Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-02

and Loeb, stene0graphers, telegraphers
and messengers will be transferred to
Oyster Bay. The President will have
offices in the village, which is three
and half miles from his residence, and
will keep regular business hours there.
The President will leave Washington for
Pittsburg at 7:45 p. m, Thursday, in or
der to participate in the Fourth of July
celebration in that city, and will make
an address at the park on Friday.
At $50 p. NJ, Attorney General Knox
will tender the President a dinner and
at 8 e. M, Saturday, the special train
will be started in the direction Of Oyster
Bay.
General William II. Forwood was
commissioned yesterday as Surgeon Cen
eral of the Army, and was formally
indicted into office.
The arbitration of the Russo-American
sealing damages dispute has, it is said,
resulted in victory for the government
according to information received at the
State Department from The Hague, and
the only question on which the award
may be delayed for several months relates
to the amount Russia must pay.
Minister WI called at the State
Department at an early hour this morn
ing. He stated that he had not received
formal notice from his government that
payment would be refused on the first
installments of the indemnity but previous
advices had assured him that such re-
ftlsal would be made unless the exact
terms of the first protocol were met. He
claims that in this document it was stipu-
lated that the payments should be in
taels not in dollars, pounds sterling,
francs or roubles, and that China is en-
tirely willing to abide by the protocol.
She does, however, refuse to enter into a
contract which fuctuates from year to
year. The subject proves to be of such
importance that Minister WI probably
will not follow his usual custom of spend
ing the summer at Newport but will re-
main here.
Thomas Brown, colored driver for
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, was fined so
in the police court this morning on COM
plant of Corporal Tanner, ex-commis-
sioner of pensions. Brown was charged
with driving too rapidly through an alley,
and he explained it was necessary to be
at the railroad station at certain time
to meet the Senator and his son-in-law,
Comptroller of the Treasury Ridgely.
Tanner stopped him, and Brown, with
an oath, told him to mind his own bust
ness.
The manufacture of boots and shoes is
given in a report issued by the Census
Bureau today. 1t shows that in 1900
there were 1000 establishments of this
class in the United States, an increase
over 1890 of 1872 per cent. The total
Capitalization was $l01, 795, 233, and the
product was valued at S261, OPS, $50.
The capital grew per cent. in the ten
years from 1890 to 1900, and the pro-
duct 1873 per cent. There were 142, 922
wage earners employed; they earned
$50, 175, $50, The number ofsalaried en-
ployes was 7, S43 and they drew 81, 757, =
749. This was an increaae in the num-
Der of wage earners of SO per cent and
in the total sum of their wages of %
per cent and in the number of salaried
officials and clerks of 80 per cent and
in their salaries of 35.9 per cent. The
raw material converted into finished pro-
duct was valued at $3.50, Goa, 054.
Investigation of the charges made against
VIM. b. Dickey, formerly United States cor
sui at Callao, Peru, has resulted in vindca-
ton
A summary of the steam ear building in
dustry in the United States for 1900, issued by
the Census Bureau gives the total number Of
establishments 10 have been 361 against 7S7 in
1890. The capital in 1900 was 500, 904, 12j, an
increase over 1890 of 1873 per cent. and tie
production was valued at sos, 74S, 49,, Il
growth since 1890 of 54.7 per cent. There
were 207 ,l0j wage earners employed, earning
$ll3049, 623, AN increase of SOL percent. in the
number, and 1872 per cent in the amount
earned. The llaried officials numbered ,462,
and earned S7,74S,379 a growth Of 2lS per
cent in the number engaged, and 23O.6 per
cent in the amount earned.
The verdict Of the court martial that re-
Gently tried General Jacob II. Smith in the
Philippines is unique in the history of the
American army. The General was not un-
qualifedly acquitted, a. has been supposed,
nor was he sentenced TO be reprimanded. In
effect the verdict of the court is: mot
guilty, bat don't do it again." General
Smith was tried for violation of the articlesOf
war, the court being convened on an order
issued personally by the President The
courts findings, therefore, go direct to the
President for review.
President Gompers of the American FEEDER
alton of labor, accompanied by Nice-Prcsi-
dent O'Connell, left Washington today, en-
route to San Francisco where the executive
council meets Oh July 2lst.
Brigadier General j. Franklin Bell, who
achieved tuch success in crushing the insur-
rection in she provinces of Batangas, Laguna
and Tayabas, has been ordered home from
the Philippines to take charge Of the General
Service and staff College ut Fort Ieaven-
worth which will open IN September 1.