Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-05
will scratch their heads and wonder
how the meaning of words can be SO
twisted
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette
Washington, April 5.

earlV Monday morning, in which he IN
nmated that the backbone OF the so
called rebellion Ind been broken, and
that there was q fair prospect that the
FiiDinos were discouraged and might
soon offer terms OF surrender. While
the officials here are not in the least
cast down a sort of yeGrning for more
news from General 0tis is manifested.
The latest press reports from Manila,
apparently filed there today, brought
the intelligence that the rebels were
messing at d place called called Caium
pir, Eve and q half Jules northwest OF
Nalolos. and this lead. some of the War
Department people, at least, to fear that
the truuhle has not Vt ended. II wouid
not be surprising 20 them should more
fighting occur Possibly ii is now 90
o. No one at The department
knows definitely, and further bulletins
from General Ois are eagerly looked
for.
Lieutenant Colonel l.. NJ. Maus,
e if surgeon of the TN army corps,
t4snfed before the court OF inquiry to-
i4l that the refrigerated beef frequent
~ made the men sick at Jacksonville.
O9e day q whole company of the Dad
LIMOS was brought down Ly the ra-
ia and afterwards the great proper
ton of the same company contracted
typnoid fever while every other COM
paw 10 the regiment was in lair
cath. Ole entire consignment of
canned beef sent TO the soldiers there
a rel cted because it was tainted.
Lieut.. Col. Daniel A. Currie, OF the 2nd
New Jersey, testified chat 81 men out
nj ll2 under his orders at Jacksonville
we're made sick at the rifle range near
Jacksonville. He made tests of the
| beef and found botn salicylic and
| ooracic acid present. The meat look
| I'd more like salmon than beef. He was
not surprised TO find these acids pres
| emit. because he said he had known
that Swift x Company used preserva-
tive ten or eleven years ago in meat
old TO his family. Major Lee read the
courts reply TO General Miles's letter
! Of Yesterday Offering l3l more witness.
| as. in which the court states that Is
| many OF those witnesses as were need
ed could be summoned. General
Miles replies to this that while this WAS
his final list, he believed that the honor
| aud reputation OF the army demanded
| that u great many more witnesses
should be summoned if the court was
| not thoroughly satisfied or the subject.
He ssvs that at least %, 200 men would
-~estifv TO the DOOR quality of the beef
rationS,
The industrial commisson held an
executive session today at which plans
| were matured for an investigation OF
| tie subject of trusts. The hearing OF
witnesses will not begin until June.
! Miss Clara de Grafenried will testify
on industrial conditions tomorrow,
! Prescott f. Hall on Saturday. The
question on hard aud soft coal will be
| the subject of next weeks investigation
! and representative operators aud MI
! ners will be called.
General Corbin has summarized the
| casualties in the Philippines from Feb
| ruary i to april i, inclusive. They
! aggregate 1850, Of which Isl were in
killed and go wounded.
enato Proctor thinks that there Is
every prospect that order will be re-
| stored Ia Cuba, but it will take some
| ime. as the Cuban soldiers have been
led to believe they would get much
more money than the United States
government is willing to pay. For thl-
| reason ii will 0 be prudent to with
raw our troops from the island toe
rapidly.
President Mckinley has committed
| The life sentence of Edward Reeves,
who was convicted in the northern dis
| tiicJ of Texas in 1889 of robbing d mail
rain.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson is
| sending out to the different experiment
| station u the wheat zone twenty-five
| lifereut specimens of Russian wheat
which ne recently ordered. Part OF
| his is of the kind that it Is especially
| ncb IL g!utin and is said 10 be peculiarly
daDted 'or the making of maccaroni.
The President soday accepted an in
viJation 10 be present ~ Philadelphia
| April y when the statue OF Gen, Grant
qill be unveiled.
The Presi lent today appointed NJ.
t. Goidaborough, of Cambridge, Nd,
4p4ymaster 10 the navy.
james /. Williams was appointed
postmaster al Russell, Dickensonville
.ouuty, Va, today, vice &. NJ. lreson,
,esigued.
ii is understood at the War Depart
aeDt that the EIlipinos are assisted
materially in their resistance by Span
81 officers who were captured by them
,nG who agreed to take service with
hem when General Otis refused to al
Iow Spain to redeem them from cap
tivity.
Nj. 7. B. Reed is still here and will
remain here for some days longer. He
: not at all anxious about his re cleo
ion to the SDeakership, being as sure
IS every body else is that as long as the
-epubliceas have control of the House,
and he desires that position, he will re-
ain it. He doesn't Want the Vice
Presidency any more than the Presi-
tent wants him to have it.
A democrat from Virginia, here to-
day, says he has seer in some
newspapers that Senator Martin has
opened the headquarters Of his senator
jal campaign in Richmond, but that
nothing could be more incorrect. Mr..
Martin, he says, has no headquarters
and is making no campaign, and doesn't
intend to, not thinkingit at all necessary
for him to do so. His country home is
undergoing extensive repairs, and un.
til they shall be completed, which will
no. Aa until summer he will remain IN