Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette. i
Washington, September II


however. that an officer answering his
description is prisoner in the hands
of the Filipioos in southern LuzoD.
In passing upon the report General
Otis saws he cannot Gear the mystery.
Rockefeller had marched five miles in
the broling sun with his regiment that
day and his mind may have been at
fected TO such an extent that he wan.
dered into the lines of the Filipinos.
Another theory is that he was captured
by detachment OF Fiipinos on scout.
Jog duty.
1t is not the intention to make pub
lie General Otis's annual report as soon
as it arrives, but to withhold it tempo
rariy for the use of the President and
5 cretary of War, for it is unlikely to
contain any startling news.
General Brooke reports three yellow
f-ver fatalities in Cuba today.
Twelve new cases of yellow fever
were reported at Key West this morn
ing.
General Overshine is in the city, hav-
ing arrived few days ago from Ma
nila. He has been granted three
months leave of absence on surgeons
certificate.
Mr.. Louis Z Emery of Bradford, Pa,
resumed his statements befc re the in
dustrisl commission today. He claim
I'd the rebate system was responsible Tor
the trust. In fact be held that but for
he favors of railroads trusts could not
exist. He thought the success Of the
Standard was due to the discrimination
of the railroads. He said that every
statement made by him against the
Standard and the railroads could be
proven. He said be could show the
contracts existing between the railroads
and the Standard in 1874 and claimed
they practically existed today.
A real estate agent in this city oaid
today that his business is very fiat; that
if man wants to buy house or lot
on which to build one there is little or
no trouble in selling it, to him, but that
if ne wants to sell il, he finds it very
difficult to do 50 and then only at very
low figures. He said be didn't expect
any immediate Improvement, and that
the boom here someyears ago had done
more harm than good.
a public meeting will be held here
tonight to denounce the action of the
military court in the case of Captain
Dreyfus and to request the govern
ment to show its disapproval thereof
hv withdrawing its exhibits from the
Paris exposition, which OF course it will
not do, as it has not yet attempted to
interfere with the government of any
other country except that of Spain and
the islands that once belonged to her,
aud Hawaii.
A reunion of the Tyler family of this
country will be held at Wizards Hotel
here tomorrow, which it is said will he
called to order by Mr. Nat. Tyler, at
one time proprietor OF the late Rich
mond Enquirer. Some Of the Virginia
Tylers who live here say those of the
North came from an entirely different
stock.
The number of ex-Confedrstes 10
his city is now so large that the old
Confederate Veterans Association was
not big enough to hold them, and so
they have organized another one, called
after their liberal blind comrsde,
Charles Broadway Rouse, which will
meet tonight.
Mr.. John Mclean, who has been
here three or four days, will leave for
Ohio tonight to attend meeting of the
democratic executive committee there
OF. He speaks very confidently of his
election, and Gays the return OF Mr..
Hanna will do him more good than
harm, as the question before the voters
will now be reduced to the simple and
single one oil Mclean or Hanna.
There is talk here now to the effect
that the recent letter from the agent OF
the Associated Press at Manila will in
duce Congress to demand an iuyestiga-
ton of the charges that the wounded
Flipinos were killed and mutilated by
American soldiers.
Several Virginia democrats from diff
ferent psrtg of their State here today
say all interest in the senatorial election
there has subsidized as everybody, ex-
cept Governor Tyler, knows that Sena-
tor Martins reelection has long been
assured.
The time of the cabinet meeting to-
day was taken up in discussing minor
affairs in Cuba and Porto Rico. While
the disposition of Gen. Otis was dis
cussed q. length, none OF the members
would talk about it.
Secretary Root is by no means as popular
here now. that is with some people, as he was
when he first came, and it is already rumor'
ed that there will be opposition to the con-
firmaton of his appointment.
at the last meeting of the Virginia demo-
cratic association of this city Mr.. Mosby W.
Williams of Front Royal was elected financial
secretary, vice his predecessor, who has
moved away. That was the only change
that was made in the officers OF the assocIa-
ton. At the October meeting, should any of
tho democratic candidates in that State in
torm the association that they require its
help in sending ViIgnians here home 10
vote, arrangements will be made for that
purpose.
LUNATICs WED IN MIoHIGAN.-The
honeymoon of William Levy, hope
less lunstic, aud Johanna Zaul, who
mas been daft for years, was rudely in
corrupted on Saturday by the Detroit,
Micn., authorities, who shipped Levy
back to the Wayne asylum and turned
his wife over TO the county physician for
treatment. For fifteen years back
Levy has been an inmate Of the various
insane asy lums IN the State. His wife
is affi cta with intermittent insanity,
ana was an inmate of the Wayne coup-
ty asylum. While both were at this
ASYLUM Cupid got in his desdlv work