Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-26

hsck to that city this evening by detec-
t;va who was sent for him. The crime
with which he is charged is the sale OF
a commercial secret with which ne nad
heen entrusted, and Georgia Is the only
state in which such an act is 30 con-
strued.
In. Richmond Pearson Hobson call
ed at the Navy department this morn
ING for the purpose of obtaining il posi-
Die an easy post temporarily. His eyes
are weakening and rest is necessary to
save him from total blindness. 10 ref
erence to his reported interview at
Vancouver he said wrong impression
had been spread abroad. SIT appeared
that | intended to belittle Admiral
Dswey's victory" he said, "but this
cannot be belittled My statement
was that Dewey's guns did not sink
Montejo's feet but it did force the
Spanish to sink them. was merely
repeating newly discovered fact that
it is impossible to sink q modern war
vessel in calm and by direct fire: 1 DO
not refer to torpedoes and the explosion
of magazines but mean rifle pro,
jectile eau 90 through a vessei arc
leave the null below the water line IN
tact. Ga d rough sea a lurch OF tne
vessel NAV send it TO the bottom" L''
Ho son will remain here until Satur-
dsy before returning to New YORK.
4 well.informed and intelligent DEM
ocratic politician from Virginia, mere
TODAY. saws nobody there seems 10 De
much interested in politics now, all
having settled into the belief that the
state will give her usual democratic
majority and that the democrats OF the
North will have to look out for thei'
own States. About the proposed con-
stitutional convention, he says nothing
will be done with it until after the
Presidential election, and possibly net
until the next regular session OF the
Legislature.
At the brokers' offices here today
stocks and wheat and corn we're all
quoted as strong, but cotton as weak
The Kentucky democrats In this city,
while grati6ed that Howard, the man
who fred the shot that killed Governor
Goebel. has been convicted and SEN
fenced to be hanged. regret that
Governor Mount, of Indiana, has not
been impeached for refusing to surren-
der Taylor, the man chiefly responsible
for the murder, to the Kentucky au-
thorities, so that he, too, may get bis de-
seris.
Most of the people OF this city, men
and women, who went to the seaside or
mountain resorts for the summer, have
returned, and many OF them In worse
physical, let alone pecuniary condition,
than when they went away, and some
of them with "a declared intention oil
staying home next summer.
There is no doubt that the repuoi
cans here and those who come here are
very much alarmed at the present un-
favorable prospects of their party, and
that they are becoming more so every
dsy. They are resortiDg to every
known means to gain their end, and
are devising new ones, but, with,all that,
some of them in private conversation
with their friends, confess that the ind.
cations are "ominous of id bad
sign."
Senator Scott Of West Virginia
thou b Mr.. w. II. Fairless OF Ports
mouth, Virginia, was, il he is not now
opposed to the republican committee o.
his own state, has engaged him, al
good wages, to speak to the laborine
men OF New York, at many points In
that State. Republicans who know
| the relations that exist between MIR
Scott aud the Virginia committee, and
| bet that committee and Mr.. Fair
less, are q little surprised that Mr.. Scott
should have engaged the latter's SER
vices for the New York campaign.
Gen. Chsffee wires the War Depart
ment from Pekin as follows: LEA Je
for Tieptsin this afternoon. Will be
absent few days. Gen. Wilson remains
here. Ii Lung Chang at Tientsin.
Understand start here soon. Have Of.
tered him escort; declined. Country
very quiet; good order in Pekin."
The national army of Spanish War
Veterans today elected the following
officers for the ensuing year. Com
mander-in. Chief, Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles; Senior Vice Commsnder-in.C Chief,
James H. Tillman, of South Carolina;
Junior Vice COMMANDMENT Chief, W.
n. Hubbell, of New York; Inspector
General. Colonel F. II. Harrington, U.
s. M. c.; Judge Advocate General, Ma
ior Charles K. Miller, OF Ohio; Surgeon
General, 8. Clifford Cox, q. 8. N, and
SDousor. Miss Clara Barton, of District
OF Columbia.
The War department received a dis
patch from Havana this morning stat
ing that Acting Assistant Surgeon Jesse
W. Lazear died with yellow fever Sep
TENDER %.
A delegation OF the &. A. g., passing the
Agricultural Department and observing that
old U. S. flags were being used by some house
painters employed there, as screens, reported
that fact to Secretary Wilson, and when he
asked them what other use the worn ont
! flags could be put to, they told him, to make
| winding sheet, for dead soldiers. Since that
time no old more fags have been used by the
painters, but an unusual number Of new flags
have been bought for the department, and
many members OF the G. A. T., who had been
discharged from that department, have been
re-instated.
When Senator Plat of New York came here
the other day he went to all the departments,
old all the acting chiefs thereof that his
State was uncertain, that the republicans
there needed, and needed badly, every one OF
their voters, and that if those in the depart.
ments hadn't the money TO pay their way
there and back the departments should sup
ply them with the requisite amount. He
was assured that his demand would be com.
piled with.
The following changes in the fourth-class
postofices Of Virginia we're made today; In.
man, Wise county, Joseph Virgin, appointed
postmaster, vice q. E. +. Burnley, resigned;
Jane, Dickinson county, Napoleon B. Colley,