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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cecil Rhodes's luxurious South Afri-
can palace, near Cape Town, was burn.
ed yesterday.
The report that Don Carlos, pretend
er to the throne of Spain, intends to ab-
dictate bis claims in favor of his SOD,
Don jamie, is denied.
! The Spanish minister in Washington
has received dispatch from the Span
! ish minister of foreign affairs in Mad
! rid asserting that Maceo WAS killed in
fair fight.
In the House of Representatives yes
| terday much of the day was spent in
consideration of the Loud bill amending
the law relating to seeond.class matter.
No action was taken.
A severe storm swept the Atlantic
coast yesterday. Winds of hurricane
velocity are reported from several
places Some damage has been done at
some of the seaside resorts.
IE view of the reported enlistment of
parties of men in the United States for
service in the Cuban army, the Depart
ment of Justice may be called Oh r.
take action to prevent violations of the
| neutrality laws.
Bradley G. Newell, Vermont black
smith, who possesses a remarkable
power of healing persons by taking
hold of their hands, is anxious to have
physicians investigate and study what
he believes is natural force.
The lower house of the Georgia leg
islature yesterday passed the Calvin
antitrust bill, which prohibits any COM
bination, trust or arrangement by which
full competition in the manufacture or
sale of any commodity is prevented.
Mrs. John P. Stewart confessed at
Helena, Mont, yesterday that she kill
ed her husband, for whose murder her
mother and stepfather have been serv-
ing terms in the penitentiary. Gov
ernor Richards pardoned the two pris.
oners.
The total vote cast at the last cleo
ton was Is, 1924 ,653. This was 1874, 124
more than the total vote of 1892. Nc
Kinley received 7,109,4S0 and Bryan
6,5OS,6S plurality for Mckinley of
6OO,7 99. The vote for Palmer and
Buckner was 132,056; for lowering
127, ia. The national, or free silver
prohibitionists cast 1890 votes for
Bentley. Matchett, the candidate for
the socialist labor party, received SO, 942.
The funeral of J. Frank Williams,
which was held at Seaford, Del, Satur-
day, was interrupted by startling &C.
cident. The large crowd present caused
the parlor floor to give way, precipi-
tating the coffin and a number of the
people into a cellar ten feet deep. The
body flew out of the coffin, striking one
, of the mouners on the head. Conster-
nation followed and number of per-
sons were bruised in the rush. The
body was afterward replaced in the
coffin, and the journey was made to the
cemetery.
Jealousy nearly caused murder in
South Washington last night. John
Clark, saloon keeper, fred four pistol
shots at two young men, Fitzhugh
Smith and John Lenox, whom be
thought had been over attentive to his
young wife. One bullet passed through
Seventh street cable car and narrow
ly missed q passenger. Bystanders
were compelled to do some expert
lodging to escape the others. Fortu
nately no one was injured. Clark is
ffty.seven years old and his wife il
twenty eight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
THE PRESIDENT DUCK SHOOT
mo

President Cleveland and party pitch
ed camp at Ford's Point, which is at
the southern extremity of South Island,
S. c., Monday morning, and has been
shooting ducks in the preserves of Gen.
Alexander.
After very heavy rain, which fell
during most of Monday night, the wind
veered to the north, and it was cloudy
all yesterday, with good breeze blow
ing, which is usually propitious for the
duck hunters. From the fact that the
party has remained at this one point
since Monday the inference is drawn
that they have had good sport.
The party yesterday killed sixty odd
mallards, twenty eight of which were
brought down by the Presidents own
shots.
To-day the President and party will
be given the pleasure of deer drive,
which has been arranged for them by
Gen. Alexander and Capt. W. Miles
Hazard. The scope of country owned
by these gentlemen sbounds in wild
deer, and is conceded to be the finest
hunting grounds in the State. There
is hardly doubt that President Cleve
land will kill ut least one fine buck.
From what can be learned OF Presi
dent Cleveland's plans, it is understood
that be has gone to South Carolina for a
little recreation and for good sport, aud
will remain until his wishes in that line
are gratifed. There is no place in the
land where the President could have
selected better hunting grounds for
ducks or deer, to which fact he can tes-
tify by his experience when in the State
two years ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

SAYING THE BAss.-The experiment
of saving bass fish in the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal will shortly be made.
Mr.. G. L. Nicholson, manager of the
canal, lately wrote letter to DR..
George W. Masssmore, assistant State
game warden and secretary of the
MARYLAND Game and Fish Protective
Association, advising him that the
water would possibly be drawn from
the canal between December 10 and 81.
Mr. Nicholson added that he had issued
peremptory orders that no persons
other than those carrying orders from
DR.. Massamore should be allowed to
fish any parts of the canal when the
water is drawn off. The canal where
the Protective Association proposes 70
operate by taking bass from the canal
and transferring them to the river e1-
tends from Hancock, Md, to point
near Washington, distance of about
16S miles. United States Fish Com mis-
sioner ]. J. Brice will send four experts
from his department to superintend the
work. These men will be clad with
rubber clothes and armed with seines.
Each of these four men will have a
divisional part Of the cana! to direct.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

AMERICAN missionaries having failed
to involve this country in q war with
Turkey, are now turning their atten-
tion 20 the Congo State. and want this
government to interfere with the affairs
of that country because one of its own
officers is alleged to have murdered q
native negro. This government should
issue general order, to the effect that
missionaries from the United States
who don't like the way the affairs o!
the countries in which they are located
are conducted, shall shut up, or come
home st once.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

AS HALF loaf is better than DO
bread, it strikes the ordinary observer
of the many idle people he sees walking
about the streets of this and all other
cities, and of the tramps he meets on
the roads, that they would infinitely
prefer to receive wages in fifty cent dol.
lars than have no wages at all. And
yet most of them at the late election
voted against what they had been
duped to believe would really be such
an impossible thing IS 8 fifty cent dol
lar. But, from the beginning fools have
suffered for their folly, and they will do
so until the end.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
PASTOR STIRS HIS FLOCK.

Rev. David NJ. Talmage, pastor OF
the Reformed Church at Westwood,
New Jersey, created sensation dur
ing the delivery of his regular sermon
Thursday night by an attack on the
pledge of the National Christian En-
deavor Society, to which he has been
opposed since branch was established
iu the church. The Christian Endeav.
or members of the congregation were
indignant, and many were the harsh
words uttered against him after the
services.
The pastor, who is nephew Of De
Witt Talmage, compared the pledge
with Christ's last commission to his
disciples, then to the Ten Command
ments and, lastly, to the Lords Prayer.
In comparison with any OF these, be
declared the pledge to be very weak.
He declared that it was Incomplete
that it was faulty in not confessing bu-
man guilt or sin, and that it put "striv-
ing" in the place of doing"
''God's promises to US are important,
not ovr promises to him." he said. "God
does not ask me to promise Him any
thing. This pledge sets up the human
conscience, instead of Gods holy law,
as standard of duty. Some claim that
the signing of the pledge helps them to
do Gods will, but doubt it,"
During the delivery of this attack
many of the congregation shifted un-
easily in their seats, and the members
of the society cast meaning glances at
each other as their cherished organiza.
ton was thus criticised.
The Christian Endeavor Society Of West.
wood was organized almost against the oppo-
sition of the pastor, who spoke so plainly
Thursday night 1t has received little en-
couragement from him since its organization.
The regular meetings of the society are held
Sunday evenings, just before the evening SER
vice. There are frequently Is ur more at
these meetings, while the pastor. it is said, as
q rule, breaches to less than so in the regular
church service Immediately after. So many
leave the Christian Endeavor meetings after
they are over to 60 home, instead of remain
ing to hear the sermon, tina. it has caused
pub ic comment. One of the members of tn
local Christian Fndeavor Society suggested
the idea of calling Dr. ]. Clement French. of
Newark, president Of the State society, to
reply to the pastors attack on the society
pledge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
Another Hatfield Hanged.

SNEEDvILLE, Tenn, Dec 16.-Maired
Hatfield, a relative of the notorious
Hatfelds, of Kentucky and West Vir-
GINA, was hanged here to-day. With q
woman named Haney Jordan, ne way
laid and killed Jonas Trail, on March
25. The woman helped Hatfield to rob
their victim, but she was not known
TO be connected with the crime until
the confession of Hatfield, made just
before he was baptized last Sunday.
This was the first legal execution in the
history of Hancock county, which has
been in the past the scene of many
murders.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

THE American Federation of Labor
has declared for government control OF
railroads. One Of the objections to
such control was removed at the late
election. It was that the government
could then throw the whole vote of all
the immense number of employees OF
those roads as it might choose, and there
by control elections also. But az the rail-
road combine controlled that vote last
month and had it cast in the interest
of the plutocrats, and against that Of the
people, many of the latter who form
erly opposed such a proposition have
changed their minds on the subject.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
Foreign News.

HAVANA, Dec. 16.-Col. Lara has
had an engagement with the combined
parties of insurgents under Mayia,
Rodriguez and other leaders who &C.
cupied strong positions in the Oliver
Hills near Placetss. The insurgents
were dislodged and dispersed, leaving
"a of their dead upon the field, iDclud-
ing FIVE chiefs.
MUNICH, Dec. 16.-An explosion occurred
in Crelners match factory at bschsfenburg,
Bavaria, last evening, demolishing the build.
ing. killing fifteen women and girls snd seri-
ously inuring seven Others
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
AS Mr.. HANNA and the Presidsc

AS Mr.. HANNA and the President.
elect realize the importance of repub.
lican Senate, in order that their prom.
ises to the subscribers of their twenty
million corruption fund may be fulfilled
and as two million of that fund are still
in bank, subject to the formers check
the hope that some democrats enter
tain of a republican minority in the
Senate, after the 4th ofnext March, rests
upon q broken reed. As the Presiden.
cy has been bought, it will be an easy
Job to buy enough State legislatures to
make the required republican majority
in the Senate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Smith & Peterson, grocers of Lynch
burg, failed yesterday.
Judge Aiken, of the Hastings Court,
yesterday granted charter OF incor'
poration to the Peoples Savings Bank
of Danville.
Amos Hollar, for nearly 80 years
foreman of the shoe shop at the Deaf,
Dumb and Blind Institution at Staun'
ton. died Sunday night.
Judge Paul, of the United States Cir
cult Court, has decided that under the
State law husband and wife can testify
against each other only in civil cases.
Captain William P. Lawton, the we'll
known and efficient clerk of the Hust'
ings Court of Richmond. died very sud.
denly yesterday morning, in his Gath
year.
Mad dogs are numerous in portions
of Westmoreland County, and it is re-
ported that several persons have been
bitten, proving fatal in one instance
A large plumber of dogs have been bit
ten.
John A. Fentress was probably fatal
ly Injured yesterday by the bursting oil
an emery wheel at the pillow factory OF
O'Donnell & Marsden, in Norfolk. He
was grinding pillow points at the wheel
when it burst.
g. negro child was burned to death
near King George Courthouse yester-
day, having been left alone in the house
by its mother, who has, in the last few
weeks, been sadly smitten, her husband
having been sent to the State prison for
eighteen years for burglary and her son
for eight years for assault.
The Governor has given authority
for the mastering into service OF the
Virginia volunteers the Virginia Zou-
ayes, of Lynchburg. Similar action
will be taken in regard to the new com.
pany of infantry organized at Indepen'
deuce, Grayson county, as soon as Ger
tain formalities have been complied
with by that organization.
A Richmond firm is shipping to Liv
erpooi, England, this month ten car
loads of roofing slate to be used in COW
eriDg the governments new postoffice
building, which will be one of the finest
in that great city. The slate is taken
to Newport News by rail and then
shipped to Liverpool by the Chesapeake
and Ohio steamship Line.
The Church of the Epiphany, in Dan
vile, was the scene of an unusually
interesting and beautiful service or
Sunday afternoon, the occasion being
the formal unwilling of the handsome
tablet erected in the church to the
memory of the late venerable and uni
versally beloved rector of the church
DR.. Geo. W. Dame, and his wife. the
I. late Mrs. Mary Page Dame.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
WEDNESDAY EVENING. DEC. 1s, 1896

SOME OF the flibusters are making
great ado over the expressions OF de-
LIGHT with which the Spaniards receiv-
ed the notice of the death OF Msceo,
one of the chiefs of the Cuban insur-
gents. But why 60, is hard to tell. as,
though q negro, Msceo was the most
famous man among the insurgents,
black or white, and as his death has
tended greatly to weaken their cause
and depress its supporters. No well
informed man ever credited the pre-
posterous story of his betrayal and as
sassination. No body old enough to
remember the incidents of the war
between the States has forgotten the
qualification the news of the death OF
General Morgan afforded the people OF
the North, or that OF Major Dalgren
gave those of the South. Human
nature is the same all over the world,
and if the misfortunes, even of friends,
afford some sort of qualification, as
has been said, that those of dangerous
and malignant enemies should be gloat-
ed over, is by no means unnatural.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

Most of the iron made at Birming-
ham, Alabama, is now shipped to for
eign countries, where it completes sue.
cessfully with the product of the ia
nous "pauper labor" of those countries
But, Notwithstanding this, Mr.. Car
negie, who subscribed largely to Mr..
Hanna's corruption fund, is urging a
willing republican Congress to increase
the tariff on iron. The unequaled ia.
cilities for manufactures of all sorts
possessed by the South would make
this section the great store house of the
world, and give all her people employ.
ment at good wages, were it not for the
tariff, which restricts the demand for
her products by forcing foreign mer-
chants TO pay for them with scarce
gold, instead OF with the plentiful prod
ucts of their own countries.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
A WOMAN HITS A BURGLAR.-A

A WOMAN HITS a BURGLAR.-A
dispatch from Wooster, Ohio, says
Five masked men early Sunday morn
ing gained an entrance to the farm res.
idence of Perry Bristow by bursting
the door open with an old pump for a
battering ram. Mrs. Alice Baxter, a
comedy widow, Bristow's housekeeper,
came into the room carrying heavy
glass lamp, One of the burglars point
ed revolver at her head and with the
other hand at her throat tried to force
her back in the room. She made re-
sistance, and struck the fellow such q
blow with the lamp that she broke the
handle, and before being overpowered
had dealt him several blows in the face.
The man ran out of the house with
blood streaming from his wounds.
The other burglars tied Mrs. Bax-
ter's hands, which she had cut. Miss
Jennie Baxter escaped from the house
and ran half mile in her bare feet to
arouse the neighbors. The fellows left
the house, taking two gold watches
and some jeweiry. Mrs. Baxter seized
a shotgun and fred two loads ct the
burglars, who returned the shots.
The police have one man, John Le-
vers, bricklayer, under arrest. Le-
yers answers the description of the
man whom Bristow described as wear
ing old stockings. In fact, when taken
into custody, Levers had on pair OF
home made overshoes made out of a
pair of old flannel drawers. The same
gang has been operating in like man.
Der for several years among farmers
only, and have the farming community
terror-stricken.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

THREE BANKS broke in Pennsylvania
last Monday private business failures are
increasing, industries are suspending,
closing or reducing wages; prices of
farm products are falling and even the
most sanguine Of the business reviews,
Dunn's, has to acknowledge that the
hope of promised prosperity has
not been realized. But, all the same,
the republican Congress is preparing
bill to raise the price of the necessaries
of life, though even at the present rates
at which they are selling hundreds of
thousands of people haven't got money
enough to buy them. However, as
Christmas is coming, "we'll be gay and
happy STILL"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

The TARIFF = III an interview on the
Senatorial situation in North Carolina Senator
Thurston. OF Nebraska, member Of the re-
publican committee. said last night:
THE republicans seem certain OF forty
seats in the next Senate. If Mr.. Mantle, OF
Montana should act With u.s. az hope he
will, at least on tariff matters, we will have
forty three. We would then need at least
two more votes, together with the vote of the
vice president, to secure the passage Of the
tariff act. We hope to secure those two votes
from Kentucky and North Carolina. The
members Of the national committee 80 far as
I know their sentiments are very sn@ious
that republican tariff measure should be.
come operative at the beginning of the next
fiscal year, July 1. It seems almost evident
that no tariff legislation of 3 satisfactory
character can pass Congress and become law
this session, The expectation is that such a
Law csn be passed at an extraordinary session
TO be called soon after the fourth of March"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
Hawaii and Annexation.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Dec. 16.-Mr. Coop
er, the Hawaiian minister of foreign
affairs, is in the city. He says he came
to the United States to urge anne1a-
ton on account of fears that the Ha.
waiian government hiss OF Japan. 10
Hawaii, according to Gen. Cooper, the
Japanese far outnumber all other
foreigners, and are beginning to
chafe for the elective franchise. If
they force Hawaii to give them the
right of vote, then American ascendancy
will be at an end for ever.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16

A HAIRLESS SoUIRREL.-Mr. John
F. Curtis brought from Stafford hair
less squirrel, caught in his woods on
yesterday. The squirrel is perfect in
every respect, save that it is as hairless
as Mexican dog, or as if it had been
clean shaved. Except the few long
hairs about the nose, from mouth to tip
of tail there is no sign of hair. The
tail is very much like rats tail, and
altogether it ia most remarkable freak.
How or why the hair dropped off there
is no means of Observation-Disclosures
burn Tar.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
OTHERS LIVING.

To the Editor otthe Alexandria Gazette :
In local item in the GAZETTE of the
11st instant you state that there are
Duly two persons living who were
members ef the company which left
Alexandria for Mexico in 1916. Two
others are living in Fairfax county
Iohn Tridle and Billy Hall. The lat
Ter is totally blind, but the former is
still enjoying good health.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

NEW YORK, Dec 16-The street was in.
clined to take calmer view of the Morgan
speech delivered in tie Senate yesterday and
the result wa, moderate covering move.
ment during the early trading at the Stock
Exchange Prices accordingly rose /. to 1l2
per cent The frmness was short lived,
however and before II o'clock speculation
di played renewed weakness Speculation at
II o'clock WAS rather weak in tone.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 16.-virginis century
GIL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-16
Rnrned while the Firemen Slept.

SUPERIOR, Wis, Dec. 15.-The east end
fire station, q large two-story building, burn
ed to the ground early this morn
ing with all the fire apparatus be-
sides the personal effects of the
firenen. Ten firemen sept on the upper floor
and Yatchman remained on duty below,
nevertheless 'tbs entire plant was total
wreck twenty minutes after the fire started,
and the fremen escaped death by Jumping
from the second.story windows and from the
root.