Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
,..,.ndonce Of the Alexapdria Gazette. ]

fCorrespondence OF the Alexandria esseste'I
Washington. October 30.
Fair progress is being made In Pekln
towards the establishment OF basis
for the peace negotiations between
China and the powers. The diplomat
IL conservatives of the latter are rap
;dlv reaching an agreement as to the
demands that shall be made on the Chi
nese government. The latest dispatch
90 are to the effect that they have unan-
imously decided to demand the execu-
ton of Prioce Tuan and OF the otner
prioces, dukes and officials who were
named for punishment 10 the imperial
edict OF September %. Other requisi-
tions upon China are for indemniiies TO
individuals, societies, corporations ana
governments for injuries suffered, ana
adequate guarantees for the safety
OF foreigners in Chine 10 the future.
On the other hand the Chinese plenipo'
tentiaries have offered, 1t is said, 10
pay to the powers indemnities amount
log to 100000, 900 10 60 installments
and to turn over to foreign control the
"likip.n or internal revenue system,
and the customs service until this sum
il paid. They also propose that Prince
ruan shall be imprisoned for lie, IN
stead of being beheaded as the powers
demand, and that punishments ranging
rom decapitatlon to life imprisonment
shall be meted out to the other OIL
tenders named by the foreign ENJOYS.
Thew offer to make Tientsin an inter-
national district and TO open other
places to foreign trade, and promise
That China shall abstain from the i'm E
portstion of foreign arms and ammunl'
ton. These Chinese offers OF repara'
ton. it is said at the State Department,
nearly meet all the demands made by
the powers.
The Census Bureau today announced
the population OF the United States as
| 76. 295, 220, according to the returns oil
! the twelfth census. This is an increase
over 1890 OF Is, 225, AGA or nearly q pei
cent. The population OF Virginia 10
1900 is ], 1854, lS4, as against 1,655,sSO IN
1890. -,
Prominent democrats from North
Carolina here say the contest before the
| primaries for the election OF democra
| tic 10. 81 Senator to succeed Marion
| Butler, the populist, is assuming very
interesting phase. There are now only
TWO candidates, Simmons, chairman Of
the state committee, and General Julian
Carr, OF Durham, one OF the best known
bu siness men iD this country, in bank
| ing. manufacturing and industrial cir
Giles. He is also prominent and popu
lar ex- Confederate and has their undi'
4 yided support in his candidacy
| A poll of 123 .Confederates in the
| District of Columbia from North Caro-
lima, as to how they stood for Senator
showed that Carr was the choice OF l22
Not only are the army and navy to
be greatly increased, but the marine
CORPS also, as its commander, in his an
nual report, says the service required o
II now demands at least ten thousand
men.
At the brokers' offices here today
stocks are quoted strong, and wheat
corn and cotton as steady.
| Mr.. Thomas AyleIte Yates, who be
fore the railroad reached the White
Sulphur Springs, was famous stage
driver to that place, and afterwards be
came a we'll known, liked and popula
sporting man there, and in this city
died here yesterday afternoon after
long illness. He was from Albemarl'
county, Virginia, and owned farm
there.
To show that something Is up will
the negroes, it is only necessary to stat
that one of them, rich sporting mai
OF this city, has sent g 500 to New
York to bet on Bryan, at the odds re
ported TO be given there.
Mr.. Bryan says Mr.. Governs fgh
against him is not the result OF his ex
pressed objection TO monomentalisn
and expansion, but because of bis lonl
standing, permanent end determines
opposition TO government by Injunction
People from New York State her
today say the uncivil treatment Gov
Roosevelt and Senator Depew receives
here yesterday is the strongest indica
ZION that has yet been seen that the re
publicans have lost that State, ss tn
men who interrupted them never woult
have dared to do so If they had no
been satisfied that the crowd was wit
them.
1t is said at democratic besdquarter
mere that ex-PresideBt Cleveland
right when he says it looks like land
slide for Bryan; and that such Slid
mas long been anticipated, as tb
trusts, the anti-Boer. the unnecessar
wars, the British alliance and imperial
stic policy of the administration, tn
} course pursued by Roosevelt 10 sayin
the mechanics of the cities and the sma
farmers of the country are not TO 0
mentioned 10 the same breath with hl
rowdy cowboys, the assumption, OF To
, plutocratic parvenus, and the comDina
ton of the wealthy against the poo
classes, have set the latter, all over tn
country, against them, and that thel
resentment will be manifested mex
Tuesday.
1t is currently reported here, on the allege
authority of General Edgar Allan OF Kicl
mond. that Ex-Governor OFerrsll OF Virgin
will not only vote for Mckinley but for hin
Allan, also. People here who know the o.
Governor say the report is 80 strange Uni
they cannot credit 1t.
lsMR. BRYAN TO MR.. COWEN.
, Mr.. w. J. Bryan yesterday telegraph
ed as follows from Marlboro Depot, \
Y. to the Baltimore Sun:
uaya raad vour teleo am ouoting threat