Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-07
FROM WARRINGTON.
rCorrsspondsnco O! the Alexsndris Gazette. /
Washington, September Z.

Patrick G. Boyle, editor of the Oil
CITY Derrick, continued his statement
before the Industrial Commission to-
day. He plainly minated that the oil
concern with which Mr.. Phillips. the
cnairman o! the commission, admits
being connected, was the real trust aud
not the Standard. O1e member of the
commission said privately he did rot
think Mr. Pniilips ought 10 take such
prominent part in the Investigation OF
the oil question, inasmucn as he l5 In
teresteu 10 that business. His opinion
was that modesty ought to dictate his
tskiny g back seat. AT o'clock there
Was no indication thai Mr.. Boyle would
conclude today.
dispatch received here today an
eouuces three more cases OF yellow fe-
YER among the soldiers at Havana.
Dr.. Wyman today received the fol-
lowing telegram from DR.. Carter at
Key West covering the yellow fever
.itua'ion up to last night: Full re-
;urrs from American physicians, 64
cases, deaths The Cuban physicians
estimated one third or one hall as many.
Considerable amount among children
of immunes. Ore case at Miami"
The boilers here are sorely depressed
today and are abusing MIR. Perry Bel
mont, who was one of them three years
ago, for saying, as ne did yesterday,
nat Bryan would carry the country
uext year by large majority.
No woman has yet been found to
chris.en the new government vessel soon
% b. launched at the Trigg shipyard
in Richmond. The ship will be named
the Shubrick, and it is desired that
some descendant of the Admiral shall
ne the christener, but none has yet
been found except daughter, who is
very old woman, entirely too old for
any such purpose.
A large number of the G. A. r. are
now and for some days have been here,
looking at the sights, having availed
themselves OF their tickets 10 Philadel-
phia to stop in this city and visit the
neighboring resorts, many of them TAX
ng the electric road TO Alexandria,
where some of them say they "tit and
y
private letter was received here today
from arge grain centre in Iowa, in which
The writer says that some people there who
have stored their corn for the last three years
hoping for rise slsrued by the good crop
| of this year, are now selling it for what it will
bring and losing the inteIest,the storage as well
| as the damage resulting from rats and rain
| they have been buoyed up all the time by
the reports of coming prosperity, but now say
the republican newspa pers can fool them DC
| longer Prominent merchants of this city
say, privat IL, that the bottom of business here
| has dropped ont, but also that they are sfraid
to SAY SO, publicly, lest all their creditors come
| upon them at once.
| General Harry Heth an old ex-Confederate
who has been i'll here for a long time, is said
| BIZ his friends TO be very near his end today
| His paralysis is now general, he is totally I'M
conscious and his dropsy has extended TO his
! lead
People here who saw Governor Tyler yes.
terday say he is very genial and pleasant
gentleman, and the most hopeful one they
ever met, but that he evidently doesn't read
| the newspapers even of his own State.
Among the appointments 10 the army an
n unced today were the following credited G
Virginia: To be captain, George H. Bentley
late captain Sixth Virginia Volunteers; to be
| first lieutenant, Edward NJ. Wilkins, late sec
oud lieutenant Company NJ, First District OF
Columbia Volunteers.
To such limits have the trusts been extend
cd that they are making sad inroads into the
| commission business, and their agents now
deal directly with the producers A Michigan
man here today says the agents Of the tobacco
trust in his State now 60 to the producers
farms and buy their standing crop, and that
such will soon be the case i'll Virginia, if it
d es not already exist. Alexandria dealers
who come here TO get their beef say the cattle
of which it is made 90 through their city on
the way TO the slaughter houses in the
North.