Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-03
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.

Agent Teter to day teiegraphed In
.lian Commissioner Browning from
Market Lake, Idaho, stating, that he
had lust returned from Jackson's Hole
and found everything quiet there.
A report has been received at the
Department of State from o.. Com
mercial Agent Louis Stern, at Balm
berg, Germany, on the emigration of
that country for the past twenty years.
During the term in evidence 1871 ,349
Germans came to the United States.
Delegate Dennis Flynn, of Okla
h ina, now here, reports that Okla
homa will send a delegation to the
next national republican convention
pledged to the support OF e1-Speaker
Reed.
Attorney General Harmon today left
for Nantucket where he will spend q
three we skis VACATION. Solicitor Gener' |
Conrad will be Acting Attorney Cen
eral during his absence.
cable dispatch received at the
State Department to day from the u.
S. consul at Shanghai reports massa-
ere of Christians ct Kucheng, China.
No Americans were killed, but one was
seriously wounded. The name of the
place where the massacre occurred was
not plain in the dispatch, but 1t is un-
derstood to be Kucheng, where, &C
cording to cable message from Shan.
ghai received this morning, frightful
massacre of Christians had occurred.
Victor Malnati, 15-year old boy liv-
inc at SIS East Capitol street, met his
death this morning by hanging. 1t Is
believed that in exercising on trapeze,
a rope became coiled around his neck
and in endeavoripg to extricate himself,
it pulled tighter until he was strangled.
Th.re were reports that he met his
death at the hands of playmates with
whom he was engaged in performing
bis feats.
Mr.. Edward Clark, Architect of the
Capitol, was overcome by an attack OF
vertigo on the Capitol grounds this
afternoon and fell unconscious. He
was taken to his Office and under medi-
cal attendance rapidly recovered and
was driven to his home. Hs condition
is said to be not serious, and that he
has been subjecs to these attacks. The
incident gave rise to report that Mr..
Clark had been stricken with paralysis.
1t is stated to-day that as Secretary
Smiths recent visit to Georgia in the
interest of gold money did not give the
grace stroke to silver in that State, it
will be repeated, and that the Secretary
has been sending Secretary Carlisle's
anti-silver speech to the postmasters in
Georgia for distribution.
Judge Cole in the Equity Court here
to-day rendered a decision to the effect
that Anheuser beer contains no delete
rious ingredients, and that it is entitled
to the prize for pure beer offered by
the Chicago worlds fair. The counsel
for the beer company were a.. s.
Worthington and r. G. Thompson, the
latter nephew of the late Senator
Barbour OF Virginia.
Commonwealth Attorney Johnston
of Alexandria county who was here to.
day says the magistrate who discharged
Nelson and Forster for gambling in AL
exandris county is a negro, but that
another warrant has been issued for
their arrest, and that they will not only
be indicted by the grand jury, but be
punished.
Mr.. Walter Powell of Fairfax G. H.,
who was here to-day, says he doesn't
think there will be any democratic OF I
position to either the denomination or
reelection of State Senator Mushbach
in his district.
Rev. j. G. Minnigerode. of st. Louis,
son of the late Rev. DIR. Minnigerode,
of Alexandria, who has been i'll at the
residence of his father in law, Mr.. G.
g. Thompson, of Culpeper, passed
through here yesterday on his way to
New York for treatment, in charge of
DR.. A. S. Rixey, of Culpeper.
1t is said at the State Department
shat the fuss about Waller, the neg o
ex-consul, who is in a French prison
for clearly proved crime against the
French government, has become
monotonous and is annoying, and that
Waller must abide the consequences OF
his crime, as black Frenchman would
have to do under similar circumstances
in this country.
Surgeon General Wyman OF the
Marine Hospital Service says the order
abolishing the branch of that service at
Alexandria will not be revoked. The
government, he says, is not bound to
keep such branch at every port, and
rs Washington is only six miles off, and
as there was trouble and annoyance in
the settlement of accounts at Alexan-
dria, the branch there was abolished
and will not be re-established.
The negroes here are very wroth
with Miss Flagler for killing boy of
their race who was robbirg her apple
tree yesterday, and more 80 with the
coroner's jury who discharged her.
They are loud in their talk and threaten
to have the case brought before the
grand jury, and, lis said. have engaged
negro lawyer to do so. The boys
father is very respectable negro. who
came out of the Waller estate in Stat
ford county, Virginia, and has for many
years been messenger in the Treasury
Department.
Virginians here laugh at the late
| honest election conference in their
State. They Say the bill reported to
the conference and endorsed by it, has
been in General Mahone's hands for
three weeks, and was prepared under his
direction, and that those who have seen
it say it is worse than the one passed
when he had control of the Virginia
legislature.
Lieut.. Lee Holcomb, u s. N, formerly of
| Alexandria, has been assigned Ito duty at San
Francisco.