Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette.

10 RO bucTo y0oVo1uoy3 WA0o Ao"'AN6,
remarked to him that he was sur
prised to see that, white man as he
was, he had refused admittance to the
jail to any man of his own race.
There was an unusually large num-
Der of callers at the White House to-
day, the majority of them anxious to
see the President about appointments.
Very few we're accompanied by Sen
a. orr and representatives, and were
taking chances that they would secure
the places they sought by their own
efforts if they could secure an audience
with the President. Department bust
ness, however, engaged the President
until quite late hour. Assistant Sec
rotary Day of the State Department,
who is spending much time with the
President nowaday, was an early visit
or and remained nearly all the fore
noon.,
The President to-day made the fol-
lowing appointments: John G. Inger-
Ingersoll, of Illinois, consul at Copen-
hagen; Joseph T. Hoke, of West Vir-
GINA, consul at Windsor; W. Irwin
Shaw, of Pennsylvania, consul at Bar
rarquilla; Henry W. Brendel, collector
of customs for Buffalo Creek, N. Y;
David N. Comingore, collector of in-
ternal revenue for the 9th district of
Kentucky; Maj. VIM. r. Livermore,
corps of engineers, member OF the Mica
raguan canal commission.
Secretary Long to-day made public
the report of the special naval board
charged with the duty of reporting
upon the extent of the repairs needed
by the present wooden dry docks on
the Atlantic coast in order to make
them Immediately available for naval
uses. The board recommends that all
of these docks, Including the one at
Norfolk, be fitted with concrete en-
frances in place of those of timber, and
that other alterations, mainly in the di.
rection of enlarging the capacity of the
docks and of making repairs of such
nature as to look to the gradual trans
formation of the docks into solid con.
crete docks of full capacity. The board
says the dock at Norfolk is in the worst
condition and is now undergoing eX
ensive repairs.
Attorney. General McKenna to day
issued an official statement announcing
that the government had decided not
to appeal the Union Pacific foreclosure
suit, but to allow the road to be sold on
November l in consideration of the
Union Pacific reorganization committee
raising it's guaranteed bid from S45,
754, O39 to $50,OOO,0O0. The road, he
added, is to be sold to the highest bid
der, but with q minimum bid guaran-
teed as stated.
Hannis Taylor, late U. S. Minister to
| Spain, is here. He was in consultation
| for some time with Assistant Secretary
Day this morning. Mr.. Taylor will see
tue President later.
Rear Admiral John Mellen Brady
Clitz, who was placed on the retired list
in 1888. died at st. Elizabeth's Asylum
thi, morning.
1t is said in knowing circles here to.
day that the recall of General Weyler
from Cuba was the result of an intima-
ton that even the slightest concession
from Spain would be awaited of by this
government as an excuse for informing
the insurgents that they have nothing
further to expect from it, and that every
body, including themselves, would be
benefited if they would stop their
murders and arsons and 60 to work.
Major Tyler has written to Mr. R N.
Harper, president of the Virginia dem
Ocratic association of this city, that ne
fears it will be impossible for him
to address the Virginia voters in Wash
inoton 111riDO hiG camnsion
Elk Secretary Hamlin of the Treasury,
at whose invitation it appears Russia
and Japan appointed delegates to the
seal commission, has arrived at San
Francisco, accompanied by those dele
gates, and will reach here next week.
But as England has refused to send
delegates, the commission will be after
the order of the play of Hamlet with
the part of Hamlet omitted.
A New York democrat here to-day
says while he would like to See George
elected Mayor, Van Wyck, the Tam
many nominee, is sure to be, and that
Croker and Plstt have arranged it so,
as the republicans have no chance of
electing their man, and would rather
see any body else than either George
or Low elected.
The garbage contract of this city still
continues to drag its slow way to
settlement. 1t is said to-day that the
federal government has now protested
against the latest selected site for
dumping ground-the property ad.
joining its own at Fort Foote.
Among all the six hundred excur-
sionists who came here yesterday from
along the line of the Southern Railway,
this side of Charlottesville, there wasn't
one, so far as heard of, who had ex.
perienced any of the alleged revived
prosperity or who knew anybody who
had.
The following fourth-class postmas.
ters in Virginia were appointed to-day:
Colvin Run, M. Cockrill; Remington,
l.. A. McCouchie.
There is good deal of talk here
about the course the War Department
is pursuing in the matter of the New
York and New Jersey Bridge Com pany.
That company, of which ex-Chairman
Clarkson, OF the national republican
committee, is president. has forfeited
its charter, but is trying to sell it, and
the War Department, it is said, is de-
laying the exaction of the forfeit in or.
der to give them time to dispose of it to
other parties.
Surgeon General Wyman's bulletin
covering the yellow fever situation for
yesterday gives the following results
New Orleans 40 new cases, 5 deaths;
Mobile, 6 new cases, no deaths; Alec,