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The Union. [volume] (St. George, Utah) 1882-1898, 1895-12-28

because ne q give no cash, 10 trim
The new hat she had on her.
Subscribe for the UNION, only $3.50 a
year.
Wanted at this office, two six-light
sash, either with or without glass, size of
glass, Sx10 inches.
Richard Morris is the leading
clothier of this city and he spares
no pains to please his customers.
Master Joseph Woodbury. fell
off horse to-day, yet was not hurt,
but amused himself in filling his
mouth with mother earth as he
landed on terra frma.
On Christmas the central school
pupils and members of the town,
played a game Of Base Ball, the
pupils of the school carrying off
the laurels, the winning tallies
being l6 to 9.
On the morning Of the 26 inst.
the LIST and 3rd ward young men
OF this city played a game of Base
Ball, the first ward winning the
game.
David H. Morris informs us that
the machinery of Washington Fac
tory was closed down on Tuesday,
December "a, 1895, and will com
mence work again on January 4,
1896.
The fourth ward district schools under
the tutorship of Misses Edith Twins and
Katie Kemp, gave their scholars nice
surprise last Monday, in the shape of a
Christmas tree, at the Lyceum, loaded
with presents for the scholars and poor
children of the town. Each of the schol-
lars that could, took nickel to school to
aid in purchasing the presents
On Thursday, December 26, the
girls of Washington played game
OF Base Ball, the losers to put up
a supper for the crowd on Friday
night, but we have not heard par
ticulars of the result as to who
were the losers.
James Waters and Lucinda
chichester were married at Wash
lngton, on Wednesday, December
l0, 1895, and George Hall and EN-
ma Prince were married on Thurs
day, December -, 1895.
The End and Bird wards young
men of this city INDUCED in game
OF Base Ball, on the rs inst and
had an enjoyable time, the 3rd
ward taking the winning card, the
game standing 40 to 81.
Martin L. MaAllister, just in from To-
Querville, reports the health of the PEG.
PIE generally good, yet some sickness is
prevailing. There were two marriages
ln That place last week, William Savage
and Maude Wakelin; Howard Bring
hurst and Laura Davis. May they all
iiye long and be happy.
CDrlstmas at that place passed off more
quietly than it has for years.
4. G. McQua1rie, who is in from
Sllyer Reef, Utah, reports the min
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29

soUTHERs RAILWAY CFH1cERs.-The
S,uthern Railway win make important
changes in officials on November L. While
there are some minor changes in the trans-
portatiou department, the main changes to
take place on November I will be in the
freight department.
Borace 2. Smith, for long time general
freight agent OF the Queen and Crescent route
at Cincinnati, has been appointed to a similar
position with the Southern road. His juris-
diction will extend over the eEure Southern
hallway system. He viii have headquarters
in Washington st the head Office of the COM
pzny.
]. A. Drake, general freight agent of the
Eastern system. will become assistant general
freight agent with headquarters in Richmond.
Edwin Fitzgerald, general agent of the West
EN- system, at Knoxville, will be assistant
with headquarters in Louisville. Hidden
Miller, division freight agent of the Southern
at Birmingham will be assistant general
freight agent at atlanta
There will also be some changes in the
transportation department of the system.
This viii be the naming of an assistant gen.
Alabama Great Southern.
An executive order has been issued from
New York for the appointment Of a c.
Ansley Is treasurer of the Akbsna Great
Southern, and OF George e. hobbs to &c
auditor Of the same railrosd. Both viii have
their headquarters in Washington. Auditor
Hobbs hss named F. Il. Crump as assistant
auditor. ]. ]. WingfeId rs ticket auditor, q.
W. Wolf as freight auditor. ". IL Scott As
chi travelling auditor, and ]. z. Carroll as
travelling auditor.
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apart. The Judge was charged with
uubecoming conduct with other wo-
men and with beating his wife.

apart. The judge was charged with
uubecoming conduct with other wo-
men and with beating his wife.
E. z. Craig, an aeronaut, is believed to be
fatally injured as result Of a fall he received
at Hancock, Md last Saturday. He ascend.
ed TO a height of 900 feet and in his de-
scent the parachute failed to work well and
he fell on roof with great force. Craig
weighs nearly two hundred pounds and has
made one hundred and nifty ascensions. This
is his fourth accident
When passenger train came over the long
trestle south of Fayetteville, Ark /, yesterday
g woman walked out OF car and threw her
self to the ground. The car wheel struck her
body and she was dead when picked up. A
seven year-old child who was with her says
her mother was Mrs. Sarah Stafford, of Po-
mona, CAL
Herman Danzig, proprietor of the Mercan
tile Cloak Company, New York, failed to-day.
Mr.. Danzig has been in business twenty years.
His liabilities are $125 900. This is the
seventh failure III tie cloak trade this month
At Newport, r. l., last night ]. Van Alien,
who is being sued by Col. Colt, for 5000, 600,
for alternating his wife's affections, gave bail
and the whole Of his estate was mortgaged
for surety.
A heavy snow storm get in at Negaunee,
Mich. at an early hour ye terday aud contin-
ned until ten chs e snow had fallen
Sleighs were in ioI ;ue Il ST ti;ne this SCI
son.
Snow fell in northern New York to-day and
the mercury dropped TO 80 degrees
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
TUESDAY EVENING. OCT. % 1896.
JUDGE CH1cHEsrER's charge to the

JUDGE CH1cHEsTER's charge to the
grand jury of the county yesterday, in
reference to the manner in which the
laws are executed in that county, was
right in all respects; but even should the
jury indict every magistrate and con-
stable in the county, and if all of them
should be convicted of malfeasance,
those who would be chosen to fill their
places at the next election would be
lust as bad as they are, and would
necessarily be so as long as the negroes
of the county shall be entitled to free
vote and fair count" for they consti-
tute a majority of the voters of that
county, and Therefore elect whom they
pie Sc to the county Offices. The best
laws are travestie1 when administered
and executed by ignorant and vicious
officers, and as long as the negro ma
iority in Alexandria county have the
power to elect the officers of that
county, just so long will the enforce
ment of the laws there be 8 grotesque
mockery of justice.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

10 iah Quincy is assured of the demo
cratic nomination for the mayoraity Of
Bos ON, the other candidates having
Withdrawn.
Elias F. Morgan, president OF the
Merlan Iron Works Company, died at
New London, Conn.,, this morning,
aged SO years, of paralysis.
Word has been received at Cuban
headquarters in New York Of the safe
landing in Cuba of the expedition I'M
der Cdspedes which left Philadelphia
October 20.
In their fifth annual convention at
Baltimore last night the Maryland Bap-
tist Young Peoples Union adopted a
resolution against the organization of a
separate Southern union.
Mary Walsh threw herself over the
banister from the third floor in big
State street store in Chicago, last night,
and vas crushed to death by the fall On
the main floor. The woman was par
tally demented.
In the Pieper divorce suit in st.
Charles, Mo-, a compromise has been
effected by Judge Pieper paying his
wife 1929, 90, aid tney as.ee 10 live
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
Double EIectrocution.

DANNEMoRA, N. Y, Oct. 29.-Geo.
II. Smith, the murderer of Philip Ritch-
myer, of Albany, was successfully cleo
trocuted in Clinton prison at 11:39 q.
m. to day, and Charles N. Davis was
electrocuted at 11:57. Both of the
electrocutions were made successfully.
The crime for which George Fl. Smith
was electrocutee was brutal and I'M
cslled-for murder of an innocent old
man for q few dollars. Smith told
Ritchmyer that his employer was i'll
and wanted him to come to his house
at once. Ritchmyer got into the car
rage Smith had hired, and they drove
to lonely place near the city line
when Smith shot his companion and
robbed him. Instead of getting $40, as
he anticipated, he secured only SIS.
The crime for which Charles N. Davis
surrendered his life was the outrsging
and numbering of May Shannon, OF
Cohoes. child scarcely six years OF
age, on the evening of May Is last.
Before killing the child this 6end in
human shape outraged her in horri-
BILE manner and injured her so bad
ly that death soon came to her relief.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
A DURRANT CONSPIRACY.

Coroner Hawkins in San Francisco
yesterday received a letter signed by
George Reynolds, announcing the
writer's intention to commit suicide.
In it Reynolds virtually accuses the
counsel for Durrant of conspiracy to
implicate Pastor Gibson, of Emmanuel
Church, in the murders Of Miss Lamont
and Minnie Williams.
Reynolds, in his statement, says he,
with four other men, named Smyth,
Dugan, Stewart and Taylor, were to be-
witnesses for the defense. .Smyth was
to swear that Blanche Lamont was at
his home, near Haywards, until Friday,
April 5, when she left for her own
bone. Dugan and Stewart were to
swear they sew Miss Lamont on the
Oakland boat on the afternoon of Fri
day, April 5, Dugan knowing her.
The second strap produced by the
defense with Blanche Lamont's name
on it, Reynolds alleged he marked
himself. The end of the strap he cut
off and sent to Chief Crowley some
three or four months ago.
There was also plan to produce
bloody handkerchief in the Williams
case marked with the letter &C." and
Reynolds marked FIVE other handker-
chiefs with that letter, and Taylor sent
them by messenger to Gibson.
Subsequently the others refused to
implicate Gibson in the matter pro-
posed, and the plan fell through.
The police believe the statement
signed by Reynolds, for they say that
months ago they received warning that
such alibi evidence was being procured.
and the weakening of these witnesses
did not take place till after Deuprey's
opening statement, for he expressly
stated that he had proof of the guilt of
the preacher.
The letter cannot come before the
jury in this case, but it may have an
important bearing on the Minnie Viii
liams trial if Reynolds or any of his
associates can be found. Counsel for
Durrsnt ridicule the story and attribute
it to the police. The latter believe
Reynolds statement, and are search
ing for proof to corroborate it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
ROMANCE OF LAW SUIT.

The most important land suit ever
tried in the federal court in West Vir-
ginia, is now on before Judge ]. J..
Jackson. The case is one involving
the possession of about 100000 acres
of land in Mingo, Logan, Wyoming
and Mcdowell counties, W. Va; Pike
county, KY, and Buchanan and Taze-
we'll counties, Va.
The case was brought by Henry c..
King, the present litigation involving
the title to half million acres, but it
will be followed by separate suits for
possession of tracts aggregating two
| and half million acres. A brief his
tory of the land involved is as follows !:
James Swami, Boston merchant,
| and friend of George Washington,
the original owner of this land, sold
what he could of it and devoted the
proceeds to furthering the cause of
American independence, himself tax
ing an active part in the war. In re-
turn for his service the House of Con
gesses of Virginia redeeded to him all
the property he sold and gave him
much more lying west of the ALE
ghanies.
Swann's idea was to found a colony
for French nobility, but the advent of
Napoleon frustrated the emigration and
Swami was confronted with debt of
4 600, 900 francs, which he was unable
t, pay and was confined in St.
Pelage prison for ten years. Dur
ing the riots in Paris Swami
was released, but he died heartbroken
on the streets three days after gainT %
his freedom. The Virginia legislat ure
appointed John Peter Dumas, of pbila.
&c phia, trustee for the French o. editors
Dumas died and left the stAte. $500.
900, in debt. French credit. ors employ.
ed Hon. Josiah Randall. of Philadel.
phia, as attorney in 1895. MEANWHILE
the. great estate became forfeited to the
State for non-paymelt of taxes, but in
1888, yet mindful of the patriotism and
generosity of her protege, the State re-
conveyed it. Nr. Randall died in 1866
and year later Robert E. Randall was
appointed trrlstee by the United States
Court.
On his removal the debt had grown
TO 81 SOC, 900. Since then many other
trustees have tried unsaccessfully to
disentangle the affairs of the estate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29

A BUSINESS man in Washington says
"bucket shops are more injurious and
vicious than faro banks, crap games,
monte aud race courses combined, and
that they abound in that CITY," Aud
what he says is true; but, ell the came.
according to the anti Ale1ander'slsland,
but pro st-Asaph race track newspa
pers of Washington, the race course at
Alexander Island, conducted under q
State charter, and the proprietors OF
which go to great expense in order to
secure fair and square dealings and
good behavior, so as to attract, and
not drive away, attendants, is the
cause of all the crimes perpetrated
in Washington, including the assaults
end robberies committed in the Smiths
OMAN and Capitol grounds, and though
al manner of crime has been rife in
Washington since the breaking out Of
the war between the States.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29

A ROYAL LOVE MATcH.-It has been
officially announced that Princess Maud
of Wales, youngest daughter of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, is be.
throthed to Prince Charles of Denmark.
The princess was born November 26
1869, and the prince was born August
8, 1872. Prince Charles is the second
son of Prince Frederick, heir apparent
t, the throne OF Denmark, whose father,
King of Denmark, is also the father OF
the Princess of Wales.
The London Times says, expressing
national joy at the betrothal of Princess
Maud of Wales 1.-The fact that it is 9
pure love match, free from all suspicion
of State influence, will add immensely
to its popularity with the English peo-
ple." A recent writer in the London
Figaro, speaking of the probable be.
trothal of one of the daughters of the
Prince of Wales to grandson of the
KING of Denmark, says: Princes
Victoria, by disposition and inclination,
is far more suited to be the consort of a
future ruler, but she has neither the
b ,auty, nerve or charm of Princess
Maud, who, as Miss Mills has, when
paying private visits to intimate friends,
broken the hearts of scores of suscep-
tible youths"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
The Holmes Trial.

F PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29.-The second
day of the Holmes trial was began this
morning. Throughout all last night in
the loneliness of his cell Holmes work.
ed steadily preparing his case. When
court opened, Holmes asked that he be
granted some further privileges in the
way of books, &c, to enable him to
conduct his case. He also complained
OF the lack of lawyer. The pros
ecution began its case by calling wit
nesses to prove the identity of Pitezel
and the manner of bis death.
Holmes object in his cross-examina-
tions of witnesses was to discredit them
With the jury as to their recollections
of events.
Holmes asked if his wife, Miss Yoke,
the third woman he married, was pres
ent and would be witness. Mr.. Ora
nam said she was not present, but de-
clined to say whether she would be a
witness,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29

SECRETARY HERBERT having at this
late day found out that the construc-
tion of war vessels On the Lakes is par.
ticularly prohibited by treaty with
Great Britain, has changed his mind in
respect of the building of such ships at
Lake ports, and those that he intend.
ed to build at such ports will now be
constructed some where else. AS Eng
land observes her part of the treaty
contract and does not build war vessels
Cd the north side of the Lakes, the
United States should certainly observe
their part and refrain from building
them on the south side. even though
the shipbuilders on the latter side lose
a profitable job.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ii is SAID IN London that Alfred AUS
tin has been appointed poet laureate.
The Dixon Critic fight was declared
n draw in the tenth reund in New York
last night.
Great anxiety is felt for the winter
wheat crop in the West, because of the
long continued drought.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
Lieutenant Generals Marin and Macias
have been ordered to Cuba.
Captain James Y. Claypoole, a BROTH
erin law of Isaac Freeman Rasin, died
in Baltimore yesterday, aged ffty-seven
years.
DR.. James B. Carpenter, brother-in-
law of Ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower,
committed suicide yesterday in Gou-
verneur, n. Y.
Joseph E.. and John B. Stansburg, for
twenty-five years one of largest oyster
and fruit packing firms in Baltimore,
made an assignment yesterday.
Quiet has been restored in Tifin, o.,
where two men were killed Sunday
morning in an attempt to lynch q
prisoner charged with murder. The
military left Tifin yesterday.
The apple carnival is in progress in
Leavenworth, Kan. The stores and
dwellings OF the city are decorated
with apples. a parade and speeches
were the features yesterday.
The Cuban insurgent leader Francis
CO Garcia has surrendered to the gov
ernment at Manzanilla. He reports
that there is no enthusiasm in the in
surgents' ranks and all are aiming only
at their own benefit.
A Russian statesman, in an inter-
view in Vienna recently, admits the
truth of the reported Chinese conces-
sions to Russia, but at the Russian en-
bassy, in London, it is asserted that no
such treaty has been concluded.
A warrant was issued by the Hot
Springs, Ark, court yesterday, for the
| arrest OF Bob Fitzsimmons and Martin
Julian. This step was taken by Gov.
| Clark on information that the fight
| would come off at the scheduled time
October 81.
Frank Murphy, the day Waterman 10
the State, War and Navy departments,
Washington, who was arrested several
days ago on a warrant charging him
with an attempted assault on Amelia
Garet, the fve-year-old daughter of
Emile Garet, was acquitted yesterday
afternoon.
Private kilograms were received in
Chicago last night saying that the Cor
bett. Fiizsinmons fight will positively
cine off on Thursday. Brady says it
will be in private tor side bet OF
s., 900 or $4,000, and that Fitzsimmons
Will put up his money as soon as he
reaches Hot Springs. Julian says !:
The fight will positively come off in
private in Hot Springs on Thursday"
Sheriff Mills, of Screven county, Ga,
has notified Governor Atkinson of his
inability to get together posse that
will attempt to arrest the Zeigler BROTH
err, who recently killed Sheriff Brook
er while he was leaving church. The
murder was To avenge the death of the
Zeiglers' father who had died at Brook
er's hands. Governor Atkinson has
offered reward for the zsiglers' ar
rest, but although they continue at
home no one attempts 10 disturb them.
Sheriff Mills says he is absolutely help
less.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
attemnted Robbery.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 29.-Five men at.
tempted to hold up a Laclede avenue
electric car and rob its passengers at l
o'clock this morning. The men at
tempted to board the car, but after a
severe fight the conductor, assisted by
a number of passengers, knocked them
from the car. A few minutes later the
same gang entered the Office of the
Wabash Hotel, and after knocking
down the clerk attempted to rifle the
safe and money drawers. The noise
aroused the proprietor and guests and
g free-for-all fight ensued in which four
of the would-be robbers were routed
end another was captured,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
To-DAY's TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

LONDON, Oct. pa dispatch from
Hong Kong says that Wong Chi Chuan
was appointed last fall to 60 on q spe-
cial mission to Russia ostensibly to con.
graduate the new Car Nicholas II
upon his succession to the throne, but
really to convey secret treaty conced.
ing the right to Russia to carry the ST.
berian Railway through Manchuria to
Vladivostock. The dispatch adds
that Russian feet of fourteen yes
sells arrived at Port Arthur yesterday.
PARIS, Oct. GA passenger train
from Paris for Touluse came into col
lision last evening between Le1os and
Lapuepie with another train. Both
trains were wrecked, two passengers
were killed and eight injured.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Oct. 29.-There
has been continuous fighting in Marash,
80 miles northwest of Aleppo, for the
last three days between Turks and Ar.
menians. No details of the disturb
ances are yet obtainable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29
Prominent Southern republicans here

Prominent Southern republicans here
today say the Southern delegates to
the next national republican convep-
ton will not go there with any inten-
ton of forcing their own favorite
upon that body, but will willingly &C.
cept any nominee the North may see
fit to select. OF course in saying this,
they do not mean that the Southern
delegates will not be open to PROPOSE
tons from the managers of each and all
the possible Northern candidates, or
that they will not accept the one that
will do them the most good.
Old Captain Bassett, the doorkeeper
of the q. S. Senate, and for over fifty
years in the employ of that body, who
has been sick for some time, cannot,
his friends say to-day, last much long
er. The Captain is the sole repository
of the knowledge concerning the an
Gent history of the chairs and desks in
the Senate, which he has preserved in
book that will not be published until
his death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29

A WASHINGTON newspaper says ''no
man in this country is more deeply in
terested in the success Of the democrats
in Maryland and Kentucky than Mr..
Cleveland" Then why, in the name
of common sense, doesn't Mr. Cleve
land call off the federal officials in both
those States who are trying to defeat
the democrats, and why doesn't he write
or utter one word to induce the self
called Cleveland democrats" of those
States, who are striving to elect the re.
publican tickets, to support those nomi-
mated by the democratic conventions?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29

SHOT BY HIS swEErHEART.-Wm.
schaffer, aged %, and Sylvia McCabe,
aged Is, of Franklin, O., have been
sweethearts for over a year. Sunday
she went to his home to spend the day.
Schaeffer says he had a revolver in his
pocket. The girl drew the revolver
aud asked him if he wanted her to
shoot him and he said he did. Ac-
cording to his report the girl shot him
in the right temple and he fell to the
floor unconscious. He regained con-
seriousness two hours later and found
her lying across him with bullet hole
in her left temple. He summoned the
neighbors, who found a note pinned to
her breast, the contents of which have
not been learned. The girl died at II
o'clock yesterday morning, and Schaef-
fer is in critical condition.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-29

MR. FREDERIC r. CoUDERT of New
York, having done all he could to aid
the effort to divide and break up the
democratic party in that State, which
effort succeeded, and thereby turned
both the State and city over to the
control of the republicans, finding that
that control il Infinitely worse and
more expensive than was that of the
democrats, is now working as hard
to reunite the latter and restore
them to power. Having scratched out
both his eyes by jumping into BRAN
BILE bush, he has now jumped into q
another one to scratch them in again.