Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-06-09
officers and crew. There is considera-

officers and crew. There is consdera-
BILE hesitancy also over firing these
huge masses of dynamite, as naval Of
6cers believe that it has not yet been
proved that they will not explode be.
fore getting under way.
1t is said at the Dunbarton Hotel,
here, that the child left there last week
by a young woman, and that was sent
to an infant asylum, has died, and that
all that is known of the woman who
left it, is that she got on the train t
Remington, Va
Representative Lamb of Richmond
was at the White House this morning
to urge the appointment of Mr.. Branch,
bank examiner, to majority in tie
10th regiment, q. S. army. Mr.. Lamb
has been invited to accept, for Lee
Camp of Confederates of Richmond, q
picture of General Fitzhugh Lee, to be
presented to that camp tomorrow
night. Mr.. Lamb introduced exCol-
lector Ryan, of Virginia, to the
President and recommended him for q
position in the commisssry department.
Congressman Rixey and Jones visited
Camp Alger yesterday afternoon and
spent some time with the 3rd Virginia
regiment. They say the soldiers are
better cared for now than they have
been, and that their accommodations
are being improved every day, but that
several of them are sick, as many as
ten in one company alone, that from
Culpeper, being laid up with the
measles.
! VIM. B. Besley of townsville, Fair.
fax county, Va, has been granted a
[ pension.
George A. Fowle of Alexandria, who
\ was shot here some days ago, and sent
to the emergency hospital, will, it is
said by the physicians there, soon be
discharged as we'll.
The President to-day sent these nom
nations to the Senate: Volunteer army
TO be Maj General, J. Warren Kei.
fer of Ohio; to be Brig. Gen., P. S Go
bin of Pennsylvania; James E. B. Stu
art, of Virginia, to be commissary with
the rank of captain.
The President has in contemplation, &C.
cording to a Senator who was in consultation
! with him to-day, the submission OF special
message to the two houses of Congress calling
for the immediate annexation of Hawaii as 8
military necessity According to this Sena
tor the message will be delayed for few days
| to await action that may be taken by Speaker
1 Reed and the committee on rules, but is very
likely to 60 in with as little delay IS possible
possibly early next week
Congressman Wise has succeeded in having
man named Bacchus from Norfolk, who Is
under age, discharged from the navy; also G..
II. Jones of Hampton, of the 4th Virginia
regiment. for physical disability, and E D. g
| Smith also of Hampton, of the same regiment
because he left his family in INDECENT crcum-
stances
Congressman Otey of Virginia was at the
War Department this morning to urge the
appointment of F. B. Gordon of Montgomery
county, Va, to position in the army.
The government has agreed to print post
age stamps for both the Paris and the Omaha
expositions. But it is doing so on hand
presses at the rate of about hundred thou
saud day, though the order for the latter
alone is for six million so the probability is
that that exposition will be over before the
stamps for il can he printed.
Congressman Jones Of Virginia went to the
War Department to-day to try to get dis
charged from the army q man who enlisted
at Fredericksburg, but who has since become
afflicted with epilepsy.
Unmistakablo signs Of apprehension ant
nervousness were exhibited by the army Off
GERS who saw the Associated Press bulletin!
to-day from Key West giving currency
to the report that three Spanish men,
of.war had run the blockade into Ha
vans. The very first question that arose
was as to the identity of these ships il the
report be true, and more than one officer i'm
mediately recalled the fact that the Depart
ment was still in some doubt as to the eZac
whereabouts of all the Spanish warships, no
only of Cervers's feet but Of others that had
preceded it into West Indian waters.