Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-03

will take all severe cases. Launch and
boats have returned" ,.
The War department today received
a dispatch from Gen. Mac Arthur,atma-
Mia. about the fight with the insurgents
in Rohol. which resulted in considerable
loss of life. The dispatch follows: Gen.
Hughes reports outbreak In Bohol. LIST
Lent Levack, 44th Vol. Infantry, re-
ports engagement near Carmen, Bohol;
our loss in killed one, wounded six.
Enemy's loss in killed 12O. Have not
received further details.
The President has declined the invi-
tationSof the citizens OF New Hamp.
shire to participate 10 the exercises in
connection with the presentation 20 the
Kearssrge and Alabama Of the bronze
tablets commemorative of the histori-
cal conflict which was waged between
the two original vessels OF the same
names. Senator Chandler called at the
White House today and urged the at
tendance of the President on the occa-
sion. which is September Is. but Mr..
Mckinley said it would be impossible
for him to he present.
At democratic headquarters today
everything was quiet and placid. Mr..
Richardson has returned from New
York and reports everything there as
favorable. not only in that State, but 10
the whole North, that all opposed TO
trusts and imperialism are pulling to-
oether. and that as Mr.. Gorham says,
the States that will vote for Mckinley
are few and far between. AT republi
can headquarters everything seemed to
be listless, if not entirely dead.
Senator Daniel will attend the Con-
feders,e reunion al Fairfax Courthouse,
Virginia, on the 18th inst. He will al.
80 speak at Gainesville on the 10th, and
is expected to address the Virginia
democratic association of this city on
the night OF the 18th.
The democratic campaign book will
be ready for distribution tomorrow. Its
price will be twenty five cents.
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky Is
here today. He says sffsirs have about
resumed their normal condition In his
State and will probably remain 30; that
the election law will very likely be
made to conform to the Ohio law, and
that the State is certain to cast her
electoral vote for Bryan.
A New York republican now here,
a man of affairs, says that he aud whole
loads of other republicans have grown
tired of Mr.. Hanna. He and they are
opposed to free silver and don't object
to com binations of capital, but that
thew believe if imperialism goes on
much longer the name as we'll as the
present system of government, will be
changed and everything be ruined, as
though the trusts are not wrong In
themselves, their influence upon Mr..
Mckinley is exerted wrongfully.
People from West Virginia, here to-
day, say the prospects OF democratic
success there are so favorable that
Senator Elkins is already talking about
not being a candidate for reelection.
A local republican politician here told
a democrat acquaintance today that the
phenomenal prosperity existing every
where would be sufficient of itself alone
to secure the re election of the Pres.
dent; but when that democrat replied
that he was sorry to hear him
talk so, as it implied that he was only
three weeks from the soup counter,
he smiled and acknowledged that there
was more truth that poetry 10 what he
said.
All the brokers' offices here were
closed today, so there were no stock or
grain quotations.
This being labor day. is national holiday
! and is pretty generally observed as such, all
| the public, Government and District, and
most Of the private offices and many of tie
stores being closed, and the business streets as
well as the others being comparatively de-
serted. The Government employees, are of
course, paid for the day, but private employees
are not, and to them the day means day
lost wages which will never be m,de up.
The St. Asaph pooling room was crowded and
many of the working men who went there
spent in the barIoom and lost on races, more
than their wages during the rest of the week.
But they had their labor day.
Congressman Jones OF Virginia passed
through here this morning for Spotsylvania
Court House, where he i. booked to speak to-
day. He has engagements to speak at Rich.
mond and Baltimore.
The Commonwealth Attorney OF Alexsn-
dria county was here today aud took the
ante .mortem testimony of Conroy, the man
cut at Jackson City Saturday night by Gam
bic, an old gambler of this city He says
no clue has yet been discovered TO the negro
miscresnts who made the recent murderous
attack upon the station keeper at Arlington
junction on the Mt. Vernon electric railway.
General Macarthur at Manils cables the
War Department this morning ss follows:
Capt George H. Bently 47th volunteer in
fsntry, died 9:55 on the morning Of August 26
from wounds received near Csmalig Luzon,
August 81. Second Lieut. Roy L. Fornsld,
26th volunteer infantry, drowned in Jslsur
river near Pototan, Psnay, September 1.
Have not recovered body" Capt. Bently
was native of Pulaski county, Va. He en-
tered the service as first lieutenant, 2nd Vir.
ginia volunteers April %. 1899 and was sp-
pointed captain 47th U S. volunteers August
II, 1899. He went to the Philippines with