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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
New Vessels for the NAVY,

SEATTLE, Wash, March ga tele-
gram from the Secretary of the Navy
has been received by Moran Brothers
telling them to complete the torpedo
boat Rowan at the earliest possible mo-
ment. Under the contract the Rowan
will have speed of 80 miles an hour
1t is fitted with three torpedo tubes.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2S.-The gun
boat Princeton, which is being built at
Camden, is rapidly nearing completion
She will leave the shipyard in about
week to receive her fittings. The Prince.
ton is not large craft but is perfect in
her appointments and admirably adapt
ed to cruising in shallow waters.
BERLIN, March 2S. = Lieutenant
Commander Niblack, the U. S. naval
attache, has conditionally purchased
for the U. S. government protected
cruiser building at Kiel for South
American government. He is consid
eriug the purchase of vessel building
at Hamburg.
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Foreign News.

PEKIN, March 2S.-The Chinese gar
risons were withdrawn to-day from Port
Arthur and TaLien Wan, the Russians
landing, and the Russian flag was
hoisted at both places.
DUBLIN, March 2S.-In connection
with the centenary of the revolution
of 1898 the police have searched the
farmer 3 house in the counties Of Lime
rick and Cork, taking possession of all
fire arms found and announcing that
they will be returned after the celebrs-
tions.
LONDON, March 2S.-The Earl of
STAFFORD is dead. George Henry Charles
Byng, third Earl of Stratford, was born
in London in 1884. He had been Lord
in waiting to the Queen, under Secre-
tary of State for foreign affairs and un-
der Secretary of State for India.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

A VIRGINIA JUDGE" IN Troy
About month ago there arrived in
Troy, n. Y, rather distinguished
looking elderly man of Hebrew e1trac-
ton, whc registered at one OF the hotel
as Henry Ash, of Richmond, Va. He
announced that ne represented hlg
syndicate, which mad from 81 ,0O00oJ o
IS 600 900 to loan on bond and mort
gage, and that he came North to mud
Investment for part of that sum. he
said he had been a judge in Virginia
and had held other offices in this State
Of profit and trust. He secured various
small sums from parties to whom be
pretended he would lend monty in tue
way of fees for appraisements. 7aTGn-
ing titles, &c. While in Troy ne
made the acquaintance of young
Jewess named Cardova and became en-
gagged to her after obtaining board IN
her fathers house. A few days ago De
arrived at the end OF his rope and was
compelled to leaye Troy rather hN
risdly. People in Richmond say they
never heard of the "Judge."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

The ANNOUNCEMENT on one day that
Fortress Monroe is practically defense
less and that foreign sergeant in the
garrison who is familiar with all the
plans of that fortress has disappeared;
that the battlesbip Texas ran on a
coral reef, is disabled and will probably
have to 90 in the dry dock, and that
the leading newspaper of France says
in case OF war between Spain and the
United States the sympathies of the
European governments will be with
the former, are not conducive to the
spread of the war spirit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES

The work of painting the hattleships
Unexpectedly stopped yesterday, viii
be resumed tomorrow. They will be
painted dark lead color instead Of
black.
Rich strikes of gold are said to have
been made In creeks not far distant
from Skaguary port. The new finds
have caused stampede from Dawson.
and hundreds of claims have been
staked.
Mrs. Elizabeth Vanname, a widow
50 years of age. died of hydrophobia at
home in West New Brighton, S. l., to.
day. Mrs. Vanname was bitten in Is
spots on February by a dog which
ran amuck through the town, BITING
four other persons.
destructive wind storm, accompanied bv
heavy downpour of lain, struck Artmore
I T last night and sixteen dwellings were
moved from their foundations. AL streams
arc swollen and considerable damage i be.
lieved to have been done in the "a roundup
country.
Adjutsnt General stryker, of New Jerse, )
received WORD iron Assistant SecretaTy {
the Navy Roosevelt to day to hold ninety
five OF the New jersey naval reserve in
readiness to take the monitor Montauk from
League Island navy yard to Portland
Richard F. Lopez. vice president and GEN
eral manager of the Gusrantors Finanpc
Company, at Philadelphia, was placed under
arrest this afternoon charged with conspiracy
to cheat and defraud the Peoples Bank.
An agent of the Spanish government from
Havana is in the Kansas City market ppr-
chasing mules for the Spanish amy in Cuba
He has purchased 600 to be delivered on the
wharf at New Orleans by April >.
The Atlantic liner Michigan which arrived
at New York fiom Lon'on to day brought
200 cases of smokeless powder. The destps.
ton Of the powder is believed TO be the navy
department.
Freezing temperature with fall OF sboa.
40 degrees within 4S hours prevailed .s,
night and this morning throughout north.
western Missouri and Kansas.
The q. s. cruisers San Francisco and Nrs
Orleans formerly Amsz0nas), sailed foa.
England yesterday for New York.
Miss Fanny Davenport, the actrcss
thought to be dying in Chicago
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

broken in two and the fiat keel bent
into en- angle similar to the angle form
ed by the outside bottom plates. This
break is now about 6 feet below the
surface of the water and about 30 feet
above its normal position.
In the opinion of the court this effect
could have been produced only by the
explosion of mine situated under the
bottom of the ship at about frame Is
aud somewhat on the port side of the
ship.
The conclusions of the court are:
That the loss of the Maine waA not in
any respect due to fault or negligence
on the part of any of the officers or
members of her crew;
That the ship was destroyed by the
explosion of q submarine mine, which
caused the partial explosion of two or
more of her forward magazines; aDd
That no evidence has been obtained
fixing the responsibility of the Maine
upon any person or persons.
I have directed that the finding
of the court OF inquiry and the views of
this government thereon be communi-
Gated to the government of Her Msjes-
ty, the Queen Regent, and do not
permit myself to doubt that the sense
of justice of the Spanish nation will die
tate a course of action suggested by
honor and the friendly relations of the
two governments.
1t will be the duty of the executive
to advise the Congress OF this result,
and in the meantime deliberate consid-
GRAFTON is invoked.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
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From the Flooded District.

CINCINNATI, o., March 2S.-At 10
O'Clock this morning the river was sixty
feet and iour-tenths and was falling at
all places above. The rain up the river
was not sufficient 10 check the fall. No
further serious damage will come from
the additional rise.
MAsCoUTAH, ILL.,, March 2S.-The
great levee8 20 miles up the Kaskasia
are expected to be swept away and
many farmers are abandoning their
homes in the lowlands. Between Fay
ettevile and st. Libory the Kaskasia is
now about four miles wide and all
overland traffic has been abandoned.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 2S.-The
Wabash and White rivers are on the
rampage. In some portions of southern
Indiana the Wabash is said to be 10
miles wide. Much live stock has been
drowned and wheat all along the low.
lands of Indiana's southern rivers has
been DESTROYED
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. E. G. Brugb, formerly member
of the House of Delegates from Bote-
tourt county, died on Saturday.
Mrs. Virginia Miller, who was acc
dentallv shot by her husband on Fri
day, died on Saturday evening at 8
o'clock ct their home near Winchester.
Mr.. John H. Dnneen, having gone 10
Baltimoreto reside, has resigned the
position of State escheator, which Office
he has held since Gen. Fl'z. Lee was
Governor.
Mr.. Addison Hansford, of King
George, and Mrs. Ella M. Gordon, OF
Caroline were married Thursday at the
home of the brides brother, Mr.. W. F.
Stephens, in Spottsylvania county.
A pretty marriage took place at Mon
tsgue Chapel, in King George
county, Wednesday, the principals be,
ing Miss Susie Foster. daughter Of Mr..
L. NJ. Foster. and Mr.. Abner Price,
both of KiT g George.
Judge Holmes, in the county court
of Mecklenburg, on Saturday sentenced
Isaac Paylor, colored, TO be hanged on
the Goth of May next, for the murder
of his wife Lula Paylor, on the 2lst day
of last January.
The State Board of Public Instruction
will hold q meeting in Richmond next
Wednesday to hear the plea of the
history committee of the Grand Camp
for the adoption of more impartial
histories for use in the public schools OF
the State.
Mr.. Julius Bear, one of Richmond's
best known and most popular Jewish
citizens, died Saturday evening at the
Old Dominion Hospital, where ne had
been operated upon. Deceased was in
the seventy. ninth year OF his age. He
was native of Bavaria.
Preparations to lay submarine mines
in the harbor at Old Point have been
made. The cables. to which these
mines will be attached, have already
been placed in the waters of Chesa-
peake bay at Capes Henry and Charles,
and the mines themselves can be a.
tached in "A hours. A network Of
wires extends from Cape Henry to Cape
Charles and any number of torpe Toes
can be connected with them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

FREE SCHOOLS were established to az
ford people too poor to send their child
rem to school the means Of doing so
without expense. But that idea has
long since been dissipated, and such
schools are now availed Of by rich peo-
pie for the instruction Of their children.
The result, of course, has been to break
up many private schools, to say moth
ing of other evil consequences. 1t has
also been found that in cities in which
free medicine dispensaries have been
established, many people we'll able to
buy drugs, obtain them on the public
account, and spend the money they
would have to pay for them in the pur
chase of liquor and other luxuries. Pa.
ternaIism has few good, but many evil
consequences.
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Shot His Daughters Betrayer.

SEATTLE, Wash, March 2S-M. F.
Schelderup, a well-known insurance So
lcitor, was shot and killed yesterday
by E. NJ. Bradley, o prominent con-
tractor, on the corner Of Third and
Cherry streets, in the presence OF q
large crowd of theatre -goers. Schelder-
up was standing on the corner waiting
for Miss Bessie Bradley with whom he
was going to the concert at the theatre.
Instead OF being met by the young lady
he was met by her father, who, without
saying q word. drew Colts revolver
and shot Schelderup through the body:
Schelderup fell to tine groundl aad ex-
PRED in few minutes Bradley was
arrested. At the station he would
make no statement beyond saying that
he shot Schelderup because he had
ruined three of his daughters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
MONDAY EVENING, MAR. IS, 1898.

ACCORDING TO the report OF the
Maine commission, the court could form
no definite opinion of the condition Of
the wreck from the divers evidence,
from technical details of the wreckage
the court "deduced" that a mine was
exploded, and the court could not find
evidence to fix the responsibility.
And yet on such report, there are
many people in this country who ad-
vocate war with Spain, that would in
crease tenfold the suferings of the Gu
bans, main or kill thousands of Ameri-
can citizens, and SO enlarge the public
debt as to make the taxes necessary to
pay the interest on it, oppressive, If not
unbearabe, and which, if successful,
would benefit nobody, not even the H.
surgents for whom it will be under
taken. Whether or not there be no
laws in time OF war, the experience OF
this country is to the effect that there
is no sense in time of rumors of war.
Before any thing further be done in the
case of the Maine, that vessel should
be raised, SO that her whole hull shall
be visible. Nothing in mechanical force
is impossible now, and the cost of the
raising of the Maine would be baga-
telle to that CT war with Spain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
METHODIST CoNFEREYCF

At Hinton, w. Va, on SATURDAY
when the class for admission into full
connection was brought up at the Bali.
more Annual Conference, Methods
Church South, Bishop Wilson took o.
casion to deliver an interesting addre,.
, on Methodist doctrine, and the duue-
of minister During his adj
dress he said: "You need not worry
about national questions; they Will
be discussed more thoroughly, if not
more satisfactorily, in the councils OF
the nation. The preacher does not
have to get on the Spanish question.
Stick to the Scriptures, for you have
enough there. The Gospels OF Christ are
the only things inexhaustible. Testing
and witicisms have no place in the pui-
pit"
The deacons and elders were ordain.
ed yesterday.
The treasurer of the board OF mis-
sions, ]. E. Alexander, ofthis city, made
his report. Foreign missions, Washing
ton district, $2,059; total for the eight
districts, $1O,5SS. Domestic missions,
Washington, 81, 345 for the eight dis.
tricts, $6,663 There was a slight in.
crease in the foreign mission collections,
and slight decrease in the domestic
mission collections from last year. TIE
educational board assessed $1,000 fer
Randolph Macon College and 1850 for
the general educational board.
1t was decided 10 send memorial to
the General Conference, asking that
the financial, as we'll as other affairs Of
each charge be examined at the annual
conference.
Rev. Quincy A. Wheat was recon-
mended to be placed on the superan-
nusted list.
The lConference Benevolent Society
met Saturday afternoon. There va,
only one death during the year that
OF F. NJ Tolten. Officers for the en-.
suing year were elected as follows
President, J. S. Hutchinson Secretary,
S. K. Cox; Treasurer, Robt. Magruder
who, with J. E Armstrong, and T. B.
prettyman, constitute the board Of d.
rectors
Considerable speculation is beirs in
dulsed over request from the Nr-
ginia Conference for the transfer Of "a
preacher to fill the pulpit OF Union
Station Church, Richmond, made Va
cant by the recent death of Rev. Geo.
G. Vanderslice.
The feeling of most of the member
and delegates seems to be in favor OF q
centrally-located place for the mex,
meeting. The committee has not vet
reported, but it is generally understood
that Alexandria will most likely be St
lected. There are some who would
also like to see Winchester chosen.
A special meeting Of the laymeu was
held Saturday night, to decide upon
the lay delegates to the General Con-
ference, which meets in Baltimore dur
ing May. The delegates decided upon
are Robert Magruder, Baltimore de.
trict; P. V. D. Conway, Washineton
E. S. Conrad, Rockingham Judge j
W. Woods, Roanoke, and l.. J. Wiz
liams, Lewisburg. Alternates-Dr NJ.
L. Jarret, East Baltimore Judge i. D.
Newman, Winchester, and DR.. II. h.
Jones, Moorefeld.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
Yellow Jaundice Cured

Suffering humanity should be sup
piled with every means possible for It's
relief. 1t is with pleasure We publish
the following "Tbis is to certify that
I was terrible sufferer from yellow
Jaudice for over six months and was
treated by some of the best physicians
in our city and all to no avail. Or;
Bell, our druggist, recommended
Electric Bitters, and after taking TWO
bottles was entirely cured. now
take great pleasure in recommending
them to any person suffering with this
terrible maIady. l am gratefully yours,
NJ. A. Hogarty, Lexington, KY" Sold
by E. L, Allen, Druggist.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

The WAR furry has been great
source of consolation TO the advocates
of the Dingley tariff bill, as they attrit-
ute to it the deficit in the revenue that
naturally results from that bill. When
the seas shall be swept by Spanish
cruisers the customs dues will amount
to little or nothing, and internal reve'
nue. and loans will be the main reliance
for the requisite millions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

LEASE OF PORT ARTHUR.-A dis
patch from Pekin says: NJ. Pavlof,
the Russian charge d'sffsires, will sign
to-day an agreement with China re.
garding the lease of Port Arthur and
Talienwan to Russia, and the right of
constructing railway to both places.
Port Arthur will be handed over to the
Russians tomorrow. Both ports will
be open to warships of the world. The
Russians reserve for themselves the
right to collect customs duty at Tslien-
wan, and probably to take over the
forts at Port Arthur.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
From Cuba

HAVANA, March 2S-The city of
Havana is quiet and business is being
conducted as usual.
at Villa Clara the autonomists did
not vote at the election yesterday, and
in many districts only a few persons
voted.
The insurgents have been defeated in
several skirmishes recently.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

The Philadelphia Record says prob
ably not ten people in the entire South
ern Confederacy, outside of the military
officials, were aware of wha was going
on behind the stockades of the prison
camp at Audersonville." 1t is utterly
impossible for Northern people to be
come correctly Informed on any subject
relating to the South. Everybody in
the South, without as we'll as
within the class of military officials,
was perfectly aware ofthe condition at
Andersonville, and the Southern news
papers were filled with accounts of it,
aud, what is an indelble shame ard
reproach to the North, is that the hor'
rors of that condition were fully and
accurately portrayed to the Us. gov
eminent, which was asked to allow the
South to buy the necessary food and
medicine for the sufferers, or to permit
them to be exchanged, but which posi-
lively refused to do either. "Humani-
9arianism" was not as popular in the
North then as it is now.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
a.r. Gladstone Critically Ill.

LONDON, March 2S.-The Westmins.
ter Gazette this afternoon, discussing
the health, of Mr.. Gladstone, says: "It
is no news to say that Mr.. Gladstone's
illness must necessarily be fatal in a
comparatively short time. Mr.. Glad
stone Is fully informed as to his condi-
ton. He asked the doctors to tell him
the truth, and was thankful when in-
formed that he had no chance of re-
covery. H life goes on quietly and
evenly. Music is his chief solace."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

THE Hawaiian snnexationists are by
no means pleased with the substitution
of the Cuban scheme for theirs, just
when they imagined the latter was on
the eve of success. Their chance is
now gone, for with a war with Spain
in progress, this country will have
neither men nor ships to be employed
in depriying the Hawaiians Of their
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

Mr.. HoAR says the Senate has not
degenersted; but another Senator rises
on the floor of that body and says silent
lips compel to speak, buries his face in
his hands and bows his head upon his
desk, and is led to the cloak room by
his colleague. The bsthos Ras gro
tesquely transparent, and even Mr.. Hoar
must have conceived the idea TINT his
remark referred to was a very i'm
prudent one. But the deterioration in
the Senate is no more marked than in
the whole body polite of the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

SOME of the preachers in Wash
ington yesterday held forth in
favor of the heather god of
war. instead of the Christian God
of peace and good will, in whose
cause they profess to be engaged. They
lifted up their voices and cried aloud
for blood and iron, rather than for
charity to ali men. So keen set on
war were they, that one of them said it
should have been declared the day
after the Maine explosion, and the in
vestigation of that explosion been made
afterwards, and for saying so they were
applauded by their congregations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
From Madrid.

MADRID, Mar. % Senior Sagaata, The
premier, declares the Spanish government has
no, sent note to the government of the
United States on the subject of the relief of
the Cubans. The official newspapers are
somewhat optimistic in their references to
the ISOLATION of the Cuban difficulty" al
though they emphasize the opinion that the
recrudescence of the far eastern question is
unfavorable to Spain, as diver'ing the at.
tention Of the European powers
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
Fusion Ticket Adopted.

PORTLAND, Ore, March 2S.-A fusion
State ticket under the name of the
people's-democratic-silver republican
party has been completed, headed by w.
R King, populist, for Governor. The
"middle-of the-roadn populists who
bolted the regular populist convention
nominated separate State ticket.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

Jap1es W. Buchanan, a granddaughter
of the late ex-President Buchanan, was
run down by train and killed in the
Pennsylvania Railroad yard, at Az
toona, Pc, yesterday. The mangled
remains were discovered by his wife,
who left her house to search for him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

THAT the refusal of the legislature to
change the existing excellent election
laws was perfectly right and proper, is
proved by the action of the republican
majority in Congress in turning fairly
and legally elected democratic mem
bers from Virginia out Of that
body, in order to give their seals
to republicans who were not elected.
No matter what the laws may be or
how efficiently they may be en-
forced, Virginia democrats have no
chance in a republican House, and now
that the chairman of the elections COM
mittee is renegade from their own
State, they have less than ever before.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

I. is a great leap from the old fashioned
doses of blue-mass and nauseous physics to
the pleasant little pills known as DeWitt's
Little Early Risers. They cure constipation,
sick headache and billiousness. Charles
G, Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

Charles Gates, street Vender, was
found dead in Oakland, CAL, at an
early hour this morning. Gates, who
was cripple, had been bound fast to q
table and then beaten to death with
heavy pipe. The motive for the crime
was undoubtedly robbery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

A torpid liver robs you of ambition and
ruins your health. DeWitt's Little Early
RiseIs cleanse the liver, cure constipation
and all stomach and liver troubles. Chsrles
G Lennon,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

Thirty FIVE years make generation. That
is how long Adolph Fisher, of Z4nesville, O.,
suffered from piles He was cured by using
three boxes of DeWitts Witch Hazel salve.
Charles g. Lennon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28

liberty, and putting them under the
control of a few filibusters from the
North.