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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
A PANTHER CHASE.

The great panther AID Mexican lion hunt,
which bad been arranged in hoaor of Colonel
William J. Bryan by his Texas admirers, took
place yesterday. Over two hundred men
participated in The sport The crowd. WAS
composed of State officials. business men and
cowboys from all parts of the State The
start was made from Austin at $50 e. m.
The chase lasted about two hours. A panther
led the hounds several miles and finally
sought refuge in q tree. The animal jumped
from the tree alighting in the midst of the
pack of hounds, and killing two OF them.
Bill" Redd finally succeeded in lassoing the
panther, which was presented to Mr.. Bryan
The animal was carried into town, and will
be shipped to Lincoln, Neb. The panther is
about three years old, aud is one of the
lsrgest ever seen in the neighborhood of Aus.
tin. The hunting party routed q large Mexi-
can lion, but the hounds lost the scent and
the animal escaped,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
4 Fraud.

Worcester, Mass, Dec. 2S.-The Spy
this morning says that the man repre-
senting himself as Right Rev. j. Nicer
schaert, Bishop of the Indian tribes Of
the West, who visited Holy Cross Col
Iege in Worcester, December 5, and was
received with open arms by the faculty,
and students, was a confidence mar
named Lewis, of Russo-Jewish extrac-
ton. Now that the imposition has be-
come known, the priests and students
at Holy Cross recall many peculiarities
about the pseudo bishop that at the
time of his visit were regarded only as
lspses due to extreme old age.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Brave Men Fall

Victims to stomach, liver and kidney
troubles as we'll as women, and all feel
the results in loss of appetite, poisons
in blood, b%ackacbe, nervousness, head
ache and tired, l~istless, rundown feel
ing. But there's 40 need to feel like that.
Listen to J. W. Gardner, Of Idaville,
lad. He says: Electric Bitters are
just the thing for q man when he ia all
all run down, and don't care whether
be lives or dies. 1t did more to give
me new strength and good appetite
than anything I could take. I can now
eat anything and have a new lease on
life" Only 80 cents at E. S. Leadheater
& Sons Drug Store. Every bottle
guaranteed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
The Ceremonies ut Arlington.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 2S.-One
hundred and fifty one mounds a. Ar
lington National Cemetery closed the
last chapter 10 the tragedy ofthe Maine.
The interment ceremony was simple
and Impressive. One hunded ard six
ty-6ve remains are reported to lie 10
these Isl %cofibs. All last night the
heavy tramp of the marines on guard
was heard, as they kept their vigil by
the side of the dead. At eleven o'clock
this morning the ceremonies began.
The bodies were brought from the tents
to the graves escorted by marines head
ed by the Marine band. Father Chad
wick, the chaplain of the Maine, who
had superiDtended the dieinterment OF
the bones at Havana and had accom-
panied them here, spoke ashort, heart
felt prayer and read a chapter from the
scriptures. Captain Sigsbee, of the
Maine, stood by his side. On a stand
decorated with the national colors stood
the President and bers of the cabi-
net. The ceremonies were witnessed
by a large number of persons. The
h%ag-draped cofins were lowered, taps
we're sounded, a volley fred, the band
played q dirge and the crowds dis
persed. The marine guard resumed
it's watch till the dawn of the next day.
The following members of the Cabinet
accompanied the President to Airing
Ton to witness the ceremonies: Secre-
taries Long, Wilson, R OF, Gage and
Postmaster General Smith. Admiral
Dewey, General Miles and Assistant
Secretary Allen OF the navy were also
present. The President returned to
the executive mansion at noon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

Central and PeniDsular Railroad Com
pany. Notice of pending suits to pre-
vent consolidation was served by
Thomas F. Ryan IN behalf of minority
stockholders.
Alfred Borlini, for many years in the
employ of the American Bank and
Trust Company, al San Francisco, has
been arrested for e~mbezziing $500
from the bank. Borlini was married on
December 7 to Miss Margaret Olcese.
His bride has disowned him and her
family is very bitter because of the
shame he has brought on them.
A horrible wholesale murder has
been committed in Osick, near Kalisch,
Poland. Nine members of the family
of 5 wealthy landed proprietor named
Kowaiski were killed after q frightful
torture. The house was robbed OF every
thing valuable. The multilated corpses
were discovered yesterday, but there
is no clue to the murderers.
The celebrated Pinnacle Rock, which
overhuDg Cumberland Gap, Tenn, and
was a noted natural spectacle, fell from
its lofty height on Tuesday. The town
was awakened as if by an earthquake,
as the immen:e mass, weighing hun.
dreds of tons, came tumberling down.
No lives have been reported lost, al
though considerable property was de-
stroyed.
The Panama Canal Company OF
America with an authorized capital
of $50, 000. 900 was incorporated in
Treoton, N j.. yesterday, The object
of the company, as shown by the arti.
Giles of incorporation, is to acquire by
purchase the ship canal of the CON-
pagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama
and the railway across the Isthmus of
Panama.
The Baltimore Finance Commission
ers decided to purchase at par all OF the
guaran;eedW estern Maryland bonds
maturing January 1, 1900, thus saving
the city from defaulting in the bonds.
The commissioners sold, at highly
gratifying prices. $685. 900 worth of city
stock, loan of 1915, to Mr.. 81. A. Orrick
S75, 900, and the Guardian Trust and
Deposit Company $50 600.
At a conference Of representatives OF
the Southern Railway Company and
the Seaboard Airline, recently held in
New York, it was decided that the two
companies wonld, during the coming
year, at least, maintain existing ratee.
The rumors that there is to be another
war between the Southern Railway and
the Seaboard Airline are said by those
in a position to know to be without
foundation.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, which
obtained the terms of the Samoan treaty
before the official announcement, Gre
ates a sensation by stating that Grea.
Britain, Germany and Portugal have
made a secret treaty By which the two
irst-named powers are to divide all OF
Portugal's colonial possessions. Brit
ain, according to the reported treaty, is
to get Delagoa bay, thus shutting eff
the Tr%ansvaal from the sea on all sidee.
1t is understood that the Rev. DR..
Henry NJ. Wharton. pastor of the
Braudtly Baptist Church, Baltimore,
will tender his resignation to the
deacons of the church on January l
and sever his connection with the con-
gregation at that time, His brother,
Rev. DIR. NJ. B. Wharton, the cop. stor,
VINO has had charge of the active work
for nearly a year, has already resigned
and will preach his last sermon on SUIT
day night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Rev. Robert W. Patton, of Roanoke,
has declined the call to ST. Marks
church in Richmond.
The snow of yesterday was quite
general throughout the State and this
section of the country.
Mr.. D. Fishburne. ir., and Miss
Annie w. Price, of Albermarle county,
were married at the residence of MIR.
Gordon Granger, near the University
of Virginia yesterday.
MIR. George M. Pemberton, a promi-
uent C tizen OF Sp%otsylvania county died
on Tuesday of paralysis, caused by q
fell last week, aged 81 years. A widow
and five children survive him.
Mr.. Luke G. Efinger died suddenly
yesterday at his home in Tyro, Nelson
| couoty. He was a native CT Rock bridge
caunty and was for about 20 years a
prominent wholesale grocer of Lynch
burg.
A party of drunken country sports. a
| score or more, broke up two Christmas
! entertainments at churches in YORK
county, Tuesday night, and destroyed
considerable property, according to in
| formation received from Fish Neck.
Thomas Thompson, a young white
man in the employ of the Carson Lime
/ Company, a, Riverton. fell through the
Norfolk and Western Railroad bridge a
| distance of so feet at that place Tues
day night and sustained no serious 10
juriee.
The hearing of the injunction pro-
ceedings brought against the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad in the United
Stat 8 Court in Richmond by Thomas
F. Ryan, which had been fixed for to-
day, has been, by consent of COUNSEL,
continued until January 8.
The Second Baptist Courch of New
port News seems to be satisfied that its
pastor, Rev. Thomas j. Mackay, is
guiltless of the gross charges brought
against him by one OF the women CT
his congregation recently, which Great
ed q great sensation IN that place. The
congregation has rendered him q vote
of confidence.
Fertilizer manufacturers operating ID
Virginia are flooding the Department OF
Agriculture with analyses of their ferti-
lizsrs, in accordance With a provision OF
law which compels such detailed state
ment of the composition of their pro.
duct as a condition of being registered.
Only registered dealers are permitted
to sell 10 Virginia, and the Commission
ersof Agriculture is directed not to reg
lister any whose fertilizers do not meas
ure up to a proper standard of quality.
About twenty-five dealers registered
yesterday.
In Richmond yesterday Railroad
Commissioners Hill instituted proceed
ings against the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company to require that COM
pany to make a closer connection with
the Southern Railway at Strashurg,
Shenandoah county. The commission
or serves notice on President CoWen
that he will move before Judge Har-
rison, of the Circuit Court oil Shenan-
andoah, ito order and require the Bal
timore and Ohio to make this connec-
ton" 1t was supposed that this COD
troversy had been arranged by mutual
consent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Brothers, Deadly Compact.

Sturgis, KY, Dec. 2S.-Millard and
Nick Gregg, brothers, visited. Union
town Tuesday and, after filing up on
holiday beverages, started for their
home near Hitesville. They entered
ioto a compact to take their Own lives
before reaching home. At Hitesvilie, a
party was in progress at Dan Buck
mans, and, in the midst OF the eayety,
Nick Gregg stepped before q looking
glass and fired the fatal shot into his
heart. On the instant. his brother
Willard grasped the revolver with the
intention of ending his own life, bu'
was prevented by several of the revel-
lers. Willard then procured a razor,
but was restrained from using it on his
throat. No cause is known for the
tragedy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Ill Omens in the Stars.

New York, Dec 2S.-Famine and
plague III India aud the British reverses
10 South Africa are all laid to the COD
junction of seven p'anets 10 the sigu OF
Scorpion which occurred November Is
This is the reasoning of the linda as
trologers, and to prevent further calam-
ity and insure success for Great Britain,
special prayers and religious ceremon-
les were arranged. S%eventy-6ve of the
most learned Brahmins o%ficiated, being
given valuable presents of shswls aud
money before they started the rites.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOUBs.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company an
nounces the following personally.conductcd
tours for the season of 1899 and 1900:
Mexico and California-A forty-iive.d' y
tour will leave New York and philadelphia
February ID. Fourteen daya will be 81 eat
in Mexico and eighteen in California. The
party will travel over the entire route By the
mexico and California Special" the fnest
train that crosses the continent.
Fiorida-Four tours to Jacksonville will
leave New York and Philadelphia January
%, February 6 and 20. and March g. The
ret three OF these admit Of a %sojourn OF two
weeks in the "Flowery State" Tickets Tor
the fourth tour will be good to return ~
regular trains until May 81, 1900.
Tickets for the above tours will be soid
from all principal points on the Penrsyl'
vania Railroad. For full information sd-
dress G. studds, Passenger Agent Southeast
ern District, Washington
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

1T Is now stated, even in im%perialistic
newspapers, that U. S. vessels are eL-
gagged in police duty off the coast OF
Sierra Leone for the British govern
ment, the ships of which that former
ly did such work having been with
drawn 10 order to reinforce the British
feet in South African waters But, all
the same, these identical newspapers
continue to assert that this government
is a neutral power, and that the preva-
lent impression that an alliance has
been formed between the United States
and Great Britain is wholly without
foundation
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
The Pest in Honolulu.

San Francisco, Dec. % The transport
Centennial arr we'd last night from Manila,
via Honolulu, with a large number of officers
and sick ano discharged soldiers. She brings
news that the bubonic plague has broken out
Ia Honolulu. The vessel is in quarantine
1t is probable that the disease was spras I'D by
japanese Coolies brought over to work on
sugar plantations. Up to December 10 six
deaths from bubonic plague had occurred, sll
among The Chinese.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
800 REWARD 500

The readers of this paper will be pleased %
learn that there ia at least ore dreadad =;
sease that science has been able to cpre in III
lts stages. and that is Catarrh Halls Cs,a-rh
Cure Is the only positive cure known +" ,bn
medical fraternity. Catarth being n con.,,'
tutional disease, requires a constitution@I
treatment. HslPs Catsrih Cure is taken ~.
ternally, acting directly upon the blooi and
mucons surfaces Of the system, thereby d,
stroying the foundation of the dlsea, . s,5
giving the patient strength By building nm
the constitution and assisting rature in CO.. .
ITS work. The proprietors have go ru h isir9
IN lis curative powers, thst they offer ,ur
Hundred Dollars Tor any case that It fails n
cure. send for lis If Testimonials. Addre.s
F. CHENEY ~ % Props. Toledo, d
Gold by all druggists.
EslPs Family Pills are the bast.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Caught on a Trestle.

Anderson, :. c., Dec. 2S.-While
James Jones, his wife, two children and
brotber-in-!aw were walking on a high
%trestle near here Tuesday night a train
suddenly came upon them. Mrs. Jones
was killed, her body being horribly
mansled. Mr. Jones, with one of the
children, jumped headloug into the
swamp below. The brother-ir-ls la also
jumped aud the other child fell through
the %trestle. All the latter were badly
injured, but it is thought they will re-
cover.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
No Fenian Invasion.

Ottawa, O0t., Dec. 28-The minister
of militia, the minister OF marine, the
deputy minister OF militia and various
military heads OF the government say
that the government of Canada has no
reaeon to believe q third invasion from
American territory is at all likely. The
officials declare that the idea that Cans
d. is denuded of troops is absurd. They
say the fihting spirit of Canada is
aroused and that the provinces could
call on 1OO, 900 men. The papers gen.
orally laugh at the idea of a Fenian in
yasion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
The Peace Convention.

The Hague, Dec. 2S.-The German
delegates this afternoon sigoed all the
peace conventions m.de at the Peace
Conference. The convention regard
ing the extension of the Geneva Red
Cross rules to naval wal was signed
with reserve. The Swiss delegates
signed all the conventions relating to
naval warfare, but did not sign the
rules. governing wal on land,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS.

Leaving Washington every MONDAY, We
nesday and Friday at 1O:45 p. M, via South
ern Railway, new tourist sleepers, persona :
conducted, go through to San Francisco VIII.
out change of cars. The route Is through : :
lanta, Montgomery, New Orleans, Houston,
San Antonio, New Mexico, Arizona and eouIt
ern California. The cars are very lste., pa
tern of Pullman tourist sleepers. Three ard
one.hslf days to Mexico and Arizoua, tour
days to Los Angeles and five days to San
Francisco. The tourist car fare is less than
via any other route, ga ying from $50 $50
for the trip. For inform alton apply 10 sny
agent of the Southern Railway.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Destructive Fires.

Chicago, Dec. 2S.-The vinegar and
yeast factory OF Spielmann Bros. Com
pany, was almost destroyed by fire last
night. Four floors of the ive-story
building were ruined. The damage is
estimated at 500, 900.
Fire destroyed the placing mill and
box factory OF the Psepicke-Leicht
Lumber Company last night. The
damage is estimated at fully SIZE, 900.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
MONETARY AND COMNERrlAI

New York, Dec. 2s.-Tbe stuck market
was extremely irregular in the early desliags.
Prices moved without consistency or sppalent
logic. In the rsilwly list the f%uctua, OF;
were extremely variable but within = c.lu.
paratively m al lint The ma ket Snow d !.
feveiis tone gentri IL but there WIS buy. =
OF q good character on the 1eces ions. n
governments the new 4s were s. up and IS
Were up u while 5s we're % of.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

Frank Leslie's Monthly for January has
been received from its publishers in New
York. Its contents are: America at the
Paris EXPOSITION, The Misses Potter's Chap
eron, WaySide Views of Life in Persia,
Engiand's Free Hand on the Nile, New
Years Day in Japan, The Bath Comedy, The
Promotion Of Sergeant Cubbison, Artistic
American Furniture, Msrginalia and some
poetry.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

J I. Bevry, Logautown, Pa, write. II am
willing 10 lake my oath In t | WIS cured p,
pneumonia entirely 10y the u.s. o Oue Mimi
Cough Care after doctors fai.ec. t sl.o .u.
ed my children Of whooping cough.p DUO,
ly relieves snd cures coughs, colds. grippe ami
throat and lurg troubles. Children ali Ike
it. Mothers endorse it
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Son Of an Ohio Merchant Cured of
Chronic Diarrhoea.

My son has been troubled for years
with chronic disrrhoes. Sometime ago
I persuaded him to take some of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrho. a
Remedy. After using two bottles of
the 25.cent size he was cured. / give
this testimonial, hoping some one SINH
larly afflicted may read it and be bene-
fied.-Thomas c. Bower, Glencoe, O.
For sale by all druggists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

PROSPERITY, according to the pluto
Gratis, is ubiquitous, and is flooding all
sections of the country; but, judging by
the daily reports of business failures in
the North and West, what the pluto.
Gratis say, cannot be implicitly re-
lied upon.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
A man supposed to he Ps,er r. Ca.

a man supposed to be Peter C Scbroe.
der, a wholesale grocer, VINO liyei
with his wife and two children. and 81
unknown woman we're found dead in =
room in Charles Westerns hotel. in Nan,
York, today. They had been dead FIR
several hours, having been a~sphyxio.
ted. "SAis
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Ale1andria Market. Dec. cs.

But little is doing in the grain market ard
prices ara unchanged but firm. Country pro-
dnce is also in light receipt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
Eall's Family Pills are the best.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tour Life Nv.

TO quit tobacco easily and forever. be m9g.
netic, full OF life, nerve and vigor, take NoyIo.
bac, the wonder-worker. that makes weak mon
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure quar-
teed Booklet and sample free. address
Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New Yors
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

Lewis Dennis, Salem, Ind, says "Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure do me more good than any
thing l ever TOOK" 1t digeats what you eat
can not help but cure dyspepsia and
stomach troubles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

G. d. Appleton, Justice of Peace. Clsrks.
burg N. j., says "DeWitt's Little Early Ri :
ers sre the best pills made for constipation.
We use To others" Quickly cure for all liver
sud bowel rroubla,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

News has been received at Victoria. B. c.,
By the stesmer Aoiangi of a bloody civAl wsr
that has been raging among the natives of
HiIiwsni, New Guinea
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
The Markets.

New York. Dec 2S.-The market closed
as follows: Wheat-Dec =; May 694a69As.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28
How Are Your Kidpev.,

DR. Hobbs Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sam.
u Gree Add. Sterling Remedy Co, ChicaeoQsAXs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

EXTRA sIFTED NEW CROP CANNID
IL PEAN just received by
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

(yOX & GoRDoN's MISSOURI HANS
" finest quality, for sale by
N lfvT CITpN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

FANCY LEMONS AND ORANGES fI
sale hy ] C. MIRERN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-28

NEW DRIED CHERRIES just received by
In q MLBURN.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-05
DAwNING ON ENGLAND.

London, Nov. 4.-The war office at
noon today announced that nothing
had been received in any way modify
ing or altering the statement issued
yesterday that belated dispatches from
Ladysmith were coming through. Moth
ing has been received to corroborate
the reiterated reports from Berlin of
the capitulation of General White. \
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company from Pietermaritzburg, dated
yesterday, said Ladysmith was per-
fectly quiet.
The war office has issued the
following announcement: THE col
onial office has received in
formation to the effect that the troops
have been withdrawn from Colenso and
concentrated further south. but we
have no news of any engagement in the
neighborhood."
Lady Randolph Churchill intends to
accompany the American hospital ship
to Cape Good Hope to superintend the
work of the American nurses.
Gunner EggertOn of the British cruis-
er. Powerful, who was wounded by the
explosion of a shell at the lombard
ment of Ladysmith. has been promoted
to the rank of commander for services
in the field His legs have been am
putated.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-05
CAME TO CONSECRATE.

st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. A number Of
prominent Roman Catholic bishops and
clergy are in the city to assist tomor-
row in the conservation of Right Rev
Bishop Hopkins, S. J., as bishop of
British Honduras. 1t is customary for
all consecrations to the espiscopate to
take place in cathedrals, but on this
occasion, by special dispensation the
ceremony will be held in st. Francis
Xavier's church, the parish church of
the Jesuit fathers, to which order the
new bishop belongs and which has
charge of the churches and Catholic
institutions in Honduras.
The ceremony will be an impressive
one and st. Xavier's church, which is
one of the most magnificent in the west,
will be tastefully decorated for the oc-
casion. Archbishop Kain will officiate
at the ceremony, assisted by several
bishops.