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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-30
From Canton.

CANTON, Ohio, Jan. SO.-Major Nc
Kinley said this morning be mad not
received letter from Gen. Golf, of
West Virginia, declininga cabinet port
folio. General Gof, when he came to
Canton at the request of Major McKin-
ley last week, took the matter of enter
ing the cabinet under consideration,
and there is at present no reason to
think he has not, or will not, accept
cabinet portfolio. The story that
Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, has been
promised the appointment of Comp
troller OF the Currency, is absolutely
without foundation. A great many
papers have within the last few days
printed what purported to he letter
from Major Mckinley to the committee
in charge of the inaugural ball at
Washington, in which he is to enter a
protest against the expenditure OF
money for the ball &c. The letter is
to-day denounced as fake and forgery
James Wilson, of Iowa, who visited Major
Mckinley yesterday. is 10 doubt to be secre.
tary OF Agriculture but the formal offer OF
the portfolio will DO made by letter next
week
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-30
THE CAB1NEr.-The Cabinet is RAPID

THE CABINET.-TheC Cabinet is RAPID
ly approaching completion. The ac-
ceptance by Alger, following so closely
upon the selection of Gage, removes all
doubt as to six of the eight positions
that the President-elect has in his privy
council. The places that are now set
tied are as follows:
Secretary of State-Sherman, of Ohio.
Secretary of the Treasury-Gage, of
Illinois.
Secretary of War-Alger, of Michi-
gan.
Secretary of the Navy-Long, of Mas
sachusetts.
Secretary of the observation-disclosures,
of California.
Attorney General-Gofl, of West Vir-
ginia.
The very best information as to the
two remaining places, assigns the Post
Office Department to Payne, of Wiscon-
sin, and the Department of Agriculture
to Wilson, of Iowa.
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Hanged.

AVA, Mo-, Jan. Sod. Perry paid
the death penalty on the scatfold to-
day. His victims were Lafayette Saw
yer, his wife and son, Ernest. The
crime was committed early in the morn
ing of Wednesday, May, 9th, 1896. The
incentive thereto was robbery. The
deed was committed with an axe and
butcher knife. The old man and his
son were killed as they entered barn
in the rear of the house and Mrs. Saw
yer we're killed in her kitchen. The
bodies were dragged into the parlor
and left lying on the floor. After the
butchery, the murderer harnessed q
team and left for Kansas.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Jan. 3O.-James B.
Inks was hanged at Oregon, Holt
co unity this morning. He walked up
to the scaffold with firm step, and
after declaring he was going straight to
hea ven had his neck broken by the drop.
On May 10, 1895, Inks brutally murdered
John Patterson, one of the most prominent
residents of Holt county, meeting him in the
street and shooting him down without worp
because of fancied insult.
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be issued, except to President-elect
Mckinley and Mrs. Mckinley.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Major Mckinley was 81 years old
yesterday, and dined with his mother,
who is IS.
A dispatch from Vienna says the
Sultan has forbidden the pilgrimages to
Mecca on account of the plague.
General Russell A. Alger, of Micni
gan, has been rendered by President
elect Mckinley the portfolio of War
and accepted.
Gov. Sadler of Nevada, yesterday,
afternoon signed the bill recently pass
ed by the Nevada Legislature, licensing
glove contests.
An express train northbound from
San Francisco for Portland, Oregon,
was robbed yesterday by highwaymen
near Roseburg, Oregon. The amount
of the booty secured is not known.
A personal friend of Judge Nathan
Golf, of Charleston, W. Va, yesterday
made the statement that he will decline
position in McKinley's cabinet, but
he will make fight two years hence
for Senate; - encceed Mr.. Faulkner.
A dispall :. =. st. Petersburg says
that anxiety Is felt there concerning
the movements of forty English war
ships near the Dardanelles, also that
there is much resentment in Russia in
regard to the recent attacks on Russia
in the French press.
The House of Representatives yes
terday rejected the conference report
on the bill to confer the rights and
franchises of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad on the purchasers under the
| mortgage foreclosure. There was a
lively discussion between Mr.. Powers
and Mr.. Barrett.
Mr.. William J. Bryan arrived at San
Antonio, Texas, yesterday from Aus
tin. He has cancelled his contract with
the lecture management and made his
last public appearance there last night.
1t is possible that he will visit few
| places of his own accord in answer to
pressing invitations.
The British Parliament, on motion of
Mr.. Chamberlain, yesterday decided to
reappoint parliamentary committee to
investigate the administration of South
Africa and incidentally the Transvaal
raid. Mr. Chamberlain declared tie
situation in South Africa had in the last
few months become most critical, and
that President K'uger had not kept his
promises.
1t is said that nearly every vessel in
the United States navy, from the pom
derous battleships to the little do
boats, has been found to be not
only in weakened but a dan
gerous condition. This is because
of faulty construction, the full
knowledge of which has just been
brought before the Navy Department.
AS consequence the majority of the
vessels of the service now in commits
sion, as we'll as many of those under
construction, will be altered at cost
that will reach into the hundreds Of
thousands.
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SATURDAY EVENING. JAN. 80. 1897

SENATOR MORGAN has announced
his intention of having vote on the
Nicarapuan canal bill next Tuesday,
and this, too, in the face OF the fact
that the republic of Greater Central
America, of which Nicaragua now
forms part, has, through its accredited
minister at Washington, formally noti-
fed this government that the charter
for the canal had been forfeited by the
company to which it was granted by
Nicaragua, and will not be renewed
either by that State or by the greater
government of which it is now COM
ponent. But, even if it were other
wise, if this government, whose rev.
enue now is not sufficient to meet
the expenses, and whose people were
never poorer, have one hundred mil
lion. the amount called for by the bill
referred to-though that would be but
the beginning of ther equired expense
to give to the proprietors of snide
scheme, wouldn't it do its own country
and the people thereof infinitely more
good by expanding that sum on ca
nal through its own territory and with
in its own jurisdiction, thereby giving
work to the thousands of its own un-
employed laborers?
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DIR. BROWNS LECTURE.

To the Editor of The Alexandria Gazette:
I see by some of the daily papers
that am announced to deliver q lee
ture on Monday evening, February /.
This is all error. The lecture is to be
delivered before R. E. Lee Camp on
Tuesday night at s o'clock, and all
the friends of the camp are cordially
invited to attend.
The subjects treated of are in part
the following:
The Pan-American Medical Congress.
The travel through northern Mexico
Of the American delegation to the City
of Mexico. The country, its climate,
productions and people.
Arrival at the city. Their cordial
reception.
The sessions of the Pan-American
Congress. The great honors paid them.
The splendid receptions, banquets, il.
Nominations and gorgeous fireworks
Opening of the Congress by President
Diaz.
Reception of the Congress by Presi-
dent Diaz at the famous old castle of
Chepultapec. Description of the castle
and surroundings.
The character of President Diez and
the noble work he is doing to improve
his country. Appearance of the City of
Mexico. Its climate, population and
police system.
The people of Mexico, upper and
lower classes. Their habits, manners,
customs and modes of living.
The fashionable and elite classes of
Mexico. Their wealth, culture, refine
ment and hospitality, and beautiful
ladies.
The silver productions of Mexico.
The currency of the country. The
splendid and costly cathedrals and
churches. The interesting cities and
country of southern Mexico. The
coffee plantations, sugar cane, banana
fields, cocoanuts and date palm.
The remarkable canon of Tamasopo,
Tampico, and then our return journey
to Texas.
BEDFORD BROWN, M. D.
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Arranging for the Big Fight.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30.-William
K. Wheelock, the representative OF
Dan Stuart, the prize fight promoter,
arrived in the city yesterday afternoon
from Carson, New. He says it has been
definitely settled that the Fitzsimmons.
Corbett battle will take place in Ne.
vada. Quarters for both men have been
located in the vicinity of Carson and
Reno. and the contest will be held in
the city Offering the most alluring in
du,cements. Mr.. Wheelock further
SAID that in all probability there will be
one ,1ther contest in addition to the
Corbet t-Fitzsimmons match. probably
between Maher and Sharkey.
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Officials Indicted.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 9O.-The
grand jury to-day returned indictments
against fourteen people connect
ed with the city government, including
aldermen and police officers. Other
indictments may also be expected.
The indictment against Alderman De-
garmo charges him with obtaining
money by false pretense for alleged in.
fence. Major of Police Gunther and
policemen Connolly and Varilla are
charged with malfeasance in Office,
in failing to suppress gaming. The in
dictment against Aldermen King,
Leather and Jenne charge them with
offering complete police protection to a
faro bank in consideration of one-third
of the net profits.
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AS STATED in yesterdays GAZETTE,
the bill for an international conference
TO formulate plan for restoring to sill.
yer its quality as coin metal, has
passed the Senate, with only four votes
against it. But, what good? All for
eign governments, like this one. are in
the hands of plutocrats, the value of
whose gold money would not be en-
HANGED by the coinage Of silver. They,
therefore, are not likely to favor such
coinage, and though some of them may
go through the form of appointing con-
ferrees, they will do so, as this one will,
with no idea that any plan will be
agreed upon, or, if it shall, with no in
tention of adopting it. If it were 9th
erwise, the bill referred to would not
have received the votes of either the
republicans or gold boilers in the Sen
ate,
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A Utah Tragedy.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 90.-Yester
day while Mrs. Bartholomew Race, Of
Goshen, was sick in bed, having only
"A hours before given birth to child,
her husband told her that he was going
to kill himself and, as he did not want
to leave her, he had made up his mind
to kill her also. The children say their
mother pleaded piteously for her life,
but their father put pistol to her head
and blew out her brains and then turn
ed the pistol upon himself. The pow
der ignited the bed clothes and their
eight children who were locked in the
room were narrowly saved from Gre
nation by the neighbors. Race is be-
lieved to have been insane.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Foreign News.

LONDON, Jan. 3O.-The formal en-
thronement of the Right Honorable
aud Right Rev. Mandell Creighton as
bishop of London to succeed the Right
Honorable and Right Rev. Frederick
Temple, who was elevated to the arch
bishopric of Canterbury took place in
St. Paul's Cathedral to-day, and con-
trary to expectations it was in no wise
an imposing spectacle. The Cathedral
was only about half filed with specta-
tors and there wss only fair attend
ance of the London clergy.
LONDON, Jan. sou. S. Ambassador
Thomas F. Bayard will give dinner
to the Prince of Wales at his residence,
on March 2. The Lord Mayor and the
sheriffs of the city of London will be
present.
LONDON, Jan. 30.-Ex-Empress Fred
erick, of Germany, arrived at Osborne
House to-day on visit to the Queen,
her mother
MADRID, Jan. 30.-The Epoca says
that General Azcarraga, minister of
war, has intimated, in the course of con-
versation, that an arrangement with
the Cuban rebels looking to cessation
of hostilities in Cuba may possibly be
reached soon. The Madrid newspapers
profess belief that the recent visit of
United States Minister Taylor to the
Duke of Tetuan, minister of foreign
affairs, was an event of great import
ance in Its bearing upon the situation in
Cuba.
LONDON, Jan. 3O-It is stated that the
queen ON the occasion Of the six eenth ami
versary Of her ascending the throne will
create her daughters, Princess Helena, wife
of Prince Christian of Schleswig- Holstein ;
Princess Louise wife of the Marquis of Lo ne,
and Princess Beatrice, widow of Prince
Henry of Battenburg, duchesses in their own
right. This will give the children Of Prin
cesscs Helena and Beatrice English instead Of
German titles
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

A local option election will be held
in Leesburg next Thursday.
Mrs. Margaret E. MeLynn, wife of
J. D. McLynn, died at her home in
Hamilton on Thursday.
Mrs. S. Fanver died at her residence
near Marshall on the 21st instant She
leaves four children.
Mrs. Susan Lee, wife of Mr.. Joseph
D. Lee, died at her home, "Holly-
wood" in Stafford county, Thursday
night, aged so years.
Mrs. Margaret P. Roach died at
Poplar Grove" the residence of Mrs.
Eliza Arnold, pear Port Conway, King
George county, on the 22d.
Charles w. Hardy, a native of Win
chester and at one time superintendent
of the Staunton water works, died yes
terday at Hinton, ". Va
Mrs. Minnie A. Alfred, widow OF
F. ]. Alfred, died at Staunton yesterday
aged seventy-three years. Her hus-
band was well known educator and
at one time editor of the Staunton Yin
dictator.
Governor O'Ferrall has appointed
Mr.. II. w. Anderson, of Richmond,
and DR.. W. E. Anderson, of Farmville,
delegates from Virginia to the good
roads convention to be held at Orlan-
do, Fla, on February Cd.
Sheriff Russell, of Loudoun, was in
the city to-day, having in custody a
coored man named Royston, charged
with stealing cattle. Royston had been
in Jail in Warrenton and was this even
ing taken to Leesburg.
Mr.. W. T. Milleson, living near
Berryville, lost three fine horses this
week from disease which has bafled
the veterinarians. The disease, while
it resembles CHAMBERS, differs in many
respects from any disease ever Sc en- in
Clarke county.
At the meeting of the Board of Wis
itors at the Virginia Military Institute
lest Thursday The quartermaster was
directed to provide table napkins fol
the use of cadets Mt meals hereafte r
This is luxury that has never beel
allowed them before.
Miss Cora Shepherd, daughter OF
Rev. T. B. Shepherd, and granddsugh-
ter of the late Thos. Rogers, of Lou
doun. died at the residence of her
parents, at Smithfeld, Isle of Wight
county, Saturday, January 16. Her re-
mains were inferred at Berryville.
The city Of Norfolk has thwarted a
plan of syndicate to bottle up the
only available water supply which
could have been used by the city to
augment its inadequate supply and tide
it over a threatened famine. Tho
J property in question, known as Lake
! Joyce, is situated in Princess Anne
county.
Mr.. c. II. Slack, editor of the Bristo
Courier, was tried before United States
Commissioner Rieder at Bristol yester
day on the charge of serding obscene lit
erature through the mails, and wa
bound over. The charge referred to al
article which appeared in the Courie1
on the 9th instant over Mr.. Slack
signature.
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COMMUNICATED.

THE CITIzENs' LEAGUE.-In the
County Court OF Alexandria county on
Wednesday, January 81, Judge Yarrell,
in his argument to be recognized in lieu
of the Commonwealth Attorney, as
prosecutor of the appeal cases of mis-
demeanor against ]. W. Clark, request
ed that the record include the names of
all those who are members of the Citi.
zens' League of Alexandria county. At
tention to this is called in order that the
members of this league, who originally
Joined in good faith to assist the legally
constituted authorities, may be aware
of the efforts of few members who
so persistently endeavor to clothe them
selves with authority and cause all who
have not joined the league to be made
participants in the prosecution of these
cases, and also to enable the league to
protest, if they 30 desire, prior TO the
22d OF February, when the cases will
be heard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-30

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TO THE Doc
ToRs.-President Cleveland delivered
an address at the Carnegie Music Hall,
New York, last night, at the semi. CEN
tennial celebration of the foundation of
the Academy of Medicine. The open
ing and greater part of Mr.. Cleveland's
speech was devoted to complimenting
the doctors upon the rapid advance
ment their science is making, and upon
the resulting benefits to the human
race. Then he sketched some of the
defects in existing medical legislation,
and put the question to the assembled
company, whether they were sure
their duty as citizens had been
as fully discharged as had been
their professional duty-whether they
were doing all in their power
to remedy the situation he des-
cribed. If you want job we'll done,
do it yourself, he said. IF members of
your profession were oftener found in
our national and State legislative as
semblies, ready to advocate the reform
atory measures you have demonstrat-
ed to be necessary, and to defend your
brotherhood against flippant and sheer
ing charges of impracticability, the
prospect of your bestowal upon your
fellow men of the ripened results of
your professional labor, would be
brighter and nearer"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-30

THE MEN of this section of the coun-
try, as rule, always offer their seats
in railroad cars to standing women: and
the custom is commendable; but it is
doubtful if the women would not rather
stand provided their nostrils be ex-
empt from tobacco smoke, and their
skirts from tobacco juice. The motive
that induces man to give woman
his seat, and then to nauseate her with
the fumes of cigar or cigarette, and to
stain her skirts with the juice of tobac-
CO, is something that few people can
find out.
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Two &c. ,,,ptic Steamer Overdue

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The White
Star freigbte,- Cevic is now FIVE days
overdue at tn is port. The continued
absence of the l,ig ship has forced the
conviction that some accident is re-
sponsible for her on-appearance, as no
sort OF weather could by itself so much
retard her arrival. The Cevic sailed
from Liverpool with crew of IS men
on January Is and should have ended
her journey here on Monday. What
ever may be the cause OF delay, her
agents have firm faith that she will
turn up all right.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-30

Mr.. SHERMAN is on record as having
publicly denounced Mr.. Alger for buy
ing his negro delegates to the national
republican convention. Both of these
statesmen will, after the 4th of next
March, sit together at the cabinet board
in the White House. No matter what
may be said to the contrary, it would be
unnatural if the relations that exist be-
tween a man so denounced, and the one
who believes he had good reasons for
denouncing him, could be of the most
agreeable character. But politics make
strange bedfellows.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-30

REV. DIR. RAINsFoRD's unprovoked
attack upon Mrs. Bradley Martin has
induced some of the dynamiters in
New York to threaten to blow her and
guests up on the night of her proposed
ball. She should now give her ball, if for
no other reason than to test the question
whether people in this so-called LAND
of the free," are still permitted to do
what they pleass with their own
money. However, woman who can
give hundred thousand dollar ball,
could we'll afford, to cover her criticizers
with shame and confusion by spending
an equal amount in relieving the suf-
ferings OF the poor people in her own
city.
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List of Unclaimed Letters

The following is list of the letters re-
manning in the Alexandria, Va, postotco
January 30:
Persons calling for letters will please say
they are advertised.
Advertised letters not called for within two
weeks will be sent to the dead letter office.
Anderson, Ii HOLSTER, Mrs Clara
Hell, A Iden, Joseph |
Brent, Susan Lindsey, Miss Marian
Brown Thomas Lylcs, Jas Z
Custodian of Museum, Moore, Mrs L
Dale, Miss Fannie Royse, w M
Fisher. Miss Annie Thomas, Mrs A J
Gaines Sam Walker Chas =
Hazel, Walker, Mrs Lou
&C. CARLIN. p. M.
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COuRT OF APPEALS

Baltimore Steam Packet Company VS.. Wi =.
li4ms, and New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk Railroad Company vs. same. Argued
and continued.
Sabin VS.. Wider's administrator. Dismiss.
ed, on motion of Capt. George A. Mush6ach,
for failure to print
The next cases to be called are: Chatham
vs.. Go@en, No. 81, and Tatum VS.. Ballard,
No. %, and Elicit vs. MCGEE, No. %.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-30

A GRAND legislative ball was given
by the citizens of Charleston, West
Virginia, in the capitol of that State,
last night, but the solitary negro mem
Der of the legislature thereof was not in
vited. Some of the republican members
of that body at first declined to attend
,
in consequence of this intentional insult
to their sable ally, but the attractions
of the ball were too great temptation
for them to resist, SO they pocketed the
affront to their brother in black
hired dress coats and patent leather
pumps, aud had what they called good
time.
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STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, :.

LUCAS NUUNIl J
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of +. j.
Cheney & CO., doing business in the city of
Toledo, county and State aforesaid, and that
said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN
DIED DOLLARS for each and every case Of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use Of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my
presence this 9th day of December AID 1886.
(~) a. w GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills arc the beat.
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A Mutinous Crew.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30.-The Swan
hilda, the ship that is bearing murderer
Butler from Australia to this port, has
not as yet been sighted. The Swan
hilds has hard set of men for a crew.
Four of them were released from prison
in Newcastle just before the ship sailed.
One of the men was in Jail for striking
the captain on the street. and most of
the crew were in mutiny nearly all the
time the ship was in port. 1t is said
that the crew of the Swanhilda needed
only leader to bring about mutiny
and make the ship floating hell.
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