Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gsrsre.l
Washington, August Il.

ury volunteers be organized unuer Ine
| provisions of the act of Congress ap-
nroved March ,. 1899 GeReral Ord
ers No. l22 IL adquar ers of the army,
A G. o., Jul, 1899, will apply 10
these regiments, except that the ORD
nance aud quartermaster's sup
plies will be provided under the d.
rection of the Chief Of Ordnance
and Quartermaster General. The regl.
ments will be organized as follows !:
ash b. Geo. S. Anderson, major 9Th cav.
airy, at Fl. Smelling, Mimi; seth, r. L..
Builard, captain subsistence depart
ment, Fl. Crook, Neb.; 40.h, E A. God
win, captain Sth, cavalry, Fl. Riley,
Kas; 41st, E T c. r chmond, captain,
81 artillery, Camp Meade, Pa; 42d, J
VI. Thompson, msj'r 24th Infantry,
Fl. Niagara, n. Y; 43rd, Arthur Muir
ray, captain 1st artillery, Fl. Ethan
Allen, VI; 44th, E J. McCletnand, cap
tain 2ld cavalry, Ft. Leaven
worth, Kan; Ash, S. II. Dorst, cap.
Tain 4.h cavalry, Jefferson Barrack, Mo-;
46.h, w. S. Schuyler, captain 9Th cav
airy, at South birmingham, Mass ;
Attn, Walter Howe, captain Attn artil-
ery, at Camp Meade, Penua. the
following to be Lieutenant Colonies ::
E. B Pratt, captain, sd infantry; G. j..
Crane, captain, Oath infantry; -
Byrne, captain. 6.h infantry; ]. S. Nal.
ory, captain, ID infantry; E. h. Crow.
der, major, judge advocate; James
Parker, captain, 4th cavalry; Francis
Michler, captain, 9th cavalry; W. E.
Wilder, captain, 4th cavalry; J. h.
Beacon, captain, 9th infantry; John
Bigelow, jr., captain, 10Th cavalry.
Ex-senator Butler, of South Carolina,
says tnat the government is making
mistake in not sending more negro
troops to me Philippines. He insists
that the negroes can stand the climate
much better than the white soldiers,
that they are anxious to 60, and that
the salvation OF the race in the future
would be the establishment OF negro
republic in that portion Of the world {,
where they could be to themselves and
demonstrate whether or not they are
capable of self government. He also
says the negroes will never have any
chance in the United States either So
cially or politically, and that the Phil
ippine opportunity is a grand one for
heir race.
Great pressure is being brought to
bear, so it is reported, upon President
Mckinley and Secretary Root Tor q
change of commanders in the Philip
pines. The President has been in ia
vor of retaining General Otis. He
seems to think that too much of fight
mas been made upon Oils by persons
aud combinations who are not in favor
If either the administration or republic
can success. He is also said to hold
hat if Gen. Otis is relieved, the op-
ponents of the party in power will pro-
claim to the world that the expansion
policy is failure, and that the President
was compelled to admit it in removing
rom command soldier in whom the
| greatest confidence has heretofore been
felt. 1t is also said that friends and
admirers Of General Lswton are insist
log that if he is given command OF the
forces he will make short work of the
FIlipinos.
People from Alexandria county, here
20 day say that though Sheriff Palmer
nas been searching diligently for the
negro who made tue assault upon Mrs.
Dean last Wednesday hight near Jack
son City, he has as yet been unable to
strike a clew by which his arrest can
be secured.
The dispatch to the effect that in q
5kirmish near Manila yesterday the
American loss was two, and that of the
Filpinos two hundred, was followed to-
| day by call for ten more regiments,
nearly twelve thousand men. Added
to the force already ordered to Manila,
these will make an army of sixty odd
thousand men, but, large as it will be,
people who have recently returned
from the Philippines say it will have to
be Increased considerably before the ma
ives thereof be subdued.
Detective Widen, of this city, has
started for Columbia, Mo-, to bring
back Frank w. Funk, the long missing
murderer, if the man arrested there
prove to be the right one. According
20 the telegraphic advces received the
suspect at Columbia TALES in every de-
tail with the description of Funk, even
TO the tattoo marks on his arm. Funk
murdered VIM. Brooks, an aged cripple,
in Washington, year ago. He made
appointments with Brooks's two daugh-
tiers at different places that evening in
order to get them out of the house, and
| then decoyed the old man and mis- wife
into back room. After killing Brooks,
| Funk attacked Mrs. Brooks ana left her
for dead She recovered from her in
juries. Funk ransacked the house aud
secured 81 900, the old woman's savings
for 80 years, and then disappeared.
A returned soldier called at the
Treasury day or two ago and deposit.
ed wad OF notes stuck and cemented
together by rain and PRECIPITATION while
being carried in a belt strapped around
him for months, during which he had
been on several prolonged sprees, for
which he said he wanted one hundred
and seventy-fve dollars, that being the
amount that ought to be in it. The wad
was soaked in water for several hours
ADD then separated, and when the SOL
der who had returned from the war
came back for his money, he was hand
ed nine hundred and fifty dollars, his
sprees having not cost him as much as
he supposed they had.
Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa, who was
chairman OF tho commerce committee of the
last House, and will probably hold the same
position in the next one, will be allowed by
the government the use of revenue cutter
the coming fall to go to both Greytown and
Colon and inspect the Atlantic ports of both
the Nicaragua and Panama canals, though a
government commission has already been sp-