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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
Death of a Congressman.

EAsToN, Pa, June 23.-William
Mutchler, of this city, democratic mem
Der of Congress from the Sth Pennsyl-
vania district, died suddenly of heart dis
ease this morning. He had been in poor
health of late and was taken i'll at a
Pike county fishing resort three weeks
ago with heart trouble. He recovered,
came home and had been able to be
out but still suffered from his stomach
and heart. The deceased leaves a
widow and one son, Howard Mutchler,
proprietor of the Easton cypress and
the Northampton Democrat. William
Mutchler was born in this (Northamp-
tom county December 81, 1881, and
was therefore in his 62n,l year. He
was lawyer by profession. In 1867
President Johnson appointed him as
SCISSOR of internal revenue which Of
flee he held two years. He was chair
man of the democratic State committee
in 1S69-7O and was member of the
forty-fourth, forty-seventh, forty-eight,
fifty-frst and iify-second congresses.
He was reelected to the fifty-third con-
gress last fall by large majority.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

Cows MIXED BY FIsH.-The dis
covery at New Hope, Pa, that Ger
man carp drinks milk has averted what
threatened to be wholesale suits for
theft. Michael Herman, for several
months, or ever since the weather
grew warm, has noticed that his blood
ed COWS return from their luXuriant
pastures with full stomachs and empty
udders. There was suspicion that
the COWS had been MIXED by families
who reside in the neighborhood. This
thing continued, and Mr.. Tierman's
dairy product reached zero. He watch
ed his cows, but could not discover the
milk robbers. Yesterday he had
startling revelation. While standing
by the mill race which runs through
his farm, he saw his favorite cow en-
joying herselfin the water which touch
ed her body. After prolonged bath,
the bovine emerged from the stream.
Clinging to the animals udder was
carp that weighed about 10 pounds. 1t
had drunk every ounce OF the cows
milk. Mr.. Herman says that the COWS
have regularly gone to the mill race to
keep cool, and the fish have as diligent
ly extracted their milk
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Speaker Crisp will be the principal
speaker at the Tammany Fourth of-July
celebration.
Rev. DR.. Samuel Hart, professor of
Trinity College, was elected bishop of
the Episcopal diocese Of Vermont yes
terday.
The funeral of the late Senator STAN
ford will take place tomorrow from the
chapel at Palo Alto University, CAL,
and will be very simple.
The engagement OF Representative
w. C. P. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
and Miss Madeline Pollard, who is now
guest of Mrs. Blackburn, is announced
in Washington.
William Liebknecht, a prominent
German socialist leader, fayors the es-
adjustment of militia system in Ger
many. He says the anti-German feel
ing in Alsace-Lorraine seems to be un-
dying.
Frank Harvey, white man living
near GAINESVILLE, Ca, yesterday beat
his two-year-old girl to death. After
he had whipped and beaten his child
to death, he mashed its head, broke
its ribs, and stuck his knife into Its
body repeatedly.
The new German Rcichstag will meet
July A. Herr Liebknecht, tie German
socialist leader, says that the passage
of the army bill by the new Reichstas
would be beneficial to the socialists,
who would take advantage of the dis
content it would cause among the peo-
pie.
The sudden drop in the price of sill.
yer bullion to SIT cents has revived
talk of shutting down number of
the big mines of Aspen, Col. The Den
yer shelters refuse to buy anything but
low grade ores carrying lead, and low
grade mines cannot be worked prof.
tably.
NJ. Millevoye yesterday started TO
read document in the French Cham
Der of Deputies, alleged to have been
stolen from from the British embassy IN
Paris, in which NJ. Clemenceau was ac-
cused of betraying State secrets to
Great Britain, when motion was
adopted condemning the documents as
spurious.
The storms in the West on Wednes-
day evening were very severe. AT
Conception, Mo-, the abbey being erect
ed by the Benedictine monks was de-
molished, and three persons killed in
the destruction of their home. In Adair
county, Ia, large number of farm
houses were destroyed, but no fatalities
are reported. A child was carried
twenty rods through the air, but cs,
capped unhurt.
At late hour yesterday evening
while eight men were at work at Nan
ticoke, Pa, in No. 6 gangway OF No. 9
slope of the Susquehanna Coal Compa-
ny, about three-quarters of mile from
the bottom of the shaft, terrible eX-
ploson of gas took place, which hurled
the victims off their feet and scattered
them in all directions, killing four men
and a boy instantly, and seriously, but
not fatally, iujuring three more.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
TO-DA US TEbEGRAP HIC NEWS
Terrible Marine Disaster.


LONDON, June ga most terrible
calamity has befallen the British battle
ship Victoria, flagship ofthe Medlter-
ranean squadron, and hundreds of lives
have been lost. The Victoria, which
flew the flag of Vice-Admiral sir
George Tryon, K. c. B., was run into
off Tripoli by the British battlesbip
Camperdown, also belonging to the
Mediterranean squadron. The Vic
toria had an enormous hole made in
her side through which the water pour
ed in torrents, and before those on
board of her could cast loose the small
boats she went to the bottom, carrying
down with her nearly all on board.
Some of the officers and crew managed
to get out of the suction caused by the
sinking vessel and were rescued. Among
those lost is Vice-Admiral Tryon. Not
less than four hundred and thirty OF the
officers and crew of the Victoria went
down with the ship which sank in fiji
teen minutes in eighteen fathoms OF
water. She lies bottom uppermost.
Twenly-one officers were drowned.
Two hundred and lightweight menwere
saved. The injury to the Camperdown
is serious and will necessitate her going
in dock for repairs. The Victoria was
twin-screw battle-ship of 1910 tons
and IA, 900 horsepower. She mounted
Is guns, and her complement of officers
and crew was us men. The
Camperdown is also first class twin
screw battleship.
The scene of the calamity was near
Tripoli, a seaport town fifty miles
northeast of Beyroot, Syria, and COM
paratively short distance from the ISL
and of Cyprus.
The news of the calamity has caused
the most intense excitement among oil
classes of the population. The Admir-
atty Office is besieged by relatives and
friends of the officers and crew, seeking
details of the disaster. The throngs
are so dense that the police were sum,
moned to restrain the crowd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The State regatta is to come off to-
morrow afternoon at Petersburg.
Mr.. Stasius Meade, formerly of Clarke
county, and Miss Anna NJ. NAHUM were
married in Washington yesterday.
John L. Hutter, eldest son of Major
Edward s. Hutter, died suddenly yes
terday at Pittsville, Pittsylvania county.
Mrs. Selma Cropp, relict of the late
Warren Cropp, died Tuesday at her
home in Spotsylvania county, aged sew
enty three years.
Simon E. Crittendeu, proprietor OF
the Princes Anne Hotel at Virginia
Beach, died yesterday evening at that
resort of congestion of the brain.
Mrs. William Barnett was burned to
death yesterday at her homo near Fort
Defiance, six miles from Staunton, by
her clothing taking fire while she was
making soap.
The wife and three children of Hon.
Hoke Smith, Secretary ofthe Interior,
are spending the time pleasantly at
"Matin Hill" a suburb of Strasburg.
They are the guests of Mr.. c. NJ. Be-
runs family.
Lewis A. Scroggin, only son of VIM.
Scroggin, deceased, (whom he survived
only one month and eleven days. died
suddenly at his residence on Manor
Grade, near Front Royal, on the 10Th
instant, in his 54th year.
The contested election case in Nor
fo11- rn-t,1tn1 a N th n
democrats abandoning the case and the
court awarding the certificates of cleo
ton to the independent-republican
candidates, who were the contestants.
Judge Hancock, at the session of the
Circuit Court of Petersburg yesterday,
disposed of thirty-thrce coupon cases,
all that were on the docket. Not a
single case was contested, and there
was no opposition to any of them on
the part of the Commonwealth Attor-
ney.
The friends of Col. a. S. Buford are
effecting a powerful organization in
Richmond, clubs being formed in near
ly every precinct already. Col. a. S.
Buford, in speaking yesterday about
the gubernatorial race, said he thought
his chances were getting better every
day. He remarked that he feltmuch
encouraged by the reports that are COM
ing in from all parts of the State.
Mr.. II. G. Carneal, ofStafford county,
met with an accident Wednesday by
which he was terribly cut about the
arms and legs, the arteries of one leg be-
ing severed, the ligaments cut to the
bone and his right arm badly lacerated.
He had been cutting wheat all day
Tuesday and at night left the machine
set UP ready to resume work. While
hitching the horses Wednesday morn
ing they became frightened and started
off, throwing Mr.. Carneal down, and
the machine passed over his body, the
blades cutting him as described. Ply
sicians were summoned and it is
thought he will survive.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
Arrest Of 4 Murderer.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, June 23.--Some
time ago John Tarpey, prominent
citizen of Haughville, suburb Of In
dianapolis, was killed by a burglar
The crime was committed while the
burglar was in the act Of robbing ST.
loon. Tarpey, in company with the
town officers, went into the saloon at
midnight and caught the man in the
act of robbing the drawer. To effect his
escape he shot Tarpey. AS no trace OF
the murder could be secured the com
munity settled in its opinion that Ta-,
pey's companions had KILLED him and
conceived the burglar story to clear
themselves. A week ago two local de-
tectives, after a desperate strug,
gle, arrested Leon Henderson for burg.
larry. In the fight Henderson was shot
in the the leg. He was taken to the
city hospital and yesterday Mary Raj;
ferty, of Haughville, told the superin.
tendent of police that Henderson was
Tarpey's murderer. She said he had
come to her house on the night of the
murder and had told her all about it.
Henderson at first denied the story,
but last night made complete confes-
sion to Superintendent Colbert. 1t tai,
lies with the story told by the Haugh,
vile town officers. After the comics
sion Henderson was removed to the
police station, as rumors of a lynching
were in the air. Henderson is desper-
ate man, having served several terms
in prison.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
Cane Cod Canal.

Boston, June 25.-What may be re-
garded as the final step in the Cape Cod
canal was taken yesterday when the
business of the Old Colony and Interior
Construction Co., which has been chart,
cred for the express purpose of build
ing the canal, was held and an organ
ization effected. J. S. Anthony was
elected president. The new company
is capitalized at s. 100000, divided into
shares of 800. Some 100000 has
already been pledged by Boston and
New York bankers. The canal will
begin at some convenient point in Buzz
zards' Bay and run through the towns
of Bourne and Sandwich to a point in
Barnstable Bay. 1t will have a depth
of not less than % feet at mean low
water.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE % 1893.
THE BALTIMORE Sun says the de-

THE BALTIMORE Sun says the oe-
mand for an income tax is the "Popuilst
cry" Whether it be the "popullst cry"
or not, there is certainly no doubt Oh
tbefact that it is the popular cry and one
that had better be listened and harken-
ed to by the democratic representatives
in Congress if they want to be re-elect-
ed. AS it is now, the richest man IN
the country pays no more toward the
support of the government than his
poor neighbor, for the revenue is raised
Inv the tariff on the necessaries OF life'
and of those necessaries one man can
not consume more than other. Inc
federal government imposes no tax on
the rich mans bonds and stocks, but II
does tax the poor mans salt, and iuei'
and clothing, and almost everything
else he consumes, and there are hun
dred poor, to every rich man in the
country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
country.

THE LOW price Of silver, The value OF
which. like that Of every thing else, Is
established by the London market has
fallen so low that the owners OF some
of the big silver mines in Colorado are
talking about suspending operations
And vet there are members OF both
branches of Congress who still advocate
the free coinage silver dollars, the IN
trinsic value of which is sixty-hVe
cents and which, on account OF then
weight, no man likes to carry about
with him. When an American sailor
who leaves this country with a SILVER
dollar in his pocket attempts to pass II
in European port, he is allowed two
thirds ofits face value, but an American
gold dollar will buy dollars worth OF
anything at any port on the map.
Gold is the standard Of value the world
over, and there can be but one such
standard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

AN administration newspaper, right
or wrong, implies that session of Con-
oress in June and July would not be as
conducive to wise legislation as one IN
September. Why, it is often just as
hot in the latter month as in the two
former, and, in Washington, September
is the most unwholesome month OF all
the year. The Mckinley bill and the
Sherman silver act should have been
repealed at the earliest possible mo-
ment, and for that purpose Congress
should have been called together in
April, but as wasn't, the best thing to
do under the circumstances would be
to convene it just as soon as the requi-
site call can be issued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
a yOlcanoin Utah.

GREEN RIVER, Utah, June PAN
immense column of smoke has been OBJ
served for several days rising q few
miles north of Thompson's Springs sta
ton, on the Rio Grande Western rail-
way. C. II. Hallett, well-known
mining man, returned from that sec
ton yesterday and says it is caused by
a volcano that has just burst forth.
Owing to the smoke the party was I'M
able to approach closer than a quarter
of mile but powerful field glasses
showed break in the formation
through which the sulphurus flames
were pouring.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

INVITATIONS FROM Washington are
to the effect that as means to increase
the revenue so as to meet the enormous
demands of the pension bureau an ell
fort will be made at the next session OF
Congress to impose tariff tax on tea'
coffee and sugar, but that the influence
of the rich men in the North will be
sufficient to prevent the passage OF any
bill for laying an income tax. Every
man in the country who is in favor OF
taxing the articles referred to and OF
not taxing incomes is opposed by at
least one hundred, and if congressman
think otherwise, they will find out at
the next election how egregiously they
have been mistaken.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

A SERENADE TO SENATOR LITTLE
Senator w. A. Little, after delivering
his address at the Episcopal High
School on Monday night, went over to
Alexandria to spend the night so as to
catch the early train for Stafford Court.
He was assigned room adjoining a
ward in which there were three stall
wart chicken cocks. AT one o'clock q
solitary crow was heard which seemed
the signal for a general chorus. From
that time until the train left the sere-
made was continued all along the line.
Senator Little offered to buy from the
Waterman the. leading Grower, but
when the full orchestra of some hun
dred ROSTERS voices took up the re-
frain he declared the proposition off
and quietly submitted. The Senator
saws alexandria is 0. K. on the rooster
question, and with wearied steps and
heavy eyelids lie took the early train
for court. 1t has been suggested that
the serenade was in honor of the Sena-
tors coming election as Attorney Cen
Notwithstanding Lance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

No MATTER how wrong ex-senator
Edmunds may be in respect of his opin-
ion concerning the cause of the exist
inc financial condition OF the country,
that he is prominently right in his
approval of the Russian treaty will
hardly be denied, except by ignorant
and silly people, or by demagogues.
s.Forgery is forgery" he says "wheth-
er it is that of a check or of a passport,
and ought to be extraditable." Russia
and the United States are old friends
but it would be scant grace if the lat
ter should refuse to surrender to his
Government q Russian who had at
tempted to assassinate the head OF that
government and then escaped to tins
country on forged passport; indeed 10
do so would make this government an
accomplice in the crime.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

THE PALE WHITE LIGHT OF DEATH
Those who have admired the phosphoresceht
glow of certain species of crustacea will be IT.
terested to learn that startling discovery re-
specting it has been made. Formerly it was
supposed that such creatures emitted the
light of their own accord, and that they used
it in variety of ways. Itisnow known that
The light Is disease as deadly to the infected
individuals as cobra poisoning is to the human
species. NJ Girard has traced phosphorescent
light in tatitrus and other crustaceans to ex-
ceedingly minute bacteria in the muscles.
On inoculating healthy specimens with glow
6nc bacteria, the same luminous appearance
was transmitted He also notes that the dis
ease runs a regular course, and that those in
fected die within four days, the phosphores-
crnce lasting but short while after death
81. Louis Republic.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
Foreign News.

BERLIN, June a3.-The socialists OF
Lubbock made demonstration last
night that soon degenerated into riot.
On Breitestrasse they wrecked a num-
Der of shop fronts with stones and
CLUBS. The police charged the mob,
which fed WITHOUT making much re-
sistance. A large number Of the riot
ers were arrested. The separated
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

BALD EAGLE SHOT IN SHENANDOAH.
One day last week, Mr.. Frank Kagey
shot and killed bald eagle on the
farm of his father, Mr.. A. J. Kagey,
about two miles northwest of DIt. Jack
son, Va. The eagle measured feet
from tip to tip of wings and q feet
from beak to tip of tail. Bald eagles
are to be found in all countries of the
world, and some seven or eight species
are found in Europe. In North Amer
lea, however, it is found only in Green
land, being elsewhere replaced by the
wbiteheaded or bald eagle, the chosen
emblem of the United States.-Sheaan-
dOnh EnLLeu
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

A WASHINGTON newspaper has con-
ceived the idea that Judge Woods may
have been somewhat influenced by
religious prejudice" in his decision in
favor of closing the Chicago fair on
Sundays. What religious prejudice q
Judge, who reversed his own decision
in the Dudley case in order to shield
a public debaucher of the ballot from
the penalty of an outraged law, could
by any possibility entertain, would be
q hard matter for casuiststo determine,
,let alone men who haven't time to de-
vote to such matters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
,Ivsterious Death of n Banker

RICHMOND, Va, June 23.-The dead
body of Charles H. Conrad, promi-
nent banker and tobacconist of Dan
vile, was found on the track of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad near
Amelia Court House this morning. He
is supposed to have fallen or been
thrown from the train. He left Dan
vile after midnight and was on his way
to Richmond.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

BALTIMORE. June 23.-Flour dull and un,
changed Wheat weak No > red spot and
June G9aG91s: July G9tia69i2; Aug 1l.s
a1lIa Sept - lsla133s steamer No > red 81
CHS; milling wheat by sample 6Sa7O. Corn
weak; mixed spot and June ISL alSas July
4Siaa4S3,; Aug 49lia49is white corn by
sample IS: yellow do 5Oa50i2. Oats iirul;
No = white Western 41al2; No mixed do
Sab .. Rye neglected; No 81. Hay
slow aud good demand good to choice tImo.
thy SD so to SIC 80. Provisions quiet and
unchanged
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

Business is quiet and prices of wheat, pro-
visions, &c, all have downward tendency
on account Of the scarcity of money of which
scarcity the complaint is growing more gen.
eral. In New York yesterday money on call
was active, ranging from 6 to 10, last loan at
s and closing offered at s. Prime mercantile
paper Gas per cent. The Baltimore money
market continues very tight, but banks have
continued to discount the commercial paper
of customers at the prevailing rates Of 6 per
cent, ard declined to lend outside parties.
Local shares are quiet with little doing
New YORK. June 23-Money on call is
stringent at 7a20 per cent. Prime mercan-
tile paper Gas per cent. Government bonds
have been steady. State bonds have been
dull. Railroad bonds have been lower. The
stock market has been dull with merely frac-
sIonal changes in quotations. At noon the
market was rather weak in tone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

Th9 wholesale m .rkets during the past
week have been irregular and very mSi;is.
factory to sellers Flour has been dull
Wie,t shows loss of a cent per bush J. but
coses firmcr; 81 es to-day 60 to 7, no strict
" oh picc milling was offered. Corn, white
5:} to 81, yellow 81, mixed 40 to 81. Rye
80 to IS. Oats 81 to 80. Spring Chickens
Veal Calves and Lambs are easy. Butter,
Eggs and other produce are in fair d mand.
Bacon. Lard and provisions are shade lower
MillCced. Hay and Straw are weak.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
Another Postponement.

RICHMOND, Va, June 23.-The stock
holders meeting of the Richmond Ter
minal Company was adjourned by the
secretary to-day until July 2lst.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23

In Washington yesterday the graz d
jury took up the Ford's Theatre calam-
ity case against Col. r. C. Ainsworth
and others, and examined a number Of
technical witnesses as to the cause of
the disaster.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23


A VIRGINIA Ice MINE.-In the north
side of Stone mountain, six miles from
the mouth of Stony creek, in Scott
county, has been discovered a natural
ice-house on a grand scale. One of the
old settlers first discovered it about
1880, but owing to the fact that the land
on which it was situated could not be
bought, he refused to tell its where
abouts, and would only take ice from
it in case of sickness. He died without
revealing the secret to even his own
family, and but for party of "Seng"
diggers entering the region, it might
have remained secret for generations,
as it is situated in an unfrequented part
of the mountain. The ice was only
protected from the rays of the sun by 4
thick growth of moss resembling tex
lure, and like moss that can be seen
dangling from the oaks of Louisiana
and Texas. It's formation was after
tho fashion of coal vein, being few
inches thick in some places, while sew
cral feet in other. The formation in
,licates that it had been spread over the
surface in liquid state and then con-
gealed. BY what process it freezes or
was frozen is matter Of conjecture at
this stage of investigation. Some think
that it was formed in the winter, and
has been protected since by a dense
growth of moss which covers it, while
the more plausible theory is that be-
meath the bed is situated great natur-
al laboratory whose function is forma-
ton of ether, and the process of freez-
ing goes steadily on through the heat
as we'll as the cold. The growth Of
moss resembles the hanging moss
around Hudson bay, and indicates a
frigid temperature. The bed covers
one acre.