Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-01

ready laid down the principle that II
will not negotiate with any one wbt
was responsible in any degree for thu
assaults. Yuog Lu is therefore not &C
ceptible and Minister Conger will be In
structed to protest against his appoint
ment ss one of the negotiators.
Another dispatch from Gen. Chaffe,
to the War department reads as follows
The 9th Infantry, 3rd Squadron OF 7th
Cavalry and light battery will consti
tute legation guard.
Officials here deny the statemen
cabled here from Tientsin that Gen
Chaffee is preparing to take part in thu
proposed expedition to Shan-hai-Kwar
by assigning battalion OF marines tC
tile expedition. Secretary of the
Navy Long says that would be 10 direct
opposition to the spirit OF the instruc
lions that have been sent both to Chat
fee and to Admiral Remey. These
we're that all the military forces OF the
United States, including the marines
are to be Withdrawn from China at once
with the exception OF the legation
guard that is TO remain in Pekin
That Chsfiee has received his
instructions is acknowledged by him
in his dispatch to the War department
this morning, 10 which he designates
the constituent parts that are to
compose the foreign legation guard.
These are the Ninth infantry, under
Colonel Daggett, the Third squadron OF
the Sixth cavalry. and Reilly's light
battery. The others are being pre-.
pared for withdrawal as rapidly as pos
sible. Under these circumstances it is
not believed that Chafles intends to
take any part in the expedition to Shan
Ha-Kwan.
President Gompers, of the American
| Federation Of Labor, said this morning,
when asked mis- opinion of the move
of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
Company in Offering 10 per cent. ad-
vance 10 wa es to returning miners,
said: ~ consider the action of the
Philadelphia and Reading Company in
offering az increase, while they at the
same time refuse to acknowledge the
existence of the United Mine Workers
OF America as an an organization, d
most uDwise move. This organization
is affiliated with the American Fedora
lion of Labor. 1t was as body that
they made the demand upon the opera
tors, and it must be that body as an or
ganization which demands recognition.
The action of the operators in ignoring
his fact, and coupling it with an offer
of increased pay, is i'll advised. 1t will
probably be found that the organized
body will remain true to it's first princi-
ples."
Lewis A. Yorke, a retired paymaster
of the navy living here.was arrested to-
day on warrant charging him with
false pretenses. A fashionable dressma-
ker is the complaining witness and the
warrant alleges that on the statement
he made that be was an officer of the
navy, he secured goods from her to the
amount of 1922. The police, admitting
that he is a retired officer, say that be
represented himself as an officer in
service. Mr.. YorKe furnished bond
and the case will be heard in the police
court tomorrow morning.
1t is said here that Senator Elkins is
so alarmed about his State that he has
imDortuned ex-President Harrison, of
whose cabinet he was q member, to
come to his assistance, and that to help
him 10 his hour OF extremity, Mr.. Hsrri-
son has agreed to change his determine
ton to take no part In the present
campaign, and has promised to 60 to
West Virginia and do what he can fol-
aim.
at democratic headquarters here, to-
day, it is said that the fact that the
Philadelphia Times has at last declared
n favor of Bryan, though it is owned
by republicans, shows that even in that
ultra republican city, with its immense
republican majority, the trend of public
feeling is toward Bryan, and that the
Times has had its ear to the ground.
At the brokers' offices here today
stocks, cotton, and wheat and corn
were all quoted as strong.
A pension OF IS a month has been
granted to Anna Z. Atkinson, of Pur.
cellville, Virginia.
The labor people here sly that the
workingmen's political union OF New
York expressed the sentiment OF the ma
jority of their friends last SATURDAY. night
when they declared that the interior
ence of Mark Hanna in the case OF the
strikers miners is solely "for the purpose
OF obtaining an increased labor vote.
and we firmly believe that if his efforts
nre successful it will be but short time
after the coming election when the re-
publican trusts will renew their hos
ility toward labor and precipitate other
troubles or strikes" Dispatches re-
ceived here today from the mining re-
gions are to the effect that though the |
mine owners were ready TO resume |
operations this morning the miners
i'd not 60 to work.
People from Leesburg here today ssy
Congressman Rixey will speak there
Dext Monday and Mr.. @. @. Carlin of
Alexandria, on Friday, the 18th inst.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices of Virginia were made
today: Experiment, Amherst county.
L. b. Peasants appointed postmaster,
vice ID. :. Turner, resigned; Shellville,
Montgomery county, II. A. Kiester.
vice M. E. Keister, resigned; Stratton.
Dickinson county, n, g. Sutherland
vice ID. b. K. Sutherland, resigned.
Congressman Myer Of New Orle ans ia here
odsy, 90 his way home from New York. He
avs the democrats of his State are now In
,cod condition and will elect democrat in
very one of the six Congressional districts
# that state at the coming election. The
democrats Of New York, he says, are conf.
ent of carrying their State.
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