Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
TOorrsspondance a. his Alexandra 6sssrte.
Washington. June q.

TOorrsypondarce o. ms Alexandra daSSete.
Washington, June q.
The Presidential party, composed oil
the President aad Mrs. Mckinley, Mrs.
Abner Mckinley, the two nieces OF the
President, Misses Sarah Duncan and
Ida Barker, and DIR. Rixey returned to
Washington this morning. Mrs. Nc
Kinley looked very pale and as if suf-
fering severely. She was assisted from
the Co, rage TO her rooms by the Presl-
dent and De-. Rixey, being unable to
walk without support on each eide.
The physician states that her condition
mot be regarded as serious, but that
8 severe cold contracted on the trip
brought on a recurrence of the malady
from which she has been sufferer for
years.
The prevailing talk on the subject
here is to the effect that the campaign
in Luzon has proved q signal failure, SC
far, and, if prosecuted, promises to oe
greater one, and that the dispatch OIL
General Otis, in which he lays the
blame upon the anti expsnsionists OF
this country, is patent evidence of az
attempt to shield himself and the ad-
tninistration from deserved censure.
In Nelson county, Virginia, it is said
here today, mine of rutile, an ore OF
titanium, has been discovered, so rich
that it is very valuable. By mixing ii
with iron, the latter becomes almost as
hard as steel.
The gold mine near Kelley's Ford
on the RappahanDock river, people
from that section of Virginia here to.
day, say has been reiospected recently
and that a Northern capitalist is &C
confident of its worth that he has OBJ
tanned an option on it to hold until the
coming October.
The application of certain North
Carolina creditors of the late stock
brokers' firm of Porterfeld & Co., Of
this city, for the appointment of re-
ceiver for that company, has been de,
aied by the court here, upon the grouno
that the counsel for the firm acknowl
edged that its business was that O.
gambling, and gambling debts cannot
ne collected by law. The counsel fol
the North Carolinisns say they vii
have the firm indicted in their State fol
fraud, and punish them if they can be
gotten within the States limits on
requisition.
Rev. Mr.. Utley says he has paid all thu
debts he contracted for his late blue and graz
tasco here BE also ssys that what he really
meant by saying he hsd found out that th'
| best place Tor him is north of Mason ant
| Dixon's line, was that he Is not qualified TO
| managing Southern reunions.
People from Leesburg here today say tn
ne " local authorities Of that town have show
| their intention of enforcing the anti-liqlo
law there, and have already formed of offend
ers under that law chain gang to keep tn
streets clean. and that though that force
now composed OF only one white man ant
one negro, Judging from the amount of liquo
| shipped there from other places, the wet
| have high hopes that it will be greatly in
creased and that speedily.
Due d. Areas, the Spanish minister, will,
is said, soon return home. he only came her
| from sense Of patriotic duty and does no
desire to remain. Don Filipe Saguerio who's
| family has resided in Washington thirteel
years, is mentioned as his probable successor