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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST the Plague.

New York, Nov. 2O.-Quarantine Of.
6cers said today that there was no
cause for alarm over the bubonic plague
on the British steamer ]. ". Taylor, as
all precautions would be taken to pre-
vent the dread disease getting up TO
the city. The Taylor has been thorough
ly disinfected. The health officers have
also resolved to destroy all the rats on
the plague ship, probably by steam.
ing them to death. Tests of diseased
tissues from the two patients at Swim
burne Island prove conclusively that
the disease is the bubonic plague.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
A Narrow Escape

Chillicothe, Mo-, Nov. 2O.-Nors
Johnson, the l6year old daughter Of a
we'll to do farmer, near Braymer, hsd
a narrow escape from being buried
alive yesterday. A few days ago while
apparently in excellent health she sud.
denly fell into deathlike trance. Ar.
rangements for the funeral were com.
pleted when she just as suddenly awoka
and sat up in her coffin. To tho as.
tonishment of the witnesses, she said
she had seen and talked with the Lord
who told her she would die within q
week. The occurrence has created a
sensation in the neighborhood.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

GALL Is not a sole possession OF
Northern republicans; it is developed
in large proportions also in Northern
democrats, and boiling so.called DEM
ocrats, who assume to advise the
national democratic party in respect OF
the platform to be adopted and the
ticket o DE nominated at it's next ns-
ti.nL con ention. 1t is bad enough
when States that never cast an electoral
vote for national democratic ticket, to
tell the national democratic party what
to do, but for deserters from the party,
who fought against it three years ago, to
do 30, evincee not only large surplus
Of gall, but OF gall stones, also.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
Dirorced-she 70, He 81,

Topeka, Kau., Nov. 2O.-Elizabe.h
Hsgerman, seventy.nine years old, got
divorce from her husband. who is
eighty.one, in the District court Of
Montgomery on Saturday. The couple
had been married two years. and in her
petition Mrs. Hagerman declared that
it was impossible for her to live happily
with A. ]. Hagerman because he chews
tobacco. Both were very feeble and
were assisted to the court room by rel
atiYes,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

TARRED AND FEATHERED.-West
Liberty, ten miles north of Urbana,
Ohio, Friday night, was the scene of
violence by masked mob. The frail
Jail at that place was broken into by
masked men, estimated at about 100 in
number, who went there to get Nell
Jackson, aged thirty five, the white
widow of Grant Jackson, colored; Ed.
Jackson, aged seventy, the woman's
iather-in law, and Dave Hickman, a
colored man from Bellefontaine. After
giving them q severe whipping the
members of the mob tore their clothing
from them, tarred and feathered them,
threw them into stream of water,
then pulled them out, and with clubs
and stones drove them out of town,
firing pistol shots at them. The affair
grew out of the arrest of the three on
the charge of arson. Early Friday
morning the barn of Marshall KrabelI
was discovered on fire, and the barn
and all its contents were destroyed.
The woman was suspected of having
fired the barn because of threats she
had made. When the officers attempt.
ed to arrest the woman her father-in.
law made strenuous resistance. They
were overpowered and arrested, along
with Hickman, who was found at the
house. The charge of arson was made
against all three. The arrest and the
circumstances connected with it caused
intense excitement in the town and
surrounding country. The woman's
husband, Grant Jackson, was a no.
torious character, and was shot and
killed few years ago. Edward Jack.
son, one of the victims of the West
Liberty mob, is reported to have died
Saturday evening as a result of the in
juries received Friday night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
ATTEMPTED Lynching.


Norfolk, Va, Nov. 20.-A crowd OF
would.be lynchers surrounded the
farmhouse of Oscar Fleming, a magis-
trate of Princess Anne county, this
morning and made an attempt to cap
ture the man, who defended himself
with Winchester rifle Several day 8
ago Fleming shot and killed Clarence
Snyder, youth who was cunning on
the Fleming farm. Fleming was held
for the grand jury on 81 900 bail. The
small bond and the fact that Fleming
was allowed his freedom, caused the
residents of the county to become much
incensed and many formed the
opinion that the murderer would
not receive full justice. If Elem.
ing does not give himself UP soon
the mob may Set fire to his house.
Fleming's daughter is in the house
with him. Word has been sent to
Richmond and the militia may be order
ed out. Last night, fearing that Elem.
Jog would escape, an advance guard
was sent to surround his home. a
mob about go strong went to Jennings
house about 3 o'clock this morning.
The leader, with rifle in hand, APP
preached Flemina's door and knocked.
Fleming suddenly threw the door
open and fired, shooting the leader
down. Fleming then fred into the
crowd, scattering it. Several men are
said to have been shot. The wounded
leader crswled fem h, house 10 hay.
stack in Fleming's yard and died in 3
few minutes. The names of the muir
dered and wounded men have not yet
reached Norfolk.
At an early hour this morning Elem
ing was holding the mob at bay but the
men are determined and the lynching
seems inevitable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

ALExANDRIANs who are not satisfied
with the amusements their own city at.
fords, but take delight in going to the
expense of attending Washington the
atres, have to disposssss themselves OF
their natural race antiphaties when
they do 80, as in all those places, and in
all parts thereof, they are apt to lind
that they will have to sit alongside of a
negro, the ever-present knowledge OF
whose propinquity cannot be dis
PEELED by all the perfumes of Arabia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
Mr.. Hanna.

Chicago, Nov. 2O.-The Times.
Herald editorially says this morning
THE report that President Mckinley
is party to, or winks at, any move to
retire Dir. HanDa from the chairman.
ship of the republican national commit
tee, in order to assure his renomina.
ton and election supposes the Presi.
dent capable of ingratitude without
parallel 10 the history of American
politics. 1t is fabrication so mon
strous that it only needs recital of
facts (of Mr.. Hanna's career) to stamp
it the child of desperate malignity.o
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
Buried Together

Chicago, Nov. 2O.-Placed side by
side, two in either end of large white
coffin, the remains of the four children
of Cornelius Corcoran-.three the victims
OF their fathers murderous aim, the
other dead from the effects of lauda
mum administered by him-.were inter.
red yesterday afternoon. The body o.
the father, who killed himself after
ending the lives of his four children
was also buried at the same time. Two
thousand persons viewed the remains
at the undertaksr's rooms.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
Bishop Nelson Against Prohibition.

Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 2O.-Bishop
Cleland Kinloch Nelson, of the Pro-
testant Episcopal diocese of Georgia,
delivered a stirring sermon at Phillips
Cathedral yesterday in which he de.
clared openly against prohibition, pc
sition which places him ct variance
with the other clergymen of Atlanta.
The bishop declared that be did not ap-
prove of intemperance, but that prohi-
bition did little if anything to remove
this vice and that it attempted to do
what God himself does not essay or de.
ei+e to accomplish-forcing individuals
into virtue against their Wills.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

GENERAL LEE.-General Fitzhugh
Lee, who arrived in Washington from
Philadelphia on Friday, called on the
President on Saturday to pay his re-
spects before leaving Washington. He
left for Richmond that evening, and in.
tends to return to Cuba by the 1st of
December. General Lee, while in
Washington, urged the Secretary of the
Navy to have the bodies of the Maine
victims removed from Havana and in
TERED at Arlington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
The WASHINGTON correspondent Of tho I'm

The Washington correspondent of the Phil.
adelphia Record says: new order Of eaders
as well as new period in the history OF the
House of Representatives will begin With tie
opening of the Fifty-sxth Congress Oh the
first Monday in December, for the last OF the
great parliamentary leaders left the House
when MIR. Reed resigned. The repub leans,
being in the majority, must furnish the lead
cts in constructive work in committee and on
the floor; the democrats must furnish the
leaders of that opposition which is essential 10
good legislation. Neither side can furnish
single great man for either kind of leader hip.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
Charged with smursline.

New York. Nov. 20.-Francvls Book
a jswsler OF Providence, R, L., was ar
rsigned before U. s. COMMISSIONS
Shields todsy charged with Smuggling
He was held in $1,000 bail for further
examination. Book arrived on the
steamer La Bretagne yesterday. Fifty
boxes of pearls valued at $4,000 were
found cleverly concealed in his lug.
gage. The arrest was made on infor.
nation received from Paris, where it il
stated that Book is trying to corner the
market IN pearls.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 90, 1899
ACCORDING to Northern republican

ACCORDING to Northern republican
Journals, the Spanish and Philippine
wars have made bygones bygones, ana
the hearts Of the two sections OF tne
country nov beat as one and both nave
but a single thought. But the same
journals we're celebrating peace Juoilees
wear ago, though a million dollars
day has been spent in war ever since.
Tn six months time both the political
parties of the country will be engaged
in nominating their national tickets,
but for neither place on either of those
tickets has man from the Southern
half of the country been even spoken
Of in the South, because the people
thereof do not believe what the Jour.
mails referred to say. and in the North
because to nominate for either Presl-
dent or Vice President ''rebel", woulc
be said there, to be more than "hesn
and blood could stand" No, unfor
tunately for the country, but Fortunate
" for the trusts, gold monometallists
and imperialists, and their paid agents.
bygones have not yet become bygones.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

FROM the President down to the
most obscure Northern federal officer,
one and all, while talking to Southern
people, express consuming desire to
show their, and their party's, good
feeling to the South" But words are
breath. The cheapest, easiest and best
possible way for the administration to
show its good feeling for the South, Is to
abandon irritating its policy of appoint
ing negroes to federal Offices in the
Southern States. 1t does not appoint
them in the North, and why it does In
the South, except to irritate the white
people of this section, nobody can tell.
There are plenty of honest and repu
table white republicans in the Southern
States to fill all the federal offices in
those States, and that they are not ap'
pointed, instead of negroes, is as great
a puzzle to them as it ia to anybody else.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

The TESTIMONY taken before the in
dustrisl commission, now In session III
Washington, is to the effect that while
the increased tariff on tin plate has
raised the price. of thst necessary artl-
ole, it has also closed many of the tin fac
tories, making necessary the discharge
of thousands of their employees at the
commencement of long winter.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
BAPTIST GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

BAPTIST GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
At the Baptist General Association OF
Virginia. in Richmond on Saturday,
the report of the treasurer was read.
This report showed considerable in.
crease in collections for all the several
funds except the Sunday School and
Bible Board and the Orphanage.
The report of the Home Mission
Board showed that during the year the
board had employed 653 missionaries.
Their field includes the boundaries Of
the Southern Baptist Convention and
Indian and Oklahoma territories, Cuba
and the District of Columbia.
The cash receipts for the year were
$40 ASS an increase of S7,744.17 over
the preceding year. AS regards the
work in Cuba, the report says that to
avoid friction and define mutual rela.
tons the Southern Convention Board
and the Northern Society agreed that
the Southern Board should have charge
of the evargelzation of the four west.
ern provinces of the island, while the
Northern Society occupies the eastern.
The night session was devoted to Sun.
day school and colportage works. The
report Of the Sunday School and Bible
Board OF Virginia and of the Sunday
School Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention were submitted, discussed
and adopted.
The association will adjourn tonight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

THE negroes of Washington are more
handy with the razor than with any
other weapon, but, in order to make
them experts in the use of the revolver,
pistol galleries have been established
there, conducted by them and for the
use of their race. They are evidently
coming Father Abraham, and by the
million strong.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

The fact that the republican govern
or and military authorities of Kentucky,
who may be called upon to act in the
disputed election case of that State,
dined yesterday with the republican
gubernatorial candidate at that election,
may have been proper and devoid OF
significance; but few right thinking peo'
pie think so.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

DR.. e. Il. Haden, Summit, Ala, says. II
think Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is splendid
medicine. l prescribe it and my confidence
in it grows with continued use" 1t dIgesis
what you eat and quickly cures dyspepsa and
Indigestion. Edgar Warfeld, IT., corner King
and Pitt streets
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

Chicago Cattle Market. Nov. IS Cattle
Cattle steady; generally unchanged strictly
fancy cattle So 7547, lood to choice - So
6.60 poor to medium 81. 60a5.40; mixed
stockers $3a375; selected feeders @2a
4.50; good to choice cows S3.7oa4 81 (;
heifers $3.60a5; Gamers $2a3, bulls = ~
a4.3O. calves S4a7.25; fed Texqs beeyes
81 35a6. IS; grass Texas steers S3.25ai - :
Western range beeves $4a5 80 ho.s
Market steady to shafe lower; good c.oai'
ance tops 81 O5 mixed and butchers - ~
al O5, good to choice heavy Sd D.
rough heavy SD 75s3.S5, light ~ '2@
3.97h bulk OF sales So 9Os3 %. 5heep-
Market about steady ; prices unchsng1d . y
tive wethers S3.75a4 so; lambs SIa3.22 .
Western wethers So S0a4 IL; Western sGIs
81 6Oa5 10.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
General Macarthur continues hi

General Macarthur continues his
advance northward on the island OF
Luzon. He has now reached Moncada,
about 80 miles north of Manila. Fill.
pinos have blocked the northern part
of the Manila Dagupan railroad by
wrecking a number Of cars and en-
gines and the advance by railroad is
temporarily checked.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
THE December number of the qua

The December number Of the quar-
terly edition o. Town Topics has been
received from it's publishers, in New
York. The novelette, of this number is
entitled "a Debtor to Pleasure" which
few who commence its perusal-and
have the time-will stop until they
reach its conclusion,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
Charged With Her Fathers Murdel

New York, Nov. 2O.-Mrs. Nora
Jeffries, 26 years old, was placed on
trial TO-DAY in Brooklyn, charged with
the murder of Thomas Hannah, her
father. Hannah was murdered on
April 80 last in his apartments. His
head had been battered in with an axe.
Mrs. Jefries, VINO had previously guar.
relied with her father, was charged
with the brutal crime.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
MONETARY AND CON Il Rtl3b

New York, Nov. 20.-The stock market
opened fairly active and generally higher
After the first fifteen minutes there were
some irregular reactions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

wouldn't be without Dewitt's Witch Ha.
eel Sslve for any consideration" writes Thos
g. Rhodes, Centerfcld. o. Infallible for piles,
cuts, burns and skin diseases. Beware of
coupterteits- Edgar War6eld, jr, corner King
and Pitt streets,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

Alice Anderson. q habitue of the resorts in
the section known as the New Tenderloin,"
on Eighth avenue, New York, committed
suicide early this morning by drinking car.
bolic acid. Weary Of life" is the cause
given.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
The Markera

New York, Nov. 2O.-The market close,
as follows: Wheat-Dec 671A; Nav -
Corn-Dec 321s MAY - Ogts-Dee 23l
Georgetown, Nov. 29.-Wboat 65a69
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
VIRGINIA MErHoDIsrs.

In the Virginia Methodist Episcopal
conference in Petersburg on Saturday,
resolutions were adopted dissolving the
colportage board of the Virginia confer
ence. Rev. a. G.. Brown was elected
book agent of the conference. The re.
port on colportags was adopted.
The conference ordered the report OF
the Lafferty Cannon controversy to be
stricken from the record. This contro.
versy occurred in 1895 and was
brought about by publications in the
Richmond Christian Advocate, of which
DR.. Laferty is the editor.
The total collections made at this
conference to the twentieth century
fund has been increased to $4,000.
Messrs. R. n. Marks, William R.
Evans, Joseph B. Langley, F. B. Nc.
Sparren, and Robert P. Garland were
ordained deacons yesterday
The Bishop, in addressing the csndi-
dates, told them, among other things,
not to preach sensational sermons, for
they were "a curse to church pulpits,"
out to preach the Gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Bishop Wilson charged
the candidates in most forcible man
ner not to let anything interfere with
their prosecution OF the work of the
Master. After the candidates had an
swered the usual questions propounded
to them by the Bishop and had receiv'
ed the charge from the Bishop, the con.
ference voted to receive them for dea.
con g orders.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

A UCTIoN SALE OF HOUSEHOLD AND
n KITCHEN FURNlTUbE
The undersigned will on TUESDAY NO.
vember %. at 1920 a. m. eel at pun u
auction, on the premises, ell the HOUeh
HOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE III
house No BIT eouth Washington street
Terms: Cash.
poy2O IS RI KNOX. Auotioncar.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20

TROUBLE OVER THEIR SEATS -
Further trouble over the sale of seats
to colored patrons of the Grand Opera
House in Washington arose at the
matinee Saturday. Nelson E. Wealth.
erless, negro teacher in the public
schools, the cause for this new develop.
ment Of the controversy, was arrested
and permitted to leave collateral for a
charge of disorderly conduct at the
theatre. The negro went to the Grand
bought tickets and then passed through
the gate without relinquishing to the
doorkeeper any part of the tickets held
in his hand. One of the ushers at.
tempted to obtain the larger portion of
the tickets and return them to the man
at the door, but Weatherless snatch
ed them back and found seats.
without the usher's assistance. Two
ladies appeared little later with cou-
pons for the chairs held by Weather
less. The latter refused both to show
his coupons and to leave the seats,
whereupon two officers were called and
Weatherless arrested. The colored
mans wife attempted to prevent the
arrest of her spouse by catching hold of
one policeman's coat collar. During
the disturbance many fellow negroes in
the audience called out. "Don't 60
stay where you are," and the affair
threatened to become serious. Twice
before during the week the manage.
ment of the Grand has had trouble with
colored customers, and the conflict has
become matter of wide local interest.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
Alexandria Market. NoY. 20

The market opens qnist and cas- win
light offerings, while small lots are bang
taken st quotations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-20
THE WAR IN AFRICA.

The Beers have prepared to meet all
the moves which the British are now
on the eve of beginning. The latest de-
velopments make the Boer plan meas.
urably clear. Gen. Joubert. who, it
now seems certain, is still alive, is re.
ported to be hurrying south with Com.
mandant Botha and an army of 10000
men to meet the British advance from
Estcourt, Natal. Boer artillery has
been planted facing Estcourt and the
5000 Beers already there are threaten
ing an attack on the town. One body,
which had gotten within half mile Of
the town, was forced to retire by the
fire from British naval gun. Large
Boer forces are encampsd six miles
from Estcourt.
These moves will leave a compare
lively small Boer force to engage Gen.
White at Ladysmith. but this force will
be iutrenched and will be difficult to
attack.
A newspaper correspondent at Lady.
smith sends censored story of hard
fighting in the vicinity of that place.
The Beers made several advances,
which were repulsed, and in one en-
gagement 500 Beers are reported to
have been killed and wounded.
Gen. Buffers original plan of CAM
paign seems to have been entirely
changed. Besides dispatching a COL
| umn to relieve Ladysmith, be is forced
to send help to Kimberley and to meet
the Boer advance in northern Cape Col
ony.
Occasional firing is still heard at
Ladysmith, indicating that the British,
under Gen. White, are holding out.
The people there have dug caves along
the banks of the Kip river. TO which
they retire in order to escape the Boer
shells.
It is reported at Pretoria that the
bombardment of Kimberley was re-
sumed Saturday.
The Beers entered Aliwal North,
Cape Colony, and proclaimed the dis
trict republican colony.