Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
{ Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Sept. &c.


building this morning. The future
meetings will be held in the Lemon
building. There will be sub-commit-
tees announced in sll probability and
the scope of the inquiry will be determ-
med at to-morrow's meeting. For the
present the meetings will be secret. All
of the members of the commission were
present to-day. DR.. Connor having ar
lived from Cincinnati this morning.
While the inhabitants still flee panic
stricken from Jackson, Memphis, Gal.
weston and other infected and threat
ened points, Surgeon General Wyman
does not believe that the disease will
spread with any more alarming strides.
But Memphis has quarsntined herself
against the world, the State OF Ala
bama will not receive visitors from any
point unless furnished with bills OF
health, and Jackson, Orwood, Holly
Springs aud Taylors are guarded by
cordons Of armed men who are resolved
to prevent the ingress or egress Of
everybody not connected with the hos.
pital service. Trains in the neighbor.
hoods of infection do not stop for pas
sengers unless such travellers are billed
clear through to the North. At Jack
son, Miss, all citizens and strangers
must be indoors after nine p. m.
The following cablegram was received
from Major General Brooke at Ponce
to-day Think return of regiments now
here would not be advisable as others
coming would have to 60 through some
accimating conditions. If regiments
would be sent to take the
place of those now here, especial atten-
ton should be given to selecting those
under good discipline and having full
quota OF officers.
1t seems to be the prevailing impress
sion at the State Department that for
the government of the newly conquer
ed provinces, the number of Cabinet
ministers will have to be increased by
the addition of another one, to be
known as the Secretary of the Colonies,
to whom will be referred all matters
relating to those provinces.
Ex Secretary Sherman has been de-
TERED by his recent attack of sick
ness and the request of the President
from taking part in the anti-Hanna re-
publican fight in Ohio, but Senator
Foraker is made of sterner stuff aud he,
his friends here say, will not only enter
that fight actively, but exert his ut
most endeayors to get even with his
heretofore all powerful partisan rival.
When Senator Hanna returns to Wash.
ingtou he will give prompt attention to
the rumors of the Mckisson-Forak
Vaccinations, said to have been COM
pleted at meeting Of those two gentle
men in this city last Saturday. Mr..
Hanna IS still in New York. Con-
gresham Burton, of Cleveland, will be
here tomorrow and will try to secure
the services of Postmaster General
Smith for the Cleveland meeting. Sen,
ator Foraker said some time ago
be meant to fight Senator Hanna on
the Ohio postmaster appointments, and
two or three little offices in Foraker's
end OF the State have been hung up all
summer because of this quarrel. Sena-
tor Foraker had things all his own way
at the republican convention at Cincin-
natl the other day.
The only two prominent Virginia re-
publicans here today are Chairman
Agnew and Inspector CAST, but neither
of them was on political business.
Congressman Thorp is expected here
on Wednesday to try, as Congressman
Wise, of the Norfolk district, has done,
to secure the endorsement of the repub
lican congressional campaign commit.
tee. AS soon as Mr. Hanna shall reach
here the regular republican executive
committee of Virginia will consult him,
and his orders will be obeyed, no mat.
ter what they may be.
II is reported here to day that Gen
eral Edgar Allen will be appointed I. s..
attorney for the eastern district of Vir-
ginia this week. He has the unanimous
endorsement of the executive commit
tee OF his party in his State and has
been promised the place at the Depart.
meut OF Justice, where he is well known,
having been employed there for some
years.
Many of the mechanics employed on
the new city postoffice building to-day
joined the other workmen there who
have struck because, not they, but some
other employers there, have not recev.
ed their wages regularly. They are
acting upon the old knights of labor
idea that an injury to one is an injury
to all.
A well-known successful angler of
this city says many fishermen 60 from
here to Seneca, the Point of Rocks, the
Great Falls and other places On the
Potomace, also 10 points on the Shen-
andoah, to fish for black bass, but he
has recently found better bass fishing
on Hunting Creek bridge at Alexan.
dria than at any of the other places
referred to, and then, too, he says, the
requisite live bait is always readily OBJ
tanned there.
Loudoun county Nirginian here to-day
says he has observed no evidence of the al.
legged return Of prosperity either at homo or
anywhere else, and that in his county town,
Leesburg, the new tavern thst cost $41 900
was sold last week for $4,000 1t was bought
by Mr.. Elijah White. jr.. and will be kept by
his brother, Mr. John White.
Major General Otis cables the Adutsnt
General from Manila dated to day the follow.
ing Total in hospital to-day 529; typhoid
fever patients 90 about 1900 excused from
duty.
Pension Commissioner Evans decided this
morning that Spanish war pensioners should
be brought in under the general law" which
spplics to soldiers of the civil war;
Senator Burrows, who is now here, says the
republican outlook in Michigan is most en-.
coursging, and he expects the party to hold
its own at the November election.
Secretary Alger has sent word to the War
Department. from Jacksonville, Fla. that he
expects TO be in Washington on Wednesday
A Double Suicide.