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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WARRINGTON. August 2S

Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, August IS
The President has decided to SEND q
warship to Constantinople and the little
cadet practice ship Bancroft has been
selected as the first American national
vessel since the ratification ofthe treaty
OF Berlin to pass the Bosphorus.
Senator Tillman passed through here
this morning. he stopped long enough
to send the following dispatch to Ex-
President Harrison at New York: Il
have just spent week in Penn
sylvaula speaking to many thousands.
Your speech in New York last night
attacks me specifically and l would be
pleased to meet you in joint debate be-
fore northern audience, preferably at
Indianapolis"
One of the garbage contractors OF
this city, who reads the GAZETTE, says
another crematory for destroying the
garbage here is being erected, and that
in short time Alexandria will lot be
bothered any more by the bad smells of
the garbage scows.
A letter received here from Char
lottesville, Virginia, this morning, says
that silver club of four hundred mem
bers, railroad employees and working.
men, has been organized there, and
that another of the same sort will be
organized there next week.
Mr.. Rixey, the democratic candidate
for Congress in the Alexandria district,
made arrangements when here yester.
day for having his district thoroughly
stumped in hie behalf by himself and
other speakers before the day of cleo
ton.
As election straws the following may
be mentioned One of the proprietors OF
the Herald Times. strong gold news.
paper OF Chicago, here yesterday, said
there were seventy-eigh t voters employ
ed in the Office OF that paper, seventy
three of whom were for free silver. Ex.-
q. 6. Senator B. F. Rice, republican,
has offered his services as campaign
speaker to the Bryan committee. A
gentleman riding in a street car here
this morning reading an account of the
immense Bryan meeting in Buffalo last
night. said to q fellow passenger ;
VWell. there seem to be some
free silver people in New York"
The response be received gas; Il have
just returned from tsip through q large
part of the West, and nearly everybody
| saw there was for the silver ticket"
Mr.. Boykin. of Richmond, who passed
through here yesterday from Boston,
said he was surprised &c find that the
free silver feeling there was as preya.
lent as anywhere else.
General Edgar Allen, of Richmond
is here to-day. he says it is doubtful
whether the republicans of his district
Wjll put up Congressional candidate
Or, no: this fall, or agree to support the
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Probably a Cnnard

san FRANCISCO, Aug. 2S.-F. c. Nc
Farlane and F. w. McFarlane arrived
ye:terdas from Honolulu. Inquiry
was made of them last evening concern
ing rumor that Minister Willis, who
recently visited the United States, was
empowered to enter into negotiations
for either Hawaiian annexation or a
monarchical form of government with
Kaiulani on the throne, or an American
protectorate, the choice OF either form
Of government to be left to vote of the
people. This rumor is interesting, but
neither of the Messrs. McFarlane have
any knowledge concerning it. The
general impression is that the rumor is
only canard.
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AS HAS frequently been observed be-
fore, consistency is the least of all fac
tors in determining the course ofrepub
lean politicians. 1t was only two years
ago thst Mr.. Reed, now one OF the most
pronounced opponents of silver coiu-
age, declared that owing to the suspen
sion of the coinage and the consequent
fall in silver, India AID Argentina were
superseding the United States in wheat
production, and rising into formidable
rivalry in cotton, and that the yellow
man with the white metal was getting
the better of the white man with the
yellow metal" Well, the white man
is now striving for the re-
sumption of silver coinage, with the
hope that he may thereby regain his
former prosperity.
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Foreign News.

ZANZIBAR, Aug. 2S.-The British
consul has asked the German consul
here to surrender Said Khalid, the
usurper who took refuge in the German
consulate yesterday after escaping from
the palace during the bombardment
of that building by the British war
ships in the harbor.
LONDON. Aug. 2S-It is reported
here that the Brazilian Minister to
Italy has left Rome in consequence Of
the strained relations between Italy
and Brazil, which have resulted 10 the
former government sending an ultima
tum to Rio Janeiro demanding prompt
satisfaction for the outrage committed
upon Italian subjects in Brazil.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Hilton Assets Not Enough.

New YORK. Aug. 2S.-It was de,
veloped yesterday that the assets OF
Hilton, Hughes & Co., were not as
large as had been supposed. The pro-
perty of Colonel Albert B. Hilton is the
only resource of the firm, and that does
not include much besides the stock.
His life insurance policy for $4,000 Is
already up as collateral. as much hay
ing been borrowed on that as was pos
sble. Colonel Hilton does not own the
Bell Haven property at Greenwich,
Conn. That belongs to his wife and is
heavily morteaged. He has only All
equity in the Little Falls Mills, knowa
as the Stewart Carpet Mills. This pro
perty, too, is heavily mortgaged. His
property known as the Iolanthe Club, at
Saratoga, is the only thing he has clear.
Counting the stock Of the store and
everything he owns his property is not
worth more than 81 ,200, 900. No def
mite statement of the assets could be
obtained yesterday, but conservative
estimates place them at from 81 500, 600
to 100000. Wall street busted itself
yesterday in figuring out how much
money Judge Hilton had sunk in the
firm of Hilton, Hughes, & Co. He was
left $14, 100000 from the Stewart estate.
He did not begin to spend the income
of this, his only large expenditure being
for the Woodlawn property at Saratoga.
He told friend few days ago that ne
had 100000 left, so S7,000000 or
more must have gone into the Golfers OF
.l,a Erp,
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Mr.. COCHRAN says the effort to affect
the resumption OF silver coinage is a
conspiracy between the populist agi
tators OF the West who want to
pay low wages, and the unrecon-
ciled shareholders of the South who
would like to pay no wages at
all" Mr.. Reed says the "South is
now engaged in asserting its rights and
keeping down the negro" and Mr.
Black, the republican nominee for Gov
ernor OF New York, says the democrat
who votes against the democratic ticket
this fall, will do so not because he has
become better, but because he has be
come alarmed. If he labors for the sue
cess OF the republican party now, it is
because he fears the success OF his
own" But, for all this, there are
Southern men, and some, too, who call
themselves democrats, few to be sure,
who still say they will vote against the
national democratic ticket.
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A CoLoRED PREACHER BEATEN
Richard Keeling is the name of re-
spectacle colored man who is chief
cook at a Norfolk hotel. Rev. J. Madi-
son Young was until recently pastor of
Blnk Street Baptist Church, coored.
His congregation became dissatisfied
and he was forced to resign. He now
has charge Of a Sunday school. Recently
he sent his wife and family to North
Carolina while he remained in Norfolk.
Wednesday afternoon, between four
and five o'clock, Keeling had occasion
to 90 home. When he entered the
house and went to his room he there
found Young in very compromising
position with the formers wire. Young,
seeing he was discovered, jumptd
through window and ran up Cumber-
land street with Keeling behind him.
The latter had secured club and soon
caught up with the fleeing preacher,
whom lie belabored in terrible man
ner. The preacher cried for him to de-
sist. and it was not until big crowd
arrived that he desisted. Keeling then
returned home, and, it is said, stormy
scene took place between him and his
wife. and suit for divorce may follow.
Keeling is deacon. Young is still in
the city
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Death of Harry Hill.

New YORK, Aug. 2S-Harry Hill,
once the most famous dive keeper in
the United States, died at his home in
Flushing, l.. l., last evening. Death
was brought about by chills and fever.
He contracted the trouble about week
ago through drinking impure water.
Hills resort on Houston street in this
city sprang into prominence soon after
the war. The proprietor claimed to
have been compelled to pay blackmail
to the police to the extent of tens Of
thousands OF dollars, and attempted
to escape the exaction. His path
thereafter was thorny ore, and his
place was finally closed in the early
eighties. The story Of his experience
was told by him to the Lexow commit
tee. At one time, it is believed, he was
worth about $250,000.
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Forced Notes Seized.

PANAMA, Aug. ga sensation was
caused here yesterday by the seizure Of
a box containing 100000 of forged
notes on the National Bank of Colon
ba. The money was mainly in $50
bills. The person in whose possession
the box was when seized was fernando
Villa, prominent and wealthy Colon
bian. He has been arrested and is now
10 Jail in Ambalema. 1t is thought that
this is only a portion of the forged
notes. Sensational disclosures impli
eating many others high in social and
political life are expected to follow soon.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. William Marshall Amber died in
Louisa county day or two ago, aged
eighty years.
Three hundred workmen have been
discharged from the Norfolk navy yard
this week for want of work for them.
Mrs. Hannah Whitney died at her
home in Rockingham county recently,
aged ninety years.
The executive committee OF the
Southern States Freight Association,
which has been in session at Fort Mon
roe, adjourned without taking definite
action or the question of cut rates.
Yesterday was the third and last day
of the Leesburg Fair, and splendid
weather again favored lie association.
There has been falling of In TIE at'Efs
Ter of entries this year, and the CROWDS
present naye hardly been up to those OF
former years, thought it is believed the
association will about meet expenses.
All the awards of premiums have peeh
made,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28
FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. IS, 1886.

TIE ISSUE of more gold bonds and
the consequent increase OF the pup
lie deb. in time OF peace, and the neces-
sarv increase of taxes on what poor
people have to consume in order to pay
the interest on those bonds. are only
put of until after the election. lest the
effect of another issue now would still
further endanger the election Of Mr.. Nc
Kinley. After the election, however,
the issue Of gold bond will be RESUMED
aud, should the republicans succeed, OF
continued, though the amount OF circu.
la.ion would not be increased thereby
10 the extent of single dollar. Should
Mr.. Bryan, however, be President, he
would at once tie up the endless
chain" by which the Treasury is being
constantly drained OF its gold, to be
sent out OF the country, for he would
execute Secretary Carlisle's suspended
order to redeem the governments pa
per money with ''coin," as provided in
the contract, that is, with silver dollars,
by which the circulation would be great
Is increased, for then there would be
gold, paper and silver money in abund-
ance, and consequently be a general re-
vival of all sorts of business and indus
tries, and com modities as we'll as wages
would 90 up accordingly.
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Arrest orConnterfeiters.

WACO, Tex, Aug. 2S.-The federal
authorities have discovered a gigantic
system of manufacturing counterfeit
coin in imitation of silver dollars Of
United States mintage and have cap
tured several equipments and three
prisoners. Edward Daniel Ennis, the
head of The concern in Waco, last week
attended revival and under strong
religious emotion confessed that he was
a couuterfeiter. He told where the
crucibles, base metal, molds and rollers
for milling the bogus dollars were to be
fund, and the counterfeiters were cap
tured,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28

IN HIS speech in New York last
night ex-President Harrison, who still
thinks there is strength in the bloody
shirt, said
Comrades Of the great war for the
Union, sons of those who went out to
battle that the flag might not lose it:
lustre, will we consent after these year;
(Cries of No } that that doctrine thai
was shot to death in the great war shall
be revived and made victorious in 6
civil campaign? (Cries of No.
What do ex.Confederate boilers think
of this?
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nominee OF the gold boilers if tb ey have
one that question will be de cided BY
the national republican comm ittee and
the committee it has appointed
to run the campaign in Virginia.
If the republicans shall run candidate,
he says Judge Lewis would be their
strongest man. Gee has withdrawn,
giving Tbope clear field in the 4th
district, he says, but if Dyer shall do
the same in the I'd district and
give DR.. Wise clear field, it
will be case of the mountain
going to Mahommet. General Allen
says that with flair count he thinks
the republicans have a good chance of
carrying Virginia. He also says he
| guesses the committee that is running
the republican campaign will have at
their disposal all the funds required for
doing so.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle left here
at o'clock this evening for New York,
to meet Lii Hung Chang.
Senator Butler, at populist headquarters,
is morning received several telegra us col :
! frmiug the press report that the silver
! republicans, populists and democrats OF Idaho.
hal agreed upon Senator Dubois to succeed
himself.
Acting Comptroller OF the Currency Coffin
| caused the arrest yesterday of President a.
| Ga de5 and Vice President Girault, of the
American National Bank. New Orleans, La,
| which failed on the 9Th instant; also Of a
| third party said to be implicated in certain
cri :inal acts with these officers. They are
charged with violations OF section 500, Z.
5. K S, and OF section IS, act Of July -,
1882 The officers are said to be men Of
Ugh social position, but the Acting Comp.
| troller insisted upon their being promptly AZ
rested and had the hearty and active support
of the Department OF Justice in bringing this
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28

TIE BOILERS convection in Rich
mond yesterday Denounced the Chicago
platform for its criticisms Of the Z. 5.
Supreme Court. But four of the nine
members OF that court, among them
Justices Brown and Harlan, have said
worse things about that court than the
Chicago convention ever thought of
saying, the former protesting against its
decision in the income tax case and eI-
pressing the hope that it might not
lead to the subversion of free institu-
tions, and the latter arraigning it in
eyen seyerer terms
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28
Serious Accident at a Race Track.

RUsHv1LLE, Ind Aug. 2S.-During
the 2:05 pacing race at the fair grounds
yesterday while the horses were COM
ing into the stretch at terrific pace,
Mamie Woods's sulky collided with that
of Czaretta, and the driver of the lat
ter was thrown. The others dashed
over him and the driver of Mamie
Woods fell from his seat. The horse
dashed into crowd OF two thousand
people at a fearful pace, trampling under
foot men, women and children, and
seriously iniuring number Of people,
some Of them fatally.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28

Mr.. DEPEw in his speech in New
York last night gave the boilers anoth-
er blow:under the fifth rib. when he
said "But these democratic friends
who are disposed, more or less directly,
to help the cause of sound finance,
ought not to expect that the republi-
can party will reorganize itself because
the democratic party has disorganizsd
itself. The republican party. if sound
money triumphs, must constitute the
body of the successful army. We ought
not, therefore, 10 be asked to do ary
thing that will affect the soidity, the
loyalty, the discipline or the enthusi-
asm of the republican party" Wheth-
er the oddities win or lose, the fate OF
the boilers will be a sorry one.
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Death OF Dr.. Nfackev.

BALTIMORE, Md, aug. 2S.-Dc. Ar
gyle Mackey, the young Wa-aips,o'
physician, who shot himself u h
breast on Wednesday in the City He
pital, died this morning from lii
wound. The young physician 81.
tempt at self-destruction was due Ii
love, liquor and morphine. He IS suI
posed to have had trouble in love d.
fair with the writer OF letter found j.
his coat pocket, and had been drinkiu.
and taking morphine to excess.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28

AS THERE would be the same quaint
ty OF pure silver in silver dollars under
the resumption of silver coinage Is
there is now, rs such dollars would
then as they are now be legal tender
for all public and private debts, and as
there could not possibly be any less gold
in circulation then than there is now
why silver dollar would not be worth
q paper dollar then, as it is now, but
only ffty-three cents, is Whist even a
waytaring man cannot tell, though the
anti-income tax millionaires of the
North vainly imagine they can.
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Trouble ON a Reservation.

GUTHRIE, o. T., Aug. 2S.-The squaw
men in the Seminole Indian reserva-
tions are in open revolt and threaten TO
exterminate the full-bloods. AT the
last session of the Seminole council q
law was passed ordering all white men
who married Indian women to leave
the nation. There are 500 squaw men.
Wednesday, when body of Indian
police attempted TO put the council
laws into execution, anlopen battle took
place in which three Indians were
killed. Great excitement exists and
further bloodshed is looked for. Troops
are on the way to the scene OF the
trouble. For several years it has been
the practice of white men to 60 into the
nation, marry an Indian woman and
thus obtain sixty acres OF land. The
efforts Of the full-bloods and half,breed
Seminoles to break up this practice
caused the trouble.
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Machinery Disrobe> a CIR

New BRUNSWICK, y. j., Aue
But for the presence Of MAD $40
Minnie Harrington, at Johnson IS
sons factory yesterday, Nellie il
an employee, would have met -a.e
ing accident. The shaft which sr
the power to The room where tle
girls were working runs along tlea
about a foot from the floor. Mis- D,
went 10 rails window. aud while deI
so her skirt caught 10 the shaft al
was thrown to the floor. Miss Farm
ton ran to the stairway ami shcu.-l
one Of the foremen to stop the u9a-
which was instantly done. Ms Do.al
clothing was torn from her body, q.
Ter skirts were so tightly Wrsp
around the shat that they had to bee
loose. After the accident Miss D1a
was overcome with nervous prostrat.a
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

Powderly is out for Mckinley. He
says Bryan's election will drive gold
out of circulation.
1t is stated on the authority of Ser.
ator Butler that Mr.. Bryan will be mott
fed of his nomination by the populists.
The Louisiana State convention at
New Orleans yesterday declared for
gold. The chief speaker of the day
was Q. S. Senator Gallery.
Bryan invaded Buffalo yesterday, and
| there was rampant enthusiasm over his
visit. His reception and speech pro.
duced marked effect. Ten thousand
people heard his address in Music Hail
and his hotel was invaded by those who
wanted to shake his hand.
The date for the visit of William j
BRYAN to Washington has been practl
cally set for September II, and the oc
casion will be made the most import
ant demonstration of the local cam.
paign by the democratic managers
The announcement of the date was re,
ceived last evening in telegram from
Secretary Lawrence Gardner, of the
Congressional committee, who met Mr.
Bryan at Erie, Pa, yesterday, and
where he had gone to arrange for the
candidates visit to Washington.
General Neal Dow, the noted pro-
hibitionist and former candidate for the
presidency, gives his views on the
money question. Hesays: "Tbe prop
osition of the populists and other silver
men is this That Congress enact bill
making ffty-three cents in silver equal
in value to one hundred cents in gold;
that the fifty-three cents be compulsori.
ly received as full payment for one hun
dred cents in gold. That, if accom-.
plished, would be lie, cheat, fraud.
| don't see how an honest man can con-
sent to that, much less propose it. Il
adopted, the country would be in a
panic while it continued"
Ex-President Harrison makes his first
speech in the campaign in Carnegie
Hall, New York, last night. He said
splits are needed and that party that
cannot be split is a public menace.
Chauncey Depew said Bryan will go to
free silver Mexico after the election.
David T. Hill, OF the Rochester Uni
versity, also spoke. Among those pres
ent were Carrot A. Hobart, Chairman
Mark a. Hanna, Candidate Frank ;;
Black. and ey-Postmaster General
Wapamaker. Mrs. Harrison. wife OF
the ex-President, was in attendance,
and with a party of friends occupied a
box Elk Senator Platt was promi-
nent figure at the meeting.
There was a conference OF republi-
cans held in Petersburg last night
which did not adjourn until midnight.
It was attended by Gen. Stith Boiling,
Hon. W. NJ. Flanagan. Col. J. D. Brady,
Hon. B. S. Hooper, Hon. Charles Gee,
Hon. a. w. Harris and Hon. R. T.
Thorpe. It being distinctly announced
that the national republican commit
tee had not considered or passed upon
the question of a candidate for Con-
gress in that district between Messrs.
Thorpe and Gee, after full considera-
ton, Mr.. Gee, in the interest of McKin-
ley and Hobart and for harmony, with
drew as a candidate. By this action
Mr.. Thorpe is the only republican can
didate for Congress in that district.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28

DISASTROUS POWDER EXPLOSION
The Miami powder works at Goes sta
ton, fourteen miles southwest offspring
field, Ohio, were blown up yesterday
morning. The report was heard fifty
miles away, and many buildings at
Springfield were shaken. The works
were shut down Saturday last, and
some general repairs have since been in
progress. Frank Eich, general fore
man. and Silas Higgins, boss carpenter,
were in the large dry house repairing
the floors. The supposition is that in
driving a nail spark was struck which
communicated to the immense stock OF
dynamite, blasting and rifle powder
with which the building was stored and
a terrific explosion instantly ensued,
tearing not only the building but the
bodies of the two unfortunate men TO
bits. The mighty force was felt for
miles around. Windows were shattered,
plastering torn down, crockery thrown
from shelves, clocks stopped and doors
slammed as far distant as the southern
part of Springfield, causing semi
panic. III Yellow Springs hundreds Of
panes of glass in Antioch College broke
and other damsge was done, and in
Xenia it was worse. OF the two bodies
skull was picked up in the most dis.
tant part of the enclosure, a space Of
forty or fifty acres, while blackened,
powder burned leg was found in the
Miami river, and bits Of flesh adhered
to buildings all around. Not ten pounds
weight of both bodies can be found.
The loss to property is about $4,000.