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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
The Tennessee Centennial.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 3O.-Four
thousand two hundred men are at
work to-day putting on the finishing
touches on the Tennessee Centennial
Exposition which will be opened for
the reception of visitors tomorrow.
The city is gaily decorated and every
incoming train adds to the throng OF
visitors. The inaugural attendance is
variously estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000. Work on exhibits will be con-
tinued in all of the buildings under
electric lights to night. The cere.
monies at the opening to morrow will
be very simple. A civic parade will
occupy the early morning hours in the
city. At noon President Mckinley.
seated in the White House, will touch
the button which will set the mschin.
cry of the exposition in motion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
Foreign News.

LONDON, April 3O.-The parliament
committee which has been inquiring
into the Trsnsvaal raid resumed its
sessions to-day. The secretary of state
for the colonies, Joseph Chamberlain,
made a statement, under oath, that
neither he nor his colleagues in the CO.
lonial Office had, until the day before
the raid, the slightest suspicious of
anything IN the nature OF an armed in.
vasion of the TraDsvaal.
LONDON, April 30.-The foreign Of
fee has mailed the reply of the Mar
quis of Salisbury to the request from
Washington for reinquiry into the
Behring sea fisheries dispute. 1t is re-
ported that British premiers reply is in
the negative, on the ground of expense.
Washington asked for a prompt reply,
which was hurriedly drawn up and dis
patched this week.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The War in the East.

ATHENS, April 3O.-General Macris
and three Colonies of the Greek army
OF Pharsalos have resigned and started
for Athens.
On the arrival of the Turkish troops
at Larissa they fonnd all the guns Of
the fortress intact and captured i'm.
mense Quantities of ammunition of all
kinds. The abandonment of snch a
strong position is incomprehensible.
The news of the occupation of Volo by
the Turkish forces is momentarily ex-
pected.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, April 30.-The
Turkish government announces that
instead of being repulsed at Velestino
the imperial troops continue their VIC
torious march forward. The report
that Osman Pashs is on mis- way to ia
nina, Espirus, with 10000 additional
Turkish troops is confirmed.
LONDON, April 30.-A dispatch from
Constantinople says that the Turkish
cavalry occupied Volo yesterday even.
ing. The dispatch adds that ten days
delay has been granted to the Greeks
who are DESTROYS of leaving CONSTANT
nople.
ATHENS, April 30.-The Cabinet has
been finally and definitely formed.
PARIS, April 30.-A dispatch from
Rome says that Admiral Canevro, the
Italian commander in Cretan waters,
has been ordered to consider Col. Vas
sos, who commands the Greek army OF
occupation in Crete, as a belligerent
and to no longer oppose Greek attacks
on the Turkish troops there.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30.-A dis
patch from the Turkish military com.
mander at Janina announces that Mus
tapha Pasha's brigade yesterday occu-
pied the heights commanding Nicheste
and Kervauserai, beyond Pentepigadia,
and that the Greek troops in that vic-
nifty thereupon retired.
The Vail of Salonica tolegraphs that
a band of Greeks has been routed by
the Turkish troops near Pravishte. Ten
| Of the Greeks were captured.
ATHENS, April 30.-The action be-
tween the Turks and Greeks which be-
gan yesterday at Velestino, about ten
miles west of Volo, was continued to-
day. General Smolenski's brigade has
repulsed repeated charges of the
Turkish cavalry.
ROME, April 30.-Dispatches received
here from Volo say that a terrible panic
,, prevails at Volo and that if the place
falls into the hands of the Turks the
situation of the Greek army will be
desperate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The President and Mrs. Mckinley
returned to Washington last night from
New York.
There is talk of electing ex.President
Benjamin Harrison moderator of the
Presbyterian General Assembly, to be
held soon at Winona, Ind.
Under the plan of reorganization of
the Senate committees silver republi-
cans will hold the balance of power in
fourteen and populists in eleven.
It's common talk in Chicago society
circles that Marshall Field is engaged
to the widow of the late General
Philip H Sheridan and that the we'd
ding will take place in the near future.
John L. Lane, wife and child, were
found dead at Benny Eagle, five miles
from Bar Mills, Me-, this morning. All
had been shot Letters found on Lane
reveal that double murder and sui.
eide was committed.
The Washington navy yard was Wis
tied by fire yesterday afternoon, the
second time within week. At the
first, storehouse No. , was destroyed,
and yesterday the building at the lower
end of the main avenue, known as the
rigging loft and seamen's quarters, sue
cnmbed to the flames The loss is
$1,000.
There is now every probability that
the Mississippi river will cut through
Cowpen Point levee by way of Lake
Concordia. Should this occur it will
create cut of, leaving Natchez, Miss,
an inland town, as Vicksburg was left
in 1870. Thousands of dollars have
been spent to prevent this cut of, but
apparently in vain, as the river shows
disposition to return to its old bed OF
250 or 800 years ago.
The Dingley tariff bill has been prac
tically reconstructed. When reported
by the suE-comitted of the Finance Com
mittee to the full committee it will con-
tain very nearly 1000 amendments. Ii
has been more thoroughly changed, in
fact, than was the Mckinley bill when
it got through the Seuate, and that
measure, it will be remembered, was
amended something like 500 times 1t
is stated authoritively that the average
rate of duty will be lower than the rate
of the Dingley bill.
Just before q distinguished party in
GLIDING a number of Senators was to
sit down to an elaborate diener at Pitts
burg yesterday, an attempt was made
to get q photograph by flash light,
when the bunting and decorations were
set on fire and fremen had to be sum-
moned. The decoration of much of the
furniture was ruined, but the banquet
ers reassembled after the fire had
been subdued and spent pleasant
evening. There were 324 diners seated
at the tables, with U. s. Trent as toast
master. The toasts and speakers were
as follows Senator William E. Mason,
"Grant and His Party" Representa-
tive William Alden Smith, Grants
Foreign Policy" Senator g. L. Wei
lington, Republican Party in the
South" and Maj, B. F. Warner.
"Partisanship."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

NJ. G. Bristol, superintendent of con-
structon of the western division OF the
Western Union Telegraph Co., died at
Chicago this morning.
The national congress of the Sons OF
| the American Revolution opened in
Cleveland, Ohio, to-day. Among those
present was Capt. Charles U. Williams,
of Virginia.
Forest fires have been raging for
several days in Buckingham county,
Va. Timber on thousands of acres Of
land and much valuable gold mining
machinery and mills have been de-
stroyed.
The total shipments of gold to Eu-
rope for the week ending May LIST is
St, 227 900. This includes the ship
ments announced for tomorrow and
makes the total shipments from April 81
to May 4, 81, 1927 900.
A sale of Standard Oil stock was made
on the curb in New York to-day at 800,
which price is the highest ever paid for
the shares of the company and repre-
sents rise of something like 40 points
within the last few months.
In the height of the gale on Lake
Michigan last night, capsized schoon-
er was sighted several miles out in the
lake of Port Washington, Wis. Tugs
were unable to venture out and it is
feared that the vessel has gone down
with all on board.
The coal miners employed at several
of the mines on the Wheeling division
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, met
at Finleyville, Pa. yesterday and decid-
ed to demand an advance from 81 to
60 cents per ton. to take effect to NOR
row. Over 1000 men are employed at
these mines.
The manufacturers have notified the
window glass workers association that
they will refuse to deal with commit
lee from the association, which will ask
for an advance in wagers for the blow
ers and gatherers President Burns, Of
the workers association says if the
manufacturers refuse to treat with the
committee, a general strike will be de-
clared.
, A box containing the bodies of two
infants was found to-day in deserted
stone quarry near Bellevue, Pa. The
box was securely fastened and mem.
bership card of the Canton, O., branch
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton was tackled on the lid. The babies
had evidently been dead several days
and lime had been placed over their
remains to hasten decomposition.
David II. Hays, for is years cashier
of the ST. Louis postoffice, was arrested
to-day, charged with the embezzlement
of SIS, 900. The accused waived exam
nation and was held in the federal
grand Jury in the sum of $4,000. The
shortage was made good by c. M.
Hays, general manager of the Grand
Trunk Railroad, who went there sew
eral days ago on receiving word of his
brothers. trouble.
Frank Schmidt the St. Louis brewer, who
disappeared in Chicago last Friday while on
way to Cincinnati, has been heard from at
Rhinelander, Wis He is believed to be in
sane.
A five per cent advance in the price of
window glass, including all sections of the
country. Las been made, and will 20 into ef-
feet tomorrow.
Queen Victoria reached Portsmouth to-day
FROM Cherbourg on her return from the South
of Franco.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
changed by the passage and signature
of opotb ~. 70 IF hill

changed by the passage and signature
of another tariff bill.
A prominent and influential democrat
ic politician from Maryland here to-day
says most of the democrats there who
left their party on the silver question
have come back to it, and that the 9TH
or boilers will never come back, as
they he'd left it years ago, and were
now pretty we'll settled in the republi-
can fold. The democrats, he said,
would surely regain possession of the
State and of Baltimore city at the next
election, as they are now practically
reunited, as the republicans OF the State
and the negroes are mad at the way the
patronage has been distributed; that
Mayor Hooper of Baltimore has got
those in his city fighting each other
and as the threatened injury to the
large canning industry by the Dingley
bill, which abolishes the rebate on the
exports of goods packed in tin cans,
and the other injuries that commercial
city would receive from that bill have
disguised the people there with repub-
licani5m.
There has been no communication
from the British government to the all
thorities here concerning Hawaii, and
the report eminating in Japan that Great
Britain had expressed disapproval OF
Hawaiian ANA Ration to the United
States is denied by officials.
The War Department has received o
telegram announcing the death at
Plattsburg, n. Y, barracks of Col
Horace Jewett 21st Infantry, stationed
at that post, at an early hour this
morning
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

A BOILERS organ says the "republi-
cans have betrayed their trust and
shamefully broken faith with the dem
ocrats whose votes alone gave them
power" But nothing could be more
erroneous. The republicans have be-
trayed no trust and have broken no
faith with the boilers. On the contra
ry, the latter knew just as we'll when
they voted for Mr.. Mckinley as they
do now, that is, if they be not the veri-
est simpletons, that the legitimate and
necessary consequence OF his election
would be the enaction of higher tariff
bill. Their pretended surprise and in
dignation at the assured passage of the
Dingley bill is, therefore, only another
one of their vain and transparent at
tempts to deceive iil-informed and un-
suspecting people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

The New YORK Herald says "that
things cannot go on as they are, is the
popular conviction, as to the present
c,ndition of this country" Why, o.
curse they can't, and they won't
And as there is no hope of their i'm.
provement under republican rule, they
must of course grow worse. But OF all
the newspapers in the country, there is
not enc that strove harder than the
Herald to elect Mr.. Mckinley Presi.
dent, and thereby continue the fight fol
free silver four years longer, with al
its attendant uncertainty, so injurious
to business, and to restrict the sale o.
all the people have to sell and increase
the price of all they have to buy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
THE GREEK WAR.

The King Of Greece, recognizing the
danger of waiting longer for quorum
of the Boule to vote resolution OF
want of confidence in the Delyannis
ministry, yesterday asked the latter TO
resign, and NJ. Ralli, the leader of the
opposition, was entrusted with the task
of forming cabinet.
In Thessaly the Greek army at Phar-
salia is strengthening its position
against the approach of the Turks. A
fight with the enemy is said to have &C.
Cured yesterday at Aiviale. The re-
ported battle at Velestino turns out to
have been merely series Of skirmishes.
Volo is almost deserted in view of the
approach of the enemy. Meanwhile,
the Greek population is returning to
Larissa on assurances from Edhem
Pasha that they have nothing to fear.
1t is reported that the powers will op-
pose, by force Unnecessary, the blockade
or bombardment of Salonica, in view of
the damage that would be done to
foreign commerce. 1t is probable that
the new Greek ministry will treat for
peace, in the hope of preserving the
territorial integrity of Greece.
All the talk now is of the interven-
ticn of the powers. Even Germany
wishes to save Greece from the conse-
quences of defeat, and it is stated in
Berlin official circles that the powers
will intervene of their own initiative if
Greece does not invite them.
According to dispatch from Con-
stantinople the Sultan will accept the
following conditions as the basis of
peace The withdrawal of the Greek
troops from Crete, and the reestabish-
ment of the frontier of 1881, Greece to
be excluded from all of the advantages
of capitulations, and to pay indemnity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

If GOVERNOR O'FERRALL had been
as we'll Informed of the condition OF at.
fairs at Fairfax Courthouse as the Gov
ernor of the State should have been, he
would have known that no combina.
ton existed there for the obstruction Of
the execution of the laws, but that the
whole people of that community. with.
out any combination, had determined
that the laws should be executed, and
that, too, in the course of ordinary pro-
ceeding. The Governor is too old for
improvement, but still, as there is no
end to saving grace, it would do him no
harm to pray for understanding.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

So FAR as cap be learned about the
Dingley bill, as revised by the republi-
can members of the finance committee
of the U. S. Senate, it will double the
tax on beer and tobacco. Why, GER
calmly Both of those articles are con-
sumed by the poor; indeed, to some ex-
tent, they have become necessaries CT
the poor, and so solicitous are the re-
publicans for the good of the poor that
ahsy tax them heavily not only for
their hats, clothes and shoes, but even
1or their mugs of beer and pipefuls and
plugs of tobacco.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
FIGHTING IN CUBA.

A column of Spanish troops COM
manded by Colonel Estruch, which has
been operating against the insurgents
in the vicinity of Mulata, Cuajabon and
Charos, Province of Pinar del Rio, has
captured five insurgent camps. The
enemy left twenty-five men killed and
retired with many wounded. The
troops had lieutenant and seven sol,
diers wounded.
During a number of skirmishes which
have taken place in the last three days
the insurgents according to the official
reports, los. 116 killed and II wounded,
and the troops captured 10 prisoners.
The Spanish columns during these
skirmishes had men killed and rs
wounded.
The government has authorized Sc
nor Porura, the civil governor, to re-
turn to Madrid on May 10. He will be
relieved by the Marquis Balmerola.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

POSTMASTER GENERAL GARY, for
merly of Connecticut, but now of Mary
land, has, it is printed, announced that
he intends to appoint negro as post
master at Augusta, Georgia. As the
negro vote never has, and never will,
carry Georgia, why Augusta should
have negro postmaster, rather than
any city of its size in any Northern
State that is carried by that vote, can.
not be told, unless it be for the deliber.
ste purpose of promoting and exciting
ill feeling between the races in the
South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

THE negroes in this country, like
those in Africa, can't live quietly to-
gether, but must be quarreling among
themselves. The full bloods and mu'
lattoes of Washington have now drawn
the color line between each other in re-
spect of the free school patronage
there. the former asserting that the
latter, though no whit more compe-
tent, and though greatly inferior in
number, have succeeded in getting pos
session of nearly all the lucrative part
of that patronage, and demanding
their full share of the free school plum
der
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

Coffees were steady at the following quota
tons Santos 1Oa13c per lb, Maracaibo 15
a194c; Java 25a26l4c per lb, fancy do.
29a3Oc Mocha 23a24c per lb. Futures
C osed quiet
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, April 90
Beef Catte-There is considerable improve
ment in tho quality Of the offerings this week
over las: week, there being longer line of
the superior stabe-fed beeves, besides very
good cattle from Virginia aud Ohio. Common
cattle were not numerous. Values for tops
and the good butcher cattle were some 1Oc
higher than last week Prices of Beef Cattle
this week ranged as follows:
Best...... ........................... 81 So 8 90
Generally rated first quality. 4 25 4 60
Medium or good fair quality. 3 40 3 rs
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen
and Observation-Disclosures" 2UU s w
OF the Cattle received 215 came from Vir-
ginia.
Sheep and Lambs-Values since Monday
are unchanged. There is no improvement in
the activity Of the market since then. Good
stock is in fairly good demand, but common
is exceedingly hard to SELLS not wanted at
any price-and there is still too much of il
coming in. There is an increase in the re.
ceipts of nearly POO head and it is chiefly
comprised of tho common cattle that is unde.
srable. Sheep sell at 3a4t,c per ID and
lambs sell at 4a5l.c per lb.
Hogs.-The market is dull and bsIe'y
steady at the following quotations: Far
westerns ST. load so per 100 lbs land others
at $4 20a4 80 per 100 lbs gross.
Fresh Cows-There is a full run and trade
is dull at $25a45 per head.
Calves-veals are dull and unchanged since
Monday viz: 4a5c per 10. There is heavy
run. coughs nomipally at $3a5 per head.
CHICAGO CATTLE MARKET, April %
Cattle I'm cattle sales were made at yester-
days decline of 10a15c, common to prime
beef cattle selling at $3.S0a5 40, with the
greater part Of the trading at S'4.20s4 50;
calves sold at $40 Hogs-In hogs there
was &C decline. and offerings were we'll taken
at $350s3 70 for heavy packing lc:" s"9
SD. 75a4 for fair to prime drove5 Sheep
Trade is sheep was better than might have
been ex pected on rainy day prices were
steady. with sales of common to choice sheep
at S3a4 90, and prime heavy native sheep
we're scarce at $3s5 %; Western sheep sold
at $4a475. Lambs sold pretty well at 80 %
ALSO for inferior TO prime hocks.
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET April %
Boeves-no trading: beef 9Aa97sc per ID.
Calves-market quiet with weak tendency
vcals $3A4.50 per 100 lbs. Sheep and
Lambs-market quiet and weak, except
for good stock; upshorn sheep Shabby
per 100 lbs; clipped sheep So 5Oa4. 62l2 per
100 lbs; unshorn lambs $5.25a6.5O per
100 lbs; clipped lambs $4.25s5.50 per 100
lbs. Hogs. market weak at 81. 15s4. 40 per
100 lbs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

THOUGH the so-called Christian
Greeks in Crete have treated the Mos
lem Greeks in that island with the
cruelty of savages. the Turks in Greece
have treated their vanquished foes
with the utmost kindness and consid
Grafton, and so far from pushing their
victory, are DESTROYS of terminating
hostilities as soon as possible and on
the easiest terms to their enemies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
Recapturcd.

READING, Pa, April 30.-Harry
Weise, who broke out of his cell
was captured at Red Run, Lancaster
county, last night and brought
back to Reading to-day. kilograms
were sent to the authorities at
Woodstock, Va, notifying them that
their prisoner had been recaptured and
was awaiting their arrival here. He is
wanted at Woodstock for burglary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30
Diaz Cots a Fine Horse.

CITY OF MEXICO, April 3O.-About
year ago Senator Don Cameron was
in Mexico City and was Hospitality re-
ceiyed by President Diaz. This morn
ing President Disz received q magnif-
cent horse, valued at SIS, 900, from
Senator Cameron, as present and tes'
timonial of his esteem. President Diaz
was highly grati6ed. The freight
charges on the horse were 5000 in gold.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

THE SYMPATHY manifested in the
North for the Greeks may possibly
have been evoked by the similarity OF
the rout of the army of the latter at La
risss to that of the Northern army at
Bull Run. The people of the North
have been "there," and know how it is
themselves. The misery of an army's
rout is appalling, and those who can
put themselves in the place of the rout-
ed Greeks may we'll feel sympathy for
them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

Union soldiers who were removed for
cause, for they never would have been
without, by Mr.. Cleveland, are being
reinstated as rapidly as possible. Wise
administrations entrust the execution of
their principles and policies to friends
rather than to enemies.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-30

UNDER Mr.. CLEvELAND's admins
Grafton no ex Confederate democrat,
holding minor place in any Of the de-
partments, could be promoted, and in
the Treasury none was appointed. IN
der Mr.. McKinley's, all the ex-