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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23
To-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
The Banks.

| CHICAGO. Dec. 23.-The runs on the
illinois Trust and Savings Bank and
the Hibernian Banking Association con-
tinues to-day: but is diminished IN SIZE.
The officers of the banks look Tor q con.
tipuation of the run tomorrow and
then the end. The Christmas day rest
is expected to nave general cooling
effect. Business went On as usual at
the other banks which have savings de-
nartments. The warrants for the ar
rest of E. s. Dryer and Robert Berger
had not been served at noon to-day. IL
is believed that as soon as the bankers
arrange for bondsmen, they will come
from their retirement and submit TO
arrest. - ~,
ST.. PAUL, Minn,, Dec, 23.-The
first critical hour of the morning has
gone and the banks and business circles
breathe easier. No run developed up
to this writing, which is safe indica-
ton that none will follow. In one or
two banks, where many small certlt-
cate holders carry funds, there was a
slight attempt to draw out funds. In
every case where certificates would
mature in few days they we're paid,
the banks simply saving interest to the
loss of the depositors. Every bank in
the city is we'll fortified with ready
cash. The action of State Treasurer
Koerner in depositing large sum in
one bank threatened with small sized
run was magical. Certificate holders
on seeing thousands of dollars go over
she counter into the banks ht n Is, turn
ed about and left without drawing
their money. The district court is now
considering the appointment of a re-
ceiver of the suspended Bank of Mime
sofa.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Dec. 2S.-
The Bank of West Superior did not
open its doors for business this morning,
being forced into liquidation by the
failure of the Bank of Minnesota. The
November statement showed deposits
$4,000; loans and discounts $106,97l
and real estate assets $49, 900.
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HEALTH HINTS
Truth Tritely Told Without y.rn..,
or Word Painting.

stomach deranged, system dcrano.d ,
Physicians affirm it, facts prove it. Thu ~,
ferer from stomachic troubles proves tho to,s
going statement The stomach is the nil
that grinds the food that sustains tho boan
The slightest ailment interferes wi,b :,
workings and all becomes wrong. Ia ,ho
Immediate ailments that one must or.-s
against. Tho most common forms of s,omo.t
troubles are wind on the stomach. indjyes,;or
collie sour stomach, etc. Lightning Ho,
Drops is remedy that Immediately and shso
lutely affords relief and in every case e1ec,,
permanent and lasting cure. Where Ligb,
ming Hot Drops is found, stomach tronllo.
cease to exist. 1t has cured thousand. If M
stinate and unyielding cases, and it will cp,o
others. 1t has never, in any instance. failed
Lightning Hot Drops stands to-day witbort
a peer, priceless remedy for sufferers from
all stomach troubles. 1t is put up and sold in
25 and so cent sizes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23
Imnendine Race War.

MAYFIELD, KY, Dec. 23.-At three
o'clock this morning every man in
town and every boy who can carry a
weapon is on guard, for an attack by
an army of negroes is expected at any
moment. The whites are being rein
forced hourly by citizens from sur
rounding towns. 1t is thought that
before daybreak there will be COM
menced the fercest race war ever
known in the South. For forty. eight
hours news had been received from
different points that the negroes were
organizing in large bodies for the pur-
pose OF visiting the town and wreaking
vengeance upon those who lynched
Jim Stone last Monday. Last night
kilograms from Water Valley say that
$50 negroes had massed there and that
every one had some sort of weapon.
A half-hour later news of similar ma
ture came from Wingo and from sur
rounding towns and preparations were
at once made for battle. Men first
saw that their homes were barricaded,
and then they proceeded to the hard
ware stores, where every one who
could use a weapon was handed one
until the entire stock was distributed.
At 10 o'clock last night the fire bell
was sounded and all of the citizens as-
sembled in the public square where
they remain, expecting the attack at
any hour. A message from Paducab,
received at II o'clock, stated that q
body of negroes was being organized
there, and would probably march upon
Mayfeld before daybreak. A body of
citizens of Fulton who reached town
this morning report mob of two hun
dred negroes, every one armed with a
rifle, on the outskirts of town, evident
ly waiting for re-enforcements.
No trouble has occurred up to 1915
to-day, but clash is expected tonight.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.

The aggregate Indebtedness of the
Pacific railroads to the government is
$112, $40.
The trial of the alleged assassins of
ex. Premier Stambulof, of Bulgaria, was
begun at Sofia yesterday.
The faculty OF the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, of Baltimore, has
decided to send DR.. John Ruhrah to
Paris to study in the Pasteur Institute.
1t is rumored that William Waldorf
Astor, who has taken up his residence
in England, will dispose of his large
holdings of real estate in New York
city.
Eighteen youths, who were members
of touring party, recently hired a
boat to travel down the rapids of the
Full river, in Japan. The boat was up.
set and thirteen of the tourists and three
boatmen were drowned.
National republican headquarters for
the inaugural were established yester-
day in the Glover building, in accord
ance with the arrangements made by
MIR. M. A. Hanna when on his recent
visit to Washington.
Action for DIV: ce by Prince Joseph
of Chimay and CarAman, in Belgium,
against his wife, who was formerly Miss
Clara Ward, of Detroit, was commenced
on Monday at Chsrleroi. THE Princess,
who had been brilliant figure in Paris
ian society, eloped last November with
Hungarian gypsy musician.
Another victim of the pretended
"wiretappers" told his story to the
Washington police yesterday. He was
feeced out of 90 900 few days ago by
the same gang that buncoei another
Washington man to the extent of 500
on Monday. To avoid publicity he had
recouciled himself to his loss and re-
Trained from making noise about it.
A suit was filed in the Superior Court
at Atlanta, Ga, YESTERDAY, hv King
and Spalding, attorneys tor Levi B.
Nelson, asking for receiver for the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad on
the ground that it's charter expired at
midnight on December 20, and that the
act of the recent legislature extending
the charter for fifty years was uncon-
stitutional and void.
The failure of Angus s. Gindele, gen.
eral contractors, the American Brewing,
Mailing and Elevator Company, the
George A. Weisse Mailing and Elevator
Company and George A. Weiss, indi-
vidually, all of these being due to the
collapse of the National Bank of Hi.
nois, and small runs on three banks,
we're the echoes in Chicago yesterday
of the bank failures of Monday. State
and city funds to the extent of mil
lion were in the Illinois National Bank,
J which failad nm Monday
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Terrible Marine Disaster.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Dec. 23.-The bark
Jamaica was lost off Dos Rosas Tobasco
on the 18th instant while on her way
from Campeche to Vera Cruz. The
night after sailing from Campeche q
terrible norther swept down the gulf
On the afternoon of the 18th the rud.
der became disabled and the passen-
gers, sixteen in number, took to the
boats, which were repeatedly swamped.
Most of the officers and crew put on
life preservers and jumped into the sea.
The captain strapped one hundred Mez-
lean dollars upon him and tried to
reach shore, but sank owing to the
weight of the metal. The boats proved
and every member OF
the crew was drowned and only three
men and a boy escaped of all the pas
SanOarS
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Foreign News.

LONDON, Dec. 23.-The st. James
Gazette says the Queen will personally
dictate and revise her biography, which
will appear in 1882.
MADRID, Dec. 23.-Queen Regent
Christina will on Christmas Day sign a
decree ordering the operation of certain
reforms in the island of Porto Rico.
Admiral Beranger, Minister of Marine,
denies that the government is pur-
chasing warships.
ROME, Dec. 23.-The pope received
the sacred college of cardinals this
morning and expressed to them his
good wishes for the new year. He de-
livered an address to the cardinals, in
which he reviewed the political situa-
ton at home and abroad and deplored
the situation of the papacy in Italy.
The pope also said that his intentions
in the matter of having made overtures
to King Menelek of Abyssinis with q
view of obtaining the release of the
Italian soldiers who were held by the
Abyssinian king as prisoners of war
has been misrepresented.
PARIS, Dec. 29.-The marriage of
Count Luis Dandigne of Paris to Mrs.
Frederick May, of California, was cele.
brated in the Chapel of the Pspal Nun
clio in this city to-day. The bride wore
a costume of blue velvet.
HONOLULU, Dec. 16.-The govern
ment is much encouraged over the
prospects of annexation. Ministers
Hatch and Cooper having made hope
full reports. United States Minister
Willis is still very low with fever.
HAVANA, Dec. % COL Pavia reports hav.
ing had an engagement with party of rebels
encamped at Sac Redondo, in the vicinity of
HolQuin, killing twenty-one insurgents and
capturing and destroying their camp. The
troops lost one lieutenant and four privates
killed and major, captain and nine pri.
Yates were wounded
GUADALAJARA, Mex, Dec. GA desper.
ate ARRAY has occurred at the ranch of Juan
vidrio, this State. Vidrio had trouble with
some of his employees few days ago and 30
of them attacked him. He was seriously
wounded by the first volley Of Shots but took
refuge in his residence and fred on his assail-
ants killing one of them and wounding seven
others badly. Twenty members of the mob
have been arrested and will probably be shot,
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VIRGINIA NEWS.


Mr.. Edward Workman, one of the
best known bookkeepers in Richmond,
died Monday.
A meeting was held in Lynchburg
Monday night for the purpose of con-
sidering the practicability of organizing
public library.
At Norfolk yesterday formal notice
of contest was served upon Con-
gressman.elect William A. Young,
from DR.. R. A. Wise, the defeated re-
publican candidate.
Mrs. Fannie P. Atwill, who Was
well-known in the Northern Neck and
by many ministers of the Virginia Con-
ference, died suddenly few days
ago at Montross, in Westmoreland
county.
On Sunday night Noah Downs, the
sixteen year-old son of Mr.. W. H.
Downs, living near Sterling, in Lou
doun county, was thrown from a horse
and 80 badly injured that he died the
next morning.
Elmer A. Weatherholtz, the wife
murderer, who escaped punishment for
that crime on technicality, but came
near being mobbed at Woodstock two
weeks ago while waiting trial for at
tempting to kill his mother-in law, is
now in the penitentiary.
The case of Russell A. Shores against
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany for 500, 900 in recompense for in
juries received while in the employ OF
tnat company was concluded in Rich
mond yesterday by the jury bringing in
verdict in favor of the defendant.
Mrs. Bessie Wood died yesterday at
the residence of her husband, Rev. M.
l.. Wood. of the Baptist Church, in
Staunton. Mrs. Wood gave birth 10
child Monday night and did not rally
from the nervous shock. Mrs. Wood
was before marriage, Miss Bessie Hoge,
of Richmond.
The jury in the case of Wade Lester
charge with poisoning young man
named Davis, in order to obtain the
insurance on the latter's life, was dis
charged yesterday at Martinsville, be-
ing unable to agree. The case had been
on trial in the Henry county court fol
over week, and was very sensational
Miss Matte Elicit, of Richmond
was married yesterday to Rev. John P
Nef, pastor of the Seventh Day Ad
ventist Church. Miss Elicit was con
!, verified to the new faith two years age
through the preaching of the groom
She joined the Adventists, and, being
thrown together in church work
friendship ripened into love. They viii
reside in Lynchburg.
Mayor Taylor, of Richmond, yester
day evening vetoed several recent or
dinances reducing the salaries of The
city engineer and the heads of severa
city departments, and sent them by the
clerk under seal to the council without
making public his reasons. The coun
Gil passed the ordinances under pres
sure from the democratic league fol-
good government organized to secure
economical administration of municipal
affairs. The mayors veto creates
general surprise, and the result will be
an exciting contest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23

WAKEFIELD MANOR DESTROYED
Mrs. Douglas II. Gordon, of Baltimore,
has received information that her large
country mansion, Wakefield Manor, in
Rappahannock county, was destroyed
by fire on Monday. The mansion was
of the old.fashioned southern style
and very large. 1t was frame struc
ture, located on a farm of about six
thousand acres. Mrs. Gordon has been
spending a portion of the summer
there. The mansion was valued at
about $40, 900, and was partly covered
by insurance.
Wakefield Manor has been the home
of the Gordon family for more than
seventy.years. The estate comprises
over 5000 acres of land, and is owned
by Basil B. and Douglas 81. Gordon,
both of Baltimore. 1t lies at the head
waters of the Rappahannock river,
which has its source on the estate.
The destroyed manor-house was
built at the close of the civil war and
had since been added to. 1t was a two
and three-story frame structure, with 8
hipped roof and dormer windows, and
was located in the centre of the estate
and surrounded by an extensive and
magnificent lawn. The dwelling was q
typical Virginia residence, built for
space and comfort, and was the scene
OF numerous brilliant social gatherings
In the dwelling was valuable library
of more than 1000 volumes, which Mr..
Gordon has been accommodating for
many years. The building was insured
for S13, 900. The estate is in charge of
Taylor Yates.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23

B. & O. VALLEY BRANcH.-Presi
dent and Receiver John K. Cowen, Of
the B. & O., has in charge negotiations
which the road is endeaYoring to make
with the Southern Railway for through
traffic arrangements over the Strasburg
and Harrisonburg Railroad in the Val
ley of Virginia, which recently passed
from the B. & O. into control of the
Southern. Various trade organizations
of the valley towns have urged some
through traffic arrangement, but as
yet the B. 8 O. has not succeeded in
securing satisfactory terms from the
Southern. Mr.. Cowen Is working on
the matter, and hopes to reach some
agreement in the near future, but it is
probable that the Southern will con.
tinue to run the Strasburg extension
in it's own and not in the interest of
the B. & D. railroad.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Parsons and Pelleter Company
closed to-day under chattel mortgages
James Brown, a race track follower
of Washington, was shot and killed al
Elkton, Md, this morning by William
Montgomery, both colored.
Professor E. n. Mckay, of the Sioux
Falls University, formerly of Des
Moines, committed suicide this morn.
ing by hanging himself in his room.
Sergeant Prentiss Knut, lawyer Of
Washington, and Miss Lily Barrett,
daughter of Mrs. Alexander Barrett,
were married at Newport, r. l., to-day.
The st. Joseph aud Grand Island road
was sold under foreclosure at Hastings,
Neb., this morning for 100000 to
William Bull in the interest of Edward
w. Sweet & Co., who are the first
mortgage bondholders.
Gaudaur, the champion oarsman, an
nounces that he will row any man in
the world in this country in June next
for 81, 500 or 5000 a side. Failing to
get match on these terms Gaudaur
will go to England after August 1st
next and row Harding and Barry.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company has
declared an extra dividend of FIVE per
cent. on to its stockholders in addition
to the regular dividends for 1896. The
asst extra dividend was in February,
1894, at the rate Of four per cent. The
company has paid 16 per cent. per an
mum for fifteen years.
Nelson Morris, the millionaire packer
and j. G. Bohart, livestock commits
sion man, at the Union Stock Yards,
at Chicago, were gored by steer while
passing through a cattle pen at the
yards this morning. Both men we're
tossed against the fence and Mr.. Bohart
had shoulder dislocated. Mr.. Morris
escaped with slight bruises.
John Hennegan, of Carnegie, Pa,
was found dead in that borough this
morning with numerous marks of vio-
lence on his head aud body. Three
men and woman who were Henne-
gan's companions in drinking spree,
last night, are under arrest. Late in
the night the party quarreled and
there is ample evidence of a general
fight.
George Kicko1, we'll shooter, of Ontpe.
lier, Ind, and Harry Woods, helper, were
killed there to-day by an explosion of gly-
cerine at the magazine of Empire Glycerine
Company. Windows for several miles around
were shattered and the magazine building
was completely demolished.
A dispatch from Constantinople states that
at the request of U. s. Minister Taylor the
Sultan has released several Armenian prison.
ers and has promised to set nearly four thou
sand free at the request of the new patriarch,
Mgr. Ormauian.
A dispatch from BANGKOK announces that
q. Vice Consul General Kellett has been
attacked snd wounded by party of Siam.
uese soldiers who demanded the release of
prisoner.
Advices from Yokohama report that
smallpox epidemic is raging in Kobe and
Toxic.
The gunboat Annapolis was successfully
launched at Elizahsthport, N. j., this morn.
ing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23
W 2DNEsDAY EVENING. DEC. %, 1886

EXAMPLE IS more influential than
precept, and that of man holding such
a high and important official position
as Mr.. Cleveland is trebly so. AS he
has set the mandates of the supreme
authority of his party at Hsgrant de-
fiance, thereby destroying not only It's
discipline but its very organization, 1t
is not at all wonderful that other of its
prominent members should set up their
own notions of its principles and poll
cies against those it has long advocated
and which, III fact, constitute its very
foundation. Senator McEnery, OF
Louisiana, though elected as demo-
crst, now says he is in favor of a pro-
tective tariff; and whatever democrats
may say of him, it is certainly not the
province of the cuckoos either to
criticise or censure him. But hope for
the future success of party whose
most exalted member joined its enemies
in its late contest, and whose Senators
repudiate its cardinal principles, seems
to rest only upon broken reed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23
Had Roach in her Ear.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.-Mrs. Mary
Faunce walked into St. Msry's Hos
pital last night in a terribly excited con-
dition. A roach had crawled 80 far into
one of her ears az to become excruciat-
ingly painful. and she was almost in
Mysteries. DR.. Hillmyer extracted the
insect piecemeal, but it was q tedious
and difficult operation and Mrs. Faunce
almost collapsed under the strain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23

MONEY is very scarce now, so scarce
that even owners ofproperty have great
difficulty in getting enough oft for the
extra expense incident to the Christmas
season. If such people find it hard tc
raise money now, how can the poor be
expected to get any? The merry
makers should not forget this, and be
more liberal to the poor than usual.
even if they have to scrimp little at
home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23

The PENITENTIARY.-The annual
reports of the board of directors and
the superintendent of the penitentiary
were submitted to Gov. O'Ferrall yes.
terday. These show that in the larger
cells there are twenty to thirty occu-
pants. In those not larger than six
feet wide six men are huddled togeth.
er. The report of the directors shows
that for the present year the peniten-
tiary has made clear profit of $4S, 1897
for the Commonwealth. The act
passed at the last session transferring
to the superintendent the duty of re-
moving convicts from the counties to
the penitentiary has resulted in saving
about one-half of this expense. In &C.
cordance with the law a record has
been kept showing the punishment in
hicted upon the prisoners and the cause
therefore. There are 245 convicts on
the penitentiary farm. The superin-
tendent and the board speak in the
highest terms of the healthfulness of
these prisoners. The cost of maintain
ing these men out there, the report
shows, is s1219 per capita, against
1915 inside of the prison.
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A Bloodthirsty Lover.

MANKATo, Mimi, Dec. 23..At Ma.
della. a small town twenty miles west
of here, late Monday night, John Mot
tie shot and killed Dennis Joblinski,
the latter's son, aged nineteen and a
daughter aged sixteen. A fourth per
son was badly wounded. The slayer
then put bullet through his own head.
Mottle was infatuated with JobllnskIs
daughter, and the father objected; The
murderer was twenty-five years old.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23

MIR. HILL says that though he is q
u. S. Senator, he does not speculate in
stocks" He made this remark when
talking about the Spanish imbroglio.
What homily upon what was once
supposed Gin this country to be the
most distinguished legislative body in
the world, and it, too, uttered by one
of its component parts. The nation
pushed to the verge of war, and the in
terests of all its people put to risk by q
few members of its upper branch of Con-
gress, simply in order to affect stocks in
Wall street. Well may the monarchists
roll this incident like a sweet morsel
under their tongues.
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for two weeks, and as the President is
not as bellicose as he was this time last
year, for that brief while at least the
country will be at peace with foreign ma
tions, and the sleep of the Christmas
HOLIDAYS need not be disturbed by
dreams of horrid war.
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Holiday Excursion rates.

The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell Decem.
Der %, "a, %, 80, 81 and January 1, good
to return until January a, 1897, holiday e1.
cursion tickets to Fredericksburg, Richmond
Petersburg, Weldon and other points south
and to points and at rates as follows: Balti'
more, 81. so; Wilmington, Del, S4.34 Ches.
ter, Pa, $3.50; Philadelphia, 1884, valid
for return until January 4, 1897, inclusive
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Murdered His Sister.

CHICAGO, Dec. % John Ryan, a
lunatic, murdered his sister, katherine
Ryan, last evening, by crushing her
skull with baseball bat. He intended
to end his own life in Lake Michigan,
but was arrested as he was leaving the
scene of his crime.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-23

The FACT that the largest national
banks liz Illinois and Minnesota are fail
ing and carrying down with them other
banks, is we'll calculated to induce the
men who gave the large majorities by
which those States were carried for the
gold standard last month. to doubt
whether, in doing so, they helped either
their own interests OF those of the
country.
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Earl Russell's House Burned.

LONDON, Dec. 2s.-The residence :. Of #
Earl Russell at Maiden Head, on the
Thames, was burned to the ground tnis
morning. The fire was undoubtedly OF
incendiary origin, as Earl Russell has
recently received several menacing let
tiers, some of them threatening him
with personal injury and others threat
ening the burning of his property:
There is no doubt that the fire is one OF
the results of the action for criminal
libel brought by Earl Russell against
his mother-in-law, Lady Scott.