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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07
LATE NEWS BY WIRE.
Trial of the Speed of the New
Cruiser Marblehead.
CONDITIONS OF WIND And WATER GOOD
Seventeen Knots Required by the
Contract.


NEW LONDON, Conn.,, Dec The new
cruiser Marblehead went out OF this harbor
like race horse this morning on her trial.
After she got down by Fort TrumbU1l she
had a clear course before her. She got away
about o'clock.
The conditions for the trial this morning
when the cruiser reached her course were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07
Army Ordnance and Fortified tfons

Maj. Gen. Schofeld, president of the army
board of ordnance and fortifications, has
submitted his report to Congress 1t shows
that S544.016 has been allotted by the board
since its last report For the next fiscal
year the board asks for S3S5.0O0 to continue
experimental work on guns and powders
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07

The Spanish general at Melilla is In favor
OF compelling Morocco to agree to the es-
Establishment of a neutral zone. IL n ex-
pected that, IL such a proposition shall Be
made to the sultan, the Ri1s viii resist n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

The foilowfne nre the orennv e.. hixhe., ana En-.
lowest and the CLOSING pces % the New YORK s.o-s
members New York stocS exchsn-e Co-r.enara 49,.
Messrs. Moore schley. No. 10 broadway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07
A Kentucky ADpOintment,

Attorney General Olney today appointed
w. NJ b. Shaw special assistant to the
United States attorney for the district OF
Kentucky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07
Contested Election C,s.x

The House committee on elections yester-
day heard arguments in the contested cleo
ton case OF Whatley against Cobb. from the
fifth Alabama district. ID. W. Classic an
peared for Mr.. Whatley and Mr. Cobb pre-
scented his own case
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07

The fire In the cotton on board the steam
er Ferndene at Liverpool is still burning
The fire was discovered on November -;
three days after she cleared from Norfolk
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07

Government Receipts Today.
The receipts from internal revenue today
were 1901 ST.; from customs, $4OO,345.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07
CAPITOL TOPICS.

Department of Labor Proposed.
Mr.. Doolittle of Washington introduced a
bill in the House today providing for the
organization Of an executive department to
be known as the Department of I.abo-. and
the appointment of a Secretary of Labor
and assistant secretary, to have the same
pay Of other heads of executive depart
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07

Reported by Silsby & Co.. bankers ana
brokers, Metropolitan Bank building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-07
The Com mittee,

The banquet committee was as follows
Col. c. II. Mansur chairman; Col. NJ. F.
Crell, Capt. Haycock. Col. Fischer, Mr.
Mark H. Dunnell, Gen. Crittenden, Judge
Mcdonald. Col. DuPeyster. Gen. ]. d
Brady, Gen. James r. O'Beirne
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
The Lehigh Valley Strike.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21.-General
Manager VOORHEES, returned from
Bethlehem last night Regarding the
condition of affairs on the Lehigh Val.
ley road, he said the outlook for the
company was much better than he ex-
pected it would be. He says that only
thirty-two operators had gone out and
their places were easily filled.
SHAMoKIN, Pa, Nov. 21.-The lie.
high Company still refuses to accept
freight at this end. The fremen went
on strike at Delano early this morning.
Many of the Mahony division men say
they will not strike.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, Nov. 21.-Th.
strike situation here is growing more
serious. The mail, express and passen.
ger trains are running very much be-
hind time and there is trouble to get
them beyond the Lehigh division. Only
local freights are running,
BUFFALO, n. Y, Nov. 2l.-Tied up
tight with prospects of trouble ahead.
That is the situation of the Lehigh
strike to-day. Freight cannot be moved
from the East Buffalo yards and the
chances are that none will be moved
for some time. The company has hired
some new men, but for some reason
they are not moving wheel out of the
East Buffalo yards this morning. The
officers of the road say that the strike,
go far as this division is concerned, will
amount to nothing and that whenever
they are ready to do so they can man
every train in the yards, in fifteen min
utes.
BUFFALO. n. Y, Nov. 21.-At nine
o'clock this morning about fifteen
switch engines were at work and the
officials asserted that by this afternoon
trains would be ready TO start.
GENEVA, N. Y, Nov. 2l.-None of
the Lehigh Valley employees here
have struck, but as only mail trains are
moving the men have virtually nothing
to do.
MAUcH CHUNK, Pa, Nov. 21.-The
situation here to-day continues in favor
of the strikers. A meeting of brother
hood men was held this morning when
it was decided to remain firm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21

Two INTERESTING BIRDs.-Though
the petrol is swift, the frigate bird is
far swifter. Seamen generally believe
that the frigate bird can start at day
break with the trade winds from the
coast of Africa and roost the same night
upon the American shore. Whether
this is fact has not yet been conclu-
sively determined, but it is certain that
this bird is the swiftest of winged crea
lures, and is able to fly, under favora-
BILE circumstances, 200 miles an hour,
says St. Nicholas.
The stormy petrol, in proportion to
its size, has immense wing power, for
it is the smallest web-footed bird. 1t
belongs to every sea, and, though SEEM
ingly so frail, breasts the utmost fury of
the gale, skimming with incredible We
locity the trough of the waves and Gid
ing rapidly over their crests. 1t does
not make practice of alighting on the
wave. and seldom rises higher than
eight or ten feet above the surface.
/ have known them to perch all
night on the extreme end of the flying
jibboom, keeping up a constant low
musical whistle, seemingly an accom-
paniment to the noisy waters foaming
and eddying around the cutwater.
Petrels in focks sleep upon the water
at night. Off the Cape OF Good Hope
on bright moonlight nights, when the
weather would permit, ] have seen
through strong night-glass dozens of
the sleeping petrels pass directly under
the bows of the ship. They would
'bob up serenely" astern in the glitter
ing wake with a plaintiye whistle,
swim few yards, and with prelimi-
nary flutter of wings and feathers set
tie down to enjoy again the slumbers
that had so rudely been disturbed.-Er-
chnnne
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The only case heard before the Court
of Appeals yesterday was OF Barker
against the Commonwealth, which was
argued and continued.
MIR. J. Adair Peasants, brother OF
Mr.. n. F. Peasants, clerk of the United
States Circuit Court, died in Richmond
on Sunday, in the siXty-eighth year OF
his age.
Rev. SamuelS. Cheevers, ofRoanoke,
aged forty-fve years, clergyman OF
the Protestant Episcopal Church, died
on Sunday at his late residence IN west
Philadelphia.
Rev. Frank Stringfellow, who has
been rector of the Episcopal church Mt
Martinsville for several years past, Will
accept call to wealthy church IN
Amherst county.
John H. Stricken, who lives ne:
New Market, Shenandoah county, has
killed 81 squirrels since the 18th OF
August, 10 being the largest number
killed in one day.
Nearly all the machinists at the Nor
folk navy yard have been suspended,
and the steam engineer department OF
the navy yard promises to have little
work for the winter.
At Norfolk yesterday Judge Hughes
entered an order to the effect that the
Atlantic and Danville Railroad will be
foreclosed and sold unless its indebted
ness is paid by December.
1t has been ascertained that this
years corn crop in King George coun-
ty is very far below the average, and
that farmers who used commercial fer
tilizers on corn will be unable to meet
their notes out of the present years
yield. This shortage in the yield is
due to the long summer drought.
The truckers are digging the largest
second crop of Irish potatoes ever rails
ed in Norfolk. This crop is usually
raised for seed, but the prolific yield
this season enables the truckers to ship
the bulk of it to market at the profta-
BILE figure of 1915 and So barrel. The
shipment of the second crop of green
peas is over.
The Hon. James Lyons, of Richmond,
who was assistant attorney during Mr..
Cleveland's first administration, has re-
ceived letter from Attorney General
Olney notifying him of his appointment
as special assistant to the attorney for
the United States for the eastern dis
trict of Virginia, "to aid in the prepa-
ration and prosecution of the cases"
known as the Norfolk pension frauds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21

WHY SOME men in this country
should be at all excited about the form
of government the people Of Brazil or
Hawaii may desire for theirs, is not
easily comprehended. Wise men know
how laborious and difficult it is to con-
duct successfully any form of govern
ment, and they naturally wonder how
it is that the nearly seventy million OF
people in the United States haven't all
they can do to attend to their own gov
ernment and preserve it, without at
tempting to interfere with that Of other
countries. IF the citizens of Hawaii
and Brazil are tired Of the republican
form. and desire to revert to the mo-
nnrchical. what conceivable right has
any body in this country to attempt to
preventive qualification ofthat desire :?
Intermediates rarely do good, and
usually have trouble for their pains.
But for many years there have been
people in one section of this country
who labor under the vain delusion that
they are ordained to be the mentors, If
not of the world, at least of the western
hemisphere.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
TUESDAY EVENING. NOV. p, 1893,

Elk. MINISTER BLoUNT, In his reporl
10 the President on the Hawaiian affair,
saws; 'sThe leaders of the revolution
arv movement would not have under
taken it but for Mr.. Stevens's promise
to protect them against any danger
from the government. Had the troops
no. been landed no measures for the
organization of a new government
would have been taken. The Ameri,
can minister and the revolutionary
leaders had determined on annexation
TO the United States and had agreed on
the part each was to act to the very
end" If there was one citizen OF this
country who was in every point of view
entirely disinterested in respect OF the
matter referred to, and who was there
fore capable of making correct report
nnon il that man was Dir. Blount, who,
AGAINST his own wishes, and merely to
please the President, went to Honolulu
TO find out the exact condition of affairs
there. And yet there are prejudiced
people VINO say the President has done
wrong, if, as reported, he has directed
that the legitimate government of Ha-
wall be restored to the position it held
previous to the outrageous interference
of the L. s. forces.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Foreign News.

MADRID, Nov. PA serious mill
tary outbreak occurred during the
mobilizing of five thousand reserves at
Getafe, q town eight miles south of this
city. Some of the troops revolted and
the civic guard was called upon TO
quell the disturbance. This they
sought to 10, but the mutinous re-
serves turned on them and fought des-
perately. A number OF the civic
guards were injured. 1t was finally
found necessary to call out the regular
cavalry and infantry to restore order.
The reserves were being modified be-
cause of the drafts upon the regular
troops in consequence of the troubles
at Melilla.
BERLIN, Nov. 2l.-An epidemic of
influenza is prevailing in upper Silesia.
Twenty deaths from the dis
ease have occurred at Oppeln. AT III
egenhala, thirty-four miles from Opp
elm, the seminary has been closed.
Seventy of the pupils are suffering with
influenza in its severest form.
LONDON, Nov. 2l.-Within the past
three weeks there have been ten thou
sand cases of mild influenza in the bor-
ough OF Blackburn, Lancashire.
LONDON, Nov. 21.-The Norwegian
bark Moss has been towed into Var
mouth. She was found at sea derelict.
Three of her crew were found dead on
board. The others are missing. Re-
ports of persons having persisted in the
snow have been received from Arundel,
Sussex, Peterborough, Northampton,
Banbury. Oxford and Crickley, near
Gloucester. Near Uppingham, Rut-
land, a mail cart became embedded in
the drifts. The driver stuck to his post
for hours. When found he was badly
frost bitten.
CALAIS, Nov. 2l.-Since yesterday
the bodies of forty persons who lost
their lives in the storm have been pick
ed up on the beach in the vicinity Of
this place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
Downfall of an Actress.

New YORK, Nov. 21.-'I knew
would have to sign my death warrant
sooner or later This speech was
spoken in dramatic tones in the Jefler.
son Market Police Court to-day. The
speaker was Ellen Cummings who for
fifteen years was leading lady with
Lawrence Barrett and later with the
Booth and Barrett combine. The &C.
tress was a prisoner charged with the
theft of a diamond pin from Miss
Gwynne Cushman, also an actress.
Her nerve gave way and she burst into
tears before she could sign paper to
which she had pleaded guilty to grand
larceny. Miss Cushman knew Miss
Cummings in the lntter's better days.
One day while walking through the
streets she met Miss Cummings, a
bloated miserable wreck of her former
self. Miss Cummings was poor and
homeless. Miss Cushman took her
home, gave her food and money and
tried t. raise her up again. Last Sat.
urday Miss Cushman left her in charge
of her rooms in the Bryant Park Hotel
while she attended to some shopping,
and during her absence the prisoner
stole diamond pin valued at s16O.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
The MAVERICK Case.

LONDON, Nov. 2l.-A fact is about to
be made public here that by many
persons is taken to throw more doubt
upon the justice of the sentence i'm
posed upon Mrs. Florence Maybrick,
who is now undergoing a life imprison-
ment on conviction of having poisoned
her husband by administering arsenic
to him. Bird and Sons, of Birming-
ham, dealers in chemicals, assert
that shortly before the death of Mr..
Maybrick they analysed o quantity OF
German glycerine offered for sale to
them. This same glycerine was sold
in the midland counties, and tits proba-
BILE that some oft was purchased and
used by Mr.. MAVERICK.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21

No MEN JOIN THE CHURCH.-An I'M
usual state of affairs confronts the Bris-
toll, Pa, Methodist Church. If the pres
emit tendency continues the entire men,
bership will soon be composed Of
women. Sunday % members were adj
mitted to the church. There was not
q man among them and this fact caused
vast deal of talk. While the female
portion of the congregation increases
steadily, the other side, it is said, does
not. Young men do not come forward
to take the places OF the older ones as
they pass away. The knotty problem
caused such deep feeling there that a
special meeting for young men was
held in the Methodist Church Sunday
afternoon,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
Fire and Loss of Life.

BEAVER, Pa, Nov. pa frightful
holocaust occurred at the government
dam two miles below this city early
this morning. Six men were burned to
death and several were badly injured.
The disaster occurred at the Merrill
House, large three-story frame build
ing. Every room in the building was
occupied last night; the dodgers being
men employed on the construction
of the dam. The fire was discovered at
4:30 o'clock and spread so rapidly that
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
Brazil.

The New York Herald has printed
the following president Peixoto, O.
Brazil, through his minister of foreign
affairs, has again cabled very impor.
tant message to the Herald regarding
the situation in Brazil. According tc
the official announcement the rebels
under Admiral Mello are hard pressed
Their squadron is tied up in Rio har.
Dor, the fleet in the South is reduced tc
two ships and the financial resources o,
the insurgents are at a low ebb. The
statement is herewith printed in Eng
lish. The rebel squadron continues
in this port, from which it is difficult tc
escape, in view of the precautions taken
by the government. Villegagnon, al
most in ruins, responds weakly to the
firing of the loyal forts the small
squadron which escaped in the begin
ming of the revolt finds itself actually
reduced to the cruiser Republica anc
steamer Meteoro armed for war. The
army columns continue in active opera
tions, converging to Desteroro. The sec
ond column destroyed the rebel force
which desired to occupy Ararangua, g
point on the mainland held by the gov
eminent. 1t is known that the rebel:
have exhausted the pecuniary resources
that were pilfered from the depart
ments at Desteroro. They continue tc
arrive from the remote localities in the
interior, congratulating the President
and giving assurance of support to the
legal government.
The Brazilian legation at Washington
denies that Mello's fleet has gone to sea
to meet the New York vessels, for the
very reason that it would be impossible
for him to get outside if he wanted
His vessels are now lying inside the
harbor, and to put to sea he would have
to pass within a quarter of mile O
both forts. He would be raked fore
and aft with terrific fire. The Aquid
aban and other vessels of his fleet have
already had test of this and would
not be able to stand another volley as
they would receive from the land bat
terry.
At Madrid Senior Moret, Minister o
Foreign Affairs, authorized a denia
that Admiral Mello had proclaimed the
Empire in Brazil. The report was
based on story current in the Brazil
ian capital.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
change.

THE GREAT SToRM.-The great
storm that swept the English and Cor
nish coast Saturday and Sunday passed
to the continent, and yesterday did tre-
mendous damage on the French coast.
Six or eight steamers, a score of ships
and numberless fishing boats were
wrecked off the British Islands. The
loss OF life runs up into the hundreds,
and the losses to property into the mil
lions. On the coasts Of Belgium and
Holland many fishing boats were
wrecked and their crews drowned.
The loss of life is the heaviest of any
ssorm in fftyIyears.
Lloyd's Recorder yesterday reported
IA wrecks, the highest ever reported
for a single day. The worst day before
was in 1879, when 139 vessels were lost
in twenty-four hours.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Elizabeth Oaksmith, the poetess, died
at Holly, n. c., on Sunday. She will
be buried at Patchogue, L. l.
It was announced in the British
House of Commons yesterday that ten
new British battleships would be COM
pleted next year.
King Lobengula, of the Matabeles,
has informed the English officers that
he is willing to surrender, but that his
young warriors are still anxious to
fight.
Three young men were arrested in
Montreal yesterday suspected of de-
signing to blowup the Nelson monu-
ment. Dynamite was found in their
possession.
Tue Car is about to issue ukase
permitting Jews to live in those Russo
Polish villages which are owned by
noblemen, in case the noblemen obtain
guarantees for their lawful behavior.
The Ryan Company, dry goods deal
ers, of Atlanta, Ca, has gone into a re-
ceivorship, with liabilities of $780, 900,
assets amounting to S31O,0 900. ID.
Thornton, of Atlanta, was appointed re-
ceiver.
After nearly sixteen weeks of idle
ness over 500, 900 coal miners went back
to work in England yesterday, formal
ly ending one of the greatest and most
costly strikes on record. In conse-
ouence of the return to work of the
miners the price of coal in Great Brit
ian declined six shillings yesterday.
1t is understood that the determine
ton reached at the conference at the
White House the other day between
President Cleveland and Messrs. Har-
rity, Don NJ. Dickinson and Ben. t.
Cable, Of the democratic national COM
mittee, was that the tariff must be the
great overshadowing issue in the cam
paign for the election Of Congressman
next year.
Mayor George Lockwood, of South
NorwallI, Conn, whose wife obtained
divorce from him last week for I'M
faithfulness, offered his resignation as
chief executive of the little city yester-
day. 1t was promptly accepted by the
Council at a special meeting of the
board held last night. Every South
Norwalk clergyman spoke Sunday
morning in denunciatory terms OF
Mayor Lockwood's actions, and at
the close of the services commit
tees were appointed to wait upon
Lockwood with a request that he
resign and promptly quit the town.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21

JACK THE SLAsHER.-The police and de.
tective forces of Washington are still worry
Ing themselves over the mysterious "Jack
the Slashcr" There is no doubt in the
minds of the shrewdeSt of the force but
that Jack is still at large, and they expect to
hear from him in short while. A number OF
arrests have been made but so fierce has be-
come the spirit of luminosity between the pre-
cinct officers and detectives that the records
of arrests are guarded so closely that it is i'm
possible TO learn details regarding operations
i'll the precincts There is but little chance
that the real '.Slasher' is behind the bars,
however The feeling Of apprehension is not
allayed among the householders of the city.
and Jack is still feared so generally that
there is real panic throughout the city in
consequence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-21

To INSPECT FARMS. Officer
Hammett, of Washington, is endeavor-
ing to have an inspection made of the
dairy farms in Maryland and Virginia,
from which milk is shipped to that city.
Secretary Morton has written letter
to the District Commissioners upon the
subject and offers to cooperate with
the health department in the matter
DIR. Hammett said yesterday that he
thought he would be able to accom-
plish the inspections by experts from
the Agricultural Department. The
health department has procured q list
of shippers from the two States men
toned, there being 10S in Virginia and
IS in Maryland.