Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexsndria Gazette. !
Washington, April II.

Washington, April Ia.
The Industrial Commission listened
to Milford Spohu. of the Building
Trades Council Legislative committee,
Of Washington, this morning. He dis
cnssed wages, strikes, apprentice rules
and labor laws. Mr.. Spohn is six
hour man. rs he termed himself, but
is not 10 favor of reducing the pay in
proportion to the time.
4 committee from Philadelphia call
ed on the President today and asked
that the Raleigh be ordered there to
participate in the ceremonies of the un-
yelling OF the Grant statue April u,
and that she be held there Tor Dewey
Day, May l. both requests were grant
ed.
The retreat of General Lawton and
the evacuation of all the towns he took
after they had been abandoned by the
Fllipinos, is said here to be sad blow
to the ingoes, and his statement that
one hundred thousand soldiers will be
required to hold possession OF those
islands. should, it is intimated here, IN
| duce the administration TO consider the
sdvisability OF letting 60 the horns OF
the goat and getting behind the first
tree.
The statement of Lieut.. Scott of the
revenue cutter service that Ensign Bag
lev was not killed by the Spaniards,
out bv Americans, and that TOO by q
| shell fired from the gunboat Whining
ton, is the subject of good deal Of
talk here today, and some people say
they have previously heard the same
thing intimated in what ought to be
we'll informed quarters.
President Harper and Vice President
Thomas OF the Virginia Democratic
! Association of this city, have informsd
that association that they will not &C
cept the costly silver testimonials that
II has voted them, as they do not think
the fun of the association should be
used for any such purpose.
The negroes are celebrating Emanc.
patton Day here now, and the side
walks of Pennsylvania avenue are
crowded with them, of all ages, sizes
ayes and colors, and of both sexes.
| Tue low ctQne wall between 9TH and Sth
streets, in front OF the Hancock statue,
| ,flordeG those who We're tired good
| seats. aud an old resident Of West End,
| Alexandria, who saw them sitting there
On, eating pies, cakes and peanuts, said
hey reminded hin of the old hiring
/ Jaws there before the wal between the
States.
| The following changes in the fourth
class postofiices OF Virginia were made
today Copper Valley, Floyd county,
Lizzie Z Dehart appointed postmaster,
vice VIM. J. Hambrick. resigned: Red
inc. GoochaDd county. Richard Mealy
vice T. w. Siddons, removed.
Several members or the Confederate
| Veterans Association of this city pro
pose going to Alexandria tonight to
near DR.. Hunter Mcclure, General
Stonewsit Iackson's corps surgeon, tel
what ne knows Ct jackson and his
ways.
! When Archbishop Corrigan was here
! recently ne obtained the permission Of
! the War Department TO erect a Calho-
Hc chapel ~ West Point.
To show the condition American
| shipping has now reached Consu
! Boyle at Liverpool says that of 1928
| .learances from that port in 1888, only
aree of the snip carried the American
| flag, and TWO of them were sailing YES
sells.
1t is now said that the disease from
which Mr.. Porter, the Presidents sec
etsry, is suffering is paralysis, and that
as he has not improved since his attack
Ills condition is considered very IN
favorable.
\ The brick makers of this city have
formed trust into which all the yards
in and nesr Washington have entered,
and no bricks ste cold here now except
at the standard price.
Eastward the march OF empire takes
4 its way. The expansonsts now say
! mat all Of Samoa must be divided into
/ three parts. and that England, Ger
many aud this country shall each take
a third, and that the latter shall annex
its portion. -
Many intelligent people here credit
the report that Mr.. Speaker Reed has
been offered a salary of $50, 900 year
{ As counsel for certain insurance and
other large interests in New York, and
that he gill accept it, as he realizes the
lmpossibility of defeating not only the
money of the piutoorsts, but the power
of che administration, and thinks that
as Mr.. Hanna bought Dir. NcK inley's
| election in '9G, he will do SO again in
1909.
The Princess Salm Salm was among
the callers at the White House this
morning. Beforc her marriage she was
New Jersey girl named Joy, and in
her younger days she was tight rope
performer. She married Prince Salm
Salm, who came to this country from
Austria during the war between the
States, and entered the Northern army
and was made colonel Of the Sth New
York. After the war closed he offered
his services to Macmillan in Mexico.
He was captured and condemned to
death by the Juarez government, but
his wife iuterceded for him and secured
his release. The prince fought IN the
Franco Prussian wsr and was killed at
Gravellotte. The princess received q
pension of s. 900 year FROM the Aus
TRAN government.
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