Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gssette.]
WASHINGTON. Nov. 10.

Sergeant Henry A. Dobson, testified
before the army investigating commits
sion this morning that when she went
to Camp Wikoff she had much difficult
ty in fuding her son in the general hos
pital. She said the doctor wrongly
diagnosed the case. He insisted from
the start that Sergeant Dobson had
malaria and not typhoid fever. The
patient got nothing but condensed milk
and beaten egg in the hospital. The
latter was beaten with salt instead OF
sugar, the nurse explaining that mis-
lake had been made. The doctor sent
Dobson to New York under the plea
that it was necessary to make room IN
the hospital for the more serious cases.
The sergeant was placed on a stretcher,
and conveyed to the vessel in which
the patients were carried to the
city. Mrs. Dobson stated that the
female nurses on the transport re-
NAMED in their staterooms all night.
There were four hundred patients on
the trip and only one surgeon. She
was told that one of the nurses said
the next morning: 81 could not sleep
because that poor devil over there
howled so much during the night"
Mrs. Dobson was positive the surgeon
did not 60 near her son during the en-
tire night. After arriving the patient
was badly jolted over the cobble stones
10 St. Peters hospital. No nurses
were available. The sister in charge
reused her permission to remain with
her son, insisting that her rules should
not be broken. Mrs. Dobson then took
her son to the Long Island college hos
pital. DR.. Dobson, father of the de-
ceased soldier, said he felt no resent
ment towards any one, and it was not
MS wish to have anybody court mar
tailed. His son was dead and could
not be brought back to life. All he
wanted was to have the facts brought
out, and he hoped that the exposure
would prevent the sacrifice of other
yonng men in the army.
A prominent visitor, who has inter.
ests 10 both Central and South Amer
lea, says that the President and Other
high officials OF Costa Rico are taking
steps to get their share of the benefits
accruing out Of the construction of the
Nicaragua canal. 1t will be claimed
that as Costa RIGA is part of the Cen
trail American union, and has practi
callv the same rights as Nicaragua,
that little country should be considered
when favors are distributed.
Judge Norton and Lawyer Carlin oil
Alexandria were st the police court
here this morning TO prosecute the
| Jockey cub aud the b0okmakers at
| Beunines, but the District Attorney
would not permit the case to come to
trial, and the chief OF police said that
the District Attorney and Commissioner
| Wight of the District Commission,
the latter of whom made a speech
the ether day in Alexandria county
il favor of the enforce ment OF the
law in that county, had instructed
him not TO serve the warrants Ct
arrest that had been issued. The Alex
andria lawyers, after great deal OF
trouble, finally succeededin having the
case set for next Friday, when, it is
supposed, the Washington authorities
VINO are so solicitous for the execution
of the law in Alexandria county, Vir-
gaia, will permit another postpone
ment, sufficiently long to enable the
Witnesses il the case to settle all their
be and betting books and decamp.
L seems now to be pretty generally
ind -rstood that with the exception Of
bills for increasing the army and navy
to war footing, no others but the reg
ular appropriation bills will be passed
at the coming session of Congress.
Something might have been attempted
in the line OF force bill if it had not
been that the race war has been as fa-
grant in Illinois as in North Carolina,
but that it has been, has prevented any
such attempt.
The administration is greatly annoy
ed and concerned at the public and pri-
vate intelligence that reaches here from
| the conquered provinces, to the effect
that the condition of the people thereof
is infinitely worse now than it was ~
der the Spanish rule, and that they
realize to their sorrow that no mat.
rer how badly they were treated by the
Spanish soldiers, their persons and
property We're safer than tnev are from
tbs black and white American soldiers,
who rob and outrage them at pleas
ure and against whose assaults they
have no defense and for which they
have no redress. The intelligence re
erred TO, in short, is that the American
army in those provinces is mob.
A naval officer and republican now
here says the annexation of Cuba, Por-
to Rico and Hawaii is bad enough, but
if the Philippines be taken in also, the
last half of President McKinley's term
will be any thing else than agreeable to
him, and he'll never have another one.
The District of Columbia regiment
will be paid off and mustered cut to.
morrow morning.
Archie Miller, who recently returned
from Nicaragua, diei at the Hotel
Johnson to-day Of yellow fever.
The Assistant Secretary OF the Treasuary
has recommended to the Secretary Of War
that quinine be admitted fres OF duty to Cubs
and Porto Rico.
The postponement Of to.day's meeting of
the Peace Commissioners until next week is
explained at the State Department as neces-
sary to enable the American representatives
to formulate the precise heads of the treaty
of peace. which will work the final stage Of
the proceedings. 1t is confidently declared
that the next session will result in the formal
enuDcation of exact terms regarding the
payment which Spain is to receive for relin-
gushing sovereignty over :he whole Philip
pine archipelago, as we'll as the mutual de-
clsrations regarding the transfer OF Porto
Rico. Cuba snd the Ladrone Islands.
People from Alexandris County here TO-