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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30
GREAT TIDAL WAVE.
II Sweeps Away More Than FIVE
Thousand Houses.
MANY BUNDrsD PEOPLE DROWNED
Was Preceded by an Far bquake-Thi,
Months Terrible Visitation
10 Jspsn.

BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 80.-A Call
srecial from TacOm,, says: Advioes
received today state that great earth.
quake occurred in Japan on August
5't. 1t lssted eight mi nutes ana was
followed by tidal wave which swept
up rivers flowing into this SEA ana
osusi Y Eteat destruction. % to
August 10Th 1t WA. knJwn In Yo3o-
hama that over [, 700 house. had been
inundated or w.rned away. Betweel
200 and 800 psopls are knoRn to hnv
been drowned or seri nsiy injured. 1t
was reported from Hos1ku that coal
mines there were II ,Uded ny an over.
h1wiDg river, dIowning over 100
miners.
The earthquake shocks on the morn.
Ing OF August 9th varied from four TO
sixteen IN numbsr, In various parts
the movement being from east to west.
Less than pn hour nftcrwatd the tidal
wave was felt In the towns along the
coast.
Rsins Ind lsllen almost incesB1ntly
aud the rivers were already very hiLh.
The tidal wave raiseu them In gu many
minu es from twelve to twenty lest
higher.
TIE governor OF Nigats pre'ectu e
rsporIs tunt tbs A'a<.wa river rJte
twenty feet. In MAJ tzu 500 houses
were II oueu and tnlrtJ Poop K llsd
or injured. The wa ers rOse SO rap Il y
That yer 800 neopc wore n Iai Ia
their houses btfur- they knew what
nau happeue They were all res
curd with buss. Farther down the
came river twenty uJats were swept
away, most OF them having people
aboard. AT lagsta ,evefsl scores IT
nJusss were wsshe away Or were
wrecked am 1000 were flied
with water. n Suy 700 houses were
wrecked and inu undated IN other tow De
IN the same pert, @ ure. At Omagau
one third OF tue city IS fl cen feet
under water and rice Il l,s all s'ong
me A mon river are Il JvusI. BriJ-
ges IN emb,nk ments were swepl
| away oy the score.
Reports ftOm tue province o Riku.
zsu state that immense waves rJlied
III 45 minutes after tue cart. quake
and Il tel <hteen flshing villages.
All vi the III ,iai buiIliugs and The
| railroad station at Mao Y zu were
flooded.
Here many persons were drowned.
Nine railway UfiicIals were carried
uown stream 70 se, Ia their h uses. A
steam,r rescued them, but many
| smaller boats were swept away.
Mr.. HoJs- n, Brush commissioned
of Gust nus at Y..ung, TiOet, writes TO
japan that sevsrs esrthqu axe W ~
experiencsdin Tibet in July.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30
San FRANCISCO mas ur.
ii 'rt 10 TAX. Leit'r Carriers Con
y.ution from iIls Csast " Failure

WAshINaTuE, Aug. 80. - Az
nouuceneut was ma "a To-Day from IN 3
nesdqusrers Of the National A,s ella.
ton OF Letter Carriers Ia this city that
the annual convention Of carriers Will
he helJ 10 Sau Francisco Sep. o 10 IL.
5su Francisco was CHOSEN oHginRny
but later Cuicsgo was suDsti .uted, nuu
tousy ae the result VI a conference by
wire with tue chief members OF the
uoJy 1t was decided 10 NEST on the
Pacific oyRsl.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30

The Misses Eta and Alice Taylor OF
the Eighteenth war;, tni, city. have
Teturnei homo after q tsu days go.
J urn ut Pa'son as the guests OF Mr..
Ruin q iigley. Tho young lsd!e,
report having n most enj ,yaulo Time.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Aug. 80 TIE
heat ulIK the rectId sterdey, OH.
cisl REPORTS snoveI tue temperature
was 100 al ! unI2 O'Clock. No piot-
tfRiuneure reported.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30

IL S ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 3O.-The
Southern Parino Railro.I company
has formally eitered the field as a
purchsser and consumer Of California
petroleum. Ii lie reported that the
management VI that company hta had
seven locomotives changed 10 crude
Oh buIL,rs WITHIN the week lust closed
suu that two purchaser OF OIL in bulk
nave been ma ty that corporation,
one OF 10000 barrels and the viher OF
20, 900.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30

MARAINo KANornuIERs, secrsla
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
The Greco-Turkish Troubles.

SALoNICA, April ia battalion Of
Albsnians stationed at Uskub, in
readiness to start for the Greek frontier,
has been sent in haste to Verana, on
the Montenegrin frontier, and another
battalion will follow as soon as possible
This unexpected movement of Turkish
troops towards the Montenegrin front
Ter has given rise to the report that
serious danger is apprehended in that
direction.
ELEssoNA, April 17.-News has
reached here that the Greek band has
attacked the Turkish troops at Karya
near Nezeros. A Turkish officer and
two men were wounded and a Greek
corporal was killed and Greek SUBJ
lieutenant was wounded. The forces
engaged belonged to the regular armies
of the two countries. The fighting con.
tinues and a council of war is sitting
here, under the presidency of the
Turkish commander-in-chief.
1t is reported that the Greeks have occu-
pied three Turkish stations and that the
Turks are retreating.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
TheyOueen's Jubilee.

LONDON, April 1.-THE Prince OF
Wales has been overlooking the ar.
engagements for the celebration of the
Queens Diamond Jubilee. 1t is re-
ported he was Disguised at finding the
whole route in the hands of spectators
and the Queens Jubilee practically put
up for auction. The indications are
that there will be a decided slump in
prices before the day of the procession,
and that the syndicates are likely to
lose heavily. The statement that upon
the occasion of her Jubilee the Queen
will add to her titles those of Queen Of
Canada, Australia, East and West
Africa, Rhodesia and the West Indies
has aroused considerable ridicule.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

THE NEW LIGHT-HoUsE.-The tug
Minerva has been anchored in the
mouth Of Coan river for several days
past, having in tow three large lighters
loaded with stone to be used in laying
the foundation for the new lighthouse
ut Smiths Point. As matter of safe.
ty, in case of rough weather, the stone
will be transferred to barge before
carrying it farther. The tug will then
tow the barge down on the bar to the
proposed site.
The new site Is just where the old
lighthouse was torn away by the ice
drifts in the spring of 1894. The old
one was carried away SO effectively
that not even the iron pilings remain.
On account of the exposed position,
the lighthouse has TO be strong
enough to bear unusual strain, but it
is thought that with the experience of
two former structures the new one will
be built so as to stand the test Fred
ericksburg Star.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

SOCIETY MEN IN FIST DUEL.-The
exclusive set of Tiffin, O.. has been
greatly excited because of prize fight
which took place between John Ref
snider, former cadet at Annapolis,
and Arthur Harmon, popular young
society man. Both young men were
suitors for the daughter of former
member of the Legislature. On Sun
day they and several other young men
called at the young woman's home,
Reifsnider by invitation.
The father of the young woman does
not permit her callers TO remain later
than 10 p. IN. At that hour the father
called from the top of the stairs, saying
that all young men, except Reifsnider,
must 20. Harmon said he purposed
staying as long as Reifsnider.
This remark precipitated a quarrel,
and Reifsnider struck his rival in the
face and was thrown over a chair.
Outside Harmon challenged Reifsnider
to fight and the challenge was &C.
copied.
On Monday, with several theological
students as seconds, the young men
met in secluded spot, and fought Is
vicious rounds. Harmon was badly
used up.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
Barriers Swept Away.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 17.-Last
night at 10 o'clock the workers on the
levee at Biggs, four miles below Delta,
La, were Mortified to see a sudden
bulge in their embankment. A small
stream began to trickle through the
aperture, and momtnt later there
was crash. In thirty minutes the
crevasse had increased to fifty yards and
Ivy noon to day was 1900 feet
vide and increasing rapidly, with
tae water pouring through the open
ing with fearful velocity. Until the
crevasse can be stopped the overlooked
area will include the lower half of
Madison parish and all of Tensas and
Concordia parishes, comprising many
of the finest plantations in northern
Louisiana. The water will then flow
into the Tensas river and should that
stream prove its inability to carry the
great volume of water the flooded area
will extend to Franklin and part of
Catahoula parishes. The fertile lands
that will be inundated are in the highest
state OF cultivation and the loss will be
tremendous.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 1.-THE river
here this morning showed but slight
decline for the past "a hours, and the
prediction is that it will change but
little during the next two days. Above
here the Missouri will probably con-
tinue to rise slowly, and the upper
Mississippi will also rise generally, but
no danger stages are indicated south Of
Keokuk.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

known no one could say that there
was any rebellion against the desire OF
the party there expressed. u claim
that what I have done and what those
who have acted with me- have done ID
in exact accord with the decision of the
last CAUCUS" Mr.. DeArmond said, and
Mr.. McMillin was one of the other
democrats who applauded this declara-
ton. He had the greatest respect for
the abilities of the distinguished gentle
man from Texas, "but I doubt his
judgment in these matters" Mr.. De.
Almond said he had no desire to fill
buster, only to make legitimate opposi-
ton. But the democrats would present
pitiful spectacle travelling around the
country saying that the republican pol
icy of conducting Congress was good
policy. "They are your policies" he
concluded, addressing the republicans.
"NVe don't want them to become ours
by adoption or otherwise. The lines
were drawn at Chicago, and they will
stay drawn"
Then Mr.. Burke spoke on another
question of personal privilege inspired
by newspaper editorial headed
bailey as Reeds helper" in which
his own name had been mentioned
MIR. Burke remarked that a ''great ma
tional farce" was being enacted and
stated that he had consulted no one in
regard to his votes.
The republicans had been absorbing
the personal statements of democrats
with considerable laughter.
Mr.. Dingley said they had listened
to the statements with great interest.
"And satisfaction" Mr.. Bailey inter
posed.
Mr.. Dingley said that all the demo.
Gratis could possibly do would be to
force the House to meet every day to
adjourn. instead of every third day.
He concluded with motion to adjourn,
and at lao, with Mr.. Bland endeavor-
ing to get recognition for his resolution
and several other members trying to
catch the Speakers eye, the House ad-
iourned till Wednesday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL IT, IL z.

MASSACHUSETTS is a great boot and
shoe producing State, and, only nat
urally, and wants to get the leather OF
which those articles are made at the
cheapest rates. While, therefore, its
congressman are the rankest kind OF
protectionists in respect of other things,
they protest against the imposition of
the slightest rate of duty on hides i'm
ported from South America. General
Hancock said the tariff was a local
question, and most all other Northern
men, when tested, act that way. But
that Southern men do not, is proved
bv the recent declaration of Senator
Gallery of Louisiana, to the effect that
though the Dingley bill imposes high
duty on sugar, the chief product OF his
State, he will vote against it, for the
reason that the tariff is q national, and
not local question, and that the good
of the people of the whole country,
rather than that of those of any one
State, must be the object of congress
sional legislation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

Police Commissioner Roosevelt to-
day resigned the presidency of the
New York Police Board.
1t has been discovered that the OBJ
struction in the channel at Seattle,
Wash, upon which the battleship Ore
gon struck, is bank of sunken piles
which was probably left by contractors.
Henry D. Hyde, the famous corporation
lawyer, died at his residence in Boston to-
day as result of bloodpoisoning from car
buncle on the neck.
The National Athletic Club, of San Fran
cisco, is making arrangements to match JEFF
fries against Steve O'Donnell in twenty
round contest.
Col. w. L. Kellogg commanding tho Fifth
U. S. Infantry, died at Mcpherson barracks,
near Atlanta Ga, this morning.
Major Green Peyton, the venerable proctor
at the University of Virginia, died early this
morning in Charlottesville.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The Kentucky senatorship.


FRANKFORT. Ky., April 17.-Dr.
Hunter has at last rebelled against
Hanna and his agent here, Mr.. Samuel
Taylor, of Ohio, and yesterday after
noon sent request to Mr.. Taylor that
he leave Frankfort at once, and not re-
turn to NEEDLE in the senatorial mud
die. This was not done, however, until
it became known that the adnlin.stra-
ton had withdrawn its support from
Hunter and that it was the desire of
Mr.. Hanna that Hunter retire in favor
of some candidate who could unite the
party. Mr.. Taylor communicated with
Mr.. Hanna at once and was told to use
his own discretion. He will remain at
least for time.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 1.-THE
Franklin county grand jury has return
ed true bills against DR.. W. Godfrey
Hunter, the republican nominee for the
y. s. Senate, ex-Congressman John
Henry Wilson, Hon. E. T. Franks,
Capt. Noel Gaines and his brother-in-
law, Thos. Tanner of Frankfort. Those
named have been indicted for conspi-
racy to bride. All are republicans with
the exception of Gaines and Tanner.
When the indictments had been re-
turned, Judge Cantrill ordered that
bench warrants he issued for the arrest
of the accused and made returnable for
the next term of the court, which is in
September.
The session of the General Assembly
this morning was uneventful. Accord
ing to previous agreement formal bal
lot was taken and one vote was cast
for each of the candidates-Hunter,
Blackburn, Martin, Boyle and Stone.
1t is not believed here that the in
dictments will force Hunter to with
draw.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

The APPOINTMENT of MIR. Gary, OF
Maryland, as postmaster general, and
of MIR. Buck, of Georgia, as minister to
Japan, are spoken of in republi-
can and goldite newspapers as pat
ent illustration of the recognition
of the South by President McKin-
ley. Such an attempt to gull South
ern people proves either that the news
papers referred to are ignorant OF what
they talk about or else that they sup
pose their readers are as i'll informed as
they are. Mr.. Gary is e born and bred
Connecticut Yankee. MIR. Buck went
to Georgia as member of a Maine
regiment to shoot the people of that
State and to pillage and burn their
houses, barns and mills. If any of the
real people of the South have received
recognition from Mr.. Mckinley, they
have taken particular pains to conceal
the knowledge thereof even from their
most intimate friends.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

A BANK ROBBED.-While resisting
the entry of two robbers, and during a
struggle to protect $50, 900 or more in
money and securities in the Great Falls
National Bank, of Somersworth, N. Y,
yesterday afternoon, Cashier Joseph A.
Stickney was struck down and murdered
near the desk which he had occupied
for years. After killing Stickney, the
murders ransacked the vault and fled
with all the cash it contained, with the
exception of a fve-dollar gold piece.
AS near as can be estimated about
Sc, 900 was taken. The robbers after
knocking Stickney down with black
jack, cut his throat. The most remark
able feature of the robbery is the fact
that 100000 in bonds of the United
States, which were kept in one of the
drawers of the vault and which the
robbers evidently examined hastily,
were not taken. No one was aware
that there was anything wrong at the
bank until nearly two o'clock or an
hour after the murderous work was
done.
The police believe they are now on
the track Of the man they want on sus-
picion of having been connected with
the murder of Cashier Stickney, and
the robbery of the bank. Word was
received from Milton to-day that the
team which has figured in the bank
case, was at Phoenix stables, where it
had been left by a man answering the
description Of the one who was seen to
enter the bank yesterday noon. The
man suspected is Joseph Kelly. His
father keeps q hotel at Salisbury beach.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
Old PeOple.

Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whisky nor other intoxi-
cant, but acts as tonic and Alternative.
It acts mildly on the stomach and
bowels, adding strength and giving
tone to the organs, thereby aiding
Nature in the performance of the func-
tons. Electric Bitters is an excellent
appetizer and aids digestion. Old Peo-
pie find it just exactly what they need.
Price fifty cents and S100 per bottle at
E. L. Aliens Drug Store.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. W. D. Grymes, ct King George
county, is filling Large contract for
poplar logs to be shipped to England.
Whitestone district, in Lancaster
county, went dry yesterday by ALI ma
jority. Pulaski city and district, in
Pulaski county, went dry yesterday by
twenty-one majority.
Despite the pressing demands of his
Richmond congregation for him to re-
main there, it is understood that DIR. j. Y.
Fair will 20 to the Independent Church
at Savannah Ca, about May 1.
Henry EvaGs, ST., member of the
wholesale tobacco firm of Fl. Evans &
Bros, died suddenly of bright's disease
and heart trobule at his home in Win.
chester yesterday, aged Cd years.
The Big Island Paper Mill, of Lynch
burg, established in 1889 by Lynchburg
and Richmond capitalists at cost of
$4,000 has been sold to w. ]. Smith,
of Camden, N. j., for $4,000. The
mill was shut down several years ago,
having been operated for only short
period. The present purchasers will
at once equip the mill with necessary
machinery for the manufacture of wall
paper.
Mr.. ]. M. Jeter, a farmer, near Roa-
noke, went to Baltimore yesterday to
receive the Pasteur treatment at the
City Hospital in consequence of having
been bitten by dog Wednesday. He
was given an injection of virus by
Prof N. G.. Keirle and DR.. John Ruhrah,
who will continue the treatment for
two weeks. The dog which bit Mr..
Jeter was large one, which had be.
longed to him for some time.
A locomotive, attached to con.
struction train on the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac Railroad, ex-
ploded while standing on the siding in
the centre of the town of Ashland yes
terday afternoon, and pieces of the
machinery were thrown in all direc-
tons. The track was temporarily
blocked and trains delayed. The fire.
man, who was in the cab, was thrown
down and scalded, but not seriously.
Railroad men are discussing a re-
markable record made on Thursday by
Chesapeake and Ohio compound pas
senger locomotive No 100, constructed
by the Richmond Locomotive Works,
while hauling vestibule train ofseven
coaches from Staunton to Clifton Forge,
over the very heavy mountain grades
The run is ninety-seven miles, and
fifty-three minutes of lost time was
made up in that distance. The best
record heretofore was sixteen minutes.
Captain Charles H. Eppes, City Ser
geant of Richmond, died last night,
aged fifty-seven. He was a man of
magnificent proportions, and so popu-
lar as to have been invincible for that
Office for many years. He was wound.
ed March 90, 1866, and left on the field
of battle for dead, was taken prisoner
and carried to City Point. On April !
President Lincoln was inspecting the
hospital, when the surgeon called his
attention to young Eppes as the only
wounded Confederate. President Lin,
coin took his hand and expressed the
hope that he would soon be able to re-
turn to his parents. He did soon re-
turn home and was elected captain of
police.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

THE NEW YORK World says this
country should demand that Spain shall
cease her efforts to stamp out the last
Pickering enbers of the dying insurrec-
ton in Cuba, because General Wyler,
provoked by the senseless and reckless
waste of property caused by the negro
and scalawag insurgents, said he
"wished the whole breed of them
were destroyed" That Generals
Ewing, Sheridan and Sherman wish
ed the whole breed of Confed-
crates destroyed, was proved by their
respective orders in Missouri, Virginia
and Georgia; but geography as we'll as
circumstance alters cases with the peO-
pie of the North.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

A NORTHERN goldite newspaper says
the democrats will hardly try hari-kari
again by endorsing the Chicago plat
FORM AS it was only by endorsing that
platform last year that the democrats
succeeded in obtaining six and half
million votes for their candidate, and
would have elected him but for Mr..
Hanna's corruption fund, it isn't at all
likely that they will prove themselves
such nincompoops as not to make their
reimbursement of it as conspicuous as
possible.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

THE MAURY MoNUMENT.-Mrs. Di-
ana Fontaine Maury Corbin, daughter
of the late Commodore Matthew F.
Maury and wife of Col. S. Wexford Cor
bin, of King George, has written let
ter in which she says:
"If there is to be but one monument
erected to the memory of Commodore
NJ. F. Maury, 1 would prefer to see that
one put on the rip raps in Hampton
Roads, and would like to have it in
the shape of light, lighting the mari
ner-to secure whose safety he spent
the best years of his busy life on his
perilous way, and at the same time
welcoming the incoming ship to the
shores of his native Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
A Murder Mystery Cleared Up.

BISMARCK, N. D., April 1.-THE
mystery as to the identity of the perpe.
traitors of the iendish butchery of the
Spier family, at Winona, has been partly
cleared up. Alexander Coddol, the
French half.breed under arrest, has
made confession in which he impli
Gates Black Hawk, the negro half breed
who is also under arrest as q suspect
After the confession Coddol made an
attempt at suicide.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17

THERE WAS quietly. and almost So
cretely, buried in Brooklyn, last night,
the corpse of Mrs. Theadore Tilton, who,
after her fall, was deserted by her ac-
quaintances and lived in the strictest
retirement. But the preacher who
debauched her, and broke up and
ruined her family continued to
live conspicuous and luxuri-
Gus life, applauded alike by Christ
ians and inhdels, and was buried
with pomp and ceremony, and in the
presence of large concourse of rich
people. The injustice of this age is q
disgrace to civilization, let alone to
Christianity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-17
COMMISSIONER TO REpoRT.-Judge

COMMISSIONER TO REPoRT.-Judge
Wexford, of the City Circuit Court of
Richmond, yesterday entered an order
appointing Louis G. Barley, of Alexan-
dria, as the commissioner to inquire into
and report upon the various questions
involved in the suit of the Board of Su.
pervisors of Alexandria county against
the City Council, of Alexandria. This
controversy involves the sale of certain
lots in Alexandria, in which the city and
county are equal holders. The county
wants them sold and q division of the
funds derived from said sale.