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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Harvesting wheat has commenced in
Orange county.
The salaries of the city officials in
Richmond are to be reduced.
Culpeper Yesterday voted in favor o1
borrowing 500, 900 to build water works.
Mr.. Robert Bowering, son ofProfessor
\. b. Bowering, died at Fredericksburg
on Wednesday, aged 20 years.
The new lighthouse in course Of
erection at Cape Charles, Va, will be
completed and the light displayed early
this autumn.
Contractors have begun work on an
artesian well at Norfolk which is to
furnish a daily supply of five millions
of gallons of water.
a party of northern turGmen are try
ing to lease the race-track of the Eir-
ginia Agricultural and Mechanical
Society at Richmond.
DR.. Johnson Strother, of Culpepcr,
and Miss Leticia-S hackelford, daughter
of the late Mr.. Shackelford. of Kappa
hammock, were married on Wednesday
Mr.. John II. Mutton, for forty-six
years superintendent of the water
works at Winchester. Va, died Mon
day, aged seventy-eight years. He
was an uncle of Mrs. Joseph B. Herbert,
of Towson, Md.
Mrs. Annie Moore, the venerable
widow of the late Geo. L. Moore, who
was paralvzed about two weeks ago,
while visiting her daughter, Mrs. Albert
Gore, in Hamilton, died last Saturday
night in about the S0th year of her age.
Georgianna Paris, a colorcd woman,
was lodged in Jail in Leesburg yester-
day charged with having burned a barn
belonging to Mr.. Samuel Arnold, of
Loudoun county. The barn was burned
early in May, and the woman, who was
then living with Mr.. Arnold, has con-
tinued to live with him, entirely I'M
suspected, until Sunday last, when from
some reason she confessed having COM
mitted the deed to Mrs. Arnold.
Miss Kate Pollock, eldest daughter
of Capt. John G.. Pollock, of Stafford
county, was married at her fathers
residence yesterday evening to Mr..
Harry Knox Gore, of King George,
formerly of Ireland. The brides and
groom's attendants were Miss Meta
Pollock, maid of honor Miss Lizzie H.
Bernard, of fredericksburg; Miss Nancy
Green, of Washington Miss Mary
Tayloe and Miss Mary Lewis, of King
George Mr.. Willie Bernard, ofSpottsyl-
vania, best man Mr.. Fielding Lewis,
Mr.. Devroe Green, Mr.. Taylor Pollock
and Mr.. John Pollock, of Washington.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandris Gazette.
WASHINGTON. .June 8 1904

June >, 1898.
Acting under the advice of his ply
sician, Senator German, accompanied
by his wife, will leave this evening for
Atlantic City. A short period of rest
in the invigorating atmosphere of that
seaside resort is expected to restore
him to his usual good health. He has
had more work to do than any mem
Der of the Senate; he is on more i'm.
portant committees; has more callers
and q larger correspondence than any
other Senator, and, in addition to all
these duties, he is the leader of the
majority. His system was run down
n he was in danger Of collapse from
overwork. He was threatened with a
fever, but escaped it. There was no
organic disorder as has been attrib-
uted TO him, and it is thought that if
he is permitted to enjoy a period OF alb.
solute rest and freedom from anxiety
he will soon be able to resume his du-
ties in the Senate. A mar less strong.
less regular in his habits and less TEN.
perate in all things save work, would
have broken down under his burden
long ago. Mr.. German called at the
Treasury Department this morning and
urged the appointment of Mr.. Cooper
of Baltimore to the place of supervising
inspector of steamboats, for the 3rd dis
trict, the place which both Senator
Daniel and Representative Tyler OF
Virginia have been led to believe would
certainly be given to Capt. Murdaugh
of Norfolk.
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TELEuKAPiilG BRETITIE>

Miss Annie Tooten, the ''angel@ Of
Kelly's army, vas married to Mai. S,r,.
lift at Cairo, Ill.,, yesterday.
A disastrous cyclone YESTERDAY visited
Grant county, Oregon. killing at r.,s,
three persons and doing great damage
Out of nine Of the horses entered
the 100 mile race at Chadron. Neb.
four are now dead, caused by the II.
fects Of the race.
The biggest wildcat still in east Ten.
nessee was destroyed by revenue Oil.
GERS Wednesday night, after many
weeks had been consumed in scar b 4.
it.
The body of Judge Kinnaird was last
night found in the Columbia river near
Wilbur, Wash. Judge Kinnaird was
one of the best known Lawyers in t5.e
northwest.
The industrials arrived at Brighton.
Col, during last night, in sai. boat.
some OF which capsized and, if the
men landing are to be believed, there
were not less than twenty drowned.
A. w. Terrell, L. 5. minister to Tur-
key, is having two silver and go.I.
mounted saddles made in San Antoine.
Tex, which he will present to the Sal,
tan of Turkey and that rulers ayorte
son.
Isaac Kempt, coIored, who murdered
Deputy Sheriff Ned Carver at West
over, Md, yesterday morning, was
taken from the Jail by Il mob Of about
four hundred men this morning and
shot TO death.
Albert c. Woodruff and Henry Nirhie. sur.
yiving partners of E. b. Bartlett x Company.
the prominent storage warehouse men of Now
York and Brooklyn. assigned to-day withoi.
preferences.
DR.. Meyer, of New York, convicted Of
poisoning Ludwig Brandt, was to-day son.
fenced to life Imprisonment at Sing Sing
Mrs. Cleveland and party reached Gray
Gables this morning on Mr.. E.. C.. Bcncidct,
YACHT.
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Foreign News.

LONDON, June s. The Cakes, at the
EPSON meeting to-day for three-year-
old %fllies, about n mile and a-half,
was won by the Duke Of Portland's
Amiable.. The winner will receive
$4,000.
PARIS, June S.-Dispatches from
Montevideo say that President Pei1-
oto's Brazilian squadron has left that
port for Rio de Janeiro. 1t is reported
from Rio Grande do Sui that the in
surgent general, Saraiva, with 1000
troops has arrived at Oruzalta, where
he is preparing a campaign.
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north shaft started work with fifty men.
The old shaft had more applications
for work than there were vacancies to
fill.
WHEELING, w. Va, June S.-Striking
miners at Benwood, below this city,
created a blockade in West Virginia
coal this morning and have tied up all
the coal in the Baltimore and Ohio
yards. About 200 men are encamped
at Benwood Junction with the firm de
termination TO prevent coal from NOV
ing. Several attempts have been made
to move trains but were unsuccessful.
The men are acting at the solicitation
of Wheeling Creek miners.
WHEELING, w. Va, June S.-A re-
port has just reached this city that the
troops have arrived at McLanesville,
four miles west of Bellaire, Ohio, and
that coal trains will be sen out as soon
as they can be got ready.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June S.-The
strikers have been driven from Me
Claims cut at St. Clairsville Junction
on the b. & O. without bloodshed. A
nu nber of women-wives Of miners
stood their ground, however, and had
to be charged upon with bayonets
before they would bndge. Trains re-
sumed running at once.
DENVER, Col, June S.-A Cripple
Creek special says: 1.-THE miners are de-
moralized and fleeing from Bull Hill.
The militia is inactive and the sheriff
has ordered his deputies to go up
on Bull Hill and make arrests.
The only danger seems to be hat the
strikers may explode some hidden dy-
Mantle under them, but resistance is
doubted. Gov. Waite is violently angry
at the inactivity of the militia. He
does not deny that he sent it to aid the
strikers.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
RiOtous Miners.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, June s.
Sheriff Bowers will enter Altman OF
Bull Hill this morning at the head of
detachment of militia. Two miner.
were shot aud wounded last night in :
slight skirmish near Gillett's.
MAss1LLoN, O., June S.-The Cleye-
land, Lorraine and Wheeling Railroad
this morning started out two trains
from Wheeling Creek, with l. l.. ;.
marshals on board. Both trains were
forced back to Bridgeport. Superin-
tendent Bruuer says the only thing to
do now is to bring on the troops which
are concentrated within easy reach and
fisht the trains through.
COLUMBUS, O., June S.-Gov. Mckin-
lev this morning received Il telegram
from Sheriff Scott, of Belmont county,
again and more urgently appealing Tor
troops at Bridgeport. The sheriff says
a bridge on the c. l.. & W.. railway
near there, is now being burned by the
miners, and great loss of life and de-
struction of property is threatened UNI
less military aid is furnished at once.
Gov. Mckinley says he will order the
9Th regiment, of Cleveland, under arms
If Adiutant General Howe thinks the
force now in Belmont county is made
ouatc. The Governor issued an order
to the 10th regiment of infantry and
battery d Of the artillery, all of Toledo,
TO report here at once. Trouble is
feared along the Norfolk and Western
Railway at any time and the troops
are desired to be held in reserve.
BALTIMORE, Md, June S.-Governor
Brown has ordered the Maryland
troops at Frostburg to go into camp for
an indefinite period. This action will
break the backbone of the Georges
Creek strikers. The Governors deci-
sion to turn the expedition into a sum-
mer camp Of instruction, as his order
practically does, will furnish protection
and encourage the men to resume oper-
ations. A special from Frostburg says
the troops have moved to a beautiful
plateau about a mile below Frostbuig.
The site includes an excellent parade
ground and it is thought that this camp
will he substituted for the State en-
campment that is ordered for Frederick
Junction from July - to %. The en-
campment is costing about $500 per
day.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June S.-Militia
hold full sway in the Georges Creek
mining region now. There is an in
crease of over 100 men working in the
different mines this morning. The
men went to work without molestation
or intimidation of any kind from the
strikers. The presence of the soldiery
has had a very depressing effect upon
the spirits OF the leaders of the strike
in this section.
PANA, ILL.,, June S.-The vacancies in
the four mines in this city were nearly
all filed Yesterday by new corners. The
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Hanging at Staunton.

STAUNToN, Va, June S.-Lawrence
Spiller, the negro murderer, expiated
his crime on the scaifold here this
morning. The trap was sprung at SOB
and he was pronounced %lifeless in just
nine minutes. His victim was Lottie
Rowe, q young white girl, about fifteen
years of age. The crime was commit
ted April IS, 1891. His confession was
revolving in every particular, and he
admitted the double crime of assault
and murder as charged. The prisoner
tie a hearty breakfast, and said he was
ready to go an hour before he was tax
en- to the scatiold; that he would not
exchange his execution for a natural
death, and wanted to die on the gal
lows and be an example to his race. He
took leave of the colored ministers,
who stood on the scaflold with him,
saying God was going totake him home
and he would lookout for them in
heaven. While the prisoner and the
preachers were singing his favorite
hymn the sheriff gave the signal, the
trap was sprung, and the body shot
downward, turned a few times and
then was still. His death was instan-
taneous and as painless as it could have
been by ~electrocution, the neck having
been broken by the fall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-08

The French government has decided
in favor of an annual fcte in honor of
Joan of Arc.
The Warner Observatory, at Roches-
ter. Ny, was sold at auction yesteI-
day for sd, 900.
The new cruiser Minneapolis made
the fast time of 81 10 knots on her pre-
liminary trial, beating the Columbia by
three-quarters OF u knot.
The right of the United States to APP
peal is involved in the case of Colonel
Ainswolth. now pending before the
District of Columbia Court OF Appeals.
The contest in the London court over
the will Of the late Duke of Sutherland
between the widow and her stepson,
the present duke, has ended in a COM
promise. The estate is valued at 3d.
900. 900.
The proposed construction of the
Baltin ore and Cumberland Railroad
from Cumberland TO Hagerstown has
been indefinitely postponed because OF
the impossibility of raising money to do
the work.
The federalist bands in the Province
of Rio Gtrande do Sui have met with
successes which have enabled them to
advance. The Brazilian government
has sent reinfCrcements of troops into
the State of Paranagua.
Kelly and his commonwealers broke
up their boats near Cairo, ILL.,, yester-
day, and give the lumber TO the farmer
on whose land they are encamped, and
who has ordered them to vacate. The
men are sick and hungry, but they are
not permitted to enter the town.
Owing to the prolonged debate in
the Senate on the tariff bill, it is re-
ported there is an increasing desire on
the democratic side TO adopt some
method of cloture. The conference
committee Of both houses of Congress
will, it is predicted, make radical
changes in the bill.
Coxey, Brown and Christopher Co
lumbus Jones will be released from jail
in Washington tomorrow. Coxey has
paid the fine Of So each for himself and
Browne, Notwithstanding the announce
ments heretofore made by them that
they would not pay, but would stand
the additional ten days imprisonment
Gilmore Kennedy and Collins Hogan,
farmers, of Mint Springs, Ala, came
together yesterday with carving knives,
as a result of too much indulgence in
whisky at a picnic. Gilmore was liter
ally hacked to pieces, and died in the
conflict. Hogan received three terrible
gashes in the groin that terminated ia
tally.
Nagaueb, the acknowledgement
chief OF the Chippewas, died on the Clio
quet reservation Yesterday. AS early
as 1926 he concluded the first treaty
with the Sioux and Chippewas, for
which he was presented with a medal
bv General Cass. In this the suprem-
acy of the United States was first ac-
rknowledged by the tribes.
At Miller's store, near Westover,
Somerset county, Md Constable Ed
ward Carver was beaten to death We'd
nesday night by a gang of colored men,
supposed to be Virginia negroes, who
had been employed as strawberry pick
ers. About twelve O fthese men crowd.
ed into the store for liquor: which was
refused them. They became very bois-
ferrous, and the constable warned them
to be more orderly or he would have to
arrest them. This made the crowd
very angry. and several of them drag
ged the officer out Of the door and
pounded him over the head with an
empty beer bottle until it was thought
he was dead.
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The populists of Mr.. Coxey's dis
trict in Ohio are so keen set upon the
delivery of his famous unspoken speech
at the Capitol in Washington, that, as
the police prevented him from deliv-
ering it from the steps of that building,
they have nominated him for Congress,
so that he may make it in the largest
hall thereof, and have it published in
the Congressional Record.
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A Desperate Killed.


KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June S.-Pat
Cox, the noted outlaw of southwest
Virginia, was killed Wednesday night
neal Wise Courthouse while resisting
arrest. He had been the terror of
people of Kentucky and Virginia for
years and was identified with at least q
dozen murders. A few weeks ago he
killed one of his cousins and fatally
wounded another. Wednesday a sheriff7s
posse surrounded him near an illicit
still. The outlaw at once opened fire
and seriously wounded two men before
being shot and killed.
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The c. & @. CANAL.-Judge Stake,
of Hagerstown, Md, has rendered mis-
decision in the case of the application
of the trustees of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company for an extension
of time beyond the four years granted
in the decree passed by Judge Alvey a
few years ago. The application made
q few months ago to Judge Stake was
for an extension of time to ten years:
This the court grants, and the canal
will remain in the hands of the present
management for that time at least. The
result of this extension Ear the con-
tinued success of the canal and the
probability of an increase in the num-
Der of boats and increase in the ship
ments of coal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-08

New JERSEY, like Virginia, is OPP
posed to women lawyers, and has de-
termined that they shall not practice
in her courts. This country, and its
women too, had a much better time
when the latter were content with the
positions in which it pleased God to
place them, and in which the Bible tells
them to remain. 1t is to the disregard of
the attested wisdom Of the teachings CT
the Bible that most of the ills that have
befallen this country may justly be at
tributed.
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THE AVERAGE tariff upon all goods
made of earth and glass is about 80 per
cent, of metal 50, of cotton So, of flax
45 and ofwool 80. All such goods are
necessaries of life and poor people have
to buy them in order to live. Is it any
wonder that such people should have
demanded the repeal of the tariffin
1890 and 1892 by overwhelming major
tiles, and that they have become dis
gusted with the party which, on both
those occasions, promised to repeal it,
but which refuses to do so?
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FRIDAY EVENING. JeNE 8, 1894.
Mr.. HoAR is reputed to be a sensible

Mr.. HoAR is reputed to be a sensible
man, and yet he stood up in the US,
Senate yesterday and argued that The
suit the government has instituted to
recover fifteen million dollars supposed
to be due it by the estate of the al
Senator Stanford, be abandoned, De-
cause Mr.. Stanford had spent money
literally and had established a college
as a monument TO mis- deceased son, ana
because the suit would distress bis wld-
ow. Mr.. Stanford, though a republi-
can. voted against the Force bill, and
therefore, no Southern mai desires 10
do his memory or his people any harm;
but still, what Mr.. Hoar said is no rea
son why the government should no.
try to recover what it believes his es-
tate owes it. nor can people with COM
mon sense understand how any reason
able man can oppose its doing SO on
such pucrile and positively silly grounds
rs those advanced by Mr.. Hoar.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-08

ONE OF the strangest things Of this
strange eventful age is the fact that
large portions of several States should
be in q warlike condition and the bust
ness interests of many others be serious
ly injured, for months at a time, while the
government pretends to be n of law
and order. And all this too, though each
Of the States and the government have
the indisputable right and power to pre-
serve order and to enfore the law. If
such power had been exercised two
months ago, much expense and many
lives would have been spared, and q
deterrent been applied to the spread Of
the contagious habit of violence.
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REPUBLICAN SENATORS voted for free
suga~, aud republican Representatives
like Messrs. Reed, Blair and Burrows
are in favor of freer silver. This is only
another proof of the fact that republi-
cans, as alwayschas been the case, can
change their principles as easily as
their coats. In their efforts to gain
control Of the Treasury they are un-
hampered by any regard for consisten-
cy. Why, it is not a strained construc-
ton of their character to suppose that
they would re. establish negro slavery,
if by doing so they could obtain and Sc
cure possession ofthe government. They
proposed to abandon their attempt to
abolish it on those terms thirty years
ago, and certainly nothing has occurred
since, to raise a doubt that they would
undo what they have done. in order to
accomplish the same object.
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FROM HAwAH.-A dispatch from
Honolulu, dated May 81, says the
long-looked-fcr constitutional conven-
ton met that day. None of the old
time pomp and ceremony marked the
occasion. The room was full of peo-
pie, and all foreign diplomatic and con-
sular corps were present, with the en-
ception of the representatives of Eng
land and Portugal. Minister Wood
house, the British minister resident,
was asked to be present. He sent a
formal reply, stating that he could not
be there, but gave no eason for his ac-
ton. The Portuguese consul is at pres
ent in San Francisco.
The ceremonies opening the conven-
tpn were very brief.
President Dole read an address to
the members, after which an adjourn
ment was taken to next day. The steam
er Iwalani returned Tuesday from the
Necker Island. Minister of the Int
rior King, at the head OF the expedi-
ton, raised the Hawaiian flag over Lit
tie Lava rock.
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WANTS DIvoRcE.-Metropolitan po-
lice officer, Joseph N. Fifeld, filed u
bill in Washington yesterday afternoon
for divorce from his wife, Sarah C. FL
field, nee Cooksey. The bill sets out a
marriage in Loudoun county on Decem-
Der I, 1887. Fifield alleges that he was
a widower at the time of the marriage,
and had three young children, and that
the defendant began at once a course of
cruelty to them, beating them while
they we're naked and in the bath, pull
ing them by the hair, stamping on
them, forcing them thinly clad to re-
main out in the cold, and forcing them
to eat such food that it nauseated them.
Other acts of cruelty are alleged. FL
field claims that his children were
afraid to tell him of their stepmother's
alleged cruelty and that he remained
until lately ia ignorance of her acts.
Charles L. Glasscock has also filed q
bill for divorce from Carrie N. Glass
cock.
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Suicide.

AMERIcUs, Ga, June S.-Dr. ]. B.
Hinckle attempted to commit suicide
by swallowing a heavy dose Of NOR
phine last night. 1t is believed he can
not recover. DR.. Hinkle and his son
shot aud killed Dr.. Worsham, and the
Supreme Court yesterday rendered a
decision sustaining the conviction OF
the elder Hinckle and his life sentence
to the ~penitentiary. Late last night
he had a conference with his attorneys
and after their departure he took .
heavy dose Of morphine. His son, who
is in the cell with him, was awakened
by his fathers heavy breathing and
gave the alarm.
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house

House bill was passed defining and
establishing units of electrical measure
ment.
The House went into committee Of
the whole to consider the resolution re-
ported yesterday, providing for a tenn
porary arrangement to improve the
sanitary condition of the House wing Of
the Capitol.
Mr.. Walker, q member of the com
mittee, made an energetic attack upon
the administration of Architect Clark,
whom he denounced as thoroughly in
competent.
The resolution was finally agreed to.
The conference report upon the
Pennsylvania and New Jersey bridge
over the Delaware river between Phila
delphia and Camden was presented and
agreed to. It removes the provision in
the bill requiring companies using the
bridge to carry United States mails
over it free of charge.
A motion to adjourn over Saturday
was lost.
The House refused to consider bills
on the private calendar and then took
up the Indian appr opriation bill.