Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, December %.


Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
Washington. December %.
The remains of the Maine dead now
being brought back from Havana will
be buried at Arlington, except those
whose relatives ask for them.
The fund for the widow and chile
rem of General Lawton today reached
81, 449 in cash subscriptions.
After oeiug out all night the jury in
the case OF Frank Funk, charged
with the murder of William 81. Brooks
eighteen months ago, this morning re-
turned verdict of murder in the first
degree. The motive for the murder
was robbery. Funk escaped but was
captured al c olumbia, Mo. last August.
The following from General Otis was
received here this morning dated To-
day: General Young reported twer-
,y-frst instant from Vigan that Col.
oueis Hare and Howe heard from De-
C mber II; still in pursuit, through
mountains, of irsurgent column
having our prisoners of whom
four captured; Capt. Gilmore remain
ing prisoner one day in advance.
pursuit continued. These pursuing
troops have encountered great hard
ships but will probably strike APART.
Two hundred and one Spanish prison.
ers from Apart received this morning;
Two hundrt d N ore in that section, most
ly f.iars, awaiting transportation to
Manila. Entire Sixteenth iniautry leav-
ing for Apart tomorrow for stations
from that point as far south as Bayou
Dong. Batchelder's battalion Twenty
fourth nov on lower Rio Graode 10
good condition 10 return to San Jose
country. Forty-fourth Infantry are
being sent to Hughes, lilo, who re-
ports Panay. Negros and adjacent isl-
ands quiet"
Pennsylvania avenue and 7th and
F streets were crowded today and SO
we're the markets and the department
stores. Most of the people of this city
came from the South, and though many
Of them would like to put away South
9ro things, old associations are too
strong to allow them 10 abandon their
sectional custom of making the most OF
Coristmas.
The three northern republican Solons
Who govern this city as the District OF
Columbia Commissioners, have now
reached the acme of absurdity by OIL
dering that all the dogs here shall be
muzzled, because poor tick dog had
fit on the street here short time since,
and foolish policeman shot it because
he thought it was mad. The need OF
fool-killer is more urgent among all
classes in this city. at present, han
anywhere else on the face of the earth.
A city merchant told the Gazette's
correspondent today that the ten-ceut
aud other stores 10 which cheap goods
are retsiled had had good trade this
Christmas, but that so far as zeal BUSH
ness is concerned. the season has been
unusually dull. He was talking to
man of affairs, who said the iron and
steel trade of the country is prosperous,
not, however, that plows and other ag-
ricultural implements or structural
beams are being made, but cannon,
shells and bullets, and other war mate
rial, with which, not TO help, bus de-
5troy human beings. However, he
added people are becoming too numer-
ous, and as there is now no plague,
cholera, or yellow fever, it is probably
just as we'll to slay them with powder
and iron.
& republican officeholder now here,
who returned from Portland, Oregon,
yesterday evening, says that Alexandria
s bee hive of business activity to
Portland with all its hundred thousand
population, and that the business de-
preston there is positively alarming.
de says the people there cannot under
stand the newspaper reports of the ex'
stence of general prosperity, and the
Intelligent ones among them know
they are published solely for political
effect.
The B. Warner land syndicate of this
city, say that the Arlington bridge and
nacad amized roads in Alexandria coun-
ty will create large demand for prop
erty in that county by people of
this city; also that if New Alexandria
Dad been located north of the canal
locks at Alexandria, instead of in the
marsh south of Hunting creek, all the
ground between here and Alexandria
oy this time would have been covered
with manufacturing establishments.
The expenditures of the Presidents secret
fund have been so immense during Mr.. Nc
Rinley's term that before another appropra.
ton is made it, there may be inquiry in IT.
spect OF the disposition of that fund. Some
democratic congressman are already talking
10 that effect.
Dr. z. NJ. Rixey. brother of the congress
man from the alexandria district. and the
Presidents physician, has bought, through
Mr. J. E. Glen ants of Alex 4ndria county, two
small tracts adjoining his land near Ba,lston,
in that county, for one hundred dollars an
acre.
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