Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Aexandria Gazette.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.
q. 8. Consul Day, at Annoy, has re-
ported to the State Department that the
bubonic plague, which has ragged in
that section of China for three months,
is now regarded as having run its
course.
The President to-day appointed Geo.
II. Bridgeman, of New Jersey, minister
20 Bolivia; Ambrose E. Nowlin, col
lector of internal revenue for the sixth
district of Indiana; David. w. Henry,
collector of internal revenue for the
seventh district of Indiana.
The transfer of the Congressional Lii
brary from the Capitol to the new Ii.
brary building has been completed.
The library has been closed since the
first of August. Many of the books
have been put in place and it is expect
ed that the library will very soon be
opened to the public.
Surgeon-General Wyman's yellow
fever bulletin covering the progress of
the epidemic for yesterday shows the
following results at the various infected
points New Orleans, 81 new cases and
2 deaths Mobile, 4 cases and no deaths !;
Biloxi, 10 cases and l death /; Ocean
Springs, no cases and no deaths Scran-
ton, Z cases and no deaths; Edwards,
10 cases and no deaths; Militia Yuma,
no cases and no deaths; Henderson's
Point, 8 cases and no deaths; Clinton,
Miss, to date, 10 cases and death.
The acting U. s. consul general at
Havana has informed the State Depart
ment that George Samuel Newton, &
young American, vino was wounded
aud captured by Spanish troops near
Baracoa, died in Havana September 80
from wounds and fever.
Previous to the meeting of the Cabi-
oct to day there were number of call
ers at the White House, some of whom
saw the President for short time.
Among them was VIM. Warner, of Mis-
souri,, who talked TO the President about
recognition of the negro republicans
of that State. he said there were
10000 negro republican votes cast in
the State and that he thought they mer-
tied recognition by the administration.
Senator McLaurin, democrat, of South
Carolina, was another caller.
President Mckinley probably will go
to Canton TO vote at the November cleo.
ton. He probably will attend the
opening of the Carnegie public library
at Pittsburg if his trip to Canton is not
prevented at the last moment.
The annual meeting of the Eastern
Archery Association closed last even
ing. The targets were pitched on the
Arsenal range, in this city. The con-
tests among the bowmen were all won
by L. w. Maxsou, scoring as follows :
Double York round, 154 hits, score 672;
double American round, l66 hits, score
956; Ohio round, So arrows at 60 yards,
Sc hits, score sos. The ladies' matches
were all won by Miss Cooke, of Wash
iugton, with highly creditable scores.
The next meeting will be held 10 this
city in August, 1898, just before the ma
tional meeting.
Consul Herran, at Medellin, Columb-
ia, reports to the State Department
that the American, Radford, is still in
rons there, but otherwise his treatment
is good. The consul expresses the
opinion that the prisoner will be grant
ed new trial. Radford is citizen
of Alabama who was convicted in Col.
umbia of numbering native and was
sentenced to death. His friends here
and in Columbia, believing that the
killing was justi6iable, have made
strenuous efforts to secure a new trial
for him before q competent tribunal
and the consul believes this effort will
succeed.i
The Secretary OF the Interior has
made the following appointments ::
Frank NJ. Conser, of Ohio, supervisor
of Indian schools; Allison L. Ayles-
worth, of Minnesota, secretary of the
Dawes Indian commission; Howell
Jones, of Kansas, commissioner to in-
vestigate and report on the detail of
individual members of the Chippewa
and Christian Indian reservation in
Franklin county, Kansas; Charles c..
Kneisley, of Iowa, trustee for townsite
lands in Oklahoma; Prof F. W. Clarke,
of the Geological Survey, a member of
the board of control of the TRANSMITS
souri, and International Exposition at
Omaha. All are from the North. The
South is not in the favor of the present
administration.
The price of wheat and all other
products of the ground isnow on the de
crease, and a man of affairs who arrived
here last night said it would continue
to decline, and that the only people he
knew who were really prosperous were
the auctioneers, bankers and the I'M
dertakers, and they were 80 because of
othe peoples misfOrtunes. A resident
of this city to whom he was talking re-
marked that's bank here had bought a
house and lot on Capitol Hill yester
day for 81 900, the lot few years ago
costing Sc, 900 and the cost of the build
ing of the house being $1,000.
AS anticipated in this correspondence
yesterday, two at least of the republi-
can candidates in Prince Georges
county, Nd, who were asked to with
draw in order to secure harmony in
their party, have positively refused to
do so, and say they intend to stick.
The national organ of the knights of
labor in this city has come out in favor
OF Henry George for mayor of New
York.
Col. Ike Hill, the democratic "whip.
per in" of the House, is just here from
bis State, Ohio. He says the party
there is better organized than it ever
was before and is bound to succeed at
next months election. The silver re.
oh ho