Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-16
FROM WASHINGTON.

Correspondence of the Alexand-ia Gazette
WASHINGTON, July 16.
Congressman Meredith, who has to
be here on Monday next 10 look after
some special bills in which his constlt-
uents are interested. and who cannot
therefore be at Culpeper on that day TO
meet on the stump General Field, the
third party's candidate for Vice Presl.
dent, who will then speak there, VIII
try to get some other democratic mem
Der Of the House 10 go there for nm;
People from Richmond here to-day
saw il is understood there that Mr.. I'd
car Allen will probably be the repu6li-
can candidate for Congress in that dis
trict.
10 whom the President has offered the
Craftsmanship of the national repubil-
can committee, and he, TOO, like all the
other nine. has declined the question
,farv Y. Davisin was to-day appoint
ed postmaster at Comet, Isle OF Wight
county. Va. vice J. E. Almond. dead.
The report of the congressional COM
mittee that went to Homestead 10 IN
yestirate the trouble there will be con-
pleted and presented some time next
week. so It's chairman. Mr.. Oates. says.
New charges Of unjust official dis,
elimination against Postmaster General
Wanamaker were to-day referred by
the House postoii1ce committee 10 4
subcommittee.
Mr.. Speaker Crisp thinks Congress
will adjourn next Saturday, but other
Congressmen say. not before the week
after. Alr. Aldrich Is TO make repub-
lican campaign speech IN the Senate
next week. and the democrats in the
House will be bound 10 so him several
better :.
The House committee on territories
will on Monday next report bill pro
viding for an election for territorial OF
:icers and for delegate 10 Congress
next fall
As anticipated in this correspondence
Yesterday Mr. Mcmillan in the Senate
today introduced a bill to amend the
charter of the Washington and Airing
ton Railroad so that that road shall
cross the Potomac at Analostan Island
by a double ender ferry boat on which
the cars can run, and that from the IS
/ land 10 the Virginia shore the cars shall
run on q bridge or causeway. Mr.. Hale
said the incorporators of the road after
! obtaining the charter had sold it, peck
e.cd the money. and abandoned the
road. and Mr.. Cockrill. that many
innocent stockholders had lost their IL
vestment.
a gentleman interested in the ship
yard at Newport's News, at the Capitol
this morning. said the owners Of that
ward would put in bid for the con:
struction Of the additional ship provided
for By the new naval appropriation bill,
and he was confident it would be lower
than that OF any body else.
| Gen. Soho. cid his received telegram from
4 Col. ". p. tarlin 4th infantry. dated Ward
/ ner. CONE alGing troops IL northern ldaho
saving q r.st by onier CT the Governor OF
Idaho commences to-day and will continue
cntil the Governor stops il. Mullan, Wallace
Osborne and Wariner are strongly garrisoned
| The 22I d infantry occup el Aluilan today
/ was most urgently bege cd by the manager
OF the principal mine, V. VI. Clement, 10 dc
lay till his surrendered miners should get ou'
OF the place He belieTcs his men would have
been murdered and his mine and mill de
stroyed. a Ton and a-half Of dynamite va;
placed in the mill by rioters 10 blow II up anC
! burn il. When his non-union men had LEI
! the place on cars the giant powder was re
moved from the mill and all property place.
! in his possession.