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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
CONGRESS ADJOURNS.

Congress adjourned at five o'clock
yesterday evening little more than
day behind schedule time. The fault
of the delay rested with Mr.. Cannon,
but he fipally came to terms.
10 the House Mr.. Sulzer attempted
to pu. the republicans on record by
making them vote down his proposition
that fnal adjournment be postponed
until the Senate had acted on the anti
trust bill recently passed by the House,
but the members were too eager to go
home, and the adjournment resolutions
were adopted by 115 to 70.
The other feature OF the closing day
YVES the course of Mr.. Lentz, Of Ohio,
10 blocking unanimous consent to legis-
lation. For three days he had objected
to bills because the majority would not
allow the testimony in the Couer d.
Alene investigation to be printed, and
maintained his position to the end.
With final adjournment only q mat
ter OF less than an hour, the House
lapsed into boyish pranks. Mr.. Hen
derson, seeing the mind Of the members,
suggested the propriety of q recess I'M
I'll ten minutes before FIVE, and the mo-
ton was :omptly adopted. Then for
nearly an hour the House Of Represen-
tatiyes converted itself into huge So
cial club. Those members with sing
ing voices gatheIed 10 the aisle before
the Speakers desk aud sang sonos.
The galleii we're GRO Yded al d every
man woman aud child arose ana Joined
ia the chorus.
The usual committee was appointed
to wait on the President and inform him
that Congress was ready TO adjourn,
and on their return Mr. Speaker Hender-
son arose and addressed the House
briefly. He congratulated the members
on the work done by them In the session
about to close. and thanked them for
their thoughtfulness and their courtesy.
Then he brought down the gavel and
declared the House adjourned sine die.
The Senate spent the whole day
awaiting the surrender OF the House on
the contested points In the naval bill.
1t met from time to time to take fresh
recess. At odd intervals there was an
executive session, lasting only one or
two minutes, just long enough to con-
firm some late appointment. Most OF
the time the Senators spent visiting each
other in little groups, exchanging hos
pitable welcomes and discussing plans
for the summer.
Then at five O'Clock the Senate listen
ed to few polite phrases from Senator
Frye. and then, with great dignity and
solemn silence, adjourned.
AS the people were streaming from
the galleries fne-looking, gray-haired
man rose In the gentlemen's gallery
and, raised his hat high above his head
] and looking upward, shouted:
"a message from the great white
throne Jesus is coming soop."
He il the same man who, at the con.
clusion OF the Grant ceremonies In the
| House of Representatives a short time
| ago, made similar demonstration.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
COURT OF APPEALS.

10 the Court of Appeals at Wythe-
vile on Wednesday, argument was
completed in the case OF Jackson vs.
Commonwealth. All cases from the
Corporation Court Of Bristol were con-
tinued, and Fry vs.. Showers was par
TALLY argued. Orders were entered re-
moving the case OF Eubank We. Bough-
ton from Richmond to Wytheville, and
refusing appeals in The cases OF Will
Iiams VS.. Commonwealth, Ayers VS..
Miller, Winmsn vs. Jones. and French
vs. Johnston's administrator.
Yesterday the case Of Fry vs. Stow
ers was argued and submitted. Crock
cit vs. Grayson was partly argued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
TRY ALIENS FOOT-EASE,

A powder to DO shaken into the shoes. Your
feet feel swollen; nervous and hot and get
tired easily. II you have smsrting feet or
tight shoes, try Aliens Foot-Esse. 1t ccols
the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swol-
len, sweating feet ingrowing nails, blsters
snd callous spots. Relieves corns and ban
ions Of all pain and gives rest and comfort.
Try Il tedey. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores for Doc. Trial package FREE. Ad.
dress, Allen 8. Olmsted, Le BOY, n. Y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

THE war in the Philippines is over
now, according to the great hero Of
that war, General Otis, who has been
promoted for his daring and gallantry
and generalship, but, according to bis
successor there, the casualties up to
June 9 and the need of reinforcements
were as great as ever. There is vast
difference between the close Of war
on paper and on ground.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

THE UNITED States have no more to
do with the business of China than
with that OF the man in the moon, but,
for ali that, at the request OF their new
ally, Great Britain, they have
already sent ships and men there,
and will probably soon be en-
gagged in active hostilities with the
people of that far off country, who
have never done them any harm. Their
imperialism is had enough of itself
alone, but with such an ally as Eng
land, their danger is extreme.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

Local Boxers" in San Francisco are In
hearty sympathy with the movement in
China and have raised $62, 900 in the past
few months. The membership nov comprises
nearly one-fourth of the Celestial population
Of San Francisco. Lee Chung, chief Of the
local Boxers, says letters from leaders In China
assure him that Pekin will DO burned and eli
foreigners there msssacred before July 1: 1t
is said that arms and ammunition have been
shipped from Gan Francisco. One report says
10000 cartridges we're shipped in the guise
Of innocent merchandise two weeks ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
Mine EXPLOSION.

Glouster, O., June Sat No. 2 mine,
owned and operated by W. P. Rand, OF
Chicago, in which 300 men work, there
was terrible explosion this morning OF
gas and three men are known to be
dead. Several others were brought out
almost overcome by the gas. Several
attempts have been made to enter the
mine but all were forced to return. The
mine ia now on fire.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

,form school. all being under age.

reform school, all being under age.
A special train carrying $50 conduc-
tors and motormen from eastern cities
arrived this morning. Sixty policemen,
a squad OF detectives and o detachment
OF the Sheriff's posse were at the station
to prevent trouble. There was no dem
onstration whatever. General manager
Baumhoff says that the Transit company
now has enough men to run all cars
day and night. He says the company
now has 2.400 trainmen, while the num-
Der normally employed is 2,700.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

The President having been unable
to induce some republican o. s. Sena'
tors to believe that Mr.. Bynum is q
democrat, will now, it is reported, ap'
point that notorious renegade mem
Der of the commission to codify the
criminal laws of the United States. to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
the late Judge Calberson, of Texas.
Mr.. MoKinley's love for spurious gold
democrats surpasses that of women.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

ALL THE troops from many and dis
tant garrisons are to be sent to Roches-
ter, n. Y, to take part in the ovation
to be given there to Gen. Otis. Mr..
Mckinley is fond of heroes, and if the
supply OF them is not sufficient, he
makes them. But heroes, like poets,
are born, not made, and to attempt to
make them of such men as Dewey,
Sampson, Shafter, Miles, Roosevelt, and
other army and naval characters of the
late Spanish, and present Philippine,
war, is grotesquely absurd.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

Mr.. TAYLOR, the ex-leader OF the
ex.insurgents in Kentucky, though a
bad. ia not bold, man. His boosted
courage has oozsd from him, for con-
science makes towards of all men. de
knows be is, at least, implicated in the
murder of the man who legally beat
him for Governor of his State, and feels
that he should be made to pay the pen
al y of that cowsrdly crime, and nat
urally fears to return to Kentucky and
stand his trial. Were he innocent,
he would not hesitate to do so, Tor
he is assured of an open trial, and
rot only the people of Frankfort, but
of the whole of Kentucky, and, indeed,
of the entire country, would see to it,
that bis trial should be fair.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE 8, 1900.

THE gold so-cslled democrats or
rather the few and Insignificant men
who pretend to mask as such. have de-
termined to meet and decide upon tne
course they shall pursue in the coming
political campaign. Why they should
do 90, they alone can tell, for everybody
else already knows what they are 90"
ing to do, and that they will support
the imperialism and wars OF Mr.. Nc
Kinley and all the patent frauds and
corruption of his administration, ana It's
high tariffs, trusts, and negro officials
in the South, rather than vote for
man who is utterly and emphatically
opposed to that policy, and whose cleo
ton would at least tend to diminish its
consequent dangers and expense.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

Zschariah Zumwslt, q rancher. near
Placerville last night shot and killed his
wife, his son George and the latter's in.
FAINT, besides seriously wounding the
the child's mother. The murderer
stood off the officers with revolver, q
posse finally capturing him. 1t is sup
posed his mind was unbalanced on &C.
count of domestic troubles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

THE recent puissant insurgent COM
nander in Kentucky, who temporarily
had entire and supreme control of the
treasury, legislature and military forces
of that State, is now an insurance agent
in Indiana, the republican governor OF
which State has promised him protection
from the legal officers who are on his
track. What fall was there!
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
SATURDAY,
the Goth day Of June. 1900.

the 3Uth day OF JUDO, IJOU
in front Of the Royal street entrance to inc
Market Building In the said city, the follow
ing described properly to wit: r,
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND WITH
THE BUILDINGS thereon in the said Guy
of Alexandria, bounded as follows to WI. ;
Beginning on the west side Of Lee street oo
feet south Of the middle OF the squsre' ne
tween Wolfe and wilkes streets, ana runnlns
thence south on Lee street 24 feet, thence
west parallel to Wilkes stree: 123 lreue,'
thence north parallel to Lee street "a iee5
and thence east in direct line l23 ie,t .
inches to the beginning, with all spPuI'e'
ances. o..
Terms OF sale; Cash. All conveysncingS'
the cost Of purchasers. o
ieS oots JIM. HILL, Trustee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
MONETARY AND COMMERCIALi

New York. June 6.-There was no feature
except dullness Ito the stock market ct the
opening. a few stocks showed sharp changes
without any special influences moving them.
The general list at II o'clock was quiet but
firm at fractional improvements over the
opening,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

Unless food is digested quickly IL will fer.
ment and initiate the stomach After each
meal take tesspoonful of Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure. 1t digests what you eat and will allow
Won 10 eat all you need Of what you like 1T
never fails 70 cure the worst cases Of dyspep.
sis. 1t is pleasant 10 taxa
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

The majority Of real estate men and
the owners of real estate In Richmond
are expecting that the report OF the az
SCISSORS will show depreciation IN the
valuation of property Of about one mil.
lion dollars since the assessment OF
1895.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
Rvs III. Limit. Anctioneer.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID from Sarah ]. Mills to the undersigned
trustee, dated on the 2Sth day OF sePtember'
1895. ard recorded in liber No. 81, folio
191, one of the land records of the city Of
Alexandria Virginia, and at the request
of the party thereby secured, default having
having been made 10 the payment OF the dett
thereby secured, will sell at public auction
at . O'clock nj on
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
Alexandria Market. June 8

The grain market closes shade more &C.
tive, the advance In wheat in the larger
markets being also felt here. Country pro.
duce is in fair demand, but prices are IN.
changed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

All who suffer from piles will be glad to
to learn that EeWitts Witch Hazel Sslye
will give them instant and permanent relief
1t will cure eczema and oil skin diseases. Be.
ware OF counterfeits.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

Reports show that over fifteen hundred
lives have been saved through the use Of One
Minute Cough Cure. Most OF these were cases
OF grippe, Group, asthma, whooping cough
bronchitis and pneumonia. Ia early use pre-
vents consumption.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
The Markets.

Chicago, June S-The market closed a,
'ollows Wheat May -; July n As71R
Georgetown. June 8-Wheat 66s72.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic loo or go.
" O @ q tail 70 cure, druggisss refund moosR
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
MEETINGS.

BUILDING
M AND LOAN ASSOCIATION,
Alexandria, Va, June T. 1900.
A postponed annual meeting of the stock
holders OF this association will he held JUNE
10, 1900, at 2 p. m at the Office Of the as
sociation. LOG south Fairfax street.
ie7 st LEWIS HOOFF, Secretary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08
ALEXANDRIA STEAM LAUNDRi w.

The public ia notified thai Geo NJ. sen" 80
G. Michael Schwab al Chss. N. Hsneoghp "a
no longer interested in the AL EA ANLn,j
STEAM LAUNDRY, which Is row ON Nm
and operated by the ALEXANDRIA Ho0s
LAUNDRY COMPANY. and is locsttd 81
south Fairfax street. Je' -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-08

CTRICTLY FRESH EGGS received OS''
- only 15c per dozen, at ooN,s
New-York tribune., 1900-07-01
MR.. SCHJVAB IAN TELL LITTLE
HE SAYS ALL INFORMATION ABOUT
THE VALUE OF THE SHIPS is
KEPT IN BREMEN.

Gustav II. Schwab. the agent of the North
German Lloyd company. was seen by Tribune
reporter last night at his office. No Broadway.
He said
have just returned from the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse, which is lying in the North River
just off Fifteth-st. The steamer is entirely un-
injured with the exception that her starboard
boats are scorched and that some Of her port
hole glasses are cracked Otherwise she is un-
harmed Through the kindness of Vernon II.
Brown, Of the Cunard Line, the Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse will dock at the Cunard pier No. -,
North River on Sunday morning. She will sail
from this pier Tuesday. July 3, at 10 m.
scheduled She was saved by her own men, with
the assistance of four tugs whose names l have
not yet learned. Her men also rescued several
members of other crews who had jumped into
the water.
/ cannot say at present how many lives were
lost. There were no passengers on any of the
steamers, although there may have been visitors.
AS for the crews, I have no information i'm re-
gard TO them. The muster rolls are kept at the
German Consuls office and not available.
When the crews land in this country they
ceive tickets for lodgings in Hoboken. Some
estimate of the loss among the crews might be
made by count of the men who were in
turned to their lodgings after the fire broke out.
In regard to the value Of the ships and matters of
insurance l may say that all such facts are
kept on the other side, and am not. therefore,
in position to make any statement about them.
There was great amount of freight on the
steamers-they primarily freight steamers
with passenger accommodations-but to it's
precise value can say nothing.
Mr. Schwab left the offices of the North Ger
man Lloyd Company at 80 o'clock this MORN
ing. He said that he had not yet received any
answer TO his dispatch to the headquarters Of
the company. but that he expected one in the
course of the day He also said that 1t could
positively be stated that at least three hundred
or four hundred men of the crews were safe.
He added: The charterers of the Saale are
Crawford & Floyd, OF Boston. with offices in the
st. Paul Building in this city. There were no
passengers on any Of the ships"
New-York tribune., 1900-07-01

eighteen watertight compartments that even
should three compartments fl the vessel could not
sink 1t is especially noteworthy that the four
groups OF boilers each placed in separate
watertight compartment entirely divided from the
others, that in of collision the vessel
would not be without steam to work her main
engines or her pumps The vessel possesses a
double bottom that is divided into twenty-five sub
divisions, extending the entire length of the
snip, snip, and proyiding great protection against in
jury TO the ships bottom. In addition to all these
safety appliances the steamer is provided with TWEEN
tX-tour large lfeboats. placed upon the awning deck
II should be mentioned that the Kaiser Wilhelm
DER Crosse was built in accordance with the re-
qulrenents of the Imperial German Navy Depart
ment, and is fitted in of to be equipped
with q large number of guns and enter the German
naval service a cruiser.
Ihe steamer has developed a very high rate CT
speed The motive power consists Of two triple
expansion engines The two engines separated
by a watertight longitudinal bulkhead. The two
three bladed propellers measure almost % feet in
diameter, and constructed of bronze. each
weighing twentysiX tons. The length of the shaft
ing is 1913 feet The two condensers have a cooling
surface of S5.522 square feet and the tubes in the
condensers II 060 in number, comprising a
length of thrty-fve miles
There are 200 staterooms for the Of first cabin
passengers offering accommodations for $50 per-
sons The second cabin passengers are accommo-
dated in about 100 rooms in which 370 persons can
IN and oerths TIE steerage quarters have room for
500 persons. The of the steamer consists of
4oO persons. The captain is H. Engelbart.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-01
THE DESTROYED ,STEA MER.S
HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE BURNED SHIPS

The saale was built in 1887 at Glasgow by the
Fairfield Shipbuiding Company She registered
about 5000 tons. and express steamer, car
rying OF about two hundred men, who were
chiefly Germans, as, in fact, the crews of the
other ships. Her captain ]. Mirow She was
to have sailed for Boston to-day carry an excur-
sion party of about five hundred people to Europe
from that port.
The Main the smallest OF the ships de-
stroyed. She 800 feet long. and was rated at
thirteen knots. She carried crew of about two
hundred men. under Captain Petermann. The
Main was built by Blohm & Voss, of Hamburg
and was launched in January, 1900 This was her
second trip to New-York.
The Bremen built in 1893 at Danzig by the
Schchan firm. the well known constructors Of
the torpedo boats for the German Admiralty. She
registered at 10000 tons. and carried crew
OF 300 She Of the largest vessels
in the feet. and had attained a speed of fourteen
knots Her capacity 30 first cabin and l25
second cabin and about seven hundred and fifty
steerage passengers. Her captain was r. Nierich
The Bremen to have sailed July g.
The dimensions OF the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
follows: Length all. 64S feet: beam CO
feet; depth, 43 feet tonnage. 1900 and dispace-
ment 10000 Bge kees are attached TO
the hall OF the ship both sides by which the
rolling motion is reduced to a minimum The YES
sci is divided by sixteen strong transverse bulk
heads all extending to the upper deck and by one
longitudinal bulkhead in the en=ine geoaa into
New-York tribune., 1900-07-01
and there seemed to be twenty or thirty dead

and there seemed to be twenty or thirty dead
bodies.
We next turned to the steerage; but the FIRE made
Il impossible get TO IL. We tried next to get the
people out through the portfolios There seemed
to be forty fifty Of them There men.
and children. One woman In particular
attracted our attention. She kept calling 70 the
others not to give up hope-that would
them. Her face torn and bruised. She had
been trying TO get out of the small portfolio
Finding II impossible to get the poor people out
handed cups OF water to some of them who
cried for drink. Just before the ship went down
tug drew alongside with Roman Catholic
priest aboard. He called to the eeople who seemed
to be mostly OF his faith, and with uplifted hands
impaired absoution TO them Just the ship sank.
and the rushing in at the portfolios drowned
them like rats. The cries of the people the
water poured In were lndescribabe. Some OF
have had trying experiences at fires, but nothing
like that We don't want another case like H.
New-York tribune., 1900-07-01
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD DISASTERS.
THE LOSS OF THE ELBE AND THE DEUTsCH-
LAND.

The worst previous disaster which has happened
TO the North German Lloyd Company was the loss
OF the steamship Elbe, with about $50 persons on
board. January 3O 1895. The Elbe was only a
few hours out from Bremen her way TO this
port, when in darkness and mist, an unknown
steamer crashed into her at full speed. About
twenty-five persons saved
On December 5, 1875, the company lost the
Deutschland. The steamer bound from Bremen
to southampton, and grounded on the Kentish
Knock Sands in the Thames River, in a terrific
hnowstorm. OF the passengers and crew, about
seVenty-hVe persisted. The vessel was wrecked
The steamer Mosell while bound from Bremen
for this port by way OF Southampton, struck on
the rocks at Lizard Point in a dense fog on August
O. 1882. and wrecked. She had on board be-
tween six hundred and seven hundred passengers,
who. with her crew, were rescued by the Falmouth
steamer Rosetta. In 1873 the Kaiser Wilhelm went
ashore and broke up. and about 1898 the Elder went
ashore on Attersfeld Ledge, she was ioated and
toWed into Southampton, but abandoned there,
In 1892 the Trave ran into the ship Fred b Taylor
and her In two and in 1894 the Ems disabled
in midocean by accident to her shaft She was
Aawed into the Azores Islands
New-York tribune., 1900-07-01
CROWDS LLNGER ALL NIGHT
SEEMINGLY UNWILLING TO LOSE A
MOMENT OF THE SPECTACLE.


Of this morning the crowds around the fire and
along the river front numbered thousands, and
among them were hundreds Of relatives and
friends of those who were employed about the
piers and on the vessels, and were at work when
the fire broke out. There many pathetic
scenes and policemen were kept busy answer
ing the questions OF the anxious The
station houses and hospitals were also be-
sieged.
The cafes and beer gardens which abound IN
Hoboken full far into the morning, and
the crowd patronizng them behaved as such
crowds usually do. And so 1t was with the
would swing open and an ambulance police
patrol wagon carrying it's dreadful freight
would pass through the lines Of people
The fire frightened about o'clock and made
a brilliant hole in the night. From the land
the river looked like gigantic red hot grid
iron.
Late last night the brightly burning wreck
of the Main was pulled out from her pier and
towed up the river to burn herself out.
The bows of the ferryboats to Hoboken, and
the sterns of those from that place. were
crowded all night with their passengers. who
were fearful of losing any portion Of the brill
liant night spectacle.
Fifteen canal boats, VIII ch were lying in the
slip between the Thingvalla Pier and Pier No.
l, of the North-German Lloyd line, were all
burned
Toward daylight the flames Ieaped up afresh
fercely again. This proved untrue. as the blaze
quickly died down.