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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-24
Judge Norton Dead.

Judge Norton Dead.
Ex. Judge J. J. Norton died at his
home in Walhalla on last Saturday
after an illness of about three weeks.
The deceased was gallant soldier in
the war, a good lawyer, and a just
Judge.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-24

YORKVILLE, 8. @. Il:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE "a, 1896.

People who think the Democrats VIII
have no show inl November should read
the "Silver Secession" article, in today's
issue. q,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

appertain to the executive department. OF Tn
government except insofar as the President
is. under the constitution (by exercise OF the
yeto) made part Of the law making power
of the government"
By Mr. Chilton-"That a condition of pub
lie war exists between the government OF
Spain and the government which has been
for some time maintained by force OF arms by
the people of Cuba; and that the United States
Of America shall maintain strict neutrality
between the contending powers, according 70
each all the rights of belligerents in the ports
and territory of the United States"
MIR. Mitchell made brief statement
as to the Importance of action on the
Nicaragua canal bill.
The conference report on the joint
resolution as to the tax on alcohol used
in manufactures and the arts was pre-
sented and agreed to.
Mr.. Pettigrew offered resolution
calling on the Secretary of the Treasury
for information as to the Pacific Rail-
road bonds advertised for sale by the
Treasury and it was agreed to.
Half q dozen Senate bills authorizing
certain army and navy officers and
other officials, to accept medals and
other testimonials from foreign govern
ments, were taken from the calendar
and passed.
The House bill providing for free
homesteads on the public lands in Ok
lahoma Territory for actual and bona
fde settlers and reserving the public
lands for that purpose was taken up as
, tho nnfinished husinass
The Senate this morning passed Mr..
Calls resolution directing the Secretary
of the State to send to the Sena'e re-
port of all naturalized citizens of the
United States of whose arrest and pres
emit condition he has any information.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Bartholdt, chairman of the COM
mittee on immigration and naturaliza-
ton, moved to recommit the bill. He
did this at the request of several MEM
bers of the committee.
Mr.. Danford, member of the com.
mittee, moved to non concur in the Sem
ate amendments aud agree to the re-
quest of the Senate for conference.
The request of the Senate for com.
mittee on conference on the immigra-
ton bill was agreed to and on motion
of Mr. Bingham the House resolved it.
self into committee of the whole for
further consideration of the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill, the pending question being the sec
ton providing for the congressional Ii
brary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
The International Situation.

MADRID, Dec. 2l.-The Correspon
deneiG is authority for the statemen,
that naval and military plans to be car,
ried out in the event of war between
Spain and the United States have al
ready been formed and approved by
the ministers of marine and war. The
policy of Spain, according to this state.
ment, will be to act upon the defensive
in Cuba, but to be in readiness to take
the offensive if the forces of the United
States should attempt to make land
ing upon the island.
The Heraldo announces that the
ministry of war is preparing a PAM
phlet, which will contain topographic
maps of the United States, data of the
situation and condition ofthe American
fortresses and military organization,
vulnerable points of the American coast
and interior and directions as to the
methods to be employed to effect the
best result in making reprisals upon
the commercial ports of the United
States.
A cabinet council will be held to.
morrow which will be devoted exclu-
sively to consideration of the interna-
tional situation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

The PRESIDENT is as right now in
the Spanish imbroglio as he was wrong
at this time last year in the one with
Great Britain. The recognition of the
independence of foreign governments,
as is the making of treaties, is Presi-
Dental function, and it is his option to
do so before his asks the advice of the
Senate. In such recognition, the Sen
ate, or even the whole Congress, is sup
plemeDtal. But even if it we're other
wise, and the independence of the Gu
ban insurgents could be recognized
where or to whom could formal and
official notice of such recognition, or an
accredited minister, be sent IF Gener-
al Weyler with two hundred thousand
troops cannot find the seat of govern
ment of the insurgents, single q. S.
minister would have sorry time doing
SO among the trackless swamps and
mountain Businesses of Cuba. 1t will be
time enough to recognize the indepen-
dence of the negro and scalawag bandits
in Cuba when they possess, not all, but
any of the attributes of an organized
government.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Pope at noon on Saturday gave
an audience to Bishop Keane, late rec
tor of the Catholic University st Wash
iDgton, D. G.
The receipts st the thirty largest
postoffices in the country for the past
month as compared with November,
1895, decreased $151, OS9 net, or over
5 per cent.
Sallie Reed, who says she is the wife
of S. W. Williams, prominent young
man of Danbury, Conn, yesterday stab
bed him and then fought for an hour to
kill herself.
Sixteen men were poisoned by drink
ing "speak- easy" whisky in the Ben
wood oil field, in Monroe county, Ohio,
on Saturday. Three are dead and
others are critically i'll.
The charred remains of an unknown
man were found near the tracks of the
Z. w. and B. Railroad, between Her
ring run and Stemmer's run yesterday.
1t is supposed that the man was MUIR
dered and that his body was burned.
In the presence ofnumerous prelates,
the best-known members of the Amer
lean colony, Cai.iinal Satolli at Rome
yesterday took formal possession of the
Titular Church of Santa Maria del Ara
Coeli, which was assigned him by the
Pope.
William Wheeler, a lawyer, forty
two years old and widower, who has
lived for several months at No. ZIG
Twelfth street, northwest, Washington,
committed suicide yesterday by swal-
lowing quantity ofparis green. Drink
and dependency were the cause.
Driven to desperation through i'll.
health and poverty, Mrs. Lille F.
Hines, of Washington, the divorced
wife of Clinton S. Kimes, publisher OF
the Raiiavay Guide, committed suicide
early yesterday morning by asphyxiat-
ing herself in the Hotel Niagara, op.
posite Camden Station, Baltimore.
The explosion of a piano lamp on
the second floor of the four-story resi-
dence, 5l4 east Fifty. eighth street, New
York, last night, resulted in the loss OF
five lives, Aaron Goldsmith, his wife
and three children. The only other
person in the house at the time of the
fire was Mary Rosa, aged twenty, do
nestle servant, who saved her life by
jumping out of the window.
Martha, Elizabeth and Charlotte Will
Dor were burned to death in fire at
their home at Newport, R. L., Saturday
night. They were aged women, sisters,
and descendants of well-known colo
NAL family, which was among the early
settlers in that place. The women re-
sided alone in the old homestead. The
accident was caused by alcohol which
+. Miss Elizabeth Wilbor was using be.
coming lighted from lamp, which was
on table beside her.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Failure of a Well Known Bank.


CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-The National
Bank of Illinois, one of the Oldest and
best known banking institutions in the
city, with assets amounting to nearly
SIS 5000, 900, did not open its doors this
morning. This action was decided
upon by the directors last night, after
the bank had been suspended from the
clearing house association. The causes
of the suspension, as given by the
clearing house committee. are Gun
warrantable and injudicious loans,"
through which 1.-THE capital and sur
plus of said bank is seriously imperil-
ed, if not absolutely lost" At the last
statement of the bank its capital was
shown to be 81 900, 900, with surplus
of 81 100000 and undivided assets of
over 100000. 1t is thought probable
that none of the depostors will suffer
great loss by the suspension.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2l.-Tne banking
firm of Wasmansdorff & Heinemann is
announced to be in the hands of the
Security Title & Trust Co.
Judge Freeman has appointed the
Security Title & Trust Company re-
ceiver for E. S. Dreyer & Company and
Wasmausdorf and Heinemann.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

CUT OPEN BABY's SKULL.-An ex-
traordinary surgical operation was re.
Gently performed by DR.. J. A. Wyeth.
at the Polytechnic, in New York, on the
infant child of Jacob Appelbaum. The
surgeons had discovered that arrested
development of the bones of the skull
had forcibly kept the baby's brain from
growth in proportion to the body.
Operations in such a case we're fire.
quent few years ago, but of late have
been rare, except where hopeless lido.
cy or death was threatened.
DR.. Wyeth first laid back the scalp,
and then, opening the skull with q
chisel, used the surgeons torceps to
cut away the bone and periosteum for
a space for one and half by two
inches across the top of the head.
After an antiseptic wash had been
applied the scalp was drawn up to
cover the wound and fastened in place
with several stitches. The child has
rallied from the operation much better
than was expected, and if the improve.
ment continues for three or four weeks
the operation may be continued over a
larger part of the skull. 1t is not like
" that new bone material will form,
owing to the removal of the perioste.
um. or bone covering, but the relief
from the pressure on the brain may al
low normal development of the
child's latent faculties. The operation
in this case differed slightly from the
more common one in which the bones
that make up the skull are separated
by drawing apart at the natural points.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
WAS WILKES BooTH's PILOT

WAS WILKES BooTH's PILOT
Franklin A. Robey died at his home,
near Hill Top, in Charles county, Md,
on Friday, aged 81 years. The de,
ceased was well known as the man
who piloted John Wilkes Booth and
his companion, Harold, after the as
sassination of President Lincoln, from
the home of the late Col. Samuel Cox,
in that county, to the pine woods, near
where Bel Alton now stands, and later
directed Thomas Jones to the spot. It
was then that Mr.. Jones took charge of
the fugitives, and subsequently piloted
them to the Potomac river, where thew
embarked for the Virginia shore. Mr..
Robey was, at the time, an overseer for
Col. Cox. He was always reticent
about the part be took in the escape,
and could never be induced to talk
about the assassination of President
Lincoln, or of the assassins, and his
connection with the escape OF the latter
only became known by accident year
or two ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

INSANE FROM JoY.-Gov. Lowndes, Of
Maryland, on Friday pardoned S. r. O.
Speed, young man who was serving q
sentence in the Maryland penitentiary
for forgery. When his counsel, bear
ing bis release, arrived at the prison,
the man was found to be insane. He
was removed to the Maryland General
Hospital and Friday night was in de.
lirious condition.
Mrs. Ballington Booth, of the Saliva
ton Army, who was instrumental in So
curing Speeds pardon, accompanied the
lawyer to the prison, and intended to
escort Speed to her home at Mont Claire,
n. ]. She is at the bedside of the re-
leased convict.
Speed has suffered considerably from
Bright's disease and it is. a question 10
the minds of the physicians whether
his illness or the sudden news of his
pardon unbalanced his mind. Little
hope of his recovery is entertained st
the hospital.
Speed died yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra daSetpe'
WASHINGTON. Dec. 81.


The COMPTROLLER of the Currency has
issued a cali on national banks showing
their condition at the close Of business
on December 18th.
Senator Hoar has had conductor on
a street car here suspended for a month
for jerking him on the car, though the
conductor says he was only helping
him. Mr.. Hoar is an old man, but he
saws be is perfectly able to help him
self. and he was so angry with the con-
ductor that he pretended to strike him
with his cane.
Another miss Elite" case has occur
red in Congress. Last week the House
passed a bill to give Mrs. Jane Christian
Marye, of Alexandria, only child OF the
late w. S., Jett, soldier in Captain
Harper's Company of the Virginia
Line in the Revolutionary War, as pri
yate and lieutenant, q pension oftwelvt
dollars month. The bill had been
before Congress for many years, but
passed Just month after the death OF
its beneficiary, and, OF course, is utterly
worthless to her children.
1t is reported that Congressman-elect
Rixey of the Alexandria district is suf-
fering from chronic and serious affec-
ton of his throat.
While General Fitzhugh Lee, who,
with his wife and daughter left here for
Tampa yesterday, after his conference
with Secretary Olney, was waiting in
the private car that had been sent for
him at the 9th street depot, he was
waited upon by several of his personal
friends, who spent two or three hours
with him.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Daniel in
troduced resolutions of the Chamber OF
Commerce of Richmond in favor of the
creation of a department of commerce;
memorial of the democratic central
committee of Cook county, ILL.,, calling
the attention of Congress to the recent
removal of democratic Office holders
accused of pernicious political activity
resolutions of the board of trade Of
Lynchburg, for the creation of a de-
partment of commerce, and the Pc
tition of R. G. Wright, a. R. Cooke
and S. A. Austin, on the part of the
citizens of Waynesboro, in convention
assembled, for the recognition ofthe in
dependence of Cuba.
In 1.-The Senate to-day, on behalf
of himself and Senator Mills, Sen.
ator Morgan of Alabama. submitted
sn elaborate report on the Gu.
ban question, which Mr.. Morgan did
not conclude until after he entered the
chamber at noon. Ii takes pronounced
grounds and endorses the action of the
committee. Mr.. Morgan submits as
appendices to this report, the report o.
the Senate made by Slidell in 1859; the
speech of Senator Judah P. Benjamin
on that report; the case of Cuba as pre-
sented to the State Department by
Palma and that part of the President;
message relating to affairs in Cuba.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Gear sub
mitted favorable report on the bill tt
establish national standard for grain
Comptroller Eckels, in talking about the
failure of the National Bank of Illinois which
closed its doors this morning, said the man
agement on the part of the officers and direc
tors, has been, to state it mildly, grossly neg
| ligent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
CUBAN AFFAIRS.

The explicit announcement is made
in Madrid that Senior Dupuy de LONE,
the Spanish minister at Washington,
has telegraphed to his government
there that he has had conference with
Mr.. Olney, the Secretary of State, in
the course of which the latter assured
him that Spain might rest tranquil un-
til March at least, since, despite the at
titude of Congress, President Cleveland
would not recognize the independence
of Cuba.
It is stated that Captain General
| Weyler, in Cuba, has received instruc.
tions to hurry up his campaign by the
delivery of a bold stroke against the in
surgents in order to prevent the Cubans
from rallying from the disaster of
Maceo's death, and in order to deprive
the Americans of any pretext for de-
mand for Cuban independence.
1t was added that Spain was quite
able to meet the situation, and can
promptly mobilize as many as 100000
fresh troops in addition to those now
engaged in Cuba and the Philippines.
The officials of the War Department
explained that large orders have been
placed abroad for arms and ammunition
and SPANS rifle and munition factories
are working day and night to provide
against any possible external compli-
cations that may arise in Cuba or the
Philippines.
1.-The War Office" said one of the
high officials in that department yester-
day, twill not not provoke, nor will in,
finch from any contest upon which de.
ponds the national honor. The army
can rely upon absolute support, with
patriotic enthusiasm and with the en-
tire resources of the country. We can
land half million more soldiers in
Cuba within three months. We be-
lieve that the principal inhabitants of
Cuba would Internationally support
Spain against the Americans"
Secretary of State Olney's assertion
that the power to recognize the repub.
lie of Cuba as an independent State
rests exclusively with the President is
resented by Congressman as indicating
tendency to encroach upon the rights
of the legislative branch of the govern
ment.
1t is now conceded by the warmest support.
eIs of the Cameron resolution to recognize
the Independence of Cuba that it cannot be
passed by this Congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.

Ex-Judge W. B. G. Shumate, of Eau
ouier, who attended the meeting of the
republican State committee in Norfolk
last week, says:
"Contrary to the anticipation o.
most people we had the most harmo
NOUS and business-like meeting in the
history of the party. So much had
been said and written about the feud
between the Lamb and Bowden fac
tons that outsiders expected lively
fight. 1t had been given out that Col
Lamb and his friends would try to set
a side the action of the State commit,
lee, which at the Richmond meeting
had chosen an executive committee as
provided for under the new plan OF
party organization.
"The Lamb people claimed chat the
Richmond convention was irregular,
but when they learned that large ma
iority of the committee would adhere
to what was done there, but that no
attempt would be made to displace
Col. Lamb as chairman unless his
friends made fight against the new
executive committee, there was no
longer any talk of war.
"But there remained a grievance
with the Lamb faction which they tried
to soothe in endeavoring to get Mr..
Park Agnew, OF Alexandria, ousted
from the executive committee. 1t was
urged that as he had been chosen by
Col. Lamb last summer as member OF
of the State campaign committee, he
should not act ON the new committee,
but that loyalty to the chairman de-
manded that he resign. This Mr.. Ag-
new refused to do, and he defended
his action in an able speech, which met
the hearty Endorsement of Hon. G. E.
Bowden, Col. Brady, Gen. Edgar AL
Ian, and other party leaders, who were
not willing to see Mr.. Agnew made a
victim of personal feeling. Thus the
convention adjourned, and all the
practical results of victory are with the
opponents of Col. Lamb"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
Allegro AssauIter Lynched.

MAYFIELD. KY, Dec. 21.-At 1.3O
o'clock this morning a mob of about 500
masked men marched to the county
jail and, after breaking the doors of the
prison, entered and secured Jim Stone,
colored, who assaulted Mrs. J. NJ. R.
Green, of this place, on the night of
November IL, and carried him to the
court house yard. While rope was
being fixed several knives were plunged
into the negro's body as he stood pray
ing and denying that he was guilty.
After Stone was swung up he was filled
with shot. The jailer attempted to de-
fend the negro, but the mob demanded
him in such determined manner that
the jailer was forced to surrender him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 81, 49, 8

TT SEEMS as if sober, second thoughts
have exerted their natural Influence up
on the members of both branches OF
Congress and induced them to call q
halt in the march to battle, in order That
the need of war and the cost thereof
NAV be counted. The need of war
with Spain is entirely sympathetic, but
this materialistic age, and while there
would necessarily be many losses IN
such a war, the profits thereof are In
visible. That the cost of such war
would be immense there isno doubt, nor
even in case of their country's success,
would impoverished Spain ever be able
to nav a small share of it. And then,
too. it is not at all improbable that the
possibility of this country's aggression
upon their American possessions might
induce other foreign nations to support
Spain in her effort to retain hers,
and in such case the war would be
prolonged and great damage be done
not only to the shipping and trade, but
to all the coast cities of the United
States. Then, too, the national debt,
whichalready amounts to several billion
dollars, would CT necessity be great
ly increased by war, and the foreign
market for the country's surplus prod
ucts be entirely cut off. Nothing can
be made by war for the independence
of Cuba, but as much would be lost, it is
not probable that those who have just
bought the Presidency, in order to Sc
cure their incomes, will endanger them
by war with Spain, and her probable
hackers, for any such unnecessary and
uncalled for purpose.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

SECRETARY CARLISLE in his annual
report, sent to Congress to-day, the gist
of which has been anticipated, recon-
mends the retirement of greenbacks
and treasury notes with long, low in
terest bonds, the reduction of the tax
on bank notes to one-fourth of one per
cent, the issue of such notes to the ex-
tent of the par value of deposited bonds,
and that authority be given national
banks to establish branches, and that a
tariff for revenue, instead of for protec-
ton, be established. There is no doubt
of the wisdom of the latter, but whether
Congress will authorize the issue OF
more bonds is extremely doubtful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

A Town BURNED.-Thirty FIVE stores
in the heart of the business part Of
East Radford, town on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad west ofRoanoke,
were burned at three o'clock yesterday
morning. Loss about $50, 900, only
about one tenth insured, owing to the
high rates of insurance on account Of
there being no water or fire depart
ment. The merchants saved most OF
their goods. The buildings were all Of
frame. The fire originated in negro
clubhouse, where fire was left late at
night. Most of the merchants will re-
build with brick. Among the buildings
destroyed were the postofice and the
Hoffman Hotel.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

ONE OF THE Washington newspapers
that have been most persistent in their
demands for the annexation of Alexan-
dria to the District of Columbia, now
says as Alexandria don't want to be
annexed and as part of the Virginia
portion of the original district cannot
be annexed without the whole, the
only hope of the annexationists lies in
their ability to prove that the act of re.
PROCESSION was unconstitutional. As
that ability cannot be proved, further
interest in the proceedings is unneces.
SQrv
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21

ITHAs been but a short time since
the U. S. Senate declared in favor of ar.
bitrstion, instead of war, as the means
or the settlement of all international
differences. But since then members OF
the Senate have tried to provoke wars
with Great Britain, Turkey and Spain.
Understanding is as lacking now as it
ever was. There must needs be war,
owing to human nature, but only
dots go into it wit hout sufficient provo
cation.