Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-04
looked. General Wheeler denied that


there was any ambuscades.
Republicans from Virginia, here to.
day, say, in respect of the negro con-
gressional candidates in Virginia, that
Robinson, of the Sth district, and Lee,
of the 2nd, have already Withdrawn,
but that Jones, il the 4th, and Butler,
in the 6ts. are still in the field, and that
in the Sth, one named Arkwright Is
threatening to run.
Messrs. Ryan, of Loudoun, and
Settle, from Rappahannock county,
members of the Virginia legislature,
were among the passengers on the
Norfolk steamer that left here last
night to witness the launching OF the
new U. ..man-of-war Illinois, st New
ports News to-day.
Gems. Oates and Boynton have ar
rived here to testify before the army In
vestisating commission. From the way
the latter talks, no fault can be found
with the War Department, and as the
former is from the South, it is supposed
that his testimony will be to the same
effect.
1t is already reported that should
Col. Roosevelt be elected Governor OF
New York, his friends will push him
for the republican Presidential nomina.
ton two years hence, and that such
will be his prominence that Mr.. Nc
Kinley could hardly prevent him from
obtaining the prize.
The appointment Of the Cuban chief
Castillo to lucrative federal position
gave occasion to good deal of adverse
criticism here, but now that Garcia
will be paid five hundred dollars
a month for trying to induce his follow
ers to stop their lootings, burnings and
outrages, adverse criticism has devel-
oped into fragrant denunciation, and a
demand is made that such appointments
be subjects for the army investigating
commission.
Captain c. S. Bullock, Chaplain OF
the First Illinois Cavalry, and presi-
dent of the Chickamauga Chaplain
Association, called at the White House
to-day. He was on his way to Moy-
wood, Cook county, Ill.,, from camp.
In an interview with Secretary Porter
be said that the reports of neglect and
suffering at the camp were greatly ex-
aggerated. AS president of the asso-
citation he said he investigated all of
the individual cases that were brought
to his attention, and almost without ex-
ception be found little ground for com
plant.
The Secretary of State has received
g telegram from the Governor OF Con-
necticut saying that an agent OF that
State would start for Washington to-
day with copies OF the evidence neces-
sery to secure the extradition of ''Dr. "
Nancy Guilford from England.
Members of Congress who called on
the President aud Secretary Of War
to-day to request the muster out OF
regiments in their States were informed
that ii was impossible.
The report of Mai. Gen. Wilson upon
the political. social, educational, and
financial conditions OF Porto Rico is in
the hands OF the President, who is Civ
ing it careful consideration in order to
gather information for his recommends
tons to Congress in the matter of the
government of that island.
Colonel Bryan was not well when he left
here, and wished 10 stop 8 day or two with
his relatives in Culpeper and also at the Hot
Spr ngs of Virginia, but the War Department
ordered him TO proceed Immediately and di.
rect TO his command. If the purpose OF the
administration be TO increase the Colonel's
popularity, tn ere is no doub: here that it hiss
gone about II in the most eficacious manner
by the i'll treatment it has accorded him.