Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-05

Queer 10 the future" he says. MANY
pumping plants on the beach barely
paid wages during the season. Inc
beach produced all told from S2oO,ooo
to $500 900 during the year. Half the
gold dust handled in Nome really
producer 10 The district and the
| one that PROMISES most for the future
comes from Dawson. The richest
is Anvil Creek"
The Board of Visitors to west foint
for 1900 has submitted its report. The
Board js organized with Gea. Charles
F. MapdersoD as President, Dol. Dud-
lev Evans and Prof. David F. Houston
Vice Presidents and Col William Z.
Church, Secretary. The Board recon-
mends that the rules requiring
800 deposit from each enter
ing cadet be rigidly enforced, and
the cadets pay be increased to that OF
the cadets at Annapolis $500 per year,
add the daily ration. The report en-
phasizes the necessity of increasing the
numerical strength Of the cadet corps,
and suggests the establishment OF per
manent BOARD with continuing mem
| Dership to which may be referred all
matters relating to general direction
| OF rhe academy.
The republicans here have been
made irritable by their dread OF Bryan's
election, which they fear is becoming
more and more apparent as November
! approaches, and some of them here not
only call the democratic leader a crank,
but TRAITOR" OF course this is nuts
for the democrats.
Intelligent workingmen here say they
know their rich employers are all IL
favor of Mckinley, and that they, the
!aborers referred to, dare not say they
are not, too, but that with few eXcep-
ions all their votes will be for Bryan,
Who has always been poor man him
self and they believe sympsthizes with
poor people, and is opposed to the
trusts which while they increase the
cost of d mans living, decrease the
| amount OF his wages.
A good number Of cases of remittent
fever here have been allowed TO get in
TO what is termed Typhoid" large or
low stag ,and some ofsuch patients have
died, buI skilliul physicians say they
were not cases of real typhoid fever,
which Is disease endemic in piedmont,
but not in tidewater regions.
Mr.. John Kunzler, president OF
the American Flint Glass Work
ers' Union, explained to the industrial
commission today the plan under
which the glass blowers were amalga-
mated. There are ten thousand men
Ia this union whose average wages are
$12 so per week. Each branch OF the
union makes yearly contract with the
employers for wage scale. Tha Cen.
trail Union has a fund OF $4,000 on
which to draw In case of strikes. Wit
ness said he thh5ught compulsory arbi-
tration gould not be affective unless
proper legislation was enacted, which
, would be acceptable to labor.
There is a great deal OF talk today
among the Southern colony here about
he unanimous adoption at the Union
Veterans Union reception at the Riggs
House last night, of resolution against
any more blending of the Union and
Confederate flags, as an "untimely at
tempt to harmonic adverse princi.
pies" and, as the organization referred
to IL for Mckinley, the ex-Confederstes
who advocate his re election receive no
little ceDsure.
People from Pennsylvania here to-
day say that ex-senator Quay, who
didn't 'shake the plum tree" will be
reelected, and will receive much dem.
ocratic support for the reasons that he
is opposed to Mr.. Hanna, who voted
against his admission, and that go
many of theEonce democrats of their
State have deserted their party and be-
come goldites and imperialists.
| At democratic headquarters here to-
day it is said that intelligent Germans
of Indiana, well.informed of the condi-
ton of political affairs in their State,
say that seventy five per cent. of the
Germans there will vote for Bryan; that
bets have been made in Cleveland, o.,
that that city will give Bryan ten thou
sand majority, though 1t gave McKin-
ley seven thousand, and that, Mr.. Man
ley's estimate to the contrary, Mr.. II.
G. Payne, also of the national republi-
can committee, only gives Mr.. Nc.
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votes. 1t is also said there that Con.
gresham Rhea of Virginia has been
supplied with the campaign literature
he asked for, but that whether the
Postoffice Department will attend to it's
proper distribution, cannot be told.
While at the Metropolitan Hotel this
morning the owner a good deal of real
estate here on Pennsylvania avenue
said the rents he received from it were
nothing like what they used to be:
business man with whom he was talk.
ing said he had lost four thousand dol
lars during the Mckinley administra.
ton, and another one said his son had
| Just failed for large amount and with
comparatively no assets, and all three
| ofthem agreed that none Of all their ao
quaintsnces had experienced any of
the prosperity of which the republican
press pirates so much.
| Pinchbsck, the negro pool room at
tendant, of this city, now, but who in re-
construction times was lieutenant gov
ernor of Louisiana, with negro bishop
named Derrick, called at republican
headquarters 10 New York yesterday,
to protest against the Acknowledgement
of negroes in the South.
The southside fire station at Wal
than, Mass. was destroyed by fire this
morning. The fire resulted 10 the loss
of seven trained horses, injuries to ali
men who occupied the building and a
financial loss of $4,000. The cause OF
the fire is given as spontaneous combus-
ton. The fremen, who were asleep at
| tho Tina ha &C.