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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
TO-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS
From Richmond.

RICHMOND, Feb. 3.-The bill intro
duced by Col. Barley several days ago
fixing the liability of insurance COM
panies in case of tota! loss, was, with
certain amendments suggested by him,
unanimously reported by the commit
tee this morning. The bill provides
that all insurance companies in this
State shall hereafter in all policies
written upon real property state the
estimated value of the property insured
and also fix in the policies the amount
for which they undertake to be held
liable in case of total destruction, and
that they shall be liable therefor in
such cases as provided that the COM
panies shall be entitled to any depre-
citation in the value of the property be-
tween the dates of the policy and the
loss of the amount the companies un-
dertake to pay in case the total loss
equals the estimated value of the prop
erty insured as stated in the policy.
The joint committee to investigate
expenditures in public institution
made its report to the Legis-
lature to-day. They recommend
abolishing the Capitol police and
appointing FIVE Confederate veterans at
$40 a month to do police duty. A heavy
cut is made in the State hospital appro-
p iatious as follows Williamsburg rom
S75,0 C0 to $50, 900; Staunton $3.50 900 to
$S5 900; Marion $50, 900 to $45, 600. The
salaries of these and other State in.
situations are also cut. Virginia Mill.
tary Institute appropriation is cut from
$35 600 TO S25 5000; University of Vir-
GINA from $4,000 to 5000 No de-
duction was made at Blacksburg. They
recommend that no spirituous liquors
of any kind be permitted to be used at
any meetings OF the executive commit
tees of State institutions. They recon-
mend abolishiDg the Agricultural d.
partment and transferring the apparat-
US and duties of Office to Blecksburg,
abolishing the Office of Register of the
Land Office aud placing duties on the
Secretary of the Commonwealth with.
onr compensation. The committee es-
Inmates that their rec 'mmendation, if
adopted, will save $4,000 per annum.
They recommend no further appro
priation to the Virginia Medical Col
lege, aud that the property be sold and
the proceeds turned into the State
Treasury.
The Senate debated the bills to
abolish the holiday on January 10 and to
make the holiday January 20, in honor
of the birth of Doth Lee aud Jackson,
but vote was not reached.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
American Crooks in Mexico.

MEXICO CITY, Mex, Feb. Sired
erick Pollock, formerly railroad con-
ductor, has been arrested in connection
with the operation of gang of Amer
lean crooks. Frederick P. Graham,
Gaining to be an Englishman, who re-
cantly swindled New York and New
jersey capitalists out of $2l, 900 in a
sale of a nonresident phosphate mine
in Osxaca, has left the country and
there is good reason to believe he has
gone to Alaska, where detectives will
follow him. The discovery of faro ia
bles iugeniously devised to cheat forms
an important link in the chain of tes-
timony against the crooks. The gov.
eminent is determined to root out all
The gang.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
The Situation i'm the Far East.

SHANGHAI, Feb. 3-The China Ga
zette says the British Indian, Aus
tralian and Pacific squadrons have
been ordered to be ready to reinforce
the fleet 10 the far East, thus giving
the British admiral fleet capable Of
coping with "any combination oppos
ing British policy" 'In the mean-
while,n adds the Gazette. 1.-The British
claims in the Yaug-Tse Kiaug will be
supported by q strong squadron sta
toned at Chusau, In the event Of Rus
STA hosting her flag over the fort at
Port Arthur. the British admiral has
been ordered to hoist the English flag
over Chusen, and the Japanese fleet
will ascend the Yang-Tse-Kiang so
soon as the river rises. About $500
Russian artillery and cavalry and
quantities of stores and munitions have
arrived at KiriD.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-According to a
special dispatch from Shanghai, pub
lished to-day, two British warships en-.
tered Port Arthur yesterday and left
without snchoring.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
The Chewing Gum Habit.

Topeka, Kas., Feb. 3.-Bishop John
H. Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, appeared before the State
Temperance Union yesterday and ap.
pealed to his hearers to take up the
chewing gum habit and to persevere
until it is crusaded out of Kansas. He
asserted that the chewing gum vice
was encouraging dangerous habits
among the people. He urgued that
the foundation of temperance reform
should be laid at the chewing gum age
of childhood. If the child's will was
educated to resist this habit, it could
be easier trained to resist other habits
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
THURSDAY EVENING, FEB 3. 1893
The California republicans in Con-

The California republicans in Con-
press advocated and voted for the Ding
ley tariff bi l.. Fruit is one OF The
chief of California's products. and
is shipped by her people to
parts of the civilized world, much
of it, heretofore, to Germany; but, Us
stated in yesterdays Gaz-tte, the
large quantity of it that has gore to
that country must, hereafter, be kept at
home and sold at small profit, or else
seek another market, for its entry into
German ports has been excluded-nom-
inally, of course, for sanitary reasons, as
American meat is, but really as one OF
the retaliatory means upon which for
eign nations have agreed, for the high
duties the tariff bill referred TO imposes
upon foreign products. The world is
too far advanced now and there are too
many people in it for any one country
to presume TO be exclusive in respect
of Any thing. If all the products
of the United States were excluded
from foreign countries, the home mar
kets would be glutted in q week, and
then the fireworks would commence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
Foreign News.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 3.-.Incoming YES
sells report meeting terrific gales during
the last few days, especially when near
the Irish coast.
berlin, Feb. S-A dispatch from
Kiao Chou announces that the murderer
of Schulz, the German sentry who was
killed while on duty at Taimo, has been
executed after trial by Chinese court.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-Some of the after.
noon newspapers to-day refer to the
absence OF the Russian and German am.
bassadors from the Marquis of Sails
bury's Wednesday reception of the Dip
lomatic corps as being disquieting por-
tent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
THE PRESIDENTS RECEPTION.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley

The President and Mrs. Mckinley
held their second reception last night
at the executive mansion.
While lacking the spectacular brill
fancy of the first reception, the second
was marked by all the elegance that
distinguished men and magnifcently
gowned women can lend to a scene of
such fairy-like enchantment as greeted
thoir appearance last night.
The White House has never been
more magnifcently decorated than for
the imposing event. The East room
was jungle of palms and exotic ferns,
and, except that the center plats of
shrubbery had been removed from the
center of the floor, the effect was very
similar to that of the night before, on
the occasion of President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley's dinner to President and Mrs.
Dole. Each recess was banked with
foliage, and the center east window
was entirely walled from view by tall
palm trees, whose tops touched the
ceiling and whose base was buried in a
deep growth of roses of every hue, An.
nunciation lilies and white hyacinths
mingled with trailing vines. Countless
thousands of flowers were msssed over
each of the high-arched doors and win
dows, and stationed along the walls OF
the vast apartment and of the adjoin-
ing corridor were tall, stately, rubber
plants, that stood like sentinels on
guard.
With the exception of giant bou-
quet of roses, orchids and lilies that
capped the fautelle in the Blue room,
where the presidential group received
the guests, the decorations were en-
tirely of palms and smilax, through
which glowed electric lights in the ma.
tional colors.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

EVERYWHERE else in the South ex
cept Virginia, and it will soon be so
here, in respect of politics the boilers
who have not already come back to
the party they deserted in its supreme
moment Of emergency, are counted
with the republicans, who favor the
force bill, that is negro domination, q
high tariff, trusts and monopolies, and
government by Injunction. Fortunate
~, for them as we'll as everybody else,
there are so few of them that they are
insignificant.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
THE WHITE members of the Fedora

THE WHITE members OF the Fedora
ton of Labor in the Southern States
are making arrangements for withdraw
ing from their national organization,
for the reason that while it does not
draw the color line, they do, and must
do, ia order to preserve their self re-
spect. In the South white men, in
labor as we'll as capital circles, will not
associate on terms of equality with ne
groes. There is a natural antipathy
to social equality between the two
races in the South that cannot be eredi-
Gated by 10 EMS rules or laws.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
Cold Weather and the Mails.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. 3.-The
cold wave which moved into this Sec
ton yesterday, reached climax this
morning with the temperature ranging
from eight to seventeen degrees below
zero.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The belated
mails from the northern part of New
York State reached here at q. %. to-
day. This is the first mail from the
northern part of the State this week.
Southern mails are arriving on schedule
tine
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

MR.. JOHN WISE made an unfortu-
nate remark-fcr himself-when be
said Mr.. Bowden was like Hampton
crab, for not onl- has the President
nominated Mr.. Bowoan to q lucrative
Office, but the U. S. Senate has deter
mined to confirm him. Then, too, if as
rumored, the republican elections CON-
mittee of the House of Representatives
has agreed to report in favor of the
democratic contestee, in the case in
which Mr.. Wise appeared as counsel
for the republican contestant, his
brother, many people will be disposed
to think that it is Mr.. Wise, and not
Mr.. Bowden, who is like the crab to
which the former referred.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
The Chinese Exclusion Act.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.-United
States District Judge DeHaven has
rendered an opinion which will have
the effect of erecting another strong
barrier against Chinese laborers and
criminals. The opinion is to. the effect
that the action of the collector of the
port is not even prima facie evidence Of
the right of Chinese to land.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

Mr.. LETTER, who has cornered the
wheat Market will make millions of
dollars by so doing, but the men who
planted and harvested the wheat made
comparatively little. But Mr.. Letter
was q most liberal subscriber TO the
fund with which the election of Mr..
Mckinley was purchased, and, accord
ing to republican and boilers ethics, de-
serve an opportunity to recoup.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

The LATE Don Piatt used to call the
Capitol at Washington the leave of the
Winds" and now the Spaniards, in view
of the long winded harangues made in
that building on matters so absurd as
to be patent even to children, call those
who deliver them "babbling bipeds, :"
which, it must be acknowledged, is not
an inappropriate designation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

THE FACT that Senators LINDSAY and
Gray voted, two or three days ago, for
the Teller resolution, declaring q. S.
bonds redeemable with silver dollars,
shows that they have either seen new
light, or elss that they were so gulled by
Mr.. Cleveland that they really supposed
free silver was not popular with demo.
Gratis, when they deserted their party in
1895
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
Weather Conditions.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Light snow, follow
ed by fair we ,ther, may be expected in the
lower lake region and northern New Eng.
land, and generally fair in the southern
States east of the Ohio valley. 1t will be
colder on the south Atlantic coast snl in
Florida Friday morning, and it will be warm
er Friday afternoon in the southern States
and east of the Ohio river
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

That tired feeling which is experienced by
so many people living in Malarlal 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
GROVES.
For ALE by CHARLES g. LENNON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

After years of untold suffering from piles,
B. ". Purssll of Knitnersvllle, Pa, was cured
by using single box of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel salve. Skin diseases such as eczema,
rash, pimples and obstinate sores are readily
cured by this famous remedy. Charles g..
Lennon,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

What pleasure is there in life with b ,ad.
ache, constipation and billiousness? Thou
sands experience them who could becc me
perfectly healthy By using DeWitt's Little
Early R,sers, the famous little pills. Charles
6, Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

Malaria produces Weakness General De.
bility, Biliousness, Loss of Appetite, Indiges-
ton and Constipation. Groves Tasteless Chill
ionic removes the cause which produces
these troubles. Try it and you will be de-.
lighted. so cents To get the GENUINE ask
for GROVES.
For sale by CHARLES G. LENNON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

You run no risk. All druggists guarantee
Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic to do ali that
the manufacturers claim for it.
Warranted no cure, no pay. There. are
many limitations. To get the GENUINE ask
for GROVES.
For sale by CHARLES G. LENNON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03

Mr.. Geo. Kidweli died suddenly at
his home near Herndon, on Friday
night last.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-03
OFFICIAL.
BOARD OF ALDEPNF>

1t called meeting of the Board Of A.
dermen of Alexandria, Va, held Febrn. :, :. :.
2, 1893, there were present '''U5'Y
VIM. b. Marbnry, esq, President ana
Messrs. Havener Dobie, Bailenger HIM. ane
Curtin. smoot and Sweeney. A'--' H'
A communication from his honor -
Mayor, was received giving his rssSons ' .-
calling Council, after which the b board ~ Al
journed. '''''4 su
W. b. MARBURY, Presideot
Teste: r. E. KNIGHT, tlerk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-11
Live Stock
Live Stock.
UNION SAOCK YARDS,


BALTlMOttE, Monday May ..
Swine.-The arrivals this week were
14,4i2 head. The receipts are about 700
head less than they were last week. The
trade Is reported as fair and prices
some Csc per 100 lbs. higher than they
were then. Far western hogs sold at
81 25I4 60. those from other points
81 25G4 40. light pigs. under 100 lbs,
50 1904 90. and roughs 81 1903 rs per
100 lbs. gross.
Sheep and Lambs.-There Is n fair
trade reported for both sheep and
lambs. the weather being more favor
able than last week. Clipped sheep.
weighing rs to 100 TBS, 363&c, and e1-
ira 4c. Fall lambs, all western, GO to 70
lbs, &c, being M0Ac higher: spring
lambs, 40 20 G5 lbs. 646l4c, and extra
GAc; no change.
Calves.-A fair trade Is reported for
Veals, owing to more favorable wealth
or, and the prices Of last week are well
maintained. Veals weighing from 90 to
40 lbs. sold nj 5d6c.
CHICAGO-Tradc In cattle TODAY
was extremely dull. Prices held about
steady, the bulk OF the offerings going
at 81 35G5 90. Stoclters and feeders
brought 81 0014 Is: COW and heifcrs
81 5OQ4 GO. The hog trade was active at
advances OF &c. Sales were at an,ex-
IRENE range OF SO 253i 90, chiefly nj
81 1904 rs. Pigs brought 50 GOI3 90,
Best light hogs sold ut 81 12Is. Trade In
sheep was active at MI advance, Lambs
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-11
Tho Features OF tho Money md Stool
Markets.

The Features OF the Money md Stock
Markets.
NEW YORK, May 10.-Moncy on call
firm at 293 per cent: last loan 3 per
cent. Prime mercantile paper 566 per
cent. Sterling exchange easier. with ac-
tual business In bankers bills ut
81 S4h14 S4& for demand, and at
81 Slh94 Slh for sixty days; posted
rates 81 So and 81 SUE. Commercial bills
81 80HIt 81. Silver certificates SEQ
5G%c. Bar silver 5G%c. Mexican dollars
45c. %
Tho stock market was largely Iinflu-
cnccd again to-day by the wheat mar
lset, the movements In which unsettled
the tone In speculative markets. No
doubt successful spectators OF yester-
day In wheat Immediately placed a
part at least or their profits In the
stock market. This kind OF support
had no small part In the Sundertone OF
strength In stocks yestcrdnv. To-day the
wlping out OF paper profits aud the
tumbling OF price In wheat resulting In
the %uncovcrlng OF margins Induced IL
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-11
a. 0. U. W.
Loyalty TO tho United stutos Mnnifesred
In n Substantial Way.

Loyalty TO tho United StutoA M%nnifested
In n Substantial Way.
The following circular letter recently
Issued Is self-explantory:
LA GRANGE. Tex, May /, 1898.
10 the Members OF the Ancient Order
United Workmen, Greeting:
Whereas, Many Inquiries have been
MADE TO me concerning the effect en-
ISlInent in the army OF the United
states. Tor the purpose OF engaging In
inc present war between said United
plates and Spain. will have upon the
Ueheht certificates OF members SO en-
.istins. in case OF death. Now. there
ioFe, that all OF our members may fully
ufoerstand their relations to the order
una their country, hereby give notice
mat Tie Ancient Order OF, United Work.
men mas no sucn law, rule or regula-
uoN now In existence, and In my opIn-
.oh should never have one, that In any
way prevents or discourages a member
from Performing his full and whole
.uty 10 MS country. no matter in what
opacity he feels called upon to act.
me n and integrity Of u coun-
", 10 say nothing OF Its defense,
saouId be as dear to every member as
% our order. and no true Workman
Sou!d desire to do aught that would
discourage the fulfillment Of every duty
" mo true and loyal citizen.
w. s. ROBSON,
,,. Supreme Master Workman.
NJ. W. sACKETT,
Supreme Recorder.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-11

CHICAGO-Wildly frustrating 2cc a
bushel. wheat to-day closed at 81 II for
July, a loss OF SIC compared with the
final figures yesterday. A collapse from
II p. Il new record for July to 81 05,
chiefly In the last half hour, was the
main spectacular feature. Sales 10 real
lie profits principally caused the fearful
slide. A ha!r-raising quick rally OF 1Oc
due to covering by shorts followed Just
before the closing gong. May closed a..
81 80, the highest point this season. q net
advance OF l0c. Letter reported sales Of
10000 bushels cash wheat abroad ct an
advance since yesterday OF &c, apparent
~ proving that foreigners still wanted
wheat, despite the drop at Liverpool.
Corn and oats ruled weak on realizing.
July corn lost 1H0lSc, oats I@Sc.
Provisions opened dull. finished at de-
ciines Of loo FOR park and 2E45c for lard,
with ribs unchanged.
Intense excitement In the wheat pit
marked the day from the very start.
Liverpool Showed a decline Mt the OPEN
Ing Of Ghc q bushel for May and &c for
September This was Offset by q pre-
liminary jump Of 92c in July. But the
second cables showed u sudden slump in
July also. This unlooked-for procedure
on the part OF the English market
caused q weak opening here. July be-
gan with declines of 2@Sc. Trades were
on q range OF 81 1741 IS. Four subse-
qucnt quotations reduced the price to
81 1914. Here the supply Of wheat sud-
denly vanished and quotations steadily
advanced to 81 25, the highest point
reached by Me July option. May wheat
was only heard from at long intervals.
Trading IN 1t began &c lower at 81 10. The
succeeding sales were at 81 IS, 81 so and
81 IS. 1t had occasional reactions to
81 so. but was Immediately picked up. II
was about 11so'clork when July touched
II 20. 1t rebounded to 81 "a, rallied to
81 20 and then took q steady downward
course. Stop orders on long wheat
seemed thick and close under the mar
ket. The downward flight was checked
temporarily at around 81 II. Trade was
narrow and ordinary orders were hard
to execute. Routine news cut very lit
tie figure In the early dealings. Local
receipts were 1886 cars compared with 10
last year. Minneapolis and Duluth got
All cars against 49S the year before. To-
days primary receipts aggregated GlG,-
600 bushels compared with only SIS. 900
last year. Atlantic port clearances OF
wheat and flour were cuual to $50, 900
bushels. The closing quotations from
continental markets showed advances
at Pnris equal to &c n bushcl for May
and 3Bc for September anu December.
Antwerp was up equal to sNc u bushcl.
a quarter OF m hour before the close. n
flood OF long wheat broke loose. The
selling was based largely Upon the pre-
sumption that 'to-day's government crop
report might be bearlsh. Scalpcrs ven
turcd to put out short lines. July
slutmpcd In n couple Of minutes from
around 81 Is to 81 10. Most of the trades