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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
DIED.

At her home, AIS north Colum@gs stCr
at 1925 Friday morning, Ap.! A
HANNAH MILLS, wife Of eaiJuel Aii., '
in the 10th year of her age. Funeral .io-
her late residence Monday afternoon. af.
H. at , o'clock. Friends of the iam5 a
invited to attend Washington aud i''
moro papers please copy.
On Saturday, April 10. 1899. 81 h' '
doncc, Mount Eagle Fairfax county,
3 O'Clock a. NJ, Mr.. HENRY JOHNSON '
the 18th year of her age.
We must give thee ap. dear father.
Whom we loved so long and well
1t is past, the hopes are bliehtei.
., our loved one, fare thee wai
The funeral will take place from DIS 1855
residence ON Monday evening At = % t.O,>
Friends ard acquaintance OF the iail.t '''
invited to attend.
At 2:4O o'clock a. m, Saturday, A'iH j..
1899, JAMES s. STgIDER. aged gen
Funeral from ibo residence of III. '...
No. 30S MOTH Patrick street, tomorro"
day. afternoon at 4 o'clock. Fl BaltiiA'
peEs please copy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Mr.. Croker on the Stand.

New York, April 15.-Before the in
veetigating committee today Mr.. Rich
ard Croker was recalled to the stand.
Mr.. Moss at once referred to his propo-
sition of yesterday to offer his right
arm to be cut oil if the taking OF dis
honest money could be laid at his door
Mr.. Moss said Croker had been accused
by newspapers of playing to the gal
leries" in making the proposition and
asked him if he would substitute the
loss of his fortune for the loss Of bis
arm and go on record to that effect
Croker said he would. Mr.. Moss again
plunged into the private business al
fairs of the witness and Croker again
took refuge in 8 refusal to answer. The
question on which he baked was in re
gard to where and how his son got the
$4,000 which the latter testified that
be had paid for stock in the Roebling
Company. Mr.. Croker then startled
the committee with sensational out
burst. He accused Mr.. Moss and the com
mittee with trying to destroy his sons
business prospects out of revenge aud
declared that they would do well and
find abundant evidence OF corruption
if they investigate the business affairs
Of the people who were responsible for
the present investigation. He directed
them particularly to the business of the
two sons of Senator Plat. He broke
out into a TRADE against the corruption
in the republican party and repeatedly
said that if evidence of real corruption
was desired there was where it was to
be found.
Lawyer Moss told Mr.. Croker be was
blutling and said if he. could produce
evidence against Senator Platt. his
sons or anyone else, the comnittee
would exploit it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
An Impressive Ceremonial

Rome, April 15-There is a great
rush to obtain tickets of admission to
St. Peters tomorrow, when the cere-
monies commemorative Of tic Pope 5
coronation will taSe place. There is q
deep feeling that this will be the Pope's
last public appearance. The services
will be interesting and magnificent.
The Pope will wear his triple crown
and his most gorgeous vestments. All
the cardinals at the vatican will appear
in their full canonicels. Bishops,
princes and military men. the latter in
.uil uniform, will also attend. The
music will be unparalleled in the his
tory of the church. 1t lis expected that
fifty thousand persons will attend the
ceremonies,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

LICENSED TEAcHERs.-The STATE
board of education has author.zed su.
perintendents to license without exam.
nation graduates of the Safe Female
Normal School, at Farmyille; the grad
yates of the normal department Of Vii
liam and Mary College, and the Viz
einia graduates OF the Peabody Norma
School. at Nashville, to teach IN the
public schools of Virginia. The super
intendent is also authorized to IceD-o
without examination the graduates ai
the Hampton Normal and Agriculture
College and the graduates of the lir-
glnla Normal and Collegiate Institute
at Petersburg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

The best of everything is used in the mas
ing of 6. o. Taylor Whisky. AS = result o.
actual age this brand of whisky, after se'e.
years of ripening IN wood. is Offered the pub
tic only in sealed bottles with the propfIeiof'
firm name signature Chester II. Grave s.
Sons) over the cork and on each label il
not strange, there ore, that physicians spee.y
&. o. Taylor Whisky for use IN tine sick roen
and that their patients who use it cannot ou5
retain it on their stomachs, but that il 9tcS-
ly assimilates with food, aiding in rs ca-ie.
digestion, building up wasted tissue, 80.
proving an important vehicle, combined WIT
fresh eggs and milk, to put the invalid Oh ~,
road to health, and being of great help 10 l.-
reaching that desirable goal. Licensed tr.
ers generally soil G.. o. Taylor Whskic,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 10, 1855

BOOKER WASHINGTON, the famous
negro, says some of his race have "got
it into their bones and blood that the
only way they can manifest their lib
erty in the South, is by voting against
their white neignbors. He doesn't so
far enough. He should say that some
of them, in order to show their indie
pendeuce and equality, imagine that
they must be sassy" that is, impu-
dent, truculent and rowdyish, toward
the white people among whom they
live, thereby and necessarily engender-
ing and provoking an luminosity be-
tween the TWO races in the South that
should not, and formerly did, not exist,
and which, if hey had more SENSE
they would know cen only affect them
selves and their race h2jurousiy
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
Disastrous Fire.

Cleveland, Ohio, April ia disas
trous fire started in large brick build
ing at No. I Academy street at noon
today. The building was occupied by
Comey q Johnson, hat manufacturers
ard makers of straw goods. The fire
spread with frightful repidity and il
communicated to an adjoining brick
block and to some frame dwellings
across the wav. a large number OF
girls were employed by Comey & John
son. A terrible panic occurred among
them The girls fled to the fire es
capes and scrambled down as best they
could. Those who first reached the
loot of the fire escape at the second
story were forced to jump TO the
ground.
Three men who were forced 10 run
10 he roof were rescued after much
difficulty, but were badly burned, as
were also a number of girls. AS the
flames enveloped the building girls
were seen standing on the fire escape
up at the sixth story. Seventy-hve
girls worked on that floor. 1t is GER
tain now that most of them escaped.
At 12:55 the fire spread to the six
story building on Bank street, occupied
by Hart & Company wholesale milli-
ners. The fire seems beyond control
and threatens to sweep eastward again,
taking in the Adams Bag Factory and
warehouse, the Cleveland Press and
the remainder of the buildings saved
earlier in the conhagration. The fire
next spread south to Sampliner's big
cloak factory, occupying an entire
block on Bank street, and the structure
is in ruins.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

AT NONE of the democratic banquets
recently held has there been word
uttered that even squinted at boiling
the action of the next national demo
cratic convention. The disastrous e.
feet of the bolt in 1896 upon those en-
gagged it and the party at large ms
taught oil democrats lesson they will
not soon forget. Burnt children dread
the fire and men are but grown child
rem. The only way party can hope
to succeed is to abide by the abitra-
ment of it's highest court-its national
convention.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Fourth Virginia regiment will
return home on the 9th, after eleven
months service. including many weeks
in Cubs.
Mr. ?. H. Gold has been appointed
clerk OF the Circuit Court of Frederick
county to succeed Judge VIM. L. Clark,
resigned.
Prof. R. T. V. Bowman, of Clemson
College, South Carolina, died yester-
day at his brothers residence, near
Charlottesville, of a complication of
heart and lung diseases.
A boiler explosion in the White Star
Mills, near Csmont, AlbemarIe coun-
ty, yesterday, probably fatally injured
the proprietor, W. 0 Broadhead, and
a leborer named Tom Walker, and
painfully scalded Mr.. Broadhead's
| daughter.
Governor Tyler received letter
yesterday from woman of intelligence
living in Phoebus, complaining, with q
good deal of indignation, that her
children have been excluded from the
public schools on the false charge that
they have negro blood in their veins.
News reached Fredericksburg yes
tevdav of the serious condition of Mr..
George Il. Scott, OF Tappshannock,
who was shot several weeks ago by
Capt. a. +. Bagby, during an alterca-
| ton. MIR. Scott has been confined to
his bed with fever since the shooting,
with TWO doctors in attendance.
An iron cage in the form of the hu-
man body, having headpiece, on top OF
which was ring, body piece, arm and
leg pieces, containing well-preserved
skull, jawboneS, several teeth, and
bones OF the legs, arms and hips, was
dug up yesterday by workmen on the
land of Mr.. Henry Warden, just below
! Fredericksburg.
The Washington Guards, OF Freder-
icksburg, reorganized on Thursday
night with 30 members by electing the
former officers, as follows Captain, NJ.
| b. Rowe: first lieutenant, F. II. Revere;
second lieutenant, Il. 5. Knox. These
officers commanded the company dur
| ing the time it was IN the service OF the
government rs member of the Third
Virginia regiment.
A fine, full length portrait of Miss
Winnie Davis, painted ny Mr.. John p.
Walker, was hung in the picture gal
.lery of Lee Camp, Richmond, last
night. The presentation address was
made by Theodore S. Garnet, of Nor
folk, and the portrait WAS received on
behalf of Lee Camp by Hon. d. c.
Richardson, commemorative attorney
of Richmond. The portrait is a tribute
to the memory OF the Daughters OF
the Confederacy," and was paid for by
a public subscription.
The cornerstone Of the Mary Wash
ington Hospital was laid at Fredericks-
burg Yesterday afternoon with imposing
! Masonic ceremonies, by fredericksburg
Lodge. No. T. A.. F. 81 A. NJ. The al
dress OF the occasion WAS delivered by
Bev DR.. F. p. Ramsey, president OF
Fredericksburg College. The corner
stone is q portion of the Old Mary
Washington monument, of Silas Bur-
ress and Andrew Jackson fame, which
was removed when the new granite
shaft was elected.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
HOW'S THIS :

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY & Co, Props. Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j.
Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business trans.
actioos, and financially able to carry out any
obligation made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, To-
WAIDrSe, K1sSAS & MAEgIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces OF the system. Price 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all druggists Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills sre the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

THE ARREST of man in Peabody,
Massachusetts, day before yesterday,
for robbery and murder, recalls the fact
that his father, named Spaulding,
a Universalist preacher in that
town, preached abolitionism, instead
of the Bible, and was such Il hater and
denouncer of the South that even some
of his own congregation could not
stand him, and had to leave his church.
1t is only natural that the son of man
who taught that it was right to steal
negroes in the South, should steal 9TH
er things nearer home.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
At,en.p,cd q Double Tragedy.

Elizabeth, N. j., April 15.-Miss Lulu
Jones, public school teacher, last eve
ming at her home, shot and wounded her
lover, Albert Duncan, and then made
an attempt to take her own life with a
dose of poison. Duncan, who is boil
err manufacturer, had been paying at.
tention to Miss Jones for nine years.
She sent for him to come TO her home
and on his arrival demanded to know
his intontious. saying that she was tired
OF being longer trided with. He treated
her solicitations with smiles and no as
surances as to the future. She fired a
revolver at him, one ball striking him
in the face and passing through and out
behind the right ear. The other bali
entered his left wrist. He will proba-
hly recover, lie reiuaes to make COM
nlaint.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
FOREIGN NeWs.

London, April 15.-Mr. Michael Da.
witt, the nationalist leader in Parlia.
ment, intends to ask some questions in
the House of Commons Monday tend
ing to bring out that Germany is in the
right in the Samoan dispute and that
the blood shed at Apia was due to q
hish handed attempt on the part of the
English end Americans to force an I'M
popular chief on the natives.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
GENEGAL WHEnLER's DEFENCE

GENERAL WHEELERs DEFENCE
Gen. Joseph Wheeler has made public
an elaborate defence Of his conduct in
claiming to be a member of Congress
while holding a commission in the
United States army, and directly at
lacks the logic and consistency of
Speaker Reed and Representative
Bailey, of Texas, the alleged constitu-
tional leaders of the majority and
minority in the House. General
Wheeer's statement is issued from the
Government Printing Office and is adj
dressed to the chairman OF the commit
tee of the whole, he evidently having
intended 10 insert it in belated edition
of the Congressional Record" under
the "leave to print" order of the late
House. General Joseph Wheeler ex-
poets to be assigned to a command IN
the Philippines very soon. He intends
to assume the command and, il the war
continues. he will remain in the islands
nett winter. He has determined not
to resign MS seat III Congress.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
WOES OF YOUNG SOLDIER

II.
A special from Washington to the
N. Y. Tribune says the War Depart
ment has received the following inter.
esting letter from one of its volunteer
officers recently mustered out, ana is
endeavoring to afford the young man
the relief he so earnestly prays for:
Missouls, Mont, April 5, 1899
Hon. w. w. Brown, Auditor War De-
partment, Washington, D. c.:
Dear Sir suppose you have troubles
of your own, and may be bored by nv
attempt to unload a portion OF NV
troubles upon you, but as most men ar,
willing to assist their brothers when
they are in fix, l will ask you to as
sist me, if it be in your power.
was second lieutenant in the Third
United States volunteer cavalry dur.
ing the war, and spent my time Gghtpg
lice and lizards at Camp Thomas. Ga
| was mustered out in September la-f
and ordered home. At st. Paul. MINI
| was given certain blanks by Colonel
Carey, paymaster, U. 5. A.. to fiji ont
and he told me ! had $474 % coming 10
me from the War Department as traye
pay from Camp Thomas, Ga, to Mi.
soula, Mont. Early in October nv
claim was filed in your office. and
later you sent me receipt, dated De-
cember 20, 1898, showing that nv ac-
count with the Subsistence Department
was settled and balanced. so that there
is nothing charged against me H.
any of the departments. Now. II
can get that money | can make 81 trim
to Virginia and bring the sweetest red.
headed girl back here with me that ever
bIoomed in old Virginia's lowergar
den. If ! do not get my travel paw
will have TO wait, maybe, d year. In
the meantime there is blooming Bin
i5her after my girl, and he is playing a.
every-night engagement, while an
three thousand miles away. The pir
herself is all right, but the old folks are
favorable toward "Johnny Bull" ana
are "touting" him to win. You know
how the dripping water wears a stone
away. SO | want YOU to help me tc
get my travel pay, and then watch me-
skin that EngishmaD. If | can ge.
this money | can win in o walk, so. /.
you will assist me in this matter of
getting my travel pay quickly, viii
be 8 star at q matrimonial ceremony
back in old Virginia, and about TIVE
weeks after get my travel pay 9i
call on you in Washington and show
yon the prettiest red-headed queer
that old Dixie land ever grew. ap-
peal to you to help me in my fight
against the British empire and my tu.
ture mother-in-law. I ask you to treat
this in confidence, because if the news
papers get hold of it it will be all or
with me. Trusting that you will assist
me and that may have the pleasure al
introducing you to the prettiest red
headed girl you ever saw, very shortly.
| am, yours in suspense, etc.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

Judge Biddle has decided to admit
; the famous red book" az evidence il
the Quay case.
Cora Tanner, the actress, who was
made iii at Omaha, Neb., by eating
poisoned bonbons, continues very weak
and her physicians have advised her to
cancel her theatrical engagements. She
will leave tomorrow for her home in
New York city. Ma arrests have been
made.
New York city has been gaily deco
rated in honor of Raleigh Day. Gov
eminent buildings, business houses and
private residences are flying flags and
altogether the city has taken on holt
day appearance. New York will give
The cruiser Raleigh grand welcome.
Sne is the first of Dewey's ships that
participated in the battle of Manila bay
10 return to eastern waters and New
York wants to show the appreciation
in which she holds Admiral George De.
wey and his men. Up to u o'clock the
Raleigh had not been sighted.
The International Automobile and Vehicle
Tire Company was incorporated 1T Trenton,
y. J., today with Richard Croker, jr., as the
leading incorporation. 1t is generally belev-
ed that the company is incorporated for the
express purpose of selling tires to Richard
Cookers ST., New York Autro-Truck Com
pany. The capital stock is $3,000,0C0.
At Canton Ohio, today the prosecution re-
sumcd its efforts 10 connect Mrs. George d.
rcctly with the murder of Geo. D. Saxton
One witness testified to seeing Mrs. George
walk away after the shooting.
tornado passed through the business por.
tior of Ottawa, Kan, last night, destroying
many small buildings and fences and unroof-
ing severa! residences No one was injured.
Tho Chatham. N. B., county aims house
was burned early this morning Four of the
inmates aged people, were burned to death.
number of others were severely injured.
Col William Bryan reached New york
this evening where he is TO speak NJ the Chi,
cago platform democratic banquet tonight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

INA COUNTRY where the election OF
Presidents is bought and where ii is
charged that even the judiciary is pros
tituted with money, and where voters
sit on the fe2ce at the polls all day
waiting for some body 10 buy them,
the assertion that tde avowed TACT
that the democratic managers Of New
York assess the municipal officers OF
that city upon their lucrative salaries
should consign them TO infamy, is a
striking illustration of the character Ct
the people by whom that assertion Is
mazda
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

TIE Richmond Dispatch, one OF TIE
few democratic newspapers thatsuppof'
the anti-Msrtin movement, as its ohlec'
is plain, says tine movement essenlaI-
ly democratic movement" The late
General Malone said he was better
democrat than all the other democrats
in the L. S. Senate, and the newspe-
Der' referred to has evidently adopted
him IS its pattern. Why, so far Is the
proposed convention" from being 3
democratic movement, that even those
who called Ii cay it will not be party
convention, but only d convention O.
those who agree with them. Such al
assemblage cannot, in the nature O
be effective.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

THE HAGUE CONFERENCE.-THE in
structions OF this government to the
commissioners appointed to represent
the United States at the Cars dissr.
mament conference, which is to meet
at The Hague during the latter part OF
May, have been prepared by Secretary
Hay, and were read at the cabinet
meeting. Although the sympathy OF
the United States for the Cars propo-
sal is well understood, the exact
nature of the instructions to our com.
missioners is being carefully guarded.
1t would BE manifestly Improper to
disclose our Official position at the con-
ference II advance. The cabinet did
hot consider the question raised BY the
demand of the governor OF South Da-
kota for the muster cut of the volun-
leers from that State who are serving in
the Philippines.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
convention

THE republicans make great ado
over Mr.. Croker's bold acknowledge
ment that he is Sin politics for his
l. ocket." But why they do is hard 10
tell, except for the fact that they pre-
fer h vpocrisy 20 frankness. In coun-
tries of unrestricted suffrage every man
in politics is for his pocket. Texas re-
publicans, however, are as bold as MIR.
Croker, and one Of them, the famous
Mr.. Flanagan, askea ail his colleagues
in q national conveqhCs what they
were there for.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
Thy ALIENS E00T.EASE

A powder t0 be shaken into the Shoe, -
this season your feet feel swollen, nervous
and hot and get tired easily. If yor bsyc
smarting feet or tight shoes try Hens Foat.
Ease. 1t cools the feet and makes yaIk,ng
easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet blish,
tiers and callous spots. Believes corns and
bunions of all pain aud gives rest and COM
fort. Try it today. Sold by sll druggists
and shoe stores for 25c Trial paeEspe
FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmstcad, lie Row
N Y !'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

ANOTHER scandal has become public
in government department in Wash
ington-that of the Interior. Many &C.
cur, but only few are exposed. That
there should be occasion for them is only
natural; indeed it would be unnatural
were it otherwise. The sexes can
not associate on terms of familiarity all
day long, for months and wears at a
time, without the development OF the
effect of natural causes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15

GENERAL Fitzhugh Lee has been re-
duced in rank from major general to
a brigadier general, hut that he is do
ing we'll in Cuba is proved by the f@ct
that, according to a dispatch from
there. he has just rented house OF
fifty rooms in Quamados Noue of the
Generals numerous friends in Vir-
GINA who may visit Cuba need now
worry about quarters there.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
The New Spanish Minister.

Madrid, April l5.-The Duke of Ar
COS, formerly Spanish Minister to Mex
leo, has been appointed as SPANS new
Ambassador at Washington. The prob
able appointment of Mr.. Bellamy
Storer as U. :. Ambassador at Madrid
IS highly satisfactory to the Spanish
government.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-15
The Anti.Suicidc Clause.

Philadelphia, April l5.-Mrs. Emily
Y. Hopkins, widow OF John S. Hop
kins, former cashier of the Peoples
Bank, has been awarded verdict 10
the U. s. Circuit Court for $l0,4OO
against the Northwestern Life Assn.
ance Company of Chicago, On policy
of insurance upon the life of her hus.
band, who committed suicide and pre-
cipitated the failure of the bank. The
policy, it appeared, contained an anti.
suicide clause but was given in exchange
Tor another policy which did not con-
tain such clause. The court has vet
to determine this question of law, and
under its finding it is to be decided
whether the verdict will hold.