Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
EOorrespondenos Of the Alexandra GaEette.l
Washington, June s.

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The following dispatch from General
Otis, dated today, was received this
morning: "Result movement to Mo.
rong province was to drive insurgents
into the mountains, capturing Antipole
and other towns that section with point
of land projecting into the bay. They
retreated and scattered before our ad-
vance, leaving twenty-five dead on
field. Our loss four killed, few wound.
ed, mostly slight. City Morong on only
land route around bay earrisoned; all
other troops withdrawn; inhabitants of
province profess friendship; ask pro-
lection; large numbers wish to enter
Manila; refuse, as city population in
creasing too rapidly. Leading natives
throughout island including active in
surgent leaders seek permission to send
families to Manila; considered only
place OF personal safety"
Nothing had been heard of Mr..
Storer, U. S. Minister to Spain, at the
State Department up to noon today
1t is rumored that his absence from his
post is by direction ofthis government.
No direct protests against the sale of
the Carolines, Ladrones and Pelew ISL
snds was possible, but Mr.. Storer's alb
scnce from Madrid is said to be for the
purpose of intimating the displeasure
of this country with the sale of those
Islands to Germany.
The State Department was this after
noon unofficislly informed that Minis.
ter Bellamy Storer is at San Sebastian,
on the coast of Spain, cooling of before
going to Madrid.
& government official who has just
returned from Cuba says that General
Fitzhugh Lee has been completely
shelved, and that the natives do not
know what to make of it. When the
General was Consul-General there he
was exceedingly popular with the Gu
bans, for they looked upon him IS a
prominent representative of the gov
ernment to which they looked for as
sisauce in obtaining their independ-
ence. General Lees departure from
Havana with assurances to Blanco that
he would soon return with American
troops behind him caused the CubsDs to
conclude that when he should get back
there he would be man in high au-
thority, and they confidently expected
that he would at least be the Governor
General of Havana if not of the whole
island. Inssmueh as the orders from
Washington put him out in the country
at an obscure place, with comparatively
speaking only handful OF volunteers
under him, the natives soon conceived
the idea that General Lee was in poor
favor with his own government. Ere
peatedly within the past few months"
said the official quoted, II have seen
Lee come into the city OF Hanana. He
was formerly cheered wherever he
went, but all the enthusiasm for him has
vanished. ! think the powers that be
have made mistake in not giving
General Lee more suthority. My earn
est belief is chat he would have accom-
General Brooke or General Ludlow.
General Wood at Santiago is q great
success, and he would do much better
at Havana than Brooke"
The President will leave here for his
New England trip Friday week. Ac.
compaDied by Mrs. Mckinley he will
go first to Holyoke, Macs, where he
will be the guest Saturday and Sunday
of Mr.. William Whiting, his former
colleague in Congress. On Monday he
will attend the Ivy day exercises at
Smith college at Dit. Hoiyoke where @
niece OF the President graduates spd
where he will make an address and de-
liver the diplomas to the graduating
class. He will spend Wednesday at
Springfield and on Thursday he will go
to North Adams, Mass, where he will
spend sesersl days as the guest of W.
B. Plunkett, president of the Home
Market Club, of Boston,
John Pope Hodnett, wall.known
labor leader and once prominent law.
yer in this city, was arrested today and
is held suspected luDatic.
John E. Wilson, WEc was lieutenant
OF volunteers during the Spanish war,
was appointed postmaster at Center
vile, Maryland. today.
A dispatch from General Otis at
Manila today confirms the report of the
suicide of Lieut.. Pearce of the 9th U.
5. artillery. He was West Pointer
and the son of General n. B. Pearce of
Arkansas, brigadier general in the
Confederate army.
The servants cabins of the house
near this city, on the Tennallytown
road, now occupied by Mr.. Nat Tyler,
formerly editor ofthe lateRichmond En-
quirer. but for several years past resi-
dent of this city. were destroyed by fire
early this morning. The loss WIS about
three thousand dollars.
Professor Lator of the Mint Bureau
while leaning oyer the bauister of the
second story of the Treasury Depart.
ment this morning was stricken with
vertigo or apop.eKy and fell to the
basement floor. One Of his legs was
broken and bis head and fAee we're
badly hurt. He was at once taken to
a hospital, the physicians at which say
his injuries are not fatal.
The large Southern colony here showed
their good sense as vol as taste in letting the
so.called Confederate celebration at Glen
Echo near here, yesterday, severely alone, as
it was gotten up by Northern preacher, who
couldn't naturally haye had any sympathy
with the lost cause and as the prevalent
opinion regarding it was that ID was money
making scheme, after the order of the one to
erect monument to General Lee in sight of
his confscated home. People who were there
say the attendance did not number more than
one hundred and fifty, and the affair