Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-06
ER0M WASHINGTON.
fC,rrerpondcuce Of the Alexsndria Gazette. !
Washington, April 6.

fC.,rrerpoudcuce Of the Alexsndria Gasotte.l
Washington, April 6.
Vice President Hobart passed a bad
night and his condition this morning
is not improved. He is able to retain
very little food. His condition is
watched closely by his physicians who
do not anticipate any serious result.
DR.. :. Z. Cox, assistant surgeon otthe
First District o! Columbia volunteers,
testified before the court of inquiry
about unwholesome beef this morning.
He said all went we'll with the men I'M
ii. they got the refrigerated article for
food when they began to have stomach
ana Intestinal troubles.
Ex-Represenuative Trigg of Virginia
is Just here from Richmond. He says
the snti-Mariin movement is pretty
we'll understood there, and that n Of
its leaders boldly says "suythingto beat
Martini The people of his State, he
SAYS. so lar SIS he knows, are opposed
to it and say that if Z. :. Senators must
no chosen by popular vote, so must
ipdges. school superintendents, and
every other public officer in the State,
. and that the people OF the State don't
want any such change.
No news had been received up to
| noon today from Manila, and no news
in this case is looked upon here as bad
| aews. II il belived here that the Span
i-n captives in the Philippines have
made common cause with the Fiiipinos,
as the U. 5. authorities prevented them
IRON being redeemed by their own gov
| eminent and that with their help the
! natives will keep up their fight for in
dependence. The report that General
Aguinsldo has been deposed is not
credited.
Mr.. Richard Mitchell of Charles
| county, Md, well-known in Alexan-
dcia, who has recently returned from
Alaska, says the British portion OF the
Klondyke is no place for Americans, as
hey have to pay one-fOurth of their
findings TO the English government,
| aud that the American portion is little
| better, as all the gold claims have been
located and as wood to burn on the
land, to thaw it, costs 500 a cord. He
| SAYS there sre thousands of men from
the East stranded on their way back.
That gold is not popular currency
was demonstrated here this morning
whea a negro woman who had a check
| .ssned at the Central Bank into gold,
| returned the coin after a short time
| and said If she couldn't get paper
money she would like to get her check
back again.
A delegation of gushers from New
| Orleans, where the memory of Beast
| Butler has apparently been obl~iteratedr
not satisfied with one d%eclination of an
invitation to visit their city, called al
the White House today and extended
another one to the President, though
h. has recently appointed several dis,
reputable negroes to prominent ano
lucrative positions in their city.
By a premature explosion of a blast
in the rock quarry neal the .Aqueduci
B ilge this morning three negro labore1:
we're seriously, if not fatally, injured.
James W. Hubbard was appointed post
| master at WcolTine, Patrick county, Va, to
dav. wee Prince E Brammer, resigned.
John F. S&yers was appointed storekeepel
and gauger for the sixth district Of Virgins
today.
Large numbers of people wont from here
.oday to Arlington to witness the intermeu'
Of the rem4ius of the American soldiers whit
.ost their lives IL the needless Spanish war
II the troop stationed here and all the mus
tered out District Volunteers attenc ed, as die
the President a d son of the members o
lis cabinet. AID many of the employees II
The federal and dist let offices here. The re
mains. Enclosed in metaic co.ins, were lait
side hv side in q large trench in the naw par
of tho cemetery, those of Catholics having
special service read over them.