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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
A Dredging MOnOpOlY.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.-By a de.
cision of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, handed down yes
terday, A. B. Bowers virtually owns a
monopoly Of the hydraulic dredging
business. The decision Mr.. Bowers es-
Inmates as worth to him from six to
fifteen millions. The language of the
decision is that Mr.. Bowers is the origi.
nal inventor of the hydraulic dredger.
This will put dredging, so far as it is
done by hydraulic suction, in the
hands of Bowers, and this not only ap.
plies to the work going on in this coun-
try, but big contracts elsewhere. The
defendants include corporations, pri
vate individuals and the United States
government. 1t is likely, however,
that compromises will be effected and
that they will be required to pay a
royalty for using their dredges.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
TUESDAY EVENING. JAN. 5, 1897

Mr.. OLNEY's admirers say ne has tne
brains of the administration ana con-
seouently runs it. If this be true, Mr..
Olney, and not the President, should
be held responsible for the alarm IN
which this country was thrown last
year by the totally unnecessary and
aptly called "declaration of war"
against Great Britain, and which, if the
British government had not been in the
hands of wise and conservative states
men, who treated that declaration as
grown men treat the clustering OF boys,
would have certainly involved this
country in q disastrous war with the
most powerful nation on earth. The
true history of that remarkable decla-
ration has never been told, notwith-
standing the great curiosity respecting
it, especially as Mr.. Olney at the time
it was made had not just returned from
ducking trip.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

Mr.. MONEYS RETURN.-A dispatch
from Havana says: Mr.. Money return
ed to Havana yesterday evening. All
efforts to lean from him where he had
been were fruitless, he declining to say
anything that would tend to disclose
his whereabouts since he disappeared.
The general opinion is that he has
been within the rebel lines seeking the
information he desired, but there is no
way OF proving this belief.
Consul General Lee is authority for
the statement that Mr.. Money has no
connection with the Cuban Junta of
New York. This statement is made in
view Of the fact that report has been
circulated to the effect that Mr.. Money
is an agent OF the Junta or has some
connection with that body. Gen. Lee
adds that Mr.. Money made the trip to
Cuba for pleasure and to obtain per
sonal information within lawful limits
of the condition of the country in order
10 enable him to speak with authority
on the Cuban question.
Last Saturday Mr.. Mooney, Gen. Lee
saws, was invited to visit the town of
San Jose de Las Lajas, some fifteen
miles southeast of Havana, in order to
see the country. He went there that
day and remained until yesterday. He
remained in the town during his entire
stay and saw no rebels.
Mr.. Money will return to the United
States to morrow. He refuses to talk
about the result of his visit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
Starved to Death.

MAssILLoN, Ohio, Jan. 5.-Mary
Winters, who lived with her parents
near Orangeville, in the country, was
permitted to starve herself 10 death.
she had dream, she said, in which
she saw the Lord descend to earth on
a white cloud. The vision commanded
her to die and then disappeared. The
dreamer had been attending protracted
meetings and was imbued with the
doctrine of "holiness" and believed in
a literal Interpretation of the Scrip
lures. Miss Winters expressed a de-
termination to obey the will of the
Lord, and from the date of her dream
refused all food. Many of her friends
argued with her, but others approved
her course. She wasted away TO a
mere shadow, lapsed into unconscious,
ness Thursday, and, after remaining in
that condition some time, died.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 5.-Wm. Down
ing and Charles Williams, both colored,
and both murderers, paid the penalty
of their crimes this morning. Every
possible effort had been made by their
attorneys to save their necks, but Gov.
O'Ferrall refused to interfere. The
drop fell at SIG and ten minutes after
the Jail physicians pronounced both
dead. Both men displayed considerable
nerve and the execution passed of
without any extraordinary incident.
Downing killed woman named Emma
Lane in this city last May. He went
to her house prepared to meet another
man. He was in one room and she in
another, and when the door opened,
he shot, thinking it was the man. Will
liams killed George Bess, another color
ed man, on board schooner lying in
the harbor on April 18th. This is the
first double hanging in this city since
June 1st, 1921, when two Spanish sail
ors were executed for killing young
Frenchman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
THE PROPOSED NEW ROAD.

| L liz QNol OC1Lb W. w hOhO.
To the Editor ofthe Alexandria Gazette;
AS | am so often asked about the
new road TO meet the extension of
Prince street, will be much obliged if
you will let me have some space in
your paper. Some seem to think as
Judge Chichester has ordered the road
opened, it is strange we are not at work
on it. and others think it very strange
that Judge Chichester should issue an
order to open such road when he had
such facts in the case as l will mention,
before him. will take the action of
the City Council first. l have a copy
of the report of the joint committee on
streets. understand this report will
be adopted by Council at its next
meeting. 1t is very carefully worded
and is plain. 1t recommends that 81 200
shall be appropriated to open Prince
street to the corporation line, under the
following conditions That the counties
OF Alexandria and Fairfax shall first
give satisfactory guarantee that they
will give the land and road the width
of Prince street and it shall run straight
with that street and parallel to King
street to Hooff's Run. They know
what they are doing for the good of the
town in the future, when this new road
will be Prince street. They also have
an engineer who knows what is best for
all concerned in this matter, and he
says the City Council is right. The
Joint committee and Council have not
promised one cent to open Prince street
TO meet such road as the judge has
ordered to be opened, running diagon-
ally across this marshy place, with not
any dirt at either end to build the road
with but what we will have to buy and
haul from the top of Shutters Hill.
The next step with this case is to the
Board of Supervisors of Alexandria
county, where We have three men who
are alive to the interest of the county
and we have about two hundred resi-
dents of the county who haye signed
a petition to the Board Of Supervisors
not to put any money in such road.
The county surveyor recommended that
the dirt that could be gotten from
bitches, twelve feet wide, on both sides
of this road, to make road two and
a.half feet high, would make a good
road to start with and anybody with
any Judgment can see when they put a
team on it it you'd be good road to
stop on. would advise any of the
ministers of this town who want to
drive over this road, made OF marsh
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
The Delaware Legislature.

DOVER, Del, Jan. 5.-Seven union
republican (Addicks) candidates for
the position of representatives in Kent
county, who were declared not elected
by Tho board of canvass and the seven
union republicans who were defeated in
Sussex county. met in the State library
this morning and decided to form n
trump" house to meet at the Hotel
Richardson. They then repaired to
the motel and organized. Thomas c..
Moore was elected permanent speaker.
The regular Senate met and selected
Hezekiah Harrington, democrat, speak
or. The democrats captured the Sen
ate through the failure of the republi-
cans to stand together. Meredith,
democrat, of Kent county, was seated
and Allen, republican, was rejected.
The regular house organized by max.
ing f. B. Riggin, democrat, speaker.
The house appointed committee on
the contest of Cheairs against Dickey,
both democrats, from Newcastle
county. A "rump" Senate seems i'm
probable and in that case the trump"
house would be defeated in its work.
Gov. Watson's message was read in
both houses Of the legislature.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

Two propositions were last night SUBJ
mitted to the Richmond City Council
by private parties to acquire the gas
works. One was from the Richmond
Gas Company, of which Mr.. Miller, of
New York, is president, offering to
lease the plant st q rental of $40, 0OO
The other was from q syndicate repre-
sented by Judge II. W. Flourney and
Colonel Marshall, of Portsmouth. The
proposition of the last named concern
presented was for purchase of the plant.
Both were referred to the committee on
finance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
A Cold Rlooded Mnrdcrer.


VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 5.-Two de-
tectives arrived here from Sydney, Au-
stralia, last night and left at once for
San Francisco, where they they ex-
pect to accomplish the arrest of Frank
Butler, alias HARDWOOD who is wanted
in New South Wales for a long series
Of cold. FLOODED murders. His plan was
to lure to the gold fields prospectors
who had little money, shoot and bury
their bodies. Two murders have been
traced to Butler and he is more than
suspected oftwelve other similar crimes.
He sailed from Newcastle for San Fran
cisco, November 25, but has not ar
rived; the officers, however, are toilet
ably sure of their man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

mud, to get his dinner from another
fellows congregation or somebody will
! be turned out of church. Who IS work
ing to get this place in this marsh? An
attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad
is at the head of it with five other law.
yers. Why do these lawyers want US
70 abandon the King street road? Be-
cause they have railroad on it which
is associated with the Pennsylvania
Railroad. But you might say the rail-
road ought not to want over twelve
feet, and your King street road is sixty
feet wide and the county not
long since put five hundred
dollars in a new bridge there. l know
that, but do you think this attorney for
the Pennsylvania Railroad would have
put on five lawyers to help him if be
was going to ask anything in reason? ?
1 would say, no. Why do I think he
knows that this sixty.foot road coming
into King street is enough for the cleo.
trio cars and carriage way? Because
he tried to get double track on one Of
your streets for the steam cars for the
Pennsylvania road. But you know
horses ought not to be afraid, and
houses ought not to rock and business
firms ought not to be moved away when
these little steam engines on the Penn
sylvania Railroad come by. Now if q
gentleman did happen to pass at the
time this electric road was being put on
the King street road and advised them
to put it in the wrong place, it will not
be any excuse for them when some
damage is done by the cars. And as it
might cost the electric road five times
the amount of damage for the first &C.
cident as it will cost them to move
their track on the north side of the
right of way of the sixty feet we have
and let the other fifty be the carriage
way this ought to be done as soon
as possible. | know you have good
lawyer leading your case but he has
taken the wrong road across the marsh
and don't think he can make the con-
nection. ID. n. RUST.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

WHY THE gold boilers and their or
gans should persist in their vain attempts
to prove that business is improving and
that the prosperity they prophesied as
the sure and inevitable result of the de-
feat of the democratic ticket at the re-
cent election has not only blossomed
but bloomed, is incomprehensible, in
view of the fact that banks all over the
country are failing every day, and that
the wages of labor in many of the large
industries that have not suspended OPP
erations, are being reduced. They pre-
sumo, however, upon the ignorance
and credulity OF the majority of the
people and, unfortunately for the lat
ter, they have good grounds for doing
so. notwithstanding the fact that this
is the land of free schools and cheap
newspapers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

COLLISION IN FoG.-During dense fog
yesterday evening, IS the C. aud o. passenger
steamer Louise WAS entering the Norfolk hsr.
Dor. she collided with an. unknown bark,
which had Just arrived. The steamers stern
post was wrenched away by she fore, of the
collision and five feet of plsnking were torn
off. In swinging around the steamers side
from the gsngwsy to the box was raked by the
briggs anchor, and sll the joiner work above
came excited snd there was rush for life
preservers All the electric lights had been
extinguished by the force of the collision, and
the darkness sdded to the terror of the situs
ton. The steamers officers finally succeeded
in Quieting the people and the Louise reached
her wharf in Norfolk in safety
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

Two HUNDRED and thirty thousand
dollars is the assessed value of the
property now held in the name of ne
groes in this city. Many of the negroes
of Alexandria always, even during the
days of slavery, were property owners.
But Notwithstanding the interest they
would naturally be supposed to have
in good government, there is not one, so
far as heard of, who, ct elections, votes
the ticket supported by the vast ma
iority of the other property owners Of
the State. There may be some who
do, but if so, they take good care not
to let it be known to their own race.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
newspape.

THE case of the Baltimore bank
cashier, who being detected yesterday
in robbing, though he had been en-
ployed in the bank for forty odd years,
went out and drowned himself, affords
another apt instance of the truth that
no matter how long and successfully a
man may carry on thieving, his thefts
are sure to be detected sooner or later,
and then, disgrace to himself and fam
ily, or death. Then, too, the constant
dread of discovery in which he was in
for so many years, must have rendered
his life a miserable one. AS retribu.
ton for evil doing is sure to come, the
cause of it had better be avoided, and
wise men, no matter to what tempta-
ton they may be subjected, flee from it
as they do from fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
From Cuba.

MADRID, Jan. 5.-The Impartial
publishes report Of an interview had
by the correspondent of the paper in
Havana with Captain General Weyler
yesterday. General Weyler is quoted
as saying that he expects to put
an end to the rebellion in the Havana
district within q fortnight and to &C
complish the pacification of the island
to the Jucaro trocha in the Matanzas
province, long before the rainy season
sets in.
A dispatch from Havana says the
negro rebels in Cuba are greatly dis
pleased ct the appointment of the in-
surgent leader Rus Rivera to succeed
Maceo and are DESERVING in large mum.
hara
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
The Season for February has been re-
ceived from the international News
Company, New York.
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The readers of this paper will be pleased to
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

ACCORDING to the Philadelphia Led
ger, reliable republican newspaper,
the majority Mr.. Mckinley received
last November, instead of being mil
lion, as was asserted by his whoopers,
was only $40, 666; so that less votes than
were cast by the democrats in any one
of several States would have changed
the result of the election. But, for all
this, republicans assert that by that re-
suit they are empowered, not only to
prevent the laying of an income tax on
the rich, but to raise the tariff tax on
the necessaries of the poor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
RucKLIN,s ARNIcA sALyE

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lions, and positively cures Piles, or no
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perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Ernest l.. Allen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

IT Is reported from Washington that
the gold boiling democrats of the North
will try to get back into the democratic
party, and to do so will gladly agree to
the free silver planks that will he put
into the platforms of the democratic
conventions of all the Northern States.
This tends to strengthen the idea, long
entertained by many intelligent people,
that the real cause of the boilers &C.
ton at the late election was not their
opposition to silver coinage, but to the
imposition of q tax on their incomes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
Yellow eyes,

Thomas Hanna, jr., the 16.year-old son
of ex. Lieutenant Governor Hanna. Is
responsible. Young Hanna yesterday
called at the Falk mansion and while
Standing inside the door took out
penknife to sharpen pencil. Inc
Falk boy asked for it and being retus-
ed grabbed for it. In the scutfle that
followed the knife blade was sunk into
his heart. 1t is claimed that the killing
was accidental.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

The Cosmopolitan Magazine for JaDu-
airy has been received from it's publish.
ers in New York. Among its contents
are: Uncle Bernac, by Conan Doyle
German Students and their Absurd
Duels, Some Types in Dixieland, The
Famous Fate at Vaux, The Story of the
Farmers College, Fin de Steele Cos
tunes, A Modern Fairy Tale, Mascag-
nj and his New Opera, A Passion Study,
Some Examples of Recent Art, The
Angel of Murphy's Gulch, The Old
Schoolhouse, In the World of Arts and
Letters, and other interesting articles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

CONGRESS reassembled to-day. If
it be wise, it will, during the short re-
mainder of its session, let the affairs OF
foreign countries alone, and con6ne it.
self to the passage of the necessary and
requisite regular appropriation bills.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
The Pennsylvania Legislature.

HARRISBURG, Pa, January Both
houses of tie legislature convened at
noon to day.
H. K. Boyer, republican. of Philadel-
phia, was chosen Speaker OF the House,
receiving l69 votes against 33 for Lon
nan, democrat, ofLehjgh county.
Senator McCarrell, republican, was
chosen as president protein of the
Sanata
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
DAVID B. HILL.

of the legislature
DAVID b. HILL.
Resolved, That we, the members of
the committee of eight of the city OF
Albany, do hereby petition through
our agent, Cuyler Ten Eyck, the dem.
ooratic members of the legislature of
the State of New York as follows:
Dear Sirs-Do not vote for Senator
Hill; it is not proper act that he
should be honored with the nomina-
ton of his party at this time; do
not desert those principles which
the party so gallantly contended for at
Buffalo; do not endeavor falsely to stem
the tide of that would-be gold plank
which fell at Chicago. 1t will give
honor to deserter, it will place price
on hypocrisy.
Senator Hill was the main cause of
throwing the party in chaos by the
disgraceful nomination of Thatcher,
and tried hard to hold in the field after
the people and his party had repudi-
ated him and he had repudiated him
SELF
Mr.. Ten Eyck refused to say just who
the committee of eight are, or who they
represent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
The Senatorial FIGHT.

RALEIGH. N. C, Jan Sat 100 o'clock
this afternoon indications pointed strongly 10
Senator PritchaId controlling the populist
caucus. Representative Skinner expects this
result Pritchard only needed fourteen popu-
list votes. He has already twenty-five and
more arc falling in line
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
Killed by His Communion,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 5.-Richard
Falk, 14.year-old son of one of the
leading physicians of the city, is dead
from knife stab in the heart, for which
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05

4 severe earthquake is reported from the
southern part Of Oaxacs, Mexico, and along
the Pacific coast st Acapulco the shock de-
.stroyed several houses and three persons were
injured by falling walls
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Ayerse to Hill.

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 5.-The follow
ing printed slip was circulated about
the capitol to-day among the members
of the legislature
, 1897-03-26
TOSSED ON THE FOAMING Bill

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