would they have, if thousands, instead OF
hundreds of millions had been squan-
dered. The money is exacted of the
people by taxes on their necessaries OF
life but little, ifany, of it comes back
10 1hem-none to those of the South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

ATTACKED AT THE ALTAR.-While
mass was being celebrated in the cathe-
dral at Burgos, Spain, yesterday, q
small man entered. He ran up the
altar steps to the priest, caught him by
the vestments, drew razor and drew
it across his face. Some of the worship
ers ran to the rescue. Two men seized
the priests assailant, but before they
could restrain him he had drawn the
razor across the priests throat. He
then turned on the rescuers and slashcd
one of them in the neck and the other
in the arm. Both let go and tho small
man ran down the middle aisle. Near
the door an old peasant woman caught
him by the arm and dragged him to the
floor. where she held him until q po-
liceman came to her aid and arrested
him. The priest, when a physician ar
rived, was unconscious from loss OF
blood, and probably cannot live. The
two men who tried to rescue him are
severely wounded, but will recover.
The police have learned that before en-
tering the cathedral the assassin went
to the archbishop's house for the osten-
sible purpose ofsoliciting aims. He be-
haved so peculiarly that the servant re-
fused to let him enter and eventually
closed the door in his face. When ask
ed his motive, the assassin said merely
that the priest and archbishop were not
fit to live because they deceived the
people. The police say that he is either
an anarchist or mailman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

A DISPATCH from New York says Mr..
Hugh O'Donnell, the chiefofthe Home
stead strikers, is in that city to continue
the negotiations with the managers of
the republican campaign, which were
interrupted by his arrest on the charge
ofmurder. Mr. O'Donnell may make
something of the negotiations referred
IL, but the man who believes that any
ofthose who obeyed his order to strike,
will do so, is sadly deficient in the
knowledge of human nature.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

AS stated yesterday, Mrs. E. R. Burt,
the wife ola well-llnown Richmond bus
mess man, has been arrested, charged
with appearing on the streets in male
attire and unlawful cohabitation with J.
B. Tillar. In the police court yester-
day she admitted the charges against
her. She said that her husband had
long been unfaithful to her. Things be-
came to unpleasant, the pretty witness
declared, that she finally went to Til
lars room, as he was her only friend.
Mrs. Burt said that she had adopted
male attire in making these visits to
prevent detection by her husband. The
woman and T'illar were both bailed to
appear before the grand jury.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

FIGHT WITH MooNsHINERs.-A
number of murders have recently been
committed in the mountainous regions
of Virginia and kentucky, south of
Bristol, the latest in regular pitched
battle between q moonshiner, II. G..
Johnson, and two blockaders, Ep. and
John Cox, which took place at Point
Truth, just across the mountain from
Gate City, in Scott county, where so
many crimes have been committed.
The two Cox boys went to the distill-
cry to get blockade liquor. While there
ali three of them got beastly drunk. A
trivial quarrel led on to fight.
Both the Coxes attacked Johnson,
but he vanquished them. Ep. received
one bullet in the shoulder and one in
the breast. John was shot in the
mouth, the ball lodging in his neck.
The particulars were very meagre, and
it is hard to tell tho condition of the
men. The Coxes are well-known
moonshiners, rather after the fashion
of Ira Mullins, who was brutally muir
dered at Pound Gap, in the Cum
berland mountains, few weeks ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

tracted period of unusual heat which
has prevailed over those districts ex.
cept in the northern portions. The
high temperature is likely to continue
throughout the Middle Atlantic States
until tomorrow, with local showers in
the evening. but cooler weather may be
expected by Friday night. The cool
wave of this morning in the West and
southwest is accompanied by unprece.
dentedly low temperature for this sea.
son of the year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
From Homestead.

HOMESTEAD, Pa, July 28.-N1ajor.
General Snowden and staff leave this
afternoon. Several regiments have
gone and others are breaking camp
The impression is prevalent that those
who remain will not be kept in camr
longer than the end of next week.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July 2S.-Thirty six
informations were made yesterday
against strikers for aggravated riot,
seven arrests were made and others
will follow. There are now 700 men at
work in the Carnegie mills and all de-
partments are running. Mr.. Frick
passed a very comfortable night and he
is apparently in an improved condition
this morning.
PrrrspURG, July 2S,-sYlyester Crit
elbow, one of the strikers charged
with murder on the day of the riot,
applied for release on bail to-day, but
was refused and remanded to jail for
trial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

THEY wAYLA1p YoUNc.-George
Hardy, VIM. Cant, VIM. Waters and
Edward Norris. all colored, are under
arrest in Washington for the murder of
Peter Young, on Capitol Hill, last Fri
day night. Hardy has made full con-
fcssion, duplicating Cant and Waters. Norris
was not one of the party of murderers, but
was told of the murder by Hardy. who. while
one of the leading minds in planning the rob-
berry, was shut out on the division, getting
only 81 cents out of $500 Hardy's story is
to the effect thai he and Cant and Waters
plotted on Friday night 70 Naylay Young and
rob him Accordingly they waited around
the store until nearly midnight, when nc
started home They followed him to Third
street, at the mouth of Gtant alley, where
Waters stopped him and asked him cor q
match. Before Young could reply, Waters
struck him in the stomach, doubling him up.
The second blow with the club was then
struck. Cant snatched the satchel and ran
away, followed by the qthcFs. The satchel
was cmpted and thrown in nearby sever.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

AFFAIRS at Homestead arc gradually
settling down aud soon will be entirely
quiet. Several men have been killed
and moro wounded, some are under
bail on the charge of murder, many
have had eviction notices served upon
them, and a large number have lost
permanent employment at good wages,
and will now have to seek work else
where, as their places have been sup
piled by non-upion men, who were
glad to get them. Such have been
some of the bad effects of the strike.
What the good effects have been, the
strikers may know, but certainly no
body else does.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
ICOMMUNICATEr

The citizens in the vicinity Of Union
and lower Duke streets are SO annoyed
by the blowing of steam whistles by
day and escaping steam by night from
the planning mills on Union street that
they viii have to either yacate their
premises and seek shelter in some other
part of the city or appeal TO the Mayor
to have the nuisance abated. 1t is
useless to appeal to the proprietors or
to the ENGINEERS. A CITIZEN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
TELEGRAPIIIC BREFITIES.

Chambers of a most malignant char
acter seems to be spreading among the
horses in the county around Paris. Tex.
A boiler in the shinglc mill of Hart
nell and Smith on the Otsego at Gay
lord, Mich, blew up this morning, Kill
ing four men, fatally injuring one other
and demolishing the mill.
The coal sales agents in meeting to,
day in New York made no advance in
prices for August and fixed the pro-
duction for August at three million
tons, which is the same as August
1891, and five million tons less than tie
production for the present month.
A boiler explosion took place at
saw mill belonging to Short and Pick
ering, near Stanley, /. T., IS mile;
north of Paris, Texas. yesterday, in
which two men were killed outright
and four others badly injured, three Of
whom are expected to die at any mo-
ment.
At 1915 o'clock this morning Geo
X. Sistare, member of the firm ofSis
tare Bros, bankers. committed suicide
in his room at the Manhattan club. il
New York, by shooting himself in the
right temple with 80 calibre Smith &
Wesson revolver. Mr.. Sistare was %
years old.
MY name is Sweeney worked at the
Brunswick, 401 Smithiield street | cane
from H. C., New York. Letters in post Of
fee for papers. Good bye This r,onins
James Sweeney waded out into the riyerai
McKees Rocks at Pittsburg, Pa, went down
to a large rock which juts out into the strcan
and with piece of chalk wrote the a's'is ]
message on the rock, and placing revolver
to his head, fired shot which blew out his
brains.
The famous Faribault plan for which Arch
bishop Ireland went to Rome to fight, has
proved a failure at Saltwater, Mimi St
Michael's parish of that city conducted the
last year under the new plan but will conduit
its schoolsas parochials this year
All efforts to effect fusion with the people,
party on the South Dakota State ticket wen
unayailing. The peoples party leaders wlni
the majority of the offices which the demo
Gratis decline to grant Il
A street embankment in Sioux City, lows
gave way last night before great volume o.
water gathered back of it from rains. don:
fully $4,000 damage.
The Wyoming democratic State conyentioa
met yesterday. The fight for the NOMINATION
for Governor will be between J. J. Hurt at
w. H. Halliday.
The police of Boies City and NamIa, Idaho.
fearing an outbreak of smallpox bave 77ifF't
all Japanese residents to leave town ians
diately.
An ugly feeling prevails among the lndaD
over the invasion of the Colville re'er'al's
Wash, by boomers.
Rains fell last night all over Kansas a''1'
ing a coin crop in that State that has AS''
been equalled. Is
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

BURNED IN ITS CoFFIN.-The infant
child of Policeman Philip Dorfer, of
West Hoboken, died on Sunday. The
policeman has been seriously i'll for
several days, and his wife remained up
on Monday night to wait on him and
keep vigil by the coffin of her babe.
Tapers were burning at the head of the
coffin when birs. Dorfer went to the
basement to get q drink of water for
her husband. She smelled smoke, and
hurrying into the death chamber found
that the candles had ignited the dpape-
ry and that the coffin was burning. She
screamed and swooned. Her husband
staggered into the room, but he could
do nothing. Aeighbors arrived and ex-
tinguished the blaze. The right side of
the chi1d's body was badly burned. The
shock hos had a serious effect on Dorf-
er, and it is said be will not recover.
q" v
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

siderably during the last three months,
but no laborer employed in the coal
mines has said that his wages have been
increased to the extent Of 4 single cent
during that time. But still the tax OF
cents a ton on soft coal re-
mains, and that, naturally tends to sus-
tain the price of hard coal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

ALL THE Virginia members of the U.
s. House of Representatives present in
that body yesterday voted, as they had
done before, against the five million APP
preparation TO the Chicago fair. They
are wiser than the members of the Vir-
ginia legislature who, poor as their
State is, voted IN appropriation for the
same fair. There is no constitutional
ground for such an appropriation
by Congress, but if there were, it would
be unconstitutional to make it by pro-
viding for it in a regular appropriation
bill. 1t is to be hoped that the efforts
TO defeat it may be successful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
MADE INSANE BY LOVE-. X. Polk

MADE INSANE By LOVE-. X. Polk
Moore, 40 years old, of Pennsville,
n. j., and the treasurer of Lower Neck
township, is a raving maniac through
unrequited love. On Sunday he wrote
four letters to relatives stating that he
intended to commit suicide, and that it
would be useless to hunt for him. Sun
day afternoon 10 friends hunted for him
along Salem creek, but at nighttall had
discovered no trace of the missing man.
The search was resumed carly
Monday morning, and in the afternoon
Moore was found in Edward Hancocl,'s
marsh. He was partly disrobed and
violently insane. Moorc's accounts are
correct, and disappointment in love is
the only cause assigned for his sudden
loss of reason.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

MEssRS. VEST, DANLsL and other
democratic Senators have saved the
farmers of the country from a great deal
of harm by their successful opposition
to the anti-option bill, and that, too,
against the wishes even of the farmers
lhemselves-but only of those unfamil-
Ear with the provisions of that bill and
incapable of correctly understanding
the necessary effect thereof.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

The Forum for August has been received
from its publishers i'll New York. Its con-
tents are: Shall the Southern Question be
Revived? by Richard II. Edmunds and IIokc
Smith Literature as Career, by Walter
Besant An American View of the Irish
Question, by Richard Il. Dana; Silver and the
Currency. by Louis Windmul,er end David
NJ. Stone; What Psychical Research has &c
complishcd, by Professor VIM. James; The
Western Traffic Association, by Aldace F.
Walker; Studies in Practical Religion, By
John Graham Brooks and Rev. John P. Coyle
Why We Have so Few Good Roads by cx-
Governor James 4. Beaver; Photographic
Studies of Speech, by Il. L. Gamer, and NUM-
cipal Government, by Frank Morrison.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The new steamer Ell Sud, built al
Newport News, sailed yesterday for the
Pacific
Mrs. Ann Hay died at an advanced
age at her sons residence near Farm
well last week.
The Rappahannock county democrats
have elected delegates favorable to the
denomination of Congressman O'Ferrall
Capt. r. L. Cooper, q prominent citi-
zen Of Stafford county was paralyzed at
his residence last Sunday. The stroke
is thought to be serious.
A one-legged tramp, known as "Dr. y
Alexander, committed suicide on Main
street, in Harrisonburg, yesterday, by
taken large does of strychnine.
The State Board of Agriculture failed
to get quorum in Richmond yesterday
and adjourned to August IL, to meet at
the place designated by the president
Messrs. Carpenter and PEBBLES, Of
Norfolk, have been chosen architects OF
the new gymnasium ofthe University
of Virginia over a large number ofcom-
petitors.
William S. Brock died at Rectortown
Tuesday night. Mr.. Brock was former.
ly chiefclerk of the Pension Bureau and
son of Major Brock, formerly chief OF
police of the District of Columbia.
Charles Bowyer met with terrible
accident at Chesterfield Courthouse yes.
terday. While engaged at u saw-mill
his head came in contact with run
ming saw, which split his skull wide
open, killing him almost instantly.
Mr.. Basil b. Gordon, chairman of the
State democratic committee, is expect
ed in Charlottesville next week to open
the headquarters of the party and to
begin the campaign work. He has sc.
lectcd his executive committee and
will announce their names in few
days.
Staunton is suffering from water
famine, with the thermometer away up
in the nineties. The water supply is
from reservoir giving maximum
pressure ofone hundred and ten pounds.
The water is pumped into the reser-
voir, supplied with two engines. On
Tuesday night the engine in use broke
down, and for the first time yesterday
the citizens were appalled, by the infor-
nation that the second engine had been
broken for more than a year. With
the water cut off the ice factory cannot
run, so the town has no ice. A slight
rain yesterday cooled the atmosphere
somewhat, but the dry condition OF
everything would make Il fire extreme
ly disastrous.
Mr.. Henry Treat Chittenden, of Co
lumbus, Ohio, and Miss Eta Bassell,
only daughter of John Y. Bassell, OF
Leesburg, were married at st. James
Church in that town last night. Rev.
Mr.. Chittcnden, brother of the groom
ofliciated. The ceremony was followed
by reception at the home ofthe brides
parents, Immediately after which spe-
cial car conveyed the bridal party over
the w. & 0. Railroad to Washington
city, whence the newly welded
pair will take an extended northern
tour. A large number of friends
from Ohio, st. Louis, New York, Balti-
more and other points witnessed the
| ceremony.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
Cooler Meather Coming

WAsnISGToN, July 2s.2TRe cool
wave reported last night and this morn
ing from the region between the Rocky
Mountains and the Mississippi and
which will probably advance over the
Ohio valley and lake region by to-mor-
row, marks the termination of a pro-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

Nix. ROBERT PINKERToN's recent
statement concerning the reckless dis
regard of human life manifested by
strikers who resort to violence to attain
their ends, finds additional substantial
ton in the fact that an attempt has been
made within the last day or two to blow
up ono of the buildings at the Carnegie
works, in which no less than one hun
dred and forty-four were employed
by turning gas into the furnace ROOM
People born and raised in civilized, let
alone Christianized, communities, find
it hard to realize the fact that they live
in the same country with men capable
Of slch monstrous crimes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
Fnunuicr Notes.

The cheese factory at Bealeton IS do
ing safe business this summer
The Markham neighborhood is now
full of boarders and summer visitors.
The barn of Mr.. R. S. Williams near
Warrcnton was burned on Tuesday
evening.
Mrs. Mary C. Gordon, wife of Capt.
Chas. Gordon, died at her home near
Bealeton on Tuesday.
Mr.. w. X. Moss had q serious fall at
the Markham depot recently which
resulted in breaking one of his ribs.
Mr. Elijah Payne, q respected citi-
zen the Of Orlean neighborhood. died q
few days ago in the 10th year of his
age.
A race horse belonging to Mr.. Owens
and being trained on the track at this
place for the races on Thursday next,
broke its leg Tuesday and had to be
killed.
During the month of August the
good people of this county will run
rough shod over Satan. There are to
be religious meetings in almost every
section.
The Warrenton Hunt Club, one OF
the eleven recognized Hunt Clubs IN
the United States, after its race meet
ing Aug. 4th will give german III the
town hall the invitations to which are
out.
Mrs. Mary Ann Bispham died in
North Carolina on Friday last at the
home of her son-in-law Mr.. J.. l.. Nc
KAY and her remains were brought to
Warrenton and inferred from the Epis-
oopal church of that place.
Mr.. Henry Payne while in Warren
ton court day, smarting under an old
grudge growing out of his arrest by
Mr.. Joseph H. Nelson while mayor of
Warrenton, made an assault on that
gentleman for which he was arrested
and fined SO.
At the last meeting of the board of
supervisors the county levy for the
year 1892 was fixed at 30 per cent. OF
the State tax less capitation tax. Cap
itation tax soc per caput. The dog tax
was fixed at 81 and - for males and te-
males respectively.
r. II. Rush, auctionecr, sold for c.
NJ. White, commissioner, l02 acres of
land in suit of Moore VS. Aery to c. G..
Miller for five dollars and fifty cents
per acre. This land lies near Bealeton.
For J. V. Brooke and Charles I. Green
commissions rs in suit ofRust and wife VS.
Ashby 224 acres, near Delaplane to w.
4. Rucllcr for ten dollars and one cent
per acre.
In the county court this week in
dictments were found against Benton
Carter for felony, against Russell Doug
las for felony and misdemeanor ard
against John Coleman for same. Ben
ton Carriers case was dockcted and
continued to 1st day next term and
Carter was bailed. Commonwealth VS.
Russell Douglas, jury and trial
and verdict of 6 months i'll felony case
and Is days in misdcmeanor. Com
monwealthl VS. John Coleman contin-
ucd
There was a mass meeting of the
democratic voters of Fauquicr county
in the basement Of the court house on
Monday last to elect delegates to the
convention to be held in Alexandria on
the 10th day of August to nominate a
candidate for Congress. The conduct
of our present representative in Con
gross by appropriate motion by Capt.
G.. w. Meetz was fully endorsed and
approved. Although no instructions
were given the delegation is known to
be cordially in favor Of the nomination
of Mr.. T.. +. Mercdith.-JJGJrento J'ir-
Ginidn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
sroLE Girl AND DYED HER HAIR.

STOLE 4 GIRL AND DYED HER HAIR.
Nicholas Geradoy, aged twenty-four,
an Italian of Newark, \. j., was held
for trial yesterday by Justice Piersel,
on charge of abducting Fanny, the
fifteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sny-
der, of 167 Pacific street. The girl vas
on her way to Sunday School when she
-s-as enticed 10 an italian barber shop,
where her blonde hair was cut off. Her
hair was then died end curled. She
was kept in an Italian lodging house
until she was rescued last night by
some detectives,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE is one of
our best daiiies, giying the news fresh
and full, condensed to the convenience
of all its numerous readers. We con-
graduate the GAZETTE on its new dress
and its enlargement. May it long con-
tinue to enlighten the public upon i'm
portant issues, -Leesburg Fash.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28

QUEER HALLUcINATIoSs.-Am man who has
the peculiar haiiucinatjop that he is being
pricked with pins, named Charles Kabler was
taken from Rittenhouse Square on Tuesday
evening to the Philadelphia Hospital. George
Snyder, of Sixth street and Indiana avenue,
was also arrested upon the same evening at
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot, trying
to eat railroad car He was of the opinion
that this was the only way he could sustain
lifo He was also sent to the Philadelphia
Ensnifal