Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
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enlisted NcI VI lie HSf -
known a. writers. in the direct line
o. promotion 70 permanent ratings oy
extending ihe gcsde OF yeouen. lie
v,i,ers who are necessarily superior
quality Of sesmeu have lad no oIpor-
tuni:v for advaronent il the past, but
by ne new order those formerly known
a. yeomen are made chie: yeomeu
with pay a. the rate 0: SO per month
AMI the writers are now made hrs.,
second and third class veonen win me
pay OF 30, 50 and 80 per month re-
s oectively.
WORK on the wrecked buildings a.
1913 and 12l5 Pennsylvania avenue
has been stopped, The bulldog Inspector
believing ], 20 d unsafe Tor men 70
work there until Inc side walls are
p-opped or strengthened. !. i no.
believed that there are no more bodies
IL me ruins. Charles Coleman, Inc
cclo,ed waiter II kelley plsc=. VINO
1as Yesterday reported missing, has
turned up rlgor. He vas penned
a. under .air= oy tbe fallen de-
oris. Dut ~ -IIriated by fireman
and Immediately vent home. TIE
building inspector haz also ordered al
WORK 70 be Suspended il the ruins Ct
the House Of Representatives folding
room till me wal.E can DE- shored up.
Wn. O. Borau, Of Wilmington, Del,
one O; the delegates from that State 10
the club convention a. 8. Louis, called
al headquarters to-day. Nj Koran
baa hasn engaged in me single tax
movement Tor ten years. There il
peculiar political situation in Dela
ware" said Mr. Koran. There are
SIX tickets in the field for Governor.
The democratic candidate mas been en-
dorsed by the boiling democrats, the
single takers have candidate, the p!o-
hibirioni=ta a candidate aud there are
two republican candidates. For Cor
gress the democratic candidate will De
endorsed bv the single taxera, the bolt
ing democrats have made nomination.
there are two separate republican can
didates and a prohioitionizt. On the
electoral tickets the democrats and
single taxers will fuse. The two wings
o. the republican party have fused.
The Legislative tickets arg also nu
merous. AZ 10 Governor Mr. Tunnell'=
chances are doubtful. | think Mr.. Han
ev. the democratic nominee, will De
elected, and I am sure that Bryan will
CARY the State"
Minister Stcobel, at Santiago, Chill.
reports TO Secretary Olney that Viii
liam c. Hoge, an American citizen,
native OF Kentucky, s. years OF age,
committed suicide there on August 18th
by shooting himself with a Winchester
rife. he was civil engineer and had
been successful 10 his profession during
II years' residence. -Four years ago,
after accumulating some money, ne
went to Monterey, California, but re-
turned to Santiago three months later,
where he soon became dependent
through failure OF his efforts TO secure
employment. He leaves a widow-a
Gillian by birth.
In letter received by gentleman
in this city, the statement il made that
the republicans will support ex Repre-
sentative W. c. ? Breckinridge, the
gold nominee for Congress, and will
make no nomination, but that the com
binatiou will fail. The writer, who il
a Mckinley repu olcan. says that there
are many republicans in the district
who will not vote for Breckenridge sat
the dictation Of Marx Hanna, and some
of us will, if the republican congression-
al democratic CON mittee continues to
support such person, appeal to Major
Mckinley. The situation ia Kentucky
is bad enough, but if the deal is consum-
mated the republicans in this State may
as " ell close up shop"
The President has made the follow
ing endorsement on an application for
pardon "The embezzlement of gov
erument funds by poztmasters is 80
common that l do not feel that ought
to interfere with the lenient sentence
imposed by the court. I believe that
any deliberate embezzlement OF public
money by postmaster is lightly pun
isbed by one years imprisonment
w. d. Sabb, of Glendale, KY,
writes "Thig, Hardin county, usually
goes democratic by about 800. By an
actual poll of this county, completed on
September 26, Bryan will have a ma
jority of 1928 in this county, and there
will be only 81 votes for Palmer
and Buckner. You can safely put the
fourth Kentucky district down as demo
cratic"
The storm did great damage at the
national cemeteries in the vicinity OF
Washington. The sexton at Arlington
National Cemetery reports at Grand
Array headquarters that the trunks OF
fallen trees lie across the tombs all
over the grounds. The go ldiers' mon
ument was not damaged, but the.e are
hundred OF mounds which must be re-
built and again sodded. In Oak Hill
cemetery tyo great trees on each side
of the monument erected by the late
w. w. Corcoran to the memory of John
Howard Payne author of"Home, Sweet
Home were torn up by the roots, but
fell in such way as not to injure the
monument. At the soldjers' Home
cemetery thirty beautiful! trees,
most OF them oaks, which haye
withstood the storms of more than
fifty years, have been laid low.
Three hundred trees have been count
ed fallen in the Soldiers Home grounds,
and General Stanley states that with
the present force to work upon the
grounds it viii take three years to clear
10 the brush. In some instances in the
cemeteries the upturned roots Ct the
trees brought with them portions OF the
caskets ald their contents which had
been inferred ia their vicinity.