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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
THE GAME LAWS.

Today, in the great majority OF Vlr'
GINA counties, the season for partridges
began. In most of them, also, it end;
January Is. 10 most counties the sea.
son for shooting deer and wild turkeys
began September Is, and for shooting
rabbits September l. In a few counties
the deer season began August 10 Ia 9
number OF counties the turkey and
deer season begins with the partridge
season-October 10.
The following is digest of the game
laws of Virginia by counties, showing
the part of the year during which it Is
unlawful to kill the kinds of game re-
ferred to:
Observation-Disclosures, aud wild
turkeys, January Is to October Is. Rab-
bits, January l to October 1.
Clarke-Partridges, October l to De-
cember Is Wild turkeye, February
to September Is
Culpeper-Deer, February l to Sep
TENDER 1. Partridges, wild turkeys,
rabbits, pheasants, January / to No
vember /,
Fairfa1-Deer, December 25 to Sep.
TENDER l. Partridges, wild turkeys,
rabbits, pheasants, January to No
vember /.
Fauquier-Partridges, wild turkeys,
pheasanta, January ] to November l.
King George--Deer, pheasants. Jan.
uary l to October Ii Partridges, jan
uary to November 10 Wild turkeys,
January Is to October Is.
Observation-Disclosures, wild turkeys,
pheasants, January l to November l.
Rabbits, January to October l. Un-
lawful to kill pheasants between March
l, 1898, and March 1, 1901.
Oranqe-Dser, February to Septem-
Der l. cartridges, wild turkeys, rab-
bits, January Is to November 1. Pleas.
ants, January Is to November Is.
Prince William-Partridges, wild
turkeys, rabbits, February l to October
L. Pheasants January to November 1.
Observation-Disclosures, January
l to November l.
Stafford-Deer, pheasants, January l
to October Is. cartridges January to
November Is. Wild turkeys, January
Is to October Is. Rabbits, February
to September Is.
Warren-Partridges December 18th
to November 1st, Wild turkeys, Feb.
ruary 1st to November 18th.
Observation-Disclosures February
18th to November LIST. Wild turkeys,
February 10Th to November 18th.
The woodcock cannot be hunted in
the great majority Of counties between
April 1st and November 1st. The sora
season is between September let and
November 10Th. The summer duck is
absolutely unprotected, saye in one
county--King and Queen.
The following birds cannot be killed
at any time of the year: Brown thrush
cardinal, woodrobin, bluebird, house
martin and turkey buzzard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
NIAGARA FALLS EXCURSIONS.
October 10 is the date of the rensinir4
Pennsylvania Railroad popular ten-dsy cx
ro;op, E..lIc

October 10 is the date of the remaining
Pennsylvania Rsilroad popular ten-dsy ex'
cursions to Niagara Falls.
Excursion tickets, good for return passage
on any regular train, exclusive OF limited e1-
press trains, within ten days, will be sold 81
$40 from Washington and at proporiioo.nlS,'e
rates from other points. A stop over vii. Dc
allowed at Buffalo. Rochester, CsEandaigUa
and Watkins within the limit returning
A special train of Pullman psrlor CATS ana
day coaches will be run with each excursion.
An extra charge will be made for parlo' est
seats
An experienced tourist agent ard chapeFo'
will accompany each excursion. =,
Tickets for side trip to the Thousand ISL
ands alexandria Bay will be sold TON TON
Rochester in connection with excursion oI
September 81, good to return to Rochester
Or to Canandaigua via Syracuse within A'e
days at the rate of So so.
Tickets for side trip to Toronto Will DC
sold at Niagara Falls for 81 or September
%. In connection with excursion OF eep;
tember 7, tickets will be sold to Toronto 40"
return at reduced rates, account Toronto fsll'
For pamphlets giving full information snu
hotels, and for time of connecting trans az
ply to the nearest ticket agent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
Probable Murder.

Baltimore, Oct. 16.-The sloop
Dream of st Michaels, bound from
Baltimore o homo port, drifted into
Rock Crees, Anne Arundel county,
about daylight y sterday with lights
burning and Oh fire. John Delan and
John Harrison went to the sloop but
could not get into the cabin for the
flames. Later county officials went
aboard and found several charred
human bodies in the cabin. The
sloop was in charge of Captain
George Caulk, who had with him colored
boy and white man. The white man wss q
stranger to the captain. he having picked him
up near Sparrows' Point. The police believe
he is the murderer of Captain Caulk snd the
boy, and are looking for him. Captain Canlk
had in his possession the money for cargo
of oyster5,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
THE TRANSVAAL.

Shots have been exchanged on the
Natal border, but no serious engage
is known to have occurred there yet.
While the Beers are believed to be
attacking MafekiDg. it is not known
what progress, if any, they are making,
as the only telegraphic communication
is in the hands of the bughers. An
xiety is felt in British official circles
over the situation at that point.
Late advices from Cape Town state
that kimberley is besieged, and that
the Beers are massing in force. Both
railway and telegraphic communication
has been cut, and it Ia believed the
Beers will try to capture Cecil Rhodes.
Censored dispatches from Durham state
that the Beers retreated before the
British sent out from Ladysmith. The
Beers hold the railway station twenty.
five miles west of I4adysmith.
The German consul general at Cape
Town has issued 8 proclamation com.
manding all Germans to hold aloof
from hostilities.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Archbishop Keape denies the report
10 which i. was stated that he believed
Captain Dreyfus guilty.
The Turkish government denies the
report that the Sultan had drowned
three ladies of the harem.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, with
their full theatrical company, sailed
from London for New York on yester-
day.
With 1915, 900, the proceeds of lot
terry, Prussia will embellisb the range
of mouptsios skirting the Rhine from
Bonn to CobIepz.
Beginning today William Jennings
Bryan begins three days tour through
Kentucky, in the interest of the State
democratic ticket, headed by Senator
WilliamGoebel.
At Dallas, Tex, yesterday, j. ].
Reeves shot and killed George Lewis,
colored, who tried to force Mrs. Reeves
out of a chair a. railway station and
called her vile name.
Rev. Joseph A. Vance. pastor Of
Maryland Avenue PIesbytt rian Church,
Baltimore, has accepted call by the
congregation OF the Hyde Park Pres.
bylerian Church, of Chicago, Ill.
A. NJ. Atkinson, of Wabash, Ind, a
prominent delegate to the jubilee con-
vention of the Church of the Disciples,
now in session 10 Cincinnati. dropped
dead while speaking at meeting Sat
urday night.
St. Mary's Training School, Catholic,
at Feehanville, ILL.,, burned to the
ground yesterday. The loss is estima-
ted at 100000 Seven buildings we're
destroyed, Archbishop Feeban's sum.
mer home being the only building saved
The Manila authorities were inform
ed of q plot for an outbreak in the
poorer districts of the city Sunday
morning. The guards of the city were
doubled aud guns placed at point tc
command the native quarter. These
precautions prevented trouble.
a convention Of delegates from
socialist women's organizations which
began yesterday evening in Faulhaber'f
Hall, New York, was brought to an
abrupt close by the death on the plat
form OF Mrs. Florentine Cantius Lange
who was stricken with apoplexy while
she was addressing the meeting. The
conference began about o'clock and
she began her address shortly before S
o'clock.
Advices from Petare, ten miles from
Caracas, Venezuela, say the people
have risen against President Andrade
and crisis is iminent there. The com
mander of the government forces has
betrayed the president and will allow
the revolutionary army to march upor
Caracas without battle. PresideD
Andrade will probably be forced to re-
tire, re establishing his government al
Maracaibo or Puerto Cabello. Tuccas
has been taken by the revolutionary
| forces.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
TELEGRAlHiC BREVlTIES.

J. L. Smith iwhite) was strung up to
g pine tree yesterday after being taken
from the town marshal by posse of in
furiated citizaps of Wilson, La. Smith
was charged with having been the lead
er of cattle stesling gang.
1t is claimed by the Chicago detect
ives working on the Northwestern train
robbery case that the safe which was
blown open carried sum of near $780,
600, and that the robbers secured that
much minus the bills that were to
pieces by dynamite.
a dispatch from Guthrie, Ok, says !:
James White Walter, chief of the O!yoe
Ind as, died yesterday afternoon. He
was over ninety and had served in the
army, receiving pension. After the
civil war he shnt two men and was sen.
fenced to life imprisonment, but was
pardoned by President Harrison.
Mrs. Elizabeth Yound, partially clad,
Farms, near Boston, last night. After
disrobing in a prominent street, of
Brookline, she started off with yell
and ran like deer. A crowd OF men
started after her. When she reached
the Charles river she jumped in. Ooe
of her pursuers rescued her after she
was almost drowned.
Girin Reynolds, uperv,or Of Fulton
township, Pa, blew his head OF yesterday
with shot guu. Pieces of his skull we're
found twenty yards away, while his teeth
and portions OF his head were scattered over
radius OF thirty feet. Reynolds had been
drinking heavily of late. Dependency is
supposed to be the cause of the suicide.
Louis Jocelyn, the most noted beggsr in
Chicago, is dead. During the last ten years
his income has been no less than $40 a day.
Alcoholism caused his death.
Manager Brady has matched Kid Mccoy
and Peter Maher to fight st the Coney Island
Athletic Club on December IA for purse of
$4,000.
The steamer Malam sspk off Hartlepool to-
day and four of the crew were drowned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

Two CHILDREN AssAULTED.-On
Saturday about the middle of the af-
ternoon two girls, aged II and II years
respectively, were assaulted in Carr's
woods, near Roanoke, by white man.
One of the children was the daughter
OF W. 81. Nelson and the other the
daughter of G. A. Cheatham. The chill
dren started to run from the fiend, but
be caught one of them and placed a
pistol to her head. A gentleman who
was riding wheel CHANGED to appear
on the scene and the vii ian fed, firing
in the meantime shot at the bicyclist,
wounding him in the thigh. Suspicion
rested on William Edward Garrison, a
resident of Roanoke, who has a wife
and two children and who could not be
found Later search was instituted
and Garrison was discovered secreted
between two coal cars some distance
from Roanoke. The father of one of
the children discharged q pistol at him.
The ball took effect, but Garrison fed,
leaving trail of blood behind him, and
is still at large.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

DEATH OF JUDGE j. L. HARRlS.
John T. Harris, ex-member OF Con-
gresa, died at his home 10 Harrison
burg on Saturday night, at the age of
seventy-six and half years. Judge
Harris bad been in declining health for
the last few years, and had been quite
i'll at times during the last few months.
John T. Harris was born in Abb
marie county in May, 1928, and receiv-
ed bis education in Albemarle and Au-
eus;a counties. He was graduate of
John Thompson's Law School, and was
admitted TO the bar in 1916, and at once
located in Harrisonburg. Seven years
later be was elected as Commonwealth
Attorney, and at the expiration of bis
first term be was reelected. In 1858
Mr.. Harris was elected to Congress,
and, with the exception of the war pc.
riod and the first term following Vir-
ginia's readmission to congressional
representation, be served the seventh
district until 1881. While in Congress
Mr.. Harris was always popular with
his party, and was one of the demo-
cratic leaders. Under military regime
Governor Pierpoint nominated him as
judge of the twelfth judicial circuit,
and he served as such from 1866 to 1859.
He was a candidate for the democratic
domination for governor when P. W.
Mckioney was nominated. In 1883 he
retired from public life altogether, and
lived quietly at his beautiful homo 10
Harrisonburg.
Judge Harris married Virginia Mi.
Ter, and she and seven children-four
girls and three boys-survive him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
TO-DAY'S TELEGRApHIC NEWS.
Columbia Wins.


Highland, n. J., Oct Is The fog
this morning hung in banks over the
sea and shore, and everything on the
Yachts was permested with dampness.
A little after 9 o'clock the wind blew
stronger and the fog lifted its sports.
at GAO both yachts left the Horse shoe
under tow for the starting line. The
course will be laid southeast by east, q
beat to windward of Is miles and re-
turn. At 1915 the preparatory signal
was fred. Columbia got the best of the
iockeying, securing the windwsrd posi-
Iion. When the starting gun was fired
Shamrock tackled across the line fret
but Columbia was close 10 her aud Da1
the windward berth. Shamrock crossed
the line at 11:02 and the Columbia six
seconds Later. Both boats stood away
on the starbosrd tack. The wind blew
about pine knots an hour. At the end
of the first six minutes both boats we're
on nearly even terme, with Colum bia
having the weather berth. At 12:15 p.
%. the yachts were we'll on towards
the turning mark. The Columbia was
leading by half mile or more and was
widening the gap constantly. The wind
is holding steady.
1:53. The Columbia has rounded the
mark and is over mile in the lead.
The Shamrock turned about ten
minutes after the Columbia. Columbia
has clear run before the wind, which
is now running about II knots an hour
ond unIooo copo athinO unforacaan ham
pens she will win the race.
The official turning time was Colun.
bia 1:47A; Shamrock, 1'57
S4ndy Hook, 2:10.-The yachts are
now running before ten knot breeze
and should finish 10 the time limit. Col
umbia leads by from one to one and q
half miles, and seems to be opening the
gap constantly. Barring accidents the
American sloop will win the first race.
Sandy Hook, 3:55.-The Columbia
won the yacht race. The Shamrock
was three quarters of mile astern.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

ACCORDING to the expansionists, the
American sailors are the most humane
and civilized of any or earth. But it Is
we'll known that when the arrival OF
an American man-oi-war at some OF
the European ports is expected, the
police force is always doubled a! her
dock. The behavior of such sailors at
Chilian port few years ago was the
cause of serious trouble between Chill
and this country, and dispatch from
Caracas, Venezuela, says:
"The American sailors had not been
ashore for seven and half months.
They were go wild that they mixed it
up with every one they met. The
Yankees cleaned out an entire street,
known as Murder street, and forty OF
them were sent to the hospital."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

DEATH OF CAPT. J. ]. WILLIAMS.
John ]. Williams, mayor of Winches-
ter, and one of the best known men in
Virginia, died at St. Joseph's Hospital,
10 Baltimore, shortly after noon yes
terday. Captain Williams had been ill
for over four months, and during the
latter part of the summer spent some
weeks ct Cspon Springs for his health.
He returned home much improved,
but shortly afterward was again taken
sick. He was sent to St. Joseph's Hos
pital, and was operated on by DR.. Nc
Lane Tiffany, of Baltimore, and Drs.
W. P. Mcclure and T. O. Williams, Of
Winchester. The operation was thought
to have been successful, but Colonel
Williams's weakened vitality was una
BILE to withstand the shock. His fune.
raj will take place at Winchester to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock.
Capt. Williams was son of the late
Philip Williams, in his time one of Vir-
ginia's most brilliant lawyers. Col.
Williams was born in Winchester 81
years ago, and has always resided
there. After graduating from the
Winchester Academy and the Bloom.
field Academy, he entered the Univer-
sity of Virginia, and was studyiog law
when the civil war broke out. He
joined the Rockbridge Artillery and
participated in the first battle of Ma
nassas. He was then assigned to
Chew's Battery, and later to Laurel
Brigade, 18th Virginia Cavalry. He
was badly wounded during fight at
Auburn, Va, in 1868.
After the surrender, Capt. Williams
completed his law studies under his
father ard the late Judge Richard
Parker, who tried the noted John
Brown and followers at Harper's Fer
ry. Since then he has continued the
practice of law in Winchester. At the
time OF his death he was serving his
fourth term as mayor. Capt. Williams
was counsel for and director Of the
Shenandoah Valley National Bank.
In 1877 he married Miss Emily Gray, of
Leesburg, who survives him with three
Children. Gray Williams, of the
University of Virginia; Miss Anna
Douglas Williams, and Philip Williams
of Winchester.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

NEARLY FIVE months ago thousands
OF people went from this city to Wash
ington to participate in the famous
"Peace Jubilee" but there are now in
the Philippine Islands, or on their way
there, no less than seventy thousand
American soldiers andeforty-fUe Ameri-
can war ships, not counting the torpedo
boats, at an expense of million or
more dollars dsy-to no body's honor,
but evidently to some body's profit.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
NEW OYSTER MARKEr.-The A

a NEW OYSTER MARKET.-The A..
Booth Packing Company, of Baltimore,
have recently completed large and
we'll equipped oyster shocking house, st
cost of about s., 900, at Mundy Point,
Northumberland county. At present
they are operating about seventy.fve
shuckers, which number will be inoreas
ed to fully two hundred as the season
advances. The establishing Of this en-
terprise at Mundy Point will open up a
home market for oysters. which will be
vast benefit to persons interested in
this industry.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

The detectives engaged in investigating
the mysterious murder Of tho woman, por-
ti,ns of whose remains have been found, are
today trying to find Mrs. Kate Feely, who
disappeared on Friday, October 6, from the
boarding house Of Mrs. Sarah Carroll, $50
west 18th street, New York. Mrs. Carroll
ssys Mrs. Feely was handsome woman
about thirty-fve years of age and about fl We
feet 4 inches in height. and that she left her
honss with q man who had answered her
advertisement for situation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
SPECIAL EXCURSION TRAIN TO PHIL.
ADELPHIA MARYLAND DAY AT EX-
YpAC fTIOM

The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell tickets
for special train excursion Thursday, October
10, leaving Washington at us am; re-
turning leave Philadelphia same date at $50
p M, at the rate of 1925 for the round trip,
including admission to Exposition grounds.
Tickets good only on special train in eack
direction. Train will stop at the Exposition
grounds, South street. in each direction.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
BE Fooled the Surgeons.

All doctors told Repick Hamilton, of
West Jefferson, O, after suffering IS
months from Rectal Fistula, be would
die unless costly operation was per-
formed; but be cured himself with Eve
boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the
surest Pile cure on Earth, and the best
Salve in the World. Ooly Csc. a box
Sold ty E. S. Leadbeater & Sons, Drug.
gists.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

THE newspapers OF Baltimore, with
one accord, republican and bolter alike,
for, as is the case in Washington, there
is no democratic paper there now, say
that every body there is happy and The
goose hangs high. But while they say
this in one column, in another they
give accounts of an old established pa
tioual bank there going into voluntary
liquidation. An overcast sky is not q
sign of good weather, and just as true
is it that the closing of banks is not iu-
dicative of the prosperity of the COM
munities in which they are situated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

President King, farmers Bank, Brooklyn,
Mich, has used DeWitt's Little Early Risers
in his family for years. Says they are tho
best. These famous little pills cure constipa.
ton. bi'iiousness and all liver aud bowel
troubles. Edgar Warfeld, ir., corner King and
Pitt streets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
TvDhoid at v. M. /.

Lexington, Oct. 16.-owing to the
prevalence Of typhoid fever at the Vir-
GINA Military Institute. General Ship,
superintendent, today furloughed the
entire corps of cadets for thirty days.
The corps numbers $50 young men.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

Philadelphia Cattle Market Oct l4.-Beei
Cattle were i'll fsir demand and lsll.c ower.
Quotations were as follows: Extra 5s.sois
good 5As5ac. medium 4aas5c. common Is
4lhc per III. Sheep and Lambs were ;tesdy.
Tho quotations were as follows: Extra ~
moa 2s s per H. Lsmbs 80 s3 ,t per t.
hogs were unclaimed at 6a.slc per 10 Tor
best Westerns and 61ba6a,c per ID ior other
Fat COWS we're fair at 2las3a4 per d. Tim
Cows sold at $9a1S per head Vcsl caves
sold at 4lbs7 1hc per ID. Mich Cows were
in good demsnd at $50 TO $50 per head
Dressed Beeves were active at 6i1s9L.c per
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

when our boys were almost dead from
whooping cough, our doctor gave One Minute
Cough Cure They recovered rapidly, writes
2 B. Bellies, Argyle, Pa. 1t cures coughs,
colds, grippe and all throat and lung troubles.
Edgar Wsraeld, jr., corner King and Pitt
streets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

Chicago Cattle Market. OFT Il Cattle
There were not enough cattle offered to make
market and prices ruled nominal. Hogs-
The demand for hogs was slow and priCts
rnled shade weaker; fair 10 prime lot. sold
at 81. 27ha4 60, heavy packers = goa
4.25, mixed S425a4. 90. butchers $780,
4 65, common to choice liehtweghts Si.-5a
400; pigs sold al So S5s4 20. sheep and
Lambs-The limited supply Of sheep was
disposed of at unchanged prices poor to
prime native yearlings sold at Sl.25si
Western rangers and feeders 3 50a3 90
common to choice lambs 50 25A5.25.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

Mis- address at the Dewey ovation
in Boston, Mayor Quincy of that city
spoke of the sinking OF the Spanish
fleet in Manila bay, as 1.-The greatest
naval battle since Trafalgar" One
great trouble the people of the North
ern hall. of this country have to con-
tend with, ia their pronene5s to look at
things through glasses that magnify
every thing that is done by Northern
soldiers or sailors, either abroad or at
home. The fight referred to was no
battle at all, and Admiral Dewey told
the truth: when he said he had done
nothing that any captain in the service
would not have done just as well.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
The Markets.

New York, Oct 16.-The market closed
as follows: Wheat-Dec 712s713s; May =.
Corn-Sept 307s; May. Oats-sept :;
May =.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16

The October number of the Dixie
Magazine has been received from it's
publishers in Baltimore. Among its
contents are: The Mother of Napoleon,
The First Theatre in America, Old
Paris and Suburbs, Southern Potteres
aud Southern Clays, Old Masters, The
Loyalists of America, and several other
interesting articles.