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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

DELEGATES Extraordinarily all of
the precincts in Henrico county thus
far heard from yesterday elected dele
gates in favor of Tyler for Governor.
II. C. Preston, secretary of the Tyler
Home Club at Radford, in circular
letter says: Buchanan instructs solid
ly for Tyler. These make 146 dele
gates already elected in Southwest Vir-
ginia, of which Tyler has 116, and
O'Ferrall 80. So much for Mr. East's
statement that O'Ferrall beats Tyler 2
to l in the Southwest. Pulaski, Giles,
Montgomery, Craig, Buchanan, Dick
enson, Wise, Radford, and Big Stone
Gap instruct for Tyler. He loses only
votes in Floyd. 3 in Lee, 9 in Carroll
II in Smyth, and 5 in Bristol.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
Destructive Cloudburst.

PUEBLO, Col. July 2S.-The Arkan.
sas river overfowed its banks Wednes-
day night, owing to cloudburst, which
emptied tons of water into the stream.
In few moments the streets were filled
with frantic people, and the widest
confusion prevailed. The raging waters
tore through the levee and undermined
foundations, carrying away the build
ings. A second crevasse formed, through
which the water rushed, flooding the
thickly settled portions Of the bottoms.
Other crevasses wiped out the business
portion of the city. The unfortunates
huddled upon roofs and in trees, were
removed in boats to places of greater
safety. The river is now falling rapid
ly. 1t is estimated that at least seven
lives have been lost while the aggrc-
gate loss of property vii! reach
$3.50 600.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
APnwerfuI Lunatic.

William C. Golden, an insane coiored
man from Sparrow's Point, created
sensation in West Baltimore yesterday
afternoon. Golden is a big fellow,
who weighs about 2lO pounds and is
very muscular. He made his appear
ance on Arlington avenue about 6
O'Clock. and when near Franklin street
met lady going in the opposite dlrec-
ton. Without warning he struck
her heavy blow in the face with his
fist, knocking her against the wall OF
q house and causing her nose TO bleed
profusely. A short distance further on
be grabbed little boy of about eleven
wears, threw him down and kicked
him in the face. He next encountered
Thomas Lynch and dealt him heavy
blow in the mouth, knocking out two
of his teeth. Then he ran against q
snag in the shape of Mir. A. Foley But-
Ter. young lawyer and an athlete.
Sir. Butler had seen what the fellow
was doing. He ran up to Golden and
struck him blow in the neck, heavy
enough to almost fell an OK. 1t knock
ed Golden down, and as he came to his
feet again Mr.. Butler grabbed the fell
low, and with the assistance OF Mr..
Lynch started off to the western police
station with him.
Golden fought all the way, saying he
was going to Screen county" and in
sisting on his right to do so. He also
said he had been 'conju"ed." He be-
came so violent at times that his cap
tors found it necessary TO knock him
down two or three times on the way to
the station, and by the time he reached
there nearly all his clothing had been
torn off by his struggles. At Poppleton
and Saratoga streets he broke away,
and running up to colored man stand
ing near by struck him so hard that he
almost turned a backward somersault.
Before the crazy man could get away
Mr.. Butler had caught him again, and
with the assistance of policeman, who
came up just at that time, took him 10
the station, where he was searched. A
big revolver, with all the chambers
loaded, was found in one of his pockets.
He gave his name as Bud Lacy, but
papers in his pockets bore the name OF
VIM. G. Golden, which he afterwards
said was his own. After he had been
taken to the station another of his vic
tins, Charles Clark, appeared and
charged him with striking and kicking
him. A crowd of about two hundred
persons watched the struggle from Ar
lington avenue to the station house.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
Foreign News.

PARIS, July ga fire started at four
o'clock this morning in Bercy, q sub
urb to the southeast of Paris, and de-
spite the efforts of the iiremen Tie
flames spread and in a comparatively
short time thirty houses were burning.
Ten thousand casks and 500 hogsheads
of wine were consumed. The loss is
placed at 1000, 600 francs.
MADRID, July 2S.-The condition of
affairs in Ell Pindo district, in the prov
luce of Corunna, where a number of
cases of suspicious sickness were re-
ported yesterday, is serious. 1t has
transpred that forty persons have been
attacked with choleraic disease with
in the past few days. OF the persons
attacked twelve have died. 1t is be-
lieved that the disease is Asiatic chol-
era, although there is no official Motif
cation to that effect.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

Gratis, and more republicans have be. n
removed from that department than
from any of the others. And Mr..
Roosevelt knowns that in his own bn-
reau it is almost impossible to find Il
democrat, and also that the most often
sve republican partisans in the Treas
ury Department, who would have been
removed for cause had they remained
there, were transferred to the civil SER
vice bureau, in order to be retained,
and are there yet.
A North Carolinian, living near the
Virginia border, here to-day, says the
third party people are already organ
izing in his States and that they seem to
be stronger and in better trim than they
were last year, and that rs there Is no
longer any fear of negro domination,
some solicitude is felt by the democrats.
He says it would be we'll if Virginia
democrats would not forget the farmers
in making their nominations for State
offices. as State lines form no barrier TO
waves of popular feeling.
Among the strangers in the city to-
day is Mr.. Jack Mason of King George
county, Virginia. He says that from
what he bears he is induced to think
that the delegation from his county to
the State democratic convention will be
divided between Tyler and O'Ferrall.
The latler's supporters, he says, are
hard at work.
Col. Robert Burke Of Staunton is also
here to-day. He says the election for
delegates to the democratic convention
of his State will be held in Rockingham
county tomorrow and in his county,
Augusta, only few days before the
meeting of the convention, and that he
doesn't think the delegation from eth
er will be solid.
The financial news from New York
received here up to 2 o'clock p. M, to,
day, was that money was loaned at
per cent. per diem, that 70 was bid for
silver, and that stocks were a point or
two higher than the closing rates of
Yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
VIRGINIA MEMS.

Capt. Hugh Adie, of Stafford, has a
number of pigs that suckie his COWS
and as consequence Capt. Aides milk
and butter supply has been cut short OF
lite.
Mrs. Susas Vass died near Reming-
ton, Fauquicr county, on Wednesday.
She was born in Culpeper county, De-
cember 10, 1914, and was the daughter
of George Fitzhugh.
Noah Cave, living near Seven Foun.
taius, Shenandoah county, shot aud
killed n large black bear, weighing 225
pounds, on the Massanutton mountain,
several miles east of Woodstock, We'd
nesday night.
No rain has fallen at Woodstock for
two weeks, and owing to the excessive
heat and dry winds vegetation is in q
serious condition. Unless rain falls
shortly all prospects for most fall crops
will be blighted.
Tho valuable foundry and machine
shops at Woodstock, which have been
idle for number of years, will shortly
be reopened by joint stock company,
with capital stock Of S25, goo, recent
ly formed by some of the best citizens
Of Shenandoah county.
John A. Lifts and ten other citizens
of Wise county are reported to have
been indicted for assault on A. NJ.
Rogers, travelling salesman, who was
accused of insulting daughter of Lifts.
Rogers has instituted suit against the
parties for $4,000 damages. The doc
tors report that he may die from the
effects of the beating he received.
The directors of the recently organ
lied College of Physicians and Sur
geons at meeting in Richmond last
night decided to locate both the college
and hospital on the Lancaster property,
embracing half square on Clay street,
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
The change from the Pinel property
was made because of trouble about get
ting the city sewer and water coDnec-
tions.
The Private Soldiers and Sailors
Monument Association in Richmond
last night adopted the design of w. l..
Sheppard, of that city, for the figure OF
the Confederate soldier which will sur
mount the monument on Libbey Hill.
Casper Buberl, of New York, will make
the figurein bronze. and it will be CON-
pIeted by next April. The granite col
umn will be ready to receive the statue
and the money is in hand TO pay for
the latter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
On Affirming Shin.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.-The Brit
ish ship &c iarbank, from Newcastle,
Australia, arrived here last night after
36 days battle with her burning cargo
of coal. Efforts to extinguish the
flames proved unavailing and two hun
dred and sixty tons were thrown over
board, and then, owing to the extreme
heat in the hold, it was necessary to
desist The pumps were kept going
day and night, and boats were provis-
toned and towed astern for emergency.
The fire continued to make Roadway
and the decks, sides, ventilator5 and
all parts of the vessel became so heat
ed that the officers and crew were on
the eve of abandoning the ship, but
port was finally made in safety. The
vessel will be beached aud the cargo
flooded
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

THE TENNESSEE Legislature has re-
established the whipping post. The
members of that body are wise men in
their day and generation. If those OF
the next Legislature of Virginia be as
wise they will follow suit as soon
after assembling as possible. By doing
so they would not only improve the
morals and manners of their State, but
stop an immense drain upon her treas
ury, to supply which her well-behaved
people are heavily taxed. To the vast
majority of Virginia's criminals, espe-
cially in winter, with warm quarters
and three square meals day, imprison"
ment has no terrors but the whipping
post is an everlasting horror, and the
most effective deterrent of crime ever
devised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
says that of the 4,600 clerks now in the
departmental service of the United
States, about three-fourths are republi-
cans.
The contract for the printing of 40
600 copies of the handbook of Southern
States was awarded in Richmond yes
terday. 1t is to be completed in thirty
days. The only States to be represent
ed in this work are South Carolina,
Arkansas, Virginia and Alabama.
Burglars early yesterday blew open
the safe of Druggist Muchmore, of
Easthampton, l.. l., and carried OIL
$315. They were pursued nine miles
on horseback by neighbors, who caus-
ed the arrest Of two brothers. They
were held for trial, but say they can
prove an alibi.
While under the influence of laugh
ing gas yesterday a woman wrecked
Williamsburg, n Y, dentists Office,
punched two dentists and their boy
assistants and then jumped from win
dow to the yard seventeen feet below.
One of her arms was broken by the
fall and with her uninjured arm she
struck at man who came to her as
sistance.
While at a threshing near Wingo,
KY, negro and white man got into
n fight, and the former cut the latter
on the hand. The use of the knife so
enraged the white spectators, that they
caught the negro and threw him into
the threshing machine and killed him.
Among the spectators was the son of
the negro, who, to defend his father,
picked up pitchfork and attacked the
crowd, sticking the fork into one Of The
men and killing him. The crowd then
turned upon the boy, but he ran and
escaped.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

THE New York Press abuses Pension
Commissioner Lochren, q northern
man and an ex-Union soldier, for try
ing to make the pension roll an hon.
orable one, by excluding from it beats,
bummers and malingerers, and says
the cx-soldiers will not allow them
selves to be plundered with impunity.
Most people, republicans and northern
men as we'll as others, know that the
tax payers, and not the pensioners, have
been plundered with IMMUNITY, and
they heartily support every attempt
that is made to correct the crying evil,
and to prevent the further looting OF
the Treasury by men not entitled to
pensions
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

IN PlTTsBURG night or two ago
some rowdies entered the lot of quiet
citizen who pays taxes for police pro-
lection, and commenced to rob his fruit
trees before his eyes, and when ordered
oil, not Only refused to 60 but assaulted
him. As no policemen came to his aid,
and as his trees would have been strip
ned if he had abandoned them and gone
to seek police assistance, he had moth
inc else to do but to draw his gun and
shoot. which he did, wounding three OF
the trespassers, at which the others hed'
For doing so he was arrested and Is
held under heavy bail, though he had
10 intention of going away and leaving
his property without protection. a
mans own house is no longer his cas-
tie in this so-called land Of law and Or
jar
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

REUNITED AFTER TwENTY-oSE YEARS =
After separation lasting 81 years, John h.
Morrison and his wife have been reunited.
In 1865 Squire Morrison welded Miss Fry
in York county, Pa, and five years later went
to Lancaster to reside. He remained there
for two years, and meeting business reYerse'
went West, leaving his wife and four daught.i,
ers, and nothing was heard Of him UNIV
last March, when an advertisement for vic
appeared in Harrisburg paper signed JChn
II Morrison. It was seen by one oil ND
daughters. She answered it. Morrison re.
ceiyed Gil answers to his advertisement Da'
replied only to the one written by his dsushi
ter In the correspondence that follo"s.
their relationship was disclosed, and when 10
learned his wife was still living he MADE 81
rangemerts to take her to his western hoIlS.
A letter received Tuesday states that the!
recognized each other on sight at the raiI"''
station in Oklahoma
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

Ex-SECRErARY WHITNEY, save and
except for whom the dissatisfied demo-
Gratis of New York could not have been
induced to pocket their grievance and
carry their State for the national ticket,
its and thereby, ana only thereby securd
election, comes out boldly and says the
silver question is a matter of minor con-
sideration, and that the real and great
issue now, as it was last fall, and as
from the necessity of the case it must
he now and until it shall be disposed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

THE CONSTITUTION of Virginia de-
clares that religion can be directed by
conviction, not by force or violence,
that all men are equally entitled to the
free exercise of religion according to
the dictates of conscience, and that no
man shall be enforced, restricted nor
molested, or otherwise suffer, on ac-
count of his religious opinions or belief,
but all men shall be free 10 profess or
maintain by argument their opinion in
matters of religion. And yet two dis
ciples of the religion of the Latter Day
Saints have just been driven out of the
"Hell Town neighborhood in Hanover
county, where they were preaching
their religion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

VIRGINIA CENTURY BoNDs.-Yester-
day the delivery Of the last of Virginia
century bonds was made, and the trans
actions between the State and the o.
colt committee, representing the for
eign bondholders, was closed. The
bonds were shipped from Richmond TO
New York, and the States manuscript
bond for SIG, 359, $50 has been cancelled
and filed among the archives of the
treasurer's office. The exchange of en-
graved securities for the manuscript
obligations was made in denominations
as follows:
10000 of the denomination Of
$1,000. $13,OOO,0OO
$500, s,a59,5Oo
Script, 800
Total. s16,359, $50
The delivery distribution as per the
order of the Olcott committee was To
the Planters National Bank, S135, 600 !;
to the Mercantile Trust and Deposit
Company, $537, 900; to the Central
Trust Company of New York, $15, $751;
$50. Total, SIG, 359,S6O.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

y
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.
The boiler of steam threshing ma
chine exploded at Salem, KY, yester-
day, aud killed John and George Dam
ron and tore off the arm of William
Damron. The engine was new and un'
tried.
Four hundred men took possession Of
Union Pacific freight train in the Den,
yer yards last night. They made the
train crew throw out loaded cars and
put on empties and are now on their
way east.
Nelson Converse, merchant in Por-
tage county, Ohio, discovered burglar
in his house this morning. Shots were
exchanged and both men were wound
ed twice. The burglar, stranger, is
dying in Jail and Converse cannot re.
cover.
The execution of the nine Choctaw
murdercrs will certainly take place
next Friday. Judge Hobson has de,
cided that the prisoners were properly
tried and has ordered that the sentence
be carried out on August 4th, to which
date the men were respited.
A negro yesterday entered the store
of Samuel Copeland at Camden, n. j..
and without known motive shot the
proprietor's wife in the breast. He
then coolly walked out and made his
escape. Mrs. Copeland died soon after
ward. The negro, who was captured
this morning, declares that the shooting
was accidental.
The creditors of ex-Secretary Foster
and Foster & Co., bankers, held o
meeting last night at Fostoria, Ohio
some dissatisfaction having been Gre
ated by the assignee. A committee
was appointed to examine the affairs Of
the bank in the interest of the credit;
ors and to have power to take such
steps as may be deemed necessary in
the interest of creditors.
Among the failures reported to-day
were H. D. Averell, stock broker, New
York; A. Goldsmith & Son, jewellers
New York; Neill Currie, merchant,
Tracy, Mimi; Gillipsic & Smith, stock
dealers, Mount Sterling, Ky; the Ell,
lensburg, Wash, National Bank the
S. H. Mitchell Bank, Martinsville, Ind;
the NJ. A. Thayer Bank and the Bank
of Sparta, at Sparta, Wis; S. c. Ewing,
Salt Lake; the Traders Deposit Bank
Mt. Sterling, KY; the First National
of Great Falls, Mont; the German
American Bank at Port Washington,
and the Seymours Bank at Chippewa
Falls.
Walter E. Shaw was to have been hanged
at Houston, Tex, to-day for the crime of muir.
dering his mother and aunt, by cutting their
Threats with razor over year ago for the
purpose of robbery. Yesterday the con-
demned man sold his body for $50. In speak.
ing to the sheriff yesterday Shaw said well,
three of us stretch hemp to-morrow-two
coons and myself. What will I do when
meet the coons on the other shore? III lie
minus my brains, as the doctor will be work
lug on them and I'll be in a hell of a fix not
having as much sense as a nigger." Shaw was
respited for one week.
negro named Smith was hanged at Cam.
den, Ark, to-day for the murder of farmer
named Pierce another named Miller suffered
the death penalty at Dallas, Tex, for killing
Policeman Brewer, and a third named Brown
was executed at Bastrof, Tex, for the mur.
der of Jane Wilkins.
Dispatches from Medford, Wis, and Prem
tice Junction, Wis, say those towns have
been wiped out by forest fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

GOVERNOR STONE, of Missouri, ad-
dressing democratic meeting in his
State recently on the subject of the
gingerly way in which the tariffs now
mentioned AT democratic headquaiter :,
though it was made the chief question
at last falls election, said "My fellow
citizens, were We playing hide and seek?
In plain Anglo Saxon, were we lying
when we talked this tariff issue and
thrust it forward as the one great issue
on which our interests rested" 1t
wouldn't make much difference if Gov
ernor Stone or Governor any body else
were the only democrat who asks this
question. But, unfortunately for the
democratic party, that is not the case,
for thousands of good and true demo-
Gratis in every State of the Union are
now asking themselves the same ques-
tion
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
FRIDAY EVENING. JULY IS, 1898

THE SILVER republicans and the pro-
tectionists in Congress made bargain
by which the former supported the Nc
Kinley bill and the latter the Sherman
silver bill, though the protectlonists
were really opposed to the silver bill
and the silver republicans to the tariff
bill. III order to attain their respective
objects they voted for measures as OBJ
iectionable to themselves as TO demo-
Gratis. But finding that the men upon
whose money and votes they depend
for reelection would not support them
any longer if they held to their bargain,
the protectionist congressman have re-
pudiated it, and now unite with all the
right thinking democrats in demanding
the repeal of the silver bill, and leave
their discarded partners in the lurch,
telling them to paddle their own canoe.
There may be honor among thieves,
but how about republican politicians?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

Governor Flower, of New York, has
received letter from two women liv-
Ing at Italy, in that State, requesting
that they be allowed to wear mems
clothing, as they do mems work on the
farm and find petticoats inconvenient.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28

The business portion of Fifeld, Wis. a
town of 800 inhabitants, was destroyed by
fire last night. In all 81 buildings were con.
sumed, causing a loss ofabout $500, oOO,wilh
hut little insurance,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-28
The Siamese Affair.

The masters of vessels at Bangkok
were yesterday warned that they must
clear from that port before Saturday,
or submit to detention under the
French blockade. The Siamese gov
eminent continues anxious toavoid open
warfare. The conciliatory answer made
by Siam to the French ultimatum has
had no effect; probably on account of
the reservations as to the cession of ter
rtory made in it by the Siamese COVER
ment. The Earl of Roseberry, Brit
ish secretary for foreign affairs, said in
the House Of Lords yesterday that
blockade by the French in Siamese wa
tiers might raise questions of interna-
tional law. He said further, that the
proposed territorial arrangement in
volved matters that concerned Great
Britain. Reports from st. Petersburg
are that the Russian government iu
tends to observe neutral attitude
The Pail Mall Gazette said yesterday
that it had learned from high auth ORR
ty that France had agreed to accept
Slams proposals and abandon her
claim to territory up to the 230 oflati
tude. The government announced
in the House of Commons yesterday
that it was unable to give any infor-
nation regarding Frances intention to
blockade the Siamese coast Lord
Dufferin, British ambassador, had an
interview with NJ. Develle, the French
foreign minister on matters con-
corning the Siamese troubles.