Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria aasette.l

of the House of Representatives chosen
last November, FIVE by death, and two
by resignation. The latter include
Representative J. G. Burrows, (rep)
of the 3rd Michigan district, who was
chosen Senator to succeed the late Sen
,..or Francis B. Stockbridge, and his
successor has been elected in the per-
son of Alfred Milne; also Representa-
tive J. G. G. Black, (dem.) OF the lOtn
Georgia district, who resigned in con-
sequence of reports that his election
had been secured by unfair or improper
means. He will go before the people
gain so that they may make it clear
whether they desire that he or populist
Tom" Watson shall represent them.
Those who have died, include beside
Representative Frederick Reman,
whose funeral occurred to-day in the
18th Illinois district, the following
Myron B. Wright (rep.), of the 10Th
Pennsylvania district, November 18th,
1894; James 81. Codding has been
elected to fill the vacancy. Phillip s.
Post (rep.), of the 10th Illinois district,
January 9Th, 1895; his place will be
filed by George w. Prince. Messrs.
Wright and Post were members of the
53rd Congress at the time of their
death. Andrew ]. Campbell (rep.), of
the 10th New York district, December
9th, 1894. William Cogswell (rep.) of
the 9th Massachusetts district, May
22nd. Mr.. Campbell was elected in
General Dan. Sickels's old district in
New York, and his successor is likely
to be a democrat. In the other two
cases there is no change expected in
the political bias of the new represen-
tatives.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day
received telegram from Governor
Richards, of Wyoming, to the effect
that at Marysdale, in that State, nine In
dams were arrested, one was killed and
others escaped; that many Indians are
reported there as threatening lives and
property, and that the situation is seri-
Gus. The Indians are Bannocks, from
Fort Hall, Idaho, arrested for illegal
and wanton killing of game. Gov.
Richards asks il the Secretary can take
| immediate action for the protection OF
the settlers.
Comptroller Eckels to-day called for
report of the condition of national
banks at the close of business on Thurs
day, July eleventh.
Ex-Representative Brookshire, oil
Indiana, one of the members of the
Ford's Theatre Disasteer. Commission,
appointed by t one last Congress, return
cd to Washington last night. He says
! there is very little talk in Indiana on
the silver question, the people prefer
ring to be permitted TO think over the
subject after their own fashion. There
is a disposition, he says, to avoid the
agitation of public questions at TINS
time. About the only thing that has
happened to interfere with an era Of
better times and prosperity in his State
is, he says, an almost unprecedented
drouth that exists in the northern par'
of the State extending over belt about
one hundred miles wide.
"a. G. McNiel was appointed post
master at Longfield, Lee county, Va
to-day, vice G. E. Mcneil resigned; W
l.. Grub at Stone Bridge, Clarke coun
ty, vice John Folk resigned, and Mrs
L. Y. Wilkins at Turbeville, Halifax
county, vice A. E. Wilkins resigned.
The company owning the steamboat
ne between this city and Norfolk me
to-day and elected Mr.. Levi Woodber
~ president, vice the late MIR. Clark
aad Mr.. James Clark, brother of thu
deceased, a member of the board o
directors, vice Mr.. Woodbury..
A gentleman just from Colon, wht
has recently read q paragraph in tn
GAZETTE about the Panama Canal
says the whole length of that canal il
only forty-seven miles, of which sever
on the Atlantic side are completed anc
three or four on the Pacific side, ant
that considerable work has been done
all aloug the remainder of the line
The greatest obstruction, he says, is a
Culebra, where the mountain is high
est. 1t is a silver currency country
he says, and twenty million dollars vii
complete the job, as plenty of laborer;
can be got there for thirty-fve cents
day.
%Mr. S. B. Corbett of Alexandris coun
ty, who is here this evening, says biz
eldest brother, Ira, was buried at thu
home of his father, Corbettsville
Broome county, New York, to-day
aged seventy-nine, leaving him the old
est and his brother Frank of Alexan
dria the youngest, the only survivors O.
twelve children. He says he think:
the result Of the late election in the
county will be sustained by the court
Mr.. G. A. Lyon, of Richmond, but
for many years a resident of this city
and an employee of the CongressioDa
library, died here last night. He was
one of the first members of the Vir
ginia democratic association of Wash
ington.
Among the visitors here to-day is ex
Congressman Trigg of Virginia, who il
attorney for the Richmond Locomotive
Works in claim they have against the
government.
Secretary Lamont has returned and
was at his desk at the War Department
to-day. He says that during his whole
trip he heard and saw nothing except
evidences of returning prosperity tol
the farmers as well as for the miners
manufacturers and railroads; that the
fields looked as green as the Eastern
lawns and that the president of one
railroad in the far West told him hi:
road had made arrangements for trans
porting seventy-fve million bushels o
wheat this summer and fall. The secre
tary would neither deny nor affirm tbs
report that he has been engineering s
scheme for the denomination of the
President.
That General Malone intends to take
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