Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-08-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
rCor.espsndsnoe Of the Alexandria Gasetss'J
Washington. August IL.

one who told him eDout ~ es
Iing,on this morning. Admiral BOD
Evans is responsible for the story" SAID
Mrs smith. after she had warned Ad'
no;ral schley TO prepare for the new at
,sck ~ heard yesterday on the very
hast of authority that it will be present
ed at the Court of Inquiry. When l
lid the Admiral about the charge, be
only laughed and said, why, | never
take a drop of anything AFTER the
court OF inquiry gets through with Ad-
miral Schley" continued Mrs. Smith I'VE
re going to boom the home fund again.
think we will be able to get something
more than cold polite replies or silence
from those to whom we write. During
January and February I sent out three
thousand letters asking for subscriptions
of dollar apiece. / cot three replies.
And then when we had an entertain.
meut for the benefit of the fund and had
fifteen hundred people in the audience
we didn't get q dollar. Where the
fifteen hundred admissions went to
oobody knows. 1t didn't reach the
fund. anyway" Admiral Schley and
his attorneys Judge Wilson and Capt.
Parker held another long conference to-
dsy at the Shorehsm. The consulta
ton consumed the entire morning. The
| AdmIral's brief 10 reply to the precept
of the Navy department to the court oil
| inquiry is now rapidly assuming shape
and it is said will be practically com.
pleted by Monday when the Admiral
| and his legal counsel hold their pext
| consultation.
The Treasury department has decld'
ed to deny the contention OF the Porto
r can coffee planters who have de-
mauded that duty Of FIVE cents q
pound be collected on all of the product
brought to the island. Solicitor f. A.
Reeve, of the department, has handed
| Secretary Gage an opinion IN which he
says that it will be illegal under the
law making free trade between our
ports and the ports of the island, to
charge any duty on coffee. The de-
cision will bring disappointment to the
| planters who say their business is being
| ruined by the competition OF Brazilian
coffee which enters Porto Rico free OF
duty via the ports OF the Uuited States.
According to the latest Roman ad-
vices received here, the archbishop OF
New Orleans, Plscidus l.. Chsppelle,
| has concluded his labors as delegate
apostolic to the Philippines and Cuba.
| Upon his return to the U0ited States
he will resume his functions as an
arch bishop OF the American hierarchy.
Had Archbishop Chappelle succeeded
| in his negotiations with the military
government OF Cuba and the Philip
pines his reward would have inevitably
been the red hat OF Cardinal. The
fact that Mgr. Casppelle has concluded
his report without any intlmstion OF re-
ward or commentator in the usual
form is taken by any ecclesiastics here
to indicate that he failed.
| Commissioner of patents +. /. Allen
announced this afternoon that the
chief clerk in his department, Edward
". Shepard, had been discharged by
the Acting Secretary of the Interior,
charged with the theft Of $89.05 from q
safe IN his Office. The evidence against
Shepard is entirely circumstautial.
Shepard was appointed from Massa
chusetts 10 1896, and WAS promoted to
the chief clerkship ia 1898. He is
married and with his wife has been
moving 10 the best society here. His
salary was 81 500 per year.
The Navy department at the desire
OF the State department has ordered
the Iowa to proceed from San Fran
cisco to Panama. She has on board
455 sailors, 60 marines and Is officers.
The State department Ia displeased
with the dilatoriness OF the Navy de-
psrtment 10 meeting the situation aris-
Jog from the unsettled condition Of
things 10 Colombia and Venezuela.
The Mschias Is afraid to leave on &C
count of storms; the Ranger remains at
San Diego; the Wisconsin, which YVES
first selected to 60, could not be found
and the Iowa was put 10 her place, bat
the Iowa received her orders only to-
day. The Philadelphia, after cleaning
up at Mare Island, will be held sin
READINGS" The State department is
considerably annoyed, and although
Secretary Hay does not regard the
situation Ia South America ss imme-
diately threatening, be is DESTROYS Of
prompt and formidable representation.
The Bureau OF Navigation received
disdstch today saying that the cruiser
r anger bad sailed from San Diego for
Pansms. A mes; age was also received
from the commander of the Machias at
Hampton Roads saying that she had
q srtt for Colon.
The War department has directed
the ommandiog officer at Jackson Bar
racks, New Orleans, to issue 500 rations
to destitute people who we're driven in
to Fort Philip by the recent gulf storm.
Young Chou Choo, sop Of the Chinese
Minister, has gone on a hunting and camping
| trip to New 1smpshiTe with party OF
| friends. He carries document signed by the
| Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury inform
ing all immigration and customs officials that
he shall be SLOWED to cross and Iecross the
borders OF oar dominions as often IS he
| piessss,
The last Congress authorized Secretary Root
to detail board Of army officers to look into
| the question OF the organic alton OF an ad.
yanced school for army oficefs-an army war
cOlege-the scope of which would correspond
| to the naval war college at Newport. The
| secretary, it is said, will ask the next Con-
gress for authority TO establish the army var
college in question in this city. He bias also
decided to establish an army school at Fort
LeayenwOrth 1t is to DO an advanced school
open to officers OF the national guard. Picked
officers from The different states are to be
sent there.
The stock brokers report that the market
opened down today.
JEALOUSY LEADS TO MURDER.
ousy led to the death last night OF
Albert Hawkins, colored, about twenty