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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
The Windsor Hotel Fire.


New YORK, March 1S-The fremen
worked all night on the Windsor Hotel
ruins cooling them sufficiently for the
work of searching for bodies to he be-
gun this morning. The list of known
dead this morning is sixteen, among
them being the wife and daughter OF
the proprietor. Seventy-two persons
lieved to be buried in the ruins. There
are upwards of fifty injured persons at
various hospitals, number of whom
are beyond recovery. The indications
arc that the list OF dead will aggregate
thirty or forty. The financial loss is
estimated at between 100000 and
81 100000.
The great hotel, with all its glitter
and luxury, was fire trap. Once
afre the building became blast fur
mace. The flames spread with such
remarkable activity that the people in
the upper stories were caught in trap.
The police and flremen worked hero
icly and saved many life, but they
could not reach all. The fire was the
quickest and one of the most deadly
in the history Of the city. The com
missioner of buildings says the struct-
ure was unfit for hotel purposes and its
complete destruction in SO short g time
illustrates the utter helplessness of the
fire department in regard to the old
structure.
The principal cause Of the rapid de-
struction was the absence of tireproof
materials and "stop walls" in the cor
idors. The loss of life among the hotel
guests he ascribes to the fact that the
people became panic stricken and did
not make an intelligent effort to find
the fire escapes or other methods Of
egress. Occupants OF the rooms facing
on the two inside courts were without
; means OF escape 10 that direction ex-
cept through the ground floor, which
| was abaze. Many, it is said, safely
| reached the ground in the courts only
to find themselves surrounded by walls
of fame and all means of egress cut oil.
Never in the history of the city have
there been so many startling displays Of
heroism. Some of the occurrences
were almost past BELIEF. In one 10
stance fireman at the top of scaling
ladder was y feet or more short Of Il
young woman standing in window
through which smoke was pouring. 1t
was out of the question to reach her, as
the ladder was extended to the Limit.
The man stood upright on the toprung,
steedied himself by placing one hand
against the hot wall and told the
! woman to hang out of the window by
her hands. When she had done this
she was still four feet above him. The
| man hesitated and then told the woman
) to drop She alighted astride of his
shoulders, nearly causing him to lose
his balance, but after wavering for
! moment, sixty feet above the ground,
he recovered mis- equilibrium and car
ried the woman down the ladder.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
From the PhiliDpincs.

MANILA, March 1S-There is trouble
in the ranks on the island of Pauay, of
which Iloilo is the capital. The Taga-
los and Vissyans are having daily dis
putes and disintegration is threatened.
Many OF the rebels are DESERVING.
Word is expected today of the capture
of Binangonan, on Laguna de Bay,
where it is believed that q number of
rebel gunboats are in hiding. Several
companies of the 50th regulars left for
Binangonan yesterday. Lieut.. Col.
Hamer, of the First Idaho Infantry. has
been appointed Governor of Cebu.
General Otis has entirely reorganized
bis forces. They will hereafter consist
of two divisions OF three brigades each.
General Lawton and General Near
thur have been placed in command of
the divisions.
The Oregon and Iris arrived today.
The Oregon is in fit condition for any
duty.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
The Popc's Condition.

ROME, March 1S.-Reports of the
Pope's condition are of a contradictory
character. According to some he is
weak, apathetic. and gradually failing.
Others allege ne is steadily gaining and
as active as his physicians will permit.
1t is reported that DIR. Mazzoni today
performed a minor secondary operation
on the Pope's thigh cleansing out the
wound and adding few stitches, the
Pope's earlier condition only permitting
the use of plasters. The Pope is feeling
much better as result OF the cleansing
of the wound, which is rapidly healing
and almost well.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

VENICE, March 1S-Don Carlos. the
Spanish pretender, is still here holding
petty court. 1t was announced that
the signing of the peace treaty with the
United States by Spain would be the
signal for Csrlist uprising but reports
received from Carlist agents on the
Spanish frontier say there are as yet
no indications of decisive action in at
tempting All uprising. The followers
of Don Carlos are exasperated at his in
dolence, urging that fer the Carlist
cause it is now or never.
MADRID, March 1S.-The police
nave seized quantities of seditious cir
culars addressed to the soldiers recent.
ly returned from Cuba and melting
them to violence to secure their arrears
of pay and redress for their suffering5.
The police have also torn down posters
urging the people not to pay extortion-
ate taxes. These notices are all as
cribed to the Carlists and close watch
is being kept on them. The govern
ment is redoubling precautions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

COULD NOT BE BURIED WITH Ne
GRoEs.-At the Havana Home, at Sa-
vannah, Ga, school for colored girls,
Miss E. A. Philo, white woman who
had been engaged there as q teacher for
q good many years, died on Thursday
Before death she asked her colored
friends to promise that she should be
buried in Savannah amoung the color
ed people of Laurel Grove Cemetery
Those about her bedside believing there
would be no trouble in carrying out her
wish, assured her that it would be COM
piled with.
Yesterday morning, however, it was
found impossible to purchase a GENE
terry lot in which to inter Miss Philo's
remains. Both Mayor Myers and the
City Attorney agreed that the woman
could not be inferred in negro Gene
terry. The city ordinances under which
the cemeteries are conducted state that
the colored portion Of the cemetery is
for colored people and the white por.
ton for the whites. There is no pro-
vision for reversing this rule, and the
attorney so held. 1t was then decided
to send the woman's remains away.
They were shipped yesterday evening
to Waterford, N. Y, where Miss Philo
formerly resided.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
BEWARE OF OINTMENTs FOR CATARRH
THAT CONTAIN MERCURY

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely dersnge the whole sys
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable physi.
clans, as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., contains no
mercury, and is takeu internally, acting di.
rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of
the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure
be sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken in
ternally. and made in Toledo, Ohio, by z. j.
Cheney s. Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c. per bottle
HALLS Family Pills the best.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

4 CoLoRED TRAMP's RIDE.-A policeman
Gu duty at the Byrd Street Station, in Rich
mond, yesterday when the Florida special
came in found a negro boy under one of the
sleepers chained to ladder. His name is
George Davis, and he IS bootblack in Cairo,
Ill, when at home, but no is also a jockey
and went from Cairo to Los Angeles, CAL, to
ride horses, and went by easy stages to st.
Augustine, Fla. Not caring tide in freight
ne concealed himself carefully on ladder
beneath one of the sleepers on the fast-Aying
"Florids special, and in order to secure him
self against accident he fastened himself with
chains, and all during that long ride he Zee
NAMED stretched out on that ladder without
drink, food or Sleep with the awful shrieking
OF the train sounding IN his ears. II was
warm IN st Augustine, but cold when he got
to Richmond so he was cold, hungry snd
sick. He was taken to the City Hospital,
ard the doctors say he will recover in day
or two The boy is about twelve years of age
and very small.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

THE Northern ''humanitarians' like
their progenitors who sold their negro
slaves to the South, when to retain
them was no longer profitable, no"
sell for dollar or two their poor OLD
horses and mules that have worn them
selves out in patient and laborious
work for them, to the meat canning
factories, where they are slaughtered
and packed as cheap food for foreign
paupers. The "inhumsnity' OF the
Southern people, which induced them
to provide for their slaves until natural
death relieved them of that heavy
charge, also compels them to be kind
to their old horses that have WORKED
for them so long and to take good care
of them until the end. But there is
vast difference between humanity
and humsnitsrianism.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
MCKINLEY AND REED.
iispntch from Brunswick. Ga. saws

4 dispatch rom BrunsWlck, Ga, says:
Speaker Thomas b. Rced and his daughter
arrived in Brunswick yesterday en- route to
Jckyl Island. "Taere is no political sgnif.
canoe attached TO my visit" said Speaker
Reed. II am merely down on few days
visit to Jekyl. left Washington Thursday
night and will return to that city en- route to
Maine early next week" Despite this state
ment from Speaker Reed the manner of his
arrival and the coming of President McKin-
ley during Reeds stay on Jekyl hes aroused
great interest. The President, Senator Hanna
and Vice President Hobart will arrive at
Jckyl Monday morning M Reed will not
leave Jekyl before Wednesday. Speaker
Reed is the guest of John g. Moore, of New
York city. President Mckinley will be the
guest of former Secretary Cornelius n Bliss.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
SATURDAY EVENING. MAR. IS. 1899

SOME Northern newspapers, among
Them several that profess to be demo-
cratic, are so preiudiced againsttheSouth
that they try to induce their readers
to believe that the recent lynching OF a
few negroes in Georgia while under ar
rest for firing the town in which they
lived, and Que of whom had turned
States evidence proves that the white
people OF that community are little If
any thing better than blood thirsty
savages. But the same newspapers ap.
parently believe that the white men Of
Pana, Illinois, who shot into train loads
of industrious negroes who were de-
sir2us of working there, and killed and
wounded scores of them, aad drove the
others eli, are highly civilized and
Christian people, deserving the most
distinguished consideration. TheSouth'
ern eushers would have it that all sec
tional lines have been abolished, but no
such erroneous impression exists in the
North.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

Mr.. SPEAKER REED has also gone to
one of the thousands Of the palaces
Northern plutocrats have erected all
along the Southern coast, in which they
spend the wlutor and carly spring sur
rounded with all the luxury that their
ill.gotten wealth can procure. The
plutocrats of Rome dotted the coasts of
Italy with their villas nineteen hundred
years ago, and, with their concubines,
lived on the fat of the land-but, what
was the end ?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
THE OYSTER TROUBLES.

Everything was quiet at West Point
last night, and it is thought no more
trouble will result between the negroes
aud the local authorities aided by the
white residents OF the nelghborhood, in
regard to the alleged unlawful oyster
longing which the former having been
conducting on the ground leased by
to be question OF jurisdiction. The
negroes claim that they were granted
permission TO tong on the ground over
which the dispute has arisen by the
County Court of King and Queen, and
they resist arrest by Sheriff Woodward,
of New Kent. They arc willing, it
seems, that test case should
be made, and for that reason took no
pains to hide their work, but did it
openly, and refuse to sllow the decision
to rest with the authorities of
New Kent Sheriff Woodward met
posse OF fifty men at 8 last night and
discharged them until Monday, subject
to his call then. IL is thought the CUES
ton will be settled quietly, rs Morgan
Treat advises the colored leaders TO
surrender and make legal fight.
The Governor last night received
telegram from Sheriff Woodward,
stating, in effect, which has been set
forth above. The ground, the working
of which by the negroes has cansed the
order for their arrest, is thirty-one acres,
leased by DIR. Richardson, but since the
adjournment of the legislature it has
been surveyed again and found to be
forty-one acres, leaving, according to
this, ten acres not leased. The United
States government also claims ninety
yards around the lighthouse.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

SOME of the strangers at the st. Pat
rick's banquet last night would have
been wiser if they had confined the
operation of their mouths to the food
they put in them, and left the talking
to others who have more common
sense. But for the exceptional cour-
tesy and self-restraint of their hearers,
they wonld nave been called down.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
INSURGENTS ATTACK MACARTHUR.

INSURGENTS ATTACK MOARTHUR.-
The insurgents to the north of the
city OF Manila advanced from their
trenches late yesterday afternoon and
attacked General McArthur's centre.
The Utah battery, Third ARTILLERY and
Pennsylvania regiment replied and
drove the enemy back. Lieut.. John
Thompson and Pfivates John McVay
and Alex McCaDse, all of the Pennsyl-
vsnia regiment, were wounded. A
Filipino soldier, who had been cap
tured by the Americans, states that the
rebel force Immediately to the north of
Manila number 1000 men. The main
army. comprising 10000 troops, is con-
centrated at Malolos, the insurgent capt.
tai
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
Americans and Canadians.I

VANCOUVER, B. c., March 1S.-The
steamer Clutch, which has arrived here,
brought from Skagway Charles Rich
mond, who says the north is full of
rumors of fight between Americans
and Canadians. No particulars have
been received. Up to the time he had
left the mounted police had gone into
the district on the north and serious
trouble is feared.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
Heavy Loss BY Fire.

AMEsBURY, Mass, March 1S-Early
this morning fire broke out in the
Opera House block on Main street.
The flames had gained considerable
Roadway before they were discovered,
and within ten minutes after the alarm
sounded the walls fell in. At 5 a. N.
the firemen had the conhagration sub
dued. The Opera House block, Ma
sonic Hall, postoflice, Rand Adams
block and the Bsgley block were
entirely consumed. The loss is esti-
mated at 5000 900.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
TO TELL MASONS' sECRETs.


A dispatch from New York say- The
following was printed there THURSDAY
morning as an advertisement.
NEW YORK, March b.
hereby publicly sever all connection
with Masonry, believing that il ezeFz
an unjust favoritism in the competition
of this life; that many intrigues, wron-:
and crimes exist under it from lack Of
restriction in its constitution, ana .hs.
an oath of allegiance should not cs
made to other than sovereign state.
| shall exercise the right of free speech
and free thought in treating OF II, De-
spite its oath.
(Signed) C. NJ. AiTEfN
''Who is the backslider?" Wa asked
Thursday of Grand Secretary EbIels.
whose Office is in the Masonic Tamsia.
"He can't reveal much, said Coiohe-
Ehlers, "and we Masons are not very
much worried. His rubbshy talk ae9l-
there being terrible secrets, or THAT Aa,
sonry prevents free competition ID 'le
affairs of life is absurd. He beloncs 10
Fortitude Lodge No. 10, Of BrooSisl.
James Mccullough, of No. Isl tui.oA
street, Brooklyn, was master when az
ken was initiated, on September l'.
1897"
Inquiry in Brooklyn showed that /.
NJ. IAitken was practically unknown il
Fortitude Lodge. All the lodge men"
bers know of him was that ne vas -
years OF age and draughtsman by l'O
fession. .,c,r
Tough, "has only received one degree IL
our lodge, of which l am now past 'I nS
ter. That we call the Apprentice W. ~.
gree. To be full member o! the lou3c
and entitled to admittaDce to Mas9p.t
meetings he must have taken at !5a',
three degrees. He never cams % ,,.e
meeting after receiving the App?5,a,.'1lTi
Degree. What secrets he colld 90.
about the order wouldn't amount ~
row of pins" ,- tor
Masons say there is no penalty a ~
revealing any secrets, beyond Inc AnU%d
fact that the reveeler violates MS 7A't'
oath.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

PARACELsUs, that inebriated Swiss
quack and jugler, who scofed at Ga
len and common sense, and administer
ed only salt, sulphur and caomel
would have prospered better had he
lived in this humbug age, than when
he did, in the first part of the fiji
teenth century.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

CHICAGO. Mar. 19.-The market closed p.
follows: Wheat-July 66l3aG6lb; May 675.
a673s. Corn-Jnly =; May $685. Oats
July =; May 253sa25l3. Pork-May 50 OF
Lard-May SIS 35.
GEORGETOWN. Mar. 19.-Wheat 72a74.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
DIED.

On Friday, March II. 1899, at the resi-
dence of her son, Robert Horseman, airing.
ton, Va, at $50 O'Clock p. N Mrs. ELLEN
HORSEMAN, aged So years Funeral to-
morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from Mount
Oivet Church, Alexandria county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

DIR. BULLS COUGH SYRUP
is sure to cure incipient consumption.
This remarkable remedy will stop the
wasting away of the patient, and in a
short time effect cure.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

"Give me liver regulator and I can regu-
late the world" said a genius. The druggist
handed him bottle of DeWitt's Littly Early
Risers, The famous little pills. Edgar War
field, jr., corner King and Pitt streets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
BAD CONDUCT OF NEGRO sci
DIERS.

The GOODNESS of two Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad officials at Newpor.
News, Va, and the prompt action of a
sensible colored soldier on Thursday
morning averted shooting scrape that
might had resulted in q tragedy, and
even more serious results. There were
$50 negro soldiers on pier ) while thu
troops were unloading. One Of the prj-
Yates in q squad was smoking cigar,
and Superintendent of Piers j. p. Har-
rison approached him, with a reques
to put out the light, as smoking was
against the rules of the company. The
negro made an insolent reply and re
fused to stop smoking, when Superin
tendent Harrison knocked the cigar
out of his hand and stepped on it. The
squad of four and the sergeant at once
commenced to abuse the snperintcnd-
ent and Pier Foreman Rand, and the
sergeant ordered the private to shoot
Mr.. Harrison.
The negro loaded his gun, and was
evidently preparing to carry out the or
der, when an orderly soldier stepped
up and grasped the gun, holding the
muzzle in the air.
The negroes made threats, and it
looked as if serious trouble would fol-
low. The officials we're unarmed and
sensibly left the scene, while the ne
groes continued their abuse. The mat
ter was reported to negro officers. bui
the offenders mingled with the other
troops or the pier and were not arrest
ed. All of the soldiers were armed and
carried cartridges. The Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad viii report the episode
to the War Department, with the re-
quest that the sergeant and four pri-
Yates be punished.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18

ENGLAND's SEA PowER.-A dispatch
to the London Daily Graphic, from Se-
bastspol, says that the estimates for
the British navy that were submitted a
few days ago to the House of Commons
have staggered naval headquarters at
that place. 1t is the opinion at the
naval club that it would be idle for the
European powers to attempt to iu-
crease their fleets In proportion to the
additions to be made by the British
navy, and that the lesser maritime ma
tons would better cease augmenting
their navies, thereby depriving Great
Britain of the trifiing excuses she now
uses to swell her war fleets. Other
wisethe British will shortly be able
toblockade Europe from the Baltic to
the Bosphorus. The correspondent
adds that he learns that the admiralty
at st. Petersburg was also greatly as
tonished by the additions proposed to
be made by Great Britain to her sea
power.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-18
THE WINDSOR HOTEL FIRE.

As was stated in the Gazatte, the
Windsor Hotel, at Forty seventh street
and Fifth avenue, New York, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday afternoon,
lust as the st. Patrick's Day parade
was passing the building. Ten min.
utes after the fire was discovered the
flames were roaring through the in
terror of the hotel, and all means OF es-
cane by means of stairways and eleva-
tors were cut of, and there was the
widest scene of excitement within and
without the building. Hundreds OF
guests and employees were in the hotel
when the fire broke out, and for many
of them. escape with safety was impos-
sible. Probably from ten to fifteen
lives were lost within half hour, and
thirty or forty other persons were in.
jured by jumping from windows and in
rushing through the roaring flames in
the corridors and sleirways. Many
who were injured died later at nearby
residences and at hospitals, and others,
who made wild leaps to the sidewalk,
were so badly injured that they are
still lowering between life and death.
The flames could not be checked,
and in two hours from the time the fire
broke out the entire structure was in
ruins. and the streets on three sides OF
the building were filed with debris
from falling walls and tall chimneys,
while the streams of water being pour
ed upon the interior of the ruins had
no other effect than to fill the air with
clouds of scalding steam, making it i'm
possible for anyone to approach near
enough to search for missing bodies.
Ia addition to the regular guests of
the hotel the windows were crowded
by large number OF spectators, resi-
dents of the city, who had congregated
there to witness the parade, and their
attempts to get out OF the building re-
suited in many getting seriously hurt.
The scenes were heartrendering. Men
and women were in windows and on
stills, and one by one they would take
the fearful leap to the ground. Some
escaped with slight injuries, but most
of them were seriously hurt, and some
were fatally injured. At the corner OF
Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue,
directly across from the hotel, is the
home of Miss Helen Gould, and at her
direction many of the injured were car
ried there and were treated by physi-
clans and nurses whom she had sent
for.
Regarding the origin of the fire it is
said that john Foy, waiter in the
hotel, was passing through the hall on
the parlor floor, the first above the
street. he was making his way to a
place where he could catch moments
sight of the parade. In front of him
walked man patron of the hotel. The
waiter did not know him. Passing
thus one behind the other, they had
nearly gained the angle of the passage
near Fifth avenue when the patron
drew match and lighted a cigar or
cigarette, He tossed the match aside.
1t was still blazing, and fell into the
folds of a lace curtain. In an instant
the himsy fabric was ablaze, and in
stantly the flames shot to surrounding
draperies. This, from all the accounts,
was the origin OF the holocaust.