Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, October %.

10 the following cablegram,
received today: capt. Guy Howard,
Assistant Quartermaster and Quarter
master OF Volunteers, killed yesterday
near Arayat while on launch Rio Grand
river by concealed insurgents. His
clerk, civilian employee aud native
wounded. Scouting detachment Thir-
" sixth Volunteers encountered in.
surgents southwest Santarita, scatter
ing them, killing six, capturing eight
and ten rifles; no casualties. Gen. Law.
ton operating at Sanisidro. The for
warding of supplies to that point con.
tinues, attended with some difficulty on
account of lack of transportation. which
will be supplied soon. Insurgents
southern Luzon attacked Calamba.
These were driven of. No casualties"
The State Department has received
a dispatch from Minister Loomis,
which was withheld from publication
for the present a5 it involved diplo-
matte matters relating to the formal
recognition of Castro, which awaits the
d. cision OF President Mckinley.
There is an impression here, bu,
supposed to be groundless, that the
powers will intervene in the war be-
tween the British and the Beers 1t il
said that Germny aud France, in
particular, are FESTIVE, and that Kusi
sia, Italy, Belgium and Holland vii
stand by those countries if q demand
for cessation of hostili!ies and the ad
justment of the difficulty by arbitration
De made Those who talk this way
say the United States will not particl
pate in any such movement. When
such action on the part Of the powers
was rumored during our war with
Spain, England refused 10 have any
thing to do with it. Similar neutrality
now on the part of the Uoited States,
they say, is the least this country can
do under the circumstances. They say
Great Britain is not only fighting the
Beers, but is getting ready to resist by
force any interference Oh the part Of
the European governments.
People from Fairfax county, Vrainis,
here today, say they fear that ali tn,
recent talk about building new through
railroad lines thorugh that county
will amount to little or nothing, as it
seems that the Coast Line, upon which
their main hope was founded, has made
other arrangements.
President Mckinley has appointed
William P. Lord, OF Oregon, as minister
20 the Argentine Republic.
Admiral Dewey is not sick, as report.
I'D NJ ht1t
previously stated in this correspond
eoce, got tired of being made show of,
to boom certain local interests, and
therefore refused to accept any other
invitations to visit cities either in the
North or South.
A delegation of Richmond people, to
be escorted by Senator Martin and Rep
resentative Lamb, are expected here on
Wednesday next to invite the President
to visit their city and witness the
iauncLiug OF the new U. 5. ship Shu
orick, but it is not supposed here that
the invitation will be accepted. The
Secretary of the Navy, however, will be
sure TO 20, that is, he says so.
The case of Friedlauder We. the
Washington Post Publishing Company,
was before the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia today. The suit
is for $25 1000; for damage to the charac-
ter of Herman Friedlander, who once
kept a store in Alexandria, and many
Alexandrians were present as witness.
es. An Alexandria lawyer, Mr.. Bend
helm, was one OF the counsel for the
plaintiff.
G. R. Henderson was today appoint
I'd postmaster at Wren. Charlotte coun.
sy, Va, vice II. G. Foster, resigned.
Chief Justice Fuller presided over the
Supreme Court today. it being his first
appearance during the present term, he
having only recently returned from
Europe. No decisions were handed
Town. A smile crept over the faces of
some OF the lawyers when Assistant
Attoruey-General Boyd asked that GER
tain government cases be postponed
because the Solicitor General could not
possibly be present on the 80 ID instant.
IL is we'll known that Mr.. Richards is
making republican speeches in Ohio
Arguments were heard for an Injunction
against the State of Texas on account
of the quarantine against Louisiana by
Texas because of yellow fever. Judge
Farrar claimed that the interstate COM
merce law had been violated, that an
em barge had been placed upon the
business of New Orleans, and that it
was not as much OF scare on the score
of health as 1t was to procure trade.
The Texas attorneys insisted the court
had no jurisdiction in the matter.
Virginia republicans now here laugh
at the reports they see in the republi-
can newspapers OF this and other
Northern cities of the support the re.
publicans in their State intend to give
the so called independent" candidates
for the Virginia legislature. They saw
The men referred to would like very
much to get their support and that
some OF them have already asked not
only for their support, but for their
money, but that their State executive
committee who manage the affairs of
the party and whose direction they
follow as the only way by which ever
TO attain success, has advised them 10
let Independents alone, and that they
will surely do so. They also say that
that committee will meet in Richmond
next Wednesday night and will prob
ably reiterate the advice referred to.