Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-24


feel that their personal attendance at
the sessions of the commission and OF
the subcommittee is essential to &C.
complish the work before them during
the next ninety days. The morning
session was confined to general dis
cussion of lines of work.
The subject Of premature burial is
Just now attracting great interest In
Italy, according to report OF United
States Consul Mantius at Turin. He
saws that realizing that there is at pre-
sent no infalhble test that may be ap-
piled to prevent the horrifying cases OF
persons buried alive, a number of
prominent physicians and laymen are at
work preparing reports on the subject.
These will be made the striking feature
of the medical department of the Ma
tional Exposition next April at Turin.
Reports of similar kind are expected
from all over the world, as prizes will
be offered for the best solution of the
problem, and the Consul says inestima-
bic good to the cause will result if the
people of the United States interest
themselves in it.
A telegram was received at the War
Department to day from Lieut.. Col.
Randall, at Seattle, Wash, announcing
his departure on the steamer Humboldt
tor St. Michael's at 8 o'clock last
night. The party consists of 80 men
ali told, including officers and men.
All manner of suggestions, mostly
more or less Cranky" are coming to
the War Department looking to the
establishment OF winter communica-
ton with Dawson. They include loco.
motives, patent sleds and elevated
roads. A Boston firm has come for
ward with what appears to be a practi-
cable offer to deliver large quantity
of food supplies at Dawson for lump
sum. They propose to make use of a
uew route; namely via Copper river,
which lies we'll to the westward OF
Chilkoot Pass, and assert that this pas
sage is far superior in point of practica'
bility for horses to any other.
Surgeon General Wyman sent out to-
day the following bulletin regarding the
yellow fever situation Washington.
Sept. "a, 1S97.-The following cases OF
yellow fever were reported as occurring
on the 23rd instant: New Orleans, 9;
Mobile, q Ocean Springs, 6; Scranton,
6; Edwards, %; Atlanta, /; Louisville,
KY, l; reports from Biloxi and Barley
delayed" The cases occurring at At.
lanta and Louisville were those OF
refugees.
R. b. Palmer was to-day appointed
postmaster at Dsysville, Va.
Intelligence here from Cincinnati is
to the effect that recent developments
there have caused Mr.. Hanna not only
anxiety, but alarm. Up to this time
he has felt assured of success. chiefly
by reason of his firm belief in his
strength in that city, but the develop
ments referred to have shaken that be-
lief no little, and everything will be done
from now to election day to repair his
fences there. 1t was for that purpose
chat the report was started, which has
never been officially denied, that an ul-
timatum had been presented to Spain,
which must be accepted or rejected a
few days before the election in Ohio.
The negroes in Baltimore threaten to
fight the republican ticket there be-
cause they are not recognized on it.,
though they were promised they should
be-. In order to quiet them and keep
them in the traces, it has been deter
determined by the administration to do
for them here what their party at home
has refused to do, and give some OF
their leaders places here, especially
those who are at the head of their
clubs. It is not 30 much that the dem.
ocrats should be defeated, as that Sem
ator Wellington and the other white
kickers must be beaten down.
An old time democratic lawyer from
the West here to-day, talking about the
proposed sale of the Union Pacific
Railroad, said the dereliction of the
government in not appealing from
the Omaha decision ordering that
sale was positively Infamous, as
by the terms thereof the competi-
ton of bidders is prohibited and Mr..
Morgan, of bond fame, given the priv
ilege of buying it practically at his
own price; then, too, said he, the whole
idea upon which the road was built, to
to have continuous line from the At
lantic to the Pacific under the control
of the government, has been abandoned,
as when sold, the government will have
no more control over it than it has
over any other road in the country.
Among the newest things here is
what is called book typewriting ma
chine, which is operated like any other
typewriter, only easier and simpler. 1t
is used for writing in blank books, such
for instance as those kept in court, bank
and merchants counting rooms, and by
which no accountant need be afraid of
accepting a book keepers place by
reason of defective chirogrsphy. Mr..
Harry J. Gensler, ex Senator Don
Cameron's private secretary, and who
is interested in the town of Colonel
Beach, Virginia, is the promoter of the
patent in this city.
Mr.. Pat McCsull of Virginia says the
appeal to Mr.. Hanna for his endorse
ment of their course and the publication
of it by the executive committee of his
party in Virginia, shows the desperate
straits to which they have been re-
duced, and that though they may sue
coed in soaring some of the timid men,
bers of the party, the others cannot be
intimidated and will say and do what
they please at the well-attended con-
vention soon to be held at LyDchburg.
NIAGARA FALLS ILLUMINATED.-A
three days celebration of the compile.