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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22

BRYAN AT OMAHA.-William J.
Bryan was given rousing reception by
Omaha people last night. He was es.
corted from the depot to where the
speakers stand had been erected by an
immense procession, and was heartily
cheered all the way. In reply to the
Introductory speech of Mayor Broatch,
Mr.. Bryan said
II have conceded to my opponents
the same honesty of purpose that have
demanded that you should admit for
myself. Great cheering.) And SO in
this great and memorable campaign up
on which we are entering for you, any
complimentary terms that you may use
towards myself I say to you that
every good word that you can use
towards me I can repeat of my oppo-
nent, Major Mckinley. (Applause.)
"If you tell me that honestly indorse
the sentiments written in the platform
on which l stand, / tell you that know
you who oppose me are just as sincere
in your desire for good government.
With nothing but zeal for a cause to
commend me, l have at least demon.
strated that age is not necessity in
politics in the United States"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22

MURDER AT SEA.-The murder OF
Capt. Nash, his wife and second officer
Bramberg of the barkentine Herbert
Fuller, from Boston, for Rosario, which
put into Halifax yesterday morning
was stated in the GAZETTE. The VIC
tins had been killed in their hunks
while asleep. The murders had been
committed with an axe. The rooms in
which the victims lay were covered
with blood, showing that a severe
struggle had taken place, and the
bodies were horribly mutilated. The
cook, Jonathan Sheere, of Rosario.
suspected the mate, Thomas Bran, and
succeeded in placing him in irons, and
ne afterwards ironed the man who was
at the wheel at the time the murder
was committed. Bran at first denied
all knowledge of the murder, but later,
from remarks let fall and peculiar &C.
tons, suspicion pointed toward him as
the murderer and he was placed in
irons. The man at the wheel was
Lahez. He was also suspected of COM
plicity and was ironed by the crew.
AT the police station the first mate
was stripped and blood was found on
his clothing. Mr.. Monks states that he
saw the first mate come from the cap
tain's cabin after the murder. Seaman
Brown made statement to the effect
that he saw the first mate kill the cap
tain. He heard noise in the captains
cabin and on going thither saw the first
mate murder the captain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
Sound Nfoner Conferences.

CHICAGO, July 22.-There will be q
conference of the leaders of the sound
money democrats from ten States at
the Auditorium Hotel tomorrow night
for the purpose of deciding whether or
not to hold another convention. The
leaders will represent Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Mime
sofa.
Apathy on the part of the big guns
in the eastern States towards the
scheme is due chiefly to the fact that
the regular party organizations there
have not been captured as yet by the
silverites. For that reason they seem
to be more interested in local issues
than the national campaign. No pres
idential electors for Bryan and Sewall
have as yet been chosen in New York.
1t is fully predicted none will be by the
democrats. If the populists indorse
them at St. Louis then the populists of
that State will probably put up electors.
However, the sole aim of the western
and southern gold advocates is to de-
feat the Chicago nominees. They think
that object can be best accomplished by
the nomination of another ticket. This,
it is urged, would enable Mckinley to
carry some of the southern States and
everything east of the Rocky Noun
tains. There appears to be little doubt
that tomorrow nights caucus will is.
sue call for the convention to be held
in Chicago towards the latter part of
August.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
&. E. KNIGHT, Clerk
COMMON COUNCIL.

At called meeting of the Common Couu.
Gil of the city of Alexandria, Va. held
July 21st 1896, there were present:
Hubert Snowden, esq, President, and
Messrs. Burke, Thompson. Moore, Stride
Latham, Klaus, Beach, Harrison, Cation.
and Uhler.
communication from L. H. Thompson
Mayor, converting Council for the purpose OF
finishing such business as went over when
Council adjourned for the summer recess, was
received.
The opinion of the Corporation Attorney
that there is no vacancy in the Boayd o.
Police Commissioners by reason OF the rcmov
al of Mr.. Henry Strauss from the Second
ward to the First ward was received and ac-
c:pted, and his bill of 50 for writing tie
same was ordered to be paid,
The report of the committee appointed rs
the Corporation Court to examine into the
condition of the Court House and report tic
same, WAS received from j. K NJ Norton.
Judge of the Corporation Court, and referred
to committees on Public Property and F.
nance.
The request of Mr. John Aitcheson for peg.
mission to erect frame addition TO his
dwelling on Lee street. between Duke auI
Wolfe streets, was unanimously granted.
An ordinance TO amend and re-enact sec
tons and , of chapter Is Of the Corpora
ton Code, under the title of lumber, was read
second and third times and passed by the
following vote, viz:
Ayes, Messrs. Burke, Moore Thompson
Strder. Latham, Klaus Beach, Harrison Ca.
ton, Uhler and MI P. csidcnt-11 Noes
none.
A resolution authorizing the Mayor to grant
to Chas. F. Thompson permission 10 place i'm.
candescent electric lights upon the outside of
buildings under certain conditions. was re-
ferrcd to the committees on Light and r
nance.
The Board of Aldermen accepted an inv
tation to meet this board in JOINT convention
for the purpose of electing School Trustee to
fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Nj
Strauss from the Second ward, and a Police
Commissioner from the First ward TO fill the
vacancy caused by the expiration of Mr. Lind
sey's term of Office, and the two boards hay
ing assembled in joint session Mr.. Georse
barley was elected School Trustee, and Il
number of ballots were taken for Police Com
missioner without result, after which the joint
convention dissolved and the Board adjourned
Teste: JNO. T. JOHNSON. Clerk
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
Foreign News.

LONDON, July 22.-The House of
Commons to-day proceeded with the
consideration of the Irish land bill.
Clause "a of the measure provides that
advances under the purchase acts shall
consist of money and not of guaranteed
land stock. When this measure was
reached Sir Thos. Esmonde, anti-Par-
nellite, moved that the advances should
consist ofguaranteed land stock and not
of money. The Irish landlords joined the
nationalists in support of Sir Esmonde's
motion and it was carried by vote of
SO to sc. This vote against the govern
ment was received with frantic cheers
from the Irish members and Mr.. Bal
four, first lord of the treasury, with
drew the clause altogether.
LONDON, July 22.-The members of
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company of Boston, who have been the
guests of the Honorable Artillery Com
pany of London, will leave for home
on board the steamer Servia, which
will sail from Liverpool for Boston to-
morrow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
Cut Rates Discussed.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 22.-The execu-
tive board the Southern States freight
association is in session here to-day dis.
cussing the Seaboard Air Lines cut
rates. Different courses are being urg-
ed in the executive meeting. The pre-
vailing impression on the outside is
that the Southern Railway will have to
make terms with the Seaboard Air
Line, or sooner or later the rate war
will spread all over the South.
Manufacturers and wholesalers in this
territory are now doing all their buy
ing in Baltimore or in the West and
goods are being shipped east to Balti-
more and the South by the Seaboard to
the loss of all rail lines to the West as
we'll as to New York and other eastern
points. The Seaboard evidently means
to force terms or demoralize rates and
break up the freight association which
is shaky now. The board will probably
not agree on policy to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22

JUDGE GAYNoR, of New York, says
the application of the term anarchists
to the supporters of free coinage "is
likely to provoke the inquiry whether
the comparatively few who have in
8 generation or less amassed, and who
are now amassing, vast inflated for
tunes out of the public by the issuing
of untold millions of fraudulent bonds
and stocks upon public privileges and
franchises, to pay interest and divi-
dends upon which a proportionate trib-
ute is levied upon nearly every COM
munity in the country-whether they
are not the anarchists, the endangerers
of our institutions and social order, in
stead of those who think it wholesome
and wise that such a state of things,
and the unrest and Generalization
caused by it, should not continue"
There is no reasonable doubt of the fact
that the abuse of those who think they
are at least not wrong in advocating
the resumption of silver coinage has
done a great deal toward the advance
msnt of the free silver cause and the
great increase in the number of the
supporters of that cause.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Mr.. Vanderbilt passed another good
night and continues to improve.
Darius Flies, who attempted to kill
Mrs. Israel Rehr on Monday, and who
was arrested yesterday after having
swallowed quantity of arsenic, died
last night in the Reading, Pa, Jail.
Right Rev. Alfred E. Curtis, D. D.,
bishop of the Catholic diocese of Will
mington, Del, has forwarded to Rome
his resignation of that see. He believes
that he has reached the age when he
should give place to another.
MAYORS Opera House and three ad-
joining buildings at Terre Haute, Ind,
were destroyed by fire last night caus-
ing total loss ot$l50,00O. There was
no performance at the opera house and
it is supposed the fire was caused by
an explosion of chemicals.
The announcement made by the At
lanta Journal, owned and directed by
Secretary Hoke Smith, that it will sup.
port the nominees of the Chicago con.
vention, is taken in Washington as an
intimation that Mr.. Smith may resign
his position in the Cabinet.
Halle L. Rogers, of Oshkosh, Wis,
and Sylvester c. Hill, of New York,
were married at Oshkosh yesterday.
The bride is the divorced wife of the
Rev. Duncan McGregor, whose expul-
sion from Philadelphia church two
years ago created so much gossip.
Col. Clayton McMichael, publisher of
the Philadelphia North american, who
yesterday successfully passed through a
surgical operation for appendicitis at
Atlantic City, n. j., is considerably
improved to-day and the physicians
now feel a reasonable certainty of his
recovery.
News has been received at Silver
City, N. NJ, of the robbery by three
mounted masked men of the United
States postoffice at Separ, a small station
on the Southern Pacific Railway. A
quantity of stamps and some govern.
ment money were taken. A posse is in
pursuit of the robbers.
The Madisonian, of Virginia CITY,
New, the oldest republican paper in
the State, declares for Bryan and
Sewall. The Easton, Pa, Daily Argus,
democratic paper with large circu-
lation, denounces the Chicago platform
and candidates. The Argus and the
Correspondent, German papers, pub
lished at the same Office, will also bolt.
Secretary Noel, of the democratic
State central committee of Wisconsin,
announced yesterday in behalf of the
chairman, Ex-Governor Peck, that Mr..
Peck was now for silver and would do
all in his power to secure the election
of the Bryan electors in that State. Mr..
Noel is certain that the silver senti.
ment is strong in Wisconsin and that it
is growing steadily.
In the West Virginia State republican con-
vention at Parkersburg to-day, Eon G. w.
Atkinson was nominated for Governor by ac-
clamation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
Mr.. Bryan's Programme.

OMAHA, Nebr., July 22.-Mr. Bryan
will visit Council Bluffs, Iowa, this
afternoon to make speech. He will
make a trip to this city on Thursday
to attend a banquet TO be given in
honor of the Commercial Law League
of America. but no political speeches
will be made by Mr.. Bryan until after
he is formally notified in New York of
his nomination. 1t is likely that he
will make speech in Washington, D.
c., in the near future. The chances are
that he will stop over in that city on
his way West after his notification and
his visit to the home of Mr.. Sewall, in
Maine. AS to accepting other invita-
tions, Mr.. Bryan has made no plans.
His idea is that he should deliver his
speeches in the principal centers of the
population, but he is not averse to Civ.
ing the people in the smaller towns a
chance to see and hear him from the
rear end of car platform.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
A ROYAL Wedding.

LONDON, July 22.-Princess Maud
of Wales, youngest daughter of the
Prince of Wales and granddaughter of
Queen Victoria, was married to-day to
Prince Charles of Denmark, son of the
Crown Prince and grandson of King
Christian TX of Denmark. The cere-
mony took place in the chapel Royal,
Buckingham Palace, before distin-
guished party. The West End was pro.
fusely decorated with flags, flowers, ETC.,
and crowds of people were gathered
in the vicinity of the palace, awaiting
the arrival of the wedding party.
The ceremony took place at 1870
o'clock. the Archbishop of Canterbury
officiating, assisted by the Bishops of
London and Winchester. The Prince
of Wales gave the bride away. After
the ceremony the bridal party and
guests partook ofluncheon in BuckiDg-
ham Palace, at the conclusion of which
the bride and bridegroom took special
train for Wolferton, Norfolk, to take
possession OF Appleton Hall, which will
henceforth be their home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
The Gold Rescrye.

New YORK, July 22.-President Tap
pen, of the Gallatin National Bank,
who is in charge of the bankers move
meut looking to the protection of the
Treasury gold reserve, said there were
no new developments this morning.
The movement to check the exports OF
gold is assuming tangible shape and a
conference of foreign bankers is being
held at the Office of j. P. Morgan.
A conference of bankers was held at
the office of ]. Pierpont Morgan to-day.
While nothing official is known there
is a general belief that the conference
will result in checking gold exports.
So statement of what had been decided
on was made public when the con-
ference adjourned, but it is expected
that Mr.. Morgan will issue an official
statement after the close of business.
1t is understood that an an agreement
for concerted action in supplying the
demands for exchange until the crop
movement begins has been reached.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY %, 1896

SECRETARY OLNEY and the members
of the Venezuelan commission have,
like the President, gone of on their
summer vacations, leaving the question
of the boundary line between the Brit
ish and the Venezuelan possessions IN
allowance until next winter, when, pos
siblv. another hundred thousand dol
lars may be appropriated by Congress
for the large salaries of the commits
sioners and their clerks and secretaries.
The puzzle of this administration is,
why this country, in time OF profound
peace, and without the slightest pre-
mention, should have been startled by
the Presidents declaration of war;
against Great Britain, and his demand
that Congress forego its prescriptive
Christmas holiday in order to provide
for that war. A clap of thunder from a
clear sky would not have been more
astounding; and yet, though eight
months have since elapsed, there has
not only been no war, but no cause
for war has been discovered, and the
men appointed to find such cause have
abandoned the search and gone OIL
pleasuring. 1t is said that Mr.. Cleve-
land intends to write a letter explain
ing why ne has deserted the party that
nominated him thrice, and elected him
twice, to an Office that pays him fifty
thousand dollars year and lucrative
perouisites. Such 8 letter would be
uninteresting, as the reasons for the
course he has pursued toward his party
are already well known; but letter
explaining why he issued the famous
war manifesto referred to, would salts
fy long existing and generally pre-
vailing curiosity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
POLITICAL.

Major Mckinley does not expect tc
take the stump during the campaign.
A Bryan and Sewall Club was organ.
lied at Culpeper yesterday with /. L.
Johnson as president.
A Bryan campaign club, to be known
as the Bryan Democratic Campaign
Club, was organized in Lynchburg last
night.
The peoples party which also met
in st. Louis to-day has chosen Senator
Butler, of North Carolina, as temporary
chairman.
Chairman Hanna, of the republican
national committee, has appointed
Major G. W. Dick, of Ohio, secretary
of the Chicago Office of the executive
committee, and William M. Osborne, OF
Boston, secretary of the New York end.
The democratic convention of th
first congressional district of Virginia
met at Cape Charles yesterday and
unanimously renominated Hon. w. A.
Jones. The chairman of the committee
on resolutions read the report, which
Endorsed the platform of the Chicago
convention.
The republican congressional CAM
paign committee is planning, it is I'M
derstood, to secure majority in the
House of Representatives favorable to
sound money, even if the free silver
sentiment should cause the defeat of
Mckinley and place Bryan in the
White House. Senator Faulkner, the
chairman of the democratic congress.
slonal committee, says he believes the
democrats will carry both the House
and the presidency.
The national silver party, which met
in St. Louis to-day, last night decided
to make Mr.. Francis G. Newlands. of
Nevada, the "silverite" Congressman,
its temporary president, and Mr.. VIM.
P. St. John, of New York, ex-banker,
permanent president. They will de-
liver their speeches, a platform of a
single plank in favor of the free coinage
of silver at 16 TO l will be adopted,
Bryan and Sewall will be endorsed,
and the convention will adjourn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
VIRGINIA PHARMAc1srs.-The fif.

VIRGINIA PHARMACIsTs.-The ff-
teenth annual convention of the Vir-
ginia Pharmaceutical Association met
at Hampton yesterday evening. Presi-
dent Burgess recommended the ap-
pojntment of committee of three to
confer with the Medical Society of Vir-
ginis and get its views on the subject of
having one physician appointed on the
examining board of pharmacy and one
pharmacist appointed on the medical
examining board, with the view of
bringing the two professions closer TO-
pether, He also recommended that a
standing committee be appointed whose
duty it shall be to collect, as far as pos
sible, the medicinal plants indigenous
to Virginia, and that the plants thus
collected shall be on exhibition at each
meeting of the association.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
NEWS Or THE DAY.

Charles Dickens, son of the great
novelist, died on Monday in England.
Joseph Wesley Harper, who was, until
two years ago, member of the publish
ing firm of Harper & Bros, New York,
died yesterday.
Mrs. John Hoey, one of Americas
great actresses thirty years ago, died at
her beautiful home, Hollywood, Long
Branch, n. j., yesterday.
VIM. Taylor, colored, was drowned
at Cape May, N. j., last evening while
bathing. The body was recovered.
Taylor was a native of Richmond, Va.
Miss Bessie Engle, the sixteen-year-
old daughter of Mark W. Engle, of
Philadelphia, was drowned at Ocean
City, n. j., yesterday morning while
in bathing.
A dispatch from Havana, Cuba, states
that citizens of the capital breathe
more freely, the police having captured
bombs intended for use in blowing up
the principal buildings.
On application of the committee re-
organizing the New York Times Judge
Storer yesterday ordered the receiver
to sell the franchise and property of
that paper at public sale on August 13.
Miss Bessie Currier, aged sixteen
years, daughter of Mr.. G. T. Currier, of
Ashland, Baltimore county, Md, elop-
ed from her home Sunday with Mel.
Choir Thompson and was married Mon.
day at Belair. Mr.. Currier is promi-
| nent farmer of Baltimore county and
Thompson was employed by him as a
farm hand.
As Queen Victoria was leaving Wind.
sor Castle to 60 to the railway station
yesterday carriage containing her In
dian attendants was overturned by the
horses boiling, and the driver and one
of attendants injured. A slight fire &C.
| Cured in Buckingham Palace, causing
considerable excitement among the
| wedding guests.
Howard E. Benedict, of the broker
age firm of Benedict Brothers, died at
the Seventh Regiment Veteran Club
house, New York, last night, of peri
tonitis. He was married yesterday
morning, at his request, to Miss Mar
guerite Lloyd, daughter of Col. Harlan
Page Lloyd, of Cincinnati. Mr.. Bene-
dict was twenty-nine years of age.
Mrs. Mary Jacobs, whose husband
was killed in an accident at the Osceols
mines several years ago, created con-
sternation in the Houghton, Mich, ma,
tional bank yesterday by demanding
81 900, 900 from Cashier Rice, threaten.
ing to do some promiscuous shooting il
her demand was not complied with
forthwith. She was disarmed and will
J. be sent to the asylum.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22

Mr.. E. C. VENABLE, of Petersburg
is reported as saying "the democratic
party made great mistake in advocat'
ing free silver" AS the effectiveness o.
the democratic party had been utterly
destroyed by Mr.. Cleveland, it is sup.
posed, by better and wiser democrats
than Mr.. Venable, that instead of max.
ing great mistake, the demo
cratic party did the very best thing
it could have done, for itself, when
it adopted the policy of advocating free
silver, as that was the only conceiva-
BILE means by which it could possibly
save the country from trusts, high
tariff and the force bill, and enforce the
collection of an income tax.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22

The PRICE of Virginia bonds, like
that of some other bonds, has gone down,
as it has done before, and will do again.
But that it has, is no moro the result OF
the Chicago platform, as the boilers
would have it appear, than of the pre-
yious Staunton platform, and the as
sertion to the contrary only shows to
what extent the boilers will go in their
desperate effort to continue the present
scarcity of money and the consequent