Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-24
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gasctte.
Washington. November "a.

ington.
In response to a published statement
todav that Senator Hanna might re-
taIiate for the opposition of Chairman
Burton, OF the House committee on
rivers aud harbors, to the subsidy Dlii
by having the river and harbor Dill
held up 10 the Senate. and that he
said that 10 opposing the subsidy bill
Mr.. Burton was MOI in line with MS
party. Mr.. Burton says: "Weli, he'll
nave a nice time holding up the river
and barber bill in the Sen tie. and lei
us wait awhile and see what the party
policy will be. Perhaps the bill may be
amended go that can support 1t, but L
do not think So"
The police have arrested four card
monte man, who gave the name oil
Robert King, and is supposed to he o
western crook. King with several
Others, has been working the city for
the past week. He refuses to talk and
the police are now trying to Identity
him.
The population of Kansas was an
nouuced by the Census today to he
470. 495, and that o. Nevada as AZ $50
| This is decrease OF 3,426 for or IA
| per cent.
The belief which officials of the State
department have expressed this sssocis-
ton during the last few days that q
war against the whole of China, the
CONSEQUENT ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
Empire and the arousing of interna
tional jealousies, were threatened be-
cause OF the ,angle into which the
Pekin conveys have thrown the pesct
negotiations, has induced the admins
tration to Try to take action to avert the
menscsd danger.
Tue Virgins democratic association
of this city met last night, admitte'
TWO new m-mbes and made arrang' =
ments for tneir annual Racquet. They
are well satisfied with thir work il
their State and Will keep up their Or
ganization and strengthen 1t for 1904
Judge Yarrell, Of Greenesville county,
Virginia, but who lives here and 10
Alexandria county OF that State, has
taken charge of the case of Mrs. May.
brick, now in an English prison for life,
for poisoning her husband, and wi !, it
is said rtquest the President 10 submit
a petition for her discharge to his new
ally, 10 British government.
The indications today are that Mr..
Hsnna's pet echeme, the ship subsidy
bill, will have to 60 over to the next
session, as his own party cannot be
united 10 its support.
The report OF The Isthmian canal
commission has been made public. 1t
recommends the Nicaragua route,
though that is $50 miles long, with no
good natural port at either end, and its
minimum cost is Sl20,000,000. The
shorter and better Panama route,
though partly built, was not considered
for the reason that its proprietors,
knowing they have good thing, will
not sell it, and are confident that even
if the Nicaragua canal will ever be
completed, all the ships will use theirs.
Stocks, cotton, wheat and corn were
each and all quoted as steady at the
brokers' Offices here today.
Lumber men here discreet. the re-
port of the formation of a lumber
trust in Virginia, Maryland, West Vir.
GINA and North Carolina, and sly
there ere too many small saw mills for
such trust to succeed.
Mr.. J. L. Jeffries, of Culpeper, was
here yesterday. He is candidate for
Attorney General of Virginia, and, his
friends say, has the inside tract for the
nomination.
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
George w. Wilson, is critically i'll at
his home.
People here from Richmond say they
place no reliance in the report that
General Allan, U. S. attorney for the
eastern district OF Virginia, will be re-
| moved. There is no doubt that the
relations between him and Judge Wad.
dill are strained, because the Judge did
not give him warm support in his late
campaign for Congress, but ss the
Judge had him appointed, it Is, they
say, hardly probable that he will
now have him removed, though it is
not denied that be could. ifso disposed.
Now that Mr.. Mckinley has been re.elect-
ed, be can afford to tieat Mr. Hanna as ha
chooses, and therefore though the latter is
1 WfCL0 hBhlUct Xud1f hhO iV"tuOht
prorn sed to tn, low the whole weight of the
administration in favor OF the plumtree
shaker.
General Epps Bunton Of Virginia, though
seventy. six years old, was here this week
| and argued u case before tho Court OF Claims
| with the force ami ability that would have
| done credit to younger man. Ee deeply re-
| grets the defeat Of Mr.. Bryan, who, he says,
Is the greatest man mentally, morally and
physically now in the country.
Large crowds both Of men and women,
continue to attend the BenniDgs races, which
| will last two weeks longer. Though the
t sck st Chesapeake Peach has been outlaved
by the National Jockey Club, it is said by
some OF the race men here that when the
season at BenninRs shall Gloss many OF the
horses now here will run there
The brewers all lover the country are be-
ginning to feel like holding up their coat tails
| to BE- kicked. They supported Mr.. Mckinley
on the implied promise that the republican
party would look after their interest, but the
republican ways and means committee Of the
House hiss agreed upon their tax bill, but
have not reduced the beer tax.
Drop I'm Corn.