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FRIDA v EVENING. APRIL 23 1897
Thk Washington Star, in an edi?
torial article on the nominees of the re?
cent democratic primaries here, says:
"They have it in their power to tarn
a strong tide of immigration towards
the old city, to rehabilitate it and cause
it to bloom with modern progressive
ness and prosperity. For upon their
efforts will rest almost entirely the ab?
solute divorce of the city from all cor?
rupting influences, the expulsion of the
undesirable?, the punishment of all law
breakers without fe.-o; or favor and the
general moral cleansing of the com?
munity in such fashion as to remove
from it the stigma which has of late
years attached to it. This duty is one
that all good Washingtonians earnestly
hope to see conscientiously performed."
The only chauges made in the ticket
chosf.u at the last election are that in
place of a worthy and highly respected
Presbyterian deacon, an equally worthy
aud respected'life-long attendant of
the Methodist Church has beeu selected
for Mayor, and that the present Corpo?
ration Attorney aud two or three mem?
bers of the City Council, for no fault
with the manner in which they have
performed their official duti68, but sole?
ly and entirely because they refused to
vote the democratic ticket at last fall's
election, failed to be renominated. How
such insigniticant changes cau possibly
bring immigration aud prosperity to the
Otty, expel all undesirable people from
its limits, and divorce it from all cor?
rupting influences?with Washington
r*o near by?and etlect a general moral
cleansing, is only what a newspaper
that has been engaged in defaming this
city ever since it abandoned similar
work in respect of Alexandria coun?
ty can imagine. That the lot own?
ers and real estate agents in
Washington have the good of
Alexandria at heart may be told to the
marines. But now as ever, we have to
go away from home to find home news.
The most ridiculous thing connected
with the article referred to, is the gen?
eral knowledge of the patent fact that
no city in the country, according to
population, cau compare with Washing
Jon in respect of all manner of corrup?
tion, vice and crime. But the folly of
stone throwing by people living in
glass houses is a lesson that many
cannot learn.
Whilk thk law should always and
in every case be strictly observed as the
safest preserver of both the individual
and the community, the crime for which
h negro was taken from the custody of
the law officers here last night and
hanged to a lamp-post was of such a
cruel and beastial character, that few
people familiar with the particulars of
the wretch's terrible offence, are at all
desirous that those engaged in inflicting
his well deserved punishment shall be
called to account for it, certainly none
in this city. When the negroes shab
cease to commit such monstrous crimeB,
lynchings in the South will cease, but
not before, and if the negro preachers
would instill the knowledge of that fact
into the minds of their congregations,
instead of asking the President to pre?
vent the lynching of members of their
race, the better it will be for those
whose interest they profess to have at
beart. _
Th;-: "King Killers" are becoming
rife; they are appearing everywhere,
aud no country seems to be exempt
from their deviltry. On one day, yes?
terday, attempts were made to assassi?
nate the King of 1 raiy in Koine and the
President of Uraguay in Montevideo.
Fortunately both failed, but neither
from any lack of nerve on the part of
the would-be assassins. The assassina?
tion of rulers is a worse crime than that
of other people, in view of its dangerous
consequences to the whole nation;
therefore, though such assassinations
must come, the wisest policy to be pur?
sued toward them is that of woe to the
assassins.
It looks uow very much as if the
Greeks will be suing either the Turks
or the powers for peace before Mr. Al?
len's resolution, directing the President
to express to them the sympathy of the
American people, shall pass the U. S.
Senate. And then, too, sympathy, with?
out a practical manifestation thereof,
is as gross and patent a humbug to the
object thereof as it is to everybody else.
That President McKinley doesn't
hold to the fifth commandment is prov?
ed by his appointment of Mr. Sewall,
who, though a democrat, scouted and
flouted his father, the democratic can?
didate for Vice President at last fall's
election, to the position of U. S. Minis?
ter to Hawaii. How can a man be
true to his government who .is untrue
to hi3 own father ?
The Hypnotized Man Disinterred.
Simcok, Ont, April 23.?The man hypno?
tized aud buriod in the ground for three days
has been disinterred. Great crowds followed
the box containing tho body to the opora
house. As the man was being brought back
to a normal condition he became very restless
and finally smashed tho box into pieces. It
required five men to control him in his strug?
gles uutil ho was fully restored to conscious?
ness.
A life buoy marked "Samaria" has been
washed ashore at Long Beach, Washn, The
Samaria is a British bark long overdue from
Pdget Sound for San Francisco.
FROM WASHINGTON.
[Correspondence of the Alexandria Qazette.]
Washington, April 23.
President McKinley has decided to
nominate William R. Say, of Canton,
O., to be first assistant secretary of
State, and ex-Representative Bellamy
Storer, of Cincinnati, O., to be minister
to Belgium. These nominations were
to have been sent to the Senate to-day
but owing to that body's adjournment
over until Monday will not go in until
next week. Judge Day, who will be
named to succeed Mr. Rockhill as first
assistant secretary of State, is also from
Ohio.
The republican Senators in caucus
to-day decided to accept the proposi?
tion made by the opposition lor the
filling of the Senate committees, leav?
ing the arrangement of the details to
Senator McMillan's committee on com?
mittees. The caucus also considered
the question of filliug the elective of?
fices of the Senate, and the nianagiug
committee was authorized to negotiate
with the opposition to the end of secur?
ing a division of these places. Both the
secretary and the sergeaut-at-arms of
the Senate ar? democrats, and the re?
publicans think they should be allowed
to name a man to till one of these
places. The details of this negotiation
will be left to a sub committee, consist?
ing of Messrs. McMillan, Lodge and
Spooner.
Consul General Lee has cabled the
State Department that John J. Kelly,
of Philadelphia, has been released and
will leave the islaud. Nothing is
known at the department of the con?
ditions under which Kelly was ar?
rested.
Judge Hagner signed a decree di
vorciug Mrs. Lucy H. Armes from Maj.
George A. Armes, a retired officer ol
the United States army.
Representative Maguire, of Califor?
nia, to-day introduced a resolution iu
be House declaring that the war be?
tween Turkey and Greece was a war be?
tween Moslem and Christian civiliza?
tions aod directing that the sympathy
of the United States be extended to
Greece with the hope that her struggle
may be successful. The resolution
was referred to the committee on for?
eign affairs, but as that committee is
not appointed no action will be taken
at present.
Representative Dorr, of West Vir?
ginia, to-day introduced a bill to repeal
the civil service law.
Mr. Brander of Fairfax county, Va.,
was at the Capitol, to-day tryiDg to get
Congre&sman Walker of that State to
endorse his application for the post
mastership at Fairfax Court House.
The republican committee of the State
has recommended Mr. Hawxhurst for
the place, but Mr. Brander has a paper
endorsed by Secretaiy Alger and other
prominent national republicans that
he requested General Walker to pre?
sent to tha President for him, but which
the General declined to do, upon the
ground that it is as much as he can do
to have postmasters appointed in his
own district.
Colonel Lamb, chairman of the Vir?
ginia republican executive committee,
was at the Capitol to-day. He doesn't
hesitato to say that he is utterly op
posedto the policy the ad ministration has
adopted of dispensing its patronage in
Virginia in accordance with the recom
inendation of the "diamond four," Bow
den, Waddill, Brady and Agnew, with
the former as referee in all cases of dis?
pute, and that though he has made no
agreement with the republican Con?
gressmen from his State, Messrs.
Walker and Yost, to attempt to defeat
it, the only reason therefor is the fact
that he has had no opportunity, and
has not been asked to do so.
Mr. Ellyson of Richmond was here
yesterday, but, it is said, not on polit
Uical business. He is in good spirits
and thinks his chances of receiving the
gubernatorial nomination are very fa?
vorable. People from the rural por?
tion of the State recently and now here
seem to think that Mr. Tyler is the
favorite in their districts, though they
all speak in the highest terms of Mr.
Ellyson. Mr. Johnson of Culpeper,
here yesterday, said he had just come
from Stafford county, the democrats ol
which, he said, at least those with
whom he had talked,were for Mr. Tyler,
and Mr. Jackson of Warren county
said that though personally he was iu
favor of Mr. Ellyson, the sentiment in
his county, so far as be had heard,
baned toward Mr. Tyler.
The executive committee of the Vir?
ginia republicans are still here. To the
demand ot the negroes of their State for
a categorical response to the question
as to whether or not they intend
to recommend negroes for office,
they replied that their questioners must
aame the men they want to be recog?
nized and the offices they wish them
to have. That reply was not satisfac?
tory, the negroes saying the committee
should makethaseiections.asthey knew
which of their race had done the party
the most good. The committee and the
office seekers will hold another confer?
ence this evening. Up to| this time,
however, nothing has been agreed
upon, and the committee is as far
away from their chairman, Col. Lamb,
and the two republican congressmen
from their State, as ever.
The following Virginia fourth-clas3
postmasters were appointed to-day:
Arbor Hill, J. ?. Yates ; Endicott, G.
O. McAlexander; Gladstone, W. H.
Karris ; Hunter's Lodge, J. H. Pace;
Lanexa, J. D. Turner; Lithia, H.
Brugh ; Oakdale, J. D. Deacon.
Secretary Sherman has received a
brief cablegram from Minister Terrell,
at Constantinople, uader date of yes?
terday, stating that Osman pasha, the
old hero of the Turkish defense of Plev
na, left Constantinople last night to
assume command of the Turkish army
in the field.
THE GREEK WAR.
After the defeat at Gritzovali, the
IJ reeks rallied at Mati, which place
commands the road to Larissa. The
Turks renewed their attack and the
Greeks were obliged to retreat. At
R-iveni, the other principal objective of
the Turkish adranoe, fighting also con?
tinues. Admiral Von Hofe, has an- j
nounced his intention of resigning com-!
man of the Turkish tleet, if the fleet is
ordered to leave the Hellespont, he be-1
lieving that the ahips are unfitted for
active operations, The Turks have
taken Rapsani, but the advantage they
derive from the capture is not ap
parent. The plan of entering Thessaly
by way Pf tbe passes of Reveni and
Bonghazl h?3 been abandoned by the
Turks owing to the successful Greek re?
sistance.
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The police of New York to-day raid?
ed the offices of the following .New
street firms on the allegation that they
were conducting their business illegal?
ly : The Standard Stock and Petroleum
Exchange; the Manhattan Grain and
Stock Co., and Woodruff & Co., com?
mission merchants.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
One hundred and sixteen fourth
class postmasters were appointed yes?
terday.
The Baltimore police commissioners
have decided that no applications from
colored men for positions on the force
will be received.
The Louisiana levees are weaking
and only the great eflorts of the people
of that State prevent the Mississippi
river flood from sweeping all before it.
General Miles, commander of the
United States army, has applied for
permission to go to Greece to watch
the war with Turkey and the President
has his request under consideration.
Historic old "Chatham," opposite
Fredericksburg, is to be sold at auction.
The mansion waB built in 1730 by Wm.
Fitzhugh. Gen. Washington first met
his wife there, and Geu. Lee courted
his while there.
It is said that President McKinley
has decided to appoint Judge William
R. Day as Solicitor General to succeed
Holmes Conrad, of Virginia. This,
howev r, will not interfere with Judge
Day's mif-ion to Cuba.
Sheppi iil ],. Ponder, general freight
and passenger agent of the Carolina
and Northwestern railroad, whs run
over by a ttaiu at Liucolnton, N. O,
yesterday and killed. He wae a boh ol
Gon. Peuder, of Confederate fame.
Four large black snakes yesterday at?
tacked Wm. Martin while he was at
work in a field uear Cumberland, Md.,
and nearly strangled him to death.*
His son ran to his assistance and cut in
two one of the suakes which measured
seven feet.
The baseball season opened yester?
day. The following are the league
scores : Baltimore 10, Boston 5; Brook
lyu 5. Washington 4; Philadelphia 5,
New York 1; Louisville 3, Cleveland 1;
Pittsburg 1, St. Louis 1; ^i^ciouati S,
Chicago 7.
Fire at the Washington navy
yard yesterday evening destroyed
the naval examiuers' and retiring
board's building and caused a
damage estimated at $10,000. At one
time it appeared as though the entire
row of buildings would be consumed,
but the action of the department pre?
vented the fire from spreading.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Dr. J. T. McCrttm, a prominent drug?
gist of Lexington, died yesterday.
C. E. Verdier, a well-known provi?
sion broker, died suddenly in Norfolk
yesterday.
Mr. Davi 1 A. Karr and Miss Cora
Tinsley were married at the home of
the bride's mother, at Staunton, yes?
terday.
Mr. L. G. Johnson has sold to S. H.
Hamilton, of McDonald, Pa., S00 acres
of land near Marganna postoffice, in
Culpeper county.
John Raymond Gordon, the 15 year
old boy who confessed to burning the
bouse of Thomas Priddy, in Henrico,
wa3 yesterday convicted and sent to
the reformatory for six years.
Mr. Carl Scholz, of West Virginia,
and Miss Eleanor Haye Barclay, only
daughter of Mr. E. H. Barclay, editor
of the Lexington Gazette, wero mar?
ried yesterday at noon at the residence
of the bride's parents in Lexington.
Another heavy frost yesterday morn?
ing increased the crop devastation in
Norfolk county and leaves no doubt
in the mind of anybody that thera will
be a tremendous shortage in the ship?
ments of vegetable products from the
port of Norfolk.
The finance committee of the Nor?
folk City Council has introduced an
ordinance providing for the taxation of
newspapers, the proposed law requir?
ing morning papers published in the
city to pay a license of $100, and after?
noon papers a license of $50. Papers
published less than six times a week
will be required to pay a license tax of
$25. The proposed law excites consid?
erable interest.
Republican County Chairman Ward,
of Rnppahannock, is in Washington,
and will endeavor to secure the ap?
pointment of republican postmasters at
the following places in that county:
Edward Cary, at Washington; C. A.
Hoekley, Amissville; C. N. Johnson,
Springville; George C. Elkins, Wood
ville, and Miss Bettie Johnson, Slate
Mills. Several of these applicants
served under the Harrison administra?
tion, and hope to be reappointed.
Strenuous efforts are to be made to re?
move the postmaster at Washington,
Miss Wes', hut as 6he has given no of?
fense and has an excellent record at
the department, she will in all proba?
bility be allowed to serve out her term.
CAPE FEAR AND YADKIN.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C, says
that the question of the sale of the
Cape Fear and Vadkin Valley Railway
in which a number of Alexandrians are
interested, will be reoponed on the pe?
tition of attorneys representing New
York bondholders.
Judge Simonton in the United States
Court has issued an order suspending
the decree of foreclosure of the road.
Provision is made for a supplementary
hearing on tbequestion whether it shall
be sold as a whole according to the de?
cree recently issued. The hearing is
set for June 9.
Under the recent order of the court
the coutetiou of the Baltimore commit?
tee that the property should be sold as
a whole and not in sections was upheld.
This was a set back for the New York
committee which asked for a sale by sec?
tions.. The Southern Railway desires
to take one of the sections, while the
Seaboard Air Line offers to operate the
whole property, Gen. John Gill, pre?
sident of the Mercantile, Trust and
Deposit Company, manages the road at
present as receiver.
A recent issue of the Raleigh News
and Observer said:
"It seems that the law that passed the
General Assembly forbidding the sale of
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail?
road, except as a whole, prevented tho
dismemberment of that North Carolina
system."1
Killed He? Husband.?A case
which has excited deep interest in south?
west Virginia closed at Abingdon yes?
terday when Mrs. Sarah Deckard was I
sentenced to five years in the penitenti?
ary for the murder of her hushand, on
their farm, near Bristol, last January.
The plea was self-defense. Deckard
was a man of violent passions, and his
family lived in dread of him. He
threatened to kill Mrs. Deckard if their
daughter married. The girl was wed?
ded the day of the killing, and Deckard
was kept in ignorance of it. In fear of
his threat, Mrs. Deckard arose from bed.
and, taking an axe, buried it in his
skull. The jury, lt'is claimed, came
very near acquittal. A motion for a
new trial is pending.
HANGED BY A MOB.
Joseph McCoy, (lie Assailant of Little;
Annie Lacy, Taken from a Cell in
the Station House and Hanged to a
Lamp Post?Thrilling Scenes in and
Around Police Headquarters.
The righteous indignation of old Al?
exandria was aroused last night to a de?
gree akin to that manifested in the
Christmas riot of 1SG5, and as a result
Joseph McCoy, a negro ravisher, was
strung up to a lamp post, bullets sent
into body, his body, his head split open
with an axe and other indignities heap?
ed upon his quivering remains. It was
the fourth ca3e of outrage which has
occurred in this vicinity in less than a
year?one in Alexandria county early
last summer where a young white girl
waB the victim of a negro brute; one
in the First ward u month or so ago
when a little simpering white girl told
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fault of his. The crime had been gc
ing on for the past two weeks,
and yesterday the children's condition
became so serious that they were com?
pelled to niako a confession. A phy?
sician was called and a revolting ex?
posure followed.
When the facts in (he case became
noised around the greatest indignation
was aroused, and suggestions of sum?
mary vengence were made by numbers,
but the more sober-minded believed a
conservative spirit would overcome the
minds of all and that the law would bo
allowed to take its course. The result,
however, showed the surmise to be er?
roneous. Instead of quieting down the
spirit of vengeance was growing every
moment. The streets near the City
Hall were swarming with people from
early in the night, and excited and de?
termined groups were on comers talk?
ing angrily. At ten o'clock the Mayor
undertook to cast oil on the troubled
waters by advising al! he met to abstain
from rashness and let the law take its
course, but in the face of the
indignation that was manifested his
admonitions were but little heeded.
Crowds were in the neighborhood
when the relief guard went out at ten
o'clock, and at that time were becom?
ing menacing, but the police, Chief
Webster and Lieutenant Smith, who
were in the station house, believed the
angry waves would soon subside and
the excitement quiet down. The
crowd, however, kept in the vicinity
and would occasionally come on the
station house pavement, but attempted
no violence. The officers had deter?
mined to protect the negro as long as
possible, and made every preparation
to resist an attack. About 12 o'clock
he first decided movement toward tak
irjg McCoy from the cell was made.
The front door was broken open and a
number of excited met), among
i hem Mr. Lac3r, entered. The at?
tack was successfully repulsed by the
policemen and some of the ringleaders
captured, but subsequently released,
At this juncture Lieutenant Smith ap?
peared at the front door and ordered
the crowd to disperse. He advised
them to be law-abiding citizens and to
let justice take its course in the usual
way. The Mayor had ordered the of?
ficers to protect the prisoner and would
have called out the Alexandria Light
Infantry had it been deemed neces?
sary, but all in authority at that
time believed the trouble was over, as
the crowd had scattered when the of?
ficers discharged their pistols at the
first attack. But the assemblage had
no intention of abandoning their pur
pose and had repaired to a neighboring
lumber yard, where a large piece of
timber was procured to be used as a
battering ram. At a quarter past one
o'clock the mob returned with a yell,
and it is believed that at least five hun?
dred people were in the gang, and,
8traDge to say, it was impossible, in the
excitement, to identify those who com?
posed the crowd. Some were strangers
and nearly all had their hats pulled
down over their eyes. The station
house door was smashed in a few sec?
onds and excited men surged in imme?
diately. The chief, lieutenant and of?
ficers Wilkinson, Atkinson, Lyles, Davis
and Knight and Constable Webster
were thrown aside by some and secured
by others. The chief was knocked back
on the steps he was descending and the
lieutenant was thrown first one way and
then another and finally pinioned and
made helpless by half a dozen men.
The chief had drawn his pistol but was
prevented from using it. Officer Knight
had also produced his pistol, but his
arm was caught and the weapon turned
against his own head. It was with the
greatest difficulty that he succeeded, iu
turning the muzzle upward and pre?
vented it from being discharged. In the
meantime the crowd outside which
could net gain an entrance were break
ing the windows and cutting out sash iu
their eagernesB to get at McCoy. Those
inside soon demolished the door lead?
ing into the corridor and went directly
to the ravisher's cell. McCoy, who
had been listening to the assault, had
become terribly frightened and had
climbed up on the door and was se?
creted near the ceiling. The mob sup?
posed they were at the wrong cell, and
were about to leave for another, when
one of McCoy's legs was discovered.
He was pulled down with a yell and
dragged to the pavement, and the mob
surged toward Cameron street with
him. The negro cried piteously for
mercy and resisted all the way. The
crowd turned down Cameron street to
Lee street and on the southeast corner
niadp rapid preparations to carry out
their purpose. A rope had been pro
pared from Mr. G. E. Price's awn?
ing, a noose was soon arpund McCoy's 1
neck and in less time than it takes to
tell it he was dangling from the lamp
post on that corner. Bullet after
bullet was sent into his body, and
when he had been cut down one of
the mob used an axe on his head and
blood and brains were spattered on the
a revolting story of gross wrong on the
part of one who should have been her
protector; the recent case of Lewis and
and Mrs. Beide], and the startliog ex?
posure made yesterday afternoon con?
cerning McCoy and his victim.
Some gentlemen living in the south?
ern part of the city obtained informa?
tion of McCoy's conduct toward Annie
Lacy, daughter of Mr. Tobias Lacy,
who lives in the southern part of the
city, and the information was lodged
with Lieutenant Smith, who started in
immediate search of the accused. Short?
ly before seven o'clock he found the ne?
gro in a stable on south Washington
street, near the Catholic cemetery, and
took him to the station house. McCoy
at first flatly denied the charge, but
upon being locked up he made one of
the most revolting confessions ever list?
ened to. Hi*b yictim is about ten years
of age, and the fiend acknowledged
that the reason her sister, still younger,
was not his victim also was through no
on House.
pavement.
! The remains were gathered up this
! morning and taken to Mr. Demaine's
nndertak:ng establishment
. The allair has been the chief subject
of conversation to-day. The fact that
: it is the fourth instance within less than
a year where females have been shame?
fully treated in this vicinity has natur
ally aroused the righteous indignation
of the community, and while all be?
lieve in law and order, the general
sentiment has been that the fiend has
met his just reward,
The damage to the station house will
amount to about $50. The fact that no
one was seriously hurt save McCoy was
fortunate. The officers at the station
house were roughly handled aDd some?
what bruised, but they suffered uo ma?
terial injury.
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Tho Prisoners Cel*.
Dr. Purvis, the city coroner, this
morning summoned a jury of inquest
in the matter. The jury consisted
of Messrs. Louis Brill, Julius Dienelt,
!C. J. W. Summers, E. Warfield, jr.,
C. T. Smith and W. L. Allen. The
jury met at Demaine's undertaking
establishment and after being sworn
and viewing the body, adjourned to
meet at 7 o'clock to night. In the
meantime a post mortem examination
will be held. The body showed a bul?
let wound over the heart, a cut on the
ueck, a bad cut on the head and
slight burn on the body. Fire had
been applied to certain parts of the
negro's body.
Oov. O'Ferrall to-day telegraphed to
Judge Norton asking him to wire him
the facts in the case and then to write
him the full particulars. The Govern?
or stated that he thought it strange
that in a city like Alexandria, with a
police force, a military company, &c.,
such a lynching should huve occurred.
The Scene of tho Tragedy.
The father of An?ie Lacy took her to
Dr. O'Brien yesterday, who found her
to be suffering from a specific disease.
A malignant growth had to be removed.
The doctor asked if Mr. Lacy thought
his child had been tampered with and
he replied in the negative. Annie,
however, subsequently admitted her
relations with McCoy, when the father,
fearing his other children had been vic?
tims also of the negro, questioned them
and found bis horrible suspicions to be
real. He requested Dr. O'Brien to ex?
amine them, and he and Dr. Snowden
discovered that the two other children,
aged 6 and years, had been as unfor?
tunate as their sister. Annie, upon
whom the operation was performed, is
doing well and the two other children
show no ill effects from their injuries.
Capt. Bryan, of the Alexandria Light
Infantry, received a telegram from the
Adjutant General to day asking him to
send an explanation concerning the ap?
parent inactivity of the company at
the time of the lynching. The captain
had received no official call from the
Mayor for the company, it being be?
lieved after the first assault on the sta?
tion house that there would be no fur?
ther trouble. When the mob returned
they did so so suddenly and performed
their work so expeditiously that the
company could not have been formally
summoned in time to have frustrated
the purpose of the lynching party.
The body of McCoy has been at De
maine's establishment all day and has
been visited by many inquisitive per?
sons. So far none of his relatives have
been there, however, nor has there been
any claims made by them for the re?
mains._
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Case Postponed.
Fairfax Courthouse, April 23.?
The case of James Lewis, colored, in?
dicted for having committed an assault
on old Mrs. Reidel on the Rose Hill
farm, a few miles from this city, last
week, was called in the Fairfax County
Court to-day, Judge Lipecomb, of Prince
William, presiding. The common
wealth was represented by Mr. J. M
Love and the prisoner by Messrs.
Thornton and Ford. Owing to the
absence of witnesses who, it is stated,
were in Charlottesville and Alexandria,
the case, on motion of the prisoner's
counsel, was continued till Monday
next, and the jury which had been
summoned to try the case and the wit?
nesses on hand adjourned till that time.
The prisoner was in court during the
short proceedings, as was also Mrs.
Reidel. She is quite feeble, but show?
ed no change since her appearance here
last week. There was not an unusu?
ally large attendance at court and
really no excitement. The lynching
atlair at Alexandria last night was gen?
erally discussed, but it seems to have
aroused no excitement here. No spe?
cial precautions have been taken to
guard the prisoner, and none, so far,
seem necessary.
The War in the fclnst.
Athens, April 23.?After the bom?
bardment of Katrina by the Greek
squadron the fleet landed a detachment
and found the Turks had left behind
them immense stores of provisions.
The capture of these towns and stores
places a serious difficulty in the path of
Edhem Pasha.
A dispatch from Arta says the Turks
have abandon Kiafa and Kosnit /.adeson.
Corfu, Apl. 23.?The Greek warships
have suspended the bombardment of
Prevesa, and left this morning forSanti
Quaranta.
London, April 23.?A dispatch dated
at Athens to day says the Greek army
has occupied a strong position at Mati,
where there has been lighting since
yesterday. The Turkish attacks have
been repulsed.
Brussels, April 23.?It is announced
that all the powers have given their
adhesion to the note of the Russian
minister for foreign affairs assuring the
Greeks and Turks of the friendly inter?
ference of the powers in the present
struggle so soon as asked for by either
s'rle.
Berlin, April 23.?A telegram from
Constantinople says that while it is
true that the town of Prevasa has been
p-Ttly destroyed by the guns of the
Greek warships and those of a battery
which the Greeks erected, the citadel
of Prevasa is not damaged and is still
hold by the Turks.
Athens, April 23.?The excitement
here continues to be most intense. Ad?
vices received here to-day from Volo
say that even the women are arming
themselves to do battle with the Turks.
Disastrous Railroad Wreck.
Montgomery, Ala., April 23.?An?
other disastrous wreck occured yester?
day. As a result three men are dead,
two others are said to be dying and a
number of others more or less seriously
injured. A train of the Louisville and
Nashville bound for New Orleans, left
here at 9:4o Wednesday night loaded
down with passengers. When the en?
gine reached the trestle beyond Wil
cox the wheels left the track, broke
through the trestle and the engine, the
baggage and smoking cars were piled
in a heap in the stream below. The
engineer, the fireman and an unknown
tramp who was stealing a ride were
killed. Two passengers were fatally
injured and a number were seriously
hurt. The spikes on the trestle had
been drawn, the rails pushed 7 or 8
inches out of line and pinned down
again. Two negro suspects have been
arrested.
The Situation at New Orleans.
New Orleans, La., April 23.?The
river stood still yesterday. Crowds
gathered but no rain fell. New Orleans
has 2,000 men at work this morning.
Lumber in carloads and mud by the
trainload are being used. Only a few
days more remain before the crisis will
be reached.
Foreign News.
Rome, April 23.?The physicians
who have beeu examining Pietro Ac
ciarito, who tried to stab King Hum?
bert yesterday with a dagger while bis
majesty was on his way to the races,
pronounce the man to be insane.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate yesterday the Nelson
substitute for the Torrey bankruptcy
bill was passed and the five homestead
bill was made the unfinished business.
The Nelson bill provides that any
debtor, other than a corporation, ow?
ing $200 or more, who is unable to pay
his debts, may file his petition in the
district court of the United States for
the disstrict or division thereof in which
he resides, asking for a discharge from
his debts and ottering to surrender all
bis property for the payment of his
d ^bts except such as is exempt by the
1 iw of his domicile from execution and
liability for debts. The Senate, after
hearing the announcement of the death
of Representative Holman, adjoured till
Monday.
The House adopted a special order
for the consideration of the Senate
amendments to the Indian appropria
ton bill without reference to a commit?
tee. Mr, Bailey and his followers join?
ed with the republicans in this propo?
sition after the special order had been
modified eo as not to cover the appro?
priation bills. After consideration of
the bill, but without action, the com?
mittee arose and Mr. Steele (republican,
of Indiana) then announced the
death of bis colleague, Mr. Holmon.
Accompanied by fifty or Bixty China:
men of high and low degree, Wu Ting
Fang, envoy extraordinary and minis?
ter plenipotentiary from China to the
United States, Spain and Peru, reached j
Chicago to-day on his way to Wash?
ington.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Washington, April
senate.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
house.
The desk of the late Judge Hohnan
to-day was covered with a black pall of
mourning upon which were strewn lilies
of the valley and hyacinths. The blind
chaplain in his prayer referred feeling?
ly to the loss the House and country
had sustained in his death.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal Mr. Bland oilered the resolu?
tion which he attempted to oiler last
week relative to the suits to foreclose
the first mortgage on the Union Pacific
railroad and calling on the attorney
general for information as to what steps
had been taken to protect the interests
of the government, so modified as to
strike out the clause directing the
Speaker to immediately appoint the
committee on Pacific railroads. He
presented the resolution as a privileged
question on the ground that as there
was no committee to which the resolu?
tion could be referred this was the only
way it could be brought before the
House.
The Speaker ruled that it was not
privileged, whereupon Mr. Bland ap
pehled and Mr. Dingley promptly
moved to lay the appeal ou tho table.
The chair ruled the motion was not de?
batable, but a brief debate was indulged
in touching the merits of the resolution.
The debate was brought to an abrupt
close by the interposition of a point of
order that the motion to lay the appeal
on the table was not debatable.
Mr. Bailey called for the yens und
nays, which were ordered.
The appeal was laid upon the table,
87 to 75, 22 present and not voting.
On motion of Mr. Robinson Mr.
Bland was added to the committee to
attend the Holman obsequies
Mr. Dalzell asked unanimous eon
sent for the consideration of a resolu
tion for the appointment of a commit
tee of 25 members of which the Speaker
should be chairman, to attend the ex?
ercises in connection with the dedica?
tion of the Grant tomb next Tuesday.
There no objection and the resolution
was agreed to.
Mr. Dingley then effected an agree?
ment by unanimous consent by which
the House when it adjourned to day
should adjourn until Monday next, on
Monday until Thursday and on Thurs?
day until the following Monday, with
the understanding that the meetings
next week should he merely formal, no
business whatever to be transacted.
The House then went into committee
of the whole and resumed the consider?
ation of the Senate amendments to the
Indian appropriation bill.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The Dowager Duches of Bedford died
to-day.
The outlook in portions of the flood?
ed section of the country is still gloomy.
Fire at Whitney 's Point, N. Y., to?
day destroyed property valued at $250,
000.
In the Kentucky legislature to-day
two ineffectual ballots were taken for
U. S. Senator.
The Florida legislature to day again
failed to elect a U. S. Senator. Chiploy
gained 2 and Call 1.
The directors of the B. & O. railroad
to day decided to pass the semi-annual
dividend on the Washington branch ol
that road.
The republicans of the Kentucky
IvegiMlature met in caucus last night to .
nominate a candidate for the U. S.
Senate, but adjourned without nomi?
nating.
Mrs. George Beano, better known as
Mabel Paines, the dancer, has been
awarded a jury verdict for $10,000 in
Chicago for injuries received from a
folding bed in tho Hotel Normandie.
A small tornado passed one mile west
of Newton, Ks., last night wrecking
several houses.injuring three occupants,
killing mauy cattle, uprooted orchards
and groves and smashed thousands of
panes of glass.
Judge Showalter, of the C. S. Court,
has granted the injunction asked by the
strpet railroad company of Indianapo?
lis, Indiana, against the enforcement of
the thiee cent fare law. The ellect will
be a return live cent fares.
Rev. Dr. H. C. Farrar, ex-pastor of
St. Luke's Church, Albany, was to-day
expelled from the Methodist Episcopal
Church aud the ministry at the Troy
conference. The accusation against
Dr. Farrar was of adultery and he ad?
mitted his guilt. He is a grandfather.
John Raap, a wholepale dealer, was
shot and killed to day by his former
confidential clerk, J. W. Braunschweig,
who afterward put the revolver to his
own temple and killed himself. The
murder and suicide occurred in Rapp's
private offices in Chicago in the pre?
sence of Philip Solomon, a deputy
sheriff who had a capias for Braunsch?
weig's arrest on a charge of embezzle?
ment from Raap.
News just received from Hong Kong con?
tradicts the report that tho Philippine re?
bellion is practically stamped out.
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