Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Fort Myer yesterday evening.
For the first time since General Lee
left Havana the stars and stripes float
ed over building there yesterday.
Aguinaido, it is alleged, has been
collecting money from Fllipinos on the
ground that America wants it as war
indemnity.
The War Department claims that
under the protocol Spain has no right
to protest against the dispatch of rein
forcements to Manila.
A number OF fishing boats were
wrecked in the Baltic sea during stormy
weather Monday evening and twenty
fishermen were drowned.
On their way to Manila the battle
ships Oregon and Iowa will stop at
South American ports to show the Span
ish sympathizes the power of the
American navy.
Instructions have been sent to the
American commissioners in Porto Rico
to take possession of public land suita-
BILE for coaling station, and similar
action will be taken in Guam.
Prof. Philip R. Uhler, of the Peabody
Institute, of Baltimore, says; THE
sweet.singiug, bright-plumaged birds Of
Maryland, that few years ago lined
every roadside, built nests in nearly
every bush and sang in every field,
meadow and forests, have almost wholly
vanished.
The hospital steamer Shinnecock,
with $50 sick soldiers from Camp Wi.
koff on board, reached New York yes
terday. About one-half OF them, most
ly regulars, were conveyed to Jersey
City, where they were put on board a
hospital train at the Pennsylvania
| Railroad station, to be removed to Fort
Myer, Va.
1t was reported in New York yester-
| day that the surgeon Of New York
regiment had been compelled to flee by
the threats of vengeance on the part of
those who think the doctor neglected
the sick of his regiment while in camp.
According to the story told by mem
Der of the regiment the surgeon was
threatened while in camp, and when the
regiment left the surgeon was found to
be missing.
The American soldiers in Honolulu
are causing the people of that once
peaceful community much worry. Acts
of vandalism are becoming frequent
and Gen. King has issued orders for q
! court of inquiry to Investigate alleged
I iawless acts committed by soldiers and
to assess the amount of damage caused.
Chinese fruit-growers and gardeners
have been favorite victims of the SOL
diers and their gardens have been raid
ed and destroyed.
James Z. Cowen yesterday stated
that he would be president of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad under the
new arrangement and that Oscar U
Murray would be vice-president. 1t is
now stated that the Rockefeller interest
has secured practically all OF the new
preferred stock of the road, which
amounts to $40, 100000, while the stock
secured by the western men represent
ed as much more, or total interest OF
$S0,000,000 held by the Rockefellers
and the western men.
Major Count Esterhazy, who was re-
Gently retired from the French army,
still remains in London, where he is
now in the hands of we'll known firm
of police court lawyers. The latter is
sued q statement in his behalf yester-
day, declaring that he has not author
lied any confession or revelations in
the Dreyfus case. He particularly re-
SCENTS the imputation in yesterdays pa
pars that he has received payment for
his story, and a1irms that he intends to
act ''for the best interests OF his coun-
try and her army"
After many delays President McKin'
ley is able to announce that his COM
mission to investigate the conduct OF
the war will be ready to assemble Tor
business next Saturday. 1t is announ-
ced that Gen. Arson G. McCook, OF
New York; ex-Representative William
D. Whiting, of Massachusetts, and Gen.
William Il. Jackson, owner of the
Belle Meade stock farm, ofTennessee,
have consented to become members OF
the commission. The President, ii is
said, does not desire to prevent an in
quiry by Congress, but is anxious that
all the facts should be brought ont now.