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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Nancy Fristow, colored, died at
Wichita, Kas., yesterday at the age OF
1O4 years.
The Park Theatre, at Niagara Falls,
n. Y, was destroyed by fire at one
o'clock this morning, causing loss of
$4,000.
A cyclone struck Swayzee, Ind, yes
terdsy afternoon where fair was in
progress. Two men were killed and
several injured.
Walter Scott, a Chicago business
man, was instantly killed by lightning
yesterday afternoon while riding home
on his bicycle.
Assistant Secretary Curtis of the
Treasury Department has gone to New
York, presumably on matters relating
to the gold reserve.
President Cleveland has telegraphed
denying the report that he has given
any advice touching the course of the
Indianapolis conference.
The storm which swept over por-
tions of Illinois and other western
States Wednesday night did much
damage to property and crops.
Christ Wolf was struck by lightning
while blowing on his farm near La
Grange, Ind, yesterday and instantly
killed, as was also his three horses.
The American ship Santa Clara,
about which there has been considera-
bile anxiety, arrived at San Francisco
yesterday, 172 days from New York.
AT San Francisco yesterday John
Sopher, laborer, shot and danger
ously wounded his wife, who had left
him on account of his brutality, and
then took his own life.
A dispatch from Hammerfest, Nor
way, says 1.-THE initiation of Professor
Andree's balloon has been completed
and he is only awaiting q favorable wind
to start on his journey over the Arctic
regions"
The pants makers union No. S, of tie
United Garment Workers of America,
in accordance with resolution passed
at meeting last night, struck this
morning. This adds over 500 to the
ranks of the New York strikers.
The explosion from some unknown
cause in the packing plant of Swift and
Company, at Kansas City, Mo, last
night, resulted in the death of one man
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FAIRFAX NOTES.

Mrs. Samuel Monroe, of Alexandria,
is at Mrs. T. r. Loves, at Fairfax.
Mrs. Lucy Davis and son, Stanley,
of Alexandria, are visiting Mrs. DIS
aunt, Miss Adelaide Davis, at Farr.
Accotink Lodge, No. Is, 1. o. o. F.,
will hold its annual picnic at Woodlawn
mansion on Wednesday, August 18th.
The republicans of Fairfax county will
hold meeting at the courthouse on the
18th to select delegates to the congress
sional convention at Culpeper.
The clerk of the corporation of Falls
Church has completed the assessment
Of personal property in the town, and,
with the assessment of real estate as
taken from the county books, the total
amount of assessed property in the cor
poralion is 1885 ,O36, being 500 ,370.65
less than last year. This decrease is
due to the fact that the assessment of
real estate, which is taken every five
years, goes into effect this year, and the
values were reduced in many cases by
the land assessor.
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and the injury of six others, four prob
ably fatally. In the fire which follow
ed 100000 in property was destroyed
This mornings session of the Texas
populjst convention at Galveston was
taken up in trying to complete State
ticket. So far as the ticket has been
made it stands; For Governor, J. q.
Kearby; 1t. Gov, q. S. P. Ashby; Atty.
Gen., W. M. Walton; Comptroller, +
o. Mitzner.
William ]. Relland shot himself
through the brain in the presence OF
Coroner Campbell, at Los Angeles,
CAL, last evening. Grief over the
death of his paramour and fear Of a
criminal prosecution for an operation
which led to her death were the causes
OF Relland's act.
Claude H. Hoover, who killed his
brother-in law, Councilman-elect Du-
bois, was hanged at Omaha, Neb., to-
day. The execution was conducted
with the greatest privacy allowed by
law. Hoover stated that his crime
was caused by drink, and warned
others against it.
1t is believed that the vessel men
toned in the dispatches of last night as
having been wrecked on the Falkland
Islands is probably the City of Phila-
delphia, which left New York on Feb
ruary 2 for San Francisco. The young
woman whose body was recovered from
the wreck may have been the wife of
the ships skipper, Capt. w. F. john
son.
Tennessee held an election yesterday
to select judges for the Court of Chan
Gerry Appeals and county officials. The
election seems to have been complete
victory for the democratic ticket, which
was ingloriously showed under two
years ago by the A. P. AS. In the
State elections indications point to
safe majority for the democratic nomi-
nees of the chapcery court of appeals.
In county elections honors are easy,
owing to the effort of fusion between
the populists and republicans.
special from Osnaburg Stark county, O.,
say S the postoilicc there was burgarized last
night of $137 worth of stamps. The safe
was carried into church and blown open
with gunpowder. Appearances indicate that
half dozen men were implicated.
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Now York Stnck NInrkct.

NEW YORK, Aug. Prices at the
stock exchange were again depressed
this morning, the prominent issues fall
ing anywhere from J to 81 per cent
The bears, who have been very success
full of late, were again heavy sellers of
the grangers and industrials and were
confidently predicting lower figures.
They assert that liquidations have start
ed in earnest and that this movement
will continue for some time to come.
Holders of stocks have sustained Sc
we're losses, they say, and blocks of Sc
curities are still hanging over the mark
ct. There we're rumors of an issue OF
clearing house certificates by the clear
ing house banks and this had an ad-
verse influence for the reason that
such action by the financial institutions
is taken only in times of panic.
While it is true that holders of stocks were
badly frightened this morning on account of
the heavy shrinkage it would be al exaggera-
ton to say that anything like panic pre-
vailed. Bankers generally deprecated the
talk about an issue of the certificates referred
to but stated thst the loan committee appoint
ed last winter has never been discharged and
can get to work at a moments notice if occa
sion warrants it. The break in the Western
stock was credited in the room to interests
identified with the Standard oil party. At IL
o'clock speculation was feverish and excited
with prices generally 4.aa4 per cent. above
the lowest OF the morning.
Liquidations at the Stock Exchange con.
tinued on heavy scale after midday. Chi
cago houses were heavy sellers for clients who
were badly hurt by the Moore Brothers' fail.
ure, and local commission firms were closing
contracts right and left for the account of
customers whose margins had been exhausted.
The rise in call loans to Gar per cent. and the
fact that time money was difficult to obtain
even at fancy rates intensified the tearish
feeling.
One reason for the heavincss of stocks to-
day was the circulation of an alleged state
ment by VIM. c. Whitney to the effect that
New York State would be carried by VIM. j.
Bryan. The rumor led to general selling
movement, the decline in the active stocks
ranging from 1 to Il per cent, and in the in
actives from to ID per cent. Subsequently
it was announced on the authority of Senator
Elkins that Mr.. Whitney never made the
statement imputed to him.
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LATEST ADvIcEs from Spain and
Cuba show the strain the Spanish gov
eminent is laboring under for the prose
cution of the war. What with the drain
upon its resources revealed by the
mortgage of the Almaden mines to the
Rothschilds, the havoc wrought by
sickness among the Spanish troops in
Cuba, and the opposition manifested by
the people at home to sending more re-
Inducements, it looks as if the revolu-
tionists may postpone the early settle
ment of the war in favor OF Spain.
But in that event the Cubans will only
escape Scylla to fall into Charybdis,
Judging by the history of the West India
Islands, to which independence or a
large share of self-goverment has been
granted. For Cuba, as for Hayti and
Jamaica, it were better to endure the
ills of the old order than to be exposed
to the rule of servants, which the wise
man says fills the earth with disquiet-
ooSc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07

Col. LANES APPoINTMENTs.-It
was stated in the GAZETTE on We'd
nesday that the national republican
committee, with Mr.. Hanna at its
head, at a meeting in New York on
Tuesday night had decided to allow
Col. Lamb, chairman of the Virginia
State committee, to appoint three
members on the State advisory COM
mittee. in addition to those who had
been appointed by the national COM
mittee some time since. On Col.
Lambs return to Norfolk yesterday he
appointed Messrs. Park Agnew, of this
city, Judge P. w. Strother, of Giles,
and Mr.. S. B. Carney, of Norfolk. The
advisory committee will meet in Nor
folk tomorrow.
Judge Waddill said in Richmond yes
terday that the action of the New York
committee in adding three names to
the campaign committee was all right,
as the increase in the size of the CON-
mittee would, in all probability, tend
to bring about good results, and no
special harm could come from it.
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FRIDAY EVENING, AUG. =, 1896.

THAT THE fight now on between the
classes and the masses was brought on
by the former, few observant men have
any reasonable doubt, and it Is also
plain that if the exciting cause OF 1t,
the resumption of silver coinage, had
not developed it, something else would
have done so. as its predisposing causes
were so many and so potential. The
high tariff upon the necessaries OF life
of the many poor for the benefit of the
few rich protected manufacturers, the
abolition of the tax on the surplus in
comes of the rich while fifty per cent.
tax is levied upon almost everything
the poor man has to buy, the destruc-
ton of the State banks so that a poor
man cannot borrow money with his
own land as security, the taxing of the
poor corn planter to pay bounty to
his richer neighbor who raises sugar
cane or manufactures beet sugar, the
immense increase in the number of OIL
ces and exclusion therefrom of all ex-
cept small privileged class, the pom,
pous display of the prodigal wealth Of
the parvenu rich, in contrast with
the glaring evidences of the restitution
and squalor of the poor, the restric-
tions upon the personal liberty
of the poor, the prostitution of
of all the branches and departments OF
the government to the influence OF
money; these of many others, no less
provoking, have drawn line between
the rich and the poor of this country
that did not exist in its earlier and bet
ter days, but which, alas having once
been drawn, is inetfaceable. Sad and
pessimistical as this may appear to un-
observant optimists, it is the naked and
rock-ribbed truth.
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pected.

THE forces of the boiling democrats
are coming to head at Indianapolis.
That is, the leaders of such forces,
though where their followers are, or
who made them leaders, or who they
lead, no body can tell. The democrats
hope they will nominate third ticket,
but they will hardly be silly enough to
do so, though these are the dog days,
for such ticket would receive fewer
votes even than that nominated by the
prohibitionists.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Gillian and Oliver, proprietors of the
Danville Daily RecieW, made an assign
ment yesterday.
Mrs. Matte Lou Walker, youngest
daughter of the late o. P. Hankins, and
wife of Mr.. Charles F. Walker, died at
her residence in Richmond yesterday.
w. B. Johnson has been appointed q
member of the State Board of Embalm-
ing of Virginia for five years, beginning
July 1, 1896.
Governor O'Ferrall has appointed
Mr.. G. W. c. Blackstone, of Accomac
county, judge of that county, to fill the
vacancy created by the resignation of
Judge Gillett.
DIr. Decatur AXtell, vice.president
and general manager, says the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad Company is
not seeking to coerce its employees to
vote for Mckinley.
Mr.. q. D. Porter died unexpectedly
at his home in Charlottesville yester-
day. Mr.. Porter was born in Louisa
county, and at the beginning of the war
and served with distinction in Mum
ford's Brigade.
Joseph Bowers, an employe Of the
Bodley Wagon Works. while walking
on the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks
near Staunton yesterday was struck by
passenger train and instantly killed.
A companion stepped off the track and
escaped.
A barn belonging to Mr.. A. II. Lee,
in lower Loudoun, was burned day
or two ago, with several hundred
bushels of grain. A fine stallion be-
longing to Mr.. Albert Crouch, tenant
of the place, was also burned up. The
total loss will be about $1,000 or
81 400.
Three boys, Jas. Poage, Wiley Lud-
wig and Clarence Berry, aged twelve,
fourteen and fifteen years, respectively,
were drowned yesterday in Roanoke
river, while bathing. They were un-
able to swim and got beyond their
depth. A number of other bows were
in the river at the time, and gave the
alarm. The bodies were recovered BY
fishing party short time afterwaru.
Arthur Vivian, an English sailor, is
in Jail in Richmond, charged with be-
ing filibuster and violating the neu-
trality laws between this country and
Spain. Vivian claims that he was one
of the crew of the steamer Three
Friends, taken by the Spanish authori-
ties near Havana some months ago,
and with the captain and all the others
sentenced to be shot, but that he made
his escape.
The republican convention for the
Seventh district was held yesterday at
Luray. Ninety.odd delegates, together
with the alternates, all white except
three, we're present. Robert ]. Wal
ker, of Shenandoah county, was nomi-
mated for Congress by reclamation.
The members of State committee elect
ed were B. c. Sims, of Greene; John
Acker, of Rockingham, and G. l..
Pritchard, of Warren.
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A GALLANT CoMMAND.-The an.

A GALLANT CoMMAND.-The an
nual meeting of the association of the
Survivors of the Sixth Virginia Confed.
crate Cavalry Regiment will be held at
Upperville, Fauquier county, next
Tuesday. Company A, which was
made up in that neighborhood, will be
the hosts. The Sixth Virginia Cavalry
was composed of the flower of Virgin
las horsemen and made reputation
unsurpassed for gallantry and dash.
The programme of the reunion includes
addresses from a number of the old
command. Judge Daniel a. Grimsley,
of Culpeper, who was an officer in the
regiment, is president Of the Survivors
Association.-Bdlto Sun.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Sound Money Convention.

The Sound Money Convention.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. Tt is
much commented that not one of the
big leaders of the democratic gold wing
will be present at the opening of the
sound money convention to-day. There
is strong under current of disappoint-
ment as result. AS the time for the
conference, two o'clock this afternoon,
approached it seemed more certain that
the delegates will urge against the call
ing of convention and the nomination
of a gold ticket and that they will press
their arguments upon the conferees. A
lack of time and the apparent indifler-
ence of the eastern gold leaders will be
seized upon to that end, and while it is
reasonably certain that convention
will be decided upon, the programme
will not 60 through without opposition.
The reports sent that Senator Hill
has made up his mind to support the
Chicago ticket, whether true or not,
was generally discussed by the dele
gates to-day.
Mr.. Mccormick, of Williamsport, a
member of the Pennsylvania delega-
ton, says: "My delegation and those
from Massachusetts, and Maryland held
sort of informal conference
on the train on the way to
your city. While there seems to be
an impression that the matter OF nomi-
mating third ticket will be hurtful to
the doubtful States. such as Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, yet l
think it can be truly said that such q
ticket will be nominated. We, of Penn
sylvania, which is sure to be carried
for Mckinley, do not feel that We
should demand third ticket"
The delegate from Maryland, ]. E.
Semmes, also says that the sound
money democrats of his State are not in
favor of q third ticket. They will, how
ever, probably indorse the action of the
sound money convention and most Of
them will vote for sound money ticket.
The tendency ofthe sound money demo.
Gratis from Maryland, he says, is to
stand solidly by the republican ticket.
Massachusetts favors third ticket
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Death of,Irs. Eva. B.Raymond.

CLEVELAND, O., Aug. Eva B.
Raymond, wife of Thomas W. Ray
mond, owner and driver of the race
horse Klamath, died to.day at st. Clair
Hospital from the effects of an opera
ton for an abscess of the brain. Mrs.
Raymond and her husband are widely
known throughout the country because
of their connection with Cookie"
Klamath. The husband, wife and
horse formed a family bound by the
strongest ties of love. The great race
horse is an animal of almost human
intelligence and his affection for his
mistress was the most striking of bis
many wonderful traits. The body was
shipped to day to Raymond's home, at
Santa Anna. Cal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07

THE VIEWS of the GAZETTE as to the
real issues involved in the contest be-
tween the democratic and republican
parties are sustained by the report of
the probable contents of Maj. McKin-
ley's forthcoming letter of acceptance.
His favorite subject. the tariff, fills such
large place in his vision that he can
see little else, and if elected he will
forge the chains of pension and tariff
bills so strongly that it will be years be-
fore long suffering people can find de-
iiverance from that Egyptian bondage.
Those democrats who threaten to bolt
on the gold issue will only play into
the hands of Major Mckinley and the
republican party, whose cardinal doc
trine, when stripped of all platitudes, is
the sustentation of trusts and monopo-
lies
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07
Another Filibuster.

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. The
steamship Laurads, said to have been
sold to the. Cubans by the Hart Steam
ship Co., came up to the mouth of the
Christiana creek yesterday. Deputy
Collector of the Port Ayars inspected
the steamship after she had been en-
tered as in ballast, and then gave her
clearance papers for Port Antonio,
Jamaica. She sailed away Immediately
afterwards. 1t is reported that later
the Laurada was met by the tug Mar
tina from which it is said she took 2S
men and large number of cases, MANY
of which, it is believed, contained dvna.
mite. The Laurada had eight large
surf boats in addition TO her usual com
plement of seaboats.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07

THE oMNJPREsENT bicyclist will ex-
ist for some good if this, bis agency, the
movement for better roads, be propelled
forward with more rapidity than is gen.
orally characteristic of county and
State authorities. Besides enacting a
law whereby the idlers in the jails at
the public expense can be put to work,
the tramp nuisance could be abated by
the State requiring those found within
its borders to be arrested and con.
demned to labor on the roads for su
honest maintenance. Unless general
law were passed on the subject by all the
States large force from this source
could not be depended upon, but it
would be an efectusl means of relieving
the States wise enough to pass such q
saw from their presence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07
DcranTed by Grief.

CH1LIcoTHE, O., Aug. 7.-Thomas
Hurd and his wife, parents of the two.
year old boy whose head was bitten off
by pet lion Wednesday, are partially
deranged over the horror. The mother
remained in commissions all night and
showed signs of having lost her reason.
During Wednesday night she made an
attempt to kill herself. Hurd and his
wife, who live in Washington, D. c.,
left for that place last evening with the
remains of their child.
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Fatal Railroad Accident.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Aug IA Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific freight train
was wrecked at seven o'clock last
night at Lighton, fifty miles southeast
of this city. Reports received here
early this morning say twenty lives
were lost, but the railway officials de-
cline to give out information.
At the headquarters of the Rock Isl
and road, in Chicago, the assistant gen.
eral manager placed the number killed
at three.
In the wreck are four cars of sheep,
one of hogs and three of meat.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-07

THE PURcELLvlLLE Bush MEETING.-In-
tense heat marked the second day Of the Pur-
c,llville temperance bush meeting yesterday
but. notwithstanding, there was an immense
crowd on the grounds estimated at between
fur and five thousand. The day was taken
up with prohibition oratory, Colonel Balm,
of Kentucky, being the principal speaker in
the morning. Hon. Joshua lowering. prohi-
bition candidate for President, arrived On the
ground little before noon and was welcomed
with quite demonstration. 4 procession
was formed headed by the Purcellville Brass
cd men, and under their escort Mr lowering
was conducted to the big tabernacle tent In
the afternoon he delivered an address of about
an hour
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FAUOUIER NOTES.

Messrs. Carol and Willie May, of
Alexandria, spent Monday with Mr.. b Z.
d. Ayre, of Kerfoot.
Miss Cora Cochran, Of Alexandria, is
spending the summer with her brother,
Mr.. ]. Cochran, of The Plains.
Mr.. Lewis f. Smoot, of Alexandria,
spent last Friday night in Warrenton,
and participated in the german at the
Town Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Neville, of Up
perville, sailed last week for Ireland
Mr.. Neville's native country, for a
short visit to his people.-WarrentOn
Banner.
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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

Business matters continue dull in al
branches and hard times is the general tak.
The offerings OF grain continue light for his
season, but prices keep low and farmers az
getting but little money for their Wsea.
There is nothing to note in money Affairs
In New York yesterday money on call was
firm and higher at 11aa2 per cent, last loan
11a per cent closed ! i2a2 per cent. Prim
mercantile paper 6i2a71a per cent. In Bal
timore call money has been steadily quoted 81,
4 a5 per cent, with some Improvement noted
in the demand at the close of the week Time
loans and bank accommodations are unchaug.
ed at sac per cent. Virginia Century BIO ds
we're weak, with a decline Of ! y per cent.
but were not in demand. The one sale re-
corded was 1000 at 81, which was the ask
ing price yesterday. Southern Railway 5s
declined TO 80.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 7.-Virginis Century
bonds 52a53
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Ar1emnt to Rob a Bank.

TUscoN, Ariz., Aug. An attempt
was made yesterday afternoon to hold
up the International Bank at Nogsles.
President Dessart was the only person
in the bank when two armed men
stepped into his presence and demand
ed the money. Three accomplices re-
NAMED on watch outside. Shots were
exchanged and Dessert succeeded in
holding them of till the noise attracted
assistance. Mr.. Dessart was slightly
wounded. The robbers made good
their escaDe,
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Poisoned by Ice Cream.

FORT SCOTT, Kas., Aug. AT a
picnic of the Baptist Sunday school at
Cambell's Grove, near here, yesterday.
% persons: and may be more, were
seriously poisoned by either ice cream
or q tainted spring, from which they
obtained water. Upon this the doctors
disagree. The symptoms were all the
same with all those stricken down.
Physicians were summoned and attend
ed the sufferers. ALI of them were
removed to their homes last night. 1t
is feared that several of the victims
pill die