Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-08-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
ICorre spoudence of the Alexsndris Gazette.
Washington. August IS.

Washington, August Is.
Brigadier-General Barry cables his
arrival at Taku and his intention to 60
to the front Immediately and also cor
roborates the taking Of Pekin on the
18TH and the safety of tho legations.
Tho State department has received a
dispatch from Consul General Good
now at Shanghai also confirming the
report of the capture of Pekin on We'd
nesday. Brigsdier-General Barry was
sent from the United States to become
General MacArihur's adjutant general
in the Philippines. When he reached
Nagasak, however, be received WORD
from Washington permitting him to
ioin General Chaffee's command 10 an
unattached position. He sailed on Inc
Sumner With the 10Th Infantry. The
troops that went on the Sumner were
transferred to the Indiana at Nagasaki,
20 that General Barry's dispatch indl'
Gates that the 18th Infantry has reach
ed the scene of action.
Secretary Adee had conference
with the President this morning at
which q dispatch was prepared to seno
tn Minister COnger congrstulsting him
nnon his release from confinement In
the Pekin legation. Another dispatch
was sent to General Chaffee containing
Instructions as to his future line OF
action. II is said at the State Depart
ment that it is yet too early to indicate
by whom and in what manner negotia-
tions will be conducted for the United
States in arranging for reparation Tor
damages and for guarantees for the
future, This phase of the situation 10
still in q formative state. There 10
some difficulty 10 locating Hsian 'tu,
which is said to be the name OF the
Mace 10 which the Emperor and EN-
press have fed. Ii is believed, how
ever, to be the capital Of Shan-si prov,
lnoe about 400 miles from Pekin and
spelled on the map of the War Depart
ment "Thsin fu."
According 10 the returns OF Tue
twelfth census the population oil
BROOKLYN, n. Y, is ,166, 5S2; tho Dor
ough of Queens, 1852 1893; borough OF
Richmond, 67,02l. Total for the three
boroughs, 1,3S6,60 The population
of the boroughs of Manhattan and
Bronx, as made public by the census
bureau on Thursday, is 2,O5O,60O, max
ing the total for the FIVE horoughs Of
Greater New York 8 .437 ,2Oz.
The Cuban teachers arrived In wash
ington this evening. They were met
at the citation by the guides depu'
zed by the reception commit
| tie who escorted them to hotels
After dinner the guides conducted
| hem to the White House, where they
| were received by the President. Fol
lowing this, great portion OF th'
| Darty were taken 30 Glen Echo
Owing to several disappointments II
The schedule Of their arrival here, very
elaborate program that had been arrang
| ed for their entertainment had to bt
changed, and in part abandoned.
The Secretary of Agriculture hal
about twenty men now employed or
that portion of the Arlington reservs
ton that has been set apart for an ag
cultural experimental station In cut
ting of the brush and filing the ravine
and gullies. and getting 1t in condition
| for planting early neEj spring.
Stocks were quoted at the brokers
offices here today as weak, wheat al
weak and corn as strong.
Colonel" Jones, Jersey Jones" h'
was then called, a once notorious Vir
GINA readjuster, who has been here
several days, left this evening fo
Railway, n. j., where, he says, he viii
make speech In which he will repl.
| 20 Mr.. Bryan's recent famous address a
Indianapolis, in accepting the Presi
dental nomination.
Representative w. A. Jones, OF th'
6rst or Fredericksburg, Virginia dis
trict, with his family is expected here, OF
his way to one of the nearby Virginif
springs.
A plank 10 the democratic platform
of four years Rgo that attracted thou
sands OF voters to Mr. Bryan was th'
one in opposition to the civil servic'
humbug. That opposition is as stroni
If not stronger now than ever, aud re
publicans from Maryland, here today
say it will reduce Mr.. McKiDley's vot'
| no little, as the law referred to is,
possible, even more Objectionable Il
republicans than to democrats. They
also say that impsrislispa ie exceeding
ly disagreeable to Maryland reppbli
cans and that it, too, will initiate
against Mr.. Mckinley. At a meeting
| of ant-imperielists in small town II
their State last night, they say, half o
those present were republicans, but 6
resolution was unanimously adopted ir
favor OF Bryan.
A business man from the Vest who arrived
here this morning says that while in Chicago
| he visited the headquarters OF the two politi
cal parties, and that though everything VA
lively and cheerful stIthOse of the democrats
| it was Just the reverse at those of the repub
leans, and that the general tenor Of the talk
| he heard in Chicago was to the effect that the
game this year was the plain people against
the psrvenu plutocrsts and that the former
hold the winning cards.
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