Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
rOorrespondenoe Of the Aexandris Gazette.
WARRINGTON. Oct. II, 1894.

GQVIcoS OF any dIIeoIo. OhSiiJ
where the capture is stated to have
been made, is telegraph and railroad
station, and Mr.. Moss feels confident
that if an important arrest had been
made there. he would have been ad-
yised of it long before this. Police
headquarters are also in the dark, and
have heard nothing except the reports
published in the newspapers. at one
O'Clock this afternoon the officials OF
the Adams Express Company, in this
city, said that they had received moth.
ing whatever concerning the reported
capture of the Aqua Creek train rob.
beers at Cherry Run. 1t was also stated
that nothing beyond newspaper reports
had been received about the arrest OF
the suspicious character at Cumber-
land, and the officials repeated wnat
thew said this morning, that if any ar
rests had been made ct Cherry Run in
connection with the train robbery, in
formation would have reached the Ex-
press Company officials before this
time.
In reply to an inquiry concerning a
statement to the effect that U. 5. dis,
trict attorney had been instructed by
the Department of Justice to cancel his
engagements to speak, Attorney Cen
eral Olney said to-day, it is contrary to
the rules of his department that district
attorneys should partake actively in
campaign work.
Mir. Smythe of Virginia, U. S. minis
ter to Hayti, called at the State De.
partment to-day and applied for an ex-
tension of his furlough, in order to
have time to attend to some important
private business.
Mr.. w. E. Curtis, Assistant secre-
tary of the Treasury, returned this
morning, having spent two weeks in
Connecticut. He stopped of in New
York for day. The republicans there,
he said, appeared confident and the
democrats hopeful. During the past
week, from what he cold learn, the Sit
uation from democratic standpoint
had improved, and if the Improvement
continues there is good reason to be-
lieve that the democratic State ticket
would be successful. He had heard
the vote that Wheeler, the anti snap
pers' candidate, would receive, various
" estimated from 5000, to $4,000. 1t
was q very uncertain element and all
estimates were necessarily largely spec
ulative.
Attorney General Olney this morn
ing, after consultation with Secretary
Carlisle, telegraphed United States Dis,
trict Attorney McFarlane at New York
to represent the Secretary of the Treas,
ury in the habeas corpus proceedings
in the case of Howard, undercoachman
of ex-Vice President Morton. In case
the court decides it has jurisdiction, Mr.
McFarlane is instructed to prosecute
the case with vigor.
The report current here this morning
about the arrest of some of the Aqua
creek train robbers is not credited, and
is said by those who ought to know, tc
be fake ofpurest ray serene.
Me sis Mckee ard Thompson, sec
tary and treasurer of the republican
Congressional campaign committee left
here this evening for Fredericksburg
Virginia, where they will address re-
publican meeting tonight.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
democratic congressional campaign
committee, has returned from New
York, and was at democratic head
quarters to-day. He says the prospect
of Senator Hills election as governor O.
New York is said by the best informed
democrats of that State to be better
than it was three weeks before his last
election as Governor, when he swept The
State. He says the democrats there are
practically united on the State ticket
and that the farmers in the upper part
of the State have pulled off their coats
and are working for Hill, and tn It, too
without money. The intelligence from
Virginia received at headquarters is al
favorable except from the second and
ninth districts, in which it is reported
the democratic apathy has not woin off
and where it is said the vote will be
close. Mr.. Faulkner says the re-elec
ton of Congressman Wilson in West
Virginia is assured. Being asked if the
President will support the democratic
ticket in New York, Mr.. Faulkner said
the prevalent opinion is that he will.
A New York race horse man, here
to-day, says many of the horses from
his State have already reached the AL
exandria race track and that more will
be there at the opening to morrow. He
also says the Indications are that the
meeting will be the most successful ever
held in the vicinity of the national cap
ital. Big fields of evenly matched
horses, with abundant opportunity to
wager money are the prospects, and
with these in view the attendance
should be large.
Judge Hughes, of the U. S. court for
the eastern district of Virginia, was
here yesterday evening. The Judge is
seventy-three years old, but is still as
erect and active as healthy man OF
forty. He is several years beyond the
sge at which he can retire on full pay,
but at present has no intention Of doing
80.
A gentleman from the northern part
of Loudoun county, Va, here to-day,
says there may be some democratic de-
lection in and about Leesburg, but
there is none in his section of the coun-
ty, and that while Mr.. Meredith's ma
jority in the county may not be as large
as the usual democratic majority there,
it will be sufficient.