Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondents Of the Aexandris Gazette

Mrs. Ella Clarh OlDerS, ouo l VIZ
parties to a sensational case in when
three employees of the government are
concerned, including an official OF some
standing, has disappeared in a myste-
rious manner on the V OF the nearing
of the trouble in the police court. Inc
,fIic.al concerned is Major Alexander
A. Russell of Missouri, a special exami-
ner of the Pension Office, who was ar
r, sted on a complaint lodged by MIS-.
Olberg's husband, a clerk in the Indian
Office, charging him with forgery;
Briefly. it is alleged that Russell and
Mrs. Olberg obtained a large sum OF
money by executing deeds of trust on
Olbers's property, Russell signing Oh
b.rg's name and im%personating him be-
fore potaries public. Mrs. Olberg is a
clerk in the Pension Office and became
acquainted with Russell through their
official relations. The hearing of Rus
SELLS case in the police court was set
for to-day, and during the preliminary
hearing last week the presiding Judge
intimated that unless the prosecution
can produce witnesses to show Russells
completely, the matter would be dis
missed. Mrs. Olberg is the principal
witness and she has not been seen since
Saturday morning. Private detectives
have failed to find a clue to her where
abouts and are working on the suppo-
sition that Mrs. Olberg has been spirited
away to prevent her from testifying.
Assistant Postmaster General Max
well said this evening the people of APP
nomattox Court House evidently don't
object to Surrender as the new name
for the ~postoffice at that place as much
as do some of those who don't live there,
as hone of them has as yet complained
of the change.
Secretary Carlisle to-day appointed
F. &. Mcdowell, of Iowa, chief of the
accounts division, ~treasurer's office, at
$500, and E. M. Dickerson, of Ar
kansas, a chief of division in the office
of the auditor for the Post Office De-
partmeut, at $1,000.
At democratic headquarters here to-
day a laugh was produced by q state
ment in the New York Tribune to the
eff: ct that Mr.. Cleveland's letter to Mr..
Wilson,, in which he spoke of the peril
DIV and dishonor of the German tariff
bill, had been left out of the second edi-
ton of the democratic campaign book.
The people there say they can't con
ceive how the Tribune could be SO
duped, as the edition referred to, and
which any body can see who takes the
trouble to look, contains the very
thinos which the Tribune SAYS have
been omitted. Mr.. Lawrence Gardiner,
| who is in charge of headquarters, has
lust returned from West Virginia,
where, he says, the democratic pros
poets are bright, and that not only Mr..
| Wilson, the author of the Wilson bill,
| hut all the other democratic candidates
for Congress in that State. will be elect
ed. He received a dispatch from Indi-
| ana this morning to the effect that that
| State would have nine democratic mem,
| bers of the next, as she has of the pres
ent. House.
People from Norfolk here to-day say
the fact that MI. Borland, the republi-
can candidate for Congress there, was q
good enough democrat until he went
! of with General Malone as a r%eadjust'
er, has dampened the ardor of the re,
publicans in that district, and will not
gain him many votes from the demo,
Gratis.
The general impression on the sub
iect here, at democratic headquarters
as we'll as every where else, is that the
administration while not openly fight,
mig the democratic ticket in New York,
will certainly do nothing to help it:
and will be vastly more gratified
at its defeat than at its victory.
| That it is actuated by such feelings
will, however, it is supposed, stimulate
the real democrats, not only of New
| York, but of the whole country, to
strive the harder for the success of the
ticket.
A Virginia democrat here to-day
who had read in the GAZETTE that an
other one had said that his party's vote
in his State would be decreased this
fall by the dislike of many democrats
to expos their inability to read, said
he agreed with him. He also said the
same law that will produce this effect
is Objectionable in many other ways,
and he believed, with the late Senator
Barbour, that an election law under
which the democrats get forty thou
sand majority, was a good enough law,
without going either to Australia or
New England for one more expensive.
One of the objections to the Walton
law, he said, was that while section 4 of
it provides that the candidates for Con-
gress shall, at least twenty days before
that on which the election is held,
notify the secretary of the Common.
wealth of their candidacy, and he shall
notify the electoral boards, section 5
provides that within thirty days before
the election the electoral boards shall
Cause the m of the candidates to be
published.
MI. Lloyd Smith, chairman of the
democratic committee of the 1st Vir-
GINA district, passed through here yes
terdsy on his way to Spotsylvania
Court House, where he will speak to-
day. He says there is no doubt about
the reelection of Mr.. Jones in that
district. +.
Young Mr.. Crisp of Georgia arrived
here to-day. He says his State will
elect a solid democratic congressional
delegation, ard that the majority for
the State ticket will be from fifty to
one hundred thousand.
Though quite a large sum of money
was appropriated at the last session Of
Congress for expenditure at Arlington
and on other government property in
Alexandria county, not n dollar of it
as yet has got out of the Treasury, and
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