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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES

1t is learned that the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, at Steelton, giving en-
ployment to about 8, 400 men, will close
down from Christmas until February,
and perhaps longer.
The verdict in the case of Abaggnat
against the city of New Orleans for
$50 1000, growing out of the lynching Of
the Italians at the prison in that city
was opened this morning. The jury
gives the plaintiff five thousand dollars.
The bodies of the drowned sailors
from the wrecked ship Jason off High
land Light, Mass, are beginning to
come up in the undertow and the life
saving men recovered seven last night
and are patrolling the beach to-day
The light southerly wind will probably
throw up more of the unfortunates.
At Stanton, Del, on the Philadel
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail
road this morning freight train part
cd and the ten cars that broke loose
6 ashed into the main train, causing n
I'll ,htful wreck. Four cars rolled
down an embankment and fifteen were
crushed to fragments, blocking both
tracks. Three tramps were caught in
the wreck. One was crushed to death
and the others badly hurt. All the
train hands jumped and escaped injury.
A. Barlow, general manager of Of the Elk
horn Coal and Coke Company, died at Roam.
oke Va. this morning of pneumonia. He
was native of New Philadelphia Pa, and a
pioneer in the development of the coal re-
sources of Virginia and West Virginia.
In Chicago this evening Mr.. Seaman an
nouuced that the case for the State against
Cronn had been presented as far as it was
necessary to 20 at this stage, and Daniel Dono-
hue opened for the defense.
Alexander McCallister, aged rs years
leading citizen,wa found burned to crisp a,
his home near Milton, W. Va, this morning
He went to sleep and fell into the fire last
night, it is supposed
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LEGISLATIVE.

In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Green
presented bill to amend sections 2,S17,
ISIS, 2,Sl9 and $500 of the Code in re.
lation to interest. CThe bill provides
that per cent. shall continue to be the
legal rate of interest, but that s per
cent. may be charged when special con-
tracts are made. The usual penalties
are imposed when more than s per
cent. is charged.
The President laid before the body
q communication from the clerk of the
Senate and the clerk of the House
transmitting to the General Assembly
a certified copy Of the proposed amend
ment to the constitution charging the
powers ofjustices, together with GER
tifcates Of publication, as required by
law. The communication was referred
to the committee for courts of justice.
Senator Little presented petition OF
the directors and managers Of the Fee
male Orphan Asylum at Fredericks-
burg asking permission to transfer their
property 10 the Assembly Home and
school, Il Dill accompanying tne petl-
ton for that purpose.
A bill to incorporate the Assembly
Home and School at Fredericksburg.
These bills relate to the recent organ
izltion of the large Presbyterian school
a. Fredericksburg, for which a large
sum Of money has been raised,
and which is under the direct
control of the General Assembly Of that
church.
In the House Mr.. Ryan presented a
bill, which he succeeded in having
placed on the calendar, providing athat
the Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company, now vested with the stock,
property and franchises of the Wash
ington and Western Railroad Company,
shall be required to commence the con-
struction of that railroad within four
years from December 20, 1898, and to
complete it to point of connection
with the Washington and Maryland d.
vision within six years."
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Foreign News.

MANCHESTER, Dec. Tho Man
chester ship canal was formally opened
to-day. The public opening of the ca
nal will take place on New Years
Day with procession. The bark So
phie Wilhemine, from Nova Scotia,
will be the first vessel to pass through
the canal.
LONDON, Dec. I. Professor Tyndall,
who died SUDDENLY on Monday last,
came to his death from the effects of an
overdose of choral, taken by mistake.
The drug was given to Professor Tyn-
dali by Mrs. Tyndall, who mistook it
for sulphate of magnesia.
DUBLIN, Dec. THE police evident
ly apprehend raid upon the prison at
marlborough where Mullett, Hanlon
and other invincibles are confined.
Every precaution has been taken to
repel such an attack should it be made.
PARIS, Dec. IN. Drumont, editor
of the socialist paper Libre Parole,
criticised Prime Minister Casimir- Perier
in such a way that the latter's cousin,
Senator Thomegueux, sent NJ. Drumont
challenge to fight a duel. NJ. Dru-
mont replied that if NJ. Casimir-Perier
was offended by his criticisms he ought
to fight himself.
LONDON, Dec. The Norwegian
bark Don Juan, Captain 0vergaard,
from New York Nov. 4, for Gothen-
burg, has been wrecked near. Lemvig,
Denmark. All of her crew were lost,
with the exception of three men.
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Rev. Clifton Lee Located.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. THE Rev. E. c.
Clifton, whose vigorous attack upon
Catholicism and the immoral practices
h {, alleged were carried on in converts
was brought to stop by his sudden
disappearance in 1887, has been located.
1t was believed he was foully dealt with
by the offended Catholics. No Grace
was ever found of him until he was
met at the Bowery Mission, New York,
recently. Clifton's wife, through
newspaper clippings, recognized the
Rev. E, C. Clifton as her recreant hus-
hand, Edward Clifton Lee. She wrote
him that she would take steps to ex-
pose him, when Clifton at once de-
camped. Lee is said to be relative of
General Robert E. Lee. His assumed
alias, Clifton, is the name of his moth
er's family, one of the best known fami-
lies in Virginia.
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THURSDAY EVENING. DEC 7, 1898.

THE NEW tariff bill, so far as COM
pleted, is anything else than satisfactory
to the vast majority of the members OF
the democratic party, who had hoped
that with the removal of the tax On
raw materials, there would also have
been the removal or at least large re-
duction in the tax On the articles made
of those materials, and that the result
ing deficit in the revenue would have
been made up by an increased tax on
luxuries and by tax on the surplus
income of the rich. But the fact that
the bill is not as satisfactory as it was
vainly hoped it might be, is not good
reason for defeating it. 1t will at least
tend to lower the cost Of living, and If
it cannot be amended so as to increase
that tendency, it should be passed as
soon as possible II was framed by
democratic committee Of a democratic
Congress. and, as Mr.. Wilson, the
chairman of that committee, well says,
if it be not passed, the people who
elected the democratic congressman
NAV well ask each other why they
did so?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

General Lee has returned to Rich
mond.
Mr.. Albert Harmer, an esteemed cit,
izen of Winchester, died yesterday.
Mr.. E. L. Hunter, of King George,
has been appointed one of the commit,
tee clerks of the House of Delegates.
Mrs. Eliza Anderson died of paraly-
sis on the 9th of November at her
home, near Elk Run, Fauquier county.
Tuesday evening after the snow Mr.
Calvin Wood slipped on the pavement
near the depot, in Warrenton, and
broke his leg.
Col. John Hampton Hoge expects TO
go to Washington Friday to see the
President and answer the charges
which induced the President to recall
him while en- route to Annoy, China.
A new postofice has been established
at Doddyille, Fauquier county, three
and a-half miles north of Bealton, from
which it will be supplied by special ser
vice. James NJ. Stribling will be post
master.
L. Rudasill and Miss Nella Dodd, OF
Front Royal, were yesterday afternoon
married in the parlors of the Howard
House, in Washington. Several OF their
friends were present to witness the
ceremony.
Mr.. Julian A. Wallace, of Amelia
county, and Miss Matte Wurtenbaker
of the same county, who has been at
school in Petersburg, eloped to Weldon,
n. c., Tuesday night. The couple re-
turned to Petersburg yesterday.
Collector Ham Shepherd has made
the following appointments of store
keepers and gaugers in this district /:
Thomas Loving, jr., Thomas c. Price,
Orlando-M. Smith, Paul c. Hoffman,
VIM. Benton Kilbourn, Stephen n.
Thompson, Jas. c. Mitchell and Samuel
r. Armstrong.
]. S. Campbell, from Frederick
county, was convicted in the United
States District Court at Harrisonburg
Yesterday, of making and passing coun-
terfeit money and was sentenced by
Judge Paul to pay fine of 500 and
twelve months at hard labor in the
United States penitentiary at Albany.
The marriage of Mr.. Robert Milling
ton Blankenship and Miss Virgie CABOT
was an unusually interesting event in
Richmond social circles yesterday.
The groom is the superintendent of the
Old Dominion Nail Works and prom
inent young business man, and the
bride the daughter of Mr.. w. S. CABOT,
until recently the agent in Richmond
of the Live Oak Distilling Company OF
Cincinnati.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

Republican Senators will not filibust-
er against the passage of the tariff bill.
The President yesterday nominated
Joseph Z. Doe, of Wisconsin, to be as
sistant secretary of war.
The liquor dealers of New York and
Brooklyn will give no Christmas gifts
to their customers this year.
As an evidence of the financial stress
it is noted that fewer fashionable din
ners are given in New York this year
than usual,
A heavy gale in Shimane prefecture,
Japan, did great damage recently to
life and property. On one steam YES
sci 80 persons were lost.
George Gould brands as false the
story that he gave leila Nicolaus a
check, though he admits giving the
woman her fare from New York to
Chicago.
An attempt to blow up Commissioner
Hills house in Williamsbridge, n. Y,
on Tuesday with dynamite was strange
ly stopped by an accident which fright
ened the miscreants away.
Hundreds of the women who were
driven from disorderly houses in New
York city are still homeless, although
DR.. Park hurst invites all that are will
ing to reform to come to his society for
aid.
The ways and means committee of
the House yesterday considered the
propriety of restoring to the internal
revenue list proprietary medicines and
matches, as well as fixing a tax on bank
checks,
In the House Yesterday Mr.. Rayner
introduced bill providing for
the establishment Of a govern
ment telegraph system to be operated
under the direction Of the Postoffice
Department.
Harper Whitmore, who murdered his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Christian Hester,
and her daughter, Mrs. Florence Mar
tin, near Butler, Pa, Tuesday, killed
himself yesterday by cutting his throat
in field near the scene of the tragedy.
Civil Service Commissioner Roose-
welt denies that there has been an I'M
usual number of removals in the clas-
sifed service during the past eight
months. So the republicans continue
to hold office under democratic adj
ministration,
A traitor In the crew of the Brazilian
cruiser America, which sailed from
New York for Rio Janeiro on Novem-
Der &c, so seriously injured the ships
machinery that she will be unable to
proceed on her voyage for several
weeks. The vessel is at Bridgetown,
Barbados.
Under the terms of settlement of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad strike, the COM
pany will receive and confer with en-
ployes at any time as individuals rep
resenting any particular body of en-
ployes, but not as representing en-
ployes whose occupations are foreign
to theirs or as representing labor or
CARNATIONS. Though the strike has
been declared at an end, many of the
old employees are dissatisfied because
they cannot Immediately be returned to
work.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-07

MAsoNIC.-At Tuesday nights ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge of Masons in
Richmond Grand Master Peasants read
his annual report. 1t was an able pa
per, embodying his official acts and q
number of recommendations. In it he
paid tribute to the late Judge Parker,
of Winchester. The grand master de-
cided, among other things, that a lodge
had no right to refuse to receive of
fcially at any time an officer or repre-
sentative of the Grand Lodge, the case
in point being lodge that had refused
to receive the district deputy grand
master. The grand masters report al
so included the report of the committee
appointed on the proposition from the
Masons of the United States for appro-
pirate memorial exercises OH the occa-
sion of the Tooth anniversaryof the death
of George Washington, who was men,
Der of the Grand Lodge of Virginia.
The exercises will take place at Mt.
Vernon in 1899, and the Grand Lodge
will take the necessary steps to make it
success.
After the reading of the grand mas.
ter's report the grand secretary an
nounced the appointment of the stand
ing committees and then read the usu
al reports. One of the most interest
ing of these reports was that redistrict-
ing the State for the district deputy
grand masters.
Yesterday afternoon the cor
ner-stone Of the new Masonic Home
was laid, but the ceremonies took place
at the temple instead of on the grounds.
The wintry weather made it necessary
to change the programme and have an
indoor affair. A miniature stone and a
miniature derrick were used in the cor
ner-stone ceremonies. The orator of
the occasion, Judge r. T. W. Duke,
of Charlottesville, read splendid adj
dress. The heart of Capt. A. G. Bah
cock, the founder and generous hacker
of the home, was certainly made glad
yesterday.
Last night the election of officers of
the Grand Lodge was held with the
following result: Major Mann Page, of
Surry county, grand master; Mr.. J. P.
Fitzgerald, of Farmville, deputy grand
master; Major A. R. Courtney, of Rich
mond, grand senior warden; Mr.. Frank
A. Reed, of Alexandria, grand junior
warden; Mr.. George w. Wright, If
Richmond, grand junior deacon.
The members of the body then re-
paired to splendid supper served in
the grand banquet-hail
The Grand Lodge will meet next
year at the Temple on the second
Tuesday in December.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-07
The Trained Horses.

To the Editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
/ wish to call the especial attention
of your readers to the exhibition OF
trained horses, to take place at the
Opera House tomorrow night and on
Saturday afternoon and night. Many
of us are not in the habit of attending
horse shows &C., but this is noble
exception, the horses having been
humanely trained by Prof. Bartholo-
new. "They love to please their
teacher, the same as your house dog
shows his appreciation of a kind word"
THAT these horses enjoy their acts is
readily seen by any one observing their
prompting each other, when their tmn
comes. Each performer is an artist" On
June 16, 1884, in the immense Boston Thea
ire, in the presence of an audience of OVER
1000 persons under the auspices Of the Sc
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to ami.
mails Prof Bartholomew, was presented, n
the stage, with beautiful solid gold medals
adorned with single diamond, and suitably
inscribed and also an engrossed certificate of
honorary membership. Prof. Bartholomew
is the only animal educator in the world that
has ever received the unqualified endorse
ment of the humane societies, because he is
the only man that ever developed remark
able horse intelligence through kindness, pa
thence and perseverance. So all Alexand-
rians, who love animals, are requested to
come and see for themselves, and also to give
tickets to their coachmen, wagoners, carriers
&c was much grati6ed few days ago, To
witness the treatment Of stubborn horse at
tachcd TO half filled coal-cart The scene
occurred at the intersection of Washington
and Princess streets. l greatly feared the
mems patience would give out, because "a
halky horse" is so provoking. BUTT must be
said to the credit of at least half dozen
colored men, that they used only gentle
means. But all of their efforts were unayail
ing. At this time Stlunton Miller came by,
driving Mr. Lannon's wood cart. He stop,
ped his fine glossy black horse, and, letting
him stand, went quietly up to the insurgent
and dexterously turned him to the side, and
around, (another man turning the wheel to
encourage him, )-and on he went without
further trouble
Yours truly,
n ATFSASDRTAN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-07
Hawaii in the Senate.

In the Senate yesterday the resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Hoar calling on the
President for Hawaiian information was
adopted. The resolution occasioned
an interesting debate, in which Mr..
Hoar's purpose was seconded by
Messrs. Hill and Sherman, while Messrs.
Mills, Villas and Gray could see no ur-
gency for the resolution. Mr.. Hill
refrained from expressing any opinion
as to the right or the wrong of the poll
cy of the administration. In fact, he
repeated more than once that neither
he nor any one else knew what it was.
1t did not seem in his power to repress
every now and then the undercurrent
of hostility to the President popularity
supposed to flow in his bosom like the
babbling brook. His outspoken criti-
cism lay in the fact of his concurrence
with the republican propositions that
Congress is coordinate branch of the
government; that it should have been
consulted from the first; that it
was entitled without delay to the
information, and no extreme meas
ures should be resorted to with
out its prior approval. He reiterah d
that Congress was the war-making pow
err and seemed to be afraid the Presi-
dent was about to usurp its preroga-
tives. He was very pronounced in the
opinion the President should have sent
in the instructions to Minister Wilson.
Neither democratic nor republican
Senators let a word which fell from the
lips of the New York Senator escape
them.
Despite the adoption by the Senate
of the resolution requesting President
Cleveland to furnish that body with
copies OF all instructions in relation to
Hawaii given to ministers or naval Off
GERS since March 4, 1891, the President
has constitutional prerogatives which
permit him to disregard the resolution.
There is an impression, however, that
the President will soon inform Con-
gress of all he knows concerning the
Hawaiian revolution. If Mr.. Cleveland
has not assumed to restore Queen Lii.
uokalani, such course will not be
authorized by Congress.
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Lynched.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 7.-E. Reu-
ben Smith was found dead in his bed in
the rear of his store, at Berlin, Tuesday
night. He had been murdered, his
heal being mashed to jelly. The
store and safe were robbed. A negro,
a stranger in the neighborhood, was
caught and given trial before a magis-
trate. AS he was being taken back to
Jail late yesterday he was seized by the
friends of Smith and hanged to tree.
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LETTER FROM RICHMOND.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
RICHMOND, Va. Dec. Z, 1893.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.)
RICHMOND, Va. Dec. Z, 1898.
Members of the Legislature are GER
tainly the most important people in the
city Just now and the Governor, the
candidates for the Senate and Secretary
of the Commonwealth and other big
places and even Mrs. Jay Gould and
her daughter, Miss Helen, who are in
Richmond. are all in the back ground.
The members are in the clutches of pol
iticians all the time and like the mouse
in the net every movement they make
gets them tighter in the tangle.
They give no signs of disliking the
arrangement, however, for it gives
them a prominence that many Of them
will never obtain within the legislative
halls. OF course everything depends
upon the way they vote and the friends
of the candidates are on the most friend
Iy and intimate terms.
The opening day was just like all
others. Two well-known divines in
voked heavens choicest blessings upon
the members and wisdom from on
high to guide them in their arduous la
bors.
The officers nominated in the caucus
the night before were duly installed
and the body then adjourned until noon
to-day. Tonight q joint caucus will be
held when it is probable the basement
and other Capital officers will be nomi-
mated.
Some of the members are in favor Of
this while others would like to get the
Senatorship business out of the way
first. as this matter is giving them more
trouble than anything else.
In the whirlwind of political excite
ment the senatorship and secretaryship
of the Commonwealth have almost
entirely put stop to the contest for
the misunderstanding. This is an
appointment by the Governor and the
candidates and their friends don't pay
the same homage to the law makers as
the candidates for other places.
Colonel Fercy Halves and General
Charles J. Anderson are leading in this
race, though there are one or two
other. Like the senatorship it is
mighty uncertain quality. Both can
didates have gilt edge backing and both
are friends of the Governor-elect. Col.
Halves is known to be mighty close to
O'Ferrall, personally,and his friends say
that he is just as sure of this place as
anything can be that is dependent upon
man.
General Anderson is, however, now
in this office, having succeeded General
Mcdonald, who died about a month
ago. Nothing on earth can be said
against him, and his friends say he will
not be put out.
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LOudoun Notes.

Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Kilgour cele-
brated their golden wedding, Novem-
Der 30th, at their home 1.-THE Will
lows" near Bolington.
Mr.. Richard Tavenner of Lincoln,
had his jaw bone broken last Friday,
by colt which suddenly threw up
its head and struck him.
Messrs. Staub & Norris, of Hagers-
town, Nd, have established at Clark
Gap in this county large saw mill, for
the saving of walnut lumber which
they are purchasing in large quantities.
Mr.. Allen Bowie last week received
an engine for working the gold mine
on his farm near Clark's Gap. Numer-
Gus experts who have examined the
mine report very favorably upon both
the quantity and quality of the metal
found.
Mr.. Willie Carter, of Mountsville,
sold last week, we understand, a pair
of handsome bay driving horses to Mr..
Lothrop, of the firm of Woodward &
Lothrop, of Washington, for $780,
Mirror
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-07
Brutal Treatment.

NEW BRIGHTON, Pa, Dec. Two
weeks ago Miss Ida Fay, the pretty
1S.year-old daughter of Henry Fay, a
we'll to do farmer residing near East
Palestine, firing of country life, came
here to seek employment as seam
stress. Not finding employment she
went to Beaver Falls, where she sud-
denly disappeared and nothing had
been seen or heard of her until yester-
day when the girls rural lover made
inquiry concerning her at police head
quarters. A search was instituted. AT
late hour the girl was found in half
furnished room in the tenantless Mer-
chant hotel, q large brick building
which was supposed to be deserted.
Ida was so weak from hunger and abuse
that she had to be carried from the
building. When able to speak she re-
lated terrible story of the fiendish
indignities and abuse to which she had
heen subject at the hands of a gang of
young hoodlums who held her a pri-
soner. Under threats and influence of
of drugs placed in the little food she
ate she was kept at the mercy of the
gang who came and went but never
left her alone. The girl was in a shock
ing condition, but was able to be sent
home late last night. The police have
the names ofsome of the men engaged
in the outrage. There is serious
trouble in store for the members of the
gang.