Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, October 81.

fCorrespondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington, October 81.
Senetor Sullivan who was yesterday
sued for breach Of promise By Mai Lucy
Lection asserts that the suit is an at
tempt to smirch his character. In a
dispatch from New Orleans he says ::
This woman has absolutely no claim
on me of any kind. While IN Washing
ton recently received proposition
from her and her advisers, which re-
iected. The proof will show the attempt
70 blscken ny name, which attempt
could have been avoided by me II had
agreed to their demand" The court has
issued the usual writ OF service on the
defendant in the suit to show cause
within 20 days why judgment for the
$4,000 demanded by the plaintiff
should not he given. The writ Is in
the hands OF the marshal for service.
The court officials say that the case
canoot be brought to trial for six or
seven months, owing to the crowded
condition OF the docket.
The State Department is beginning to
be disguised with the demands for
blood which are continually being made
by the foreign ministers in Pekin.
Scarcely day goes by without some
expression from one of these ENJOYS of
his dissatisfaction with the list OF those
who have been named for punishment
Today it is the French Min ster M.
Pichon, who, according to dispatch
from Pars, thinks other names should
De added to this list. According to the
view taken at the State department
China is now on her knees, promising
every reparstion and Offering to be-
head any official designated by the
powers for punishment. Instead of
gaming these men and making an end
of it, the foreign ministers, each one OF
whom apparently has special grudge
against one or more Chinese officials,
are still haggliDg over the list and ex.
pressing dissatisfaction that Cnina's
blood Offering is not more extensive.
Already four or five of the chief mobiles
of China have committed suicide or
lied under circumstance that look like
self-iDAicted punishment to escape the
digrace of public execution.
Two of the principal cities of Asia,
Pekin and Tientsin, have been destroy
ID. besides q number OF smaller ones.
Loot to the extent OF many millions oil
dollars has been taken, twenty China
men have been killed for every one
foreigner, and at least against the Rus
slams the charge can be brought that
hundreds of Chinese women have beeh
violated. The reprissls already taken
have been exceptionally severe, and, in
the opinion OF state department officials,
the Christian world is in more serious
danger OF making itself ridiculous by
demands for more heads. In the mean
time, China is practically in a state of
anarchy and the danger from this will.
it is believed here, increase because of
the delay on the part of the foreign
ENJOYS at Pekin 10 formulating
their demands. The State depart
ment here believes that full meas
ure of punishment should be melted out
to those prominent in melting the anti
foreign outrages, but it also believes
that justice should be tempered with
moderation and Christian spirit, and
that personal grudges should not be al.
lowed to cause wholesale decapitation
OF great and small on the mere sus.
p'cion that they were engaged 10 abet.
ting the disturbances. 1t is probable
That Minister Conger will be, il he has
not already been, INSTRUCTED to use his
influence to conine the demands OF his
fellow ministers to the punishment of
the principals who have already been
named, with Prince Tuan at the head,
and to oppose the lengtheuing OF the
list. Some days ago from several dit.