Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-22
FROM WASHING ION.
Correspondence OF tho Alexandra GsEette.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. %.

for service III tne navy. 1no Ou'uei'
that reached salt water will remain
there. They could not be returned
without being cut in two and causing
an infinite amount of trouble. Smaller
cutters will be built for the lake service
ialt the number and details have not
/, en- decided upon.
Pension Commissioner Evans re-
ceived telegram from Baltimore this
morning to the effect that Joseph Haw-
k rs had been held there under $500
b md for perjury, forgery, and filing q
lie pension claim. He never was in
The army.
The President received number of
callers, who talked local appointments
in various parts OF the country.
The President has ordered that Capt.
CHARLES d. Sigsbee be advanced three
numbers in the list of captains in the
rnvy for extraordinary heroism."
Press advices from Manila this morn
ing state that the American loss at the
hat,le of Manila was 46 killed and
about 100 wounded.
An order has been issued by the
S .cretG1y of War creating a new divi-
SION in the War Department to be
known es the division of Transports
ton This division will have charge Ct
all matters of army transportation both
by rail ard water. Col. Frank ]. Heck
or has been appointed chief of the div-
O and Col. Bird deputy chief. There
Is decided opposition by the quarter
master general and the regular army
officers Of this department to the crea-
ton OF the new division, for it was re-
garded a5 an encroachment OF the do
main of the regular quartermssters.
Col. Hecker is of the same rank as Col.
Bird, but really junior officer, for he
is volunteer while Bird is q regular
and has seen long service.
Recruits to fill the regiments under
General Merritt at Manila sailed from
San Francisco on the Arizona yester-
day. General King commands the ex-
psditiop. No new organizations were
sent. General Merritt telegraphed
some days ago that he would not re-
quire additional forces. Unless later
advces from his request for additional
forces are received none will be sent.
The press dispatches from Manila in
dictate that Aguinaldo and his insur-
gents may make trouble. Agunaldo
IS credited with making demands for
recognition in the government of the
Philippines.
Mr.. Hull, chairman of the military
| committee Of The u. S. House of Rep
resentatives, says measures are now
aeing prepared by which the force of
he regular army will be increased to
me hundred thousand men, and that
such force will be required to pre-
serve law and order in this country
a I'd lis newly acquired possessions.
Among the Virginians here to-day is
NJ ior CAST, chief inspector of steam
vessels for the district extending from
Maryland to Florida. He is just from
Savannah and is on his way to
his home in Norfolk. He agrees
W ii some of the members Of
of the republican executive committee
OF mis- S ate in their doubts about the
ACCESSIBILITY OF making contests in some
of the congressional districts of that
: ate this fall. In talking about the
famous hog fish that were once so plen.
tful in Norfolk, ne says few of them
q caught there now, and that they
Sc N to have gone 10 more northern
! W Iters.
1t is now said that an investigation
IF the San iago campaign will be or.
dered apd that it will be proved that
the wk6le affair was miserably managed
from start to finish and that both the
| War Department and General Shafter
ara to blame for the great and unneces-
Sary less Of life therein.
The Adventists' camp meeting near
Warwick closed last night with the
m lrriage of two of the Virginia at.
endants. Ten persons, seven women
and three men, were bsptised at the
Stone Bridge, few miles from the
camp ground, yesterday morning. The
meeting passed resolutions thanking
Mr.. Hume and the other citizens Of the
neighborhood of the camp for their
hospitality, and determined to hold
their fall conference in Alexandria.
Capt John Hartman of the regular
army, hailing from S.aunton, Va, just
returned from Cuba, sick, was to-day
offered by the President the position of
chief of ordnance with the rank of
major, Of General Lorton's division in
Cuba.
Congressman Yost, of Virginia, is
here to-day. He SAYS Mr.. Hubbard will
get the solid vote Of the republicans in
his district for Congress next Novem-
her, as be has no enemies in his own
party.
Lieut. A. L Mills, of the cavalry arm of the
service, hsiling from New York, has been ap.
pointed superintendent of the U. S. Military
Academy at West Point. This is the first
tenant has been at its head The appointee
was in the Santiago fight and was badly
wounded thcse, losing an eye.
gentleman from Warrenton, Va, he G to-
day, Gays that town is now nightly picketed
by soldiers, just as it was during the war be-
tween the States but by federal soldiers, and
for the arrest of straggers from the federal
army, about hundred of whom have been
arrested and forwarded to the Pennsylvania
camping ground.
Assistant Secretary OF State Moore will re-
sign his place when Secretary Day assumes
his duties as head of the Paris peace commits
sion Prof. Moore will take the place of
legal counsel and secretary of the Amis-
sion. There will be large staff of attaches
snd clerks with the commission. Probably
500 applications have already been made and
among them possibly 800 sons OF their faith.
ers.' Its said to-day by parties in position
to know that when Ambassador Hay succeeds
Mr.. Day, W. w. Rockhill, who was with Mr.
Hay before and is now United States Minister
to Greece Cill retu. II 10 succeed Prof. Moore.
The War Department has received g lee-
gran from Ge: Miles announcing that he is