Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Aug. IL.
ample.

The local police are making great eff
forts to conceal the fact that an cpl
demic of thievery is raging here. High
way robbery, burglaries and petty
thieves have committed numerous de.
predations during the past fortnight,
but very few arrests have been made.
The most conspicuous capture was
made last night when three alleged
cattle thieves were caught while sleep
ing in an old steamboat boiler that has
long been conspicuous object on the
Potomac flats. Yesterday morning
detectives arrested Jesse Gibson, a
negro, while he was trying to sell cow
which they suspected had been stolen
in Hyattsville, near this city. Gibson
made q confession duplicating three
other men and giving information which
resulted in the raid on the boiler. Glib
son piloted two Washington officers and
two deputy sheriffs from Montgomery
county, Md, to the den, where three of
the alleged members of the cattle steal
ing gang were found asleep. They
are Peter Castor, 10 years old; Charles
Harris, % years, and Peter Gaskins,
all negroes. The men were locked up
and will be taken to Hyattsville to-day.
Gibson told the officers that he and the
other men arrested belonged to an or
ganized gang of cattle thieves who
made their rendezvous in the old boiler.
Thieves raided an entire row OF
stores and offices on Fourteenth street
between F and G streets just before
daybreak yesterday, entering each sep
srately from windows opening on a
rear alley. A tailor shop, paper hang
ing establishment, and a japanese
store were all entered, while attempts
were made to get in the other places in
the row, occupied by an engraver, a
topacconist, an insurance agent and a
wine company. The police are at
tempting to keep the facts quiet, and
little can be learned about the matter
except that only small amount OF
booty was secured.
The forestry exhibit at the Atlanta
Exposition promises to be the most
complete and instructive ever made by
the government. excelling in excell-
ence, though not in size, the exhibit at
Chicago in 1898. Itincludes complete
statistical history of southern forestry
interest. DR.. Fe7now has been ably
seconded by the lumbermen of the
south, so that most complete exhibit
of this nature will be made.
The case of Mr.. Spear, of New Alex
andria, arrested here yesterday on the
charge of obtaining money on false pre-
lenses, and released on bail, will be
heard in the Police Court next Friday.
People here say the repeated suits
and petitions and newspaper notices
in the case of Rosy Elizabeth Meades
vs.. her guardian, Mr.. Edmund Burke,
must have some other incentive than
the simple recovery of money, as Mr..
Burke is, and always has been, ready
to make return. of the account of bis
guardianship to any body appointed by
the proper authority to receive it.
People from the upper portion of the
Alexandria congressional district here
to-day say that Messrs. Moore, of Fair
fax, Hunton of Fauquier, and Ryan
and McCabe of Loudoun county, and
Congressman Meredith, are all spoken
of as possible candidates for Congress
in that dis ret at the next election, with
chances strongly in favor of the former.
In the adjoining district. the 7tb, it is
said Mr.. Marshall McCormick's friends
will urge his nomination.
The recent arrest of Taliaferro for at
tempting to create mutiny on Po-
tomac excursion boat, is said, at the
court house here, to have been without
proper authority, as he did not belong
to the crew of the boat, but was only
passenger.
The sale of lots in the proposed new
town of Addison flights, just west Of
and little below Waterloo station, on
the railroad between here and Alexan-
dria, has commenced. Lots 40 by 100
feet bring 5000.
In view of the fact that neither Vice
President Stevenson nor Railroad Com.
missioner Morrison, OF Illinois, has yet
come out hatfooted for silver, Congress
man Hendrickson of that State,
member of the recent silver conference
here, says there are plenty of other
democrats in Illinois able to fill the
Presidential chair, and that the silver
men are by no meens in straits for lack
of candidates.
Mr.. Walter D. Dabney, solicitor of
the State Department, who has been
elected to the chair of law in the Uni
versity of Virginia, to-day sent letter
to President Cleveland at Gray Gables,
rendering his resignation as solicitor to
take effect September 18th. The office
of solicitor pays an annual salary of
SO 500 and is considered one of the most
important positions under the govern
m ant.
The Indian Bureau has not yet sent
any communication to the Department
of Justice looking toward the punish
ment of the settlers of Jackson's Hole
for the killing of the Bannock Indians.
The apparent delay has been caused
by the fact that no law was known I'M
der which the United States Courts
could take cognizance of the matter,
it being recognized that it would not
bs possible to secure q conviction in the
Wyoming State courts on account of
the feeling there against the Indians.
1t was discovered to-day, however.
that the treaty of July 5, 1868, between
the United States and the Bannocks
and Shoshones provides directly for
such case. a paragraph of it reads:
III bad men among the whites, or
among other people subjected to the
authority of the United States, shall
commit any wrong upon the persons or