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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A largely ATTENDED meeting of Cuban
sympathizers was held in Washington
last night.
The President and party of friends
fished at Shepherdstown, w. Va, yes.
terday and returned to Washington in
the evening.
James A. Kerney, for many years
travelling auditor of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, died at the Maryland
University Hospital yesterday.
Ex-Governor Campbell, democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio, declares
that he will be elected, and that the
Ohio Legislature will be democratic.
Mrs. Mary McDole, of Johnson, R. l..
was shot and killed last night by her
son, Thomas Mclaughlin. The details
of the crime are most revolving, as the
woman was lying in bed sick, and was
FIRST terribly kicked and beaten before
bullet through her right temple put
an end to her sufferings. The murderer
was captured. Her son had been
opposed to her contracting second
marriage about two weeks ago.
AL. Reeves, the comedian, was &C.
Quilted in the police court In Washing
ID yesterday by jury of the charge
of attempted larceny from the person
and assault, preferred against him by
Mrs. Dennis CAVITY. During the trial
Mr.. Darlington, his attorney, made
remark rejecting upon the treatment
which Reeves had received from Depu.
ty Marshal Mccormick. Mccormick
when a recess was taken applied an
epithet to Darlington, who slapped
Mccormick in the face, aud an affray
was prevented by the interference Of
bystandeIs.
District Attorney Barnes did not
finish his speech in the Theodore Dur
rant trial in San Francisco yesterday,
as he announced that he would do, but
will finish to-day, when the case will
be given to the jury. AS the attorney
dealt upon the ghoulish nature of
man who could steal the rings from the
body of an innocent girl that he had
murdered his denunciation of the de-
PENDANT became so bitter that Mrs.
Durrant was unable to retain her COM
posture. She burst into tears and flung
her arms about the neck of her son, as if
to shield him from the torrent of invec-
tives of which he was being made the
object. Durrant remained measurably
calm, but his mother, although she
made several efforts, could not control
her emotion.
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other.

SENATOR SHERMAN's new book
shows that he has either lost his mem
DRY or has not gained quality he was
never supposed to possess; for, in it,
he s,ys it was Zach Chandler who sent
the famous dispatch to r. B. Hayes on
the night ofthe election: "You have 1876
votes and are elected" Every we'll in
formed man in Washington knows that
Zach Chandler was incapable of send
log any dispatch, to anybody.at the time
referred &c, and that William E. Chandler
was its author. The Senator also fails
10 mention the fact that when under
examination by the Potter committee,
he swore on the Bible that he did not
remember whether he had written the
Weber letter, though that letter was
the most profitable one he ever wrote
In all his life, as, by means oft, the vote
of Louisiana was stolen, Hayes declared
elected, and he, Sherman, made Secre-
tary of the Treasury, in which Office he
became multi-millionaire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
T0-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The Holmes Trial.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1.-The ques-
tions asked by Holiness attorneys in
dictate that they will claim that Pitezel
committed suicide. which is the only
defence that could be offered. 1t is
more than probable that Holmes will
be put upon the stand, as he is anxious
TO testify. Mrs. Pitezel was the first
witness placed upon the stand to-day.
The strain upon Mrs. Pitezel upon the
stand broke her down ard when she
WAC taken into the corridor she became
hysterical and her screams penetrated
to the court room. She was carried in
to the district attorneys Office and re-
storatives were applied and she became
quieter.
After some unimportant testimony
Mr.. Graham gave notice that the case
for the commonwealth was closed.
The case made out against Holmes
was woefully weak as far as any direct
evidence duplicating the accused in the
murder of Pitezel. The defense, how
ever, appears to have no defense that
can be called worthy of such name.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
Gen. Gordon in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. IA
large audience last night heard Gen.
John B. Gordon, of Confederate fame,
deliver his lecture in Plymouth Church
on the "Last Days of the Coufederacy."
General Harrison in introducing Gen.
Gordon said /: "There was great deal
of discussion during and since the war
az to the relative advantages possessed
by the Confederate and the Union
armies. We had ampler war material
and larger population. They had in
terror lines. Perhaps we did not have
a fair test of who were the better men.
but if this country should ever again
assemble great army and Georgia
should charge with Indiana then we
would know-and woe to those that
must meet that resistless charge"
After Gen. Gordon had talked over
two hours, the striking incident occur
red of a northern audience calling out
to "rebel" general who was promis-
ing to quit talking to Go on, go on"
The address was received with coniin-
uous evidences of favor.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.
Snow fell in various parts of Maine

Snow fell in various parts of Maine
to-day.
Jack Dempsey, the pugilist, died at
Portland, Oregon to-day.
A dispatch from Hot Springs, Ark,
says the big fight is put over until next
week and the chances are not favorable
for Corbett and Fitzsimmons meeting
in the ring before Tuesday.
Christian Schleehle, trimmer of the
Wheeling, w. Va, city electric light
works, was instantly killed this morn.
ing. He had recently gotten the job
and this morning started to work. A
light hangs in front of bis house and
he asked his wife TO come to the door
and watch him trim his first lamp.
The light was lowered and Sch 20 ,hIe
took hold of both carbons. The cur
rent ran through his body, killing him
instantly before his Mortified wife.
An interesting point in connection with the
e,rthquake which was felt in Indiana yester-
day is the fact that 8 number of small streams
having thti SQUIRE in the southern border of
the gas belt have suddenly filled with water.
months to swell the streams, and no one can
imagine where the water comes from.
An order for billets was completed in the
Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Braddock,
Pa. between 2 and o'clock this morning
and the plant was at oncs closed down,
throwing from 1900 to 1000 men out of
employment. 1t is said work will be resumed
Monday.
Dispatches from Auburn and Tecumseh.
Neb., state that Bishop Bonacun, of tho
diocese of Lincoln, has taken legal steps to
dislodge Fathers Murphy aud Fitzgerald from
their respective pastorates for contumacy.
A sensation has been created at Waco Tex,
by the arr st of A. ]. Sewell, assistant cashier
OF the First National Bank of McGregor,
charged with the robbery of the bank on
Tuesday night.
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FRIDAY EVENING. NOV. l. 1895.
A WASHINGTON i.Alexan1er's ISL
,rd b,t nro.St Asaph. race track news

A WASHINGTON anti-Aiexan1er's ISL
and, but pro-St. Asaph, race track news
paper says if the evidencein the recent
outrage case tried here "were reliable"
The verdict was in accordance with the
facts. But why should it thus impugn
the evidence without the slightest
ground for doing SO? 1t also says: IF
Alexandria should show as much enter
prise and determination in the matter
of Kidding itself of the nest of thieves,
thugs and gamblers now menacing not
only the city down the river, but the
capital of the nation, even more good
would be accomplished and the fair
name of the region across the Potomac
would be spared from much i'll repute
abroad" But all the evil classes it re-
fers to in Alexandria county come from
and live in Washington, and all the i'll
repute to which it alludes has resulted
from the scandalous abuse of Alexan-
dcia county by it and another paper OF
It's city that also denounces one race
track in the county, but praises the
other.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
Severe Earthquake at Rome.

ROME, Nov. This city was visited
by violent shocks of earthquake at $40
o'clock this morning. People were
aroused from their slumbsrs and fed to
the open squares and the greatest con-
sternation prevailed. The Convent Of
Santa Maria Maggiore was greatly
damaged. A portion of the outer wall
was overthrown and part of the ceiling
has fallen. One of the inmates, q monk,
was injured. The old tower of the OBJ
servatory was damaged. The shocks
created great panic among the in
mates of the prison and mutioy was
attempted by the prisoners. -Four
palaces and the Bank of Italy were SO
shaken that they are rendered unsafe
for occupancy. The Palazao Odescal
chi, one of the finest palaces in Rome,
and FIVE other structures of that char
ecter, are also seriously damaged. The
quakes rang all the bells in the city
and doors were shaken and windows
smashed everywhere.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
Foreign News.

YARNA BULGARIA, Nov. 1.-Advices
from Constantinople say that eight
Albanian guards have been executed
and twenty-four others imprisoned So
the result of discovery of plot
against the Sultan's palace. in which
the guards were concerned. Discon-
tent with the present regime has be-
come so marked that events of startling
importance may be expected at any
time. A fushion of the Mussulman
and Armenian committees against the
Sultan is believed to be imminent and
it is said that their united efforts will
henceforth be directed against the exist
ing system OF government in CONSTANT
nople.
Hone KONG, Nov. 1.-The japanese
have captured Katchi, great inland
town of Formosa. which has been in
possession of the black flags, and the
position of the latter is now desperate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
The Pugilists.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Nov. 1.-Corbett
and mis- party arrived here this morning.
None of the Fitzsimmons party appear
ed in the hotel rotunda while Corbett
was there. The time for Corbett's
hearing before Chancellor Martin has
not yet been fixed, and will probably
he delayed till after Fitzsimmon's trial.
The Governor row has both pugilists
directly under his eye, and those who
know him declare that he will allow
neither of them to leave Little Rock
until he has undoubted assurance that
they will at once quit the State alto
gether never to return. There is very
little fight talk in any quarter to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

HIS WIFE AGAINST HIM.-A sensa-
tional feature at Bourges, France, yes
terday of the trial of the Marquis de
Nayve, for the murder of his stepson,
was the appearance in the witness box
of the msrquise, his wife. The victim
OF the alleged murder was her natural
son, born before her marriage to the
Marquis de Nayve. She testified to
numerous instances of murderous bru-
t.lity on the part of the prisoner toward
her children, and she asserted that her
consequent fears of a violent death
prompted her to bring the charge of
murder against her husband. She had
not thought him guilty when he re-
turned from Italy.
But" she continued, turning and
looking straight at her husband, sit is
your brutality that caused me to de-
nounce you"
The prisoner, who had burst into
tears when his wife appeared in court,
refused to say word in reply to this.
During the cross examination of the
marquise the counsel for the defense
read an sfectionate letter written by
the witness to the prisoner fortnight
after she had lodged against him the
charge of murder with the public prose-
cutor. The reading of the letter caused
q profound sensation in the court and
revulsion of feeling in favor of the &C.
cused.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

The New York Sun asks 'tif there
ever was anything more shocking or
more atrocious than the recent burning
f negro in Te1as?" Why, the
crime, which he confessed, was infinite
ly more shocking and atroc:ous than
its punishment, and, to stamp it out, the
most severe measures must be resorted
to. The negro outrager in this count :
was tried in accordance with law
and sentenced to speedy death, SIS was
proper, and as should be done for a
ike crime everywhere; but where jails
are insecure and there is danger of fail.
u:e of justice by reason of legal delay,
outraged communities should not be
condemned too severely if they take
the law in their own hands for the
punishment of such brutal monsters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

one contribution coming from Nova
Scotia. She and her children are prac-
tically without means of support, ex-
cept such as are derived from the hos
pitality of Washington friends.
The meeting to be held under the auspices
of the Alumni Association at Wizards Hall
SATURDAY. night in aid of the rebuilding fund
of the University of Virginia promises to be
a great success Some of the most distin-
guished men of the country will be present
and make speeches. The presence of num-
Dor of ladies will make this meeting quite a
social function. The Alumni Association in
cludes in its membership two cabinet o eiee,
and many prominent men. These, with dis
tinguished visitors from Virginia and e'se-
where, the friends of the Univer,ity,o of higher
education and of Virginia, will constitute
gathering of notable people not often brought
together in one hall The Alexandria alumni
are expected to attend,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Court of Appeals is moving into
its new rooms in the new Library
Building in Richmond.
The sawmill of Mr.. Wait, in Orange,
and large lot of lumber were destroy
ed by fire Wednesday night.
Rain was general through the State
yesterday. Some snow fell in the
early morning near Lexington and
Harrisonburg.
A meeting of Cuban sympathizers
was held in the Circuit Court room at
Roanoke yesterday evening, at which
Mayor Jones presided.
The Jefferson, the splendid hotel in
Richmond, owned by Major Lewis
Ginter and others, and which has just
been completed, opened for business
this morning.
A dinner party was yesterday given
to Miss Irene Langhorne at the Hotel
Jefferson, in Richmond. Miss Lang
home will marry Mr.. G. Dana Gibson,
the New York artist, in Richmond, on
November Z.
Rev. A. P. Saunders, of Fredericks-
burg, has been granted an indefinite
leave of absence to travel in the inter-
est of the Fredericksburg Collegiate
Institute, and Revs. Sampson and
Hodge will fill his pupil during his alb
sence.
A case of scarlet fever was reported
to the mayor at Manassas yesterday.
IL was that of twelve. year-old dangh-
ter of Adolph Grossman, a barber. A
special meeting of the council was call
ed, which appointed committee to
make arrangements for putting the
family under quarantine restrictions.
The pnblic schools will probably be
closed at once, to prevent the spread of
the fever.
A lady about sixty years old, whose
name is Mary Tanning, of Cuba, N. Y,
came to Richmond on Wednesday to
buy farm in Virginia. She stopped
that night at Ferriter's Hotel, blew
out the gas, and was found yesterday
morning nearly dead. The chances are
against her recovery. 1t is not known
whether she is married or single, but
she has brother and sister in Cuba.
The mayor of that town has been COM
muuicated with.
Benjamin Chandler, twenty three
years old. was accidentally shot and in
SANITY killed yesterday afternoon by
his brother near Exmore. The two
young men were returning from the
woods, and were hurrying on account
of a heavy rain, which was falling. The
young man was few yards ahead OF
his brother, when the latter's gun was
accidentally discharged. The shot took
effect in his right side, and penetrated
the lungs, which caused instant death.
Emily Fairfax, the infant daughter
of Fortescue and the late Sue McNair
Whittle,, who was burned by the ex-
plosion at her parents residence in
petersburg, on Wednesday, died of her
injuries last night. Physicians say
there is but little hope for the recovery
of Annie Claiborne, the colored nurse,
who was also burned by the explosion.
Miss Stone is getting on nicely and
rested fairly we'll last night. The
funeral of Mrs. White took place
Yesterday afternoon from st. Paurs
Episcopal Church and was largely at
tended.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
FOREIGN NEWS.

1t is said the Japanese troops are be-
ing rapidly withdrawn from the Lao
lung peninsula.
NJ. Bourgeois has succeeded 10 form.
ing a new French cabinet, all the port
tolios having been accepted, with the
exception of that of the foreign minis
try.
The Mohammedan insurgents in
West China are said to be defeating the
Chinese troops in every direction and
they intend to form an independent
kingdom.
A monarchist conspiracy has been
discovered in the State of San Paulo,
Brazil, with extensive ramifcations in
various districts. Many arrests have
been made.
Three Armenian notabilities of Ire.
bizond, it is reported at Constantine.
pie, are to be executed on the ground
that they are responsible for the recent
rioting there.
The King of Ashanti has rejected the
British demand for q resident commits
sioner in his country, saying that he
preferred war and was prepared for it.
The British are expected to take the
initiative by the end of the year.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

MADE HIS BED IN THE STREET.-THE
liceman McCabe, while standing at the
corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth
street, New York, shortly before noon
yesterday, noticed small, nervous
looking man walking up Broadway.
The most noticeable thing about him
was big white double blanket which
he had wrapped about his shoulders.
Fifteen minutes later McCabe saw peo-
pie running toward Thirty-first street.
Several cable cars had stopped, and
also number of wagons. The police
man found the nervous. looking man
lying in the centre of the street, rolled
up in his white blanket and apparent.
ly fast asleep. Before lying down he
removed his shoes and stockings, his
white shirt and his sack coat, which ne
had placed in little pile on the up
town car track. He then attempted 10
remove his undershirt, but the screams
OF women and cries of men evidently
scared him, for he quickly picked up
the blanket and wrapped himself in it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

No wonder forty thousand new names
Were added to the pension rolls last
year, when no less than six claim
agents 10 one small town alone, in North
Carolina are now on trial for inducing
negro women to swear that they had
husbands who we're either killed or
crippled during the war. Indeed, un-
der the pension laws. the wonder is that
the number of names on the pension
list is not two, Instead of one million, as
il now is.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Business has been quiet during the week.
The grain market continues dull with light
offerings. The rain OF yesterday was hailed
with delight by the farmers and Others. In
m ,netary affairs there is nothing of special
interest to note. In New York yesterday
money on call closed at 2a3 per cent, last
loan 2, closed at 2 per cent. Prime mercan-
tile psper 4a51 per cent. In Baltimore
money is more plentiful. and though call
loans are still quoted at 4a6 per cent. it is
admitted that easier rates are not difficult to
obtain on any accepted security. Loca! shares
continue quiet but slow with little doing.
BALr1MoRE. Nov. 1.-virginis Century 3s
62A.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

A NORTHERN newspaper says: "Mr.
Cleveland's message to the democrats
of New York is generally commended
by his party" Similar messages" to
the democrats of Kentucky and Mary
land would be commended by his party
great deal more. The party could
sand the loss of New York,
as it has done before, but if the
solid South shall be broken, its
chance of success at the next Presi-
dental election will be poor indeed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
SENATORS AT ODDs.-The great fight

SENATORS AT ODps.-The great fight
between Senator Irby and Senator Till.
man on the suffrage question was
opened in the South Carolina conven-
ton yesterday by speech from Sena-
tor Irby, attacking the report of the
committee. He said he would stultify
himself and the cause of the peo-
pie of South Carolins if he would
vote for any discrimination against
poor and illiterate men. He was
not an migrate, who would &C
cept the highest Office 10 South Caro-
lima from the poor and illiterate white
men and then tramp them beneath his
feet, this reference being plainly aimed
at Tillman. Irby said that he would
vote with the negroes against the Till
man plan as long as 1t had an educa-
tional and property qualification. he
denounced the plan as political in
EQUITY, and declared he never would
betray the people who gave him Office.
While denouncing the Tillman plan he
offered no substitute.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

A NAVAL officer has just been pub
licly censured for simply writing 8
letter to a personal friend who is sn
officer Of foreign government. But 8
civil officer of the government, at the
capital of the government, made pub
tic speech last night, denouncing a
friendly foreign government and sup
porting its negro, mulatto and scalawag
insurgents, and he did so with impuni-
ty, and will continue to draw his sal
ary.
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case.

IFIr be true, as is stated by the re-
publicans, that Senator Quay and Mr..
Carnegie are doing all they can to help
the Maryland democrats, the latter can
we'll afford to be easy in their minds,
for, if to their own strength, be added
the skill of Mr. Quay and the money
OF Mr.. Carnegie they will be irresisti-
BILE, and their victory is already as good
as won.
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DIED.

In this city last night JOHN KEs5LE Err,
in the Send year Of his age.
We miss thee from our home. dear father,
We miss thee from thy place;
a shadow DER our life is cast,
We miss the sunshine of thy face
We miss thy kind and willing hand
Thy fond and earnest cire;
Our home is dark with ,ut thee
We mics thee everywhere.
His funeral will take place tom ,rrow even
ing at 8 o'clock, from his late residence 1T the
corner of st. Asaph and Princess reefs.
Washington, Baltimore and New York pape g
pleise copy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01

A LARGE and established cotton
exporting house in New York takes
the GAzETTEs view of the subject re-.
ferred to, and says the way to increase
the foreign demand for, and conse-
quantity the price of cotton, is to re-
move the duty on imports, so that for.
eign orders for the staple may be paid
for with plentiful foreign products, in
stead of with scarce gold, as is now the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-01
FOUND IN A DYING CoNp1r1oN.-I

FOUND IN A DYING CoNDITIoN.-It
is reported that on Wednesday morn.
ing at about $50 o'clock Section Fore.
man Thaoker, on the Warrenton branch
of the Southern railroad, found the
body of Hermon Stephenson, lying on
the railroad bank, about two miles east
of Warrenton, nearly frozen to death.
Mr.. Thacker and his force did what
they could for him, but he died in
few minutes after being found. He
was son of the late DR.. Stephenson,
of Warrentou, and of unsound mind
Fredericksburg Star.