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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The great wrought iron bridge works
at Canton, O., have cut down wages 10
per cent. and the hands are consider
ing whether they will stand it or not.
The first formal reception to take
place in the new administration was
that of last evening, rendered to the
delegates ofthe Universal Postal Con-
gress by the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley ut the White House, in Wash
ington.
Documents made public at the State
Department yesterday show that in
April, 1896, Mr.. Olney, then Secretary
of State, offered the friendly Offices OF
the United States in bringing to an end
the war in Cuba and that the offer was
declined by the Spanish government.
1t is said that automatic devices are
driving the brakemen out of business.
The numbers are rapidly decreasing.
A few years ago owe o million brake
men were employed on American rail-
roads, now there are less than half as
many. Thousands of lives have been
saved since automatic brakes and coup
lers were introduced.
Albert NJ. King, the nineteen-year.
old messengor of the Boylston National
Bank, of Boston, is missing, together
with $40, 400 in cash and a $4,000
United States certificate not negotiable
except between banks. King started
for the clearing house at 1915 o'clock
yesterday morning to settle the balance
existing there against the bank, and on
the way, according to instructions,
transacted other business involving q
large sum of money. AS he did not re-
turn to the bank by l o'clock the Of
ficials grew anxious and made a search
for him, beside notifying the police,
but up to q late hour last night they
had been unable to learn his where
abouts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The town of Bonanza, in Castor
county, Idaho, has been destroyed by
fire.
Samuel Williams, a ship carpenter,
was shot and instantly killed to-day in
Buffalo by his brother Alonzo Williams.
during a row owe a woman.
Four boys were struck by lightning
seven miles south of st. Paul, MINI,
yesterday. Two Of them were instant
| ly killed and the other two were severe
y. ly injured.
The John Eaton Company's depart
mental store and stock, at Toronto.
Ont, approximating about $3.50 900.
went up in flames at $3.50 o'clock this
morning.
Near Mountain Grove, Mo-, on the
banks of Milestone river, a mob of
whitecaps last night murdered two men
and burned the home of another. The
men had been suspected of thieving.
The statue Of Stephen Girard, the
philanthropist and founder of Girard
College, was unveiled this afternoon in
Philadelphia with imposing ceremonies.
The statue stands west of the city hall
and was erected by contributions of the
college alumni.
A cyclone passed over the northern
part of Myer county, S. d., last night.
The greatest damage was lone at Garth
age. Patton & Jackson's elevator, the
Northwestern's depot and several
smaller buildings were destroyed. No
lives were lost so far as known.
The mutilated dead body which was
found Monday evening in an old cistern
on the truck farm near Memphis.
Tenn, rented by Frank Parora, has
been Unidentified as that of Ernest Stan
ley, the 10 year-old son of a wealthy
merchant of Tuscumbia, Ala. Frank
Parora, al Italian truck farmer, is under
arrest with a strong chain OF circum-
stantial evidence, which points to him
rs the perpetator of the murder. From
indications Stanley was cruelty murder
ed while he lay asleep in the Italians
house, and his body thrown into the
cistern.
a temporary roofing over tho eastern APP
proach to the Capitol building in Albany. N.
Y, caught fire at l o'clock to-day. The fro
was put out with hand extineuishers, after a
hslf-hour's work, without its having done any
damage to anything but the roofing ana some
scaiIolding.
Frederick schaefer, of the brewing firm Of
F. & NJ. Schaefer, died at his home in Now
York to-day. He was born in Germany SO
years ago, came to America in 1888 and was.
practically the pioneer of the lager beer IN
dustry in this country.
At Topeka, Kan, to-day Webb McNall.
superintendent of insurance, revoked the
license of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, of New York, and ordered tho
company to cease doing business IN Kansas.
E1-President Cleveland has becn invited
by President Crespo to act AS senior counsel
for Venezuela before the a FILTRATION tribunal.
which will determine the true divisional line
fetween that country and British Guiana.
IN accordance with the action taken at the
miners national convention recently held Mt
Columbus, Ohio, the miners of the Pittsburg
district are preparing for a general strike for
the restoration of tho 60 cent rate.
The 1O9th General Assembly Of the Pres.
byterian Church in theSUnited States opened
at Eagle Lake, Ind. to-day.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
TERMS OF PEACE.

An agreement, concluding an armis-
lice, was signed at Arta yesterday by
the commanders of the Greek and
Turkish forces. 1t was arranged that the
Turks should reoccupy their position
on the right bank of the Araohthos
(Arta) river, and that the Greeks
should retire to the left bank. The
government ~telegraphed the text OF
the agreement to the Crown Prince at
Lamia and instructed him to send Of
ticers to Edhem Pasha, the Turkish
commander-in.chie to notify him of
the armistice that had been concluded
for Epirus.
An official statement published in
Constantinople last night declares that
the conditions of peace between Turkey
and Greece will assure the future
rights and dignity of the Ottoman gov
ernment on the frontiers of Turkey
and the preservation of the general
peace. The ambassadors OF the powers
are drafting counter proposals as q
basis for negotiations for peace.
Turkey demands as condition of
armistice that all Turkish territory In
Epirus shall be evacuated and the
bridges over the Aria neutraljzed.
According to q dispatch from Vienna,
the Tageblatt says: "The Sultan has
consulted the Sheik- Ul-Islam, who has
declared it to be the will of Allah that
Thessaly should be reunited to Tur-
key. Should he act upon this religious
prompting it may be extremely diff
cult for the powers to prevent his pur-
pose from being carried out"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

that that is the only question that
ought to be before the House" declared
Mr.. Bailey to Mr.. Dalzell. He read
the Morgan resolution.
1.-The country will have vastly more
respect for you if you meet it like men
than if you run away from it every time
it is presented to you. On Monday
the republicans had been willing to
postpone relief for the suffering Ameri-
cans rather than meet this question"
he continued. "They were afraid to sub
nit the question to the House because
they knew it would be carried by an
overwhelming majority, the rule was
not an attempt to enforce the will OF
the majority, but to suppress it"
Mr.. Hit said that the object of MIR.
Bailey was to obtain political advan-
tage. The purpose of the republicans
in power, Mr.. Hit said, was to secure
peace in Cuba with independence.
MI. Bailey said if Mr.. Hit desired to
make the question of recognition OF
belligerency ofone party politics he was
willing to accept it and the democrats
would vote in favor of belligerency.
AS TO playing politics, he called atten-
ton to the fact that a year ago when q
man elected by the democrats was in
the White House Mr.. Hit voted for a
resolution of belligerency.
Mr.. Hit declared that at the time
he refused to make the resolution joint
and thus embarrass the executive. He
would not mix the two so as to cause
the legislation to interfere with di-
plomacy.
Mr.. Bailey said he had not so far ad-
vanced in diplomacy to vote an opinion
which he would vote to put into law,
while the gentleman from Illinois
would say what he means, but would
not make it effective.
At the close of the Cuban debate on
the special order in the House Mr..
Bailey offered his motion to recommit
with instructions to report both resolu.
lions together. This being declared
out of order an appeal vas taken fol-
lowed by a motion to table the appeal,
OH which a roll call was had. The re-
publicans voted solidly for tabling and
it WIS carried.
The Cuban relief resolution as report
ed by the committee on rules was
adopted, without an endment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
Opposed to Womcn,s Degrees

CAMBRIDGE, EGG, May 2O.-The
University Ia In a ferment on the ques.
ton Of comforting degrees upon women,
on which a vote will be taken to.mor-
row The undergraduates, who op.
pose the proposition, are terrorizing
the seniors, threatening to migrate to
Oxford and to refuse to take their de.
grees in June. They are spending large
sums on fireworks and rotten eggs. in
readiness either to celebrate the defeat
of the proposition or to avenge its vic.
tory,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

AS TT will necessarily require a long
time to smend the Constitution, rs the
urgency of the case is imminent, and as
the U. S. Supreme Court has before
been reorganized to effect a desired OBJ
ject, why not adopt the suggestion OF
the Chicago platform, and resort to that
same speedy 9 again in order
to reverse the decision of Associate
Justice Shiras of that court, and there
by enable Congress to levy an income
tax, the most equitable and least bur-
densome revenue measure that was
ever devised2
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

RED MEN.-The Grand Council of
Virginia Improved Order of Red Men,
convened in Stanton yesterday. A
large part of the sessions were devoted
to hearing reports of committees. Dur
ing the past year 81 ,S6l.SS was dis
bursed by the Grand Council, and $3.50
was expended by the subordinate lodges
In assisting members, etc. Four new
lodges were instituted during the fiscal
year, and a net gain in membership OF
l66 is reported. The delegates visited
the State Institution for the Deaf,
Dumb, and Blind, and last night a con
cert at the Opera House was given them
by the Stonewall Brigade Band, al
which time, also, Judge R. T. Daniel.
OF Georgia, the Great Incohonee of Red
Men Of the United States, made an elo-
quent speech. A large crowd was pres
emit. At the meeting last night prayer
was offered by Rev. +. J. Prettyman,
and addresses OF welcome were made
by Mayor Fultz on behalf of the city,
and by R. S. Kerr for Oneida Tribe
Grand Sachem ]. w. Bacchus, OF Nor
folk, caught his audience in his happy
response.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

SO UNSATISFACTORY has republican
rule in Baltimore and Maryland already
become, not only to the boilers, te
whom it is attributable, but to the re
publicans of that city and State, lei
alone democrats, that General Agnus
one of the most influential and discern.
ing of the Maryland republicans, doesn'
hesitate to express his fear that the day
of his party's ascendancy there will be
over after the coming election. Wei
may the democrats OF the other State:
now sing, maryland! she comes, she
oomesO
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
The Westfeld lind. J Meus prints tie

The Westfeld Gnd. /, News prints tie
following in regard to an old resident of
that place: Frank McAvoy, for many
years in the employ of the L., N. A. &
G. Ry., here, says: 'Ihave used Cham
b~erlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy for ten years or longer-am
never without it in my family. ! con,
slider it the best remedy of the Ii
manufactured. l take pleasure in re-
commencing it," 1t is a specific lot
all bowel disorders. For sale by j. D..
Janney, Druggist, FOL King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

FAUoUIER NoTEs,-Rev. Erasmus
Taylor, of Bryan, Texas, has accepted
a call from Leeds Church, and will take
charge of the church July LIST. He and
his family will be there at that time.
Clarence Bright, of Alexandria, has
been released from jpil, it having been
proven that his case was one of mis-
taken identity, and AlfCollins and Geo.
Mason, of Alexandria, have been incar-
cerated charged with breaking into
railroad cars.
A special a brought Col. Jno. 8.
Mosby to this place Monday evening.
He stood the trip very well and at this
writing is resting quietly at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, Mr.. R. R.
Campbell. Col. Mosby's recovery is
joyfully received by his friends and ad-
mirers all over the country Warren.
ton Yirginian.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

THE CATTLE combine of the North
west, not satisfied with the cent and a
half q pound protection they will re-
ceiye on their hides from the new tariff
bill, have raised the price of their beef
one cent a pound. All the trusts are
evidently impressed with the idea that
their day of grace will aoon expire and
that, therefore, they must make hay
while the sun shines.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

COLONEL LAMB, chairman of the
republican State committee, advises al
the members of his party to vote
against the proposed constitutions
convention, and though they don't
have much regard for him or his opin-
ions in respect of other things, in the
particular matter referred to, they will
doubtless follow his advice to a man
With all the republicans voting
against the convention and the demo
Gratis either not interested or divided,
the chances of its being held are by NO
means favorable, though few right
thinking Virginians doubt the advis'
ability of certain amendments to the
Underwood constitution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
Hotel Burned.

MERIDIAN, Miss, May 20.-The
Southern Hotel, one of the finest blocks
of its kind in the south, was damaged
to the extent of $500 0 by fire early
this morning. The hotel was well fill
ed with guests and q wild panic ensued
when the alarm vas sounded, but g o
far as known no lives were lost, though
there were several narrow escapes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

elimination of money from politics"
Well, that is all gall, and not divided
at that. If money had been eliminated
from politics at last falls election, the
harp of the republicans would now be
hanging on the weeping willow tree.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

THERE EEMs to be no doubt that the
iingoes of this country are possessed OF
the grotesquely ridiculous idea that
they are the reformers of the whole
earth, civilized as we'll as barbarous.
Within recent years they have inter
ferred in the affairs of Chill, Hawaii,
Madagascar, Venezuela, Turkey, and
Spain, and now they applaud n Of
their admirals for telling the Japanese
minister to Honolulu, that 1--WE want
you people to keep your hands Oft this
country" Well, the jingoes seem to
have the support of the majority of the
people of this country now, and as that
majority is governed by the dema-
gogues, who say the voice of the people
is the voice of God, they must have
their way, though it lead to certain dis
0Ster.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
A BIG BLAST FrRED.-The great

A BIG BLAST FIRED.-The great
drift ahot at the Pcnuelas q~usrriea for the
purpose of dislodging rock to be used in the
harbor works at Vera Cruz Vas yesterday
successfully fred This was the second
largest blast ever fired on this continent, that
at He'll Gate occupying the first place. At
Peuuelas 1880 pounds of powder were fir
ed, and 200, 900 tons of rock were dislodged.
The report was not loud, nor was the dis
placement OF the blasted rock considerable.
The fragments did not even reach tho Vera
Cruz Railway trsck, which is o feet dis
tant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

PEOPLE WHOSE carpets have worn
out and who will want new ones next
winter had, if they can raise the re-
quired money. better buy them now,
as the drygoods stores in New York
that under the new tariff
bill the price of both American
aud foreign made carpets will be adj
vanced fully one-third. But what is
n 81 eat increase in the price Of carpets,
or of anything else, compared with the
Deatitudes that have resulted from the
defeat of Mr.. Bryan and the glories OF
gold currency?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1897

Ey POSTMASTER GENERAL wanna
MAKER. ultra republican as he is, hav-
ing prophesied the failure of the Han
ma administration, elected by means OF
the boilers assistance, ex-senator In
gals, equally as rank in respect OF his
republicanism, now steps to the front
and says:
s.Since the election in November 1
have been in all parts of the country
and it is the concurrent testimony ina
times have never been harder nor
money scarcer than now. Every
branch of industry languishes. Rents,
incomes. interests and profits have
dwindled. Prices of land, farm prod
ucts. and general commodities have
sunk lower and lower, till in many
localities the most valuable improved
farms in rich regions are absolutely I'M
salable."
What Mr.. Ingalls, says, no intelligent
and unprejudiced man can deny. In
the face of such q condition, and with
the promises of the republican mana
gers fresh in the memory of everybody
what other than disgraceful defeat can
be the fate of an administration, the
election of which was achieved by
bribery, deception, fraud and treach-
ory
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
BucKLIN,s ARNIcA sALYE.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
C%hilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup-
lions, and positively cures Piles, or no
Jay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Ernest l.. Allen
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
Suicide,

ST.. LOUIS, May 20.-George A. Tay-
lor, bookkeeper of the Germania Bank,
was found dead in a room at the Nor
mandie Hotel to-day. He had commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with d
revolver. When found Taylor, who is
married man, had clasped in his hands
a photograph Off woman not his wife.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
Southern Presbyterian Assembly.

CHARLOTTE, N. G. May 2O.-The gen.
eral assembly of the Southern Presby.
terrain Church in the United States on.
venedi in the First Presbyterian Church
in this city this morning. Upwards OF
four hundred commissioner are expect
ed be present. The body was called to
order by the retiring moderator, Rev.
DR.. R. @. Mallard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

GOVERNOR BLACK, of New York, has
approved the bill making train wreck
inc. or sttempts there at it, a capital Of
Tense. If such a law were in operation
in every State and territory ofthe Union,
and were rigidly enforced, the reckless
and inhuman crime referred to would
soon be included among the lost arts.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
LocKHARr, Texas. Oct. Is. 1ss,

Paris Medicine Co. Paris. Tenn:
Dear sirs :-Shipu US as soon as possible 2 gross
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic. My customers
want GROVES Tasteless Chill tonic and will
not have any other. In our experience of
over 20 years in the drug business. we have
never sold any medicine which gave such
universal satisfaction. Yours, respectfully,
For sale by CHARLES G. LENNON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

That tired feeling, which is experienced BY
so many people living in Malarial districts.
can be cured by taking Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic, so cents. Is as pleasant as Lem
on Syrup. To get the GENUINE ask for
For sale by CHARLES G. LENNON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

You run no risk. All druggists guarantee
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic to do ali tn"'
the manufacturers claim for it.
Warranted no cure, no pay. There arc
many limitations. To get the GENUIS AN
for GROVES.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
DIED.

On Thursday, May goth, 1897, at her late
residence. No. oil Wolfe street, Mrs. JULIA
A WADE, aged II years. Funeral services
will be held at St. Mary's Church Saturday
at 10 a. IL Friends are invited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

A REPUBLICAN newspaper says "the
great need of the day is the absolute
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20

nUCK sUITINGs. latest styles, At
4. C. SLAYAAKEHsr
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-10-12

II will be observed that in this test
the smaller application of manure. has
been relatively the more profitable, but
this may not be borne out by subse-
ouent results. At the sub-station there
has been but little difference thus far
in the apparent effectiveness per ton,
whether used at the Atom or at the s.
ton rate per acre. The results show
an immediate recovery of about dol
lar and a quarter on the average in
increase of crop, at recent prices, for
every ton of manure used. But the
long continued experiments by Lawes
and Gilbert at Rothamsted, a descrip-
ton of which is given in bulletin II Of
the Ohio station, show that not more
than one-half to two-thirds the possible
increase from barnyard manure is re-
covered in the first crops grown from
it. we may therefore safely Offset the
residual effect of the manure against
the cost of application and consider the
immediate increase as clear profit. In
another experiment at the central sta
ton, potatoes, wheat and clover are
grown in three-crop rotation, and in
this test the increase from manure APP
piled to potatoes has reached $3.50 per
ton, potatoes being valued at 33 1-3
cents per bushel. Barnyard manure is
relatively deficient in phosphoric acid
as compared with ammonia and potash,
and the experiments of the Ohio sta
ton indicate that phosphoric acid is
the constituent most needed on the ma
jority of Ohio soils, but that it only
produces its full effect in the presence
of ammonia and potash. The price of
acid phosphate has fallen during re-
cent years until it can now be bought
for delivery anywhere in Ohio at prices
which bring it's actual phosphoric acid
below 5 cents per pound, and as the
sprxnkling of acid phosphate or super
phosphate on barnyard manure is be-
lieved to have beneficial effect in pre-
venting the waste of ammonia from the
manure, it would seem that the use of
acid phosphate in this manner might
serve the double purpose of preserving
the ammonia of the manure and in
creasing the effectiveness of both it's
ammonia and potash. Experiments on
this point are now in progress at the
Ohio station.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1897-10-12

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