Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington. June Is.

House this morning and had their pic
lures taken at a Pennsylvania avenue
photograph gallery. The President mas
been photographed many times during
the last wear but the photographers VINO
have posed him invariably complained
of the poor light in the apartment. lo
order to get the best effect he decided
TO go TO gallery.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices OF Virginia were made
today BrooL ewood, Augusta county,
| samuel G.. HeDkel appointed postmas-
ter. vice f. Il. Brooke, resigned; Rose
Bower, Appomattox county, Dora
Staufier, vice S. w. Harvey. dead;
Troutyiile, Botetourt county, George
w. Landers, vice NJ. o. Beckner, re-
moved; Walls Bridge, Surry county,
Mile K Wilkinson, vice 5. a. WIKI
SOD, dead. g,
The War Department has received
word of the death from typhoid fever
of First Lieutenant Cilley, OF the 43rd
infantry in hospital at Manila. Cllley
was descendant of former Represent
alive Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, who
was killed in the famous rifle duel with
Representative Graves, of Kentucky,
near Goodhope, Nd, more than fifty
years ago.
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, has
addressed a letter through the state
Department to her new ally, the Presi'
dent, notifying him Of the birth OF a
prince, son of his royal highness the
Duke of York.
The executive council OF the Pan
American republics held meeting
this morning at the State Department,
the representatives OF each country be-
ing present with the exception OF that
of Brazil. IL was cided by vote OF
u TO 2 to hold the next international
conference OF the republics in the City
Of Mexico. Two ofthe delegates voted
in favor of holding it at Buenos Ayres.
Ex- Representative W. D. Bynum will
be given a commissionership within
day or 80 by the President to sssuage
| mis- grief for his failure to get the New
York appraisership. There are vscan-
cies upon the codifying and Gillian
commission and it was limited at the
White House that Mr.. Byum might fall
| into either. 1t is believed that his
friends are bringing all the pressure they
can to bear upon the President to give
| Mr. Bynum place ia the codifiug COM
mission. The Gillian commission will
| only be in existence six months, which
makes 1t less desirable.
After General Otis shsll return from
| the national ovation to be given him IN
/ Rochester, the President and Mrs. Nc
| Kinley will give him grand reception
at the White House. Military and ma.
val heroes, no matter how they become
such, ere made much OF by the present
| administration.
Free passes to Philadelphia and
| Kansas City are now in dema I'd here,
lot only by people want to go to those
tiles as visitors during the political
conventions, but even by delegates and
lternstes to them, and they are re-
sorting to every conceivable scheme by
| which 10 attain their object, but many
# them, to tceir sorrow, find that they
must pay for their tickets as other
passengers do.
A gas expert here today says city
| Of the size OF Alexandria Can have q
plant large enough TO supply it with oil
| he gas 1t Can consume for ten thousand
dollars, the gas to be made of oil, and
| much better and more wholesome and
much cheaper than coal gas, and that
such plants are being erected In various
parts of the country.
An old real estate owner here, talk
| ing today about the newspaper reports
If tle all-prevadlng prosperity of the
country, said it did not prevail here, &C.
cOrding to bis own experience and that
of all bis acquaintance in this city, and
that he could not believe those reports,
~, If all the other parts of the country
we're prosperous, certainly its capital
would be. He says his rents are not
nai what they used to be and are not
now seventy five per cent. OF what they
were even two years ago, and that, too,
though his houses are on the north side
If Pennsylvania avenue.
Colonel Dudley, of blocks OF five
fame, and counsel for ex-Congressman
Walker, OF Virginia, in his unsuccessful
CO atest for Judge Rhea's seat In Con-
gress from Virginia, says the republi-
can Presidential ticket has been de.
termDed, and that it will be Mckinley
aud Dolliver. and that the democratic
ticket will be Bryan and Dewey.
democratic ex-Congressman from Vir.
ginia, a young looking man, now here, said
Olsy he never denied his age. as some men
10, for if ho were proud of anything, it was
the fact that he had fought as a private in
toe Confederate army. and he doesn't want
people to doubt him, as he does when
some men tell him they too are OF. Confeder.
ates The war, he says, commenced thirty.
nine years ago, and he gives wide berth to
people not more than fifty Two or three who
pose ~ having been officers in the Confeder-
ate army, as the Confederate government
hal too much at stake TO be making officers
of boys thirteen or fourteen years of age.
The latest dispatches from Minister Conger
Indicate that the foreign troops have not yet
reached Pekin but are progressing 10 that
direction. Che State Department believes
that when they reach there they will be fully
able to protect the lives and property OF the
numerous foreigners residing Ia that city and
it may be possible to organize expeditions to
proceed from there TO the rescue of isolated
parties OF missionaries and others in northern
China tnat are now understood TO be suffering
from the attacks of the Boxers. The State De-
partment has no information in regard to the
alleged outbreak near Chefoo, in the Shan
tung peninsula, where missionaries are said to
have been attacked yesterday. Neither will
the department admit that 1t has received
any word Of the desire of Russia to act en-
tirely in concert with the powers and
without any uteror object OF the scqui-
sitiion of territory in China. Mr.. Mo.
reno, a prominent Italian of this city,
hss received letter from intelligent friends
in China, to the effect that the government
and public of that country know and feel
that they are as fully able to quell the mob
here as those Of this country are to suppress
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