Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexsndris assette.l


Correspondence Of the Alexsndris Gasette.l
Washington, November IL.
A dispatch from General Otis to the
War Department this morning announc-
irg the doom of the cableship Hooker,
wrecked of Corregidor last summer. is
wordsd as follows: Impossible to save
Hooker. Contractor will save cargo:
Ouartermaster will remove fittings OF
value. Sell wreck atauction."
The President this morning commit
ed the sentence of the negro, James
Powell, sentenced to be hanged for
murder on the 18th. inst, to imprison-
ment for life.
DR.. P. NJ. Rixey, President McKin.
ley's physician, returned few days
ago from Paterson, n j., having gone
there by request of the President to
consult with DR.. Newton as to Vice
President Hobart's condition. DR..
Rixsy spent nearly day at the Ho.
bart home. He agrees fully with DIR.
Newton as to be nature and ultimate
outcome of the sff1ction. Since DR..
Rixey left Paterson there has been an
Improvement in the Vice Presidents
conditioo, but there is no hope that
this will 90 permanent. The President
s informed almost hourly of the condl.
ton OF the Vice President and 10 case
OF serious turn for the worse will 60
to his bedside a. once.
Three dispatches were received to-
day from General Otis. They show the
difficulty the American troops are en-
counteriDg on the march, aud their
slaughter of the natives, and discuss
the capture of native dispatches which
chow how General Aguinaldo is keep
ing his forces together.
A prominent Southern democratic
Congressman, here today, talking about
the fuss that has been raised over the
admission OF Representative elect Rob
erts, of Utah, because he is q Mormon,
said he hoped, for the reputation of the
country, that the House would take no
notice of it, and that he always had
thought Susan B. Anthony woman oil
excellent common sense, and is low
confirmed in that opinion, as she Gays
it "would be unjust to wage war upon
one man for the sins of many"
Mrs. E. w. Ayres, president OF the
chapter of the Daughters OF the Coined
eracy of this city, through Col. Cowar-
din, of Richmond, presented to each Of
the chapters OF that organization repre-
sented at Richmond this week, u beauti'
full metallic copy of the seal OF the Con-
federate States,
The case of the commissioners of this
city against the druggists thereof, fol
selling medical compounds OF which
malt is constituent, without liquor
license. has been postponed until it can
be tried before the court Of appeals,
which may possibly be two months.
George Rice of New York, formerly
of Marietta, Onio, was before the in.
dustrial commission today and testified
to the effect that the Standard Oil Com
pauy aud the railroads had arrange
ments by which small operators we're
put at great disadvantage.
General W. b. Payne left here this
morning for Manassas to see his rele
tive, ex Congressman Meredith, who
is reported here today as extremely i'll
He has been sick Tor several months.
Dispatches from Kentucky, received
here today, say the official count in al
the counties of that State will not be
definitely heard from before Monday,
but that Mr.. Goebel is assured of hit
election ard 30 are all his friends.
Elk State Senator Little, of Fred
ericksburg, passed through here today
on his way home from York, where be
aas been very i'll for some weeks.
CONGRESSMAN Jones of Virginia. who left
here today for his home in Richmond county
when asked how many votes Governor Tyler
would receive in the Virginia legislature fol
Senator, said he did not know, but that be
would certainly get al of them from his, the
lat, Congressional district, except one, Mr..
tmbry.
democrat from Prince Georges county
Mary land, here today, Gays tho republican
delegate to the legislature from thut county
was elected by majority of thirty-two votes
every one of which was cast by negroes from
this city, who are not residents OF the county,
and who were paid to 80 there and vote.
Second Lieutenant James F. Mckinley
9th S. Calvarr, has been ordered to San
Francisco for assignment to duty. Lieut.
Mckinley is nephew of the President. he
is native of San Francisco and q resident oil
Cleveland. Ohio
Secretary of War Boots latest censorship
decree seals the lips of the Judge Advocate
General, who refuses to discuss the cases oil
the four American soldiers sentenced to
death by court martial in the Philippines
1t has become known, however, that irregu.
larities in the proceedings have been found
and that the men now have very good OPP
portnnity of escaping the extreme penalty.