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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
Foreign News.

VIENNA, Oct. Sit traDspired to-
day that Count Heinrich Wurnbraud,
the son of Count Wurnbrand. who was
minister of commerce in 1895, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself in cal
owing to his incorporated attachment
for the family's English governess, who
declined to marry him. The count was
only 19 years old.
MADRID, Oct. 8.-Among the diplo
matte changes reported here as being
imminent is that the Duke Almerdova
or Senior Muruaga will replace Senior
Dupuy de LONE as Spanish minister to
the United States.
MADRID, Oct. Sit is semi-oficially
announced this afternoon that Captain
General Weyler, at to.morrow's session
of the cabinet, will be recalled from
Cuba.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
BAPTIST YOUNG PEOpr

The second and last days session :,
the State convention of the RAM.
Young Peoples Union, at Norfolk w.s
ushered in by a sunrise prayer.meetina
The services were conducted by Rev
W. s. Leake, of Petersburg. A leclnr.
On 1.-The Study and Use OF the Rihlar
was delivered by Rev. L G. Brouoh,"V,
OF Roanoke. Then came the esns ,GaI
feature of the morning, discussion ma, "n
The Educational Possibilities Of thu Sa
Young Peoples Movement with P ,ae
DR.. George B. Taylor, educational lssS
er, in the chair. The first division W. we,
under the head, "In New and Imnro wa
Church Methods" by Rev |. N Ws,
Ger, D. D., of Richmond. Rev. DR.
]. Hall, of Norfolk, discussed the su ~
ject under the head "In intensified p rS
sonal Devotion" -
Next came "How to Conduct
Christian Culture" by Calvin Moss of
Lynchburg. A paper on junior
Work." by Miss Lizzie Harvey NJ
Lyncnourg, was read by Rev Thomas
A. johnson, of Lexington. The com
mittee on resolutions made their reno-,
and it elected much discussion espsci
ally the recommendation that the K Y
2. U. convention be held at the sams
place as the general association and i'm.
mediately after it, provided both are
invited to the same place. that I thew
are not go invited, the time and plscs
OF the B. Y. P. U. convention be fyed
by the State executive committee tbst
the general association be requested to
cooperate in securing this cont ination
1t was urged that it will not be prac,i.
cable, in many cases, for the cities and
towns to entertain both the general as.
ISOLATION and the B. Y. ?. U. at the
same time. 1t was also predicted that
TO combine the two would be the prac.
'ical death of the B. Y. P. [. The
recommendation was voted down bys
large majority. Telegraphic greet.
ings were received from the W. c. y
U. of Virginia, in session in Danyle
The greeting was returned by wire
Fhe convention decided to change the
time of meeting from October TO Feb
ruary % and "a. Charlottesville was
selected as the next place OF meeting
At the afternoon session the subject Of
christian Stewardship was discussed
in its many phases by Revs. L. G.
Broughton and William Lunsford, Of
Roanoke; Rev. ]. B. Taylor, OF Salem,
and several other speakers.
The officers for the ensuing year are
as follows J. Garland Pollard Rich
mond, president; H. G. Avery, Nor.
folk; first vice president; Rev. Thomas
A. Johnson, Lexington, second vice
president; D R. Allen, Richmond, third
vice president; F. L. Butler, Richmond,
secretary, and w. d. Duke, Richmond,
treasurer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
stonned the Wedding.


PoMERoY, Ohio, Oct. S.-Charles
Hysell and Bert Wines, two members
of gang that has been terrorizing the
inhabitants of Meigs and surrounding
counties, were arrested near here I'm.
der sensational circumstances. Hysell
was standing by the side of Miss Geor-
gia Mansel at the home of Squire Long
awaiting the words that would have
made them man ard wife, when the
officers appeared on the scene and
made prisoner the would-be BRIDE
groom before any resistance could be
offered. Wines, who was guest at
the intended wedding, started to run
but was captured after leading the Off
GERS spirited chase.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

A shocking tragedy occurred about
three miles from Sandy Springs, Nd,
in a secluded spot near Ednor post.
Office, about three o'clock yesterday
afternoon. William Timmons shot
and killed William Hinton, his father
in-law, and inflicted wound which
will probably prove fatal to his wife,
Elizabeth Timmons. he also shot the
wife of John Hinton, causing serious
but not necessarily fatal wound. The
shooting took place at the home of Mr..
Hinton, which is situated about quar-.
ter of mile off the road leading from
Ednor into Howard county, in large
body of woods. Timmons' wife was
staying with her father, having left
him some weeks ago, it is said, on &C.
count of brutal treatment. Yesterday
Timmons and his lawyer, Mr.. Keys, Of
Washington, went to the home of Mr..
Hinton to try and induce Mrs. Tim
mons to return to her husbands home.
Mrs. Timmons refused to leave her
fathers home, and Mr.. Hinton sustain.
ed her in the position she took. Tim
mons endeavored to persuade her for
some time, as did also Lawyer Keys, but
without success. When it was seen
that Mrs. Timmons was deter
mined not to leave the premises,
Mr.. Keys turned to Timmons and
begged him to leave the place, as moth
ing could be done. Timmons then
drew pistol and shot his wife, the ball
passing in her ear and taking a down.
ward course. He then fired two shots
at old man Hinton. both entering his
neck, one passing through his heart,
and the other lodging in his chest. Tim
mons then pointed the pistol in the dl
rection of his sister-in-law, Mrs. John
Hinton, and fred, the ball taking effect
in her shoulder. Timmons then fed,
ard at last accounts had not been ar
rested. Mr.. Hinton died Immediately,
but Mrs. Timmons is still alive, al
though both physicians assert that her
recovery ia exceedingly doubtful. lin
mons has been married about ten years.
Il has been known around the leigh
borhood since their marriage that they
lived very unhappily together. Mrs.
Timmons is a woman about twenty
eioht wears of age, and, it is said by
those who knew her, possessed quiet
Timmons is about 30years
of age.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

SOME people who don't know him,
still labor under the delusion that Pres
ident Mckinley is going to stand by
the national republican platform,
which declared for the civil service
law, and by his own rules for extend
ing the scope of that law and for max
ing its operation more effective. They
were never more mistaken in all
their lives. The leading men in
the Presidents party and his
closest political friends and advisers
are opposed to the law referred
to and to his rules in respect of its
operation, and to suppose that he will
allow such thing as simple provis-
ion of the platform upon which he was
elected to stand between him and his
party's wishes is to imagine vain
thing. Mr.. Mckinley is seeking sec.
ond nomination, and as the strength OF
his party is opposed to the civil service
law, ne is too.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

TIE FILIBUsTERs are not wise.
They start all kinds of reports vainly
intended to promote their own cause,
only, however, to have them contra
dioted by later and more reliable infor-
nation, apparently ignorant OF the fact
that such course does them more harm
than good, tending as it does to dis
credit ell they say or do. Their latest
sensation was that the American min
lister to Spain had presented an ulti
matum to that government; but it now
turns out that he only requested that
government to inform him when it ex-
pected Cuba to be paci6ed, go that the
President might be able to incorporate
its answer iu his message to Congress
next December. Mr.. Mckinley knows
that this country is not prepared TO,
war, and that, even if successful, such
q war would do his party more harm
than good; consequently he will dc
nothing to provoke war.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
WILL ALL TURN WH1rE.-A dis

WILL ALL TURN WHITE.-A dis.
patch from Atlanta, Ga, says: Bishop
Gaines, of the colored church, has be-
come the prophet of startling theory,
which he has evolved and embodied in
book form as his contribution to the
literature of his race.
In word, he presents the theory
that the colored race is surely and
gradually being absorbed by the white;
that in the run of years it will disap-
pear, the evolution being reached
through a process of graded mnlatto
tints and constantly lessening African
characteristics. This process of bleach
ing out, he declares, is going on year
by year and will continue ine1orably
until the miracle is wrought.
He says: This amalgamation has
gone on until the b st and most dis
eliminating observers in the South al
firm that there are left but two million
of pure unmi1ed Africans out of the
more than eight millions of this race in
this country,
SIN the light of these facts, is it ra-
tional to suppose that-the African col,
ored man will continue to be colored :?
Is it not inevitable that in the course of
time be will lose his distinctive color
and become practically Caucasian !?
The fact, as We have shown, is already
partially accomplished, and every
present indication points to its total
contamination in the process OF time"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

KILLED BY a FALL.-Mrs. James
Thomas, jr., perhaps the richest wo.
man 10 Richmond and motherin law
of o former minister to Italy, J. L NJ
Curry, was killed at Asheviile, y. G.,
yesterday afternoon, by falling down g
flight of steps. She was advanced in
age, and, being 10 good health, was
spending some time with her son in
law, Congressman Richmond Pearson.
of North Carolina. Mrs. Thomas was
the widow of James Thomas, jr, Il
noted tobacco manufacturer in his days.
She was the mother of Professor ID.
Thomas, of Richmond College. One OF
her daughters is the wife Of CalderOn
Carlisle, the distinguished Washington
lawyer, who was one of the counsel
for Madeline Pollard in her suit agalDS!
w. G. P. Breckenridge.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. Annie c. Jones, wife of the late
Sylvester Jones, died yesterday morn
ing at an early hour, in Roanoke, after
an illness of several weeks.
The Virginia State Agricultural! Soci-
ETY. will hold its annual meeting 10
Lynchburg October l3 and IA. A num-
Der of papers by experts will be read.
Miss Laura Argenbright, and MIR.
W. Boyd Steele, both of Stephen
City, few miles from Winchester,
were married in the Luray Cave yester-
day.
Governor O'Ferrall yesterday offered
a reward of $500 for the arrest and con-
viction of any ten of the persons who
participated in the lynchipg of Henry
Wales, in Patrick county, in September
last. He also offered reward OF sou
for the arrest of any one of the partlcl..
pants. The reward holds good until
January 1st.
Mr.. William Tompkins, a prominent
farmer and business man, living near
Casanova, stationon the Warrenton
branch of the Southern Railway, was
probably fatally injured in q runaway
accident Tuesday evening. Miss Butler
Tompkins, his sister, was badly hurt,
and Rev. Mr.. Magill and Rev. MIR.
Nelson were severely bruised.
The republican convention called to
| nominate a candidate for the State
Senate from the Thirteenth Senatorial.
district met at Fredericksburg yester-
day. The name of W. J. Vale, of Louise
county, was placed before the conven
ton, but before q vote was taken
motion, declaring it independent to
make a nomination was adopted, and
the convention adjourned.
| At 4:3O o'clock yesterday afternoon
at Hollywood, Richmond, over the
grave of the late Capt. A. G. Babcock
a monument erected by the Masonic
Home Ladies' Auxiliary to the memory
of the well.known Mason, was I'm.
yelled. Dove Lodge, of which Captain
Babcock was so long member, con-
| Quoted the Masonic rites. Mr.. B. B
Mumford delivered the address.
The people of King George county
turned out in large numbers at their
county seat yesterday to hear distin'
guished speakers ON the political issues.
Senator John W. Daniel, Congressman
John F. Rixey and Hon. ]. f. Willard
addressed large gathering, and their
speeches were received with enthu'
siasm. This was the first appearance Of
Mr.. Willard at King George. He is
regarded as an aspirant for the demo
cratic nomination next year in the
Eighth district, now represented by
| Mr. RixeV.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
The $1,000 Stakes.

LEXINGTON, KY, Oct. S.-The Tran
sylvania stake for trotters of the PA
classes yesterday brought together field
of ten craks, and at the end of the fifth
heat was still unfinished on account OF
darkness.
The s. 900 Transylvania stake, un-
finished from Thursday, sixth heat:
Rilma, first; Bush, second; The Monk,
third; Tommy Britton fourth. Time
2:114.
Transylvania stake, seventh heat; Rilma
won, The Monk, second; Tommy Britton,
third; Bush, fourth. Time PIP. Rilma won
first: The Monk, second; Bush, third and Brit
ton fourth money. Over $4,000 changed
hands on the result of the race.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
The Luetaert Trial.

CHICAGO, Oct. S.-The closing day OF
the rebutlal evidence of the prosecution
in the Luetgert trial opened this morn
ing with continuation of the impeach-
ment evidence produced yesterday.
The State rested it's case this afternoon
after prosecution lasting seven weeks.
Court was adjourned until next Monday when
the defense will probably put on few rebuff
tai witnesses Then the arguments to the
Jury will begin. These will last six days.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

COLLECTOR AGNEw says the recent
Lynchburg convention has not been
recognized by the republicans, and ne
doesn't think it will be. As the repub.
licsn party in Virginia, or in any other
Southern State, is Of no consequence to
republicans except at their national
conventions, and in the payment of
debts contracted at such conventions,
it isn't probable the administration will
bother itself much about the squabbles
of the different factions Of the republi
cans in this State, or even take the
trouble to say which of those factions
has its countenance but as the Agnew
faction says it has never made a move
without the Administrations knowledge
and consent, it is hardly likely that it
they will be punished for having
done 80.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

Capt. S. c. Peyton has declined S'l.,. .a'
democratic nomination for the ies,.,
tnre from the counties OF King G'oEse
and Stafford. 1t is thought the !, now W
nation will be offered to Mr.. |. W..
Berry, of Stafford, vino was 8 csp no.
date before the convention and Was i nc
feated by Peyton by small MAORI, ;,
Sister Gonzags, the Oldest sister .o q.
Charity in the United States, ana r ~,
over SO years the superioress 81 7'' y he
eph's Asylum, Philadelphia lieu o En-.
ASYLUM today. She was born near n 1ra.
n mstsbnr0, Md. in 1872. Her name @ o.
Agnes Grace. During the WEI
took the field as an army nurse
At Peoris, H., this afternoon :. GcJ lss
red the exercises dedicatory Of s ;ce
Bradley Polytechnic Institute, to T Ddia
Z o'a "oai,bv Peoria lady, Mrs. Lyon
Bradley, has given -, 5oO,o0oii .Ii we're,
tary of the Treasury Gage ue'''
tho address. we're
Samples Of the city's water '' 4Bpp.!,i,sl il
Yesterday taken to the asTiLe M! ~ will
Washington for analysis. The Ie,' one 81
not he known for some dsys, oo' 10 w.
nrebends an unfavorable report. NJ
meeting was held in the upper P 5a1.ios
the county last night looking 70 Ps 'I
of the W., a. & F. Z. Eiec'fi' no.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

A NEGRO member of U. s. grand
jury in the South who had at the same
term taken part in the indictment OF
other offenders, has been indicted
by the same jury for gross violation
of the law. Whether the indictments
made by the jury of which he was a
member are legal or not, is a ques.
ton about which there is some doubt.
There is no doubt, however, that the
admins ration of all the branches of
this government is in confusion and un-
certainty, and that the country is rap
idly relapsing into that condition in
which might makes right.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

HAD SOLD HIS TOBACCO STocS.-lt
has leaked out that at the time of his
death the late Major Lewis Ginter. of
Richmond, held very little stock in the
American Tobacco Company. He had
been selling it of for years to realize
money for investments in and about
Richmond. The cash value OF Msl9F
Ginter's entire estate is only S2,ONOV.
He had invested more money man tAal
amount in Richmond, and while bis
property will be valuable some day DIE
cash value at this time is small CON-
pared with the sums invested.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

WANT CORRECT HISTORIES Col John
Cussons, grand commander, and capAin
Thomas Elicit, adjutant genera Of the GRAD
Camp Confederate Veterans, Department o.
Virginia, have issued call for a gene' t
meeting to be held in Lee Camp Hal '-a ~
mond, on Tuesday, October 10, 81 o'.o'H
D. m. This gathering says the tiil' -
well-known educators and eminent Ell 1 CO. "
Virginia is for the purpose OF formn''i'nes
definite plan for the excl sion from o1 u.
schools d colleges of all histories wnicn ale
grossly erroneous in their statements .S ~,
which in their q, linus are uniriend y % 'n'
State" The object OF the meeting Is cel' .,,r
IL common able one and rcpte'enSji''
gathering of Yirg!nisns may be antIc'pS'0''
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
Terrible Accident.

MONTEREY, Mex, Oct. 8.-Advics
have reached here of terrible accident
% miles south of here. A tunnel is be-
ing constructed by the Mexican Ma
tional Railroad aud a premature ex
plosion of blast occurred, killing four
men outright and wounding ten Others
seriously. The accident is being inves
tigated by the authorities.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

made by Washington or Northern
medical societies during the war be-
tween the States in respect of even fed
eral prisoners in Confederate hospitals,
thousands of whom died from lack OF
lust such articles as those referred to,
which could not be obtained in the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
Virginia will meet here next Monday,
the 18th inst.
Annie E. Martin was appointed post
master at Waverly Station, Virginia,
to-day
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Informal conferences are to be held
in London between British and United
States officials, with reference tc bi.
metallic proposals.
Max Stewart, an ex Confederate sol.
der, is under sentence of death in Mex
leo and will be shot in few days for
the murder of a policeman.
Nine out of fourteen national COM
mitteemen have declared for Henry
George as the democratic candidate for
Mayor of Greater New York.
Up to this time twenty-five witnesses
have been examined by the pro5ecu-
ton in the trial of the forgery charge,
at Wheeling, W. Va, against Mrs. At
kinson, wife of the Governor.
The civil service commissioners will
file an elaborate statement dissenting
from the views advanced by Secretary
Gage in regard to the removal of depu-
ty collectors Of Internal revenue.
The sheriff OF III. Q Gems county Jail,
in New TX, is credited with the
statement tha he dosed the food OF
Mrs. Augusta Mack and Martin Thorn,
charged with the murder of William
Guldensuppe, in order to sicken them
and thereby obtain confessions.
A dispatch from Havana says the
young Cuban woman, Senorita Evan
gelina Cossios v Cisneros, has escaped
from the Casa de Recodidas, where she
had been confined several months on a
charge of conspiracy against the crown
of Spain and of an attempt upon the
life of Governor Beres, of the Isles Of
Pines.
The gold democrats of New
York held county and city
convention in quick succession
late yesterday afternoon and last night
At the fret, the Tammany county
ticket was Endorsed; at the second, the
municipal ticket of the Citizens Union,
held by Seth Low, was declared to be
the proper one to support. The two
conventions are an evidence that bush.
whacking in politics pays. The riot
which broke up the previous meeting
of the gold democracy last week
caused the police to take greater pre-
cautions this time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
Thu virginia Law Register for October hs'

The Virginia Law Register for October d. -
been received from its publishers the j. l.
Bell Company, LynchbuTg' It's contents 81
Legislation Since the Code OF 1-s9 P ,i,9,.
Association Laws of Virginia, 'lTslniAp L.
ions, reported in ful-spenee y. h' ii,r
Preston Y. Kendrick, and Mumpowei, '. 10Y ....
of Bristol Digest of Other Recent '.'s'''-
Decisions, and Miscellaneous Notes
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08

TIE Medical Association of the Dis
trict OF Columbia has adopted resolu.
ton declaring it the duty of the medi-
cal profession to aid the charitable work
of supplying the want OF quinine and
antiseptics seriously felt by the Cuban
insurgents. No such declaration was
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
DIED.

At 8 o'clock this q, M m; o. I 1sasbter q!
Group, MAgGAFEr EsIE -IaI seei year
stephen and Virgin. T.y, ,od, rey mofnias
and 4 months. Funeral 10 NO. MOI Of pc, Ps.
at 10 O'Clock from the Tesia Get. fnent'
rents, corner Queen and Pi,t s.,' invited 70
and acquaiDtsnces are Go i.,S,s nap.I, plesss
attend ate Norfolk and Baltimore fA''
cohv