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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
Baltimore Conference.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 27.-The 111th
annual meeting of the Baltimore Con-
ference of the M. E. Church South
convened in the Mt. Vernon Place
Church here this morning. There is
an unusually full attendance, some 25O
ministers and lay delegates being pres
ent. Bishop John c. Cranberry, OF
Baltimore, presided, and addressed the
conference at the opening services. DR..
James G. Armstrong was unanimously
elected secretary. The first business
transacted was the appointment of con-
ference committees. The most import
ant matter which came up was the mo-
ton of Rev. Denny Collins for the ap-
pointment Of a committee of n mem
Der from each district to pass upon the
application of candidatesfor the ministry
before they go to the general confer.
ence. He explained that the object of
the plan was to prevent publicity being
given the examinations of applicants.
The motion was carried without dis
cussion by a good majority, and the
committee was appointed. City church
extension was also briefly discussed. a
communication from Charles Shipley, of
MARYLAND, was laid before the confer.
ence, in which the writer stated that
he had made q donation of $4,000 to
be devoted to the fund for superannu-
ated ministers.
Tonight Rev. S. K. Cox, of Front
Royal, will preach.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

THOUGHT SHE WAS A WITCH.-A
most extraordinary case of murder,
arising from superstition, vas inquired
into yesterday by the Special Court of
Clonmel, twenty-five miles from Water
ford, Ireland. Ten persons were ar
raigned before the court charged with
the numbering a women named Cleary,
because they supposed her to be a
witch. The prisoners included the
woman's husband and father. The ev-
dence showed that Mrs. Cleary was sui.
fering from nervousness and bronchitis,
and her husband, believing her to be
bewitched, and in order to exercise the
evil spirit, obtained a concoction from
a herbalist of the neighborhood.
Then, while the other prisoners held
the unfortunate woman in bed, her
husband forced the obnoxious concoc
ton of herbs down her throat. After
this the suffering woman was held over
a fire and dreadfully burned, until she
declared in the name of God that she
was not Cleary's wife. This torture
was repeated on the following day, but
the woman refused to conform to her
husbands requests, w%hereupon he
knocked her down, stripped off her
clothing, poured parafine over her
body, then lighted it, and the woman
burned to death in the presence of six
male and two female relatives.
Cleary declared that he was not
burning his wife, but that he was burn
ing a witch, and that she would disap-
pear up the chimney.
When the woman was dead, her hus-
band collected her charred remains in
a sheet and buried them in a dyke, be-
meath the mud, where they we're found
a week later. The prisoners, who
were remanded, narrowly escaped
lynching at the hands of an excited
crowd in and about the court room,
and had to be removed to Jail under es-
cort of a strong force of constabulary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
OFFICIAL.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN

AT q regular meeting of the Board Of Ado
men of Alexandria, Va, held March 9e,t
1895, there were present:
VIM. ii. Marbury, esq, Presidep; and
Messrs. Burke, Hinken, Sweeney and Ia
beater. ~
A resolution providing for the LAYING NJ
stone floor in the retort room of the gas 81
with stone from the canal basin. referrej =,
the Committee on Light by the Commoo
Council, was received from that board ,I..
action n%on-concurred in and the rcs1lr,;oa
referred to the joint Committees on Light acI
Streets.
The following were received from the Com,
mon Council aud their action concurr.J j~.
Communication from Henry Strauss. yI,y.r
announcing the resignation of DR.. N p
Purvis, Health Officer; petition from d ~
Schofeld for permission TO erect q fran,
building on the east side of Fairfax seroet h..
tween Duke and Wolfe streets resolution D..
propriating twenty-five dollars is extra r,I
pensation to w. C.. Shock, OvcrSecr Of on.
door Poor; petition of Alexandra Feri 1er
and Chemical Company for permission IN
erect a bridge across the foot of Primes.
street resolution for the paving with mbhie
stone of the space between the curb line and
the bulkhead on the east side of Union str,r,
north of Queen; resolution that the COM.
mittee OH Streets ascertain whether or nor
w. ]. Carter is complying with the lau IN
the erection of a building at No. 10 sonr9
Patrick street; resolution requestingth COM.
mittee on Public Property to notify the mana.
gers of the Alexaudria Driving Park TO CON.
ply with terms of an ordinance of the Civ
Council regarding the erection and maiutea.
ance of a fence on each side Of their track Ne.
The board then adjourned.
Teste: l.. H. THOMPSON. Clerk.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Destructive Fire.

MILWAUKEE. Wis, Mar. 81
At 2:45 o'clock this morning one
of the worst of the many de-
%structive fires in the history of this
city was finally got under control: at
that time over 81, 900, 900 worth of
property had been destroyed ana
twenty business firms had lost their
stock aud buildings. There were also
many minor losses, including offices,
flats and small shops. The fire origi-
mated at a few minutes after midnight,
and the entire department, with the
two fire boats, was oon ut the scene.
Fifteen minutes after the fire broke
out it looked as if the entire
block would go and that the fire would
sweep eastward to the river, but the
6remen, by heroic work, held it in
check. Several large clothing houses,
and a number of dry goods and other
business houses together with the Y.
NJ. G. A. building were entirely de-
stroyed, and the Foster building, the
Public Library building and several
other structures were seriously dam
aged. It was nearly three o'clock
when the fire department gained o
troll of the conflagration, although this
morning engines were still playing!upon
piles of debris. So far as known, how
ever, there was no loss of life, a fact
that is remarkable in view ofthe fierce
ness of the fire and the frequency with
which walls fell in the vicinity of the
watching crowds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Auburn, ILL.,, State Bank was
robbed of 81, 200 at ESQ this morning,
The safe was blown open and rifed Of
its contents.
The disabled steamship City Of Para was
towed from Fort Monroe to Newport News
this morning where she will have her hull
scraped and painted while a new propeller is
being adjusted. She expects to sail for Colcn
Friday evening.
A dispatch from Ottawa says that Sir Chas.
H. Upper has withdrawn from the Dominion
Cabinet on account of the action of his col.
leagues on the Manitoba school question.
The President of Chill denied the last
appeals to r%eprieve the assassins of Freddi,
the Italian, and they were shot yesterday
morning.
Nashua, N. g., Savings Bank was closed
Yesterday by order ofthe bank commissioners.
There we're nearly 100000 on deposit
and much of this is the savings Of working
people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

STANDS By TEAMoH.-The republi-

STANDS BY TEAMoH.-The repubii,
can members of the Massachusetts leg.
islature beld a banquet at the Amerl.
can House in Boston yesterday. Presl-
dent Butler, of the Senate, presided,
and called as the first speaker Govern
or Greenhalge. After earnestly ex-
horting the assembled legislators to be
mindful of the responsibility and the
dignity of the Office, he averted to the
recent Teamoh incident. He said:
"The constitution of the United
States comprehends among its principles
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments. cloud applause.) Massa-
chusetts ratified with a full heart and
with clear purpose those amendments.
Her people are not going to have them
clouded or wiped out to-day. You
mean to-day, as the men who fought
for the flag meant, liberty and union.
And when Massachusetts sends repre-
sentatives beyond her borders she asks
not for social amenities; she has no
concern with social p%rejudices; she SIM
ply says in the broad principles of the
United States:
"'We send out our representatives,
and, while not asking anything of
either State or individual, W require
that the spirit of the Constitution shall
glow and live from the Gulf to Canada,
from east to west
"The commonwealth has no concern
with the unofficial u%tterances of any
official, particularly if they come il an
er post facto way, but l say, Massachu-
sets will never ask more than the spir-
it of her institutions or the spirit
of that great charter which we call
the Constitution of the United States
demand. Massachusetts, will accept
no less" cloud applause.)
Letters of regret were read from
United States Senators Hoar and
Lodge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
Foreign News.

BERLIN, March 27.-The Reichstag
today voted for a new president to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Herr Won Levetzow, and Baron
Won Buoyl, Berenberg, first vice-presi-
dent, was chosen.
LONDON, March pa dispatch from
Madrid says the United States govern.
ment has agreed othe appointment of
Senior Dupuy de LONE as Spanish min
lister at Washington.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 27.-It is
stated here that besides paying pecuni-
airy indemnity to Japan, Ii Hung Chang
is authorized to cede the islands of Loo
Choo. Majacosima, Batan, Babuyan
and Formosa. Strenuous efforts will be
made to prevent the cession of the ter
ritory of Liantong, and as a last resort
the suggestion will be made that it be
converted into a buffer State under the
joint protection of Russia, France and
England.
LONDON, March ga dispatch says
that cholera has broken out among the
Japanese troops at Port Arthur.
Thirty-eight cases were reported in one
day.
SHIMoNosEKI, Mar. 27.-The condition of
Ii Hung Chang is very favorable. bis ply
stefan has warned his attendants OF the ne
cessity of the free use of anti-septic applica'
tons. Thus far the envoy has been remarks
bly, free from fever.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
The Rritannia.Ailsa Race.

NICE, March 27.-The Ailsa and
Britannia started this morning in q
ace for a prize of $1,000, together with
gold, silver and bronze medals. The
course was q triangular one, making
the total distance thirty miles. The
wind was light at the start and at the
finish of the first round the Ailsa led
by three minutes, but the breeze fresben
ing the Britannia, on the third round,
overnauled and passed the Ailsa and
won the race with six minutes and
46 seconds to spare. The opinion is
generally expressed that the Britannia
is a better boat in a rough sea and a
heavy wind than the Ailsa, and it is
also conceded that she was.manouvred
with greater skill in to-day's race.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

YADKIN VALLEY CLAIMs.-Messrs.
E. D. J. Cross, Frank P. Clark and
John A. Thompkins, who represented
the first mortgage bondholders' COM
mittee at the hearing before the special
master in the matter of establishing
the claims against the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley railroad held at Will
mington, N. c., have returned to Balti-
more, and submitted q report to the full
committee. ALI claims against the rail
road were filed and the special master
is now engaged in making up his re-
port, which he will submit to the court
soon. When this matter is disposed Of
the first bondholders will apply for the
sale of the property under foreclosure,
and they hope to get a decree at the
April term Of the court. 1t is generally
believed that the first mortgage bond.
holders will buy the line and reorgan-
ize it, probably in connection with the
Roanoke and Southern, a proposition
to that end having been favorably re-
ceiyed by both interests.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
A Narrow Escape.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Mar. 27th.-The
eastbound train which left Omaha yes
terday afternoon for st. Louis had just
passed Triplett station neal Bruins
wick, Mo-, when the engineer, after
rounding a sharp curve, saw a sheet of
flame rising from between the tracks a
few yards ahead of him. The train
was brought to a sudden stop. A half
dozen feet in front of the engine rose q
tongue offlame and beyond it yawned
a seventy foot gap in the Yellow river
trestle, which had just been destroyed
by fire. The fire is thought to have
been started by would-be train robbers
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
Attemnted

DANvILLE, KY, Mar. 27.-An unsuc-
cessful attempt was made to hold up a
train on the Cincinnati Southern road
at 2 o'clock this morning at Greenwood,
Ky. There was a terrific fight between
the robbers and detectives who were
on the train, and two of the robbers
were killed and one wounded. Two
others escaped. The train was the fast
Florida special which leaves Cincinnati
at 8 p. m. and makes only four stops
between that city and Chattanooga.
Three road detectives were on the
train when the robbers boarded it and
they began firing at the robbers, killing
two of them in short order. The wound
ed man claims to be a tramp from Penn
sylvania, but all four are believed to be
mountaineers disguised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

The United States and Venezuelan
claims commission made an award
yesterday evening in Washington
lies in favor of the United States for
$4,000, without interest, as indemni-
ty for the Venzuels Steam Transporta-
ton Company of New York, whose
steamers, Hero, San Fernando, and
Nutnas, were seized on the Orinoco in
1871, and $500, with interest from that
time, for each of the company's officers
at Port Sturges and Maurinus. This is
one-third of the amount demanded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

THE fact that the French govern
ment sanctions a lottery induces a New
York newspaper to say that Americans
have q higher standard of political mo-
ralityIthan any other people," And yet
the paper referred to talks more about
the political immortality of the govern
ment of its own, and other cities, and
of Congress, than all the others in the
country. This government has, to be
sure, prohibited lotteries the use of its
mails, but it is a notorious fact that
policy, which is much worse than lot
t%eries, is played extensively in almost
every city and town in the country,
and is nearly always under the protec-
lion of political bosses.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

THERE is some talk now of the name
of Senator Elkins being on the republi-
can ticket for vice President, as a means
of breaking the solid South But talk
is breath. Mr. glihius is not a South
err man, either by birth, feeling or as
sociation, and would receive no more
votes in the South if he hailed
from Ohio, where he was born, than
from West Virginia, his latest hailing
place. Then, too, not only human ma
ture, but experience, proves that while
sectional influence is potential in ma
tional elections, State feeling amounts
to little or nothing, and that a republi-
can from Ohio or Indiana is just as pop
ular in the North as n from New
York, and a democrat from Texas, just
as popular in the South, as n from
Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
A Household Treasure.

D. ". Fuller, of Canaioharie. N. Y, says
that he always keeps DR.. Kings New Dis
covery in the house and his family has al
ways found the very best results follow It's
use ; that he would not be without it, if pro-
durable. GA. Dykeman, Druggist, Catskill,
N. Y, says that DR.. Kings New Discovery is
undoubtedly the best Cough remedy; that he
has used it in his family for eight years, and
it has never failed to do all that is claimed
for it. Why not try a remedy SO long triei
and tested Trial bottles free at E. S. Lead
beater & Sons Drug Store. Regular size SOC
and 81.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
ga Word to the Wise is Sufficient

/ suffered terribly from roaring in my head
during an attack of catarrh, and became very
deaf, used Ely's Cream Balm and in three
weeks could hear as well as ever.-A. E. New
man. Grazing, Mich.
One of my children had a very bad dis
charge from the nose. Physicians prescribed
without benefit. After using Ely's Cream
Balm a short time the disease was cured.-O.
A. Cary, Corning, N. Y.
Price of Cream Balm is fifty cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

EVERY WELL informed Southern mar
knows that President Lincoln, when he
came TO Washington to be inaugurated
for the first time, arrived there in dis
guise, and that President Davis, when
captured, had a shawl, such as men
have worn since as we'll as before,
around his shoulders to keep Oft the
rain. Northern historians still say,
however, that Mr.. Davis was dressed
in woman's clothes, and will continue
10 say so, though the man who cap
tured him, Brigaqier-G General Harden
of the lst Wisconsin Cavalry, de-
nounces that story as utterly false.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAR. 81, 1885

If THE man or men who Tor some
spite or other against some other mar
or men went into an engine mousse
stable aud crippled n OF the horses
there by beating it on the knee JOINT
with a hammer, be discovered he should
be made an example of, so as to be shun-
ned and repudiated by his race, as a
being who does not belong to it n Is
not human, for savages and barbarians
are men enough to attempt to wreak
their vengeance on creatures OF
their own kind, and not upon
poor, ~inoffending and unresisting
beasts. The simple fact that such
a crime has been committed in a
civilized and Christian community goes
far to disproSe the idea that utter hui
man depravity is impossible, for the
man capable of such q crime would
hesitate at no other, the commission OF
which required no courage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

What a pirate was spoiled when the
Legislature of Maine elected William
Pitt Frye, of Lewiston, a United States
Senatorl-.PhHadelphia Record.
Oh, no! Pirates fight, and as Mr..
Frye, though twenty-five years old
when the wal between the States broke
out, never smelt powder during the
entire four years ofthst war, there never
was any fght,in any part ofhim, except
his month.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

ALL OTHER alleged grounds for q
war with Spain and the seizure and an
nexation of Cuba having been removed,
DR.. Wyman, of the Marine Hospital
Service, comes to the assistance of the
flibusters, and suggests to them an
other, which is that the troops Spain
sends to Cuba to preserve law and order
there, will afford good material for
yellow fever, and thereby produce a
pestilence, that may spread to this
country. The Doctor should pick his
flint and try again, for this last reason is
not only less substantial than any OF
the others, but is positively ridiculous.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
A Costly Victory.

NEW YORK, Mar. ga Panama
cable dispatch says the government
has issued a bulletin claiming a victory
over the rebels at Goyaca. 1t was q
costly one, however, for out of the
three thousand troops under General
Reyes, which formed the expedition,
1,5OO dropped off through fatigue or
disease during the march, and of the
remaining 1,500, which gave battle to
the rebels, seven hundred were killed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

AS expected, Governor Mckinley re-
pudiates the statement that he will
abandon the republican party if it shall
declare for silver. The Governor, like
his party, is for success, irrespective of
principle, and he doesn't pretend to be
better than his party.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

IT Is now stated, on the authority OF
people of his own State and race, that
Waller, the Kansas negro, ex-U. S.
consul at Tamatave, for whose impris-
onment there. for c%rookedness, the
jingoes of this country would go to war
with France, is not a citizen of the
United States, but has disnaturalized
bimSe1f
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27

AS THE national administration was
not involved in the local election in
Baltimore yesterday, the wards in
which that election was held, which
last year went republican, by reason Of
democratic lukewarmness, gave their
oldetime democratic msjorities. Dem.
ocrats have no use for mugwumps or
mTawumpery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
Court of Appeals Yesterday,

Jennings ex'ors VS.. White. Further
argued and submitted.
Morrison VS.. Wilkinson will be the
next case to be called. When that case
is concluded the court will adjourn I'M
til the Sd of April.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Ex-Goy. VIM. E. Cameron delivered
an address before A. P. Hill Confeder.
ate Camp, Petersburg, last night.
The Portsmouth street railway has
! been sold to Pennsylvania capitalists
| for S64, 900. They will spend $3oO,oU
in extending and improving the sys'
tenn.
Mrs. T. n. Fletcher died in Warren
ton on Monday after q long 1llness'
She was the daughter of Rev. L. La
than. deceased, a chaplain in the u.o
navy.
The question of giving Morganfeld
the Stafford train robber, clutches has
at last been settled. Judge Ashton
has rescinded his order allowing the
crutches.
George T. Starke, a young druggist
of Culpeper, committed suicide Mon
day night by shooting himself in the
head with a pistol. He was about p
years of age.
G. Dallas Coons, q prominent farmer
of Culpeper county, while at his resi-
dence, near Ryland %postofice, was
suddenly stricken yesterday morning
and died in q few minutes.
Owing to the sickness of Judge Spill.
man Judge Lipscomb, of Prince Viii,
liam County Court, is holding the
March term of the Fauquier County
Court, which commenced yesterday.
Mrs. Bette G. Borst died at her
home, "Hagley," King George county,
on Saturday. She was the oldest
daughter of the late James G. Italia,
ferro and wife of the late Colonel Ad-
Olson Borst.
Sheriff Gordon, of Fairfax county,
yesterday delivered at the %penitentiary
John Handy, colored, and Earnest
Wilcox, sentenced to three and two
years. Imprisonment respectively, fol
housekeeping.
George D. Bahen, the young football
player who was so seriously injured
last Thanksgiving Day in q football
game with the Columbia Athletic Club
in Washington, died at the Emergency
Hospital in that city yesterday even
ing. Bahep, who was about 10 years
of age, was O student at Georgetown
College from, Richmond, where his pa
rents reside.
Three boys named Sulphin attacked
Jos. Sheeler, a Floyd Court House
schoolmaster, recently, and inflicted Sc
we're wounds with pistols and knives
A sherif's posse had to be summoned
to hunt for the young desperados. One
was captured, but the others escaped
The boys made their murderous attack
on the schoolmaster because he had
punished one of them for an infraction
of school rules.
VIM. Dawson, the thirteen .year-old
son of w. Ell. Dawson, q prominen,
farmer of P%ittsylvania county, accident.
ally shot himself yesterday. The boy
was out shooting robins in a field neal
where his father was experimenting
farm work. In some way the double
barrelled gun was discharged, and the
full load taking effect in the neck
the boy was instantly killed. just how
it occurred no one knows.
Governor O'Ferrall has issued two
military orders. One assigns the Third
Battalion of Portsmouth to the First
Brigade and the other assigns the un'
attached company at Roanoke to the
Second Regiment. This brings all O.
the white companies into the First Bri-
gade, commanded by Gen. A. L. Phillips
The other order designates a board
to assemble in Richmond at such time
as the commander-in-chief may desig-
nate to formulate rules for the govern
ment of the Virginia militia.