Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, June 10.

tation in the ceremony, but additional
dignity was given the occasion by the
fact that Chief Justice Fuller admins
tered the oath of Office. Mr.. Olney
reached the State Department at
q larter past ten o'clock and was greet.
ed in the Secretary's Office by Assistant
Secretaries Uhl and Adee. Half an
hour later Chief Justice Fuller arrived
and Joined Mr. Olney in the diplomatic
parlor, where the ceremonies incident
to the occasion were performed. The
Chief Justice, standing in front of the
new Secretary, whose right hand was
uplifted. repeated the words OF the
oath and Mr.. Olney bowed a dienified
assent. The witnesses were Secretary
Lamont, Assistant Secretaries Uhl and
Adee, Mr.. K. M. Lands, private secre.
tary to the late Secretary Gresham,
and Mrs. Aubrey, daughter of Chief
Justice Fuller. The induction was &C
complished so quietly and quickly that
few of the State Department officials
and employees knew that the new Sec
rotary had assumed the duties OF his
office.
The second trial of Captain Rowgate
began in the criminal court to-day.
This Indictment which he is now called
upon TO answer, charges him with for
gerry and embezZlement in connection
with his services as disbursing officer of
the weather bureau some sixteen years
ago. The court ordered the formal
consideration of the two cases pending,
one for forgery and the other for pre-
senting false certificates. The work of
selecting a jury occupied an hour and
half. 1t was carefully watched by
both sides, the eligible jurors being in
terrogated in the usual manner. After
the jury was impaneled, District Attor-
ney Birnty opened for the government,
explaining the charges against Capt.
Howgate in detail and reciting what he
expo C ed to prove. Capt. Howgate
arrived before the court convened, &C
companied by his attorneys and his ever
faithful daughter. He was dressed in
neat black suit and seemed bright
and cheerful, conversing most Of the
time with his daughter and others
seated near him. He looked somewhat
younger that at his last trial, having
shaved his close cropped gray beard he
wore at that time. Mr.. Worthington.
in behalf of Mr.. Howgate, said it would
appear very plainly in the evidence
that his client was not q fugitive from
Justice but that he was permitted to
leave the District, after lying in Jail six
months seeking in vain for trial be-
cause the higher powers in the govern
ment did not want him tried, and that
no effort was ever made to discover
him by United States official, and he
was only apprehended by an ex gov
eminent official shortly after that Off
cial had gone out of service. The court
here took recess.
President Cleveland left Washington
last night for days fishing near Lees
burg, Loudoun county, Va, accompa-
uied by his old fishing companion,
Mr.. Joseph Miller, Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue and Secretary
Morton. Mr.. Henry Harrison, who
has q trout fishing preserve on a
.ibutary of Goose Creek, which once
rejoiced in the more euphonious name
of the Cohongeristow, or River of
Swans, was the Presidents host, play.
ing that part for q second time within
a month. When Mr.. Thurber was
asked about the Presidents absence be
said: Call 1 care to say is that the Pres
ident is not in his Office to-day, but will
be back to night" Though the Presi-
dent is not there, the flag is flying at
the White House.
Postmaster-General Wilson left here
to. day for Fayette, Missouri, where he
will deliver the annual address to the
students of Central College on the 18th
instant. Secretary Herbert leaves
Washington late tonight for Auburn,
Ala, where he will deliver the Grafton
at the commencement of the Alabama
Agricultural and Mechanical College
on Wednesday morning. He will re-
turn to Washington Saturday morning.
Judge Judson Harmon, the newly
appointed encouragement, left Cincin-
natl for Washington at noon to-day.
He is anxious to take the oath of office
in time to be present at the regular cab
met meeting tomorrow at which the
President has expressed desire to have
all his official family in attendance.
Judge Harmon's family will not &C.
company him to Washington at pres
ent. They will spend the early autumn
weeks at White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va.
Solicitor General Holmes Conrad is
acting Attorney General and will so
continue until Nj Harmon, the new
Attorney General, qualities.
Dorsey Claggett, of this city, was aps,
pointed collector of customs at George
town, d. c., to-day vice Manogue, re-
signed.
The Department of State to-day re-
ceived cablegram from Cape Town,
south Africa, announcing the death
there of Charles H. Benedict, consul to
that place. The office pays 81, 500 q
year.
The President has denied an applica-
ton for Communication of sentence of
death imposed on Joseph A. Beam for
murder of his stepdaugnter, Miss Annie
Leahy, committed in this city. The
President says that the failure of Beams
defense of insanity "gives the crime of
which the prisoner was convicted the
complexion OF murder accompanied
by incidents of aggravating brutality,
developing no considerations which. in
my opinion, justify executive interposi.
tion.n Beam was sentenced to be
hanged on July Goth.
The newspaper correspondents of
this city who recently visited Atlanta
will antartain to.nipht aft Pape's the