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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-12
Racing Commenced in the East

NEW YORK, May 12.-At 2:3O this
afternoon the regular racing season in
the east will be begun. The feature of
the days sport will be race for the
Metropolitan Handicap, at q mile and
an eighth, for which nine horses are
named as probable starters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-12
Round Trip TO Pitt,bura-

For the National Prohib ton Co1Eel' and
to be held at Pittsburg Pa, May - iii
90, the Pennsylvania Railroad Compou! -.;aa
sell from May "a to 26, inclusive e1.l " lre
tickets to Pittsbnrg and return, at '' so ;og1
for the round trip. The tickets VII -. ~
for return passage until May 30 lneiu'''"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-12
Russia Disregards England's Claims

hIIssIa DIsrCEartts III = r't'fS' . y
LONDON, May IA dispatch from
Shanghai says that the Russians,
through the medium of American Agent
Smith, have taken possession OF the
disputed territory of Che Foo, over
which the British maintain claims. The
dispatch adds that the seizure was made
in defiance of England's legal rights
and that six Russian warships and four
u. S. war vessels are lying at Che Foo.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-12

IaCC LQaG CQo Legislature dt llS lisSG SeS-
sion had passed an act allowing banks
to close at II o'clock on Saturday. He
thought it would be good idea for the
league to pass a resolution requesting
the city banks to close at II o'clock on
Saturdays during the months of June,
July, August and September in order
to give the employees a halliday holi-
day.
MIR. Muir said that would be disad.
vantage to some and a benefit to no
one but the bank clerks.
Mr.. King favored the proposition.
Most remittances came in the afternoon
and they had to be kept until next
day. Besides they were generally in
the shape of checks which would keep.
There was another reason, too. The rule
had been adopted in nearly every other
city. 1t was sometimes said Alexan-
dria never adopted anything until it
had been in vogue century every
where else, and people were often
heard by him casting unfavorable
structures on the city. The speaker
said, in comparison with her popula-
ton, there was more business done in
Alexandria than in any city in the
United States. This was an assertion
he was prepared to prove.
Messrs. J. r. Zimmerman and K.
Kemper favored Mr.. STRAUSS PROPOSE
ton.
Mr.. Eichberg thought it would be
better to defer action until there was a
larger turnout Of members of the league.
He favored the movement, but said it
was no more Of a hardship for bank
clerks to work until 8 o'clock on Sat-
urdays than it was for his employees to
work until 10 on those nights.
Mr.. Strauss's motion was adopted.
Mr.. Harlow said Mr.. Julian T. Burke
had been in communication with the
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

Alexander Roy, q chemist and analyst
of Toronto, Canada, gives an explana-
tory theory Of the nature Of Cathode
rays as applied in R~oentgen's new pho.
Biography. He says all matter consists OF
vortex rings of ether lcalled atoms or
m~olecules) resembling q common smoke
ring. Ether may be classified into eight
different divisions, represented by the
seven colors Of the spectrum. and another
color not yet recognized as q primary
color. The vortex rings Of electricity,
light. heat and sound will pass through
any substance whose rings have the same
speed Of rotation and thus IL is that the
x rays pass through some substances
and not passing through others throw
their shadows on the sensitive plate.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

The latest advices say that the frst
news Of DIR. Nansen's safety was sent by
Ksndaroff, . local Russian official 10 the
Yakussk region, who was q member Of
the Siberian Kofs expedition. DR..
Nordenskold, who is at CHRISTIANS. Is
inclined to believe the news Of Nansen's
safety at any rate. even if IL 10 not true
that he succsedsdin discovering the North
Pole. According to the opinion Of the
Arctic experts in London. when the Fran
left the Kara Sea in 1893, she may have
found a sea northwards, free Of ice, and
pushed on until locked in. She may
then have been allowed to drift until the
expedition cane to land around the pole,
and Nansen and party may have returned
in sledges to the Siberian islands.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22


A New York dispatch Of the 18th
says: The Hersld's Havana cable brings
the following: The woman leader Of q
band OF Amazons, already mentioned in
reports Of fights in Santa Clara province,
has been made a prisoner. She will be
brought to Havana for trial. She is said
to have attacked a small village and was
captured after desperate resistance, after
having charged the garrison unsuccess.
fully. The woman fought with savage
energy even after her horse had been
killed and she was surrounded by troops.
1t was with the greatest difficulty that
the civil guards disarmed her Of her ma
chete and revolver and finally bound her.
She could, Of course, have been shot, but
the Spanish troops refrained from taking
her life. When convinced that resist
snce was in vain she tried to shoot her
self. The woman was dressed in bril-
liant red costume-bloomers and jacket.
She wore a straw campaign hat with it's
rim turned up in front and decorated
with the metallic ive-pointed star, the
insignia of the insurgents. Her hair was
hanging loosely down her back and was
partly confined by a knot Of blue rib
bon. She is supposed to be the wife Of
one Of the Cuban leaders.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22
NOTICE.
An UGLY

The New York World pulls an ugly
record on the Administration. It says
that on December % Mr.. Morgan was
invited to Washington for . conference;
that he went TO the library Of Secretary
Lamont's house; there he me Secretary
Carlisle, and he csme back to New York
with . definite understanding that the
Secretary was anxious to sell 5000, 000..
900 worth Of bonds; that they would be
dated February !, 1896; that a syndicate
to be formed by himself would be allowed
TO take the whole issue at about the
price Of the previous February sale; that
MIR. Morgan was so well ISSUED Of this
that he circulated ) contract for sub
soriptions to his blind pool and got them;
ct the same time he arranged for the sale
Of the bonds on syndicate account in
France, Germany. Holland. Belgium and
Switzerland. On the Sd Of January the
World published the appeal to the Presi.
dent for . popular loan. On the next
day Mr.. Morgan sent . special messen-
ger to Washington with . letter to the
President, one sentence Of which was:
81 do not hesitate to afirm-in fact, to
urge-that such . contract flor q syndi-
cate sale 81 about l04A) would in every
way be for the best interests Of the Gov.
--- ..I kha naoDla ~ Thu Wnrld
concludes that IL the thing had gone
through. there would have been a profit
of twenty-five or thirty million dollars
to the syndicate and to its friends. If
Secretary Carlisle goes out Of Office as
poor as he went in, il win show that be,
while personally honest, was about the
most expensive Secretary of the Treas
ury ever known.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

One thing 10 certain-the Republican
National Convention this year can gain
nothing by attempting to ssraddle the
financial Issue. The wissst way is to
adopt an honest monetary plank, which
cannot be interpreted one way in Colo
RADIO and another way in New York.
Toledo Blade.
The Blade need have no fears about the
kind Of q platform that will be adopted
at the convention in June. The Re.
publican vote in the House the other day
against every proposition favoring silver
indicates quite clearly the kind Of plat
form that will be constructed. and it is
reasonable to presume that the nominees
for President and Vice President of that
convention will necessarily indorse the
financial policy outlined in the plat
form.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

Three masked men entered the Market
Street Bank. San Francisco, a small in.
stitution in the S~preckles building, about
10 o'clock last Tuesday morning, and
ordered Cashier Hopkins and Bookkeeper
Payhurst to throw up their hands. Hop
kins, who was at the counter. refused,
and one of the robbers fred q bullet pass.
ing his head, but striking neither OF the
officials. The three robbers then climbed
through the hole in the wire screen at
the cashiers window and seized the two
bank officials and hustled them into q
vault. A piece OF carpet caught the door
Of the vault and the robbers did not take
time to fasten the vault door. Hastily
dumping a pile Of gold IN the cashiers
counter into a sack they escaped. AL
though Market street was crowded with
passing people the robbers made good
their escape. They secured about three
thousand dollars.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22
rwo HuNDEED STORIES HIeH.

Plans for . two hundred-story build
ing. occupying an entire block. have been
designed by Harding & Gooch, OF New
York, for q company Of capitalists. 1t
will have 100, 600 Offices, covering a.
OO0, 900 square feet Of floor and will &C
commodate 400. 600 people under n
roof. IL will be built Of steel, like q
great bridge, only set on end, and will
have City elevators. Its walls at base
will be sixteen feet thick. 1t is intended
to collect in it every vocation and bush
ness Of an Office or retail character. IL
will be three times as high as the Eiffel
tower-or 5000 feet-its higher floors
being above the dirt, smoke and shsd-
ows Of the city will be better than any
other buildings. Each floor is to be de-
voted to enc line, 30 that customers will
there find all that can be found. Such a
building will not cost one.fourth as much
as would the buildings necessary to &C
commodate the same volume CT business
aud people on the street, and can be
made so attractive that business done in
it would have a great advantage over
other houses dows on the street. One
half so high in Kansas City would render
useless miles Of business houses, and it's
builder would collect the millions Of
rents now being paid to thousands Of
little landlords Age Of Reason, Kan
sas City, Mo.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22


Silver is an issue, a great issue. 1t
will be the leading issue in this years
campaign. There is a well defined SEN
timent among us that free coinage of
both gold and silver at a ratio Of l6 to
| would immensely help business. Down
South the crops will be large. more es-
pecially corn. But prices are not en-
couraging. There is no money in farm
ing to-day, nothing but a mefe subsist-
ence. We have raised enough corn and
cotton and other crops to pay off the ma
tional debt and make the South wealthy,
but we don't control the price Of what
we have to sell. That is controlled up
here. A small number Of men tell US
what we shall get for our crops, and we
are not in a position to oppose them sue
cessfully. 1t is believed that with the
free coinage Of silver the farmer and the
workingman would get a better return
for the products Of the soil and the fac
tory.-Ex-Senator Walsh in New York
Journal.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

The Salt Lake Tribune says; Suppose
a young man were to be given in trust 9
princely estate, that had been paying a
splendid revenue for many years; that his
6rst act should be to 90 to the family
safe, take out half the money and throw
it into the river. and his second act
should be to order all the important
fences torn down SO that all the wild
stock from all the neighboring fields could
enter and eat of the heritage and tramp
into a fallow the fields; that to pay the
hired help he should depend upon Dor.
rowing the money. putting mortgage on
top Of mortgage OF the land; that finally
he should be able to float q bigger mort.
gage than usual and on the strength Of
that should go on a drunk. What would
the neighbors think And yet we are
told that Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Carlisle
are much gratifed over the new loan.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22
WILL IT BE DONEr

Congress disposed Of the silver bill
passed by the Senate. There are 1855
members 10 the House Zone having died
RECENTLY, pa Of whom are Republicans.
l04 Democrats, and seven Populists and
Silver men. Only 270 voted on the bill,
100 Of whom were against, and so in
favor Of it. Commenting on the vote,
the Reno Journal says: THAT is the
way the Republicans spurn silver. prov
ing the truth Of Senator Jones' asser-
tion that the party 10 unalterably OPP
posed to free coinage. 1t is now to be
hoped that the Senate will attach = free
coinage amendment to every bill. in.
cluding the appropriations. that passess
that body. Moral suasion has no effect
On the House. 1t cares not that the
country 10 m~ortgaged to the gold trust.
that farmers have to sell their products
u the cost Of production, thai tens Of
Thousands can scarcely get employment
81 starvation wages. and the Senate
should force 10 10 legislate In the interest
Of the people or not ct all"
OF course ID would produce . crisis.
but no more Of q crisis than we have al
ready had. Violent diseases require he
roic treatment, and according TO DR..
Cleveland va are awful sick, 10 fact the
country 10 covered with financial ulcers.
II 10 the professsd belief Of Mr.. Teller
and other silver men that nothing short
Of the knife will cure them. Will they
spply the knifei
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

The survivors Of the l69 persons who
left Paris in balloons during the siege
have just formed themselves into . soci-
ETY.. No fewer than sixty.six balloons
left the besieged city, carrying in their
cars not only these 1850 people. but 5000.
900 letters and 1853 pigeons. which were
intended to return to Paris with dis
patches and two boxes OF dynamite.
Fifty-two Of these balloons fell 10 France,
Eve in Belgium, four 10 Holland. two In
Prussia and one in Norway and two were
lost ct sea. Eighteen Of the balloons fell
within the enemy's lines. OF these Eve
were captured by the enemy.-London
Standard.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22
rur r,rNrES SEASON.

The Lenten season began last wednes-
day, the 10th instant. and will continue
forty days. The following regulations
have been issued to the clergy and laity
Of the diocesse OF Sacramento;
l. All the week days Of Lent from
Ash Wednesday TO Easter Sunday are
fast days Of preceps, on one meal, with
permission for q moderate collation..
This collation., according to circumstance
and greater convenience. may be taken
in the morning or evening, and is regu-
lated by the time Of the principal meal.
|. .. Flesh meat is allowed on Sundays
without limitation, and by dispensation
granted August 3, 1887, for ten years,
once a day on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays, except Satur-
day Of Ember aud Saturday Of Holy
Week.
8. The promiscuous use OF flesh and
fish, even on Sundays, is prohibited 81
the same meal.
4. By dispensstion granted Febru-
airy Q. 1887. for ten years, milk, butter,
cheese, fruits, vegetables. eggs and fish
are allowed at collation..
5. All under 81 or over 90 years, are
exempt from the obligation Of fasting
also the delicate, the sick and the feeble,
and those engaged in hard labor, are no
restricted to meat once q day on day
when its use is permitted.
The use Of lard in preparing food is al
lowed every day throughout the year.
The time for complying with the
Paschal precept in the Diocese of Sscrs-
mento extends from Qusdrsgesims Sun
day, or first Sunday Of Lent, to Trinity
Sunday.
The respective pastors are empowered
to dispense in case Of fasting and absti-
nence where prudence and sufficient rea-
son authorize. They are also requested
to be diligent during the holy season oil
Lent in laying before their people ths
great truths OF religion, and the neces-
| sity Of a~vailing themselves Of this ac-
ceptsbIe time to regain the friendship Of
| God by salutary penance for their sins
by aims, deeds and works OF mercy fol-
the Door.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22
FIVE HUNDRED A MINUTE.

The San Francisco Examiner Of the
18th instant says: Invitations have been
issued throughout society for q tea to be
given this afternoon BY Mrs. John M.
Cunningham at her beautiful home, 2S29
Pacific avenue.
Mrs. Cunningham, a daughter OF the
late Nicholas Luning. is a gracious hos
teas, and desiring to give the most pleas
ing advertisement to the guests who will
throng her mansion sought to engsge NJ.
faderswski to play during the alter
noon.
A note was written asking what ii.
Psderewski would charge to play for five
minutes at the tea.
Mr.. Gorlitz, who attends TO financial
matters for the pianist, answered the
question in writing, announcing NJ. Pade'
rewski's charge as 81, 500.
Mrs. Cunningham thought this sun
unduly large, and yet she was not dis
posed readily to yield her desire to have
the master Of the piano play at her tea.
Accordingly she wrote another note,
offering 81. 200 for five minutes Of Pade-
rewski's music during her reception.
"1hat note was not even answered.
said Mr.. Gorlitz. who was telling Of the
correspondence between Mr.. Cunning
ham and himself. "As soon as | read il
l said to the boy: There is no answer.
There the correspondence ended; but
have kept the letters that | received.
Mr.. Gorlitz spoke with some aeerbity,
as though incensed that such q meager
sum as $1,000 had been offered. Mr..
Gorlitz deems 81, 500 a reasonable price,
and as he knows the amount Of money
that pours into the California TheateI
every time Paderewski plays his iudg-
ment is entitled to consideration. But
music at 50, 500 per five minutes-S500 Z
minute, IS 80 a second, $50, 600 an hour
might justly be deemed an extravsgan,
surprise for an afternoon tea.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

In his reply to the Democratic mem
bers Of the Kentucky Legislature, who
appealed to him to urge that the five
Democrats opposing Blackburn to join in
his support. Secretary Carlisle says he
has not rendered advice to any member
con the other side Of the unfortunate
controversy now existing" and will not
do so. At the same time he offers to CO.
operate in any effort to unite all sin sup
porting the Democratic organization in
Kentucky and in maintaining sound
Democratic principles and policies Is de-
clared by constitution and authorities Of
the party"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

The new Captain General of Cuba has
gone to work with . deliberation which
suggests that he will do his utmost to
suppress the revolution and that 10 IN.
certain or vacilating policy will be pur.
sued. The insurgents may have to do
some hard lighting in the next few weeks
but il Gen. Weylsr fails to conquer
them soon Spain will have to admit that
ID cannot succeed. Recognition Of the
belligerents will follow and that will be
succeeded by independence.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

II the daughter Of Senator Don Cam.
eron has the SAINT level head that her
father has. she will be a prize for the
lucky man who wins her. The Eastern
press tells US, "In the opinion Of . dis
tinguishsd member Of the diplomatic
corps, Miss Rachel Cameron, the daugh-
ter Of Pennsylvania Senator. is the
most beautiful young woman in Wash.
ington society. Her beauty is not Of
face or figure alone. but her whole per.
s%onality is imbued with an inimitable
grace and charm that render her ire
sistibly beautiful and charming"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

There will be no financial legislation at
the present session Of Congress. That
prediction is now heard on all sides, and
the surface indications point to its cor
rectness. Advices from Washington are
that sixteen Republican Senators have
bound themselves in writing to vote for
no bill increasing the tariff that does not
carry ar amendment providing for the
free coinage OF silver 81 the ratio Of
Ia In 1
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

Senator Morgan gave President Hunt-
ington Of the Southern Pacific Company
. great going over during the iatter's ex-
animation before the Senate Railroad
Committee. The Senator made Hunt
ington admit that be virtually knew
nothing about the affairs of the company
Of which he is President. Huntington
told Morgan that ''the crowd in San
Francisco who are fighting him are the
kind Of people . farmer would lind in
his chicken roost at night"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

The Augusta Chronicle tells us that q
United States Senator has been anAlyz.
ing the Senate vote on the free silver
bill, and Notwithstanding all the babbIe
Of the gold papers about millionaire
silver mine owners, the fact lie that the
wealth represented by free silver votes
amounts to s7,65l, 00O, 900. and the
wealth represented by anti.silver votes
is SIG. S62. 900. 900.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

j. j. Mott, Chairman Of the National
Convention Of the Silver party, has is
sued a stirring address to the people. 1t
is a very able paper and will be produc-
tiveof grestgood in awakening the masses
to 9 realization Of the present ~deplorabIe
condition Of the country and the disas.
tiers threatening the people in the imme-
date future.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

A Toronto, Ontario, dispatch of the
18th instant says: To-day in Grace hos.
pital the value in surgery Of Prof. Roent.
gems discovery was again demonstrated.
A woman patient. whose foot had caused
her intense pain. was submitted to the
cathode rays. and the photograph re-
yeaIed the presence Of a needle.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

Ex-President Harrison's one hour ar
gument before the Supreme Court in the
California irrigation case won him q fee
Of $4,000. Bat his clients are saying
that he damaged rather than helped their
cause, from his evident lack Of adequate
preparation Springfield Republican.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

Dat Of the $50 members of the present
lower House Of Congress two hundred
and thirty eight are lawyers. . large
majority Of whom have been in the en-
ploy Of corporations before going to Con-
gress. will be in their service while in
Congress and expect TO be in their en-
ploy when they leave Congress. Chi
cago Express.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

A Paris dispatch Of the 10Th instant
says: The pardon Of John L. Waller,
convicted by q court-martial in the Isl
and Of Madagascar. of illegally commu-
nicating with the Havas. and sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment. has been
sent to President Fsure for his signature.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

A father, wishing to bring up his child
in the way he should 60, told him when
he was in danger and needed help to call
upon the Lord. Later 10 the day Willie
was punished for some misdemeanor, and
when on the threshold Of the dark closet,
holding his father by one hand, he
dropped to his knees aud prayed: 20
Lord, if you want to help a little boy,
now's your chance. Life.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

In the House last Tuesday Congress-
man Newlands presented a resolution
instructing the Ways and Means Com
mittee to inquire what effect a difference
OF exchange between the gold and silver
standard countries has upon the manufac.
turing industries in the United States.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-22

A terrible explosion occurred 10 the
Vulcan coal mine at New Castle, Colo
RADIO. on Tuesday last, and ffty-fve
miners lost their lives in consequence.
One man who was working at the mouth
OF the tunnel was blown to atoms.