Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-16

JUNO 1O'
The plague has broken out at Annoy,
China, and was officially reported 10
the State Department by cable this
morning. This will increase the ankle
ty on the Asiatic situation in the Phil
ippines.
1t is currently reported here that the
Filipinos have renewed the attack near
San Fernando and Calumpit, in Luzon,
territory but recently cleared of the
rebels" according to censored dis
patches. While the American army is
busy in Cavite province to the south
the troubles in the north break out
sfresh. 1t now seems likely that the
fighting in the north will have to be
renewed and with greater force than
heretofore employed. The report of
Aguinaldo's assassination has not been
officially confirmed at the War Depart.
ment and is supposed to be the same
sort of news that used to be brought
here by reliable" contrabands. The
estimated cost OF the Philippine war is
million dollars day.
DR.. Murrell of Lynchburg is here to-
day, making arrangements for the pub
icatior OF his book, entitled "Uncle
Tom without Cabin" The Harpers
of New York will be the publishers. In
the book the Doctor proves by the re-
corded facts of history that crime was
perpetrated upon both races by impos-
ing suffrage upon the negroes Of this
country.
In order to raise re.enforcements for
the Philippine army the government
mas already been compelled to resort to
the old bounty system, and to induce
the soldiers now in Luzon whose term
of service has expired, to re-enlist,
offers to add to the pay OF each about
four hundred dollars.
The President and his party left here
this afternoon for two weeks trip to
New England. He requires recreation,
so it is said, but the American soldiers
in the Philippines, must continue to
wade and fight in the rain end Maud
without any recreation.
The director of the census has order
ed the supervisors in Virginia to divide
the enumerators they shall respectively
appoint, equally between democrats
and republicans. The fact that the
drst, third and eighth congressional
districts those strongly democratic, and
each represented By an advocate of the
recent Richmond conference were Civ.
ca to republicans, is said here to sug.
gest the idea that that conference wa;
Objectionable to republicans as we'll a;
democrats, and to have detracted some
what from the influence of those con
gressmen.
Dispatches received here today are tt
the effect that yellow fever has broker
out among the .. S. marines in Havana
| At the cabinet meeting today it was
determined to send General OTIS all the
troops ne may call for, and to do SO a'
speedily as possible.
J. &. Post OF Brooklyn, a commission
merchant, anG ?. G. Dove, OF the
! American commercial trsyeller'O league
testified before the Industrial commits
sion today. The former, to the effect
chat sugar could be produced cheaper
| in Cuba than any where else, and the
latter. that the trusts and combine:
had thrown out OF employment thou
sands of men formerly on the road
| He said the number of travelling men out O.
employment was $4,000; q large percentage
worked for two.thirds pay and business wal
| going to smash as q result of trusts. lie de
! nounced them as both dangerous and de
| moralizing He predicted that the politica
party next year which did not denounc(
trusts would encounter landslide at the
| polls.
There are no sorer people here than those
| Southerners who were silly enough to have
nad nything to do with the late "blue
! gray reunion fssco near this city. They
| don't like to talk about it, and When they dc
| it is only to explain how they were led into
auv such trap 1t WIS trap from the first
| and its chief promoter acknowledged that thu
/ newspaper notices CT 1t were fake advertise.
I ments,
| People who went ffom here yesterday te
| the camp of the militia frol, this district say
| that they had very agreeable trip. and thai
| had it not been that they knew how General
| Miles had treated President Davis they would
| have been delighted with him, SO be is one OF
the most agreeable men they ever met. They
| also say that the behavior of the militia /:
excellent, but that it is impossible to have
{ four thousand men from q city, not under
/ regular discipline, without having some dis.
! orderly ones among them. Even one of the
chief officers, il is reported, was expelled from
| the camp yesterday.
| Mervin g. Sperry, formerly editor of the
| New Age, at Philadelphia, who vas arrested
| here "a few days ago charged with hay!ne
] passed bogus checks on several merchants In
] this city, was today held in the Police Court