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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
Storm on the English Coast.

LONDON, Nov. 90 The gale which
swept the English coasts yesterday, do
ing much damage at Holyhead and other
places, ragged all night long and had
not abated in fury this morning when it
amounted almost to cyclone in many
places, and was accompanied by snow
and hail. A long list of fatalities,
wrecks and damage to property has al
ready been received. All the coast
towns have suffered and score OF
bodies have been washed ashore. Fall.
ing walls and flying debris have added
to the loss of life. Vessels are reported
on shore on every part of the coast and
many ships are known to have found
cred with the probable loss ofall hands.
There is much wreckage about the
Goodwin Sands. At Lowestoft, Var
mouth and elsewhere the sea has flood.
ed the quays and neighborhoods, wash
ing away the esplanades and doing
other serious damage. The sea wall at
Scarborough has been washed away
and the passenger and mail services
across the channel have been mostly
suspended.
The British ship Larnica, Captain
Burgess, from St. John, N. B., for Fleet
wood on the Wyre, was driven ashore
there by the force of the gale. Her po-
sition is dangerous, but all the members
of her crew were saved. According to
the latest advice the storm is
traversing various parts of the CONT
nant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
TELEGRApHIC BREYITIES.

/ A fire in Muncie, Ind, last night des'
| troyed S25, 900 worth of property. The
postofice was destroyed.
Senator Hanna is confined to his
home at Glenmere, near Cleveland,
Ohio, with severe attack of the grip
He will not be able to attend to bust
ness for several days.
An unofficial estimate places the
wheat yield of New South Wales OF
eleven million bushels, and it is antici..
pated that the exportable surplus OF
wheat from Australasia will be i've
million bushels.
Rev. DR.. Henry W. Super, retired
professor of church history and homi.
ietics in the theological school oil
Ursinus College, is dead at his late
home, in Collegeville, Pa. DR.. Super
was born in Baltimore in 1924.
Zero weather continued to-day
throughout the northwest, eight below
in st. Paul, Mimi, at seven O'Clock
this morning being the lowest. At the
same hour Bismarck reported 10 below.
Winnipeg IA below and Miles City Is
below, these being the average figures.
1t is clear.
Mrs. Theresa Cardoza, q we'll known
resident of San Francisco. CAL, who
died on Saturday, was buried yesterday
ia the Italian cemetery. She weig he'd
over six hundred pound and the under.
takers had to break down the
stairs of her late residence in
order to lower the body into
the hall. A special casket. bound with
iron, was constructed for the remains,
and as it was too large for any hearse
in the city, it was taken to the GENE.
terry in heavy express wagon. Mrs.
Cardoza had been married twice and
leaves FIVE cbildred, the youngest be.
ing IA months old.
Asphyxiation caused the death OF
three men in the Grand Trunk Railway
tunnel at Port Huron, Mich, last
night. The dead are: Henry J. Court.
ney, engineer of tunnel engine; Arthur
Dunn, conductor; John Dalton, brake.
man. A train which had been hauled
through to the Canadian side broke in
two. The engine backed down to get
the detached portion of the train, but
for hours nothing was heard of the
crew. Finally searching party found
the dead bodies and also rescued the
fireman and brakeman, in an uncon-
scious condition. The members of the
searching party were also overcome but
were later rescued by another party.
The tunnel gas arises from the hard
coal used by the locomotives.
William Carr, condemned to die December
18th for tho murder of his child and who
swallowed glass yesterday a. Liberty, Mo i,
with the mention of taking his life, appeared
t. be in good ealth to-day. The physicians
say, however, that day or two may pass be-
fors the effects of the glass may be noticed.
John Z Sheehan, tho Tsmmany leader,
who was taken i'll in New York on Saturday
is slightly improved to-day, though still con-
fined to his bed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Thorn's Trial.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Word was
passed around among the women who
appeared at the Queens county court
house to day to seek admission to the
Thorn trial that much of the evidence
which the defence would introduce
would be unfit for polite ears. The re-
suit was that only three women were
among the spectators when Judge Mad
dox reopened court for the trial of the
alleged murderer of Guldensuppe. After
the examination of one witness Mr..
Howe requested the court to dismiss
the charge of murder in the first degree
and the court denied the request. MIR.
Howe then began his address with a
declaration of Thorn's innocence, sup
plemented with terrible arraignment
of Mrs. Mack, who was de.
nounced as the real murderess OF
Guldensuppe. Mrs. Nack's life was
wildly pictured by the speaker.
Mr.. Howe said she had proven herself
perjurer, murderess and adulteress.
The defense called several witness to
testify to the prisoners good character
and after short recess Thorn was put
upon the stand to testify in his own be-
half. Beginning with the statement
that he came to America II years ago,
the prisoner said his real name was
Torceswisky and briefly related the
facts of his life up to the time he met
Mrs. Mack Is months ago. This evil
dence was corroboratory of the state
meot he made last week, and he gave
all the details of his intimacy with Mrs.
Mack, his fight with Guldensuppe,
reiterated the charge that Mrs. Mack
committed the murder, cut up the body
and burned the clothes. Thorn said
that Mrs. Mack gave him the gold
watch and chain the day after the
killing. 1t had belonged to Gulden-
suppe. Thorn was closely cross ques.
fiOue0
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VIRGINIA NEWS.


An earthquake shock was, it is
claimed, felt on Saturday at Ashland,
/ seventeen miles north of Richmond.
Capt. Chnrles A. Taylor, traffic man
ager of the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac road, is lying desperately
i'll at the residence of his brother in
Richmond.
Mrs. Samuel Morgan died at the resi-.
dence of her husband in Riverton on
Saturday after lingering illness OF
some months. She is survived by q
husband and three children.
DR.. julius A. Skilton, an eminent
surgeon, who made the first successful
amputation of the shoulder joint at the
battle of Williamsburg, died at Will
liamsburg Wednesday, aged sixty-four
years.
There are two candidates in the field
for the judgeship of the County Court OF
Clarke county, Col. Richard H. Lee,
the present incumbent, and Major S. j.
G. Moore, prominent member OF the
Berryville bar.
The extensive lumber mills of the r.
G. Dennis Lumber Company, near Suf-
folk, which were assigned few months
since and sold at public auction, have
been sold again to ]. W. Lynch for
S13, 000 New York and Baltimore cap.
itallsts are interested.
Judge Thomas Ashby Wickham, of
the Henrico County Court, was married
in Charleston, S. c., on Saturday to
Miss Julia Porcher, daughter OF DIR.
Francis Peyre Porcher, of that city.
Judge Wickh ham is nephew of the late
General Williams G. Wickham. The
bride is q granddaughter of Benjamin
Watkins Leigh, of Norfolk.
Mr.. Andrew ]. Berry, one of the
best known club and sporting men in
Richmond, died yesterday. Mr.. Berry
represented the Louisiana lottery there
for many years, before il was outlawed,
and is thought to have amassed quite q
fortune. He was Confederate soldier
aud had been active in veteran matters.
He leaves young wife and several
sons, one of whom, Frank, is we'll
known electrician of Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
The Luetgcrt Trial.

CHICAGO. Nov. 29.-The second trial
of Adolph L. Leutgert for the murder
of his wife was called before Judge
CRY to day. The prisoner was repre-
sented by ex Judge Lawrence Harmon
and attorney Max Riese-attorney
Phalan having withdrawn from the
case yesterday after heated interview
with Luetgert and the new lawyers.
The court room was packed with spec
tators when the court was called
to order. Most of the session was
taken up by Mr.. Harmon in arguing
that Judge Gary should not try Luet-
CERT, on the ground that be was not
qualified to sit as a criminal judge.
Judge Gary overruled the motion OF
the defense, intimating, however, that
he was willing that some other judge
should sit in the case providing coun.
sci for the defense can come to an
agreement with the prosecution as to
who should hear it. Attorneys Har-
mon and Riese held consultation this
afternoon with States Attorney Deneen
with the object of deciding on some
other Judge to hear the case.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette
WASHINGTON, Nov, 80.

| w ASh1N01ONS 4NOft SV'
Chief Justice Bingham to-day sen
fenced Robert II. Martin, who came
here from Virginia, formerly treasurer o.
the Columbian University and treasurer
of the First Baptist Church, to i'm.
prisonment TOR FIVE years in the peni.
tentiary for enlightenment of about
Sl4, 900 from the funds OF the univer.
sity. The Judge in sentencing him said
be had gotten of very easily, Is be had
been robbing for seven years.
1t is reported that some of the Rich"
mond people are still trying to reopen
The case of the order for the removal
Of the headquarters of the lower inter-
nal revenue district of Virginia from
Richmond to Petersburg, and it is pos.
sible that if a delegation be sent here
for that purpose, it may be heard, but
The order will stand nevertheless, aud
the expense of the delegation may az
" ii be saved.
Mr.. Mcdonald, eX.minister to Per-
STA, and Mr.. TONNES, ex-consul at Rio.
both of Virginia, and just displaced by
republicans. are now here, stopping at
the Metropolitan.
Judge Riley, originally of Accomack
county, Virginia, but now hailing from
New York, and who is an applicant for
consulate, having had one under the
Harrison administration, says he has
strong hopes of success, but that moth
ing will be done until the return of Mr..
Hanna. The Judge has two nephews
among the members of the Ohio legis-
lature.
MIR. Speaker Ryan and several other
members of the Virginia legislature
from the upper part oftheir State passed
through here yesterday and to day for
Richmond.
Mr.. Sam Lewis, son of the late Sena-
tor Lewis of Virginia, and an applicant
for the position of consul at Peurto Ca.
bello, says he hears that two more con-
sulates will be given TO Virginia, and
that he feels confident of getting one of
them, as he is endorsed by both the re.
publican factions in his State. The
committee of Virginia republicans to
whom the distribution of federal pa.
tronage to that State seems to have
been entrusted ssy that General
Groner of Norfolk will be appointed to
small consulate.
A Southern Senator here to day said
the election of MIR. Bryan to the next
Presidency will be chiefly due to the
disgust sensible people have for the
absurd and grotesque humbug that
travesties under the name OF the civil
service law, by which men who have
served competently and efficiently for
years in all sorts of employment, are
compelled to answer quiz questions be-.
fore they can be appointed. Three
men in the government printing office
we're marked for discharge last week,
but when it was discovered that two CT
them were republicans, the marks were
obiiterated.
The Haytian minister here states
that his country is preparing for all
eventaa1ity, considering that lis honor
is involved in the present trouble with
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is reported in Rome that King
Humbert has resolved to abdicate IN
favor of his son.
The report of a collision between
British and French forces in West AT
RIGA proves to have been unfouuded.
The millinery aud furnishing store
of Apt / Brothers, Philadelphia, wa:
damaged by fire yesterday, to the ex
tent of about $4,000.
The Georgia House of Representa-
tives have voted down q bill to put
union veterans 10 that State on the
same legal plane as Confederates.
The differences between Nicaragua
and Costa RIGA, which threatend to in.
volye the two republics in war, have. ii
is reported, been amicably adjusted.
The Paris Figaro has caused a sensa.
ton by the publication of letters pur.
porting to have been written by Count
Esterhazy, bitterly criticising French
| men.
The State Department at Washing
ton has requested Ambassador White,
of Berlin, to.ascertain Germany's inten-
ton toward Haiti on Lueders' impris-
onment.
The committee of native Hawaiians
that is going to Washington to protest
against the annexation of the islands to
the United States has arrived at San
Francisco.
A correspondent in the Klopdike
sends news ofthe "holding up" of two
steamers by miners at Circle City, who
forced the landing Of food to keep them
from starving.
Lizzie De Kalb made confession in
Newark, N. j., on Saturday detailing
the circumstances of the murder of Mrs.
Emma P. Kaiser by her husband and
James A. Clemmer.
A white man who had attempted to
assault colored girl in South Camden,
n. j., yesterday was pursued by an
angry mob OF negroes until the police,
with drawn revolvers, rescued him.
By the crashing in of the ceiling and
several floors above the refrigerator of
the wholesale meat house of Armour &
Co., in Wilmington, Del, on Saturday,
four carpenters were caught in mass
of debris, one of whom was instantly
killed and the others were seriously or
painfully hurt.
The steamer City of Seattle arrived
at Seattle yesterday from Skaguay,
with twenty-five miners from the Klon-
dixie, who brought $50 600 in drafts and
100000 in nuggets. All tell of a
scarcity of food at Dawson. A large
number of persons have left for Fort
Yukon, in order to avoid starvation.
A startling story of cannibalism
comes from the wilds of the Congo in
Africa, 10 which two Washingtonians
furnished the ghoulish repast of the
natives. Although the killing of the
men took place last December, the facts
regarding it have just come to light in
the shape of q private letter received
by Mr.. Leo Harmon, of Washington.
The men were Lindsay g. Burke and
brother soldier who it is said were
slain and eaten by fiendish tribes of the
Congo. They left Washington with q
party over two years ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
BURNED TO DEATH.-Hamuond

BURNED TO DEATH.-Hammond's
large flour mill, along the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad, one mile north
of Ladiesburg, Nd, was destroyed
qy fire at faur o'clock yesterday morn
iop, and with it was burned up the
miller-George Biehl-who was wild
over, fifty-ive years of age, and the
father of four children-two sons and
two daughters.
The flames were discovered bursting
from the mill by several of the labor
ere, who, as they approached the burn
ing building, were Mortified to hear
cries for help issuing from the doomed
structure. AS they glanced at the
windows they discovered that they
were being uttered by Biehl, who was
hemmed in everywhere by flames and
smoke, and was utterly cut off from
every avenue of escape.
Walking the floor and wringing his
hands, he would frequently cry out for
assistance, and he glanced appealingly
toward the windows. This sight rem
dered those on the outside almost
frantic with pity, and every means was
resorted to for reaching the unfortun-
ate man, but without avail. In the
course of few minutes the flames had
drawn closer and closed toward him,
until finally he fell unconscious upon
the floor and expired.
The intense heat had driven the
crowd back from the building; conse.
quently, they were spared the agony
of witnessing his horrible death.
1t is supposed that in the course OF
the night Biehl had fallen asleep in his
chair in the mill, aud was not awaken.
ed by the smoke and flames until they
had SO far advanced as to cut him of
from every means of escape.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29

TIE DEMOCRATS have always main
tanned that the republicans rely chiefly
upon money and the influence thereof
to effect their objects, and now, at this
late day, an ultra republican newspa-
Der in Baltimore, expresses the fear that
the republican majority in the Mary
laud legislature may be induced by
promises of patronage to elect an i'm
proper man for q. S. Senator from that
State No matter what influence may
be brought to bear upon them, that they
could not elect a more improper Sen
aasr than the one they already have,
goes without saying.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29

YOUNG MRS. CLAY VERY ILL.,
Word has been received at Whitehall
KY, that Gen. Clay's young wife, Dora,
who was thrown by John BiggerstafI's
bay mare several weeks ago and was
supposed to have been slightly injured,
is dangerously ill as the result of her
fall. Peritonists has set in, aud her
physician considers her case serious.
Another young man has been men.
toned as an ardent admirer of young
Mrs. Clay. His name is Dan Tudor,
and he lives near Gen. Clay. He was
seen frequently with Dora while the
General was away being treated by q
Cincinnati specialist. They met at
William Richardson's, near General
Clay's, and Williams wife drew a pistol
on Tudor and threatened to shoot him
if he did not 60 away and leave Dora
alone. He never went back to Will
liam's, but has been to see Dora since
she went to her brother Clell's at VAL
ley View. Gen. Clay heard Of her con-
versations with Tudor, and reprimand.
ed her for allowing him to talk to her.
Tudor fears Gen. Clay will assault him
and is keeping out of his way.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29

INSTEAD of having statue of himself
ma ie of solid gold to be sent to the
Paris exposition, the tears of the starv-
ing people of his country should burn
Mr.. McKinley's cheeks and their hol-
low eyes should keep him awake at
night. II it was wrong for Nero to
fiddle while Rome burned, though he
never did any thing of the kind, what
must be said of the Hastings. thanks
giylugs and fluctuations of MIR. McKin-
l.y, aud those who from selfish motives
laud aud faLter him 7?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
THE LEGISLATURE.

The session OF ths Legislature begins
or Wednesday, and will last ninety
days. 1t will undoubtedly be one OF
retrenchment, many of the representa-
tives-indeed a large proportion OF
them-having pledged themselves to do
what lies in their power to economic
and reduce at every point possible the
expenditures of the State.
An effort will be made early in the
session, it is thought, to cut down the
expenses of the judiciary, and it is like
ly that some legislation along this line
will be enacted. Some banking laws
will, in all probability, be passed, and it
is an assured fact that the betterment
of the States public highways will re-
ceive considerable attention.
Mr.. Henry c. Wickham will be chos-
en- president pro tenn. of the Senate,
and Mr.. ]. F. Ryan will be elected
speaker of the House.
The most important work that will
occupy the members of the two houses
ia the opening days of the session will
be the election of State officers, and the
field is full of candidates.
There will have to elected by this
Legislature Secretary ofthe Common
wealth, treasurer, auditor of public &C
counts, second auditor, register of the
land Office, superintendent of public in
struction, superintendent of printing,
railroad missioner, and superinten.
dent of the penitentiary. The treas
urer, Mr.. Hartman, and the two audi
tors-Colonel Marye and Mr.. Ryland-
have no opposition, but for the other
six Offices there are twenty-three candi-
dates from which selections will have to
be made. In each case the incumbent
is candidate for reelection, and. only
two of them can count their opposition
on one finger.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of Virginia
begins its session on Wednesday. 1t is
agreed, on all sides, that its chief duty
is. to reduce expenses; but how? Re-
ductioH of salaries is talked of, but no
officer wants his salary reduced and
the friends OF such will support him in
the opposition. Indeed, the salaries of
our officials are not extravagant. and if
they were reduced fifty per cent. no
great saving would be made. Every
little retrenchment, however, helps,
and, if no fsvoritism is shown, such q
reduction as will not prevent the
filling oil the Offices by compe-
tent and honest men would not be OBJ
iectionable. The proposed consolida-
ton of county judgeships will have to
wait, judicious or injudicioue. for an
amendment Of the Constitution. As to
that for consolidation of county su,
perintendencies Of shoots, the present
plan is the result of an amendment to
the Constitution and will require an
other amendment. DR.. Ruffner, the
father of our school system, was
strongly in favor of larger districts;
but that would involve higher
pay, if the uperintendence is to be
worth anything, so no saving at ali
could be made, except to better the
schools-perhaps. The penitentiary
system needs reforming at the base.
Ofwhat earthly use is it to put con.
victs, negroes especially, in that insti-
tuition for single year? The whip
ping post would serve a much better
purpose, as it did in days past. When
in the penitentiary, convicts who won't
work, or WON'T behave themselves, are
whipped-and then they do what they
are told; why not employ them on the
roads at once and give them similar
treatment under similar circumstances?
That would. at least, save the expense
OF transporting them to Richmond and
back. Then money could be made by
the purchase of another farm for the
cultivation of sugar heets. This has
been shown to be very feasible. But a
Richmond paper lately objected to this
because, forsootb, If roalG come into
competition 10Th the farmers. Now,
there is capital ready for an extensive
sugar factory, and the only obstacle to
its establishment is the uncertainty of
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29
AUSTRIAN MINISTRY RESIGNS

AUSTRIAN MINISTRY RESIGNS.
Since the wildly exciting scenes were
inaugurated in the lower House of the
Austrian Parliament nothing has ap-
preached the mob law and violence
that disgraced the session on Saturday.
In Vienna on Saturday night mob OF
1000 attacked the police. Eventually
the police were ordered to clear the
streets, which they did with drawn
swords.
At Gratz a riotous crowd of workmen
assembled in the business quarter of the
town and began to break windows and
commit other excuses. Four COM
panies of infantry and squadron OF
cavalry were summoned to the scene Of
the disturbances. Upon their arrival
the infantry we're assailed with
a shower of stones and were com.
PEELED to fire upon the mob, killing
two and wounding FIVE of the rioters.
TIE mem bers of the Austrian minis
try yesterday rendered designations to
Emperor Francis, Joseph, who accept
ed them and entrusted Baron Gautsch,
who holds the portfolio of public in
struction in the retiring ministry, with
the task OF forming new cabinet.
Emperor Francis Joseph addressed
an autograph letter to Count Badeni,
decreeing the adjournment of the
Reichsrath until further orders.
In dispensing the threatening crowds
on the streets of Vienna the police and
soldiers wounded number of people.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-29

THE late riotous proceedings in the
Congress of Austria are by no means CAL
culated to inspire the right thinking
people of Europe with love for an ex-
tension of the system of representa-
tive government. The Russian gov
eminent is the best in Europe, not only
fer itself, but for all its subjects, and
all the others court its support. But it
is not representative.