Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-28
FhUM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
Washington, September %.


Washington. September %.
The following dispatch was received
from Gen. Macarthur: Capt. Devereaux
Shields, 81 men, Company f, 29th Regi-
ment U. 5. Volunteer Infantry, hos
pital corps man left Santa Cruz, Marin
duque, by guuboat Vilalodoo for Por
RIGGS intending return overland Santa
Cruz. Have heard nothing since from
Shields. Scarcely doubt entire party
captured with many killed, wounded;
Shields among latter. Information
sent by letter from commanding officer
Roac, dated september 20, received
september "a. consisted OF rumors
through natives. Yorktown and two
guuboats, George s. Anderson, Colonel
Ssh Volunteer Infantry; two COM
panies 18th Volunteer Infantry; sent
Martinique Immediately. Anderson
confirms fret report as to capture, but
unable, September q, to give details
present whereabouts Shields and party
or names killed and wounded. This
Information probably available soon,
Anderson has orders commence opera
tions Immediately and more vigorously
until Shields and party rescued. All
troops expected soon. Logan will be
sent Martinique if necessary to clear
up situation.
This dispatch Is Interpreted at the
War department ss merely another in
dcation of the general character of the
uprising of the insurgents In the Phil
ippines. No Information as to the ex-
tent of the insurrection hae yet been
gained but it is feared that it will ne
cessitate another winter OF campaign.
Jog as the insurgents appear to be I'M
usually active.
Governor Thomas OF Colorado tele-
graphs that the demonstration OF Vic
tor, 10 that State was not against Gov.
ernor Roosevelt, but Senator Wolcott,
who is very Objectionable in the mining
camps and was not as censurable as
that against Mr.. Br= an 10 New Haven,
Connecticut, four y ,ars ago.
The news from Illinois at democratic
headquarters today Is to the effect that
That State is daily becoming more and
more certain to vote for Bryan, as the
trend of feeling there Is evide atty that
way, the working men and poor people
having become possessed of the idea
hat this is fight OF the rich against
the poor, and that the only hope of the
latter lies ia success next November.
at the brokers' offices here today
stocks, cotton, and wheat and corn
were all quoted as weak.
;o,all;uaat larro- II kL:.
who spent this and last month 10 New
York, says the democrats there are
,ure they will carry that State, and are
confident their majority in the city will
be one hundred thousand. He says
hat from the Battery to 59th street |
Bryan flags are never out of sight, and |
d hat though that fact doesn't prove any |
thing, such flags show the way the |
wind is blowing. He also says that
while he wss at the Hoffman House In |
New York a day or two ago an ac-
q sintance came down from democratic |
h headquarters and said he didn't know
what the news was they had up there,
but that it was good, he was sure, for
hs had seen Senator Jones, ex-senator
German and one or two other old men
nugging each other and dancing a Jig |
there.
At tonight's meeting OF the Virginia
democratic association of this city,
speeches will be made by Messrs. A. S.
Douglass and E. Hilton Jackson, OF
Virginia, both OF whom praoticed law
here.
Working men here say that while
the necessities OF the striking coal
miners will induce them to accept the
terms allowed by the operators at
the demand of Mr.. Hanna, they know
the object of the concession is to in
duce them to vote for Mckinley, but
that they will act upon the idea that in
vain is the trap set in the sight OF any
bird.
Ex-Cougressman Anderson, of West
Virginia, says his State is certain TO 90
for Bryan, as the working men there
have determined to stand by their fell.
low workmen in the other States. and
though there Is no doubt that the re-
puolicans have imported thousands of
negroes, many OF them ex con yicts. from
the Southern States, every one of them
has been noted and will not be allowed
10 vote on election day. He says that