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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
Greece Accepts Mediation.

ATHENS, May ia collective note
from the powers on the subject of me-
diation has been presented to the Greek
| minister for foreign affairs by the Rus
sian minister here. The note Is, in eff
feet, that upon formal declaration by
Greece that she will recall her troops
and agree to an autonomous regime for
Crete the powers will intervene in the
interests of peace. 1t is said that the
Greek government has accepted the
conditions imposed and has confded its
interests to the care Of the powers. Ac-
tive measures, it is further stated, were
taken at Constantinople to-day to stop
further advance of the Turkish troops
under the command of Ehem Pasha.
LONDON, May lin the House Of
Commons to day Mr. A. ]. Balfour an.
nounced that instructions had been re-
ceived this morning from all the repre-
sentatives OF the powers at Athens say
ing that mediation between Turkey
and Greece had been offered to the lat
ter country and had been accepted by
the Greek government.
ATHENS, May 1.-THE diplomatic
pourparlers which have been proceed
ing all the morning have been brought
to definite conclusion. Greece has
formally adhered to the preliminaries
of peace as agreed upon between the
powers and the heads of the different
legations have received positive assur-
ances, investing them with authority to
treat with Turkey. The negotiations
at Athens are regarded as concluded.
ATHENS, May 11.-Greece having &C.
copied mobilization, the ambassadors
Of the powers at Constantinople have
been instructed to approach the Tur-
kish government with the view of as
certaining upon what conditions Turkey
will agree to declare peace.
CONsTANTINoPLE May ia dis
patch received from Larlssa says that
the imperial army is marching in two
columns from Pharsalos on Domokos
and Almyro. Fighting is expected to.
day. An imperial trade just issued or
ders gold and silver medals to be struck
for presentation to the troops taking
part in the war against Greece.
The expenses of the war with Greece
are estimated at 100000 which
Greece will pay as an indemnity in an
nual instalments, guaranteed by the
Thessalian revenues.
ATHENS, May 11.-Baron Won Pies
sen, theIGerman minister, received in
siructions to-day to join the other min
listers here in mediating between Tur-
key and Greece. Monou. the Russian
minister, presented to the Greek minis
try the note of the powers, setting forth
that upon the declaration of Greece
that she will recall her troops from
Crete and formally agree to an autono-
nous regime for that island, and accept
the counsels of the powers unreservedly,
they will intervene in the interests of
peace. The Greek government in
acknowledging the receipt of the note,
reiterated its acceptance of the terms.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Brigadier General John S. Brooke
will, it is said, assume the command of
the army during the absence of Gen.
erals Miles and Merritt abroad.
Every State in the union will prob
ably BIZ represented at Los Angeles,
CAL, to-day at the biennial meeting of
the order of railway conductors.
The annual convention of the nation
al association of chiefs of police of the
United States and Canada opened at
Pittsburg, Pa, this morning with dele
gates representing nearly every large
city in the country.
The first session of the Suffrage Con-
vention was held in the Woman's build
Ing at the Tennessee Centennial Expo
sition at Nashville to-day. The attend
ance was good. Mrs. Lide Merriwesther,
of Memphis, president Of the Tennessee
Equal Suffrage Association, presided.
Governor Griggs, of New Jersey, has
issued proclamation for a special ses-
sion of the Legislature on Tuesday May
25 for the purpose of considering the
bill passed providing for the submission
of the proposed constitutional amend
ments to the voters of the State next
September.
Hon. James M. Coleman, personal
friend of Governor Taylor, of Tenn
announced in an interview in Memphis,
to day that beyond doubt his excel
lency will resign and return to the
lecture platform. He is in no sense
prospective candidate for the United
States senatorship.
The Toronto board of trade, at the re-
quest of the manufacturers OF that Sec
ton, will ask the government to allow
coal passed as American screenings to
be accepted there and passed as such
subject to duty not exceeding -
cents ton. They will also ask that
raw materials should be made entirely
free.
The annual state convention of the
Knights of the Golden Eagle opened
to day in Harrisburg, Pa, and will con-
tinue in session three day. Governor
Hastings made short speech welcom-
ing the knights to the capital. A large
parade was held this afternoon. Gov
ernor Hastings aud party witnessed the
pageant from the executive mansion.
Trouble, it is thought, will be pro-
duced between tire International Asso-
citation of Machinists and the Interna-
ticnal Typographical Union, as to who
shall control the machinists who are
employed in printing Offices where
typesetting machines are used. The
frst-named association now have the
matter under consideration in Kansas
City.
The body of a woman found in the Park
reservoir in New York yesterday with a note
signed "litania" upon it, indicating that tho
person was a suicide, has been identified as
that Of Ethel Marie Res, of Brooklyn At
the house where the woman had boarded
little WAS known regarding her antccedcnts
beyond the fact that she had formerly lived
IN st. Louis.
The sausage factory and machinery of
Robert L. Carter, at Charlottesville, Va, was
destroyed by fire yesterday evening Loss
$780,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the car. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is By
constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused
by an infamed condition Of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachisn Tube. When this tube
gets intlamed you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed deafness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an
intlamed 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 Catarrh Cure. Send
or circulars, free.
F.. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hallg Family Pills are the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
T0-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

LONDON, May 1.-THE Queens
Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace
to-day was a most imposing function.
Half dozen duchesses were present,
in addition to hosts Of other distin-
guished people. There was also a
large attendance of ministers and men,
bers of the diplomatic corps.
PARIS, May 1l.-Emperor William of
Germany has RENTED the sum of
$4,000 to the committee of the charity
bazaar, whose work was crippled by
the terrible fire of Tuesday a week
ago. This sum, in addition to the
amount previously received by the
committee, will enable the work of
charity to be carried on as usual.
1t is stated that certain Orleanists
tried to persuade the Duke of Orleans
to make the funeral of the Duke
DAumale the occasion for another
sensational return to France, but the
duke declined to ask the government
for permission to attend the funeral.
COPENHAGEN, May 1.-THE long
expected ministerial crisis has occurred.
The premier and minister for foreign
affairs rendered his resignation this
morning, and the King summoned ex
premier Estrup to form new cabinet.
HAVANA, May 1.-The Spanish
Bank has not suspended. The report
to that effect grew out of the suspen-
sion of the exchange of paper bills for
silver. The bank is doing business as
usual to-day.
TEGucIGALPA, Honduras, May H.
The revolution is ended and the
country is peaceful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

HELD HER UP BY THE EARs.-Death
from choking by dandelion stem 8
inches long, which had lodged in the
windpipe, was yesterday prevented in
the case of Miss Sadie Oswald, of Read
ing, Pa, in most singular manner.
She had become quite blue in the face,
was unable to cough up the obstacle,
and was evidently almost suffocated
when Mrs. Hungerford, a neighbor,
came in. The strong woman, catching
Miss Oswald by the ears, held her in the
air. In this way her windpipe was
opened, and she easily coughed out the
dsudelion stem. She Is confined to bed
as o result of the shok,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
A Crisis at New Orleans.

New ORLEANS, La, May 11.-With a
slightly falling river and fine weather,
the levee excitement is greater than at
any previous time. A break in the Baton
Rouge levee at Burton's Mills occurred
this morning, but the hope is entertain
ed that the flow of water will be check
ed before night The situation in Bayou
La Fourcha has grown more critical
and after to-day no more steamboats,
will be allowed to enter the stream I'M
til the water susides.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
THE WAR.

The powers have drawn up a note
which will be presented to the Greek
government to-day. In effect it Is this:
Upon formal declation by Greece
that she will recall her troops and agree
to such an autonomous regime for
Crete as the powers, in their wisdom,
tshall deem best, and accept unreserved-
ly the counsels of the powers, they will
intervene in the interests of peace. The
note will probably be presented to-day
final instructions.
1t is understood that Greece, in her
reply, will assent to all of these condi-
tons.
The conditions insisted upon by Ger
many, the chief OF which is that Greece
shall give her formal consent to the
principle of autonomy for Crete, will
De accepted by the Greek government
M. Ralli, premier, and NJ. Skouloud
is, minister of foreign affairs, had long
interview yesterday afternoon with
Mr.. Egerton, the British representative,
which caused considerable comment.
1t is believed to be connected with the
expected intervention of the powers.
Private advices received in London
from Constantinople declare that the
Sultan has expressed deep sympathy
for King George and the Greek govern
ment, whose hands, in his opinion,
were forced by revolutionary agents at
Athens and Alexandria. The Sultan,
according to these advices, declines to
claim war indemnity, and proposes q
Turko-Greek treaty upon the simultan
eous evacuation of Thessaly and Crete
Finally, it is said that the Sultan de-
sires to deal direct with Greece, and
not through the powers.
A dispatch from Berlin says that it is
stated in telegram received there
from Athens that King George has
re-summoned M. Delyannia, the late
prime minister, and that the fall of the
Rail- ministry is probable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

Most OF the people of this country
are poor. To increase the price Of
their clothing, hats. shoes, farming i'm
plements and working tools, medicines,
sugar, tea, and many other articles that
necessity compels them to buy. may
lift the clouds that now lower above
them and make them roll by, but, if so,
it is vastly more than the intelligent
ones among them expect. No man has
ever been able to lift himself by his
boot straps, but it would be easier to
do so than to help the people of this
country by raising the price of their
nscessaries, as the republican President
and Congress are now trying to do by
means of the new tariff bill.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

TIRE AVERAGE cost to the people o
this country for every one of the 25,O0(
men in the army, is about $640 a year
amounting to Sl6,OOO,O0O. In view Of
the low price of provisions prevailing
here, this is pretty Steep. but all persons
employed by the government must be
well paid for their services. There are
few Indian soldiers now in the army,
but the negro regiments keep full
Good grub and good wages, with no
work to do, are very attractive to the
average negro.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

A HORRIBLE DEATH.-The fireman
and engineer of freight train No. Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
we're Mortified when they pulled into
the station at Newport News yester.
day to find on the front of their engine
the badly mutilated trunk and an arm
of human being. A little later news
was received by wire that human
head had been found at Providence
Forge, some forty miles distant, and
then came news CT the finding of parts
the body and fragments of clothing
scattered along the track. At late
hour yesterday evening the body was
identified as that of Louis ?. Wade, Of
Richmond. Last week Wade, we'll
dressed young man, evidently suffering
from the effects Of a long spree, was
arrested in Hampton as yagrant. He
told Mayor Montague, of that place, he
was only in "hard LUCK" that he was
the son of wealthy fish dealer in the
old market at Richmond. He also
said that he had work promised him at
Newport News. After listening to this
story, he was allowed to depart. He
was known to several parties in New
port News, and it is known that dur
ing the past few days he has been look
ing for work there. 1t is supposed
that he left the city on foot for Rich
mond, or that possibly he met his fate
while attempting to steal ride. The
principal portion of the remains were
recovered and shipped to Richmond
last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

a BILL has been introduced in Con
eress by republican member. making
eligible for any Office every man who
served three months in the federal
army during the war between the States
Nearly all such soldiers are now ,e-
ceiving pensions sufficient to support
them, but, in addition, all them, accord
lug to the bill referred to, are now to
have lucrative offices.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

MONTHS and months are devoted by
Congress to the consideration of bill
to profit the trusts and combines and
enable the rich protected manufacture
ers to get back the money they sub.
scribed to Mr.. Hanna's corruptio n
fund, but not day to the bill to re.
duce taxes by curtailing the large
salaries that are paid to all persons in
the governments service.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

OF the more notable articles which
have appeared in recent issues of Lit
tells Living Age, received from the
publishers in Boston, may be mentioned:
The Mission of Tennyson, Henry
Drummond, Fathers of Literary I'm
pressionists, Gibbons Autobiography,
France and Russia in China, Herbert
Spencer and Lord Salisbury, a Day OF
Celebration, and in Kedar's Tents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

THE DIFFERENT sums appropriated
by the legislature last year for educa-
tional purposes, according to the Audi
tors report for that year, amounted to
nearly 81 10000, almost million OF
which went to the public schools, OF
which large number are for negroes.
The advantages of this immense
outlay are not apparent, but it
is plain that reliable farm labor
in the State is almost impossible
to get. that really skilled labor in thu
cities is difficult to find in consequence
of the abolition of the apprentice sys-
tem, that idleness, poverty and crime
are increasing, and that the jails, work
houses and penitentiaries are crowded
80 their utmost capacity.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
BUCKLIN,s ARNICA sALyE.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Erup-
ions, and positively cures Piles, or no
Jay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price IS cents per box. For sale by
Ernest l.. Allen
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

SOME TIME will yet elapse before tie
fipal ratifications of the boundary line
arbitration treaty between Great Brit
ain aud Venezuela are exchanged
But seventeen months ago Congress
was deprived Of its Christmas recess
and the country thrown into state o.
alarm by Mr.. Cleveland in order to
hurry up the notifications of that treaty
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

BISHOP sEssUMs REPLIEs.-Bishop
Sessums, of the Episcopal Church,
preached on Sunday in St. Paul's
Church, New Orleans, where the pas
tor recently arraigned him before the
Diocesan Council for erroneous doc
trines. 1t was expected that the bishop
would reply to the charges of the Pres
byterisn, Methodist, Baptist and Luth-
eran clergy that he was heterodox and
teaching an entirely new religion. The
bishop, however, did not directly an
swer the charges, but his sermon was
understood to be reply to the charges
of heterodoxy made against him.
Preaching from Acts of the Apostles,
chapter l., verse 8, he put at rest the
assertion that he rejected the divinity
of Christ. The rest of the sermon reit-
Grated the doctrines which were recent.
ly interpreted by the other Protestant
sects to mean pantheism, the denial OF
q personal God, and the substitution of
nature OF the universe in His place, and
universalism, or the ultimate pardon
ing of all sisners after some sort OF pur-
gatory or probation after death.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

IL call on the chairman of the commit
tee on civil service reform (Mr. Brosius)
to give the views of his party"
Mr.. Brosius did not respond.
The House by vote of 100 to 80 re-
fused to concur in the Senate amend
ment as to forest reservations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
Forest Fires.

WHITE EARTH, Mimi, May H.
Heavy forest fires are raging in the
Pine Belt, and considerable damage is
being done to timber. The country is
all on fire and the government saw,
single and planning mills were COM
pletely destroyed. A number of lum-
Der camps are also burned with outfits
OF logging, sleighs, &c. If rainfall
does not come soon the whole country
will be on fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
Juvenile Convict Pardoncd

FRANKFORT, KY, May 11.-Gov.
Bradley refused to allow Dora Creech,
a 12-year-old girl convicted of perjury
and sentenced for one year, to come to
the penitentiary, and granted her full
pardon. The Governor threatens to
pardon every Juvenile convict out of
both State prisons unless the legislature
at once provides funds for State schools
of reforms.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

Mr.. AsToR's BIC TREE.-A dispatch
from San Francisco says: A big slab Of
redwood, q cross section cut from log
fourteen feet four inches in diameter,
with the bark peeled of, has been low
cred into the hold of the German ship
Maria Hackfeld, at Long Bridge
wharf, for shipment to London. The
wood is consigned to William Waldorf
Astor, and it is intended to decide o
wager.
At recent dinner party given in
London some stories were told Favored
with exaggeration. Mr.. Astor spoke
about the big trees Of California, and
one young Englishman doubted their
existence.
There were just forty guests at the
dinner, and Mr.. Astor, to prove his IS
sertion, wagered that table big
enough to accommodate forty at din
ner could be made from a cross section
of one of CALIFORNIA; trees. The wager
was accepted and the shipment on the
Maria Hack field is the result.
The piece of redwood was cut from
one of the many giant trees of Hmm
boldt county. There is not knot or
Flemish in the whole piece. Heavy
wire cables were bound around it, and
heavy planks protected it from being
split. 1t is about three feet thick and
weighs about nineteen tons. 1t was
brought from the lumber woods in the
steamer National City, and the ships
hatchway gave the big slab play OF
only one inch as it was being lowered
into the hold.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

A special from Jellico, Tenn, states
that the coal mine operators have not
yet decided on proposition 10 the two
thousand miners now idle awaiting an
agreement. 1t is understood that a re.
duction will be insisted on and it is be-
lieved the miners will not accept. An
other joint meeting will be held some
time this week.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

The Westfield Qnd J Meas prints the
following in regard to an old resident oil
that place: Frank McAvoy, for many
years in the employ of the L., N. A. &
G. Ry., here, says: I have used Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea
Remedy for ten years or longer-am
never without it in my family. l con-
slider it the best remedy Of the kind
manufactured. / take pleasure in re-
commencing it," 1t is a specific for
all bowel disorders. For sale by J. II.
Janney, Druggist, 701 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
A Monster Paper Machine

RUMFoRD FALLS, Me-, May IL
The Rumford Falls Paper Company
are erecting the largest paper machine
in this world. 1t will produce paper
LOO inches yide and will turn out S5
tons of finished newspaper per day.
Thirty cars were required to transport
the monster machine from WORCESTER.
Its total weight is 100000 pounds.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

RUMoRs OF A HOLY Wharf.-The cor
respondent of the London Standard at
Constantinople says: 81 learn that a
circular has been addressed by the
Sheikhul-Isham to the Imams in Con-
stantinople province which fore
shadows the speedy approach of a holy
war, the sacred edict for proclaiming
which ia already being prepared
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

Fire after midnight last night at Quincy,
H., entirely destroyed the J. Dayton Com
pany's apparatus, the Valk-Jones and the
McMein JOB printing Offices and the Brum-
baugh bookstore, all ofwhich occupied the
same Building. The total loss is $4,000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11

SENATOR WHITE, of California, demo
crat, in his speech opposing the Nor
gan Cuban resolution yesterday, said
at was a serious question whether the
United States government should follow
and protect its citizens the world over
when they went to foment revolt against
countries with which we are at peace. y
1t is serious question, to be sure, but
it is no less true that it has pat answer
from every right thinking intelligent
man. Did any foreign government, with
which this one was at peace, protect
any of it's citizens who came here dur
ing the war between the States to help
either side? In questions of this sort,
as in others, it is always we'll to put
yourself in the other fellows place. Il
seems, however, impossible even for
many U. S. Senators to do that.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-11
TUESDAY EVENING. MAY IL 1897.

AS THERE has been no organized Ell
fort made in behalf of the proposed con.
sritutional convention, as there IS great
uncertainty concerning the popular
feeling in respect of it and consequent
ly great disinclination on the part OF
aspirants for legislative honors to de-
clare themselves on the subject, and as
the expense of such convention
would be great and its benefits at least
problematical, appearances now Ger
tainly indicate that the proposition
will be defeated by large majority.
There can be no doubt of the fact that,
with unrestricted suffrage, the material
of which such convention would be
composed would be no better than that
of which the legislature is constructed.
II is also plain that the legislature can
reduce the States expenditures con-
sderably il it shall choose to do so.