Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
[co,raanondence o, the Alexandra Gazette.

States now has pending before it two
appeals by one person from judgments
sentencing him to be hanged for murder,
the two crimes having been committed
on different days and at places sepa-
rated by many miles. The appellant,
who presents this unique record, is not
vet 81 yeara old. Cherokee Bill" YVES
convicted February q last in tine court
of Judge Isaac @. Parker for the Vest
ern District of Arkansas of the murder
of Ernest Melton, in the Cherokee Ma
ton, Indian Territory, November IL,
1894, and sentenced to be hanged June
%, 1896. This murder, from the record
was ont Of pure wsntonness. "Chero-
keen and companion, in broad Day
light rode up to the store OF Sohn
Shufeldt, in Lenepah, and robbed tne
cash drawer and safe. As they were
lesvino the building "Cherokee" saw
Melton watching them from 8 window
n ON adioinine house, and shot him
throngb the head, instantly killing him.
Tron, the Judgment in the case for that
murder an appeal was taken by "Chero-
kea'sn attorney, which reached the SUI
nrsme Court Of the United States May
30. 1895. In the meantime he was con-
fined in the jail at Fort Smith, pending
action upon the appeal. On July rs,
he shot and killed Lawrence Heating,
o guard in the jail, two revolvers hav-
Ing been smuggIed into the building by
the prisoners. On Saturday, August 10,
he was convicted of this second muir
der; two days later Judge Parker SEN
fenced him to hang on September 10.
The execution of this sentence was
stayed by the filing of the appeal, and
Cherokee Bill" is still in Jail.
The State Department this morning
received cable information from China
efectually disproying the accuracy OF
dispatches recently publiahed alleging
that the work Of the commission en-
gagged in the investigation of the Ku-
Cheng missionary massacre had been
blocked BY the refusal of the Chinese to
execute those found guilty unless all
future demands should be waived.
The Treasury stated gold reserve to-
day, with all exports out and deposits
up to- day in, is $95, 456, 954, a gain over
Yesterday Of $4,000. The Peoples
National Bank, of Pittsburg, Pa, to-
day Deposited 100000 in gold in ex-
change for currency.
When the report that Rev. DIR. Tai.
mage, of New York. would come here
and take charge of DR.. Sunderland's
church was first started, it was not cred
tied by many Of the residents of the
city, but, for some reason or other, many
of them now express perfect confidence
in its truth.
JIM. Langston, the negro Exon
gresham from Virginia, who is now here
Crying to have Waller, the negro ex-
Consul, released from prison, says the
political fight in Virginia this fall will
bea straightout one between the dem
ocrats and the republicans, as all par
ties theirs win certainly, at least, profess
to be in favor Of fair elections"
A Fredericksburg democrat, here to-
day, SAYS the impression in his town on
the subject is that Mr.. Rawlings will be
the democratic nominee for the House
of Delegates and that Mr.. Jack Mason
will be the nominee for the State Sem
ate from the King George district.
Congressman Ellet of Richmond, who
has been hunting for Postmaster Gem
ersl Wilson for month, in order to
urge upon him the claims of one of his
constituents for appointment, hearing
Yesterday that Mr.. Wilson had arrived
from West Virginia, hurried here, but
only to find that his trip was in vain, as
the object of his search had just gone
to Chickamauga.
Two prominent democrats of Balti
more, one of them an ex congressman,
here to-day, and both unfriendly to
Senator German and Mr.. Rasin, and
who would not regret their defeat, said
there would be tremendous fight
against them, such as had never been
made before, but that having eyes and
ears there is no sense in closing them,
and that from what they see and hear
they can't help believing that the dem
ooratic ticket will be elected. They
also said the democratic ticket would
receive the votes of thousands of men
who do not like Mr.. German.
An omnibus now connects the cable
car line in Georgetown with the Mt.
Vernon electric railroad, at the south
end of the Aqueduct Bridge.
At the testing ground at Indian
Head yesterday thirteen inch shell
passed through q fourteen inch Har-
yeyized nickel steel plate just as easily
as q rife bullet goes through plank
fence.
Arrangements have been made by
which the officers and enlisted men OF
the army will be paid for June, the last
month of the fiscal year, without q call
on the personal bank account of Secre-
tary Lamont.
People here from the once "tenth
legion" of Virginia say the State Sena.
tors from that district will be anti
O'Ferrall men.
1t is minated at the Treasury to-day
that arrangements have been made
with the banks by which the legal gold
reserve will be maintained without
resort to new issue of bonds until at
ter the assembling of Congress, and
thht the knowledge of that fact will
lessen the demand for gold for export,
rs its expectation will be improbable.
1t is elso said there that as soon as the
fear of the silver craze shall be dissi-
pated, the return of American securi-
ties from Europe and the withdrawal
of European capital invested here will
be stopped.
The State Department has informed
the Venezuelan Minister that if he shall
deem it necessary, ample apology will
be made for the recent arrest of a
member of his legation in New York.
The man was arrested for insulting