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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
800 MILE RACE.

Fall River Mass. July i4.-John III.
Wits OF the Crescent Bicycle club and
Alfred Paquin OF the Indian Bicycle club
started last night on their 300-mile road
race. which will necessitate their ridins
20 and from Boston three times. with a
short run to Dighton and return. In or
der 20 make up the distance. The men
started i'm a pouring rain, and despite
the conditions a large crowd saw them
off. Scattered along the road between
here and Boston are 25 members OF the
two clubs to which the men belong. who
will supply fresh mounts 10 their fellow
clubmen in case OF accidents.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
SULTAN IS oBDURATE.

London, July 14.-A dispatch from Con-
stantinople indicates that the sultan is
obdurate regarding the acceptance Of
the peace proposals. Edhem Pasha Is
Fastening back to Domoko. and the
furloughs OF all Turkish officers have
been cancelled In readiness for re-
newal Of hostlities. The foreign am
bassadors to Turkey, recognizing that
further verbal remonstrance is useless,
are not inclined 10 continue diplomatic
proceedings until they know in what
way coercion is TO be applied.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
SCHOOL DEBT REDUCED.

Portland, Me-, July IA meeting Of
the trustees OF the Wesleyan seminary
at Kents Hill was held in this city yes
terday. The treasurer's report showed
that the floating debt Of the school had
been reduced so. 900 the past year. Allen
B. Chase, a son Of the newly elected
president. was elected professor in math-
ematics and military tactics. He is a
graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan univer-
sity. Miss Harriet L. Tufts Of Chelsea.
Mass, was elected TO take charge Of the
department. of art.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
STAGE REALISM"

Atlanta, July 14.-In q play presented
by colored amateurs in Pittsburg. a sub
urb of this city, John Singleton acted n
part in which he was supposed TO be shot
dead by his rival. impers-nated by Gary
Brown. The scene was carried out
faithfully and aroused loud applause,
which was turned into lamentation when
1t was discovered that Singleton was
really dead. The pistol Brown used.
which was supposed to be loaded with
blank cartridges, carried a real bullet
instead
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
CAVALRY WILL ATTEND FAIR.

Portland. Me. July ia special to
The Press from Washington says: The
secretary Of war sent word 10 Speaker
Reed yesterday that the request of II.
F.. Farnham for a troop OF cavalry To
attend the New England fair Aug. 10
TO q at Portland has been granted. In
structoins have been issued TO troop f.
Third United States cavalry now in the
post in Vermont. TO make a practice
march TO Portland and return on that
occas sion
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
NEW MOVE BY RUSSIA.

Berlin. July 1.-THE Vosslsche Zeit-
ung's Constantinople correspondent says
the porte has dispatched an ultimatum
to Persia demanding the withdrawal
of the Persian troops from Turkish terri
tory near Keibcla. The ultimatum
states that a refusal to comply with its
demand will be accepted as a declaration
of war. Russia Is believed to be behind
Persia, the government OF which country
will disregard the ultimatum.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
CLUE TO MISS HUMPHREY.

Boston, July 1.-THE friends Of Rosa
mond NJ Humphrey, the girl who has
been missing from Springfield since July
1, have at last obtained a clue TO her
whereabouts. A Weymouth woman. who
is acquainted with Miss Humphrey. has
Informed the police that she met Miss
Humphrey at Nantasket Beach, July 6
or Z. The police are now securing the
beach to obtain some clue to her where
abouts, II she is still there.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
MRS. HAYS NARROW ESCAPE.

London. July 14.-Mrs Hay. wife of the
United States ambassador. had a narrow
escape from serious accident yesterday.
While driving with Colonel Hay. the
pole Of an omnibus penetrated the panel
OF the carriage at a point where Mrs.
Hays head had rested only a moment
before. Had she not shifted her posi-
tion when she did fatal injury would
have been almost unavoidable. The
driver Of the omnibus has been arrested.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.

Holyoke. Mass. July 14.-David Car
ron was arrested here yesterday. charged
with bigamy. The complaint was lodged
by Mrs. Calanie Carron OF Woonsocket
r. l., whom he married and deserted In
1891 He came here directly after. and
in 1892 married Holyoke girl, by whom
ne has had one child.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
CHARGE NOT SUSTAINED.

Boston. July l4.-Special Treasury
Agent Converse j. Smith, who recently
Investigated charges OF drunkenness
against Colonel a. A. Rivers. deputy
surveyor of the port, has reported to
Washington that the charges were not
sustained. An additional charge to the
effect that Colonel Rivers had been
guilty OF favoriusm in the assignment Of
the men OF his force TO duty was sub
stantiated.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic l0c or CSC.
II Z. &. G.. fail To cure druggists refund money
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-14
RAILROAD SOLD.

Henderson. Ky. July k.--A,ex p
Humphrey OF Lousevilis and Adrian III.
Jeiine 90 rsw York yesterday bought
the Ohio valley railroad Upset price
esnss.VOa
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

LONDON, March 3l.-Major Sir John
Willoughby, who, together with DR..
jameson, Major White, Colonel White,
Colonel Grey and Captain Coventry,
was convicted of participation in the
Jameson raid into the Tranvaal, was
released from Holloway Jail this morn
ing, his term of ten months lmprlson-
ment having expired.
PRETORIA, March 31.-President
Kruger's grandson, an officer of the
government at Krugersdorp, has been
suspended from duty for having used
language insulting to Queen Victoria,
and an inquiry has been ordered in his
case.
MADRID, March SIT is stated in
ministerial circles that the proposed re-
forms in Cuba will be introduced into
the administration of the affairs of that
island in the month of April.
LONDON, March 31.-A dispatch from
Larissa, Greece, says that the Greek
guerillas are swarming along the hills
on the Turkish frontier and have as
sumed an aggressive attitude. Their
action, the dispatch says. will probably
result in open warfare between Greece
and Turkey. 1t is believed that the
Greek regulars will be ordered to make
an advance as soon as an outbreak
shall have occurred.
PARIS, Mar. 31-Ihe report that the pow
ers have decided upon partial blockade of
Greece to begin almost Immediately is con-
firmed here upon authority which may be re-
garded as official.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
THE TARIFF BILL.

The republican leaders in the House
defended their tariff bill yesterday with
vigor. The ways and means committee
held the floor with their amendments
from 10 in the morning to o'clock in
the afternoon. About thirty-fve were
offered and adopted. Among them
was one admitting free of duty books,
scientific apparatus, charts, maps, etc., )"
for scientific and educational purposes.
Providing that no gloves above number
six should be classed as children's
gloves. Making metal strings for must
cal instruments dutiable at 45 per cent
ad valorem. Reducing the tariff on
cocoa mating from II to 6 cents yard
and on cocoa mats from S to cents q
square foot. Making slate pencils duti-
able at 4 cents hundred instead of
gross. Making silk boiling cloth for
milling purposes only dutiable at % per
cent ad valorem. Permitting the free
entry OF 800 worth of household uten-
sils, belonging to emigrants to the
United States of glass discs for scien-
tifc instruments of dried fish sounds
of dyes produced from coal tar and not
made in this country; of crude salts
evaporated from mineral water of car
Donate of potash, of sheep dip, of
shrimps and other shelfsh, Five more
pages Of the bill were read, making 90
pages in all of tine l62 pages. To-day
the bill was open for amendment until
/ o'clock, after which an hour on a side
was allowed to close. The voting be-
gan at o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
The Rising Waters.

ST. PAUL, MINI, Mar. 3l.-The Mis-
sissippi river last night was thirteen
feet one inch above low water mark, a
rise of over two feet in the last twenty
four hours. Already the water has
backed up around the lower parts Of
the flats. Several hundred residents
of the flats have fled to the hills.
EAST ST. LOUIS. Ills, Mar 31.-High
water is causing uneasiness among the
railroads which have tracks in East st.
Louis. Some of the companies have
moved all their rolling stock to higher
ground.
CINCINNATI, O., Mar. 31.-A telegram from
Helena, Ark says great anxiety is still mani
tested concerning the floods The water is
now within short distance of Rosedale,
Ark. No power Oh earth can save it and
homes, stores and mills will be swept away
within twenty.four hours. The destruction
of other Places is said to be iminent
NEW ORLEANS, Mch. BIN the next few
days the greater part of the Yazoo Delta, the
fertile lands along the Mississippi, and
population of 10000 persons,
will be under water. The Yazoo Delta evees
have broken and a stream is pouring nearly
as large as the Hudson into the Yazoo Delta.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
The kentucky Senatorial Fight.

FRANKFORT, KY, March 31.-The
fourteenth senatorial ballot, taken at
noon to-day showed no change, the
vote being: Hunter, 60; Blackburn 43;
Davie, 13; Boyle, I; Stone, l. The
roll-call showed 124 present and six
pairs, making GO necessary to choice.
Senator Hissem announced that when
it became apparent DR.. Hunter could
not be elected he thought Hunter
should absolve him and others from
voting for him by withdrawing. Fiji
teenth and sixteenth ballots, no change.
The situation here is becoming very
ugly. Much bad blood is being mani
tested and several encounters have
been stopped in the nick of time. This
morning Senator James, republican,
and Senate door-keeper Tyler, demo.
crst, attempted to use knife on each
other. Tyler had struck James and
called him liar for saying LIE was
joking when he said Representative
James Violet, democrat, had promised
to vote for Punter.
Authorized representatives of DIR.
Hunter intimeted to Gov. Bradley this
morning that ifhe would withdraw his
opposition to Hunter he and his
friends could have anything they want
ed. The Governor would not listen 10
them. The plan to fuse on Breckin-
ridge against Hunter is dead.
The joint session adjourned after the
eighteenth ballot. No change.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Major General Wesley Merrill will
succeed Major General Thos. H. Ruger
as commander of the department OF
the East.
There will probably he a great rush
of Immigrants to the United States in
advance of the adoption of restrictive
legislation.
Friends of Lieut.. Stuart S. Janney, OF
Baltimore, who is in the Cuban army,
claim that be was the "hero OF Guai-
marc" and not Lieut.. penny" as the
dispatches stated.
Holders of bonds of the city of Annis-
ton, Ala: have secured judgment
against that city for overdue coupons,
and will shortly take the next step ne
cessary to enforce payment.
The arbitration treaty was discussed
in the executive session of the Senate
yesterday. Mr.. Hoar proposed an
amendment eXempting territorial ques-
tons from the operations of the treaty.
The suit for criminal libel brought in
Washington by Commissioner Trues-
dell against Mr.. G. G. Conn, former
proprietor of the Washington Times,
was dismissed by Justice Bradley yes
terday.
Five persons-four women and a
baby-were smothered to death by
smoke yesterday in a double brown
stone FIVE story dwelling in New York,
which was partially destroyed by fire
that originated in dumb waiter in the
basement of the building, spread to an
air shaft, and from there up through
the house.
A cyclone at Chandler, forty miles
east of Guthrie, o. T., at dusk yester-
day evening, destroyed three-fourths of
the town of 1,500 people, and, it is re-
ported, that $50 are badly hurt and
dozen or more people killed. The
storm broke without warning and few
had time to hunt places of safety. But
one building on the main street, the
Mitchell Hotel, is left intact.
The northeast section of the Man
haitian State Hospital for the Insane on
Wards Island. N. Y, was burned out
early last evening. The ITO men luna
tics who were confined in the section
escaped without any being injured,
and stood with the 1,100 inmates of the
asylum On the broad lawn in front of
the buildings for over two hours watch
ing the island fire brigade and the city
6remen who went to their aid fight the
flames.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
Swept by = CYCLONE.

GUTHRIE, o. T., March S1.-A ter
rife cyclone struck Chandler, town
of 1900 inhabitants, forty miles east
of here, at six o'clock last evening,
and the latest news is that As people
people were killed and more than 200
injured, dozen of them fatally. The
ruins caught fire and many injured
people were burned to death. So far
nineteen dead bodies have been taken
from the ruined buildings. The scenes
were heart-rending, people dying on
all sides with but one physician on the
ground who is not hurt. Six people
in one building were pinned down and
were slowly roasted to death. Dark
ness came on soon after the cyclone
struck and the work OF rescue was car
ried on under the greatest difficulties.
A large number of people know to
have been in buildings are missing,
and it is feared they are dead under
the ruins. Many people are reported
injured 10 the wrecked courthouse and
the disaster is believed to be much
worse than at first thought. The in
jured will reach over two hundred and
as there is no shelter it is feared many
will die from exposure. The scene
was almost beyond description. Sew
eral OF the injured became temporarily
insane and rushed up and down the
streets in a state of delirium. The
main street of the town is mass of
dead and injured people and teams,
wagons, buggies. trees and debris from
the buildings. Every building but one
on the main street was wrecked and
hnrned
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31

THE FACT that thousands of working
men in New York and other parts of
the North are now on strikes against
reduction of wages or longer hours,
and this, too, when the grass is turning
green and the trees are budding, is by
no means Indicative of that prosperity,
She advancing dawn of which was visi-
BILE to Governor O'Ferrall within a
month after the election of President
Mckinley. Republican politicians can
not interfere with natures laws, but
they can with those of finance and
trade; hence, though the flowers are
blooming, the business industries ofthe
country are more depressed now even
than they were last fall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31

IT Is hardly probable that many ex-
Confederates will take part in the COM
ing Grant memorial in New York. That
memorial is to celebrate the memory OF
the man who of all others was the most
successful in defeating the cause for
which the ex- Confederates fought, and
no matter how much some of them
may admire the means by which
he achieved success, few of them
feel like dancing on the graves
OF their dead comrades, especially
as the G. a. R. opposed their
proposed appearance in New York last
summer and as the flag under which
they fought is publicly spoken of, not
only in the North, but even in Balti-
more, as "disgraced and disgraceful
rebel rag"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
Miss Murphy's Estate.

OAKLAND, Cal, March 31.-Victor
n. Metcalf, who was the legal repres en-.
tative here of Miss Isabel Murphy, who
died 10 Eugland last week, states that
Miss Murphy left an estate valued at
$3.50, 900 and asserts that she left will
in his possession some time ago in
which she named him as executor. Al
most the entire estate is in San Francis
CO. By the terms of the will the tes-
tatrix leaves the bulk of her estate to
her sisters. He discredits the story
that her death was caused by alcohol
ism and that she willed her property to
q Catholic priest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31

MossY MAY PARADE.-A dispatch
from New York says it is probable that
Colonel Mosby, the famous guerilla
.chieftain of the late war. will ride side by
side with General Granville NJ. Dodge
in the Grant Monument dedication pa
rade as an aide-de-camp, representing
the late Confederacy. 1t has been sug
gested that the oldest living Confederate
general be selected for this honor, but
friends of Colonel Mosby say his selec.
ton would be an eminently fitting one.
Mosby is now resident of California.
He was close friend of General Grant
after the close of the war, and when
Mr.. Hayes became President he APP
pointed Colonel Mosby to q Chinese
Mission. He became republican lead
or in Virginia and was one of the noted
reconstructionists of the day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31

A NORTHERN boilers organ says that
among the opponents of the proposed ar.
bitration treaty with Great Britain in
the u. S. Senate are sixteen ex.Con-
federates, implying that those Senators
are not actusted by as patriotic motives
as they might be. And yet, when that
treaty was first introduced in the Sen
ate, prominent Northern republican
members of that body were among
its most pronounced opposers, nor did
they flop and become its supporters
until President Mckinley declared him.
self among its advocates. But men
familiar with human nature take little
heed of what boiling politicians say.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
ago.

FEARING THAT the increase of rev.
enue from the Dingley tariff bill may
not equal their promises, the republi-
can majority of the q. S. House
of Representative determined to-day to
make that bill an ex post facto law, so
as to compel importers to pay the du-
ties that may be imposed by that bill
months before the passage thereof.
The payment of tariff duties is penalty
upon the importation OF foreign goods,
but the Constitution provides that no
penalty can be exscted until the bill i'm
posing it shall have become law. The
Constitution, however, is matter Of
the slightest consideration to some re
publicans, when they have an object to
achieve. But, no matter what the
House has done in the case referred to,
it is hsrdly possible that the Senate
will sanction any such gross and da.
grant violation of the supreme law Of
the land,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31

SOLDIERS HoME.-The board of visi-
tors of the Lee Camp, Soldiera' Home
at Richmond have just published their
annual report for last year. This shows
that since the establishment of the in
stitution, on December, 1854, to the S1st
OF December, 1896, there were ,O7O ad-
missions; deaths and dismissals, SOP;
number on the roll December 81 last.
246. The total cost of the property.
buildings, repairs and maintenance to
the date named was 1856, 964.02. The
receipts from the commonwealth during
that period, $20S, sos 55. The remain.
ing $l47, 15S.47 was from private sources.
The deaths and dismissals have been
nearly SO per cent of the total of ad-
missions,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
FIFTY FIFTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, March 81.
SENATE.

After the routine morning business
was disposed of, MIR. Mills offered the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the committee on
foreign relations be instructed to in
quire what, if any, obligation the United
States have assumed toward the people
of Cuba by asserting and maintaining
the right to prevent the acquisition OF
that island by any European power and
compelling its people to remain subject
TO the dominion of Spain; and to report
by bill or otherwise.
Mr.. Hale suggested the omission of
the clause about reporting.
MIR. Mills-The committee may re.
port any thing it pleases. 1t may report
that there is no necessity for anthing.
The Vice-President-Is there any OBJ
lection TO the present consideration OF
the resolution?
Mr.. Hale-Let it lie over.
The resolution went over until to-
morrow.
The Vice President laid before the
Senate the resolution offered yesterday
by Mr.. Morgan inquiring as to the
letters alleged to have been written to
the present and the late chief eXecu-
tives by Maxine Gomez, leader of the
Cuban revolutionary army.
MIR. Hale inquired whether Mr.. Nor
gan had modified his resolution in &C.
cordance with the suggestion of Mr..
Hoar yesterday extending the inquiry
to all letters.
Mr.. Morgan said that be had not, be-
cause he did not know exactly what
Mr.. Hoar meant.
Mr.. Morgan knew of no other
letters of Gomez to the President, but
the two which were published yester.
day. If there were any others | would
like to have. them furnished. How
ever, in the absence of Mr.. Hoar /
will let the resolution 60 over until
tomorrow.
1t was so ordered; and then the Sen
ate proceeded to the consideration OF
executive business.
The early part of the executive ses-
sion was devoted to controversy over
the committee vacancies. The discus
sion was precipitated by a motion from
the committee on postotfices and post
roads to proceed to the consideration
of the nomination of L. G. Dana to be
postmaster at Colorado Springs, Col.
This called Mr.. German to the floor
and in short but vigorous speech, that
Senator contended that the Senate COM
mittees being without the number re-
CURED under the rules of the Senate,
were incapable of conducting the bust
ness referred to them. Especially was
this true, he said, of the committee on
posto6ices and post roads which did not
have single democrat in its member
ship. Mr.. German urged the repuoll-
cans to fill the vacancies and enable the
Senate to conduct the business of the
body in proper manner.
This speech was met by the rePubll-
CAPS who insisted that they were ready
to fill the vacancies as soon as the dem
oerats were willing to concede to the
plurality party, which was charged
with the responsibility, the necessary
machinery with which TO transact that
business.
The amendment of Mr.. Hoar to the
general treaty of arbitration providing
that all questions of national policy,
the Monros doctrine. etc., shall Dc
from the treaty, and that all
subjects proposed to be submitted 10
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31

THE CENTRAL labor union of New
York protests against the passage of
hat section of the Dingley tariff bill
which increases the tax on tobacco, for
the reason that its necessary effect must
be to deprive two-thirds of the people
now engaged in making cigars, of the
employment by which they earn their
living. The enactment of the McKin-
ley tariff bill defeated the republican
party; the mere introduction of the
Dingley bill seems to have presaged
like effect
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-31
WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAR. 81 IS u

DISPATCHES PURPoRTING to come
from Cuba state that two or three yes
sells loaded with arms, ammunition and
men from this country have recently
made successful landings at different
points on the coast of that island. And
this, too, though President Mckinley
processes to be even more determined
to maintain amicable relations with
Spain than his predecessor was.
With every facility at hand for obtain
ing direct and immediate information
of the proposed sailing of every hlibus-
tering expedition, and with the neces-
sary means at his disposal for trying
them up, if disposed to do so, why ne
doesn't he knows better than anybody
else. There is no doubt of the fact
that save for the assistance the insur-
gents have received from this country,
they would have been suppressed long