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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
The G. A. r. Eucampment.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 24.-All night
long trains were depositlng their loads
of veterans and sightseers. This morn.
ing thousands were gathered around
the different stations and the principal
streets were jostling crowd of human.
ity. The feature of the day will be
the arrival OF President Mckinley at 8
o'clock this afternoon. The programme
for the day also includes a parade of
naval veterans, reunions, an illumi.
mated bicycle parade and numerous re-
captions. The number OF passengers
landed in Buffalo during the "a hours
ended at midnight foots up l45, 1000. 1t
is estimated that thnt there will be at
least $1,000 more arrivals before the
big parade tomorrow, which will bring
the grand total of visitors up to $50, 900
The feature of this morning was the
second parade of the celebration and
first in which grand army men took
part. The naval veterans association
and ex.prisoners of war association and
other organizations, composed the grand
army contingent of the parade.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
Elopine Under Difficulties,

SHEpHERDvILLE, KY, Aug. 24.-At
1:45 o'clock yesterday morning Mr.
Kirby Beard and Miss Mamie Swear.
ingen were made man and wife after an
elopement which followed an engage
ment of a few hours. They went to
church last evening at the brides home
in Mount Washington, where young
Beard proposed and was accepted.
Accompanied by the brides brother
and Miss Mollie Bridewell they set out
to drive to that place to procure mar
riage license. On the way the buggy
which contained the future bride and
bridegroom was overturned and the
horse ran away, bruising the bride and
smashing her hat. The buggy was
wrecked, but Mr.. Beard put Miss
Swearingen in the buggy with the other
pair, and, mounting the runaway horse,
which had been caught, rode to Shep.
herdsville, arriving half an hour after
midnight. The County Clerk was
reused and be Issued the license, and
then magistrate was visited and the
ceremony was performed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
FAuRE IN RUSSIA.

The popular reception accorded to
Emperor William on his recent visit to
Russia, was completely collapsed by the
welcome given to President Faure
yesterday. The town Of Peterhoi
is en- fete and the palace is
bower of decorations. The tri
color is everywhere in evidence. Men
and women wear it in rosettes and the
children carry the French flag. The
din of the Marseillaise. performed
everywhere by inexperienced persons,
is deafening. Wherever there is pi-
ano nothing else is played and sung.
All the bands are practicing the air.
The route to the palace was lined
with troops, and behind the soldiers
were massed enthusiastic crowds of PEG.
Pile, who were frantic in their acclama
lions, which were redoubled when, the
procession having passed, the hedges OF
soldiers no longer separated the people.
Several bouquets of flowers we're
thrown into the imperial carriage While
the latter was on its way from the land
ing stage to the palace.
Upon arriving at the palace, the Car
presented President Faure to the court
officials, and then, re.entering the vic
toria, his Majesty drove alone to the
Alexandra Palace, the residence of the
Czarina. A few minutes later President
Faure emerged from the Peterhof Pal
ace, accompanied by General Bilder-
ling, and drove to the Alexandra
Palace, in order to offer his homage to
the Czarina. A private luncheon at the
Alexandra Palace followed. During
the afternoon the French President
visited the Russian grand dukes.
The official reception of the President
was warmly cordial, but, being ruled
by etiquette, did not exceed that of EN-
peror William.
The Gar, toasting NJ. Faure at the
banquet at the Palace last night, re-
called his own reception in France, and
said
1--WE delight to hope that your stay
among US and the sincerity of the senti-
ments it awakens will draw yet tighter
the bonds of friendship and sympathy
uniting France and Russia"
M. Faure thanked the Car In behalf
of France, and added
II have come to Russia to affirm and
strengthen further the powerful ties al.
reading binding Russia and France"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
No Agreement.

P1rTsBURo, Aug. 24.-.The joint con.
ference of coal operators and miners
broke up at noon without reaching an
agreement. The miners officials re-
fused to recede from their position and
demanded SO cents per ton pending
settlement by arbitration, and the
operators would not concede more than
GIL cents. Ageneral meeting of opera
tors has been called for 2 o'clock this
afternoon to hear the report Of their
committee. The members of the COM
mittee refused to make any prediction
as to the probable action that would be
taken this afternoon.
The operators offered to divide the
difference between 81 and GO cents
rates, making the price at which the
mines should start 81 cents per ton,
but this was rejected. Then additional
propositions were made and rejected.
The outlook after the adjournment OF
the conference seemed to be encour-
aging for the miners. There is no
question of the anxiety of the operators
to start their mines.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The Grain Markets.

CHICAGO, Aug. 24.-To-day for the
first time in nearly a week the wheat
market at the opening was in something
like its normal condition. At the regu-
lar opening there was enough selling
all around the pit to start the market
lower than Mondays close. September
which closed yesterday at 96a96s open.
ed to-day at from Sc to 953 and rallied
to SO, while December opened eli the
way from 964 to 95t compared with
yesterdays closing price of 9544, soid as
low as 94s then sluggishly recovered to
95}. But the comparative quiet OF the
market was suddenly changed to excite
ment when the 3:45 p. m. Liver
pool cables were received, showing
total declines of 4a43d there. In
an instant hundreds of thousands
of bushels OF long wheat were
poured on the market which broke
with crash, September falling
from 971 where it had settled to in the
meantime, to 941 in about three min.
utes, while December broke cent at
time to go. Then at one jump it re-
bounded to SO and September to 95.
In that brief time the excitement was
tremendous. The corn market much
resembled that of wheat, starting easy
on general selling, in which the eleva.
tor people led. September corn opened
lcent lower at 305, declined to 80 cents,
recovered to 30s then broke quickly to
29s. December opened at from SO to
32S against yesterdays closing price of
325 then declined to 31a. Oats too were
very active and realizing was heavy
around the opening. The market fol-
lowed wheat and corn in their recover
les and also in the following break.
Wheat broke cents bushel to-day
and closed within ac of the lowest fig
ures of the session.
NEW YORK, Aug. A.-Wheat had q
comparatively tame opening to-day.
December dropped cent bushel en-
first sales and then practically recover.
ed the loss. The crowd had apparent
" lost its bull fever and was content to
accept profits on old purchases or else
scalp the market for a reaction. The
bull visions of 125 wheat have been OBJ
scured temporarily at least. Corn lost
much of yesterday 3 speculative activity
and opened &c lower on the basis of 3Sc
for December. The first half hour
range on December wheat was from
1909 near the opening to 101f.
Towards noon wheat collapsed COM
pletely, prices selling off four cents
from the opening and over FIVE cents a
bushel from last night The break
forced December to 96l. 1t was partly
caused by smash in Liverpool quota
tions
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Newport News is to have gas plant
10 cost $65, coo.

Newport News is to have gas plant
10 cost s65, 600.
DR.. D. F. Burner, well-known ply
stefan of Woodstock, died Sunday
night, after brief illness.
Jacob B. Keller, proprietor of the
Valley Inn, of Woodstock, aged forty
two years, died at his home Sunday of
blood poisoning.
The oolored republicans of Augusta
county yesterday repudiated the action
of the Virginia republican State COM
mittee in failing to call State oonven-
ton.
The National Bank Of Washington
has been made the reserved agent OF
the National Bank of Manassas and OF
the National Bank of Virginia, of Rich
mond.
The Shenandoah Valley Agricultural
Society is making considerable improve
ments on the fair grounds for their
twenty.eighth exhibition, which opens
at Winchester on September IA.
The first bale of new cotton, season
1897 1913, was received at Norfolk yes
terday. The bale came from Clio, 8. c.,
and was graded strict low middling,
and was sold at cents per pound.
James Staples, aged six years, son
of ]. G. Staples, prominent citizen, OF
Harrisonburg, was kicked by horse
late Sunday afternoon and received in
juries which resulted in his death about
midnight.
The law firm of Ri1ey and Barbour,
of Culpeper, composed of Hon. John F.
Rixey, present congressman from this
district, and Mr.. John 8. Barbour, has
been dissolved, Mr.. Rixey, on account
of his health, having retired from the
field.
Senator Thomas 8. Martin says he
will make canvass OF the State of Vir-
ginia, and will discuss national issues;
that he ia now, as heretofore, unequivo-
cally in favor of the free coinage of sill
YER at sixteen to one without the CO.
operation of any other nation, and has
no doubt that his vote on the tariff will
be approved when it is fully under.
stood.
The democratic county committee OF
Augusta yesterday elected William T.
McCue, of Staunton, chairman of the
committee in lieu of Hon. Edward E.
Echols, who received the democratic
nomination for lieutenant governor at
the Roanoke convention. Mr.. Echols
has been senator from the Staunton dis.
trict for number of years. Candidates
are as thick as blackberries. Captain
John N. Opie announces himself for the
Senate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In six weeks two men have taken
fifteen thousand dollars worth of pure
gold from vein struck near Raleigh,
N. @.
A. W. Faber, the lead pencil manu-
facturer of Germany, has been fined
fined $50, 900 for violating the Q. 8. tar
iff laws.
The French government has refused
to reduce the tax on -four and wheat,
which had been urged as relief from
high prices.
The government of Honduras has
granted important concessions to syn
dictate of American capitalists, who in
return will liquidate the national debt
of Honduras.
Archbishop Keane left Washington
yesterday for Brooklyn to visit cousin
of his who is reported dying. He was
besieged with visitors ct the parsonage
yesterday morning who had heard OF
his intended departure.
Republican primaries held yesterday
in Baltimore separately by the party
organization and by the followers of
VIM. T. Master resulted in the follow
ing vote For Master, Is, 443; for Sup.
plee, 1878; for Marburg, 7,1S9.
Mrs. Pauline Du Bose Little, wife OF
Rev. Lacy l. Little, died at Kamisswa,
Japan, July 25. She was the daughter
of Rev. DR.. n. G. Du Bose, one of the
oldest missionaries in China of the
Southern Presbyterian Church.
The Grand Army of the Republic
will be asked during the coming en-
csmpment to pass upon proposition
to fund the pension debt. Each man
wants all the money now that would
come to him by quarterly payments.
A conference of the coal operators OF
the Pittsburg district with the officials
of the nine-workers, to discuss terms
for settlement of the strike, was held
at Pittsburg yesterday, but adjourned
without an agreement being reached.
The miners are holdi-s out for the
sixty. nine-cent rate.
Bishop Satterlee, of the diocese Of
Washington, arrived in this country
yesterday afternoon on the steamer
Mobile. The bishop has passed his va
cation for the most part in England,
and especially in London. he is ex-
pected to reach Washington from New
York some time to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear There is only
one way to cure deafness, and that is By con.
stitutional remedies Deafness is caused by
an infsmed condition Of the mucous lining Of
the eustachian tube. When this tube is in.
famed you have rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the inflam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-.
stored to its normal condition hearing will
be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten
are caused by cstsrrh, which is nothing but
an inhamed condition of the mucous surfaces
We will give one hundred dollars for any
case of deafness Caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Halls Cstarrh Cure. Send
for circulars free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
Exciticg Scene.

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. A.-Two own
ers of horses at the Newport race track
had sensational meeting at Newport
last night. F. A. Park, of Washington
Courthouse, Ohio, arrived to look after
his horses and found A. II. Smith, OF
Texas, with his wife. Park snapped
his revolver three times in the
face of Smith, but it was not
loaded as Park presumed it was.
Smith escaped by the officers
holding Park. Afterward Park
created a scene at the Kessen
Grove Tavern where he thought Smith
and his wife were lodging, and
where he was refused admit.
lance. To-day Park swore out war
rants charging both parties with adul.
'ery, but they escaped before the war.
rants could be served. Smith is said ( o
rave a family in Texas. Park declares
he will kill Smith on sight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24

SAD DEATH OF CHILD.-Otho Tsyson,
three years of age, son of James A. Tayson,
living on the farm of Henry Harlan, near
Churchville Hartford county. Md, met his
death Sunday morning by falling into an IN.
used we'll. The child was playing about the
creamery and had evidently raised the COW
ering of the old well and losing his balance
fell in. The parents did not know of the
existence of the well, which had been aban-
donsd snd covered before they moved to the
place. The child was missed and prolong.
ed search resulted fruitlessly until one Of the
neiehbors recalled the old we'll and on 10 wer.
ing light the child WIS found at the bottom
He was dead when discovered.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
Heavy Rains.

NEW YORK. Aug. PA terrific rain
storm besween 2 and 3 o'clock this
morning caused considerable damage
in several places in New Jersey. In
many sections it was the heaviest rain
in years. There were several serious
waehouts along the lines of railroad.
Trains were delayed from various
points. Boats were in use to cross
streets in the lower section of Railway
where in places the water was four and
five feet deep. People living in the
streets near the river were taken out
of the second-story windows of their
residences to-day as the water was in
some places higher than the middle Of
the front doors. The high water caused
great damage and inconvenience in
other places.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A party of men and women lett
West Superior, Wis, last Friday in q
small sail boat to 60 after berries along
the south side of Lake Superior, intend
ing to return Sunday. Nothing has
been heard of them, but the captain of
the steamer Gilbert reports passing a
capsized sailboat q few miles out.
The body OF Aaron G. Conn, the
Detroit Board of Trade operator who
disappeared last Thursday, was found
on Belle Isle this morning. Around
his neck handkerchief had been
knotted and then twisted with lead
pencil until the victim strangled to
death. Conn is said to have lost con-
siderable money in speculation and was
partially dersnged.
For the first time since the control of
the republican organization in Phila-
delphia was wrested from Senator
Quay by the detection which prevented
the nomination for the mayoralty of
Boies Penrose, now Q. S. Senator, q
regular republican convention, repre-
senting every faction in this city, to-.
day nominated with practical unanim-
ity pronounced Quay partisan by
naming Col. Clayton MoMichael, pro-
prietor of the Philadelphia North
American and director of the Asso.
ciated Press, who is one of the recog-
nized Quay leaders in eastern Pennsyl-
vanis, for city treasurer.
Three wrecks of freight trains occurred on
the Pennsylvania railroad this morning near
Lancaster, Pa blocking all trains for several
houra. A broken sxle caused one and head
on collisions the Others. No one was serious.
" injured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
WONDERFUL NEW MOTOR.

A WONDERFUL NEW MOTOR
George B. Pennock, an electrical engi.
gineer, of New York, claims he has in
vented a system of electrical distribu-
ton which will extend the present
methods OF railway transportation from
the surface road of the city to transcon.
tinental traffic. His claim is that he
can 30 distribute electrical energy by
means of new kind of third rail sys-
tenn that hundred trains can be NOV
ed as easily as one is now. He says by
his invention he can to all intents and
purposes transform 100 horse power in.
to 5000 ifneed be. He says that it
is done by what he calls his voltage
distributor"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24

ATE A Doc, COLLAR AND ALL.-Mrs.
Ferdinand CHASER, of Yonkers, N. Y,
and her children spent Tuesday
at Glen Island. The children took
with them an inquisitive fox terrier
who took special delight in circling
around the lake in which the sea lions are
kept and barking at them. A dozen seals
were lying on the rocks waiting for their
dinner. They eyed the dog viciously.
Finally, encouraged by their apparent COW.
ardice, he dashed through sluiceway and
ran up to the largest The seal jumped for.
ward, opened his mouth, and swallowed the
dog head first. The terrier gave one yelp as
he disappeared. 1t took the children several
moments to realize that their pet dog had
been eaten alive, and when they did they set
up a cry that lasted until they left for home.
The other seals were fed with fish, but the
one which swallowed the dog did not seem
hungry. He plunged into tho lake and re-
fused to eat. The dog wore a collar and q
metal license tag, and Mr.. Starin is wonder
ing whether the seal will digest it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-24
TUESDAY EVENING. AUG. "a, 1897.

REFEREE BowDEN says the Virginia
republicans stand ready to combine
with populists, silver men, prohibition
ists or any other party, and to sink
all other matters, if, by 80 doing, they
o,n secure fair elections. And yet, as
good a republican as MIR. John Wise,
Jaws the committee in charge of the re-
nnblican machine In this State last fall
had S16O 900 at their disposal, and that
the republican candidate for Congress
in the Norfolk district was defeated
by the means employed by this same
Mr.. Bowden. Even granting that Mr..
Wise exaggerates, as usual, the sum
referred to, and that Colonel Brady'S
statement OF the amount, 1000, is the
more correct, every intelligent man fa'
miliar with the political condition OF
Virginia, is perfectly aware that the
fair and legitimate expensts OF the re-
publican campaign did not reach one.
fourth OF that amount, and that there
fore the remaining three-fourths, If 1t
ever got out of the pockets OF those to
whom its distribution was entrusted,
must have been spent in efforts to de-
bauch the voters and election officers,
and consequently in attempts to effect
an unfair election. The truth OF the
matter is, that the managers OF the Vir-
einis republicans know that IS, with all
their money and with the aid OF the
"Cleveland democrats" they were
beaten out of their boots at the last
election, they have no possible chance
of succeeding at the next one, and
therefore, like prudent people. they in
tend to act upon the common sense
idea that q good run is better than q
bad stand.