Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, June 10.

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazettel
WASHINGTON, June 10.
Secretary Herbert has ordered Com
modore Francis NJ. Bunch to duty as
chief Of the North At
lantic Squadron, with the rank OF Act
ING Rear Admiral. The new successor
To Admiral Mead will assume com
mand in about ten days.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
John NJ. Reynolds today rendered
decision in a pension case which will
require wives Of soldiers who have dis
appeared or deserted them to prove
Without doubt the soldiers death be-
fore a pension will be granted them.
Secretary of State Olney replying to
an Inquiry from a Waco. Tex, ma
tional bank as to its right to act as
depository for Cuban sympathizers has
addressed strong letter in reply. stat
ing that while the legal question
whether the bank and its officers
might BE- criminally prosecuted could
be settled only by the adjudication OF a
court. the moral duty ofthe bank oifi-
GERS to refuse to act in such q capacity
did not admit of the least question.
District Attorney Birney has an,
nounced further postponement until
Monday next of the trial Of Z. h. Chap
man. the New York broker, indicted
for refusing to answer certain questions
asked him by the Senate committee
investigating the alleged sugar trust
scandal in connection with the passage
of the tariff law. The unusual number
of postponments in this case and the
harrassing annoyance thus inflicted
upon the defendant by the United
Stat IS cause considerable common, in
the Courts.
Secretary Carlisle has issued war
rants for the deportation to Canada OF
nine Canadian brickmakers who came
to this country in violation of law un-
der contract with the Ryegate Brick
Co., at East Ryegate, Vermont.
Age certainly withers the charms of
applicants for places in the civil Ser
vice, as the civil service commission
has determined to take no notice of
those over forty-forty, and has recently
discharged many persons in that ser
vice on account of age.
Postmaster Wallace of Fredericks-
burg is here to day. In reference to
the action OF the council of his town
last night in refusing to appropriate
money for railroad through the
Northern Neck of Virginia, he said he
thought it was wise, as he doubts
whether the town would have received
an equivalent for the outlay.
A letter from Mr.. Hoge was received
by Colonel Brady yesterday, after the
papers in the contested congressional
election case of Hoge vs.. Otey had
been opened, asking him to be present
at the opening There was no notice
of contest with the Hoge papers, and it
was said in the office of the clerk
of the House that it might be attached
to the testimony taken by an attorney
who retainedit for non-payment OF fees.
In the case of Yost vs.. Tucker, the con-
testee was represented by MIR. Chas.
+. Kemper, of the Treasury Depart
ment
The action of the Virginia democrat
ic association of this city in reference
to the Virginia congressman for failing
to lend their aid to the association at
its recent excursion to Marshall Hall,
has had its effect, and they all with one
accord are making excuses and prom
ising better things for the future. Mr..
Meredith says he was arguing a case in
court that day and of course could not
come. Mr. Turner says he acknowl-
edges his obligations to the association,
q I'd Mr.. Elicit says he will bring a
whole train full of people to the next
excursion.
Colonel Mclean of Indiana, now
here, says the democratic party is too
old and too great party TO go into the
flood of the next political campaign on
one plank. Several other issues, he
says, will BIO decided by the result
of that campaign, besides silver, and
that all of them must be looked after
by the national democracy.
1t is rumored here that some of the
New York race horse people are max
ing arrangements to establish track
for winter racing in Florida.
Among the congressman here to-day
is Mr.. Meredith of the Alexandria dis
trict. AS usual on bis trips to this city
he was at some of the government de-
partments trying to get places for peo-
pie living in his district.
Christa Machenhiemer was appointed
postmaster at Patti, Franklin county,
Va, to-day, vice w. H. Machenhiemer,
resigned.
The remains of Col. Richard Dodge,
U. S. A, reached Washington this after
noon from Sacketts Harbor. New York,
and were conveyed from the Pennsyl,
vania Railroad station to the Arlington
National Cemetery, where the usual
military honors were paid as the casket
was placed in the grave. The troops
at Fort Myer, Va, adjoining Arlington,
escorted the remains through that res
ervation.
BAsEBALL.-The baseball games of yester-
day resulted as follows: ST. Louis D, Balti-
more 3; Boston Z, Cleveland 3 Philadelphia
g. Pittsburg 3 New York 10, Cincinnati 3 :;
Brooklyn 6, Louisville 8; Chicago s, Wash
ington 4. The following is the standing Of
the clubs:
Won 7 ost par oant