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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-04

An American company has leased the San
Juan battlefield in Cuba and will make of it
an attractive resort
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-04
A. W. GLEASON
1 SEAL
Notary Pabhe

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inteHsl2,
ind acts dire city on the blood and mucGou3
urfsces of the system. Send for ie-t moA'
ais, free.
Sold by druggists Prize 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-04
List ofUnclalmed Letters.

The following is list OF the .eiJeEs re-.
naming in the Alexandria, Va, pcs'oiA'e
November
Persons calling for letters will please s"s
they are advertised.
Advertised letters not called for WITHIN wv
weeks will be sent to the dead letter Once
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-04

The housewives delight is our white q
nutritious PRIDE FLOUR. 1t Is ID, w.
-four made. and will give batter fesi.'a :,
baking bread, pastry, cake and EoA9 ol 10 al =,
-four on the market. 1t is made IRON c-o -,
winter wheat and ground by the mo -. -
proved process, and for bakers ana i4'I p.
nae is unsurpassed for quality and geHs's
excellence. Ask your grocer for It,
JNo. W. EMMERT & CO.
Union stEeei-
'Phones-Bell %; Home 149
DIQUEs at 1Oc, 1890, 15c up to 100, zoe, 81
A. C. SLAYGAAEh 50
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-04

THE LATEST reliable election news
from Ohio is to the effect that Mr..
Hanna having become satisfied that tie
people of that State have become tireo
of taxes and war, and that nothing bur
money and bulldozipg will be able to
secure them msjority there, has de-.
termined to resort to those two means,
and to carry them to the furthest pos
sible limit; that therefore all the manu-
facturers, miners and all others en-.
ploying many laborers, and bankers
aud other influential people there, have
been informed that unless their power
and influence be exerted in behalf of the
republican ticket they will be made to
suffer, sooner or later, and that so much
money has been sent there by the ad
ministration and its supporters, that the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-04

Brown, Alexander Lucss Thom5s
Galloway, Charley McVsy. Ms Il = >.
chatham, John Newton, MIS- AL1ai1'
Dogins, Miss Annie Parker. Mis- }! rs
Herndon. John Shepard, MES @1 ~.
Kelley, q w Washington ny '-.'-
Lewis, Maggie
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

Washington, March 2O.-1he war de-
partment yesterday received the follow
ing dispatch from Major General Otis
regarding operations against the insur-
gents: Our improviscd gunboat under
Captain Grant, Utah artillery, have full
possession Of Laguna de Bay. Troops,
inhabitants and property on the shore Of
the lake at our mercy. Whcaton's bri-
gade on Pasig river line drove the enemy
northeast into the province Of Morong.
Last evening the enemy attacked por-
ton OF his force south of Pasig killing
two men and wounding 90 of the
Twenty second infantry. This morning
Wheaton moved against this insurgent
force, driving it to the south Ii miles.
"t' experiencing very slight loss. The
,army left 300 dead ON the feld.'
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20


Austria Accepcs Lattlyher lSeciaIon.
HIondon, March t20. The Vienna cor.
respondent Of The Standard, referring Ia
the recent editorial illusions by the
POlitische Correspondence to the Hazie-
ton shooting and its announcement that
the Austrian foreign minister intends to
press the Just claims advanced In be-
half Of Austrian subjects" says: II
have reason to believe that the Austrian
government has not the slightest inten-
ton to seek quarrel with the United
States. Count GoAlchowski, the AustrO-
Hungarian foreign minister, explains
that the standpoint of the American
government is legally and morally incon-
trovertible, though the sheriff of Lat
timer might have waited longer before
giving the order to fire on the excited
strikers"
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
sALE.-Bf VIRTUE OF A
witt Of Leyari Faeias; T. me directed:
Court House on Market street between
Tenth and Eleventh streets In the city
of Wilmington. New Castle county and
State of DelaWsr
ON SATURDAY, MARCH 18th. 1890.
At ? o'clock- n m

the following described real estate. Wis:
AL that certain plantation, farm or tracL Of
land with a2x story stone house and stone
thereon erected, situate in Christiana hundred
bounded and described as follows TO VT:
Beginning at tbs interrogation Of the middle
more Railroad Company with the middle line
Newport; themes 'i by the Middle s 'G line Of
said railroad to . corner at tho point whore
a line Of land Of John 4. Cranston intersects
the same thence by the said limo Of Cran.ton's
land to the low water line ofChr istiana river
thonce along the said low water line down
line with a line Of marsh land of James sindal
thence by said Sindalrs land to corner Of
Marsh lands OF Penrosei " nam: thence by said
Lynam's land to corner OF marsh lands Of
Charles ". Horn th.nce By lands Of said q W
cd lane thence by the middle thereof 10
stake, at or near the intersection of the middle
lines OF Straight Lane and Crooked Lane;
thence along or about the middle line Of said
Straight lane to an angle In the southerly
fence line OF the railroad to the middle line Of
the turnpike leading to Wilmington from
Newport; thence by the middle line Of said
thence by cemetery lands Of st. James sChnrct.
In a straight line with tho western boundary Of
the Lukihs property to tha middle line Of Mar.
ket st. OK tended thepcr by said middle line Of
Market street to its intersection with the mid.
die line Of Augustine street; thence by said
middle iue Of Augustine street, vt right angles
with Market street and Ayers street to the
middle line of Ayers street; thence by ths mid
die line Of Ayers street parallel with Mark t
street to the middle line OF Walnut strebt;
thence by said middle line Of VAIN mt street to
the place Of beginning, con ainina III md e.
100 acres OF land. be the same more or less.
tor release of portion of the above lands
and pitmsos Zee release recorded IN Deed
Record i. Vol. n, Page 14?, etc.
Seized aud taken in execution as the prop
erty Of William j. Fell lnortgagor and Charles
W. Horn, terre tenant, and to be sold by
JOHN 4. TAYLOR, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office. Wilmington. Delaware,
March 8 1879
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Another War Hero Dead

Boston, March 2O-Thomas Carroll
Boone, the telegraph operator in the war
balloon in the operations before Santiago,
died yesterday at the Massachusetts
General hospital from the result of au
operation on wound received in tho
fall Of the D., IN after it had been shot
to pieces. Boone. with two government
officers, performed heroic work in the
great airship, which was target for the
Spanish gunners until it fell into the
trees and threw all three men out
Boone was caught in the drag anchor
and was fearfully wounded. One Of
the officers in the balloon died as the re.
suit Of his injuries, while another is an
inmate Of an insane asylum. The hody
of Boone will be taken to his native
place, Annapolis, Md.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
OUR BRITISH RIVALS


the United Kingdom.
Washington, March 20.-Ambassador
ChOate's recent remark that the United
States and the United Kingdom would
doubtless continue friendly rivalry in
regard to the worlds commerce is quite
justified by the latest figures on the
commerce of the two countries as sup
piled by the treasury bureau of statistics.
These show that the exports of domestic
merchandise from the United States in
the eight months ending witt February
amount to $829. 1895, al and those from
the United Kingdom amount to $685.
960,427. In the calendar year 1898 the
domestic exports from the United States
amounted to 81 ,233, 564, 1928, while those
of the United Kingdom amounted to
$1,131, 944,331. The year 1893 was the
first In which the domestic exports from
the United States exceeded the domestic
exports. from the United Kingdom. On
only two occasions prior to 1898 have
the domestic exports Of the United
States exceeded billion dollars, while
those of the United Kingdom have con-
stantly exceeded billion dollars during
the past 20 years. The latest year In
which her exports Of domestic merchan-
disc fell below the billion dollar line was
in 1879, when they amounted to $685..
929,020. In 1879 our own exports of
domestic merchandise amounted to $754,.
656,755. Thus. In the 20 years since
1879, the figures show an increase Of
but % per cent in the domestic exports
of the United Kingdom. and of SO per
cent In those of the United States.
That the rivalry has been and is
friendly one, even to the extent Of cor.
diality, is shown by the fact that, despite
our rapid increase in the supplies which
we are offering to the markets Of the
world, Great Britain continues to take
proportionate share Of that increase.
Our exports Of domestic merchandise to
the United Kingdom in 1879 amounted
to $346, 4S5,sS1 and in 1898 were 1884,
39S, 302, an increase of "a per cent.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
0HERIFT0 SALE.-BY VIRTUE OF 4
writ Of Levari Facias. to me directed,
will be exposed TO public sale at the
Buck Hotel, in Peneader Hundred, New
Castle county, State Of Delaware,
ON THURSDAY,
THE Soth DAY OF MAhCII, 1902,
at 10 o clock d. IN.

the following described real estate. Wis:
= All those certain lots, tracts or parcels Of
land with the buildlngs thereon erected. sit.
aforesaid, bounded apd described as follows, to
No. l-Besinning at stake in the centre Of
tho public road leading from Canal Pivot
Bridge to Kirlkwood 100 feet frUn Lum's Cor
Union american Church lot, and running
thence with said lot south Ass< degrees east
AH 6l0 feet thonce north 10 degrees east 100
feet to i.um's line; thence with his line 2S6
feet to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
degrees west SOD feet, end north 60 degrees west
81 feet; thence by land Of Robert Guy north
l8N degrees west 500 feet to the centre Of said
road thence north 40 dsgrees east 100 feet to
the place Of beginning, oontaining2 acres aud
7,et5 square feet Of land.
side Of the road lssding from tho Glasgow and
Summit Bridge road to Oldtown, called the
Steam Oompany's road. to the New Castle
and Frenchtown turnpike and running thence
by and with land Of Thomas Frazier south 52l4
degrees west y . 10 .pperohes to q stonea corner
Isaac Nichols south 81 degrees east 40 $40
perctes to q stone. another corner Of Isaac
Nichols; theucs with land Of Charles Nichols
north 81 degrees east IS 40 perohss to stone;
south side Of the Aforesaid road thence there.
with north II degrees west 1910 perches to
the place of beginning, containing 10 acres of
land, be the same more or less.
Seized and taken In execution a. the
property Of James H; D4ekery. Jr.. sole mort
Duckery, his wife, and tits and 10 be sold By
JOHN &. TAYLOR, Sheriff.
sheriff's Once. Wilmington, Delaware.
March Is, 1890 milo
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Fatally dubbed by a Black Fiepd

Upper Marlboro. Md. March 90
Mary A. Clarke, aged 81, was beaten to
death and her sister, Annie Clarke. aged
As, was fatally hurt, Saturday night, at
Bowie, Md. village near this place,
by John Berry, a 15-year-old negro boy,
who is in Jail for the crime. The deed
was q ferocous one, the aged and de-
fenseless woman being surprised by the
hoy and literally beaten to a jelly with a
club. Miss Annie Clarke saved herself
from instant death by promising to give
the boy 500 and pledging herself not to
betray him II he spared her life. In
tense indignation prevails here, and the
murderer, who confessed, was taken to
Baltimore to prevent lynching
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Noted Artist, Aspi,ya, lated.

Bostop, March ~ iEIohn !. .Breck, 40
years OLD, one OF the best known land
seape artists in the country. wits at-ci-
dentally asphyxiated by gus at the sc.
BOtolph club Saturday morning. Mr..
Breck retired at an early hour in the
morning and in the afternoon a number
of the servants smelling gas burst into
his rooms and found him dead in his bed.
1t is supposed that an additional cock on
the gas pipe was accidentally turned Oh
when the gaslght was turned OF.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

Washington, March 20.-Secretary Al.
ger returned to Washington last night
from his visit to Boston and Montreal
The secretary said he expected to leave
Savannah. Ga, Thursday for trip to
Cuba OH the regular trip of the trans
port Ingalls,. Major Hopkins, his mill
tary aide, Victor L. Mason, his private
secretary. and several other persons will
accompany him. Whether he will 60
further than Havana the secretary
would not say, but indicated that that
would depend entirely upon crcunl-
stances. He does not intend to go to
Jekyl Island, to which place the presi-
dent, vice president, Senator Hanna and
others are booked for visit during the
present week.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Insists Beef Was Chemically Treated

Insists Beef Was Chemically Treated
Leavenworth, Kan, March 2O.-The
army beef court Of inquiry concluded the
taking of testimony at Fort Leaven-
worth at noon yesterday and at AIS de-
parted for Chicago, where the sessions
were resumed today. The sole witness
examined yesterday was Sergeant Ed
ward Mason, Troop A, First United
States cavalry, located at Fort Robin
son, Neb., who served at regimental COM
missary sergeant at Lakeland, Fla, and
during the Cuban campaign. Sergeant
Mason declared that meat received at
Lakeland for use in his regiment was
Undoubtedly chemically treated. An
agent of Armour L. Co.," he said, told
me at the time that this meat had been
treated with what was called preserva-
tine" Witness had refused to accept
the meat Sergeant Mason was interro-
gated individually by each member of the
court and could not be shaken in his tes-
timony.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Three Killed In Freight Wreck

Roanoke. Va, March 20.-A fatal
wreck occurred on the Norfolk and West
ern at Ada yesterday morning, killing
Fireman Van I.andinghan,, Of this city,
and brakeman named Il. A. Graham.
A tramp was also killed. Several train
men were more or less injured. Three
freight trains were wrecked. All were
coming east. The first train had stopped.
The second broke in two, and the sec
tons in their flight down the mountain
side crashed into the first train. They
were soon followed by the third, which
had not been tagged.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

a week ago with the demonstration in
honor Of General Maxine Garcia, the
police have been unpopular with the pop
ulace, who jeer at them and declare them
inefficient. The trouble occurred at a
an unsavory quarter of Havana. Many
Cuban officers, colonels and captains
among them, attended the affair. A POI
liceman on duty in that street, follow
Ing orders to prevent crowd collecting
in front Of the building where the ball
was in progress, asked the group Of mel
to 60 in or disperse. His request was
UNDECIDED, and after repeating it he was
attacked by the group, whereupon many
men issued from the building, set upon
him, took away his club and revolver and
handled him roughly.
The policeman Immediately notified
headquarters, who ordered 20 reserves
to the scene Of trouble. The crowd hal
prepared for their arrival. 1t is said
they opened with a revolver fire upon the
police, which the latter returned, the
shooting being kept up until the mn
mnnition was exhausted. The opponents
Of the police acted with determination in
the ARRAY. Many who were in the
building mounted to the roof, which Is
comparatively low, and fred upon the
police from that point. They were ap.
parently well armed, and this fact, to.
gether with the resolution with which
they fought, seems to confirm the belief
that the, attacking party was mostly
made up Of Cuban officers, as ordinary
civilians would have fed from the re-
volvers Of the police.
Many women were wounded. A re-
port is In circulation that two Of the in
jured civilians have succumbed to their
wounds, but this is not confirmed.
Among those seriously hurt are Police
man Dontto Aroza, Enrique Munoz and
Benigue Vasquez and civilians Jose
Dominguez. Etouo Galiano, Alberto
Alicia and Irene Rogue. 1t is reported
that many were wounded who withdrew
hastily, because unwilling to have 1t
known that they were present.
American troops were called to the
scene when the trouble was over, and
numerous arrests followed.
1t is reported that another conflict be-
tween the people and the police took
place last evening in the outskirts of Ha.
vana, and that two policemen and sew
eral civilians. all wounded, were con-
veyed to police headquarters. 1t is as
serted also that two policemen were kill
ed. There is also a rumor that police
man was stabbed to death yesterday af-
ternoon.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

Allentown, Pa, March 20.--Owen
Kern, hotelkeeper at Cedarville, whom
Frank Krause, his hostler, shot through
the right lung on March 3, when Krause.
while madly jealous and intoxicated
killed his sweetheat, Maggie Guth, and
wounded Mrs. Kern, died Saturday from
his wound, He was So years Of age and
leaves wife and two small daughters
His father, Moses Kern, deceased, was
steward Of the Lehigh county alnlshouse
position which his brother, :. A. j..
Kern, fills at present
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Pennsylvania Railroad.

Schedule in effect March II, 1896.
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sleepers to Charleston. jackson VILE Port Tam
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Richmond and Jacksonville Florloa spec,ai
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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
A fine DISPLAY
at the
R0BELEN PIANO
WARER00MS.

We are now carrying the largest
stock Of Pianos and Organs. ever
shown in Wilmington.
The capacity of our warerooms
is taxed to the utmost to hold the
great variety OF every make and
style.
You will moi find so many diff
fcreEt makers represented in any
piano store anywhere.
You would doubtless prefer hav-
ing choice.
You naturally prefer making
your own choice.
We have the stock.
We show you the variety to Sc
lect from.
We assist you in making your
selection.
Every instrument is given its
exact grade, both as TO quality and
price; no deception; no misrepre-
sentation.
Notice the well-known makes
represented in our stock
Knabe, J. & c. Fischer, lvers &
Pond, Behr Bros; Geo. p. Bent,
Schubert, Beverwyck, Waldorf
Kroeger & Co., Franklin, Durand,
Ellington and others, many of
them pioneers in piano manufacture
4 Our Organs are equally we'll Sc
lected, Of finest tones and hand
some cases.
Photographs oflatest i'm
proved models, and Graphophones
ranging in price from S. to
5000, with all the latest records.
Our stock Of Vlolins, Mandolins,
Guitars, Olympia and Regina Mu-
sic Boxes, etc. is complete.
Catalogues and information on
request
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

Nix. J. Edward Addicks will to-
day send his check for $500 tpStates
Attorney General White.to investt
gate the charges Of bribery. This
speakswell for Mr.. Addicks, when
the insinuations have been directed
against him, figuring in the bribing
business.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

The Union Veteran Legion, to
which Enos II. Sparks belonged,
have decided that he is not proper
person to be longer connected, have
ordered his name stricken from the
rolls Of that organization and his
picture takea out of that organiza-
ton S frame and be returned to his
wife.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

The tempern-
lures have fallen
from 10 degrees to
% degrees from
the gulf and south
Atlantic states
Northeastern d | Y
through the Ohio
valley and the
middle Atlantic
states, and were
preceded by II
marked rise Of
tpmDf rntllrp 1ur-
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
FIGHTING IN HAVANA.
Citizens Attack the Police and Many

Citizens Attack the Police and Many
Persons Are Wounded.
Havana March 20.--A serious conflict
between the police and people of Havana
Saturday night resulted in much shoot
ing and clubbing. From 80 to so people
were wounded, some seriously. Among
the injured 10 Police Captain Estampes,
formerly colonel in the Cuban army.
Ever since the police interference about
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Russia to support China Against Italy

Russia to support China Against Italy
London, March 20.-The st. Peters
burg correspondent of The Daily Mail
says: 1T is asserted here that negotia-
tons are almost concluded by which the
treaty port New Chwang, province OF
Leao-Tong, on the river Liaou, near the
Gulf Of Pechili, will become Russian
possession. Russia undertaking In re.
turn, to support China In resisting the
demands Of Italy"
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20

Kingston, Jam. March 20.-The Amer
lean line steamer Paris. with the party
Of Americans touring in West Indian
waters, arrived here yesterday. Ex.Sec-
rotary John Sherman is steadily improv-
ing, though he is still very sick mau
and cannot with safety be transferred to
the United States cruiser Chicago.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-20
Kruger Favors Government Monopoly

Kruger Favors Government Monopoly
Pretoria, March 20.-President Kruger,
in an important speech at Heidelberg,
emphasized the necessity of the state
retaining the dynamite monopoly, be-
cause, as he argued, the South African
republic being an inland state, in the
event Of trouble with any Of the powers
its supplies Of explosives might other
wise be suddenly cut off. Where should
we be them" he exclaimed. He an
nounced his intention to modify the min
ing laws and to reduce the period en-
titling an applicant to full burghership
from fourteen to nine years residence.